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time. But computers have made it much easier; the waitress simply
prints the check, and all the calculations are itemized instantly.
The Diner Preference
Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner in the desert town of Yermo, California, has a
sign above the door that reads: “We reserve the right to refuse ser-
vice to anyone—Regardless of who you are, who you think you are,
who your daddy is, or how much money you make.” In diners, fur
coats hang next to cowboy hats while Jaguars and junkers sit side by
side in the parking lot. Diner patrons tend to be friendlier than cus-
tomers in upscale restaurants, where they expect a different type of
service. In fact, when people are spending more money, they often
expect a servant. “I prefer working in diners,” said Sammi DeAn-
gelis, a waitress at the Seville Diner in New Jersey. “I’ve done the
fine dining where people think that because the checks are high,
you’re supposed to kiss their butt. People who spend $200 for din-
ner think that you owe them something. I don’t care if the bill is $2
or $200, I treat everybody the same.”
Most waitresses said they preferred working in a place with a
large, regular clientele. When they worked at more upscale restau-
rants they missed the casual rapport with customers, and the staff
always had to be ready to make a good first impression on strangers.
But in a diner formalities are left at the door. In her Kentucky drawl,
Mae Christmas said, “I could never work in a fancy restaurant. I’m too
liable to holler at people and ask them if they want their usual when
they come through the door. You can’t do that in a fancy place.” In
diners, waitresses are also free to tell their customers exactly what
they think about the latest political scandal or local gossip, whereas
the staff in upscale restaurants is trained to keep conversation to a
minimum and to never discuss religion, race, or politics.

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sure everything is hot. I pick up their orders right away, their
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delicious—it’s order so I fixed it and it’s I’ve owned my home for twenty-four years and I drive a 2005 Se-
Today, Ninety-nine percent of my customers were unbelievably beauti-
came back and said, “Here. No charge.” But I guess there was a lan- ville. I’ve had Cadillacs all my life. I also like to collect old cars. I’ve
restaurants, everything
guage barrier (he spoke Spanish) and is he
kind of automatic.
thought I said, “Here, cry-Yougot a ‘68ful,Buickand some
Skylark. became
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thing andOnce I understood
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embarrassed Safeway and see my customers, they say, “She never wrote down
to explain to him what happened, but he didn’t believe me. I would original. I have a good life.

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Spartak Moscow
The People’s Team in the Workers’ State
SPARTAK
MOSCOW
Robert Edelman

In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak

THE PEOPLE’S TEAM IN THE WORKERS’ STATE
Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert
Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding
everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions
attended matches and obsessed about their favorite club, and their
rowdiness on game day stood out as a moment of relative freedom
in a society that championed conformity. This was particularly the
case for the supporters of Spartak, which emerged from the rough
proletarian Presnia district of Moscow and spent much of its history in
fierce rivalry with Dinamo, the team of the secret police. To cheer for
Spartak, Edelman shows, was a small and safe way of saying “no” to
all that went on around them; to understand Spartak is to understand
how soccer explains Soviet life.

Champions of the Soviet Elite League twelve times and eleven-time ROBERT EDELMAN
winner of the USSR Cup, Spartak was founded and led for seven de-
(jacket design not final)
cades by the four Starostin brothers, the most visible of whom were
Nikolai and Andrei. Brilliant players turned skilled entrepreneurs, they
were flexible enough to constantly change their business model to “Why [did we in the working class root
accommodate the dramatic shifts in Soviet policy. Whether because of for Spartak]? Today I understand most
their own financial wheeling and dealing or Spartak’s too frequent suc- clearly that Spartak was the home team
cess against state-sponsored teams, they were arrested in 1942 and of ordinary people. Why? The name had
meaning for us. Then all the kids and even
spent twelve years in the gulag. Instead of facing hard labor and likely
the grown-ups knew the name of the leader
death, they were spared the harshness of their places of exile when
of the slave revolt in ancient Rome. . . . It
they were asked by local camp commandants to coach the prisoners’
was studied closely in our schools—a story
football teams. Returning from the camps after Stalin’s death, they
of the struggle of the exploited against the
took back the reins of a club whose mystique as the “people’s team” exploiters. How could the names of the
was only enhanced by its status as a victim of Stalinist tyranny. other teams—Dinamo, TsDKA, Lokomotiv
Edelman covers the team from its days on the wild fields of prerevolu- or Torpedo—compare?”
tionary Russia through the post-Soviet period. Given its history, it was —Spartak fan Iurii Oleshchuk,
hardly surprising that Spartak adjusted quickly to the new, capitalist quoted in Spartak Moscow
world of postsocialist Russia, going on to win the championship of the
Russian Premier League nine times, the Russian Cup three times, and
the CIS Commonwealth of Independent States Cup six times.

In addition to providing a fresh and authoritative history of Soviet

society as seen through its obsession with the world’s most popular
sport, Edelman, a well-known sports commentator, also provides Robert Edelman is Professor of His-
biographies of Spartak’s leading players over the course of a cen- tory at the University of California, San
tury and riveting play-by-play accounts of Spartak’s most important Diego. His previous books include Seri-
matches—including such highlights as the day in 1989 when Spartak ous Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in
last won the Soviet Elite League on a Valery Shmarov free kick at the the USSR, winner of the North American
ninety-second minute. Throughout, he palpably evokes what it was Society of Sports Historians Book of
like to cheer for the “Red and White.” the Year. His research for Spartak Mos-
cow was supported by the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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C A N D A C Y A . TAY L O R

The American Coffee Shop Waitress

Candacy A. Taylor
T H E A M E R I C A N C O F F E E S H O P WA I T R E S S
“Career waitresses do more than just serve food. They
C O U N T E R C U LT U R E T H E A M E R I C A N C O F F E E S H O P WA I T R E S S

are part psychiatrist, part grandmother, part friend, and

they serve every walk of American life: from the retired
and the widowed, to the wounded and the lonely, and
from the working class to the wealthy. The classic diner
waitress is an icon of American culture. This book takes a
moment to honor and recognize waitresses’ contribution
to our communities. Doing this project has helped me
to redefine my perspective on life, work, and happiness.
It has made me reevaluate the myth of the American
dream that says you need to have an ‘important’ job to
be happy.”—from Counter Culture

In large cities and small towns across the country, the

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best diners and coffee shops are more than just res-
CANDACY A. TAYLOR
taurants: they are neighborhood institutions that bring
together communities. From the Gold ’N Silver
Inn in Reno, Nevada, to the USA Country Diner
in Windsor, New Jersey, these special places are
not defined by their menus or décor but by the
waitresses who have established bonds with
their customers and their communities over
years—and sometimes decades—of service.
Counter Culture is a window into the lives of ca-
reer waitresses who have worked in diners and
coffee shops for up to sixty years. Since 2001,
Candacy A. Taylor (a former waitress herself)
has traveled more than 26,000 miles through-
out the United States collecting stories of these
“lifers,” as many waitresses aged fifty or over
playfully call themselves. She interviewed fifty-
nine waitresses in forty-three towns and cities.
Their compelling stories are complemented and
enhanced by Taylor’s striking color photographs
of the waitresses at work.

ILR Press Taylor expected that the waitresses would feel

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was true. The proud, capable waitresses Taylor
interviewed loved their jobs and, even if given
the opportunity, “wouldn’t do anything else.”
Nearly all the waitresses said that the physi-
cal labor of waitressing helped them to age
Contents more gracefully and that the daily contact with
customers and coworkers kept them socially engaged. Lifers generally
An ILR Press Book
Acknowledgments ix 6 make Stigma
The Waitressing more money
000 from serving regular customers with whom they have
7 T.I.P.S. To Insure Prompt Service 000
Introduction 1 forged bonds over decades, and their seniority earns them respect from
8 The Generation Gap 000
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“A loving ode to women who are the heart and

soul of America’s diners, Counter Culture is afew more miles than the counter waitress, and during those extra setting it down, someone else will pipe up, “Oh, could I have a re-
miles she’s balanced heavy plates and carried hundreds of drinks, fill?” The waitress goes back, performs the same tasks, and returns
treasure for all who value food with character,
increasing the opportunity for accidents. High maintenance cus- to the table only to be sent away yet again for another drink refill.
served by real characters. Its stories about tomers who send her back and forth to the kitchen take a toll. A It’s no wonder that counter waitresses feel more efficient. The psy-
common complaint among table servers is when they ask a large chological satisfaction of getting so much done with half the effort
veteran waitresses are fun, poignant, and table of customers about drink refills and only one person answers gives her confidence and makes her job much easier.
tremendously informative, including detailed yes. After walking across the restaurant to order the drink or to Practically every item found in a diner is designed to be func-
make it herself at the drink station, walking back to the table, and tional for the customer and to make a waitress’s job easier and
information about the unique talents required
for the job. The evocative photographs of these
rare personalities and their workplaces are a
siren call to hit the road and meet them while
they’re still around.”

—Jane and Michael Stern, rants, but I never cared for ’em. I stayed with the diner because din- Pennsylvania . . . all over. And they come back year after year. The
ers had better hours that worked with raising my kids. I worked on first time they come, if they liked the food and if you make an im-
Roadfood.com Wall Street from nine to five so when I got off work. I was able to go pression on them, they’ll be back to see you. It may be a whole year,
in for a six o’clock shift and work 6 pm to 6 am in the morning on but they’ll be back. We also have a lot of customers who grew up in
the weekends. this area that have moved away and when they come home to see
That’s really good for a waitress.’ And I said, ‘Well damn, I’ve been their career to have This
medical insurance
restaurant for their family.
is probably In Nevada,
sixty years old. It started out as a their families this is where they come, because it reminds them of
“Thoughtful, compelling, and beautifully illus-
working here twenty-five years.” Virginia moved to Nevada spe- however, especially in thehot
drive-in Vegas area,
dog waitresses
stand. We haveareaoffered a com-of steady custom-
nice family their childhood. It means so much to them that we’re still here.
trated, Counter Culture is a worthy tribute to
cifically for the higher wages and because there were more union plete health careers.
(medical/dental/vision)
A lot of people find usandhere
retirement
when theypackage.
get off the turnpike on
restaurant jobs. She said, “Being in a union house makes all the dif- Susan said, “Here, waitressing
their way downissouth.
as goodWeasgetgoing
peopletofrom
school
Newand
York, Staten Island,
its subject—the uniquely talented women who
ference. It gives the workers even more control. If the restaurant getting your degree and being somebody. Just look at our bank

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is empty at 9:00 p.m. and our shift isn’t over until 11, the manager accounts.”
have dedicated their lives to providing comfort
can’t send us home. We make every dollar coming to us.” Waitresses don’t have to live in Nevada to reap special benefits counter intelligence

and service along with that cup of joe.”

Southern Nevada has some of the best earning opportunities
for waitresses in the United States. They are paid a fair living wage
—Debra Ginsberg, author of
along with health and retirement benefits. The culinary union is a
powerful influence that creates a competitive environment which
Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
benefits restaurant workers. To compete with union houses, non-
union restaurants have to offer similar benefits. Most waitresses
in other U.S. states have to work an office job at some time during
from their employers. Geri Spinelli started working at the Melrose
Diner in Philadelphia when she was a teenager. She said, “This is the
best place to work. We average $6.10 an hour when the minimum
wage for waitresses is about $2.38. We have a good health plan and
hospitalization. We get a good salary, plus tips, a Christmas bonus
and paid vacations. I’ll get three weeks of paid vacation this year.
It’s great.”

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Candacy A. Taylor is an award-winning
photographer, writer,c o and visual art-
unter intelligence
ist. For eight years she has produced 
multimedia ethnography and oral his-
tory projects that challenge common
stereotypes of women and class. She
has conducted research for National
Geographic and the Library of Congress
and has received numerous grants
for her work, including two Story Fund
grants from the California Council for
the Humanities. To learn more about
Taylor’s work or to participate in her
community blog on coffee shop culture,
visit: www.taylormadeculture.com.

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you’re a waitress, but I just ignore them. I grew up working on my father’s farm in Virginia. We had thirty
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Front’ that brought the Irish Catholic priest
Father John Corridan and the Jewish writer
Budd Schulberg together in a common cru-
sade for justice—and of their triumph, not
on the waterfront, but on the silver screen—
is scintillating. Fisher is a good writer and
a very fine historian—intellectually sophis-
ticated, indefatigable, wonderfully sensitive
to human drama and foibles. On the Irish
Waterfront covers an amazing amount of
terrain. Urban, cultural, intellectual, and
labor history all fall within Fisher’s purview
and magnify the importance of his work.”
—Bruce Nelson,
author of Workers on the
Waterfront and Divided We Stand
James T. Fisher is Professor of Theology
and American Studies, Fordham Uni-
versity. He is the author of Communion
of Immigrants: A History of Catholics
in America, Dr. America: The Lives of
Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961, and
The Catholic Counterculture in America,
1933–1962.
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The Crusader, the Movie,
and the Soul of the Port of New York
James T. Fisher
Site of the world’s busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first
half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic
preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen’s union
leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde
depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954)
and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and
engaging historical account of the classic film’s backstory.
Fisher introduces readers to the real “Father Pete Barry” featured in
On the Waterfront, John M. “Pete” Corridan, a crusading priest com-
mitted to winning union democracy and social justice for the port’s
dockworkers and their families. A Jesuit labor school instructor, not a
parish priest, Corridan was on but not of Manhattan’s West Side Irish
waterfront. His ferocious advocacy was resisted by the very men he
sought to rescue from the violence and criminality that rendered the
port “a jungle, an outlaw frontier,” in the words of investigative reporter
Malcolm Johnson. Driven off the waterfront, Corridan forged creative
and spiritual alliances with men like Johnson and Budd Schulberg,
the screenwriter who worked with Corridan for five years to turn John-
son’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1948 newspaper exposé into a movie.
Fisher’s detailed account of the waterfront priest’s central role in the
film’s creation challenges standard views of the film as a post facto
justification for Kazan and Schulberg’s testimony as ex-communists
before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
On the Irish Waterfront is also a detailed social history of the New York/
New Jersey waterfront, from the rise of Irish American entrepreneurs
and political bosses during the World War I era to the mid-1950s, when
the emergence of a revolutionary new mode of cargo-shipping signaled
a radical reorganization of the port. This book explores the conflicts
experienced and accommodations made by an insular Irish-Catholic
community forced to adapt its economic, political, and religious lives
to powerful forces of change both local and global in scope.
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A Bird-Finding Guide
to Costa Rica
Barrett Lawson

Marked by its superb natural beauty, Costa Rica has the greatest
percentage of preserved land of any nation worldwide; nearly a third
of the country is protected in national parks, reserves, and refuges.
The wildlife that abounds in these tropical areas includes a stunning
diversity of more than 820 bird species. In A Bird-Finding Guide to
Costa Rica, Barrett Lawson offers detailed information that makes it
easy for both expert and novice birders to plan and enjoy an exciting
trip to this birders’ paradise.

Lawson describes fifty-three of the best birding destinations in Costa

Rica. Birders will appreciate the detailed descriptions of how to
bird each area, as well as the site-specific lists—“Target Birds” and
“Species to Expect.” The site descriptions are structured for ease of
use and clarity; each provides a general introduction, exact driving
directions, road maps, and lodging information. Other important ele-
ments include a general introduction to Costa Rica, an overview of
tropical birds, sample itineraries, a comprehensive checklist to the • Features fifty-three top birding locations
birds of the country, and information about the best locations to find from across the country.
endemics and other sought-after species. The sites are grouped into
six regions that reflect general patterns of avian distribution; this • “Species to Expect” lists inform readers
of birds that can be found at featured
helps readers understand Costa Rica’s complex bird diversity as well
sites; especially common birds are pre-
as plan a dynamic trip.
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The Birds of Costa Rica
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The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov
Jay Bergman

The Soviet physicist, dissident, and human rights activist Andrei “In Meeting the Demands of Reason, Jay
Sakharov (1921–1989) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Bergman treats Andrei Sakharov not just
The only Russian to have been so recognized, Sakharov in his Nobel as a scientist and activist, but as a com-
lecture held that humanity had a “sacred endeavor” to create a life plex subject whose scientific and political
worthy of its potential, that “we must make good the demands of rea- thinking were interrelated. Bergman is a
son,” by confronting the dangers threatening the world, both then and fine writer and has an amazing grasp of
now: nuclear annihilation, famine, pollution, and the denial of human Sakharov’s scientific, philosophical, and
rights. Meeting the Demands of Reason provides a comprehensive political work. His well-researched biog-
account of Sakharov’s life and intellectual development, focusing on raphy reminds us that Sakharov was an
his political thought and the effect his ideas had on Soviet society. extraordinary physicist, a thought-provoking
political essayist, a devoted defender of
Jay Bergman places Sakharov’s dissidence squarely within the ethical human rights, and a concerned citizen of
legacy of the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia, inculcated a troubled nation.”
by his father and other family members from an early age. In 1948,
—Kathleen E. Smith,
one year after receiving his doctoral candidate’s degree in physics,
author of
Sakharov began work on the Soviet hydrogen bomb and later received Remembering Stalin’s Victims
both the Stalin and the Lenin prizes for his efforts. Although as a and Mythmaking in the New Russia
nuclear physicist he had firsthand experience of honors and privi-
leges inaccessible to ordinary citizens, Sakharov became critical of
certain policies of the Soviet government in the late 1950s. He never
renounced his work on nuclear weaponry, but eventually grew con-
cerned about the environmental consequences of testing and feared
unrestrained nuclear proliferation. Bergman shows that these issues
led Sakharov to see the connection between his work in science and
his responsibilities to the political life of his country.

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as a whole in the name of universal human rights. By the 1970s, he
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dissident in the West, which afforded him a measure of protection
from the authorities. In 1980, however, he was exiled to the closed
city of Gorky for protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1986,
the new Gorbachev regime allowed him to return to Moscow, where
he played a central role as both supporter and critic in the years of
perestroika. Two years after Sakharov’s death, the Soviet Union col-
lapsed, and in the courageous example of his unyielding commitment
to human rights, skillfully recounted by Bergman, Sakharov remains an
enduring inspiration for all those who would tell truth to power.

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Henry Kissinger and the Shaping
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Mario Del Pero

During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican

presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign
policy “realists” in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is
distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about
American exceptionalism and on the liberal left for his amoral, real-
politik approach, once again stood as the sage of foreign relations
and the wise man who rises above partisan politics. In The Eccentric
Realist, Mario Del Pero questions this depiction of Kissinger. Lauded
as the foreign policy realist par excellence, Kissinger, as Del Pero
shows, has been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy
formulations than is commonly realized.

“The Eccentric Realist is a remarkable piece
of scholarship. By viewing Henry Kissinger
both as a realist in the European tradition
and as an American attuned to U.S. moral
absolutism, Del Pero lays bare the inher-
ent contradictions in the détente project
and the causes for its ultimate failure. He
also helps explain the rise of the neocon-
servative movement as a reaction against
Kissingerian diplomacy.”
—Odd Arne Westad,
author of The Global Cold War:
Third World Interventions
and the Making of Our Times
Del Pero considers the rise and fall of Kissinger’s foreign policy
doctrine over the course of the 1970s—beginning with his role as
National Security Advisor to Nixon and ending with the collapse of
détente with the Soviet Union after Kissinger left the scene as Ford’s
outgoing Secretary of State. Del Pero shows that realism then (not
unlike realism now) was as much a response to domestic politics
as it was a cold, hard assessment of the facts of international rela-
tions. In the early 1970s, Americans were weary of ideological forays
abroad; Kissinger provided them with a doctrine that translated that
political weariness into foreign policy. Del Pero argues that Kissinger
was keenly aware that realism could win elections and generate
consensus. Moreover, over the course of the 1970s it became clear
that realism, as practiced by Kissinger, was as rigid as the neocon-
servativism that came to replace it.
In the end, the failure of the détente forged by the realists was not
the defeat of cool reason at the hands of ideologically motivated and
politically savvy neoconservatives. Rather, the force of American
exceptionalism, the touchstone of the neocons, overcame Kissinger’s
political skills and ideological commitments. The fate of realism in
the 1970s raises interesting questions regarding its prospects in the
early years of the twenty-first century.

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Jimmy Carter, His Advisors,

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Betty Glad

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international relations theory, especially as it bears on realism and idealism written. Betty Glad provides a sophisticated
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of China, arms control, and other crucial foreign-policy issues. In two the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making
areas—the Camp David Accords and the return of the Canal to Panama— of American Foreign Policy
Carter’s successes were attributable to his particular political skills and
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The ultimate victor in the other battles was
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Fig. 43. Frederic Edwin Church, Sunset across the
Hudson Valley, June 1870, oil and graphite on
paperboard, 11j × 15¼ in., Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum, Smithsonian Insti-
tution, Gift of Louis P. Church, 1917-4-582-a,
Photograph: Matt Flynn
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Evelyn D. Trebilcock is Curator of Olana.
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Olana. Kenneth John Myers is Curator
and department head of American Art
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Glories of the Hudson
F r e d e r i c E d w i n C h u r c h’s Vi e w s f r o m O l a n a
scene is dominated by the large pink-bottomed summer cumulus clouds, recalling the
spirit of Church’s earlier New York and New England paintings, as in New England Scenery
(fig. 8). To his friend Palmer, anticipating the arrival of his son Walter to begin studying
landscape painting, Church emphasized the clouds: “The country is so magnificent now
there are so many cloud e⁄ects that I often wish he were here.” He added, generously,
“My studio—advice and materials—& c. are all at Wallies disposal. . . .”92
Summer Sunset from Olana (fig. 44), painted from Bethune Road in a cool blue-purple
palette, depicts the wide expanse of river and the e⁄ect produced after the retreat of a
typical late-day summer thunderstorm in the Hudson Valley. The coming and going
of summer storms, which sent down torrents of rain for an interlude and then resolved
into clear sunshine, always caught Church’s attention: “We are having daily showers
which clear up at evening with commendable regularity giving us gorgeous sunsets and
twilights which are worth a pilgrimage to see.”93 By contrast, Looking West from Olana
(fig. 45) embodies the warm glow of a hazy summer evening. Though inspired by the
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Glories of the Hudson art
Essay by Evelyn D. Trebilcock and Valerie A. Balint
Frederic Edwin Church’s
Introduction by Kenneth John Myers
Foreword by John K. Howat
Views from Olana
The site is the result of a careful study of the river-banks,
and commands so many views of varied beauty, that all
the glories of the Hudson may be said to circle it.
Essay by Evelyn D. Trebilcock
—H. W. French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 1879
I
and Valerie A. Balint
n 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears
his name. The exhibition and its accompanying publication
Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church’s Views from Olana
Introduction by Kenneth John Myers
mark the quadricentennial of his discovery by highlighting
Frederic Church’s sketches of the prospect from his hilltop
Foreword by John K. Howat
home overlooking the river.
Church made his first sketch of the Hudson River and
Catskill Mountains from Red Hill—the south end of the prop-
erty that became his home, Olana—in 1845, on a sketching
expedition suggested by his teacher Thomas Cole. Returning
“The site is the result of a careful study of the river-banks,
to the Hudson Valley in 1860 as the nation’s most famous and
best-paid artist, Church settled on a farm on the lower slope
of the Sienghenbergh, securing for himself and his new wife a
and commands so many views of varied beauty, that
splendid vantage point for studying, sketching, and painting
the river. Church continued to add land to his property, attain-
all the glories of the Hudson may be said to circle it.”
ing new and varied vistas of the river, and crowned the estate
with a Persian-inspired house designed to frame splendid views
of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains.
—H. W. French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 1879
Church never tired of his views of the river, documenting
his passion for the Hudson in paintings, oil sketches, and draw-
ings. From Olana, he observed the transformations wrought
In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now
by the changing seasons, weather, and light, capturing chilly
winter snows, brilliant sunsets, and passing storms in sketches
executed with a few brushstrokes or autumn colors and clear
bears his name. The exhibition and its accompanying
winter light in more finished easel paintings. The best of these
are reproduced here, in 83 illustrations, 69 in full color, some
publication, Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin
of them published for the first time. The essay by Evelyn D.
Trebilcock and Valerie A. Balint, the introduction by Kenneth
John Myers, and the foreword by John K. Howat together
Church’s Views from Olana, mark the quadricenten-
provide an absorbing narrative of the development of the
Hudson River School and its most successful artist.
The Olana Partnership, Hudson, New York, and New York
nial of his discovery by highlighting Frederic Church’s
State O‹ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation,
Albany, New York, organized Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin
sketches of the prospect from his hilltop home
Church’s Views from Olana, held from May 23 to October 12, 2009.
overlooking the river. Church made his first sketch
of the Hudson River and
Catskill Mountains from 2/2/09 12:28:58 PM
Red Hill—the south
end of the proper ty
that became his home,
Olana—in 1845. Re-
turning to the Hudson
Valley in 1860 as the
nation’s most famous
and best-paid artist,
touches in his studio.
Church settled on a
same location, Looking West from Olana is more finished; Church probably added the final Fig. 44. Frederic Edwin Church, Summer Sunset
from Olana, c. 1870–74, oil on o⁄-white acad-
farm on the lower slope
emy board, 11r × 18n in., ol .1977.207
Church also continued to execute his landscaping plans, planting trees, building
carriage drives, improving the parkland. His appreciation of these e⁄orts was enhanced
by his family’s enjoyment of the setting: “They [the children] have got a set of basket
of the Sienghenbergh,
panniers (sent from England) which are strung one on each side of a donkey so with
Winnie on one side and Louis on the other and Freddie in the middle guiding—they
present a jolly appearance. . . . highly picturesque . . . and they go all about the farm
securing a splendid van-
and picnic in the woods.”94
In October 1870, Church told the landscape painter Martin Johnson Heade
(1819–1904), “We are having splendid Meteoric displays— Magnificent sunsets and
tage point for studying,
67
sketching, and painting 2/2/09 1:17:53 PM
the Hudson River and
Catskill Mountains. Church never tired of the Hudson, documenting
his passion in numerous paintings, oil sketches, and drawings, the
best of which are featured in this catalog. The exhibit, organized by the
Olana Partnership and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation, is on display at Olana in Hudson, New York,
from May 23 to October 12, 2009.
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Landscapes by
Frederic Edwin Church
Kevin J. Avery
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Art of the Celts

700 b.c. to a.d. 700
Edited by FELIX MÜLLER

Celtic art is the first important contribution made by the

peoples of Northern Europe to European art. In this book,
masterpieces of Celtic art covering fourteen centuries from

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are selected from all over Europe, from Scotland to Hungary.
The puzzling and highly developed ornamental repertoire of
the Celts is elucidated and made intelligible through original
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1: Who Are the Celts? What Is Art?

2: At the Sources of the Danube: catalogue celtes Marie3 8/10/08 17:10 Page 7

7th to 5th Centuries b.c.

3: Italy, the Balkans and Asia Minor:
5th to 3rd Centuries b.c.
alogue celtes Marie3 8/10/08 17:10 Page 47 4: In the Heart of Europe:
2nd Century b.c. to 1 a.d.
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5: Gaul and Germania:

33
Eine monumentale Abstraktion «The Stanwick Horse», Applike, Bronze. H 10.9 cm.
Melsonby bei Stanwick St John, North Riding,
im Kleinformat um 50 n.Chr. Yorkshire, England.

1 a.d. to 4th Century a.d. London, British Museum, Inv. PY1847.0208.82

Um die ausgedehnten Erdwerke von «Stanwick

Camp» in Nordengland ranken sich dramatische
Geschichten, die sich in der Mitte des 1. Jahrhunderts
6: British Isles and Ireland:
Üblicherweise werden die Bronzen von Stanwick als
Materiallager eines Metallhandwerkers interpretiert
[Abb.33.3a-b]. Diese Deutung trägt jedoch einer zweiten
n.Chr. abspielten und von römischer Seite überliefert
sind. Sie erzählen von Ehebruch und Verrat, von der
Entzweiung des britannischen Stammes der Briganten
1 a.d. to 8th Century a.d.
Materialgruppe aus Eisen kaum Rechnung, nämlich
einer Lanzenspitze, einem Kettenpanzer und einem
Schwert in seiner Scheide. Zusammen mit den
und von Konspirationen mit und gegen die Römer. Brandspuren an verschiedenen Objekten sprechen sie
Stanwick war damals Hauptort der Briganten, deren eher für die Deutung als Überreste aus einem Grab. Es
Königin Cartimandua eine Hauptrolle im scheint also nicht ausgeschlossen, dass vor den Wällen
intrigenreichen Drama spielte.
Die eine riesige Fläche umfassenden Erdwälle
wurden in jüngerer Zeit zu mehreren Malen
7: From Athens to Ireland:
von Stanwick ein vornehmer Brigant in voller
Kriegsmontur seine letzte Ruhestätte gefunden hat. Auch
das würde einer Datierung in die Zeit der römischen
archäologisch untersucht, während die Entdeckung des Auseinandersetzungen nicht widersprechen.
umfangreichen Metallhortes von Stanwick ungefähr im
Jahre 1843 eher im Dunkeln liegt. Der genaue Fundort
befindet sich einen knappen Kilometer außerhalb der
A Summary
Felix Müller

Literatur:
Wallanlagen, genauer auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Morna MacGregor: The Early Iron Age Metalwork Hoard from Stanwick, N.R.
Melsonby. Ein direkter Bezug zwischen der Vergrabung Yorks. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 28, 1962, S. 17–57. – E. Martyn
Jope: Early Celtic Art in the British Isles, Oxford 2000, bes. S. 268, 305–307.
des Hortes und den Ereignissen um Cartimandua lässt
sich kaum herstellen, obwohl sich beides etwa zur
gleichen Zeit abspielte.
Der überwiegende Teil der ursprünglich 146
catalogue
Fundnummern besteht aus Bronze. Darunter celtes Marie3 8/10/08 17:10 Page 9
gibt es viele Abb. 33.1 a-d i
Einzelteile von der Pferdeschirrung: neben mindestens M. MacGregor,
Proceedings of
vier Trensen eine größere Anzahl von feingliedrigen
the Prehistoric Society
Verbindungsstücken, die einst Ledergurte zierten oder 28, 1962.
miteinander verbanden. Charakteristisch sind die
Ringformen mit dem eingespannten Ornamentwerk in
der bekannten keltischen Art [Abb.33.1a–d].
Achsnägel und Nabenbeschläge stammen wohl von
mehreren Wagen, vermutlich zweirädrigen Fahrzeugen,
die zu Reise- und zu Kriegszwecken dienten. Teile ihrer
hölzernen Wagenkästen waren offensichtlich mit Abb. 33.4 – Kat. 33 p
Zierblechen verkleidet, wovon die feinen Nagellöcher auf
mehreren Abdeckungen zeugen. Ein Paar Beschläge in
feiner Treibarbeit besteht aus einer Maske mit
menschlichen Zügen: Große drohende Augen und ein
gegabelter, aufgezwirbelter Bart sind als aufgelöste
Einzelteile symmetrisch zueinander angeordnet
[Abb.33.2].
Höchste Vollendung in ihrer Abstraktion erfuhr
jedoch die Applike mit dem Pferdegesicht, die als
«Stanwick Horse» zum Begriff geworden ist [Abb.33.4].
Besonderes Kennzeichen ist der geschwungene
Nasenrücken, dessen Grate in das Rund zweier großer
Nüstern einbiegen; das Grundkonzept bilden zwei
gegenläufige S-Formen, die Lyra. Die in einer Ebene
liegenden, leicht schräg gestellten und tief gekerbten
Abb. 33.2 i
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Throughout history, physicians have played a vital role in medical “In The Vanishing Physician-Scientist? Dr.
discovery. These physician-scientists devote the majority of their pro- Andrew I. Schafer makes the case that
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through research and represent the entire continuum of biomedical go from bench to bedside and back again
investigation. They bring a unique perspective to their work and often in dynamic fashion; he describes a view
base their scientific questions on the experience of caring for patients. of the future in which physician-scientists
Physician-scientists also effectively communicate between researchers will be members of research teams. This
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has been growing concern in recent decades that, due to complex physician-scientists in historical context and
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Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot
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In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of
business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs
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the U.S. economy. High levels of private home ownership, particularly
in the United States and the United Kingdom, have helped pull in a
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As events since mid-2008 have made clear, mortgage lenders became

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packages they securitized, the higher their profits. As a result, they
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instruments work only when confidence in the mortgage system is
maintained. Regulatory failures in the U.S. S&L sector, the accounting
crisis that led to the extinction of Arthur Andersen, and the subprime
crisis that destroyed Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch and damaged
many other big financial institutions have jeopardized a significant
engine of economic growth.

Schwartz concentrates on the impact of U.S. regulatory failure on

the international economy. He argues that the “local” problem of the
housing crisis carries substantial and ongoing risks for U.S. economic
health, the continuing primacy of the U.S. dollar in international finan-
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Dan Immergluck
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to resolve, but reminds us that in some
instances resolution is possible. War on
Sacred Grounds is forcefully and vividly
written.”
—Daniel Philpott,
author of Revolutions in Sovereignty
For more information,
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Ron E. Hassner is Assistant Professor
of Political Science at the University of
California, Berkeley.
SEPTEMBER, 240 pages, 13 halftones,
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War on Sacred Grounds
Ron E. Hassner
Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the
divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet these sites’
spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious
groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious
rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims.
Holy places thus create the potential for military, theological, or politi-
cal clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also
between religious groups and secular actors.
In War on Sacred Grounds, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes
and properties of conflicts over sites that are both venerated and
contested; he also proposes potential means for managing these
disputes. Hassner illustrates a complex and poorly understood
political dilemma with accounts of the failures to reach settlement
at Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif, leading to the clashes of 2000,
and the competing claims of Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya, which
resulted in the destruction of the mosque there in 1992. He also
addresses more successful compromises in Jerusalem in 1967 and
Mecca in 1979. Sacred sites, he contends, are particularly prone to
conflict because they provide valuable resources for both religious
and political actors yet cannot be divided.
The management of conflicts over sacred sites requires cooperation,
Hassner suggests, between political leaders interested in promoting
conflict resolution and religious leaders who can shape the meaning
and value that sacred places hold for believers. Because a reconfigu-
ration of sacred space requires a confluence of political will, religious
authority, and a window of opportunity, it is relatively rare. Drawing
on the study of religion and the study of politics in equal measure,
Hassner’s account offers insight into the often-violent dynamics that
come into play at the places where religion and politics collide.
also from cornell
Landscapes of the Jihad
Militancy, Morality, Modernity
Faisal Devji
“One of the most intelligent analyses of the worldview
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of the militant Islamist.”—The New Statesman
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“A brilliant long essay on the ethical underpinnings of
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achieves meaning by being witnessed by the media.’ It
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is, in short, a horrendous form of advertising.”—New
York Review of Books
Crises in World Politics
2005, 208 pages, 5 x 7 1/2
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Living Weapons
Biological Warfare and International Security
Gregory D. Koblentz

“Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weap-
ons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the
proliferation of these weapons increased after they were banned in 1972.
Biological weapons are frequently called ‘the poor man’s atomic bomb,’ EBOBG@
yet they cannot provide the same deterrent capability as nuclear weapons.
One of my goals in this book is to explain the underlying principles of these P>:IHGL
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Biological weapons are the least well understood of the so-called
weapons of mass destruction. Unlike nuclear and chemical weapons,
biological weapons are composed of, or derived from, living organisms.
In Living Weapons, Gregory D. Koblentz provides a comprehensive
analysis of the unique challenges that biological weapons pose for
international security.

At a time when the United States enjoys overwhelming conventional

military superiority, biological weapons have emerged as an attractive
means for less powerful states and terrorist groups to wage asym-
metric warfare. Koblentz also warns that advances in the life sciences “Living Weapons promises to stimulate
have the potential to heighten the lethality and variety of biological attention and provoke thought on a very
weapons. The considerable overlap between the equipment, materials, important topic. Gregory D. Koblentz writes
and knowledge required to develop biological weapons, conduct civil- clearly about the problems posed by biologi-
cal weapons and provides particularly good
ian biomedical research, and develop biological defenses creates a
summary accounts of the Soviet, Iraqi, and
multiuse dilemma that limits the effectiveness of verification, hinders
South African offensive programs.”
civilian oversight, and complicates threat assessments.
—John D. Steinbruner,
Living Weapons draws on the American, Soviet, Russian, South African,
author of The Cybernetic Theory
and Iraqi biological weapons programs to enhance our understanding of Decision
of the special challenges posed by these weapons for arms control,
deterrence, civilian-military relations, and intelligence. Koblentz also
examines the aspirations of terrorist groups to develop these weap-
ons and the obstacles they have faced. Biological weapons, Koblentz
argues, will continue to threaten international security until defenses
against such weapons are improved, governments can reliably detect
biological weapon activities, the proliferation of materials and exper-
tise is limited, and international norms against the possession and
use of biological weapons are strengthened.
Gregory D. Koblentz is Deputy Director,
also from cornell
Biodefense Graduate Program, and As-
Targeting Civilians in War sistant Professor of Government and
Alexander B. Downes Politics in the Department of Public
“This is a magnificent work and towering achieve- and International Affairs, George Mason
ment. With both innovative historical studies and University. He is coauthor of Tracking
comprehensive statistical analysis, Downes powerfully Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Map
demonstrates an original and disturbing thesis—that
democracies are just as likely as autocracies to target
and Charts.
civilians in war, and even more so when they fear that
For more information, they will lose. All scholars of international security and Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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military history should read this book, and we would a series edited by Robert J. Art,
all benefit if policy advisors did also.”—James Kurth, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt
Swarthmore College
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“Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner have
brought together an outstanding group
of economists, historians, and political
scientists to explore one of the most press-
ing questions in today’s global economy:
whether the dollar will stay on top. This book
is as important as it is timely.”
—Daniel Drezner,
Tufts University
Eric Helleiner is Professor of Political
Science and CIGI Chair in International
Political Economy at the Balsillie School
of International Affairs, University of Wa-
terloo. He is the author of The Making
of National Money and States and the
Reemergence of Global Finance and co-
editor of Economic Nationalism in a Glo-
balizing World, all from Cornell. Jonathan
Kirshner is Professor of Government at
Cornell University. He is the author of
Appeasing Bankers and Currency and
Coercion. He is the editor of Monetary
Orders, also from Cornell.
Cornell Studies in Money
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and Jonathan Kirshner
SEPTEMBER, 272 pages, 14 tables,
5 charts/graphs, 6 x 9
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Economics
2 0 F A L L 2 0 0 9 C O R N E L L
The Future of the Dollar
Edited by Eric Helleiner
and Jonathan Kirshner
For half a century, the United States has garnered substantial political
and economic benefits as a result of the dollar’s de facto role as a
global currency. In recent years, however, the dollar’s preponderant
position in world markets has come under challenge. The dollar has
been more volatile than ever against foreign currencies, and various
nations have switched to non-dollar instruments in their transactions.
China and the Arab Gulf states continue to hold massive amounts of
U.S. government obligations, in effect subsidizing U.S. current account
deficits, and those holdings are a point of potential vulnerability for
American policy.
What is the future of the U.S. dollar as an international currency?
Will predictions of its demise end up just as inaccurate as those
that have accompanied major international financial crises since the
early 1970s? Analysts disagree, often profoundly, in their answers to
these questions. In The Future of the Dollar, leading scholars of the
dollar’s international role bring multidisciplinary perspectives and a
range of contrasting predictions to the question of the dollar’s future.
This timely book provides readers with a clear sense of why such dis-
agreements exist and it outlines a variety of future scenarios and the
possible political implications for the United States and the world.
C ontrib u tors
David P. Calleo, Johns Hopkins University • Benjamin J. Cohen, University
of California, Santa Barbara • Marcello de Cecco, Scuola Normale
Superiore di Pisa, Italy • Eric Helleiner, University of Waterloo • Harold
James, Princeton University and European University Institute • Jonathan
Kirshner, Cornell University • Ronald I. McKinnon, Stanford University •
Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia
also from cornell
The Globalizers
The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers
Ngaire Woods
“No other book provides such an elegant introduction
to the principal lending operations of both the IMF and
the World Bank. With exceptional clarity and grace,
Ngaire Woods strikes a balance between analysis and
constructive criticism. Her portrait of the contemporary
evolution of the policies and practices of the IMF and
World Bank seamlessly integrates an impressive range
of research and journalistic coverage.”—Louis W. Pauly,
author of Who Elected the Bankers?: Surveillance and
Control in the World Economy.
Cornell Studies in Money
2006, 264 pages, 4 tables, 3 charts/graphs, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7420-0 $18.95s/£15.95 OIS
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Affirmative Action for the Future

James P. Sterba

At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are

reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic condi-
tions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to
keep the door of opportunity open. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court’s
Grutter and Gratz decisions vindicated the University of Michigan Law
School’s affirmative action program while striking down the particular
affirmative action program used for undergraduates at the university. In
2006 and 2008, state referendums banned affirmative action in some
states while upholding it in others. Taking these developments into
account, James P. Sterba draws on his vast experience as a champion
of affirmative action to mount a new moral and legal defense of the
practice as a useful tool for social reform.

Sterba documents the level of racial and sexual discrimination that still
exists in the United States and then, arguing that diversity is a public
good, he calls for expansion of the reach of affirmative action as a
mechanism for encouraging true diversity. In his view, we must include
in our understanding of affirmative action the need to favor those
who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless
of race and sex. Elite colleges and universities could best facilitate
opportunities for students from working-class and poor families, in
Sterba’s view, by cutting back on legacy and athletic preferences that
overwhelmingly benefit wealthy white applicants.
“James P. Sterba has thoroughly canvassed
the subject of affirmative action, and his
arguments in this book are very clear
and compelling. Affirmative Action for
the Future will be read eagerly by anyone
interested in affirmative action and social
justice, whether their primary focus is
on philosophy, law, political science, race
theory, or feminism.”

—Anita M. Superson,
author of The Moral Skeptic

also from cornell

“I’m Not a Racist, But . . .”

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The Moral Quandary of Race
Lawrence Blum
Winner of the Social Philosophy Book
of the Year Award given by the North American
Society for Social Philosophy
“This is a very thoughtful work on a sensitive subject,
a good and practical work for all readers interested in
race relations.”—Booklist
2001, 272 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8815-3 $19.95s/£16.95
The Racial Contract
Charles W. Mills
1997, 192 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8463-6 $17.95s/£14.95
James P. Sterba is Professor of Philoso-
phy at the University of Notre Dame.
He is the author, coauthor, or editor
of twenty-five books, including  Affirma-
tive Action and Racial Preference: A
Debate,  Does Feminism Discriminate
against Men—A Debate, Justice for Here
and Now, and Terrorism and International
Justice. He is also past president of the
American Philosophical Association,
Central Division, and several other
philosophical organizations.
SEPTEMBER, 152 pages, 1 table, 6 x 9
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Amy B. Dean is a noted activist and
social entrepreneur who served from
1993 to 2003 as the youngest elected
leader of the AFL-CIO in  Silicon Valley.
She is the founder of two national non-
profits,  Building Partnerships USA and
Working Partnerships USA. She has
been featured in the New York Times,
Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast
Company, Le Monde, Mother Jones, El
Pais, Business 2.0, and numerous local
publications. David B. Reynolds is Labor
Extension Coordinator at the Labor Stud-
ies Center of Wayne State University and
a field organizer for Building Partnerships
USA. He is author of Taking  the High
Road: Communities Organize for Econom-
ic Change, Partnering for Change: Unions
and Community Groups Build Coalitions
for  Economic Justice, and Living Wage
Campaigns: An Activist’s Guide to Building
the Movement for Economic Justice, pub-
lished by the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now.
AN ILR Press Book
A Century Foundation Book
OCTOBER, 272 pages, 1 line figure, 6 x 9
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2 2 F A L L 2 0 0 9 C O R N E L L
A New New Deal
How Regional Activism Will Reshape
the American Labor Movement
Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds
“Using case studies of successful partnerships, Amy B. Dean and David B.
Reynolds paint a compelling picture of regional movements for a just and
sustainable society. A New New Deal reinspires social activism and offers
a modern road map to the labor movement.”—Rabbi David Saperstein,
Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B.
Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism
and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community
organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized
at the regional level are the most effective tool to build a voice for work-
ing people in the workplace, community, and halls of government. The
authors draw on their own successes to offer in-depth, contemporary
case studies of effective labor-community coalitions. They also outline a
concrete strategy for building power at the regional level. This pioneering
model presents the regional building blocks for national change. A di-
verse audience—both within the labor movement and among its allies—
will welcome this clear, detailed, and inspiring presentation of regional
power-building tactics, which include deep coalition-building, leadership
development, policy research, and aggressive political action.
A New New Deal explores successful coalitions forged in Los Ange-
les, Boston, Denver, San Jose, New Haven, and Atlanta toward goals
such as universal health insurance for children and sensible redevelop-
ment efforts that benefit workers as well as businesses. The authors view
partnerships between labor and grassroots organizations as a mutually
beneficial strategy based on  shared goals, resulting in a broadened
membership base and  increased organizational capacity. They make
the innovative argument that the labor movement can steward both in-
dustry and community and make manifest the ways in which workplace
battles are not the parochial concerns of isolated workers, but a fun-
damental struggle for America’s future. Drawing on historical parallels,
the authors illustrate how long-term collaborations between labor and
community organizations are sowing the seeds of a new New Deal.
also from cornell
This Could Be the Start
of Something Big
How Social Movements for Regional Equity
Are Reshaping Metropolitan America
Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner,
and Martha Matsuoka
“Economic justice has long been the core goal of com-
munity organizing.   In the past decade, often below
the radar screen of national politics,  effective move-
For more information,
ments have emerged within neighborhoods and, more
click on the cover image importantly,  at the regional level. This Could Be The
Start of Something Big provides a vivid account of some of these efforts and
is an important contribution to new thinking about progressive politics.”—Paul
Osterman, MIT Sloan School
2009, 272 pages, 3 tables, 2 charts/graphs, 3 maps, 6 x 9
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-7462-0 $19.95s/£13.50
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Clandestine Crossings
Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border
David Spener

“Clandestine Crossings is both instructive and provocative in the best sense

of the word. David Spener’s highly unique and important research and
analysis will prompt a great deal of interest and deep engagement from
readers in migration studies, border studies, and Chicano/a studies, as well
as in anthropology, geography, political science, and sociology. There may be
no one else in a position to combine the skills and knowledge that Spener
has brought to this project with his willingness and ability to challenge
hegemonic notions of coyotes and coyotaje—and, by extension, the U.S.
boundary-enforcement apparatus. This book deserves as wide an audience
as possible: what it has to offer is not only fascinating and unique but also
of great importance.”—Joseph Nevins, author of Dying to Live: A Story of
U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid

Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of

the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning
of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surrepti-
tiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on
ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands
of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and bor-
der officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together
to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they
cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths
that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to
the United States.

The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is one of the principal strategies

that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S.
border enforcement. Although this strategy is typically portrayed in the
press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that
it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to
an economic model and set of immigration policies in North America
that increasingly resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of
adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms
for them to work in the United States, migrants and coyotes draw on
their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful
border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their
path by government authorities.
David Spener is Associate Professor
in the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Trinity University. He is
the editor of Adult Biliteracy and coeditor
of The U.S.-Mexico Border: Transcend-
also from cornell
ing Divisions, Contesting Identities and
Border Games Free Trade and Uneven Development:
For more information,
click on the cover image Policing the U.S.–Mexico Divide The North American Apparel Industry
Second Edition after NAFTA.
Peter Andreas
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
2009, 200 pages, 1 map, 2 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 DECEMBER, 304 pages, 3 halftones, 5 tables,
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Bush Wives War and

and Girl Shadows
Soldiers The Haunting
Women’s Lives of Vietnam
through War and Mai Lan
Peace in Sierra Leone Gustafsson
Chris Coulter Vietnamese culture and
religious traditions place
During the war in Sierra
the utmost importance on
Leone (1991–2002),
dying well: in old age, body
members of various rebel
unblemished, with surviv-
movements kidnapped
ing children, and properly
thousands of girls and women, some of whom came
buried and mourned. More than five million people
to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside
were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young,
the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in
many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000
wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more
are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to
than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel
have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity
camps in Sierra Leone. When these girls and women
in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended,
returned to their home villages after the cessation of
many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead
hostilities, their families and peers viewed them with
and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones.
skepticism and fear, while humanitarian organizations
In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan
saw them primarily as victims. Neither view was par-
Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits
ticularly helpful as they tried to resume normal lives
and the torments of their kin.
after the war.
Gustafsson’s rich ethnographic research allows her
Offering lessons for policymakers, practitioners, and
to bring readers into the world of spirit possession,
activists, Coulter shows how prevailing notions of
focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and
gender, both in home communities and among NGO
mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts
workers, led, for instance, to women who had taken part
to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and
in armed conflict being bypassed in the demilitariza-
the intervention of mediums. Through a series of
tion and demobilization processes carried out by the
personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of
international community in the wake of the war. Many
ailments brought about by the spirits’ wrath, from
of these women found it extremely difficult to return
headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost
to their families, and, without institutional support,
by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafs-
some were forced to turn to prostitution to eke out a
son’s view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based
living. Coulter weaves several themes through the work,
religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties
including the nature of gender roles in war, livelihood
about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines
options in war and peace, and how war and postwar
and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were
experiences affect social and kinship relations.
outlawed and driven underground, along with many
of the other practices that might have provided some
comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims
of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to
lay their ghosts to rest.

Chris Coulter is a lecturer and researcher at Uppsala

University and coauthor of Young Female Fighters in Mai Lan Gustafsson is Assistant Professor of Anthro-
African Wars. pology at Christopher Newport University.

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Stories of the Soviet Experience

Memoirs, Diaries, Dream
Irina Paperno

Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the
present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written
throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end stories
of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings,
O F T H E

soviet
Irina Paperno explores this massive outpouring of human documents experience

to uncover common themes, cultural trends, and literary forms. The memoirs,
diaries, dreams
book argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives—memoirs,
diaries, notes, blogs—assert the historical significance of intimate
lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the terror
under Stalin and World War II. Moreover, these published personal
documents create a community where those who lived through the
irina paperno
Soviet era can gain access to the inner recesses of one another’s
lives. This community strives to forge a link to the tradition of Russia’s
nineteenth-century intelligentsia; thus the Russian “intelligentsia”
emerges as an additional implicit subject of this book.

The book surveys hundreds of personal accounts and focuses on two
in particular, chosen for their exceptional quality, scope, and emotional
power. Notes about Anna Akhmatova is the diary Lidiia Chukovskaia, a
professional editor, kept to document the day-to-day life of her friend,
the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Evgeniia Kiseleva, a barely
literate former peasant, kept records in notebooks with the thought of
crafting a movie script from the story of her life. The striking parallels
and contrasts between these two documents demonstrate how the
Soviet state and the idea of history shaped very different lives and
very different life stories. The book also analyzes dreams (most of
them terror dreams) recounted in the diaries and memoirs of authors
ranging from a peasant to well-known writers, a Party leader, and Stalin
himself. History, Paperno shows, invaded their dreams, too.   from some new filter, information source,
With a sure grasp of Russian cultural history, great sensitivity to the
men and women who wrote, and a command of European and Ameri-
can scholarship on life writing, Paperno places diaries and memoirs
of the Soviet experience in a rich historical and conceptual frame. An
important and lasting contribution to the history of Russian culture at
the end of an epoch, Stories of the Soviet Experience also illuminates
the general logic and specific uses of personal narratives.
also from cornell
Russian Talk
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Culture and Conversation
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during Perestroika
Nancy Ries
1997, 256 pages, 8 halftones, 1 map, 1 table, 6 x 9
Paper ISBN 978-0-8014-8416-2 $19.95s/£13.50
“The value and longevity of a book of
personal ‘stories’ gathered from a trau-
matic era depends to a large extent on the
scholarly wisdom, trustworthiness, and good
taste of the gatherer. The stories must be
singularly meaningful and at the same time
representative; coherent for outsiders but
not self-consciously crafted for them; and
arranged under some unifying rubric that
nevertheless does not depersonalize the
subjects. Given the profusion of Soviet-era
memoirs and diaries, such a book benefits
or angle of interpretation on the memory-
material. Irina Paperno’s Stories of the
Soviet Experience satisfies all these criteria
at the highest level.”
—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Irina Paperno teaches Russian literature
and intellectual history at the University
of California, Berkeley. Her publications
include Suicide as a Cultural Institution in
Dostoevsky’s Russia, also from Cornell,
and Chernyshevsky and the Age of Real-
ism: A Study in the Semiotics of Behavior.
She is coeditor of several books, includ-
ing Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of
Russian Modernism.
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“Slavophile Empire has a clear logic and
coherence: the divisions of law, religion, and
art all revolve around the central question
of identity and relationship to the ‘West.’ I
found the chapters on Slavophiles and art
especially stimulating and original.”
—Gregory Freeze,
author of The Parish Clergy
in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil
Professor of Russian History at Yale Uni-
versity. She is the author of Castration
and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian
Folktale, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and
the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle
Russia, both from Cornell, and Moscow,
1905: Working-Class Organization and
Political Conflict. She is coeditor of Self
and Story in Russian History, also from
Cornell.
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Slavophile Empire
Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path
Laura Engelstein
“Laura Engelstein’s writing is always thoughtful and instructive. The essays
in Slavophile Empire are a pleasure to read. They illuminate the battle that
Russian thinkers and artists waged with one another and with the govern-
ment to define the terms of Russia’s encounter with modernity and indeed
to define what it meant to be Russian in a modern world whose categories
of thought derived primarily from Europe.”—David L. Ransel, author of A
Russian Merchant’s Tale
Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the
basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil
society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the
leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the
Slavophiles and their heirs, whose aversion to the secular individual-
ism of the West and embrace of an idealized version of the native
past established a pattern of thinking that had an enduring impact
on Russian political life. Imperial Russia did not lack for partisans of
Western-style liberalism, but they were outnumbered, to the right and
to the left, by those who favored illiberal options.
In the book’s rigorously argued chapters, Engelstein asks how Russia’s
identity as a cultural nation at the core of an imperial state came
to be defined in terms of this antiliberal consensus. She examines
debates on religion and secularism, on the role of culture and the law
under a traditional regime presiding over a modernizing society, on the
status of the empire’s ethnic peripheries, and on the spirit needed to
mobilize a multinational empire in times of war. These debates, she
argues, did not predetermine the kind of system that emerged after
1917, but they foreshadowed elements of a political culture that are
still in evidence today.
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Window on the East
National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia
Robert Geraci
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Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
Francine Hirsch
Cowinner of the Council for European Studies First Book Award
Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize given by the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize given by the American
Historical Association
Culture and Society after Socialism
2005, 384 pages, 7 charts/graphs/maps, 20 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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To the Tashkent Station

Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War
Rebecca Manley

In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking

speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a
desperate attempt to safeguard the country’s industrial and human
resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in
Europe. To the Tashkent Station brilliantly reconstructs the evacuation
of more than sixteen million Soviet civilians in one of the most dramatic
episodes of World War II. Rebecca Manley paints a vivid picture of this
epic wartime saga: the chaos that erupted in towns large and small
as German troops approached, the overcrowded trains that trundled
eastward, and the desperate search for sustenance and shelter in
Tashkent, one of the most sought-after sites of refuge in the rear. Her
story ends in the shadow of victory, as evacuees journeyed back to
their ruined cities and broken homes.

Based on previously unexploited archival collections in Russia, Ukraine,

and Uzbekistan, To the Tashkent Station offers a novel look at a war
that transformed the lives of several generations of Soviet citizens.
The evacuation touched men, women, and children from all walks of “The story of the mass evacuation of Soviet
life: writers as well as workers, scientists along with government of- citizens during World War II has found its
ficials, party bosses, and peasants. Manley weaves their harrowing historian in Rebecca Manley. She has done
stories into a probing analysis of how the Soviet Union responded to an amazing job of tracking down sources,
and was transformed by World War II. Over the course of the war, the reconstructing the bureaucratic web of
Soviet state was challenged as never before. Popular loyalties were institutions and policies undergirding the
evacuation process, and collecting a range
tested, social hierarchies were recast, and the multiethnic fabric of
of personal experiences of the evacuation
the country was subjected to new strains. Even as the evacuation
from all sectors of society. The result is an
saved countless Soviet Jews from almost certain death, it spawned
extremely compelling narrative that reads
a new and virulent wave of anti-Semitism. This magisterial work is
beautifully. In Manley’s hands, the evacua-
the first in-depth study of this crucial but neglected episode in the
tion also serves as a kind of microcosm of
history of twentieth-century population displacement, World War II, Soviet politics and society. Most importantly,
and the Soviet Union. this is a story of the human experience of
evacuation and war.”

—Lynne Viola,
author of The Unknown Gulag:
The Lost World of Stalin’s
Special Settlements

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Cars for Comrades
The Life of the Soviet Automobile
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“The Colony of New Netherland is the
definitive modern study of the early Dutch
experience in North America.”
—Jon Parmenter,
author of The Edge of the Woods
“Jaap Jacobs has read virtually everything
about New Netherland, primary and second-
ary, in Dutch and English, and produced a
model synthesis of social, political, and eco-
nomic history for a colonial experience that
has far too long been terra incognita. Jacobs
is particularly strong in his ability to take a
genuinely transatlantic perspective.”
—Daniel K. Richter,
author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse
Jaap Jacobs (Ph.D. Leiden University),
an independent scholar and writer, has
been Visiting Professor of Early Ameri-
can History at Ohio University and Quinn
Foundation Senior Fellow at the McNeil
Center for Early American Studies and
Quinn Foundation Visiting Professor in
the Department of History at Cornell
University.
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The Colony of
New Netherland
A Dutch Settlement in
Seventeenth-Century America
Jaap Jacobs
The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson,
sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would
later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived,
but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony
of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of
the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the
1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English.
As Jacobs shows, New Netherland offers a distinctive example of eco-
nomic colonization and in its social and religious profile represents a
noteworthy divergence from the English colonization in North America.
Centered around New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan, the
colony extended north to present-day Schenectady, New York, east to
central Connecticut, and south to the border shared by Delaware, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania, leaving an indelible imprint on the culture,
political geography, and language of the early modern mid-Atlantic
region. Dutch colonists’ vivid accounts of the land and people of the
area shaped European perceptions of this bountiful land; their own
activities had a lasting effect on land use and the flora and fauna of
New York State, in particular, as well as on relations with the Native
people with whom they traded.
Sure to become readers’ first reference to this crucial phase of
American early colonial history, The Colony of New Netherland is a
multifaceted and detailed depiction of life in the colony, from explora-
tion and settlement through governance, trade, and agriculture. Jacobs
gives a keen sense of the built environment and social relations of the
Dutch colonists and closely examines the influence of the church and
the social system adapted from that of the Dutch Republic. Although
Jacobs focuses his narrative on the realities of quotidian existence
in the colony, he considers that way of life in the broader context of
the Dutch Atlantic and in comparison to other European settlements
in North America. 
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Our Earliest
Colonial Settlements
Their Diversities of Origin
and Later Characteristics
Charles M. Andrews
With a New Foreword by
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
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Irish Americans, African Americans,

and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era
Christian G. Samito

“Christian G. Samito recognizes the agency of displaced groups agitating for

inclusion. Becoming American under Fire is a very good book on an important
“Becoming American under Fire makes
and timely topic.”—Christopher Waldrep, author of Roots of Disorder and The
an important contribution to the history of
Many Faces of Judge Lynch
American citizenship. Christian G. Samito
In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich demonstrates that the Civil War military
account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced service of Irish and African Americans led
the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the them to make demands for full inclusion
Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and and it created a moral indebtedness on the
Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their part of the native-born white population that
capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity made opposing those demands difficult. No
in the process. Members of both groups also helped to redefine the other book illuminates this subject as well
as this one does.”
legal meaning and political practices of American citizenship.
—Lawrence F. Kohl,
For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one
author of The Politics of Individualism
aspect of their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by
participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal
treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political
processes from which they had previously been excluded. The
experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a
postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and
protections regardless of race. For Irish Americans, soldiering in
the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican govern-
ment and it forged a bond between their American citizenship
and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish
Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship
through naturalization and also caused the United States to
pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing
to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad.

As Samito makes clear, the experiences of African Americans

and Irish Americans differed substantially—and at times both groups
even found themselves violently opposed—but they had in common
that they aspired to full citizenship and inclusion in the American
polity. Both communities were key participants in the fight to expand
the definition of citizenship that became enshrined in constitutional
amendments and legislation that changed the nation.
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Awaiting the Heavenly Country
The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death
For more information,
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“The revival of a Classical martial code; a maniacally
detailed vision of Heaven; a rural cemetery movement
that guaranteed a safe resting place—all these things
together, Schantz argues, prepared American soldiers for
death on the battlefield. In his view, it wasn’t the bloody
war that made the rituals; it was the rituals that enabled
the bloody war.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
2008, 264 pages, 30 halftones, 6 x 9
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Christian G. Samito earned a law degree
from Harvard Law School and a doctor-
ate in American history from Boston
College. He is the editor of Commanding
Boston’s Irish Ninth: The Civil War Let-
ters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; “Fear
Was Not in Him”: The Civil War Letters of
Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A.;
and Changes in Law and Society During
the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal
History Documentary Reader. He edits a
series about the legal history of the Civil
War era, teaches at Boston College and
Boston University School of Law, and
practices law in Boston.
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“William E. Leuchtenburg’s close examina-
tion of FDR’s presidential legatees has
enabled him to demonstrate Roosevelt’s
enormous beyond-the-grave influence. In
the Shadow of FDR is a fine, perceptive
work that constitutes a valuable coda for
New Deal studies. Several pertinent insights
help to contribute to discussions of the
role of personalities in politics. This book
is a refreshing contribution to studies of
the presidency.”
—American Historical Review
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William E. Leuchtenburg is William
Rand Kenan Professor of History at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Among his many books is Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940,
for which he was awarded the Bancroft
Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize
of the Society of American Historians.
At the request of Lawrence Halprin,
the architect, Leuchtenburg provided
the majority of the quotations for the
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in
Washington, D.C.
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In the Shadow of FDR
From Harry Truman to Barack Obama,
Fourth Edition
William E. Leuchtenburg
Praise for earlier editions—
“In the Shadow of FDR shrewdly sets forth the special cruelty of the dilemma
Roosevelt’s successors have all faced: ‘If he did not walk in FDR’s footsteps,
he ran a risk of having it said that he was not a Roosevelt but a Hoover. Yet
to the extent that he did copy FDR, he lost any chance of marking out his
own claim to recognition.’”—New York Times Book Review
“A stimulating and original survey of the political impact of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s image on his successors in the White House. Truman was
resentful, Eisenhower suffered (in liberal eyes) by invidious comparison,
Kennedy was ambivalent, Johnson celebratory, Nixon strangely admiring,
Carter shallow in his use of FDR symbolism, and Reagan the first to turn
his back on the New Deal.”—Foreign Affairs
A ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945—the ghost of Frank-
lin Delano Roosevelt. FDR’s formidable presence has cast a large
shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death,
and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to
understanding the contemporary presidency. This new edition of In
the Shadow of FDR has been updated to examine the presidency of
George W. Bush and the first 100 days of the presidency of Barack
Obama. The Obama presidency is evidence not just of the continu-
ing relevance of FDR for assessing executive power but also of the
salience of FDR’s name in party politics and policy formulation.
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The Personal President
Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled
Theodore J. Lowi
“Lowi shrewdly describes how the President uses
television and polls to commune directly with the
masses. He gives a fascinating reading of the found-
ers’ intentions regarding the Presidency.”—New York
Times Book Review
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Joseph M. Lynch
“Lynch looks to the first six Congresses to see how those who framed and
ratified the Constitution actually understood it in practice; in the process, he
provides a rich history of the constitutional tugs-of-war in the early republic.
Lynch concludes that, because the founders themselves could not agree on
the original intention behind the Constitution’s most important provisions,
then one need not bother with a search for that intention.”—Times Literary
Supplement
1999, 336 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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The Will to Imagine

A Justification of Skeptical Religion
J. L. Schellenberg

“In this completion to his important trilogy, J. L.Schellenberg compellingly THEWILL

defends a critical and imaginative philosophy of religion against the con-
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temporary tendencies of turning philosophy of religion into an analytical SKEPTICALRELIGION
theology or of replacing it by a dogmatic naturalism. His rigorously argued
JLSCHELLENBERG
nonnaturalist alternative breaks new ground.”—Ingolf U. Dalferth, Claremont
Graduate University

“J. L. Schellenberg throws much light on some central issues in the philoso-
phy of religion and on important figures in its development such as Pascal,
Kant, and James. He challenges us to take skeptical faith seriously, as a
living alternative to traditional forms of religious belief and practice. The Will
to Imagine is technically accomplished and offers insights into matters of
human importance such as the pursuit of beauty. It will be a rewarding read
for all students of the philosophy of religion.”—P. A. Byrne, King’s College
London, editor of Religious Studies

The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg’s trilogy in the philoso-

phy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to a Philosophy of
Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a striking reversal in “J. L. Schellenberg is one of the most in-
our understanding of the possibility of religious faith. Where others treat novative philosophers of religion today.
religious skepticism as a dead end, Schellenberg argues that skepticism The Will to Imagine is rich with vigorous,
is the only point from which a proper beginning in religious inquiry—and in challenging arguments on the limits of
religion itself—can be made. For Schellenberg, our immaturity as a species reason, skepticism, the nature of religious
not only makes justified religious belief impossible but also provides the faith, belief, and the imagination, and a sus-
appropriate context for a type of faith response grounded in imagination tained, original defense of a combination
rather than belief, directed not to theism but to ultimism, the heart of re- of skepticism and eligious faith.”
ligion. This new and nonbelieving form of faith, he demonstrates, is quite
—Charles Taliaferro,
capable of nourishing an authentic religious life while allowing for inquiry
St. Olaf College
into ways of refining the generic idea that shapes its commitments.

A singular feature of Schellenberg’s book is his claim, developed in “This book attempts to reconcile faith and
detail, that unsuccessful believers’ arguments can successfully be reason in a manner that is so radical it
recast as arguments for imaginative faith. Out of the rational failure might actually succeed!”
of traditional forms of religious belief, The Will to Imagine fashions an
unconventional form of religion better fitted, Schellenberg argues, to the —Paul Draper,
human species as it exists today and as we may hope it will evolve. Purdue University

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J. L. Schellenberg J. L. Schellenberg is Professor of Philos-
“This book is indispensable reading for everyone engaged, at whatever level, in ophy at Mount Saint Vincent University
the philosophy of religion.”—William P. Alston, author of Beyond “Justification” and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of
2005, 252 pages, 6 x 9 Graduate Studies at Dalhousie Univer-
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J. L. Schellenberg Reason, all from Cornell.
“This is a brilliant work, full of original thinking and unhurriedly persuasive
argument.”—Terence Penelhum, University of Calgary
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Robin Hood
A Mythic Biography
Stephen Knight Winner of
the Mythopoeic
Scholarship Award
“Stephen Knight’s book documents the enormous in Myth and
scope of the myth—revolutionary, reactionary, chi- Fantasy Studies
valric, homosexual, patriotic, or whatever the audi-
ence will allow, even slapstick. A final mythic trait of
Robinalia is its ability to parody itself. Errol Flynn defined
the character for film: the animated Robin Fox in the Disney cartoon imitates
Flynn, and his was the voice, uncredited, of Rabbit Hood in the 1949 Warner
Brothers cartoon. Like any great myth, this is a tale that no one ever hears
for the first time.”—London Review of Books

“Knight valiantly conveys everything said and done about our hero since
the last quarter of the fourteenth century: every ballad, poem, novel, opera,
movie and TV series—Robin Hood’s Disneyfication and feminization, spoofs,
lampoons, Muppet and politically correct versions included. Such is the power
of myth that this catalog yokes Robin Hood with Jesus Christ, Buddha, Santa
Claus, King Arthur, the Knights Templar, Jesse James, the rural Australian
outlaw Ned Kelly, Martin Luther King Jr. and the protean tricksters of North
American aboriginal lore. If a ‘Hoodie’ ye be, thou shalt sally forth to liberate
“Robin Hood, the outlaw and eternal
all the copies thou canst.”—Toronto Globe and Mail
‘trickster,’ is still evolving, having long ago
transcended his national and historical The only figure in the original Dictionary of National Biography who is
origins.” said never to have existed, Robin Hood has taken on an air of reality
—Salon.com few historical figures achieve. His image in various guises has been
put to use as a subject of ballads, nationalist rallying point, Disney
cartoon fox, greenclad figure of farce, tabloid fodder, and template
for petty criminals and progressive political candidates alike. In this
engaging and deeply informed book Stephen Knight looks at the dif-
ferent manifestations of Robin Hood at different times and places in
see a mythic biography with a thematic structure.
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John Beeler
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Artillery of Heaven
American Missionaries and the
Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Ussama Makdisi

“Lucid and elegantly written, Ussama Makdisi’s Artillery of Heaven accom-

plishes two big things. First, while examining nineteenth-century American
missionary encounters in the Arab Ottoman territories, it presents a model
for a new kind of transnational history that sheds light on American engage-
ment with the world. Second, and at a time when much of the Arab past has
been ‘effectively demarcated . . . as a forbidden no-man’s-land’ because of
fear of what ‘divisive narratives’ of the past may dredge up, it scrutinizes
the raw history of the ‘multireligious world’ in the Ottoman region that is
now Lebanon.”—Middle East Journal

“Makdisi is certainly not the first to locate the origins of Arab nationalism
within the missionary movement, but that’s not really his aim. Rather, he
wants to demonstrate that progressive, secular, ecumenical ideas have
prospered in Lebanon, only to be repeatedly eradicated by insiders and
outsiders, each according to their own agenda.”—The Nation

“This book is a remarkable tour de force. It establishes Ussama Makdisi’s

place as one of the premier historians of the modern Arab world, of the
Arab-American encounter, and of Lebanon. It represents the best kind of
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intercultural history, weaving seamlessly a narrative of missionary actions
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against their American background, and of Lebanese reactions in their New Book” by
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ently effortlessly.”—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University Winner of the
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The complex relationship between America and the Arab Award given by the
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world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery Association “Makdisi presents a simple
of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American but remarkable story of the
encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth first Protestant missionaries to
century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant the Middle East and of the life and
missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the death of their Lebanese Maronite (Christian)
conversion and death of As’ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert follower, As’ad Shidyaq. Makdisi is a skilled
to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man’s body and scholar equally comfortable with nuanced
soul—and over how his story might be told—changed the actors and English and Arabic sources.”
cultures on both sides.
—Library Journal

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Path of Empire
Panama and the California Gold Rush
Aims McGuinness
“In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness has crafted a
well-conceived and painstakingly executed account
of Panama in the face of U.S. imperialism. As far as
Americans were concerned, Panama was simply a
transit zone, and the efforts of interested parties—
Panamanians, travelers, American capitalists—to take
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Innovation, 1918–1941 Bloc, 1947–1956
Thomas G. Gregory
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Following the Allied victory in World War II, the United
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Abdulkader H.
Sinno
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Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana Univer-
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Namhee Lee
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Jelena Subotić
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of institutions established to deal with the legacies
of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. She
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sion, Alexander Betts successfully argues that the interna-
tional politics of refugee protection are shaped by an impasse
between developing states in the South, where most refugees
first seek asylum, and the developed states in the North that
provide resources for refugee protection and/or offer refugee
resettlement.”—Rey Koslowski, SUNY Albany
States located near crisis zones are most likely to see
an influx of people fleeing from manmade disasters;
African states, for instance, are forced to accommodate
and adjust to refugees more often than do European
states far away from sites of upheaval. Geography
dictates that states least able to pay the costs as-
sociated with refugees are most likely to have them
cross their borders. Therefore, refugee protection has
historically been characterized by a North–South im-
passe. While Southern states have had to open their
borders to refugees fleeing conflict or human rights
abuses in neighboring states, Northern states have had
little obligation or incentive to contribute to protecting
refugees in the South.
In recent years, however, the Office of the United Na-
tions High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has
sought to foster greater international cooperation within
the global refugee regime through special conferences
at which Northern states are pushed to contribute
to the costs of protection for refugees in the South.
These initiatives, Alexander Betts finds in Protection by
Persuasion, can overcome the North–South impasse
and lead to significant cooperation.
Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow,
University of Oxford, and the coauthor of UNHCR: The
Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the
Twenty-First Century.
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China, France, and Mexico
Choose Global Liaisons, 1980–2000
Dorothy J. Solinger
In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger
examines the effects of global markets on the domes-
tic politics of major states. In the late 1970s, leaders
around the world faced a need both to continue produc-
tive investment and to cut labor costs to compete inter-
nationally in a changed world market. To accommodate
forces seemingly beyond their control they often opted
to reduce social protections and benefits that citizens
had come to expect, in the process recalibrating their
established political-economic coalitions. For countries
whose governance was built on a coalition between
workers and the state, the political conundrum was
particularly intense.
States’ Gains, Labor’s Losses concentrates on three
countries—China, France, and Mexico—where revolu-
tion-inspired political compacts between labor and the
state had to be renegotiated. In all three cases, choices
to forge a deepened dependence on international capital
markets required the ruling parties to fire large numbers
of workers and cut social benefits while attempting not
to provoke widespread social unrest or even full-scale
revolt among their supporters. China, France, and Mexico
also shared strong legacies of protectionism and state
intervention in the economy, so the decision of each to
join a supranational economic organization (France and
the EU, China and the GATT/WTO, Mexico and NAFTA) in
the hope of alleviating crises of capital shortage involved
submission to a new set of liberal economic rules that
further compromised their sociopolitical compacts.
Examining a fundamental question about the dynamics
of globalization and worker protest through an innovative
comparative perspective, States’ Gains, Labor’s Losses
emphasizes the growing tensions and new compromises
between the working class and their political leaders in
the face of intense international economic pressures.
Dorothy J. Solinger is Professor of Political Science at
the University of California, Irvine. She is the author
of books including Contesting Citizenship in Urban
China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the
Market, China’s Transition from Socialism, and Chinese
Business under Socialism, and the editor or coeditor
of a number of others.
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Security in the West
the West
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Nation
The West—Europe,
the United States and
Canada, Australia and
New Zealand—has long been a primary producer of
security (for itself) and of insecurity (for itself and for
others). Western discourse not only invented the term
security but also expanded and reshaped it according
to its own complex evolution. The goals of this volume
are to analyze the evolution of the contested concept
of security and to discuss how the concept of security
has emerged as a “Western social enterprise.” The con-
tributors to Security in the West address how Western
conceptions of security have developed and changed
since the end of the Cold War, the nature of new secu-
rity challenges and their implications for the West, and
the direction in which evolving concepts of security will
lead the West and the entire global community. This
book will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners of
international security and international relations.
C ontrib u tors
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Johan Eriksson • Matthew Evangelista • Federica Ferrari •
Giampiero Giacomello • Christopher Jones • Andrea
Locatelli • R. Craig Nation • Niklas Schörnig • Francesco
Strazzari • Simone Tholens
Giampiero Giacomello is Assistant Professor of In-
ternational Relations at the Dipartimento di Politica,
Istituzioni, Storia, Università di Bologna. He is coeditor
of International Relations and Security in the Digital Age.
R. Craig Nation is Professor of Strategy and Director
of Eurasian Studies at the U.S. Army War College since
1996. His books include War on War: The Zimmerwald
Left and the Origins of Communist Internationalism;
Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy,
1917–1991 (also from Cornell); and War in the Balkans
1991–2002.
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Globalizing in Hard Times
The Politics of Banking-Sector
Opening in the Emerging World
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
“Leonardo Martinez-Diaz’s thoughts on the current economic
situation in the United States and on the prospects of open-
ing in China and India are of great contemporary interest.
Globalizing in Hard Times is clear and straightforward; it
will appeal to a wide range of political economists.”—Henry
Laurence, Bowdoin College
In Globalizing in Hard Times, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
examines the sudden and substantial increase in cross-
border ownership of commercial banks in countries
where bank ownership had long been restricted by local
rules. Many parties—the World Bank and the IMF, the
world’s largest commercial banks, their home govern-
ments, and their negotiators—had been pushing for a
relaxation of ownership rules since the early 1980s
and into the 1990s, when bank profitability levels in
advanced industrial societies went flat. In their hunt
for higher returns on assets, the major banks looked to
expand business overseas, but through the mid-1990s
their efforts to impose more liberal ownership regimes
in nationalist countries proved largely unsuccessful.
Martinez-Diaz illustrates the ongoing political resis-
tance to liberalized ownership rules in Mexico, Indone-
sia, Brazil, and South Korea. He then demonstrates the
importance of a series of events—the Mexican crisis
and the Brazilian banking shock in 1994–1995 and
the Asian crisis of 1997–1998 among them—in finally
knocking down barriers to foreign ownership of banks.
After these upheavals, policymakers who were worried
about their political survival—and who were some-
times pressed by the IMF and foreign governments—
reshaped the regulatory environment in key emerging
markets. Self-proclaimed global banks eagerly grasped
the opportunity to expand their operations worldwide,
but after the initial shock, domestic politics reasserted
themselves, often diluting the new, liberal rules.
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz is a political economy fellow in
the Global Economy and Development Program at the
Brookings Institution. He is coeditor of Networks of Influ-
ence: Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order
and of Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understand-
ing Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy.
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
a series edited by Peter J. Katzenstein
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War, Revenue,
and State Building
Financing the Development
of the American State
Sheldon D. Pollack
“In the crisply written War, Revenue, and State Building,
Sheldon D. Pollack analyzes the influence of internal and
external variables on state formation and war-making in a
systematic fashion. Pollack is adept at deploying his arguments
and producing a narrative that allows the reader to draw his or
her own conclusions.”—Andrew D. Grossman, Albion College
“In War, Revenue, and State Building, Sheldon D. Pollack’s
impressively comparative perspective ensures that this
book could be put to good use in a number of courses on
American political development. In Pollack’s view, the Ameri-
can state, which had virtually no tax capacity at its birth,
has developed a very effective revenue system today—one
largely shaped by the nation’s wartime experiences.”—David
Brian Robertson, University of Missouri–St. Louis
In a relatively short time, the American state developed
from a weak, highly decentralized confederation com-
posed of thirteen former English colonies into the fore-
most global superpower. This remarkable institutional
transformation would not have been possible without
the revenue raised by a particularly efficient system of
public finance, first crafted during the Civil War and then
resurrected and perfected in the early twentieth century.
That revenue financed America’s participation in two
global wars as well as the building of a modern system
of social welfare programs. Sheldon D. Pollack shows
how war, revenue, and institutional development are
inextricably linked, no less in the United States than in
Europe and in the developing states of the Third World.
He delineates the mechanisms of political development
and reveals to us the ways in which the United States,
too, once was and still may be a “developing nation.”
War, Revenue, and State Building traces the sources
of public revenue available to the American state at
specific junctures of its history (in particular, during
times of war), the revenue strategies pursued by its
political leaders in response to these factors, and
the consequential impact of those strategies on the
development of the American state.
Sheldon D. Pollack is Professor and Director of the Legal
Studies Program, University of Delaware. He is the author
of Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda
and The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy: Revenue and Politics.
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Homelessness and Humanness
in Post-Socialist Russia
Tova Höjdestrand
Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian
cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminal-
ization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished.
In spite of the host of social and economic problems
confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the
social dislocation endured by increasing numbers of
people went largely unrecognized by the state. Being
homeless carries a special burden in Russia, where
a permanent address is the precondition for all civil
rights and social benefits and where homelessness
is often regarded as a result of laziness and drinking,
rather than external factors.
In Needed by Nobody, the anthropologist Tova
Höjdestrand offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness
in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway
stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the
homeless gather. Höjdestrand describes the material
and mental world of this marginalized population. They
are, she observes, “not needed” in two senses. The
state considers them, in effect, as noncitizens. At the
same time they stand outside the traditionally intimate
social networks that are the real safety net of life in
postsocialist Russia. As a result, they are deprived of
the prerequisites for dealing with others in ways that
they themselves value as “decent” and “human.”
Höjdestrand investigates the “world of waste”: Her
interviews with homeless people show that the in-
digent have a very good idea of what others think
of them and that they are liable to reproduce the
stigma that is attached to them even as they at-
tempt to negotiate it. This unique and often moving
portrait of life on the margins of society in the new
Russia ultimately reveals how human dignity may
be retained in the absence of its very preconditions.
Tova Höjdestrand is Lecturer in the Department of
Social Anthropology at Stockholm University.
Culture and Society after Socialism
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The Old Faith and
the Russian Land
A Historical Ethnography
of Ethics in the Urals
Douglas Rogers
The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnog-
raphy that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice
in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town
of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by
religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals
to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches
of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believers, as these
dissenters later came to be known, have maintained a
presence in town ever since. The townspeople of Sepych
have also been serfs, free peasants, collective farmers,
and, now, shareholders in a post-Soviet cooperative.
Douglas Rogers traces connections between the town
and some of the major transformations of Russian his-
tory, showing how townspeople have responded to a
long series of attempts to change them and their com-
munities: tsarist-era efforts to regulate family life and
stamp out Old Belief on the Stroganov estates, Soviet
collectivization drives and antireligious campaigns, and
the marketization, religious revival, and ongoing political
transformations of post-Soviet times.
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and exten-
sive archival and manuscript sources, Rogers argues
that religious, political, and economic practice are
overlapping arenas in which the people of Sepych have
striven to be ethical—in relation to labor and money,
food and drink, prayers and rituals, religious books and
manuscripts, and the surrounding material landscape.
He tracks the ways in which ethical sensibilities—about
work and prayer, hierarchy and inequality, gender and
generation—have shifted and recombined over time.
Rogers concludes that certain expectations about
how to be an ethical person have continued to orient
townspeople in Sepych over the course of nearly three
centuries for specific, identifiable, and often unexpected
reasons. Throughout, he demonstrates what a histori-
cal and ethnographic study of ethics might look like and
uses this approach to ask new questions of Russian,
Soviet, and post-Soviet history.
Douglas Rogers is Assistant Professor of Anthropology
at Yale University.
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Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol
after World War II
Karl D. Qualls
“Karl D. Qualls demonstrates in detail not only the contest
of authority over the design and execution of the rebuilding
project but also the difficulties encountered in the shortage of
workers and materials. Qualls demonstrates that the inhabit-
ants preferred to show a historic heroic, military, naval, and
emphatically Russian face to the world, rather than a strictly
Soviet facade. This very Russian city, which houses both the
Russian and the Ukrainian Black Sea fleets, is a source of
friction between Russia and Ukraine even today. In exploring
important issues of image and identity, Qualls has made
admirable use of archives, newsreels, films, and interviews.”
—Patricia Herlihy, author of The Alcoholic Empire
Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still
home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by
Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly
destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From
Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the com-
plex story of the city’s rebuilding. Based on extensive
research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol,
architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his
own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qualls tells a
unique story in which the periphery “bests” the Stalinist
center: the city’s experience shows that local officials
had considerable room to maneuver even during the
peak years of Stalinist control.
Moscow planned to remake the ancient city on the
heroic socialist model prized by Stalin and visited
upon most other postwar Soviet cities and towns. In
Sevastopol, however, the architects and city planners
sent out from the center “went native,” deviating from
Moscow’s blueprints to collaborate with local officials
and residents, who seized control of the planning pro-
cess and rebuilt the city in a manner that celebrated
its distinctive historical identity.
Though visually Russian (and still containing a majority
Russian-speaking population), the rebuilt Sevastopol
was in 1954 joined to Ukraine, which in 1991 became
an independent state. In his concluding chapter, Qualls
explores how the “Russianness” of the city and the
presence of the Russian fleet affect relations between
Ukraine, Russia, and the West.
Karl D. Qualls is Associate Professor of History at
Dickinson College.
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American Abyss
Savagery and Civilization
in the Age of Industry
Daniel E. Bender
“In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender traces the ways in
which the supposed mastery of racial knowledge helped
to constitute and validate the ideas that large industrial
enterprises and empires could be successfully managed.
Bender’s leavening of intellectual history with the cultural,
political, and social, and especially with the history of gender,
shows how similar scientific ideas could undergird paeans
to capital and some strains of revolutionary socialism—how
they could give rise to immigrant baby contests as well as
campaigns for sterilization.”—David R. Roediger, author of
Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrializa-
tion both dramatically altered everyday experiences
and shaped debates about the effects of immigration,
empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E.
Bender examines an array of sources—eugenics
theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory,
and even popular novels about cavemen—to show
how intellectuals and activists came to understand
industrialization in racial and gendered terms as the
product of evolution and as the highest expression of
civilization. Their discussions, he notes, are echoed
today by the use of such terms as the “developed”
and “developing” worlds. American industry was con-
trasted with the supposed savagery and primitivism
discovered in tropical colonies, but observers who
made those claims worried that industrialization, by
encouraging immigration, child and women’s labor,
and large families, was reversing natural selection.
Factories appeared to favor the most unfit. There was
a disturbing tendency for such expressions of fear to
favor eugenicist “remedies.”
Bender delves deeply into the culture and politics of
the age of industry. Linking urban slum tourism and
imperial science with immigrant better-baby contests
and hoboes, American Abyss uncovers the complex
interactions of turn-of-the-century ideas about race,
class, gender, and ethnicity.
Daniel E. Bender is Associate Professor of History and
Canada Research Chair in Urban History, University of
Toronto. He is the author of Sweated Work, Weak Bod-
ies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor
and editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop
in Historical and Global Perspective.
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Sense and Sensibility in the Age of the
American Revolution
Edited by Susan E. Klepp and Karin Wulf
Hannah Callender Sansom (1737–1801) witnessed
the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century:
political struggles, war and peace, and economic
development. She experienced the pull of traditional
emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the
emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice,
liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes
from her position as a well-educated member of the
colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia,
the principal city in North America, this assertive,
outspoken woman described her life and her society
in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was
twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth of her
first grandchild in 1788.
Hannah Callender Sansom’s struggle to become
reconciled to an unhappy marriage is related in frank
terms and in certain silences. Ultimately she created
a meaningful life centered on children, religion, and
domesticity. When her daughter was to marry, Hannah
Callender Sansom made certain that, despite risking
her standing among Quakers, Sarah married for love.
Long held in private hands, the complete text of Hannah
Callender Samson’s extraordinary diary is published
here for the first time. In-depth interpretive essays, as
well as explanatory footnotes, provide context for stu-
dents and other readers. The diary is one of the earliest
and fullest documents written by an American woman,
and it provides fresh insights into women’s experience
in early America, the urban milieu of the emerging
middle classes, and the culture that shaped both.
Susan E. Klepp is Professor of History at Temple Uni-
versity. She is the author of Revolutionary Conceptions,
among other books, and coeditor of The Infortunate.
Karin Wulf is Associate Professor of History and Ameri-
can Studies at the College of William and Mary. She
is the author of Not All Wives and coeditor of Milcah
Martha Moore’s Book.
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Horace Greeley’s
New-York Tribune
Civil War–Era Socialism and
the Crisis of Free Labor
Adam Tuchinsky
“This is an important book, distinguished in quality and
broad in significance. Its conception is highly original. Adam
Tuchinsky is the first modern biographer to take Horace
Greeley’s socialism seriously, instead of treating it as a
mere eccentricity. As Tuchinsky reassesses socialism in
American history, he presents a sophisticated and complex
interpretation of America in Greeley’s lifetime. One of the
book’s merits is the way it integrates political history, eco-
nomic history, the history of the printed media, labor history,
and, most of all, intellectual history.”—Daniel Walker Howe,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of What Hath God Wrought:
The Transformation of America, 1815 to 1848
In the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley’s New-
York Tribune had the largest national circulation of
any newspaper in the United States. Its contributors
included many of the leading minds of the period—
Margaret Fuller, Henry James Sr., Charles Dana, and
Karl Marx. The Tribune was also a locus of social
democratic thought that closely matched the ideology of
Greeley, its founder and editor, who was a noted figure
in politics and reform movements. Adam Tuchinsky’s
book recalls an earlier style of opinion media, with
“participant editors” acting not unlike today’s Internet
journalists—professionals and amateurs alike—who
digest the news and also shape it. It will appeal to all
readers interested in the history of the media and its
relationship to partisan politics.
During its Greeley era, the Tribune was simultaneously
an influential voice in the Whig and Republican parties
and a vigorous advocate of socialism. Historians and
biographers have struggled to reconcile these seem-
ingly contradictory tendencies. Tuchinsky’s history of
the Tribune, by placing the newspaper and its ideology
squarely within the political, economic, and intellec-
tual climate of Civil War–era America, illustrates the
connection between socialist reform and mainstream
political thought. Tuchinsky demonstrates that, amid
the sectional crisis and the battle over slavery, Greeley
and the Tribune promoted a viable form of democratic
socialism that formed one foundation of modern liber-
alism in America.
Adam Tuchinsky is Associate Professor of History at
the University of Southern Maine.
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The Transnational Politics of
Contemporary Native Culture
Shari M. Huhndorf
“In this wise and wide-ranging book, Shari M. Huhndorf
challenges truisms about contemporary Native nationalism
in the arts while remaining respectful of the ideas that she
asks us to rethink. Mapping the Americas extends Huhn-
dorf’s continuing project of bringing Eskimo and Inuit studies
together with American Indian studies, and in that way and
many other ways it offers a model of the alliance-building
that it invites us to study.”-—Robert Dale Parker, author of
The Invention of Native American Literature and The Sound
the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
“In clear and convincing prose, Mapping the Americas
places the complex dynamics of tribal transnationalism at
the forefront of Native American and American studies.”
—Kenneth M. Roemer, coeditor, Cambridge Companion to
Native American Literature
In  Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks
changing conceptions of Native culture as it increas-
ingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital
concerns such as patriarchy, labor and environmental
exploitation, the emergence of pan-Native urban com-
munities, global imperialism, and the commodification
of indigenous cultures. While nationalism remains a
dominant anticolonial strategy in indigenous contexts,
Huhndorf  examines the ways in which transnational
indigenous politics have reshaped Native culture (es-
pecially novels, films, photography, and performance)
in the United States and Canada since the 1980s.
Mapping the Americas  thus broadens the political
paradigms that have dominated recent critical work in
Native studies as well as the geographies that provide
its focus, particularly through its engagement with the
Arctic. Among the manifestations of these new ten-
dencies in Native culture that Huhndorf presents are
Igloolik Isuma Productions, the Inuit company that has
produced nearly forty films, including Atanarjuat, The
Fast Runner; indigenous feminist playwrights; Leslie
Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead; and multimedia
artist Shelley Niro.
Shari M. Huhndorf is Associate Professor of English
and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She
is the author of Going Native: Indians in the American
Cultural Imagination, also from Cornell.
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Reading Appalachia
from Left to Right
Conservatives and the 1974
Kanawha County Textbook Controversy
Carol Mason
“Reading Appalachia from Left to Right is an extremely
interesting, informative, and important book that deserves
a wide reading.”—Dwight Billings, coauthor, with Kathleen
Blee, of The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and
Hardship in Appalachia
In Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason
examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum
dispute in West Virginia that heralded the rightward
shift in American culture and politics. At a time when
black nationalists and white conservatives were both
maligned as extremists for opposing education reform,
a fundamentalist mother who objected to new language-
arts textbooks featuring multiracial literature sparked
the yearlong conflict. It was the most violent textbook
battle in America, inspiring mass marches, rallies by
white supremacists, boycotts by parents, and strikes
by coal miners. Schools were closed several times due
to arson and dynamite while national and international
news teams descended on Charleston.
A native of Kanawha County, Mason explores how reports
of the conflict as a hillbilly feud affected all involved,
she draws on substantial archival research and inter-
views with Klansmen, evangelicals, miners, bombers,
businessmen, and residents who, like herself, were in
Kanawha County during the dispute. Mason investigates
vulgar accusations of racism that precluded a richer
understanding of how ethnicity, race, class, and gender
blended together as white protesters set out to protect
“our children’s souls” even as they objected to the black
soul aesthetic of the 1970s. The alliances, tactics, and
political discourses that emerged in the Kanawha Valley
in 1974 crossed traditional lines, inspiring innovations
in neo-Nazi organizing, propelling Christian conservatism
into the limelight, and providing models for women of
the New Right.
Carol Mason is Associate Professor of English and
Director of Gender Studies at Oklahoma State Univer-
sity. She is the author of Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic
Narrative of Pro-life Politics, also from Cornell.
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From Servants to Workers
South African Domestic Workers
and the Democratic State
Shireen Ally
“In this most important book, Shireen Ally explores the para-
dox of independence: as private domestic workers became
recognized in the labor law of the postapartheid state, as
their work became ‘modernized’ to be like other forms of
employment, their unions withered.”—Eileen Boris, author
of Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial
Homework in the United States
“From Servants to Workers is a readable and engaging vol-
ume containing multiple strong voices of women informants
and union activists.”—Michele Ruth Gamburd, author of The
Kitchen Spoon’s Handle
In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of women
from poorer countries have braved treacherous journeys
to richer countries for jobs as poorly paid domestic
workers. Scholars and activists denounce compro-
mised forms of citizenship that expose these women
to at times shocking exploitation and abuse. In From
Servants to Workers, Shireen Ally asks whether the low
wages and poor working conditions so characteristic of
migrant domestic work can truly be resolved by means
of the extension of citizenship rights.
Following South Africa’s “miraculous” transition to
democracy, more than a million poor black women who
had endured a despotic organization of paid domestic
work under apartheid became the beneficiaries of one
of the world’s most impressive and extensive efforts to
formalize and modernize paid domestic work through
state regulation. Instead of undergoing a dramatic
transformation, servitude relations stubbornly resisted
change. Ally locates an explanation for this in the ten-
sion between the forms of power deployed by the state
in its efforts to protect workers, on the one hand, and
the forms of power workers recover through the intimate
nature of their work, on the other. Listening attentively
to workers’ own narrations of their entry into democratic
citizenship-rights, Ally explores the political implications
of paid domestic work as an intimate form of labor.
Shireen Ally teaches in the Department of Sociology at
the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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Changing the
Course of AIDS
Peer Education in South Africa
and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis
David Dickinson
Foreword by Charles Deutsch
Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evalua-
tion of a new and exciting way to create the kind of
much-needed behavioral change that could affect the
course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. This
case study from the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic
demonstrates that regular workers serving as peer edu-
cators can be as—or even more—effective agents of
behavioral change than experts who lecture about the
facts and so-called appropriate health care behavior.
After spending six years researching the response of
large South African companies to the epidemic that
is decimating their workforce as well as South African
communities, David Dickinson describes the promise
of this grassroots intervention—workers educating
one another in the workplace and community—and the
limitations of traditional top-down strategies.
Dickinson’s book takes us right into the South African
workplace to show how effective and yet enormously
complex peer education really is. We see what it means
when workers directly tackle the kinds of sexual, gender,
religious, ethnic, and broader social and political taboos
that make behavior change so difficult, particularly
when that behavior involves sex and sexuality. In this
book we see why peer education has so much to offer
societies grappling with the HIV/AIDS epidemic and
why those interested in changing behaviors to ame-
liorate other health problems like obesity, alcoholism,
and substance abuse have so much to learn from the
South African example.
David Dickinson researched Changing the Course of
AIDS while Associate Professor of HIV/AIDS in the
Workplace at the Wits Business School, University of
the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He
is currently Professor of Sociology at University of the
Witwatersrand. Charles Deutsch is a senior research
specialist at the Harvard School of Public Health and
the author of Broken Bottles, Broken Dreams: Under-
standing and Helping Children of Alcoholics.
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The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
a series edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson
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Organizing at the Margins
The Symbolic Politics of Labor
in South Korea and the United States
Jennifer Jihye Chun
“Organizing at the Margins is an excellent contribution to
our understanding of global labor movements. Jennifer
Jihye Chun combines careful ethnographic case studies of
recent union campaigns among low-wage service workers in
the United States and South Korea with nuanced theoretical
discussion to develop a provocative and highly original per-
spective on labor organizing in the neoliberal era.”—Ruth
Milkman, author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the
Future of the U.S. Labor Movement
The realities of globalization have produced a surprising
reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements
around the world. After years of neglect and exclusion,
labor organizers are recognizing both the needs and
the importance of immigrants and women employed
in the growing ranks of low-paid and insecure service
jobs. In Organizing at the Margins, Jennifer Jihye Chun
focuses on this shift as it takes place in two countries:
South Korea and the United States. Using compara-
tive historical inquiry and in-depth case studies, she
shows how labor movements in countries with different
histories and structures of economic development,
class formation, and cultural politics embark on similar
trajectories of change.
Deftly combining theory and ethnography, she argues
that by cultivating alternative sources of “symbolic
leverage” that root workers’ demands in the collective
morality of broad-based communities, as opposed to
the narrow confines of workplace disputes, workers in
the lowest tiers are transforming the power relations
that sustain downgraded forms of work. Her case
studies of janitors and personal service workers in the
United States and South Korea offer a surprising com-
parison between converging labor movements in two
very different countries as they refashion their relation
to historically disadvantaged sectors of the workforce
and expand the moral and material boundaries of union
membership in a globalizing world.
Jennifer Jihye Chun is Assistant Professor of Sociology
at the University of British Columbia.
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Labor
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Hired Hands or
Human Resources?
Case Studies of HRM Programs
and Practices in Early American Industry
Bruce E. Kaufman
In a companion volume to Managing the Human Fac-
tor, also from Cornell, Bruce E. Kaufman shows how
American firms transitioned from the traditional “hired
hand” model of human resource management (HRM)
to the modern “human resources” version popular to-
day. Kaufman illuminates through fifteen detailed case
studies the structure and operation of HRM programs
and practices across a diverse range of American
business firms spanning the fifty years from 1880 to
1930. Nine of the fifteen case studies in Hired Hands
or Human Resources? examine HRM before World War I
and document the highly informal, decentralized, ex-
ternalized, and sometimes harsh nature of the people-
management practices of that era. The remaining six
span the Welfare Capitalism decade of the 1920s and
reveal the marked transformation to a more progres-
sive and professional model of personnel practice at
some companies, along with continued reliance on the
traditional model at others.
Hired Hands or Human Resources? features new insights
into key subjects such as the strategic versus tactical
nature of early HRM, alternative models of workforce
governance used in these years, and the reasons some
companies created autonomous HRM departments. 
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Management in American Industry
Bruce E. Kaufman
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2008, 384 pages, 4 tables, 4 charts/graphs, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4227-8 $49.95s/£33.95
Bruce E. Kaufman is Professor of Economics and Se-
nior Associate of the W. T. Beebe Institute of Personnel
and Employment Relations at Georgia State University.
He is author of Managing the Human Factor: The Early
Years of Human Resource Management in American
Industry and editor of Theoretical Perspectives on Work
and the Employment Relationship, both from Cornell.
An ILR Press Book
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International and Domestic Perspectives
Edited by James A. Gross
and Lance Compa
The concept of human rights at work has advanced
significantly in the last decade. The authors of the
essays in Human Rights in Labor and Employment
Relations focus in various ways on how the promotion
and protection of human rights at workplaces here
and around the world posit a new set of values and
approaches that challenge every orthodoxy in the em-
ployment relations field, every practice and rule based
in that orthodoxy, and even the underlying premises
and intellectual foundations of contemporary labor and
employment systems. The authors constitute a diverse
and accomplished group of human rights activists,
practitioners, and scholars. Implementing the theme
of the volume, they address a wide range of important
subjects: worker health and safety, child labor, worker
freedom of association, migrant and forced labor, the
human rights obligations of employers, workplace dis-
crimination, and workers with disabilities. The authors
also discuss the implications of their findings for labor
and employment research and, where relevant, make
pragmatic proposals for change.  quality of employment, income protection, employment,
contrib u tors
Susanne M. Bruyère, Cornell University • Lance Compa,
Cornell University • James A. Gross, Cornell University •
Jeffrey Hilgert, Cornell University • Barbara Murray, Inter-
national Labour Organization • Tonia Novitz, University
of Bristol • Maria L. Ontiveros, University of San Francisco
Law School • Edward E. Potter, Director of Global Work-
place Rights, Coca-Cola Company; U.S. Employer Delegate,
International Labour Organization Conference • Marika
McCauley Sine, Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager,
Coca-Cola Company • Rebecca Smith, National Employ-
ment Law Project • Burns H. Weston, University of Iowa
James A. Gross is Professor of Labor Rights at the
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell Uni-
versity. He is editor of Workers’ Rights as Human Rights,
also from Cornell. Lance Compa is Senior Lecturer at
the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell
University. He is the author of Unfair Advantage: Workers’
Freedom of Association in the United States under Inter-
national Human Rights Standards, also from Cornell.
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A Lera research volume
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The ILO
and the
Quest
for Social
Justice,
1919–2009
Gerry Rodgers,
Eddy Lee, Lee
Swepston,
and Jasmien
Van Daele
This book tells the story of the International Labour Or-
ganization, founded in 1919 in the belief that universal
and lasting peace goes hand in hand with social justice.
Since then the ILO has contributed to the protection of
the vulnerable, the fight against unemployment, the pro-
motion of human rights, the development of democratic
institutions, and the improvement of the working lives of
women and men everywhere. In its history the ILO has
sometimes thrived, sometimes suffered setbacks, but
always survived to pursue its goals through the political
and economic upheavals of the last ninety years.
This book addresses such issues as rights at work, the
poverty reduction, a fair globalization, and today’s over-
riding goal of decent work for all. The book ends with
reflections on the challenges ahead in a world where
the present economic crisis underlines the urgency of
global action for social justice.
Gerry Rodgers, former director of the International
Institute for Labour Studies, is Visiting Professor at the
Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. Eddy Lee,
former economic adviser at the ILO, is Visiting Fellow
at the International Institute of Labour Studies, Ge-
neva. Lee Swepston, Former Senior Adviser on Human
Rights and Director of the Department of Fundamental
Principles and rights at the ILO, is Visiting Professor
at Lund University, Sweden and a lecturer and consul-
tant. Jasmien Van Daele, a research officer for the ILO
Century Project, 2007–2008, is now a postdoctoral
research fellow in the Department of Contemporary
History at Ghent University.
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European Representations of Islam
and the Orient, 1100–1450
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
“Idols in the East is an excellent as well as a timely book.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari’s assessments of the primary and
secondary sources that come under her scrutiny are judi-
cious, insightful, and fair-minded. Above all, Idols in the East
makes clear how wide a range of evidence there is for a
discourse of medieval Orientalism and how such a discourse
might be understood in the present.”—Iain Macleod Higgins,
author of Writing East
Representations of Muslims have never been more
common in the Western imagination than they are
today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed
over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given
rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the “Is-
lamist” terrorist. In Idols in the East Suzanne Conklin
Akbari explores the premodern background of some
of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day
depictions of Muslims—the irascible and irrational
Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist—and how these
stereotypes developed over time.
Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of inter-
est in European encounters with Islam and the Orient
in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval
period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts includ-
ing encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical
treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allego-
ries to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval
culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book
of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and
Dante’s Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how
medieval writers and readers understood and explained
the differences they saw between themselves and the
Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to
terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with
modern discussions of Orientalism.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of English and
Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is
the author of Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory
and Medieval Allegory and editor of Marco Polo and the
Encounter of East and West.
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Cloth ISBN 978-0-8014-4807-2 $49.95s/£33.95
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Women and
Aristocratic Culture
in the Carolingian World
Valerie L. Garver
“Valerie L. Garver has exhaustively combed a huge number
of primary sources and frequently presents her findings
in novel or unexpected conjunctions, to excellent effect,
especially on such important questions as women’s contribu-
tion to the domestic economy or the details of their prayer
texts.”—Julia Smith, author of Europe After Rome
Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on
medieval women, we still know much less about the ex-
periences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do
about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic
Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers
a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of
eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in
women’s lives and in the ways others perceived women
during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and
religious women, despite their legal and social constric-
tions, played integral roles in Carolingian society.
Garver’s innovative book employs an especially wide
range of sources, both textual and material, which
she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced
impression of aristocratic women than we’ve seen
before. She looks at the importance of female beauty
and adornment; the family and the construction of
identities and collective memory; education and moral
exemplarity; wealth, hospitality, and domestic manage-
ment; textile work; and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian
women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use
of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters,
polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis,
liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, art-
works, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately,
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World
underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the
reshaping of antique ideas and the development of
lasting social norms.
Valerie L. Garver is Assistant Professor of History at
Northern Illinois University.
NOVEMBER, 328 pages, 10 halftones, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Modernist Imagination
Urmila Seshagiri
“In Race and the Modernist Imagination, Urmila Seshagiri
makes a capacious case that the aesthetics of Anglo-British
modernism are fundamentally shaped by a racial imagina-
tion. In surprising juxtapositions, Seshagiri finds race embed-
ded in texts where we might not suspect it (such as The Good
Soldier and To the Lighthouse) and in popular texts where
it operates in unexpected forms below the surface of crude
racial polarizations (as in the Fu Manchu stories).”—Laura
Doyle, author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix
of Modern Fiction and Culture
Race has long been recognized as a formative element
of American modernism, but its role in England is less
clearly understood. While critics have examined race in
the works of British writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and
Forster, they have done so mostly from a postcolonial
perspective. In Race and the Modernist Imagination,
Urmila Seshagiri finds that race—as a matter apart
from imperialism—served as an engine for the creation
of new literary forms by a wide range of writers, includ-
ing Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield,
Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf. In Seshagiri’s view,
race provided these writers with a set of tropes and
plots that rejuvenated the British aesthetic tradition:
new ideas and fresh forms found their way into British
literature through characters and settings that evoked
other peoples, other places.
In addition to her readings of a fascinating array of
works—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Heart of Darkness,
The Good Soldier, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and the
short stories of Mansfield and West—Seshagiri con-
siders examples that fall outside the usual purview of
British modernist literature, such as Sax Rohmer’s Dr.
Fu Manchu tales, the avant-garde review BLAST, and
Vita Sackville-West’s travel writings. Throughout, she
places her subjects within their social and cultural
contexts: British Chinatowns, avant-garde cabaret clubs,
exhibitions of African art, and dance performances by
the Ballets Russes. Urmila Seshagiri’s interdisciplinary
study reveals a common core of race in the modern
imaginary and, more broadly, establishes race as a
crucial concept for understanding the cultural field of
modernity.
Urmila Seshagiri is Assistant Professor of English at
the University of Tennessee.
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Literary Criticism
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literat u re
Caribbean Middlebrow
Leisure Culture and the Middle Class
Belinda Edmondson
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split
into elite highbrow culture—which is considered deriva-
tive of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and
authentic working-class culture, which is often identified
with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival,
calypso, and reggae. In Caribbean Middlebrow, Belinda
Edmondson recovers a middle ground, a genuine
popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that
stretches back into the nineteenth century.
Edmondson shows that popular novels, beauty pageants,
and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture
that are mostly created, maintained, and consumed by
the Anglophone middle class. Much of middle-class cul-
ture, she finds, is further gendered as “female”: women
are more apt to be considered recreational readers of
fiction, for example, and women’s behavior outside the
home is often taken as
a measure of their com-
munity’s respectability.
Edmondson also high-
lights the influence of
American popular culture,
especially African Ameri-
can popular culture, as
early as the nineteenth
century. This is counter
to the notion that the
islands were exclusively
under the sway of Brit-
ish tastes and trends.
She finds the origins of
today’s “dub” or spoken-
word Jamaican poetry
in earlier traditions of
genteel dialect poetry—as exemplified by the work of
the Jamaican folklorist, actress, and poet Louise “Miss
Lou” Bennett Coverley—and considers the impact of
early Caribbean novels including Emmanuel Appadocca
(1853) and Jane’s Career (1913).
Belinda Edmondson is Associate Professor of English
and African American and African Studies at Rutgers
University–Newark. She is the author of Making Men:
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Carib-
bean Narrative and editor of Caribbean Romances: The
Politics of Regional Representation.
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of us who teach systematics. I believe that
Biological Systematics is the best textbook
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Randall T. Schuh is Curator in the Divi-
sion of Invertebrate Zoology, American
Museum of Natural History. He is the
author of the first edition of Biological
Systematics: Principles and Applications
and coauthor of True Bugs of the World
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera): Classification
and Natural History, both from Cornell,
as well as Plant Bugs of the World.
Andrew V. Z. Brower is Associate Pro-
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Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications draws equally from
examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cla-
distic principles and techniques. It is a core systematics textbook with
a focus on parsimony-based approaches for students and biologists
interested in systematics and comparative biology. Randall T. Schuh
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un geste de couleur
Jean-François Lyotard
Introduction by Herman Parret
Epilogue by Christine Buci-Glucksmann

The first volume in the new series Jean-François Lyotard—Writings

on Contemporary Art and Artists is dedicated to the Dutch Abstract
Expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet Karel Appel (1921–2006).
Originally published in German, the book’s original French text, written
in 1992 as the result of a correspondence with Karel Appel, is here
published for the first time. In his text about Appel, Lyotard reflects
on the nature and function of color as it is used by the artist. Karel NOVEMBER, 190 pages,
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U N I V E R S I T Y
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Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists
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Jean-François Lyotard is well-known especially for his views on postmodern-

ist thinking and its impact on society. Lyotard’s language-specific philosophy
both reflects on the use of language and uses a consciously subtle style to
approach contemporary ethical and aesthetic themes. His essays, reflec-
tions, and impressions on contemporary artists represent a particularly
interesting part of his work.

The series Jean-François Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists

consists of five volumes that offer a complete collection of all the writings by Jean-François Lyotard concerning
contemporary art and artists, some of which have been published only in German, French or English. Others,
from Lyotard’s personal archive, are being published here for the first time. Leuven’s five volumes include the
complete original French texts along with English translations on facing pages. The parallel presentation of
both the French text and the English translation will introduce a wide English-speaking public to the intriguing
manner in which Lyotard approached the artists and their work. Illustrations of the works discussed accompany
the texts. All volumes include an introduction by Herman Parret and an epilogue by another Lyotard expert.
This project is the fruit of a collective initiative by Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University)
and other prominent Lyotard specialists—Dalia Judovitz, Geoffrey Bennington and Peter Milne—from Emory
University, the institution with which Lyotard was associated for many years. His wife Dolorès Lyotard has
also been closely involved in this project. The research was carried out mainly at the Kandinsky Library of
the Georges Pompidou Centre and at the Doucet Library in Paris, where the Lyotard archive is located.

Future publications in the series VOLUME II (Spring 2010) Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness /
Sam Francis, leçon de ténèbres • VOLUME III (Fall 2010) Duchamp’s Trans/formers / Les transformateurs
Duchamp • VOLUME IV (Spring 2011) Various Texts on Contemporary Art and Artists / Textes dispersés sur l’art
contemporain et les artistes • VOLUME V (Fall 2011) What to Paint? / Que peindre?

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Sonata Form
a Sigmund Freud on the
Sense of Guilt Herman
Instrumental Works by Liszt, Strauss,
Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky

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Sigmund Freud, in his
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r search for the origins
Schoenberg, and
a of the sense of guilt in
individual life and culture,
Steven Vande Moortele Zemlinsky
c regularly speaks of “read- Steven
e ing a dark trace,” thus Vande Moortele
referring to the Oedipus
myth as a myth about the problem of human guilt. Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated
In Freud’s view, this sense of guilt is a trace, a path, to the combination of the movements of a multimove-
that leads deep into the individual’s mental state, into ment sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement
childhood memories, and into the prehistory of culture form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Draw-
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and religion. ing on a variety of historical and recent approaches

to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian
Herman Westerink follows this trace and analyzes Formenlehre, Caplin’s theory of formal functions, and
Freud’s thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory), it begins by
U N I V E R S I T Y

in his work, from the earliest studies on the moral and developing an original theoretical framework for the
“guilty” characters of the hysterics, via later complex analysis of this type of form that is so characteristic
differentiations within the concept of the sense of guilt, of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. It
and finally to Freud’s conception of civilization’s dis- then offers an in-depth examination of nine exemplary
contents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt works by four Central European composers: the Piano
is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in Sonata in B minor and the symphonic poems Tasso and
relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory Die Ideale by Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss’s tone poems
L E U V E N

but also in relation to Freud’s debates with other psy- Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben, the symphonic poem
choanalysts, including Carl Jung and Melanie Klein. Pelleas und Melisande, the First String Quartet and the
First Chamber Symphony by Arnold Schoenberg, and
Alexander Zemlinsky’s Second String Quartet.

also of interest

Musical Form,
Caplin Hepokoski Webster

Forms & Formenlehre

William E. James James
In Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflec-
tions, three eminent music theorists consider the fundamen-
Caplin Hepokoski Webster
tals of musical form. They discuss how to analyze form in
music and question the relevance of analytical theories and

&
methods in general. They illustrate their basic concepts and

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concerns by offering some concrete analyses of works by
Mozart (Idomeneo Overture, Jupiter Symphony) and Beethoven
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Die Ruinen von Athen Overture).
MUSICAL FORM,
Bergé (Ed.)

Reflections
The volume is divided into three parts, focusing on Caplin’s
“theory of formal functions,” Hepokoski’s concept of “dia-
logic form,” and Webster’s method of “multivalent analysis”
respectively. Each part begins with an essay by one of the three
authors. Subsequently, the two opposing authors comment
FORMS
on issues and analyses they consider to be problematic or un-

William E. Caplin,
Musical Form, Forms

derdeveloped, in a style that ranges from the gently critical to

the overtly polemical. Finally, the author of the initial essay
is given the opportunity to respond to the comments and to
FORMENLEHRE
refine further his own fundamental ideas on musical form.

William E. Caplin is James McGill Professor of Music

Three Methodological Reflections James Hepokoski
and James Webster
Theory at McGill University. He is the author of Classical Form.
James Hepokoski is Professor of Music at Yale Univer-
sity. He is the co-author of Elements of Sonata Theory. James
Webster is Goldwin Smith Professor of Music at Cornell
& Formenlehre

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University. He is the author of Haydn’s Farewell Symphony and
the Idea of Classical Style. Pieter Bergé is Professor of Musi- edited by Pieter Bergé
cology at the University of Leuven.

Herman Westerink is University Assistant in the Depart-

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NEW PATHS
Aspects of UNFOLDING Time
Aspects of Music Theory
Music Theory TIME
Studies in
and Aesthetics
and Aesthetics in the Age Studies in Temporality in
of Romanticism Twentieth Century Music
Temporality in
Scott Burnham
John Neubauer in the Age of Bruce Brubaker
Pascal Decroupet
Twentieth Century
Romanticism
Jim Samson Mark Delaere

Music
Janet Schmalfeldt Justin London
Susan Youens Ian Pace

Edited by Edited by
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COLLECTED WRITINGS OF THE
COLLECTED WRITINGS OF THE
ORPHEUS
ORPHEUS

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Questions concerning
nowned scholars discuss
music and its inextricably
a variety of topics related
intertwined and complex
to Romanticism, focusing
interface with time contin-
especially on the years 1800–1840. In a much-needed
ue to fascinate musicians and scholars. For performers,
historical and critical overview of the concept of organi-
the primary perception of music is arguably the way in
cism, John Neubauer ranges from its origins in Enlight-
which it unfolds in “real time.” For composers a work
enment biology to its aftermath in postmodernism.
appears “whole and entire,” with the presence of the

L E U V E N
Janet Schmalfeldt shows that not only Beethoven’s
score having the potential to compress, and even elimi-
op.47 should be called the Bridgetower rather than the
nate, the perception of time as “passing.” The paradoxi-
Kreutzer Sonata but also that this makes a difference
cal relationship between these two perspectives, and
as to its meaning. Scott Burnham explains extreme
the subtle mediations at the interface between them
contrasts between emotional and mechanical types

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with which both performers and composers engage,
of music in late Beethoven as stagings of the limits of
form the subject matter of this collection of essays.
human subjectivity. Jim Samson discusses Chopin’s
The contributors address the temporal significance
little-known musical upbringing in Warsaw, arguing
of specific topics such as notation, tempo, meter,
that his grounding in eighteenth-century aesthetics
and rhythm within broader contexts of performance,
(as opposed to theory) has thus far been neglected.
composition, aesthetics, and philosophy. The aim is to
Finally, Susan Youens’s case study of Franz Lachner’s
present novel ideas about music and time that provide

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Heine songs sheds light on radical experimentation by
particular insight into musical practice and the world
a so-called epigone in the period between Schubert and
of artistic research.
Schumann’s miracle song year.
C ontrib u tors
C ontrib u tors Bruce Brubaker • Pascal Decroupet • Mark Delaere •
Scott Burnham • John Neubauer • Jim Samson • Justin London • Ian Pace
Janet Schmalfeldt • Susan Youens

Darla Crispin is Senior Research Fellow in Creative Darla Crispin is Senior Research Fellow in Creative
Practice at the Royal College of Music and one of the Practice at the Royal College of Music and one of the
team of Research Fellows within the Orpheus Research team of Research Fellows within the Orpheus Research
Centre in Music (ORCiM). Centre in Music (ORCiM).

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mens • Rashida Manjoo • Ziba Mir-Hosseini • Bhikhu Parekh
Verbeke is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at
• Mathias Rohe • Cedric Ryngaert • Shaheen Sardar Ali •
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Anglophone
Literary History Literature in
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eories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas,

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nderstanding of the paradoxical institutional
MICHAEL BOYDEN

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ofessional discipline and field of study.
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oyden resists the utopian impulse to offer
finitive solutions for the legitimation crises
BOYDEN Tom Toremans &
Edited by
setting American literary history by “going
Walter Verschueren (Eds.)

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yond” its inherited racist, classist, sexist, or
nglocentric biases. Approaching the existence
the American literary tradition as a typically
odern problem generating diverse but func- Tom Toremans
American literature has sys-
onally equivalent solutions, Boyden argues

and Walter
w its peculiarity does not, as is often sup-
sed, reside in its restrictive exclusivity but
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tematically internalized the

ives it to constantly revert to a self-negating

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inexorably to its past.”—Paul Giles, Oxford University field of reception and translation studies to chart the
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann individual and institutional agencies that determined
and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a the reception of Anglophone authors in the Dutch and
reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional Belgian literary fields in the course of the nineteenth

dynamic of American literary history as a professional
discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disci-
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impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the
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and the beginning of the twentieth century. The essays
offer a variety of angles from which nineteenth-century
literary dynamics in the Low Countries can be studied.
The first two parts discuss the reception of Anglophone

legitimation crises besetting American literature stud-
ies by “going beyond” its inherited racist, classist, and
sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the
American literary tradition as a typically modern problem
generating diverse but functionally equivalent solutions,
Boyden argues how its peculiarity does not, as is often
supposed, reside in its restrictive exclusivity but rather
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literature in the Netherlands and Belgium, respectively,
while the third part focuses exclusively on the Dutch
translation of women writers.
C ontrib u tors
Cees Koster • Ton van Kalmthout • Kris Steyaert • Anne
van Buul • Susanna De Schepper • Lieven D’hulst • Francis
Mus • Karen Vandemeulebroucke • Liselotte Vanden-

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in its massive inclusivity, which drives it to constantly bussche • Suzan van Dijk • Lizet Duyvendak • Laura Kirkley
revert to a self-negating “beyond” perspective. • Stefanie Walker

Predicting the Past covers a broad range of literary

histories and reference works, from Rufus Griswold’s
1847 Prose Writers of America to Sacvan Bercovitch’s
monumental Cambridge History of American Literature.
Throughout, Boyden focuses on particular themes and
topics illustrating the self-induced complexity of Ameri-
can literary history, such as the early “Anglocentric”
roots theories of American literature; the debate on
contemporary authors in the age of naturalism; the
plurilingual ethnocentrism of the pioneer Americanists
of the mid-twentieth century; and the genealogical mis- Tom Toremans is Lecturer in English literature and
representation of founding figures such as Jonathan literary theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel
Edwards, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Lowell. (partner in Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel), and
affiliated researcher at the Department of Literary
Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Walter
Verschueren is Professor of American literature and
translation studies at the Faculty of Language and
Michael Boyden is Assistant Professor of American Literature of the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel and
Literature and Culture at the Department of Translation is affiliated researcher at the Department of Literary
Studies of University College Ghent, Belgium. Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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the Jesuit’s life and thought in context. The volume is
philosopher should play in the government of his state,
a fitting and timely tribute to a scholar whose selfless
was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato’s ideal of the
and sympathetic concern with the ideas of Suarez
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his political ideal in Syracuse was perhaps the best ar-
great distinction.
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discussing a great number of passages through parallels
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This volume foregrounds the dynamics
Edited by Anne Ruth Hansen A collection of the classic essays of
of displacement and the experiences of
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internal refugees uprooted by conflict and
violence in Indonesia. Contributors exam- Inspired by David Chandler’s groundbreak- meticulous lifelong study of premodern
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Evelyn D. Trebilcock is Curator of Olana. She lectures Essay by Evelyn D.

balint
frequently on Olana, Frederic Church, and Church at Olana Introduction by K
and has published an essay in The Hudson Valley: Our Heritage, Foreword by John

Glories of the Hudson

Our Future and the foreword to Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature
Met Art.
Valerie A. Balint is Associate Curator of Olana. Prior to The site is the resul
and commands so m

glories of the hudson

joining Olana, Ms. Balint worked at Chesterwood, the home
of the sculptor Daniel Chester French, and the Frelinghuysen- the glories of the H
Morris Foundation, the home of abstract artists Suzy Freling- F r e d e r i c E d w i n C h u r c h’s Vi e w s f r o m O l a n a —H. W. Fren
huysen and George L. K. Morris.

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Kenneth John Myers is Curator and department head of n 1609, Henry H

frederic edwin church’s views from olana

American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He has pub- his name. The exh
lished several books, including Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures Glories of the Hudso
at an 1884 Exhibition and The Catskills: Painters, Writers, and mark the quadricente
Tourists in the Mountains, 1820–1895. Frederic Church’s ske
home overlooking the
John K. Howat is Curator Emeritus at The Metropolitan
Church made his
Museum of Art, where he was formerly Lawrence A. Fleisch-
man Chairman of the Department of American Art. He is
stories Catskill Mountains fr
O F T H E erty that became his h
author of several books, including the seminal biography
Frederic Church. soviet expedition suggested
to the Hudson Valley
Olana State Historic Site, one of six historic sites and
twelve parks administered by the New York State O‹ce of
experience best-paid artist, Chur
of the Sienghenbergh
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (oprhp ), Taconic splendid vantage poin
Region, is a designated National Historic Landmark and one the river. Church con
of the most visited sites in the state. The Olana Partnership, a memoirs, ing new and varied v
private not-for-profit education corporation, works coopera- d i a r i e s , d r e a m s with a Persian-inspire
tively with New York State to support the restoration, devel- of the Hudson River
opment, and improvement of Olana. Church never tir
Jacket front: Frederic Edwin Church, Winter Sunset from Olana, his passion for the Hu
detail, c. 1871–72, oil on buff academy board, 8½ × 13 in., ings. From Olana, he
ol .1976.13 by the changing seaso
winter snows, brillian
Jacket back: Nicholas Whitman, View South from the Bell Tower
executed with a few b
at Olana, photograph, 2008
winter light in more fi
The Olana Partnership are reproduced here, i
Hudson, New York of them published for
www.olana.org Trebilcock and Valeri
cornell university press
the olana partnership

New York State O‹ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic irina paperno John Myers, and the f
provide an absorbing
Preservation, Albany, New York Hudson River School
www.nysparks.com The Olana Partn
ISBN
ISBN 978-0-8014-4843-0
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