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The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of ExodusJAN ASSMANNThe Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God’s chosen people is the foundation of an entirely new idea of religion, one that lives on today in many of the world’s faiths. The Invention of Religion sheds new light on ancient scriptures to show how Exodus has shaped fundamental understandings of monotheistic practice and belief. 40 black and white illustrations.“In this brilliant, imaginative, and comprehensive study of the Book of Exodus, Jan Assmann draws on his extensive and nuanced knowledge of ancient civilizations, cultural memory, and biblical texts to make the case that the Exodus story of the liberation of a people is also the story of the unprecedented invention of a radically new conception of religion--one that became the basis for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The breadth and depth of Assmann’s multifaceted explorations are dazzling.” — Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

Hbk | 368pp | 9780691157085 | 2018.02 Princeton University Press | A$57.99 | NZ$69 235x155mm | USA

Last Works: Lessons in LeavingMARK TAYLOR For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of last works, Mark C. Taylor poignantly explores the final reflections of writers and thinkers from Kierkegaard to David Foster Wallace. How did they either face or avoid ending and leaving? What do their lessons in ending teach us about living in the time that remains for us?“Last Works is a dazzling tapestry of reflection on the final works of writers Mark Taylor has loved through his many transformations. This is Taylor’s intellectual autobiography, his relentless and moving quest to understand religion in its many engagements with literature.”— Kevin Hart, The University of Virginia

Hbk | 392pp | 9780300224399 | 2018.01 Yale University Press | A$64.99 | NZ$74.99 | UK

Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent RussiaCHRIS MILLERWhen Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy and the tools Russia’s elite have used to achieve its goals. Miller argues that despite Russia’s corruption, cronyism, and overdependence on oil as an economic driver, Putin’s economic strategy has been surprisingly successful.“In this lively, accessible, and well-sourced analysis, Miller puts forth a convincing and somewhat unorthodox argument: that contrary to conventional Western opinion, Russian economic policy under Putin has in large part been well designed and well executed.” — Philip Hanson, associate fellow of Chatham House

Hbk | 240pp | 9781469640662 | 2018.02 The University of North Carolina Press A$49.99 | NZ$62 | 235x155mm | USA

Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk RoadSUSAN WHITFIELDFollowing her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with another captivating portrait through the experience of things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road - those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. 9 color photos, 9 color maps and 31 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 352pp | 9780520281783 | 2018.02 University of California Press | A$52.99 | NZ$63 229x152mm | USA

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ARCHITECTURESOS Brutalism: A Global SurveyOLIVER ELSER, PHILIP KURZ, AND PETER CACHOLA SCHMALWidely disliked in their heyday and only recently beginning to be appreciated, brutalist buildings around the world are at risk of being lost - in many cases to demolition, and in some to insensitive reconstructions that would forever alter buildings’ appearance beyond recognition. SOS Brutalism is a distress signal, an attempt to galvanize public awareness of the architectural heritage that is at risk of being forever lost. Case studies of hotspots such as the Macedonian capital Skopje or New Haven, Connecticut, and essays on the history and theory of brutalism round out this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated book. 686 color plates and 411 halftones.

Hbk | 716pp | 9783038600756 | 2018.01 Park Books | A$129 | NZ$156 279x228mm | USA

ARTThe Art of Libation in Classical AthensMILETTE GAIFMANThis handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid - water, wine, milk, oil, or honey - was poured from a vessel such as a jug or a bowl onto the ground, an altar, or another surface. Libations were made on occasions like banquets, sacrifices, oath-taking, departures to war, and visitations to tombs, and their iconography provides essential insight into religious and social life in fifth-century BC Athens.Beautifully illustrated with a broad range of examples, including the Caryatids at the Acropolis, the Parthenon frieze, Attic red-figure pottery, and funerary sculpture, this important book demonstrates the power of Greek art to transcend the boundaries between visual representation and everyday experience. 127 and 5 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 196pp | 9780300192278 | 2018.01 Yale University Press | A$94 | NZ$114 279x216mm | UK

Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto StudiesCARLOS BASUALDO AND ERICA F BATTLEThis important publication offers the first in-depth exploration of contemporary artist Bruce Nauman’s monumental works Contrapposto Studies, I through VII and Contrapposto Studies, i through vii, examining them in the context of the artist’s oeuvre. The book surveys Nauman’s trajectory from his early works, which set clear precedents for experimentation with video and performance, to his most recent works combining video, sound, and performative elements to create immersive environmental experiences. The essays also address Nauman’s employment of certain motifs, such as contrapposto, and the use of his own body as a tool and subject for performance. Related works, including Walks In Walks Out and Model for Philadelphia Museum of Art, are considered as well. In the recent interview published here for the first time, Nauman discusses the conception, development, and installation of the Contrapposto Studies. 100 color illustrations.

Hbk | 134pp | 9780300233094 | 2018.03 Yale University Press | A$49.99 | NZ$59.99 251x190mm | UK

Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of MemoryGRISELDA POLLOCKCharlotte Salomon (1917–1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical study sheds new light on the remarkable combination of image, text, and music, revealing Salomon’s wealth of references to cinema, opera, Berlin cabaret, and the painter’s self-consciously deployed modernist engagements with artists such as Van Gogh, Munch, and Kollwitz. Additionally, Griselda Pollock draws attention to affinities in Salomon’s work with that of others who shared her experience of statelessness and menaced exile in Nazi-dominated Europe, including Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin. 360 color and black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 560pp | 9780300100723 | 2018.03 Yale University Press | A$94.99 | NZ$115 267x192mm | UK

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Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal EraLAUREN KROIZDuring the 1930s and 1940s, painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry formed a loose alliance as American Regionalists. Some lauded their depictions of the rural landscape and hardworking inhabitants of America’s Midwestern heartland; others deemed their painting dangerous, regarding its easily understood realism as a vehicle for jingoism and even fascism. Cultivating Citizens focuses on Regionalists and their critics as they worked with and against universities, museums, and the burgeoning field of sociology. It shifts the terms of an ongoing debate over subject matter and style, becoming the first study of Regionalist art education programs and concepts of artistic labor. 51 color and 51 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 304pp | 9780520286566 | 2018.03 University of California Press | A$101 | NZ$122 254x178mm | USA

The Eye of History: When Images Take PositionsGEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images, War Primer, with war photographs clipped from magazines and adding his own epigrammatic commentary. In this book, Georges Didi-Huberman explores the interaction of politics and aesthetics in these creations, explaining how they became the means for Brecht, a wandering poet in exile, to “take a position” about the Nazi war in Europe. Illustrated with pages from the Arbeitsjournal and War Primer and contextual images including Raoul Hausmann’s poem-posters and Walter Benjamin’s drawings, The Eye of History offers a new view of important but little-known works by Brecht. 49 black and white illustrations.RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books).

Hbk | 280pp | 9780262037877 | 2018.01 The MIT Press | A$69.99 | NZ$84.99 229x178mm | USA

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A GuideCHRISTINA NIELSEN, CASEY RILEY AND NATHANIEL SILVERThis updated guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum charts new pathways through the beloved institution’s superb collection. Gardner, a trail-blazing American who was among the most prominent patrons of her day, built a Venetian-inspired palazzo in Boston to share her exquisite and thought-provoking art objects from diverse cultures and eras. She hosted luminaries in the worlds of music, dance, and literature, and supported such famed artists as Henry James and John Singer Sargent. The authors look at masterpieces by Botticelli, Rembrandt, Titian, and others, as well as hidden treasures, including decorative arts, correspondence, and photographs. Rather than positioning the museum simply as a historical gem, they present it as a site for forging connections between past and present and reinforcing the founder’s legacy of sustaining contemporary art, music, and education. Featuring all-new photography, the book captures the uniqueness of this museum, helping us consider anew what the museum meant in Gardner’s time and what it means in ours. 130 color and 10 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 216pp | 9780300226478 | 2018.03 Yale University Press | A$37.99 | NZ$44.99 | UK

Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean ArtSOYOUNG LEE, AHN DAEHOE, CHIN-SUNG CHANG AND LEE SOOMIThe Diamond Mountains, known in Korea as Mount Geumgang, are perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean Peninsula, a breathtaking range of rocky peaks, waterfalls, lagoons, and manmade pavilions. Since the partition of Korea in the 1940s, situating them in the North, the Diamond Mountains have remained largely inaccessible to visitors, shrouding the site in legend, loss, and longing.This book examines the visual representation of this remarkable landscape from the 18th century to the present day. It explores how Jeong Seon (1676–1759) revolutionized Korean painting with his Diamond Mountains landscapes, replacing conventional generic imagery with specific detail and indelibly influencing generations of artists in his wake. It also discusses the potency of these mountains as an emblem of Korean cultural identity, as reflected in literature and in exquisitely detailed album leaves, handscrolls, hanging scrolls, and screens. This magnificent volume is the first in English to survey this rich artistic tradition and bring these distant mountains into view. 120 color illustrations.

Hbk | 176pp | 9781588396532 | 2018.02 Metropolitan Museum of Art A$64.99 | NZ$79.99 | 254x229mm | UK

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Painting after PhotographyJOYCE TSAIThis provocative book examines crucial philosophical questions László Moholy-Nagy explored in theory and practice throughout his career: Why paint in a photographic age? Why work by hand when technology holds so much promise? The stakes of painting, or not painting, were tied to much larger considerations of the ways art, life, and modernity were linked for Moholy and his avant-garde peers. Joyce Tsai’s close analysis reveals how Moholy’s experience in exile led to his attempt to recuperate painting, not merely as an artistic medium but as the space where the trace of human touch might survive the catastrophes of war. László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography will significantly reshape our view of the artist’s oeuvre, providing a new understanding of cultural modernism and the avant-garde. 20 color images and 90 black and white illustrations.The Phillips Book Prize Series.

Hbk | 232pp | 9780520290679 | 2018.02 University of California Press | A$93 | NZ$112 254x178mm | USA

Mark Bradford: Pickett’s ChargeSTEPHANE AQUIN AND EVELYN HANKINSThis beautifully illustrated book documents Pickett’s Charge, an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings extend nearly four hundred feet to form a 360-degree experience encircling an entire floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Bradford’s monumental installation is inspired by the 1883 cyclorama painted by Paul Philippoteaux to commemorate the Battle of Gettysburg, which has been considered the critical turning point of the Civil War and, consequently, of American history. Elements from Philippoteaux’s paintings are among multiple layers of collaged paper that Bradford has scraped through to reveal hidden textures and complexities, and this interplay - between past and present, between the legible and the mysteriously evocative - encourages a reconsideration of history’s conventional linear narratives. 60 color illustrations including 2 gatefolds.

Hbk | 96pp | 9780300230772 | 2018.02 Yale University Press | A$64.99 | NZ$74.99 279x178mm | UK

Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors, Scholars, and their BronzesTAO WANGIn ancient China (2000–221 b.c.) elaborate bronze vessels were used for rituals involving cooking, drinking, and serving food. This fascinating book not only examines the cultural practices surrounding these objects in their original context, but it is also the first in-depth study to trace the tradition of collecting these bronzes in China. Essays by international experts delve into the concerns of the specialized culture that developed around the vessels and the significant influence this culture, with its focus on the concept of antiquity, had on broader Chinese society. While focusing especially on bronze collections of the 18th and 19th centuries, this wide-ranging catalogue also touches on the ways in which contemporary artists continue to respond to the complex legacy of these objects. Packed with stunning photographs of exquisitely crafted vessels, Mirroring China’s Past is an enlightening investigation into how the role of ancient bronzes has evolved throughout Chinese history. 260 color illustrations.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780300228632 | 2018.03 Art Institute of Chicago | A$94.99 | NZ$115 305x241mm | UK

Mona Hatoum: Terra InfirmaMICHELLE WHITE, ANNA C CHAVE, ADANIA SHIBLI AND REBECCA SOLNITThe work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as kitchen utensils or cribs into things strange and threatening, Hatoum conducts multilayered investigations of the body, politics, and gender that express a powerful and pervasive sense of precariousness. Her works are never simple and often elicit conflicting emotions, such as fascination and fear, desire and revulsion. This copiously illustrated presentation of Hatoum’s oeuvre offers critical and art historical essays by Michelle White and Anna C. Chave and imaginative texts by Rebecca Solnit and Adania Shibli, which contextualize the artist’s work and its relationship to Surrealism, Minimalism, feminism, and politics. 200 color and black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 192pp | 9780300233148 | 2018.02 The Menil Collection | A$74.99 | NZ$89.99 305x241mm | UK

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Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of SpaceMARTINO STIERLIMontage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli charts the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural contexts, its application by the early 20th-century avant-garde, and its eventual embrace by the postmodernist movement.Beautifully illustrated, this interdisciplinary book looks at architecture, photography, film, literature, and visual culture, featuring works by artists and architects including Mies, Koolhaas, Hannah Höch, George Grosz, El Lissitzky, and Frank Lloyd Wright. 72 color and 85 black and white illustrations.


PracticeMARCUS BOON AND GABRIEL LEVINE“Practice” is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists’ descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads. This book offers an indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice.Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art.

Pbk | 240pp | 9780262535397 | 2018.01 The MIT Press | A$46.99 | NZ$54.99 210x146mm | USA

The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known WorldANDREW MOORE, NATHAN FLIS AND FRANCESCA VANKEThe Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at the Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply-researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of the collection, exploring the objects, their context, and the wider world they occupied. Drawing on an impressive range of fields, including history of art and collections, technical art history, musicology, history of science, and the social and cultural history of the 17th century, the book weaves together narratives of the family and their possessions, as well as the institutions that eventually acquired them. Essays, vignettes, and catalogue entries comprise this multidisciplinary exposition, uniting objects depicted in the painting for the first time in nearly 300 years. 474 color and black and white illustrations.


Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan

REIKO TOMII1960s Japan was one of the world’s major frontiers of vanguard art. As Japanese artists developed diverse practices parallel to, and sometimes antecedent to, their Western counterparts, they found themselves in a new reality of “international contemporaneity” (kokusaiteki dojisei). In this book Reiko Tomii examines three key figures in Japanese art of the 1960s who made radical and inventive art in the “wilderness” - away from Tokyo, outside traditional norms, and with little institutional support. 18 color and 81 black and whit illustrations.


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Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic CrossingsELIZABETH MANKIN KORNHAUSER, TIM BARRINGER, DOROTHY MAHON, CHRISTOPHER RIOPELLE, SHANNON VITTORIAThomas Cole (1801–1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole’s Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832–36—notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire—as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole’s passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the industrial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole’s influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha. 250 color illustrations.

Hbk | 288pp | 9781588396402 | 2018.02 Metropolitan Museum of Art | A$94.99 | NZ$115 279x241mm | UK

BIOGRAPHYAn Academic Life: A MemoirHANNA GRAYAn Academic Life is a candid self-portrait by one of academia’s most respected trailblazers. Gray describes what it was like to grow up as a child of refugee parents, and reflects on the changing status of women in the academic world. She discusses the migration of intellectuals from Nazi-held Europe and the transformative role these exiles played in American higher education - and how the émigré experience in America transformed their own lives and work. She sheds light on the character of university communities, how they are structured and administered, and the balance they seek between tradition and innovation, teaching and research, and undergraduate and professional learning. The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education.

Hbk | 352pp | 9780691179186 | 2018.03 Princeton University Press | A$56.99 | NZ$69 235x155mm | USA

Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand StrategistJUSTIN VAISSEAs National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America’s role in the world extends far beyond his years in the White House, and reverberates to this day. His geopolitical vision, scholarly writings, frequent media appearances, and policy advice to decades of presidents from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama made him America’s grand strategist, a mantle only Henry Kissinger could also claim.Justin Vaisse offers the first biography of the successful immigrant who completed a remarkable journey from his native Poland to the White House, interacting with influential world leaders from Gloria Steinem to Deng Xiaoping to John Paul II. This complex intellectual portrait reveals a man who weighed in on all major foreign policy debates since the 1950s, from his hawkish stance on the USSR to his advocacy for the Middle East peace process and his support for a U.S.-China global partnership. 25 halftones.“This man with the unpronounceable name was one of the most influential in the world, but also one of the hardest to categorize… A foremost authority on U.S. foreign relations, Justin Vaisse enthusiastically traces the extraordinary career of this son of a Polish consul. A captivating account of a decisive figure who navigated through deep political crosscurrents in order to extend American influence across the globe.” — L’Express

Hbk | 484pp | 9780674975637 | 2018.02 Harvard University Press | A$74.99 | NZ$89.99 235x156mm | USA

COMMUNICATION AND MEDIAA Future for Public Service TelevisionDES FREEDMAN AND VANA GOBLOTTelevision is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers, distributors, and viewers. This volume examines not only the unexpected resilience of TV as cultural pastime and aesthetic practice but also the prospects for public service television in a digital, multichannel ecology. With resonance for students, professionals and consumers with a stake in British media, it serves both as historical record and as a look at the future of television in an on-demand age.

Hbk | 356pp | 9781906897710 | 2018.02 Goldsmiths Press | A$66 | NZ$79 229x178mm | USA

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Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to HearMIKE ANANNYIn Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing on journalism studies, institutional sociology, political theory, science and technology studies, and an analysis of ten years of journalism discourse about news and technology, he argues that press freedom emerges from social, technological, institutional, and normative forces that vie for power and fight for visions of democratic life. He shows how dominant, historical ideals of professionalized press freedom often mistook journalistic freedom from constraints for the public’s freedom to encounter the rich mix of people and ideas that self-governance requires. Ananny’s notion of press freedom ensures not only an individual right to speak, but also a public right to hear.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780262037747 | 2018.02 The MIT Press | A$64 | NZ$77 229x152mm | USA

CRIMINOLOGYJourneys: Resiliency and Growth for Survivors of Intimate Partner AbuseSUSAN MILLERMore than one in three women in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life - but what happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years) survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on participant observation research and interviews with women years after the end of their abusive relationships, author Susan L. Miller shares these women’s trials and tribulations, and expounds on the factors that facilitated these women’s success in gaining inner strength and personal transformation.


DESIGNCrafting Excellence: The Furniture of Nathan Lumbard and His CircleCHRISTIE JACKSON, BROCK JOBE AND CLARK PEARCEIn the late 1980s, when the inscription “Made by Nathan Lumbard Apl 20th 1800” was found on a chest of drawers, the identity of an unknown craftsman suddenly surfaced. Crafting Excellence introduces the striking achievements of cabinetmaker Nathan Lumbard (1777−1847) and a small group of craftsmen associated with him. Working initially in the village of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, these artisans fashioned an array of objects that rank among the most colorful and creative of Federal America. Recent scholarship has revealed Lumbard’s connection with the cabinetmaker Oliver Wight, from whom he likely learned his trade and gained an understanding of neoclassicism. Careful study of objects linked to Lumbard, Wight, and nearby artisans has produced a framework for identifying their work. 321 color illustrations.

Hbk | 288pp | 9780300232950 | 2018.01 Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library A$96 | NZ$117 | 318x241mm | UK

FASHIONEuropean fashion: The creation of a global industry REGINA BLASZCZYK AND VERONIQUE POUILLARDThe period since 1945 has been a transformative era for the fashion industry. Over the course of seventy years, the fashion world has moved from celebrating the craftsmanship of haute couture to revelling in ever-changing fast-fashion. This volume examines the transition from the old system to the new in a series of case studies grouped around three major themes. Part I focuses on Paris as a creative hub, aiming to understand how the birthplace of haute couture adapted to late-twentieth-century developments. Part II considers the retailer’s role in shaping taste, responding to consumer expectations and disseminating fashion merchandise. Part III looks to alternative visions of the European fashion system that have appeared in unexpected places. Studies in Design and Material Culture.

Pbk | 336pp | 9781526122100 | 2018.01 Manchester University Press A$49.99 | NZ$59.99 | 240x170mm | UK

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FICTIONThe Vestigial Heart: A Novel of the Robot AgeCARME TORRASImagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and “emotional masseuses” try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Students are taught not to think but to employ search programs. Companies protect their intellectual property by erasing the memory of their employees. And then imagine what it would feel like to be a sweet, smart thirteen-year-old girl from the twenty-first century who wakes from a cryogenically induced sleep into this strange world. This is the compelling story told by Carme Torras in this prize-winning science fiction novel. Torras, a prominent roboticist, weaves provocative ethical issues into her story. What kind of robots do we want when robot companions become as common as personal computers are now? Is it the responsibility of researchers to design robots that make the human mind evolve in a certain way? An appendix provides readers with a list of ethics questions raised by the book.


HISTORYArgentina’s Missing Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty WarJAMES BRENNANArgentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called Dirty War. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba, Argentina’s second largest city. Prior to the dictatorship a site of thunderous working-class and student protest, it later became a place where the state terrorism was particularly cruel. Considering the legacy of this violent period, James P. Brennan examines the role of the state in constructing a public memory of the violence and in holding those responsible accountable through the most extensive trials for crimes against humanity to take place anywhere in Latin America.Violence in Latin American History.


Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel GARY DORRIENThe civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked.In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today.

Hbk | 632pp | 9780300205619 | 2018.02 Yale University Press | A$72 | NZ$87 | UK

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary AmericaKATHLEEN BELEWThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City.Belew’s disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.“Bring the War Home is a tour de force. An utterly engrossing and piercingly argued history that tracks how the seismic aftershocks of the Vietnam War gave rise to a white power movement whose toxic admixture of violent bigotry, anti-governmental hostility and racial terrorism helped set the stage for Waco, the Oklahoma City Bombings and, yes, the Presidency of Donald Trump.” — Junot Díaz


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Building Anglo-Saxon EnglandJOHN BLAIRThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world’s leading experts on this transformative era in England’s early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and settlements in shaping people’s lives during the age of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred.The book also shows how the Anglo-Saxon love of elegant and intricate decoration is reflected in the construction of the living environment, which in some ways was more sophisticated than it would become after the Norman Conquest. 109 color and 43 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 488pp | 9780691162980 | 2018.02 Princeton University Press | A$93 | NZ$112 279x216mm | USA

Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution,” 1891-1956PIOTR KOSICKIThis collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyła, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland’s Communist regime.Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of “revolution.” It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology. Why has much of Eastern Europe gone back down the road of exclusionary nationalism and religious prejudice since the end of the Cold War? Piotr H. Kosicki helps to understand the crises of contemporary Europe by examining the intellectual world of Roman Catholicism in Poland and France between the Church’s declaration of war on socialism in 1891 and the demise of Stalinism in 1956.Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes.

Hbk | 424pp | 9780300225518 | 2018.02 Yale University Press | A$74.99 | NZ$89.99 | UK

Constructing kingship: The Capetian monarchs of France and the early Crusades (New inPapr) JAMES NAUSCrusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination. For this reason, it can be easy to forget that European rulers were not always eager participants in holy war. The First Crusade was launched in 1095, and yet the first monarch did not join the movement until 1146, when the French king Louis VII took the cross to lead the Second Crusade. One contemporary went so far as to compare the crusades to ‘Creation and man’s redemption on the cross’, so what impact did fifty years of non-participation have on the image and practice of European kingship and the parameters of cultural development? Constructing kingship considers this question by examining the challenge to political authority that confronted the French kings and their family members as a direct result of their failure to join the early crusades, and their less-than-impressive involvement in later ones.Manchester Medieval Studies.“Constructing Kingship is a valuable book which engages seriously with a theme, the impact of the crusades on royal action and ideology, which has been, as Naus points out (pp. 6-7), overlooked for far too long. Its central thesis is a stimulating argument which will hopefully inspire further research on this topic, and throughout the book Naus highlights many fascinating links between the crusades and the Capetian monarchy which are rarely considered together. The highlight of the book is undoubtedly the third chapter’s marvellous textual analysis of Suger’s Gesta Ludovici Grossi, which sheds important new light on one of 12th-century France’s most important narrative sources.” — Mr Niall Ó Súilleabháin, Trinity College Dublin, Reviews in History

Pbk | 184pp | 9781526127259 | 2018.02 Manchester University Press A$41.99 | NZ$49.99 | 216x138mm | UK

Cornwall: A History (Revised and updated edition)PHILIP PAYTONDrawing upon a wide range of original and secondary sources, Cornwall: A History (Revised and updated edition) begins with Cornwall’s geology and prehistory, moving through Celtic times to the creation of the kingdom of Kernow and its relationship with neighbouring England. The political accommodation of medieval Cornwall by the expanding English state through the twin institutions of the Duchy and Stannaries is examined, as is the flowering in the middle ages of literature in the Cornish language. Resistance to English intrusion - in the rebellions of 1497 and 1549 and in the Civil War - is explored. So too is Cornwall’s role in the subsequent expansion of Britain’s global influence, and Cornwall as an early centre of the industrial revolution is also discussed.Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide.

Pbk | 392pp | 9780859890274 | 2017.12 University of Chicago Press | A$41.99 | NZ$49.99 227x150mm | USA

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The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a NaziJOHANN CHAPOUTOTThe scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves.Chapoutot, one of France’s leading historians, spent years immersing himself in the texts and images that reflected and shaped the mental world of Nazi ideologues, and that the Nazis thrust on the German public.The story went like this: In the ancient world, the Nordic-German race lived in harmony with the laws of nature. But since Late Antiquity, corrupt foreign norms and values—Jewish values in particular—had alienated Germany from itself and from all that was natural. The time had come, under the Nazis, to return to the fundamental law of blood. Germany must fight, conquer, and procreate, or perish. History did not concern itself with right and wrong, only brute necessity. A remarkable work of scholarship and insight, The Law of Blood recreates the chilling ideas and outlook that would cost millions their lives.

Hbk | 410pp | 9780674660434 | 2018.03 A$74.99 | NZ$89.99 | 235x156mm | USA Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of RomeJ G MANNINGIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome’s imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an illusory single “ancient economy” has obscured the diversity of lived experience in the Mediterranean world, including both changes in political economies over time and differences in cultural conceptions of property and money. At the same time, he shows how the region’s economies became increasingly interconnected during this period. 50 black and white illustrations.


The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the PastWALTER SCHEIDELScience of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists working at the cutting edge of their respective fields, who together explore novel types of evidence that enable us to reconstruct the realities of life in the Roman world.Opening a path toward a genuine biohistory of Rome and the wider ancient world, The Science of Roman History offers an accessible introduction to the scientific methods being used in this exciting new area of research, as well as an up-to-date survey of recent findings and a tantalizing glimpse of what the future holds. 23 black and white illustrations.


INFORMATION SCIENCEAuthors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity JAMES MEESEIn current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for authors; activists and academics promote user rights and user-generated content; and online pirates openly challenge the strict enforcement of copyright law. In this book, James Meese offers a new way to think about these three central subjects of copyright law, proposing a relational framework that encompasses all three. Meese views authors, users, and pirates as interconnected subjects, analyzing them as a relational triad. He argues that addressing the relationships among the three subjects will shed light on how the key conceptual underpinnings of copyright law are justified in practice.The Information Society Series.James Meese is a Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney.


MUSICThe Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ RollRANDALL STEPHENSWhen rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil’s Music tells the story of this transformation.Stephens argues that in the early days of rock ’n’ roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites’ racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus’s message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens’s compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today. 23 halftones.

Hbk | 330pp | 9780674980846 | 2018.02 Harvard University Press | A$56.99 | NZ$68 235x156mm | USA

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The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal CultureDALE CHAPMANHailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble approaches the emergence of the neoclassical jazz aesthetic since the 1980s as a powerful, if unexpected, point of departure for a wide-ranging investigation of important social trends during this period, extending from the effects of financialization in the music industry to the structural upheaval created by urban redevelopment in major American cities. Dale Chapman draws from political and critical theory, oral history, the public and trade press, and interviews, making this a persuasive and compelling work for scholars across a range of fields.


PHILOSOPHYThe Anxious Mind: An Investigation of the Varieties and Virtues of AnxietyCHARLIE KURTHIn The Anxious Mind, Charlie Kurth offers a philosophical account of anxiety in its various forms, investigating its nature and arguing for its value in agency, virtue, and decision making. Folk wisdom tells us that anxiety is unpleasant and painful, and scholarly research seems to provide empirical and philosophical confirmation of this. But Kurth points to anxiety’s positive effects: enhancing performance, facilitating social interaction, and even contributing to moral thought and action. He explores the ways in which anxiety can be valuable, arguing that anxiety can be a fitting response and that it undergirds an important form of moral concern. He considers anxiety’s role in deliberation and decision making, using the examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the abolitionist John Woolman to show that anxiety can be a mechanism of moral progress. Drawing on insights from psychiatry and clinical psychology, Kurth argues that we can cultivate anxiety so that we are better able to experience it at the right time and in the right way.


Topology of ViolenceBYUNG-CHUL HAN Some things never disappear - violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han considers the shift in violence from the visible to the invisible, from the frontal to the viral to the self-inflicted, from brute force to mediated force, from the real to the virtual. Violence, Han tells us, has gone from the negative - explosive, massive, and martial - to the positive, wielded without enmity or domination. This, he says, creates the false impression that violence has disappeared. Anonymized, desubjectified, systemic, violence conceals itself because it has become one with society.Untimely Meditations.


SOCIAL SCIENCEThe New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social GospelGARY DORRIENThe black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been seriously overlooked, despite its immense legacy.In this groundbreaking work, Gary Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association in the twentieth century with W. E. B. Du Bois. He offers a new perspective on modern Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr. “Gracefully written and carefully researched, Dorrien’s The New Abolition is an impressive recovery of W. E. B. Du Bois’s relationship to the black social gospel. Anyone seeking to understand the historic contours of race, religion, and social activism in the twentieth century absolutely must read this book.” — Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University

Pbk | 672pp | 9780300230598 | 2018.03 Yale University Press | A$59.99 | NZ$74.99 | UK

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SOCIOLOGYCity of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is RightMICHAEL BELLPeople have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as separate from human ways, and how many of today’s conflicts can be traced back thousands of years to this ancient divide.Taking readers on a spellbinding journey through history and across the globe, Bell begins with the pagan view, which sees nature and the divine as entangled with the human - and not necessarily good. But the emergence of urban societies gave rise to new moral concerns about the political character of human life. Wealth and inequality grew, and urban people sought to justify their passions. In the face of such concerns, nature and the divine came to be partitioned from the human, and therefore seen to be good - but they also became absolute and divisive.

Hbk | 360pp | 9780691165097 | 2018.01 Princeton University Press | A$66 | NZ$79 | USA

Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart ANDREAS WIMMERNation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the slow-moving forces that encourage political alliances to stretch across ethnic divides and build national unity.Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology.


Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of WorkJAMES CHAMBERLAINThis revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not. Chamberlain offers a range of strategies that will allow us to uncouple our deepest human values from the notion that worth is generated only through labor.

Hbk | 162pp | 9781501714863 | 2018.01 ILR Press | A$69 | NZ$82 229x152mm | USA

RECENT BESTSELLERSThe Origin of OthersTONI MORRISONWhat is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct others? Why does the presence of others make us so afraid?Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin of Others. In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison’s fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books - Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy.The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures series.


Degas: A Passion for PerfectionJANE MUNROEdgar Degas’s (1834–1917) relentless experimentation with technical procedures is a hallmark of his lifelong desire to learn. Published in the centenary year of the artist’s death, this book presents an exceptional array of Degas’s work, including paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, counter proofs, and sculpture, with approximately sixty key works from private and public collections in Europe and the United States, some of them published here for the first time. The impressive works represent well over half a century of innovation and artistic production. Essays by leading Degas scholars and conservation scientists explore his practice and recurring themes of the human figure and landscape. The book opens with a study of Degas’s debt to the Old Masters, and it concludes with a consideration of his artistic legacy and his influence on leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Hbk | 272pp | 9780300228236 | 2017.10 Yale University Press | A$79.99 | NZ$99 292x241mm | UK

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