It's been a while since our last announcement, but we're back on track with a range of exciting new books. Below, peruse over thirty new releases released so far in 2016, including titles in American History, Human Rights, Political Science, and more.
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FEATURED TITLES
Becoming Jane Jacobs
Peter L. Laurence
In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany of an amateur activist but the product of a professional writer with deep knowledge about the renewal and dynamics of American cities.
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376 pages | 6 x 9 | 49 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4788-6 | $34.95s | £23.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9246-6 | $34.95s | £23.00
A volume in the Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America series
God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen
Mitchell Nathanson
Dick Allen is considered by some to be the best baseball player not in the Hall of Fame and by others to be the game's most destructive and divisive force–ever. God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen unveils the strange and maddening career of a man who fulfilled and frustrated expectations all at once.
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408 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4801-2 | $34.95t | £23.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9255-8 | $34.95t | £23.00
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Queer Clout weaves together activism and electoral politics to trace the gay movement's path since the 1950s in Chicago. Stewart-Winter stresses gay people's and African Americans' shared focus on police harassment, highlighting how black political leaders enabled white gays and lesbians to join an emerging liberal coalition in city hall.
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320 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4791-6 | $45.00s | £29.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9245-9 | $45.00s | £29.50
A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence that public political life and the figure of the intellectual provoked in the generation of European Jewish thinkers born around 1900. By comparing Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Leo Strauss, Wurgaft offers a new perspective on the relationship between philosophers and politics.
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312 pages | 6 x 9
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4784-8 | $59.95s | £39.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9241-1 | $59.95s | £39.00
A volume in the Intellectual History of the Modern Age series
AMERICAN HISTORY
Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign for a Civic Welfare State
Daniel Amsterdam
Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists in the early twentieth century as they advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. Focusing on Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, the book traces businessmen's quest to build cities and nurture an urban citizenry friendly to capitalism.
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240 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4810-4 | $45.00s | £29.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9273-2 | $45.00s | £29.50
A volume in the American Business, Politics, and Society series
The Temptations of Trade: Britain, Spain, and the Struggle for Empire
Adrian Finucane
The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war.
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224 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4812-8 | $45.00s | £29.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9275-6 | $45.00s | £29.50
A volume in the Early Modern Americas series
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The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865
James J. Gigantino II
James J. Gigantino II shatters the easy dichotomy between free and slave states in early America. The Ragged Road to Abolition illustrates how slavery in New Jersey persisted until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and reveals the myriad ways this marginalized the state's free blacks.
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368 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4649-0 | $39.95s | £26.00
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2358-3 | $24.95t | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9022-6 | $24.95s | £16.50
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The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Editors
This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of contemporary conservatism.
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440 pages | 6 x 9
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4414-4 | $49.95s | £32.50
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2360-6 | $26.50t | £17.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0791-0 | $26.50s | £17.50
A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series
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A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
Simon P. Newman
A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America.
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336 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4519-6 | $55.00s | £36.00
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2362-0 | $24.95t | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0831-3 | $24.95s | £16.50
A volume in the Early Modern Americas series
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Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater
Timothy R. White
A rich history of American theater, Timothy White's Blue-Collar Broadway tells the story of the people who created costumes, shoes, scenery, lights, and props. From the 1880s to the 1990s, White explores the shifting centers of theatrical craft and their impact on the nation and the iconic New York City district of Times Square.
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288 pages | 6 x 9 | 23 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4662-9 | $45.00s | £29.50
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2364-4 | $24.95t | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9041-7 | $24.95s | £16.50
ANCIENT STUDIES
Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics
Noel Lenski
Roman Emperor Constantine raised Christianity from a minority religion to imperial status, but his religious orientation was by no means unambiguous. In Constantine and the Cities, Noel Lenski demonstrates how the emperor and his subjects used the instruments of government in a struggle for authority over the religion of the empire.
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416 pages | 7 x 10 | 56 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4777-0 | $79.95s | £52.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9223-7 | $79.95s | £52.00
A volume in the Empire and After series
Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority: Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century C.E.
Heidi Marx-Wolf
Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority recounts how philosophers of the late third century C.E. organized the spirit world into hierarchies, positioning themselves as high priests in the process. By establishing themselves as experts on sacred matters, they fortified their authority, prestige, and reputation.
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216 pages | 6 x 9
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4789-3 | $55.00s | £36.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9244-2 | $55.00s | £36.00
A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series
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The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
Patricia Cox Miller
Focusing on saintly human bodies as relics, animated icons, and performers of the holy in hagiography, this book analyzes how Christians in late antiquity saw the material world with new eyes as a medium for the disclosure of the divine in the earthly realm.
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272 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4142-6 | $49.95s | £32.50
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2355-2 | $24.95t | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0468-1 | $24.95s | £16.50
A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series
ANTHROPOLOGY
Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums
Kristin Conner Doughty
Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide.
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296 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4783-1 | $65.00s | £42.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9239-8 | $65.00s | £42.50
A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series
BUSINESS
Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs: How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach
Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts
Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs focuses on the role played by local growers and exporters in Ecuador, which has been the world's leading banana exporter for more than sixty years without ever being dominated by foreign corporations.
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232 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4807-4 | $59.95s | £39.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9270-1 | $59.95s | £39.00
CAREER GUIDES
The Academic Job Search Handbook
Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong, and Rosanne Lurie
For more than twenty years, job seekers have relied on The Academic Job Search Handbook for help in their search for faculty positions. The new fifth edition provides updated advice and addresses current topics in today's competitive market.
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Fifth Edition
392 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2340-8 | $19.95s | £13.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9206-0 | $19.95s | £13.00
HUMAN RIGHTS
Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy
Onur Bakiner
Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting political, judicial, and social change. He argues that even when commissions produce modest change as a result of political constraints, they open new avenues for human rights activism and transform public discourses on memory, truth, justice, and reconciliation.
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328 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4762-6 | $65.00s | £42.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9192-6 | $65.00s | £42.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series
The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations
Benjamin Gregg
The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and rights to all people in the world. In The Human Rights State, Benjamin Gregg proposes ways to decouple rights from citizenship, preserving the nation state, in modified form, and allowing human rights to become part of its domestic constitution.
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296 pages | 6 x 9
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4805-0 | $59.95s | £39.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9267-1 | $59.95s | £39.00
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series
Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action
Burns H. Weston and Anna Grear, Editors
Designed for educational use in international relations, law, political science, economics, and philosophy classes, Human Rights in the World Community treats the full range of human rights issues, including implementation problems and processes involving international, national, and nongovernmental action. Now with online appendices.
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Fourth Edition
496 pages | 7 x 10
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-4738-1 | $37.50s | £24.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
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Of Gardens: Selected Essays
Paula Deitz
Of Gardens records a great adventure of continual discovery not only of the artful beauty of individual gardens and landscapes but also of the intellectual and historical threads that weave them into patterns of civilization. Deitz's vivid descriptions and recollections allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels.
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384 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 10 illus.
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2354-5 | $19.95t | £13.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0696-8 | $19.95s | £13.00
A volume in the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series
Site, Sight, Insight: Essays on Landscape Architecture
John Dixon Hunt. Foreword by Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them, and what we derive from that looking.
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208 pages | 6 x 9 | 49 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4800-5 | $55.00s | £36.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9274-9 | $55.00s | £36.00
A volume in the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series
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Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture
David Leatherbarrow
"David Leatherbarrow's skills in interpreting texts, built works, and images are deployed toward new ends—examining the similarities and differences between the two related, but distinct, topographic arts: architecture and landscape architecture."—Elizabeth K. Meyer, University of Virginia School of Architecture
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296 pages | 7 x 7 | 95 illus.
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2350-7 | $29.95t | £19.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9260-2 | $29.95t | £19.50
A volume in the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series
LITERATURE
Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion
Hester Blum
American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions that have been described as turns, whether transnational, aesthetic, or affective. Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion argues that the propensity of the field to reinvent itself without dissolution is one of its greatest strengths.
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224 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus.
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-4798-5 | $24.95s | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9265-7 | $24.95s | £16.50
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"Hamlet" After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
Zachary Lesser
In 1823 Sir Henry Bunbury discovered an early edition of Hamlet that radically differs from the known and celebrated version of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how this improbable discovery forced readers to reexamine accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and the nature of Shakespeare's texts.
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304 pages | 6 x 9 | 27 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4661-2 | $59.95s | £39.00
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2356-9 | $24.95t | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9039-4 | $24.95s | £16.50
A volume in the Material Texts series
Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850
Mark J. Miller
In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
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240 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4802-9 | $49.95s | £32.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9264-0 | $49.95s | £32.50
A volume in the Early American Studies series
Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment
Matthew Wickman
Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. Analyzing the work of Scottish literati, Matthew Wickman challenges how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the modernist ethos that relegated "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history.
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304 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4795-4 | $69.95s | £45.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9253-4 | $69.95s | £45.50
A volume in the Haney Foundation Series
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127-1181
Theodore Evergates
Henry the Liberal was celebrated for balancing the arts of governance with learning and for his generosity and inquisitive mind, but his enduring achievement, Evergates makes clear, was to transform the county of Champagne into a dynamic principality within the emerging French state.
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320 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4790-9 | $75.00s | £49.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9252-7 | $75.00s | £49.00
A volume in the Middle Ages Series
Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature
Nicole Nolan Sidhu
In Indecent Exposure, Nicole Nolan Sidhu explores obscene comedy in the literary and visual culture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. She proposes that Middle English writers used obscene comedy to grapple with the disturbances their society experienced in the century and a half following the Black Death.
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320 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4804-3 | $69.95s | £45.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9268-8 | $69.95s | £45.50
A volume in the Middle Ages Series
Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
Elizabeth Yale
Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.
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360 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4781-7 | $69.95s | £45.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9225-1 | $69.95s | £45.50
A volume in the Material Texts series
POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China
Edited by Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang
The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's Internet and social media and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations.
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296 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus.
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2351-4 | $49.95s | £32.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9266-4 | $49.95s | £32.50
URBAN STUDIES
Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work
Edited by Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter
Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments where state policies and market actors play a role.
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256 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4794-7 | $55.00s | £36.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9257-2 | $55.00s | £36.00
A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series
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Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia
Gregory L. Heller. Foreword by Alexander Garvin
Ed Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century.
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320 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4490-8 | $39.95s | £26.00
Paperback | ISBN 978-0-8122-2359-0 | $24.95t | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0784-2 | $24.95s | £16.50
A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series
Public Pensions and City Solvency
Susan M. Wachter, Editor
Underfunded pension liabilities are severely threatening many cities, and policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to the legacy issues surrounding the funding of pensions. Public Pensions and City Solvency addresses this complex fiscal issue and presents strategies to achieve financial sustainability.
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120 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 6 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4826-5 | $24.95s | £16.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9287-9 | $19.95s | £13.00
A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series
Shared Prosperity in America's Communities
Susan M. Wachter and Lei Ding, Editors
Shared Prosperity in America's Communities examines the degree to which place matters in the geography of economic opportunity; offers strategies to address the challenges of place-based inequality; and shows how communities across the nation are implementing change and building a future of shared prosperity.
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280 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus.
Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4785-5 | $59.95s | £39.00
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9240-4 | $59.95s | £39.00
A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series
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