EUROPEAN & RUSSIAN Spring 2020
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After Europe
Alternative Globalizations
Ivan Krastev
January 2020 136pp 9780812252422 £16.99/$19.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World Edited by James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky & Steffi Marung
Locating evidence of Americans grappling with their money in fiction, correspondence, newspapers, printed ephemera, government documents, legal cases, and even on the money itself, argues Americans, developed the ability to analyze the value of paper financial instruments, assess the strength of banking institutions, and track legislative changes that might alter the rules of currency circulation.
March 2020 440pp 9780253046512 £41.00/$48.00 PB 9780253046505 £86.00/$100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War.
Dark Finance
Ideology and the Rationality of Domination
Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe Fabio Mattioli
Nazi Germanization Policies in Poland Gerhard Wolf Translated by Wayne Yung
June 2020 240pp 9781503612938 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503611658 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Shows how financialization can empower authoritarian regimes—not by making money accessible to everyone, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolize access to international credit exploitative domestic debt.
June 2020 512pp 9780253048073 £52.00/$60.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals an astonishing reality in which the Nazi plan to deem majority of Polish citizens as “racially unfit”was met with massive resistance from various Nazi occupation institutions.
International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy
Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem
Hélène Cixous Translated by Peggy Kamuf Foreword by Eva Hoffman
Encounters in Postwar BosniaHerzegovina Andrew Gilbert
March 2020 144pp 9780823287628 £19.99/$24.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2020 264pp 7 b&w halftones 9781501750267 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
An inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace Argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as encounters, focusing the Jewish community of a German town that on the relations of difference and inequality, and was wiped out in the Holocaust. Using stories of her grandmother this literary work reimagines the question of legitimacy. fragments of their stories. Excludes ANZ
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Remains of Socialism
Stepchildren of the Shtetl
Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary Maya Nadkarni
The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 Natan M. Meir
July 2020 256pp 13 b&w halftones 9781501750182 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781501750175 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture June 2020 320pp 9781503613058 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503611832 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of “remains”—both physical objects and cultural remainders—to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism. Excludes ANZ
Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its
Tales from Albarado
The Burden of the Past
Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania Smoki Musaraj
History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine Edited by Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper & Anna Wylegala
August 2020 216pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501750342 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781501750335 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 392pp 9780253046710 £39.00/$45.00 PB 9780253046703 £86.00/$100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tales from Albarado revisits times of excitement and loss in early 1990s Albania, in which about a dozen pyramid firms collapsed and caused the country to fall into anarchy and a near civil war. Excludes ANZ
Focuses on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture.
The Socialist Good Life
June 2020 280pp 9780253047793 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253047762 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the lessons consumption studies can offer about ethnic and national identity and the role of economic expertise in consumer behavior.
Derry City
Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland Margo Shea June 2020 348pp 9780268107932 £42.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Examines Catholic Derry from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the 1960s and the start of the Troubles. Provides an account of the cultural, political, and social history using archival research, oral histories, landscape analysis, and public speeches; demonstrates how communities maintain their agency in political and cultural conflict.
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Britain
Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe Edited by Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincytė & Zsuzsa Gille
Unfelt
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, Second Edition Robert W. White Foreword by Ed Moloney
March 2020 282pp 3 charts 9781501747120 £41.00/$47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 464pp 9780253048295 £24.99/$30.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
France
Unfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passions and sentiments long considered as preoccupations of the era depend on a potent insensibility, the secret emergence of pronounced emotions that only become apparent with time. Excludes ANZ
At his death in 2013, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh remained a divisive and influential figure in Irish politics and the Irish Republican movement. For this new edition, White addresses Ó Brádaigh’s continuing influence on the Irish Republican Movement, including the ongoing “dissident” campaign.
Disordering the Establishment
Paris in the Dark
Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950 Eric Smoodin
Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981 Lily Woodruff
March 2020 224pp 30 illus. 9781478006923 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478006114 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Art History Publication Initiative June 2020 368pp 98 illus., incl. 17 in color 9781478008446 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478007920 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s Examines the development of artistic strategies of and 1940s. Drawing on a wealth of journalistic sources, recounts the ways films moved through political resistance in France in the decades the city, favored stars, and what it was like to go following World War II. to the movies in a city with hundreds of cinemas.
Stolen Song
The Birth of Solidarity
How the Troubadours Became French Eliza Zingesser
The History of the French Welfare State François R Ewald Edited by Melinda Cooper Translated by Timothy Scott Johnson
March 2020 258pp 10 b&w halftones 9781501747571 £28.99/$34.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French; An alternative point of origin for French literary history, a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Excludes ANZ
May 2020 312pp 9781478008231 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478007715 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
First published in French in 1986, in English for the first time. An important study of the rise of the welfare state.
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Ireland
The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment James Noggle
Germany
Between Containment and Rollback
Communist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany’s Rise and Fall Thomas Fleischman Foreward by Paul S. Sutter
The United States and the Cold War in Germany Christian F. Ostermann
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books July 2020 288pp £19.00 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295747309 £33.00/$40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Cold War International History Project June 2020 416pp 9781503606784 £39.00/$45.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on recently declassified documents from American, Russian, and German archives, this book tells the story of U.S. policy toward East Germany from 1945 to 1953.
Chronicles East Germany’s journey from family farms to factory farms, explaining how communist principles shaped the adoption of industrial agriculture practices.
Echoes of Trauma and Shame in German Families
German as a Jewish Problem
The Language Politics of Jewish Nationalism Marc Volovici
The Post–World War II Generations Lina Jakob
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
July 2020 272pp 9780253048257 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9780253048240 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 360pp 9781503612303 £56.00/$65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
German as a Jewish Problem tells the Jewish history of the German language, focusing on Jewish national movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Palestine/ Israel.
Considers how the Kriegsenkel movement emerged at the nexus between public and familial silences about World War II, and critically discusses this new collective identity.
History, Metaphors, Fables
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II
A Hans Blumenberg Reader Hans Blumenberg Translated by Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs & Joe Paul Kroll
A Novel Peter Weiss
March 2020 360pp 9781478006992 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006145 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published in German in 1978 and appearing here in English for the first time, the second volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance depicts anti-fascist resistance, radical proletarian political movements, and the relationship between art and resistance from the late 1930s to World War II.
signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation July 2020 606pp 9781501747984 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781501732829 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collects the central writings by Hans Blumenberg. Excludes ANZ
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The Case of Literature
The Moral Triangle
Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka Arne Höcker
Germans, Israelis, Palestinians Sa’ed Atshan & Katharina Galor
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought June 2020 240pp 9781501749360 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781501749353 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 272pp 35 illus. 9781478008378 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478007852 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to explore the asymmetric relationships between Germans and Israeli and Palestinian immigrants in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the impact of coming to terms with the past.
Re-interpretations show how literary and scientific narratives have determined each other over the past three centuries. Excludes ANZ
Italy
Clocking Out
Hacked Transmissions
The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus
Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi
March 2020 152pp 26 b&w photos 9781517908553 £18.99/$23.00 PB 9781517908546 £79.00/$92.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
March 2020 280pp 5 b&w photos 9781517903268 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517903251 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Spain
Challenges thinking about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early ’60s. Draws on critical theory and archival research, what kinds of fractures we might exploit for living, resisting traditional narratives, and anticapitalism. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Maps the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day. Contributes to media and communication studies, anthropology, science and technology studies, social movements studies, sociology, and cultural theory. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The World Refugees Made
Deza and Its Moriscos
Religion and Community in Early Modern Spain Patrick J. O’Banion
Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy Pamela Ballinger
Early Modern Cultural Studies August 2020 396pp 3 maps, 5 family trees, 9781496216724 £60.00/$70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
March 2020 336pp 9 b&w halftones, 3 maps 9781501747588 £39.00/$45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reframes historiographical debates about the Morisco problem, a defining crisis for early modern Spain, focusing on the community that experienced it. Asserts the importance of local history and challenges scholars to rethink how marginalized people of the past exerted agency.
The repatriation of Italian nationals from those Italian territories, and the integration of these “national refugees” into a country devastated by war and overwhelmed by foreign refugees. Excludes ANZ
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Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture, 1880–1975
Spanish Cinema against Itself
Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy Steven Marsh
Mar Soria
New Directions in National Cinemas March 2020 304pp 9780253046314 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253046307 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Hispanisms May 2020 360pp 9781496217660 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Presents an innovative cultural analysis of female workers in Spanish literature and films. Drawing from nation-building theories, the work of feminist geographers, and ideas about the construction of the marginal subject in society.
Maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s through to the contemporary period.
The Basque Seroras
The Other Side of Empire
Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550–1800 Amanda L. Scott
Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain Andrew W. Devereux
March 2020 246pp 10 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501747496 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 288pp 3 b&w halftones, 5 maps 9781501740121 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Russia
Explores the intersections between local community, women’s work, and religious reform in early modern northern Spain. Provides a depiction of these uncloistered religious women. Excludes ANZ
The Other Side of Empire illuminates Spain’s expansionary ventures in the Mediterranean in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Excludes ANZ
Eastbound through Siberia
Journeys through the Russian Empire
Observations from the Great Northern Expedition Georg Wilhelm Steller Foreword by Jonathan C. Slaght Translated by Margritt A. Engel & Karen E. Willmore
The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky William Craft Brumfield
May 2020 536pp 409 illus., incl. 398 in color 9781478006022 £43.00/$49.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A lavishly illustrated volume featuring photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky juxtaposed against William Craft Brumfield. Together their images document Russia’s architectural, artistic, and cultural heritage.
June 2020 264pp 9780253047786 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253047779 £67.00/$78.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A remarkable window into life—both human and animal—in 18th century Siberia.
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Mixed Messages
Russia’s Entangled Embrace
Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia Kathryn E. Graber
August 2020 276pp 18 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501750519 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781501750502 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on language and media in Asian Russia, particularly in Buryat territories, engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity, and the impact of media on everyday language use. Excludes ANZ
The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914 Stephen Badalyan Riegg
July 2020 320pp 6 b&w halftones, 3 maps 9781501750113 £46.00/$52.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia’s territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire’s metropolitan centers. Excludes ANZ
The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy
Russian Hajj
Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca Eileen Kane
France and Russia, 1848–1870 Heather L. Bailey
NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies June 2020 324pp 9781501749513 £47.00/$55.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the circumstances under which westerners, began to conflate the Russian Orthodox Church with the state and to portray the Church as the political tool of despotic tsars. Excludes ANZ
May 2020 256pp 29 b&w halftones, 6 maps 9781501748509 £18.99/$22.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia’s mass hajj traffic, seeing it not only as a liability, but also an opportunity. Excludes ANZ
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