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40 maps / 8 tables / 17 figures / 60 quads
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$50.00 (£37.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-1079-4 $50.00 Urban Studies
Amsterdam’s Canal District
Origins, Evolution, and Future Prospects
Edited by Jan Nijman
In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and esthetic function, Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification.
This edited volume brings together seventeen reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With differing approaches and perspectives, the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the Canal District’s historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions have an important bearing on urban historic preservation elsewhere and on questions about enduring urban design.
Jan Nijman is director of Distinguished University Professor at the Urban Studies Institute of Georgia State University and a professor of geography at the University of Amsterdam.
Colour Matters
Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth
Carl E. James
Also by Jan Nijman: The Life of North American Suburbs: Imagined Utopias and Transitional Spaces 978-1-4875-2077-9
Written over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays showing how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.
Based on research conducted throughout Black communities, in addition to showcasing thirty years of teaching experience, Carl E. James’s Colour Matters, is a collection of essays that engages educators, youth workers, and policymakers to think about the discursive ways in which race functions to shape the education and community-based aspirations of African Canadians. Informed by the current sociopolitical Canadian landscape, Colour Matters covers topics relating to the lives of Black youth, with a particular, though not exclusive, examination of young Black men in the Greater Toronto Area.
The essays reflect the issues and concerns of the past thirty years, and question what has changed and what has remained the same in the lives of Black youth. Each essay is accompanied by an insightful response from a scholar engaging with topics like immigration, schooling, athletics, mentorship, and police surveillance. With the perspectives of scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, Colour Matters provides provocative narratives of Black gendered experiences that, by comparison, alert us to what more might be said, or said differently, about the social, cultural, educational, political, and occupational worlds of Black youth in Toronto. This book probes the ongoing need to understand, in nuanced and complex ways, the marginalization and racialization of Black youth in a time of growing demands for a societal response to anti-Black racism.
Carl E. James is a professor in the Faculty of Education at York University.
Essays on the Experiences, Education, and Pursuits of Black Youth
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Approx. 384 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2021 11 images / 11 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0867-8
$75.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2631-3
$35.95 (£26.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3879-8 $35.95
Education
Carl E. James
The Banker Ladies
Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks
Caroline Shenaz Hossein
This book sheds light on the activism of the Black women who act as Banker Ladies in their communities, educating readers about their contributions to economic cooperation
All over the world, Black and racialized women engage in the solidarity economy through what is known as mutual aid financing. Formally referred to as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), these institutions are purposefully informal to support the women’s livelihoods and social needs and act to reject tiered forms of neoliberal development. The Banker Ladies – a term coined by women in the Black diaspora – are individuals who voluntarily organize ROSCAs for self-sufficiency and are intentional in their politicized economic cooperation to counter business exclusion.
Caroline Shenaz Hossein reveals how Black women redefine the banking cooperative sector to be inclusive of informal institutions that are democratic and focused on group consensus, and which build an activist form of economic cooperation that is intent on making social profitability the norm. The book examines the ways in which diasporic Black women who organize mutual aid receive little to no attention.
Unapologetically biased towards a group of women who have been purposely sidelined and put down for what they do, The Banker Ladies highlights how, in order to educate oneself about their contributions to politics and economics, it is imperative to listen to the voices of hundreds of Black women in charge of financial services for their communities.
May 2024
272 pages, 6 x 9 12 b& illustrations, 1 b&w map, 7 b&w figures Paper 978-1-4875-5703-4
$36.95 (£24.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1783-0
$36.95
Business
Caroline Shenaz Hossein is an associate professor of Global Development and Political Economy at the University of Toronto Scarborough; Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 of Africana Development and Feminist Political Economy; and Founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE) Collective.
POLITICIZED MICROFINANCE: MONEY, POWER, AND VIOLENCE IN THE BLACK AMERICAS
By Caroline Shenaz Hossein
CAROLINE SHENAZ HOSSEIN
Behind the Glass
The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family
Michael Lambek
Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat
The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing.
The book traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in interwar independent Czechoslovakia and flight in the face of Nazi invasion. Michael Lambek examines the generation born in the first decade of the twentieth century, especially Grete Tugendhat – Lambek’s maternal grandmother – who commissioned, inhabited, championed, and relinquished the distinctive modern house.
An exploration of life in and surrounding the Villa Tugendhat offers a factual portrait that runs counter to the fictional one portrayed in Simon Mawer’s novel The Glass Room . The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete’s son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion.
Behind the Glass reflects on the meaning of a “family” and suggests that it is more than a nuclear household – a family reproduces itself over generations, a product of how it represents itself and is represented by others.
Michael Lambek is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He holds a Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Ethical Life, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000.
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The Botanic Age
Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution
Dean Falk
Identifying a period before the Stone Age that represents a key turning point in human evolution, The Botanic Age provides a fascinating new look at the first three million years of hominin existence
How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?
The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of human intelligence. However, feminist anthropologists have long theorized that the first tools were actually nests, slings, and baskets that would not have survived in the archaeological record.
In The Botanic Age, leading evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk argues that millions of years of weaving botanical materials and woodworking preceded the Stone Age, facilitating the basic neurological underpinnings for humankind’s later creative and technological inventions. She further suggests that mothers and infants may hold the key to understanding a series of events that eventually kindled the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities, including language and music.
The Botanic Age takes readers millions of years into the past to a time before our relatives began living fully on the ground. From stationary hominin sleeping trees in Africa to beached trees on the shores of Indonesia, the impact of the Botanic Age on hominin evolution was far-reaching. Only from this vantage point “in the trees” can we really begin to understand how and why our ancestors evolved –and how we became human.
DEAN FALK
The
Botanic Age
GEOFFREY A. OZIN
MIREILLE F. GHOUSSOUB
Of related interest: The Story of CO 2: Big Ideas for a Small Molecule
By
Geoffrey A Ozin and Mireille F Ghoussoub
978-1-4875-0636-0
September 2024
272 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
44 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4664-9
$29.95 (£19.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-4774-5
$29.95 Anthropology
Dean Falk is the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology and a distinguished research professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Trained as a biological anthropologist, Falk is interested in the evolution of the brain and the emergence of the human cognitive abilities that led to language, music, analytical thinking, and warfare. She has directed collaborative research on the brains and skulls of nonhuman primates, prehistoric human relatives, and recent humans including Homo floresiensis (aka “Hobbit”) and Albert Einstein. In addition to numerous scientific and popular articles, Falk has written many books, including Braindance, Finding Our Tongues, The Fossil Chronicles, and, with Eve Penelope Schofield, Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger Syndrome.
Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution
Business the NHL Way
Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice, Updated Edition
Norm O’Reilly and Rick Burton
Foreword by Gary Bettman
Afterword by Hayley Wickenheiser
NEW IN PAPERBAC
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Taking you from the ice to the office and back, this ultimate business playbook provides valuable leadership insight and career-enhancing tactics inspired by stories from the National Hockey League .
Business the NHL Way draws on hockey-inspired stories to show how brands, institutions, and individuals associated with the NHL have consistently survived a variety of challenges and thrived as a result of its decisions. This revised and expanded edition explores business-related scenarios from the sport of hockey and links each lesson back to business, leadership, diversity, management, and sport outcomes.
Using ice hockey as an analogy for life, Norm O’Reilly and Rick Burton – leaders in the business of sports and former amateur hockey players – inform business and industry professionals on best practices to achieve strategic outcomes and career advancement. The book aims to help businesses emerge from the financial and health disruptions of the global COVID-19 pandemic that not only altered the future of hockey but threatened business sustainability in every sector. Business the NHL Way will appeal to both casual and passionate hockey fans, as well as anyone eager to follow in the footsteps of a successful professional sports organization.
Norm O’Reilly is dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Maine. He is a regular columnist for Sports Business Journal and the lead researcher on the Canadian Sponsorship Landscape Study. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Sports Business Management: Decision Making around the Globe and 20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes
INTENTIONAL
LEADERSHIP
Rick Burton is the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University and former commissioner of Australia’s National Basketball League. He is a regular columnist for Sports Business Journal and Sportico and co-author of numerous books, including Forever Orange, 20 Secrets to Success for NCAA StudentAthletes, and Sports Business Unplugged
Of related interest: Intentional Leadership: The Big 8 Capabilities Setting Leaders Apart
By Rose M Patten
978-1-4875-0887-6
Cancer Confidential
Backstage Dramas in the Radiation Clinic
Charles Hayter, MD
Weaving the personal story of an oncologist dealing with his father’s terminal cancer with stories inspired by encounters in his practice, Cancer Confidential uncovers the emotional responses of people living with cancer and those who care for them
Each year, almost twenty million people worldwide receive the grim diagnosis of cancer, yet few are prepared for the difficult emotional journey ahead.
Shortly after Dr. Charles Hayter graduated as a cancer specialist, his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. As with many doctors, he found that his medical training did not prepare him for the anguish and turmoil he witnessed in himself, his patients, and their loved ones – anguish often worsened by the stigma and shame surrounding cancer and radiation. In Cancer Confidential , Dr. Hayter shares behind-the-scenes stories of people dealing with cancer and death – often through avoidance, denial, and conflict, but also as shining examples of quiet courage, resilience, and humour.
October 2022
288 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-2815-7
$32.95 (£21.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-2817-1
$32.95
Health and Medicine
The backdrop for the stories is the specialty of radiation oncology. One in three cancer patients will receive radiation therapy, yet it remains a mysterious and often maligned area of medicine.
Told in a vivid, dramatic style, Cancer Confidential sheds light on this poorly understood field and reveals intimate stories of individuals and their families in difficult circumstances. It will lend insight, compassion, and support to anyone facing the diagnosis of cancer.
Charles Hayter is a physician and awardwinning writer based in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a former associate professor of radiation oncology at both Queen’s University and the University of Toronto.
By
Robert
Maunder, MD and Jonathan Hunter, MD 978-1-4875-2834-8
Hayter, MD
Charm Offensive Commodifying Femininity in
Postwar France
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
This book examines the many forces that shaped postwar French femininity as a desirable commodity, both within France and around the world
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation. French publicists, journalists, and government officials working in the tourism industry began a concerted effort to improve France’s international image and win valuable tourist money by promoting the beauty, sexual appeal, and general allure of French women, all while shrinking the boundaries of what was considered beautiful.
Charm Offensive explores how this elevation of French femininity created problems on both sides of the equation: the pressure on French women to conform to an exacting physical standard was immense, while the inability of anyone else to access that standard, coupled with the constant prods to try, resulted in a sense of failure. Drawing on cultural figures like Air France air hostesses, tourism workers, and celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot, the book demonstrates how women were mobilized as ambassadors of French superiority. Analysing cultural and political sources simultaneously, Charm Offensive offers an innovative understanding of a tumultuous time of decolonization.
July 2023
272 pages, 6 x 9 21 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0836-4
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2582-8
$39.95 (£26.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3809-5
$39.95
History
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
By Diana Cucuz
Chasing We-ness
Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World
William Marsiglio
In an increasingly polarized world, Chasing We-ness champions ideas for cultivating the ability to work with others in a way that celebrates our shared humanity
As humans, we embrace our individuality, yet we chase the comfort and sense of purpose that comes from being part of a group. Especially timely given our polarized world, Chasing We-ness examines how social media, AI, new leadership styles, and other modern developments affect our state of we-ness. It illuminates how our contemporary identities find expression in both progressive and conservative social movements that foster a sense of we-ness. Embracing the reality that “we’re all in this together,” the book interrogates our efforts to achieve a state of we-ness that rejects hate, social injustice, and autocratic agendas in the twenty-first century.
This book explores why, how, and with what effect we build we-ness into our lives in both healthy and destructive ways. William Marsiglio draws on his expertise as a leading sociologist to explore the motivational forces that inspire a sense of group belonging in intimate groups, civic organizations, thought communities, sports and leisure activities, and work. Promoting initiatives that cultivate mindfulness, empathy, altruism, and leadership, Chasing We-ness proposes essential life skills to empower us, reduce social divisions, strengthen the social fabric, and uplift our spirits as global citizens.
Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World
Chasing We-ness
William Marsiglio
March 2023
492 pages, 6 x 9
2 b&w figures
Cloth 978-14875-4477-5
$32.95 (£21.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-4520-8
$32.95
Social Issues
The Gatherings
William Marsiglio is a professor of sociology at the University of Florida. He is a leading scholar in the fields of family and fatherhood and a fellow at the National Council on Family Relations. Much of his qualitative research and writing explores how men, as fathers and youth workers, relate to children and promote their personal development, health, and fitness. He is the author or co-author of 12 books including Dads, Kids & Fitness: A Father’s Guide to Family Health, Nurturing Dads: Social Initiatives for Contemporary Fatherhood , and Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities.
By Shirley N . Hager and Mawopiyane
Praise for Chasing We-ness:
“Our sociopolitical leaders can afford to dismiss empathy only at their own peril . In Chasing We-ness, William Marsiglio brilliantly makes the case for combating racism, sexism, and xenophobia by exhorting all to
Conversations on Ethical Leadership
Lessons Learned from University Governance
Edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
UTP
Insights
This book presents conversations between academic and community leaders, sharing lessons and opportunities around ethical leadership, management, and governance processes
Highlighting ethical leadership strategies, Conversations on Ethical Leadership explores what makes for strong, well-informed, morally sound decision-making at all levels of an organization. In addressing a range of challenges faced by universities and applying those lessons to the broader community of the public and private sectors, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and her contributors tackle a host of issues related to advancing ethics, diversity, inclusiveness, and the art of moral leadership.
Each chapter, written by an author with roots in the academy, includes a subsequent commentary by a community leader who highlights the broader takeaways that emerge for society from the university experience. In this way, the book becomes a conversation between the academic and non-academic worlds about issues that affect any prominent organization. It offers a unique range of novel and timely topics, from responsibility-centred budgeting to post-pandemic planning, responsiveness to climate change, Indigenous leadership, free speech, academic integrity, and much more. In doing so, Conversations on Ethical Leadership ultimately reveals how we can build and preserve an ethically responsible sense of purpose at our post-secondary learning institutions and beyond.
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is a professor emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a professor and dean emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University.
Damaged
Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution
Robert Maunder, MD and Jonathan Hunter, MD NEW IN PAPERBACK
This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient, showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology .
Childhood adversity that is severe enough to be harmful throughout life is one of the biggest public health issues of our time, yet health care systems struggle to even acknowledge the problem. In Damaged , Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. Jonathan Hunter call for a radical change, arguing that the medical system needs to be not only more compassionate but more effective at recognizing that trauma impacts everybody’s health, from patient to practitioner. Drawing on decades of experience providing psychiatric care, Maunder and Hunter offer an open and honest window into the private world of psychotherapy. At the heart of the book is the painful yet inspiring story of Maunder’s career-long work with a patient named Isaac. In unfiltered accounts of their therapy sessions, we see the many ways in which childhood trauma harms Isaac’s health for the rest of his life. We also see how deeply patients can affect the doctors who care for them, and how the caring collegiality between doctors can significantly improve the medicine they practice.
Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution
Damaged makes it clear that human relationships are at the core of medicine, and that a revolution in health care must start with the development of safe, respectful, and caring relationships between doctors and patients. It serves as a strong reminder that the way we care for those who suffer most reveals who we are as a society.
THE RAPIDS
SAM TWYFORD-MOORE
Of related interest: The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania
By Sam Twyford-Moore
978-1-4875-0782-4
Available 232 pages, 6 x 9 Paper 978-1-4875-2835-5
$22.95 (£15.99) T Health and Medicine
Maunder, MD is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and holds the Chair in Health and Behaviour at Sinai Health. His research focuses on how close relationships influence health, and on the compassionate support of resilience in health care workers. Clinically, he provides psychiatric care for people with chronic physical illnesses.
Jonathan Hunter, MD is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and holds the Pencer Family Chair in Applied General Psychiatry at Sinai Health. His research and clinical practice focus on the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care of cancer patients and other people with serious medical and surgical illnesses.
Praise for Damaged:
“Damaged is not for the faint of heart – many events from Isaac’s past can be hard to read But those who persist will find much to consider ” Publishers Weekly
“A deeply personal narrative of how humanizing relationships between clinicians and patients heals trauma Definitely worth reading ” Alika Lafontaine, President, Canadian Medical Association
“Maunder and Hunter connect the dots that link strength and vulnerability and those that join the psychological to the physical With skill and humility, Maunder and Hunter tell a story about every one of us ”
Dr Brian Goldman, emergency physician, host of CBC’s White Coat, Black Art, and author of The Power of Kindness: Why Empathy is Essential in Everyday Life
“This book is dynamite! Damaged is a bold and profoundly important story of two doctors and of one man’s monumental struggle You will find
Robert
Faith, Force, and Reason
An Armchair History of the Rule of Law
David M . Beatty
Faith, Force, and Reason follows the way legal thinking has evolved over time and explains how the rule of law has come to replace faith and force as the accepted method of conflict resolution
Faith, Force, and Reason follows the evolution of the rule of law from its birth in the marshes of Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago to its battle against Apartheid in South Africa in the last twenty-five years. It is recounted through the voices of emperors and kings, judges and jurists, and popes and philosophers who have thought about what the rule of law is all about and how it works.
All of law’s most momentous achievements – Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis, the Magna Carta, and the American Bill of Rights – and most celebrated advocates – Plato and Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Edward Coke, Hugo Grotius, and John Marshall – are featured. So are law’s darkest moments: the trial of Socrates, the burning and beheading of witches and heretics, the persecution of Jews, and the proclamation of Lex Regia which legalized the dictatorial powers of Roman emperors and medieval kings.
Faith, Force, and Reason challenges readers to think about the lessons of the history they have read. What does the rule of law mean in our own time? What does it demand of us as well as our political leaders?
FAITH, FORCE, AND REASON
AN ARMCHAIR HISTORY OF THE RULE OF LAW
April 2022
DAVID M. BEATTY
336 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-4079-1
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4082-1
$39.95 (£26.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-4081-4
$39.95
Law
David M. Beatty is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
Written by Caroline E . Schuster
Illustrated by Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno
ethnoGRAPHIC
This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life
Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to confront the limitations of finance to respond to a deteriorating environment.
Taking a human-centered approach to complex weather and financial models, Forecasts offers new ways of looking at overlapping speculative futures in a more-than-human landscape. Based on more than a year of fieldwork in Paraguay, the book follows one man’s possible journeys through a season of planting and harvest, buffeted by losses and sustained by the hope that he can cultivate conditions that will help his family thrive. Forecasts makes a sweeping account of environmental and financial risk accessible through the intimate story of one family’s triumphs, heartbreaks, and hopes for the future.
The graphic novel is followed by appendices that provide historical, anthropological, and methodological insights, as well as classroom guides, exercises, and questions that make this book ideal for teaching.
February 2023
176 pages, 7 x 10
Full colour Cloth 978-1-4875-4220-7
$65.00 (£42.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4223-8
$26.95 (£17.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-4225-2
$26.95
Anthropology
Caroline E. Schuster is a senior lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
Enrique Bernardou is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Paraguay.
Paraguay.
David Bueno is a graphic designer based in
A STORY OF WEATHER AND FINANCE AT THE EDGE OF DISASTER
Written by Caroline E. Schuster Illustrated by Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno
JOHN P. LeDONNE
ARUSSIA’S MANAGEMENT OF THE EURASIAN SPACE 1650 –1850
Approx. 736 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2020 9 maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-0611-7
$150.00 (£102.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4211-5
$75.00 (£51.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3332-8 $75.00 History / Slavic Studies
Of related interest: Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands Kyiv, 1800–1905
By Serhiy Bilenky 978-1-4875-0172-3
Forging a Unitary State
Russia’s Management of the Eurasian Space, 1650-1850
John P . LeDonne
Was Russia truly an empire that accomodated the differences among its constituent parts or was it a unitary state seeking to create complete homogeneity?
Covering two centuries of Russian history, Forging a Unitary State is a comprehensive account of the creation of what is commonly known as the “Russian Empire,” from Poland to Siberia. In this book, John P. LeDonne demonstrates that the so-called empire was, for the most part, a unitary state, defined by an obsessive emphasis on centralization and uniformity. The standardization of local administration, the judicial system, tax regime, and commercial policy were carried out slowly but systematically over eight generations, in the hope of integrating people on the periphery into the Russian political and social hierarchy. The ultimate goal of Russian policy was to create a “Fortress Empire” consisting of a huge Russian unitary state flanked by a few peripheral territories, such as Finland, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia. Additional peripheral states, such as Sweden, Turkey, and Persia, would guarantee the security of this “Fortress Empire” and the management of Eurasian territory. LeDonne’s provocative argument is supported by a careful comparative study of Russian expansion along its western, southern, and eastern borders, drawing on vital but under-studied administrative evidence. An essential resource for those interested in the long history of Russian expansionism.
John P LeDonne is a senior research associate at the Davis Center, Harvard University.
“Dealing with complex issues of statehood and government, Forging a Unitary State can be situated under the rubric of a broadly defined institutional history. LeDonne builds upon a profound variety of primary sources, and the massive corpus of his previous scholarship in Russian geopolitics, tsarist bureaucracy, and the system of administration. The book poses probing new questions that challenge widely held narratives about Russia becoming an empire.”
Mikhail Dolbilov, Department of History, University of Maryland
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Four Days in Hitler’s Germany
Mackenzie King’s Mission to Avert a Second World War
Robert Teigrob
Four Days in Hitler’s Germany tells the engaging story of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s failed diplomatic mission to Nazi Germany
In 1937, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King travelled to Nazi Germany in an attempt to prevent a war that, to many observers, seemed inevitable. The men King communed with in Berlin, including Adolf Hitler, assured him of the Nazi regime’s peaceful intentions, and King not only found their pledges sincere, but even hoped for lifelong personal friendships with many of the regime’s top officials.
Four Days in Hitler’s Germany is a clearly written and engaging story that reveals why King believed that the greatest threat to peace would come from those individuals who intended to thwart the Nazi agenda, which as King saw it, was concerned primarily with justifiable German territorial and diplomatic readjustments.
Mackenzie King was certainly not alone in misreading the omens in the 1930s, but it would be difficult to find a democratic leader who missed the mark by a wider margin. This book seeks to explain the sources and outcomes of King’s misperceptions and diplomatic failures, and follows him as he returns to Germany to tour the appalling aftermath of the very war he had tried to prevent.
Robert Teigrob is a professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University.
“Crisp and evocative, and with the potential to impact both a scholarly and general audience, Four Days in Hitler’s Germany shifts seamlessly between King’s activities in 1937 and commentary on postwar Berlin, adding depth and poignancy to the narrative.”
Michael Dawson, Department of History, St. Thomas University
54 Illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0550-9
$32.95 (£22.99) T
eBook 978-1-4875-0566-0 $32.95
History / Political Science
Politics, and Principles
Of related interest:
Power, Politics, and Principles
Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935–1948
By Taylor Hollander 978-1-4875-2193-6
Approx. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2019
Fur, Fleas, and Flukes
The Fascinating World of Parasites
Michael Stock
Shedding light on the unseen world around us, Fur, Fleas, and Flukes reveals the role parasites play in shaping the lives of wild mammals
Today, even if you live in a major city and seldom get a chance to visit national parks or wildlife reserves, you encounter wild mammals. On the inside and the outside of these animals exist an amazing diversity of living things: parasites. These parasites play crucial roles in the ecology, behaviour, and evolution of their wild mammal hosts.
In Fur, Fleas, and Flukes, parasitologist Michael Stock tells the stories of wild mammals – from armadillos to zebras –and the fascinating unseen organisms – such as tapeworms, flukes, and roundworms – that live in and on them. Stock examines how parasites can modify mammal behaviour, shape their appearance, determine where they live, and even influence how they survive. He details how parasites can transfer to our pets and, disturbingly, lead to disease and fatalities in humans.
Fur, Fleas, and Flukes also takes into account the potential impact of unprecedented environmental changes on our planet, highlighting how these shifts may alter the ecological balance between mammals and their parasites – ultimately affecting human beings and our health.
WHAT’S IN YOUR GENOME?
90% OF YOUR GENOME IS JUNK
LAURENCE A. MORAN
Of related interest: What’s in Your Genome?: 90% of Your Genome Is Junk By Laurence A Moran 978-1-4875-0859-3
FUR FLEAS and FLUKES
The Fascinating World of Parasites
October 2024
312 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
35 colour illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0922-4
$32.95 (£21.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3994-8
$32.95
Science
Michael Stock is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at MacEwan University. His research focuses on the study of organisms that live inside and on other living things: parasites. He is the author of The Flying Zoo: Birds, Parasites, and the World They Share.
MICHAEL STOCK
Global Development and Human Rights
The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond
Paul Nelson
UTP Insights
Global Development and Human Rights analyses global efforts to implement long-term goals that seek to promote the health, happiness, and freedoms of individuals.
From 2000 to 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized external aid to finance life-changing services in the global South. However, in doing so, the organization failed to meet the challenges often associated with human rights initiatives, which are to make underprivileged communities independently prosperous, equitable, and sustainable.
In Global Development and Human Rights , Paul Nelson assesses the current thirty-year effort to make transformative changes in the global South by exploring how this disconnect from human rights weakened the MDGs reputation as a successful aid organization. To overcome the failings of the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formed in 2016 with the intention of managing the issues fundamentally ignored by the MDGs.
Drawing on twenty-five years of research on development goals, human rights, and the organizations that promote them, Nelson reasons that transformative change comes from national and local movements, and shows how human rights can offer leverage and political support that help drive transformative national initiatives.
May 2021
256 pages, 6 x 9 5 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0116-7
$70.00 (£46.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2125-7
$27.95 (£18.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-1262-0
$27.95
Development Studies
Paul Nelson is an associate professor of international development at the University of Pittsburgh.
Edited by Hilde Bjørkhaug, Philip McMichael, and Bruce Muirhead
978-1-4875-2247-6
UTP Insights is an innovative collection of brief books offering accessible introductions to issues of contemporary importance and ideas that shape our understanding of the world.
Approx. 448 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2019
Cloth 978-1-4875-0616-2
$95.00 (£64.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2414-2
$42.95 (£29.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3342-7 $42.95
Health and Medicine / Environmental Studies / Anthropology
Health in the Anthropocene
Living Well on a Finite Planet
Edited by Katharine Zywert and Stephen Quilley
How will the ecological and economic crises of the 21st century transform health systems and human wellbeing?
Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and rising socio-political instability, and offers novel frameworks for living well on a finite planet.
Rather than directing readers to more sustainable ways to structure health systems, Health in the Anthropocene navigates the transition toward social-ecological systems that can support long-term human and environmental health, which requires broad shifts in thought and action, not only in formal health-related fields, but in our economic models, agriculture and food systems, ontologies, and ethics.
Arguing that population health will largely be decided at the intersection of experimental social innovations and appropriate technologies, this volume calls readers to turn their attention toward social movements, practices, and ways of living that build resilience for an era of systemic change. Drawing on diverse disciplines and methodologies from fields including anthropology, ecological economics, sociology, and public health, Health in the Anthropocene maps out alternative pathways that have the potential to sustain human wellbeing and ecological integrity over the long term.
Katharine Zywert is a PhD candidate in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo.
Stephen Quilley is an associate professor of Social and Ecological Innovation in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo.
Of related interest: Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth By Carin Holroyd 978-1-4875-0222-5
The Heartbeat of Innovation
A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital
Edward Shorter, Hugh E. Scully, and Bernard S. Goldman
This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the development of cardiovascular surgery at the Toronto General Hospital – now rated as one of the best hospitals in the world.
Great innovations take place within great institutions. Founded in 1819, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Canada’s oldest hospitals and has created a nurturing environment for early Canadian innovations in heart surgery. The Heartbeat of Innovation tells the story of the brilliant surgeons who worked there and the hospital environment that served as an incubator to the many people – skilled perfusionists, dedicated nurses, and pioneering cardiologists – who participated in the revolution in heart surgery that took place along University Avenue in Toronto.
Supported by historical records, hospital archives, personal memoirs, and interviews, this book presents an extensive and descriptive account of the seemingly inexorable development of cardiac surgery at this leading academic health science centre. It pursues several themes: the complexity of this surgical specialty, its generally male-dominated nature, the trend to teamwork in practice, and the evolution and incorporation of original research into this branch of health care. These strands are woven together to demonstrate how TGH has evolved into a dominant leader in the competitive and demanding field of cardiac surgery. Canadian hearts may beat with pride at the knowledge that one of the major stories in modern medicine took place – and continues – here.
Edward Shorter is the Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine and a professor of psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Hugh E. Scully is a professor emeritus of surgery and of health policy management and evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Bernard S. Goldman is a professor emeritus of cardiac surgery in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a heart surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
THE HEARTBEAT OF INNOVATION
Approx. 448 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021
50 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-2681-8
$45.00 (£33.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2683-2 $45.00
Health/Medicine
of
Of related interest: SickKids: The History of The Hospital for Sick Children
David Wright Foreword by Mary Jo Haddad 978-1-4426-4723-7
EDWARD SHORTER, HUGH E. SCULLY, AND BERNARD S. GOLDMAN
HISTORY OF
SURGERY AT THE TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL
Wright with a foreword by Mary Jo Haddad
Lead for the Planet
Five Practices for Confronting Climate Change
Rae André
This book guides concerned citizens and business leaders to take on the climate crisis by detailing five key practices for effective sustainability leadership
Lead for the Planet develops climate solutions that prioritize the well-being of people and ecosystems globally. The book is unique in its application of a broad range of social science perspectives, from anthropology to psychology to economics, to help decision-makers explore how humanity can best address the climate crisis. Leaders get things done through people, and just as they have applied natural science to understand climate change, now they should apply social science to improve how society makes decisions about the climate crisis.
Lead for the Planet outlines five practices refined for over a decade in university courses on leadership for planetary sustainability – that successful leaders will need to adopt. The book is also meant to start conversations and asks crucial questions, such as: Who exactly is going to get this thing done? Taking human nature into account, what is the best way forward? In the end, will Team Humanity save the planet?
Rae André is a climate change educator and bestselling author. She teaches leadership and sustainability in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, as professor emeritus, and consults on integrating planetary sustainability into business school and other university curricula.
Approx. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0833-3
$29.95 (£22.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3803-3 $29.95
Environmental Studies / Business
Of related interest: The Thoughtful Leader: A Model of Integrative Leadership By Jim Fisher 978-1-4875-2372-5
People, Places, and Belonging
Deepening Our Sense of Community and Identity
William Marsiglio
People, Places, and Belonging deepens our understanding of the complex and dynamic ways in which place fundamentally shapes our personal and public lives .
Place matters – for good and bad. Infinitely diverse in form, place embodies the action settings where social life happens. Often fighting to preserve a sense of group belonging in the process, we design places to reflect our values and interests.
With an eye on our rapidly changing world, People, Places, and Belonging explores how social realities at every level are affected by the places we collectively forge across various social domains. The book shows how place-related circumstances can promote personal empowerment, civic engagement, and social and environmental justice.
Discussing places that affect personal and social wellbeing, including homes, communities, vehicles, and the metaverse, William Marsiglio illustrates how a web of social processes involving claims, attachments, rituals, and transitions (CART) structure our experiences in place. The author argues that we can use decision-making principles to enhance our attachments, encourage supportive rituals, smooth out transitions, and manage claims with less conflict and more social justice.
Armed with a heightened place consciousness and ethical principles, People, Places, and Belonging ultimately posits that we must individually and collectively build places that enrich our lives, celebrate the communal spirit, and foster social equity and ecological justice.
Deepening Our Sense of Community and Identity
People, Places, and Belonging
October 2024
352 pages, 6 x 9 16 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5145-2
$36.95 (£24.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-5146-9
$36.95
Social Issues
William Marsiglio is a professor of sociology at the University of Florida. He is a leading scholar in the fields of family and fatherhood and a fellow at the National Council on Family Relations. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books including Chasing We-ness: Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World, Dads, Kids, and Fitness: A Father’s Guide to Family Health, and Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities. Much of his qualitative research and writing explores how men, as fathers and youth workers, relate to children and promote health and fitness. Chasing We-ness
Of related interest: Chasing We-ness: Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World
William Marsiglio
By William Marsiglio 978-1-4875-4477-5
William Marsiglio
Hidden Paradigms
Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures
Brenda E .F . Beck
Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns found in well-known epic stories, while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery
Understanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but they are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines.
In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala , an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than 38 hours to complete over 18 nights. Bringing this unique example of Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other culturally significant works – the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the Mahabharata , an Icelandic saga, the Bible, and the Epic of Gilgamesh – establishing this foundational Tamil story as one that engages with the same universal human struggles and themes present throughout the world. Copiously illustrated, Hidden Paradigms provides a fresh example of the power of comparative thinking, offering a humanistic complement to scientific reasoning.
Hidden Paradigms
August 2022
296 pages, 6 x 9
200 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-2933-8
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2934-5
$36.95 (£24.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2936-9
$36.95 Anthropology
Brenda E.F. Beck is an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
By Stuart Earle Strange
Intentional Leadership
The Big 8 Capabilities Setting Leaders Apart
Rose M . Patten
Revealing how leaders can enhance their abilities in our current uncertain and fast-paced times, Intentional Leadership speaks to the importance of being intentional and offers eight key capabilities for success .
We live in a time of unprecedented speed, connection, and uncertainty. While many organizations are adapting to this new reality by reinventing business models, significantly fewer are examining the implications of these changes for developing effective leadership. In Intentional Leadership, Rose M. Patten draws on her expertise as one of Canada’s most influential leaders to shine a spotlight on this emergent and often neglected space.
Drawing on learnings and a framework tested with over 900 senior leaders across industries and geographies, Intentional Leadership presents a guide for continuous renewal, focusing on the human side of leading. Patten debunks common myths, emphasizing that leadership capabilities do not just develop over time, but require self-awareness, feedback, intention, adjustment, and practice. Whether you are a CEO of a large corporation, an activist, raising a family, working in government, or leading a not-for-profit organization, Intentional Leadership meets you where you are and provides the necessary tools for self-reflection and growth as a leader.
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By
LEADERSHIP INTENTIONAL
8 CAPABILITIES SETTING LEADERS APART
January 2023
232 pages, 6 x 9
29 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0887-6
$32.95 (£21.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3918-4
$32.95
Business
Rose M. Patten is special advisor to the CEO and senior executives at BMO Financial Group. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2007 and has been recognized by American Banker magazine as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking. From 2014 to 2017 she was chair of the board of trustees of the Hospital for Sick Children. She was appointed as an officer of the Order of Canada in 2017 and currently serves as the thirty-fourth chancellor of the University of Toronto. She is also an adjunct professor and executive in residence at the Rotman School of Management and was recently appointed honorary colonel of the Canadian Forces College.
David Kincaid
978-1-4426-4985-9
“Rose M . Patten has a deep understanding of the power of decision frameworks in problem-solving, in
. In
Rose M. Patten
Justice in Lyon
Klaus Barbie and France’s First Trial for Crimes against Humanity
Richard J . Golsan
Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie
The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France’s first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the “Butcher of Lyon” during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews and Resistance fighters. Following a lengthy investigation and the overcoming of numerous legal and other obstacles, the 1987 trial attracted global attention.
Justice in Lyon is the first comprehensive history of the Barbie trial, the investigation leading up to it, the legal background to the case, and the hurdles the prosecution had to clear in order to bring Barbie to justice. Richard J. Golsan examines the strategies used by the defence, the prosecution, and the lawyers who represented Barbie’s many victims at the trial. The book draws from press coverage, articles, and books about Barbie and the trial published at the time, as well as recently released archival sources and the personal archives of lawyers at the trial.
Making the case that, despite the views of its many critics, the Barbie trial was a success in legal, historical, and pedagogical terms, Justice in Lyon details how the trial has had a positive impact on French and international law governing crimes against humanity.
September 2022
336 pages, 6 x 9
10 b&w illustrations
JUSTICE IN LYON
Klaus Barbie and France’s First Trial for Crimes against Humanity
RICHARD J. GOLSAN
Of related interest: Dance on the Razor’s Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos
By Svenja Bethke
Translated by Sharon Howe
978-1-4875-2354-1
Cloth 978-1-4875-0644-5
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4559-8
$39.95 (£26.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3417-2
$39.95
History
Richard J. Golsan is a University Distinguished Professor of French at Texas A&M University.
The Legal Singularity
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better
Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie
Adopting a cautious and yet optimistic view of an uncertain legal future, The Legal Singularity presents a coherent account of the radically positive impact artificial intelligence may have in the coming decades on law and legal institutions
Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the proliferation of artificial intelligence–enabled technology – and specifically the advent of legal prediction – is on the verge of radically reconfiguring the law, our institutions, and our society for the better.
Revealing the ways in which our legal institutions underperform and are expensive to administer, the book highlights the negative social consequences associated with our legal status quo. Given the infirmities of the current state of the law and our legal institutions, the silver lining is that there is ample room for improvement. With concerted action, technology can help us to ameliorate the law and our legal institutions. Inspired in part by the concept of the “technological singularity,” The Legal Singularity presents a future state in which technology facilitates the functional “completeness” of law, where the law is at once extraordinarily more complex in its specification than it is today, and yet operationally vastly more knowable, fairer, and clearer for its subjects. Aidid and Alarie describe the changes that will culminate in the legal singularity and explore the implications for the law and its institutions.
July 2023
208 pages, 6 x 9 5 b&w figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-2941-3
$44.95 (£29.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2943-7
$44.95
Law
Abdi Aidid is a graduate of Yale Law School and assistant professor of law at the University of Toronto.
Of related interest: Better Boardrooms: Repairing Corporate Governance for the 21st Century
By Patricia Meredith
978-1-4426-4975-0
Benjamin Alarie holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and is an affiliated faculty member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
The Long Winter of 1945
Tivari Anna Di Lellio and Dardan Luta
This gorgeously illustrated graphic novel draws on archival sources and survivor testimonies to shed light on the 1945 massacre in Tivari
In March 1945, at the end of the Second World War, hundreds of unarmed Albanian recruits were massacred by Yugoslav partisans. For too long, the memory of this massacre in Tivari – a coastal town in Montenegro – was suppressed by the Yugoslav state and kept alive in Kosovo only in informal versions, nurtured and retold in a spirit of ethnic mistrust and hatred.
Depicted in graphic format, The Long Winter of 1945 presents an oral history of this traumatic event based on interviews with surviving participants. Archival documents and historical research provide context, placing the massacre in the broader setting of forced mass mobilization to fight, as well as the last pocket of Italian resistance. The book reveals that the massacre was not a forgettable incident of history, as the censored or sanitized official narrative of Yugoslav history would like it to be remembered, nor was it a planned act of genocide, as described by informal oral versions, repeated with undertones of fear anger, and passed along as underground collective memory.
The Long Winter of 1945 places its history into the broader context of Yugoslavia’s war for liberation and the civil war between Serbs and Albanians. Bringing this traumatic event to the fore, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel rescues the memory of the victims and survivors from political exploitation.
All rights available except Albanian
Edited by Charlotte Schallié Illustrated by Barbara Yelin, Gilad Seliktar, and Miriam Libicki
October 2023
176 pages, 6 x 9
B&W illustrations throughout Cloth 978-1-4875-4328-0
$55.00 (£36.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4329-7
$26.95 (£17.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-4330-3
$26.95
Graphic Novels / History
Anna Di Lellio is a lecturer at the MA in International Relations (MAIR) at New York University.
Dardan Luta is a graphic designer and teaches Multimedia Design in the Department of Art and Digital Media at UBT Higher Education Institution.
Messages from Ukraine
Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Joonas Sildre
ethnoGRAPHIC
This powerful graphic novel illustrates the personal text messages and lived experiences of Ukrainians during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population would be displaced. In the days following the invasion, Swedish migration expert Gregg Bucken-Knapp sent text messages to his Ukrainian colleagues, offering support and assistance. These were their responses.
In a series of graphic vignettes, Messages from Ukraine takes the words of Ukrainian migration professionals and transforms them into snapshots of how war affects the lives of everyday people: those who are forced to flee home and seek safety elsewhere, those who choose to stay and volunteer or fight, those who witness events unfolding from afar, and those who find themselves trapped in cities under siege. Messages from Ukraine captures a moment in time to tell a timeless story about war, displacement, determination, and resilience.
Proceeds from the sale of Messages from Ukraine will go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, a national charitable foundation that provides humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine.
MESSAGES
FROM UKRAINE
Available
68 pages, 8 x 10
Paper 978-1-4875-5983-0
$9.95 (£6.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-6151-2
$9.95
Graphic Novels / Ukrainian Studies
Gregg Bucken-Knapp is a professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Joonas Sildre is a comic artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. He is the co-founder of the Estonian Comics Society.
By Alisse Waterston
Illustrated by Charlotte Corden 978-1-4875-2640-5
GREGG BUCKEN-KNAPP JOONAS SILDRE
Missed and Dismissed Voices
Living with Hidden Chronic Health Problems
Alexander Segall, PhD
Drawing on narrative accounts of illness, Missed and Dismissed Voices sheds light on the meaning and management of chronic health problems that are not visible to others
There is a complex relationship between illness and identity. Missed and Dismissed Voices aims to expose the impact of hidden health problems on the daily lives of a growing number of older adults who live with chronic conditions and repeatedly face the challenge of trying to maintain their personal sense of healthiness across the life course.
The book focuses on the meaning and management of both medically diagnosed chronic diseases and medically unexplained physical conditions or syndromes. In each case, people must decide whether to make their private suffering public. The book includes analysis derived from research literature, combined with illness narrative accounts of people in qualitative interviews and blog posts, to create fictional exemplary case studies for each of the chronic conditions examined. The common issues raised in these stories provide important insights into the process by which people manage to adapt to their changing health status and life circumstances. In this book, Alexander Segall, PhD, gives voice to chronically ill people who often have their life stories either missed or dismissed.
July 2023
232 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-0457-1
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2340-4
$36.95 (£24.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3047-1
$36.95
Health and Medicine
Alexander Segall, PhD, is a professor emeritus, research affiliate at the Centre on Aging, and a senior scholar in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba.
By Patrik Marier
Oil in Putin’s Russia
The Contests over Rents and Economic Policy
Adnan Vatansever
IN PUTI N ’ S
Providing an in-depth review of Russia’s key economic policies, this book is the first systematic study of the political economy of oil windfalls in Putin’s Russia.
RUSSIA
THE CONTESTS OVER RENTS AND ECONOMIC POLICY
No sector has been as vital as oil to the Russian economy since Vladimir Putin came to power. The longest serving leader since Stalin, Putin has presided during a period of relative economic prosperity driven largely by booming oil windfalls. Oil in Putin’s Russia offers an in-depth examination of the contests over windfalls drawn from the oil sector. Examining how the Russian leadership has guided the process of distributing these windfalls, Adnan Vatansever explores the causes behind key policy continuities and policy reversals during Putin’s tenure.
ADNAN VATANSEVER
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2021
3 figures / 13 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0369-7
$95.00 (£71.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2281-0
$44.95 (£33.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1853-0 $44.95 Political Science / Business & Economics
Of related interest: Carbon Province, Hydro Province: The Challenge of Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism By Douglas Macdonald 978-1-4875-2490-6
The product of over ten years of research, including interviews with decisionmakers and oil industry officials, Oil in Putin’s Russia takes an innovative approach to understanding the contested nature of resource rents and the policy processes that determine how they are allocated. In so doing, it offers a comprehensive and timely account of politics and policy in contemporary Russia, and a significant contribution to research on the political economy of resource rents in mineral resourcerich countries.
Adnan Vatansever is a senior lecturer in the School of Politics and Economics at King’s College, London.
Painting Stories
Lives and Legacies from an Indian Crafts Village
Helle Bundgaard
In this collection of ethnographic short stories spanning thirty years of fieldwork, an anthropologist narrates events that have shaped the lives of artisans in a famous heritage crafts village in Odisha, India .
Painting Stories explores the accomplishments, struggles, and livelihoods of traditional artisans in Raghurajpur, a village known for its patta chitra painters. In this volume, Helle Bundgaard weaves thirty years of observations and experiences into a tapestry of stories, which together present a poignant image of the lives of Indian craft makers and their personal connections to the art that they create.
These stories are situated in a rich cultural environment and steeped in social relations. Religion, family, chance, ambition, and passion all shape the lives of the painters. For them, painting is more than a livelihood or an aesthetic expression – it is a way of life.
Painting Stories is a window into a part of our world rarely seen, reminding us of both our rich diversity and our shared humanity. Written with the painters, students, and laypersons in mind, the book includes a discussion on the use of ethnographic story telling, resources for ethnographic writing, and color photographs that bring the stories to life.
Additional photographs and information can be found online at hellebundgaard.com.
December 2021
208 pages, 6 x 9
30 colour illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-2732-7
$60.00 (£39.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2733-4
$29.95 (£19.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-2735-8
$23.95
Anthropology
Helle Bundgaard is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
Of related interest: The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes
By Karoline Guelke
978-1-4875-2566-8
HELLE BUNDGAARD
Lives and Legacies from an Indian Crafts Village
Post-Soviet Graffiti
Free Speech in Authoritarian States
Alexis Lerner
Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circumvent censorship, express grievances, and control public discourse, particularly in authoritarian states .
For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street art and cataloging these artworks linguistically and thematically across space and time. Complemented by first-hand interviews with leading artists, activists, and politicians from across the region, Post-Soviet Graffiti provides theoretical reflection on public space as a site for political action, a semiotic reading of signs and symbols, and street art as a form of text.
The book answers the question of how we conceptualize avenues of dissent under authoritarian rule by showing how contemporary graffiti functions not only as a popular public aesthetic, but also as a mouthpiece of political sentiment, especially within the post-Soviet region and post-communist Europe. A purposefully anonymous and accessible artform, graffiti is an effective tool for circumventing censorship and expressing political views. This is especially true for marginalized populations and for those living in otherwise closed and censored states.
Post-Soviet Graffiti reveals that graffiti does not exist in a vacuum; rather, it can be read as a narrative about a place, the people who live there, and the things that matter to them.
August 2024
240 pages, 6 x 9
95 b&w illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-0787-9
$85.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2542-2
$32.95 (£21.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3713-5
$32.95
Politics
By Emily ChannellJustice
978-1-4875-0974-3
Free Speech in Authoritarian States
ALEXIS LERNER
Alexis Lerner is an assistant professor of political science at the US Naval Academy.
Prison Elite
How Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg Survived Nazi Captivity
Erika Rummel
Prison Elite depicts the life of a VIP prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp system, providing a first-hand account of his mental life and coping strategies.
After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, until his rescue by the Allies in 1945. Schuschnigg’s privileged position within the concentration camp system allowed him to keep a diary and to write letters which were smuggled out to family members.
Drawing on these records, Prison Elite paints a picture of a little-known aspect of concentration camp history: the life of a VIP prisoner. Schuschnigg, who was a devout Catholic, presents his memoirs as a “confession,” expecting absolution for any political missteps and, more specifically, for his dictatorial regime in the 1930s. As Erika Rummel reveals in fascinating detail, his autobiographical writings are frequently unreliable.
Prison Elite describes the strategies Schuschnigg used to survive his captivity emotionally and intellectually. Religion, memory of better days, friendship, books and music, and maintaining a sense of humour allowed him to cope. A comparison with the memoirs of fellow captives reveals these tactics to be universal.
Studying Schuschnigg’s writing in the context of contemporary prison memoirs, Prison Elite provides unique insight into the life of a VIP prisoner.
How Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg Survived Nazi Captivity
ERIKA RUMMEL
August 2021
224 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-2757-0
$70.00 (£46.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2758-7
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History
Erika Rummel is a professor emerita in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University. German rights sold
By Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde
Edited by Golfo Alexopoulos and Translated
by
Kersti
Colombant 978-1-4875-2406-7
Profits and Power
Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil
David A . Detomasi
UTP Insights
Untangling the web of global oil production, Profits and Power explains the politics, geopolitics, and economics of this commodity for a lay audience, with an eye toward understanding the future of the industry
Oil fuels the global economy and remains a staple of our energy system. Yet, its production and use continue to draw negative criticism, and an increasing number of people want to reduce or eliminate its use altogether.
Profits and Power sheds light on how the oil system works, its key players, and the political and geopolitical issues related to its use. Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, the book traces the fascinating history of how oil production and its sale became the world’s most profitable business. Tracing distinct eras in oil’s recent and not-so-recent past, Profits and Power shows how periods defined by shifts in price often dictated who controlled production, and who enjoyed the often enormous riches oil production generated. David A. Detomasi weaves together politics, geopolitics, and economics to provide a complete picture of how the system really works, and what direction it will take in the future.
As the world becomes increasingly aware of the dangers and challenges oil dependency creates, knowledge of this crucial commodity has never been more relevant and critical for humanity’s future. Profits and Power will resonate with anyone interested in, or charged with responding to, our evolving energy future.
David A. Detomasi is an associate professor of international business at the Smith School of Business and Distinguished Faculty Fellow in International Business at Queen’s University.
Navigating
the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil
David A. Detomasi
The Quantum Revolution
Art, Technology, Culture
Arthur Kroker and David Cook
Digital Futures
Focusing on the entanglement of art, technology, and culture, The Quantum Revolution illuminates the contemporary scientific imagination as a new way of understanding everyday life
We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us, images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news bombards us, devices connect us, isolation saddens us. Deeply embedded in digital technology, we are the very first inhabitants of life in the quantum zone. The Quantum Revolution is about life today – its entanglements, creativity, politics, and artistic vision.
Arthur Kroker and David Cook explore a new way of thinking drawn directly from the quantum imaginary itself. They explain the quantum revolution as everyday life, where technology moves fast, and where, under cover of the digital devices that connect us, the most sophisticated concepts of technology and science originating in mathematics, astrophysics, and bio-genetics have swiftly flooded human consciousness, shaped social behavior, and crafted individual identity. The book discusses the concept of the quantum zone as a new way of understanding digital culture, and presents stories about art, technology, and society, as well as a series of reflections on art as a gateway to understanding the quantum imaginary. Richly illustrated with sixty images of critically engaged photos and artwork, The Quantum Revolution privileges a new way of understanding and seeing politics, society, and culture through the lens of the duality that is the essence of the quantum imaginary.
October 2023
376 pages, 6 x 9
63 color photos
Cloth 978-1-4875-5293-0
$80.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5657-0
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Cultural Studies
By Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker
Arthur Kroker is an emeritus professor and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria.
David Cook is a professor in the Department of Political Science and a fellow at Victoria College at the University of Toronto.
Self-Reg for a Just Society Stuart Shanker
Approx. 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2020 2 illustrations, 7 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0631-5
$34.95 (£26.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3382-3
$34.95 (£26.99) T Health and Medicine / Education
Reframed
Self-Reg for a Just Society
Stuart Shanker
For Stuart Shanker, the possibility of a truly just and free society begins with how that society sees and nurtures its children
Reframed explains the science and conceptual distinctions that form the basis of Shanker Self-Reg®. Based on major scientific advances taking place in neuroscience, psychophysiology, psychology and clinical practice, Reframed presents the paradigm revolution in the human sciences that sees relationships at both the neurobiological and the psychological level as “the hidden heart of the human cosmos.” The twin pillars of the Triune Brain and the Interbrain are the foundation for a new understanding of self-regulation which help reframe several fundamental concepts such as: temperament and personality, rationality and irrationality, intelligence and perseverance, freedom and virtue.
Reframed is grounded in the three basic principles of Self-Reg:
• There is no such thing as a bad, lazy, or stupid kid.
• All people can learn to self-regulate in ways that promote rather than constrict growth.
• There is no such thing as a “fixed outcome”: trajectories can always be changed, at any point in the lifespan, if only we have the right knowledge and tools.
Only a society that embraces these principles and strives to practice them can become a truly Just Society. The paradigm revolution explored in Reframed helps us not just understand the harrowing time we are living through, but inspires a profound sense of hope for the future.
Stuart Shanker is a distinguished research professor emeritus of philosophy and psychology with York University and founder of the MEHRIT Centre, Ltd. He is one of the world’s leading authorities, and best-selling authors on self-regulation and child development, and is former president of the Council of Early Child Development.
Of related interest:
The Holistic Curriculum, Third Edition By John P. Miller 978-1-4875-2317-6
A Runner’s Journey
Bruce Kidd
In this autobiography of a former Olympian and leader in sport history, Bruce Kidd details why sports are important to him, what he’s learned from them, and why he continues to fight to make them more equitable.
In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada’s most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became a symbol of Canadian youth and the subject of endless media coverage.
Although most athletes of his generation were cautioned to keep their opinions to themselves, Kidd took it upon himself to speak out on the problems and possibilities of Canadian sport. Encouraged by his parents and teammates, Kidd criticized the racism and sexism of amateur sport in Canada, the treatment of players in the National Hockey League, American control of the Canadian Football League, and the uneven coverage of sports by the media – and he continues to fight for equity to this day. After retiring from his career as an athlete, Kidd became a well-known advocate for gender and racial justice and an academic leader at the University of Toronto.
BRUCE KIDD
Depicting a Canadian sport legend’s journey of joy, discovery, and activism, this memoir bears witness to the remarkable changes Bruce Kidd has lived through in more than seventy years of participation in Canadian and international sports.
A RUNNER’S JOURNEY
September 2021
320 pages, 6 x 9 32 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-4103-3
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4104-0
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Memoir / Sports
Bruce Kidd is a former Olympic athlete and a member of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame. He has been a lifelong advocate of human rights and has worked with local, national, and international bodies to advance
opportunities for athletes. He is a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Solved
How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
David Miller
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Afterword
by Anne Hidalgo
NEW IN PAPERBACK
David Miller presents a compelling case that significant progress can be made at the local level by replicating the actions of leading cities around the world .
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.
Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved , David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can – and because they must.
The updated paperback edition of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide. By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis. As much a “howto” guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done – now, today – to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.
March 2024
232 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
9 b&w illustrations, 18 b&w figures
Paper 978-1-4875-5456-9
$24.95 (£16.99) T
Climate Change / Sustainability
David Miller is the Director of International Diplomacy and Global Ambassador of Inclusive Climate Action at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, where he is responsible for supporting nearly 100 mayors of the world’s largest cities in their climate leadership and building a global movement for socially equitable action to mitigate and adapt to climate change. During his two terms as mayor of Toronto from 2003 to 2010, the city became internationally known for its environmental initiatives, economic strength, and social integration. Miller is a Harvard-trained economist and professionally a lawyer.
By Rae Andre
978-1-4875-0833-3
Sticky, Sexy, Sad
Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
Treena Orchard
Foreword by Wednesday Martin
Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship
From the Foreword:
SEXY,
Treena Orchard
“Since Darwin, field scientists including anthropologists have been fascinated by sexual behavior – social bonding, courtship, and mating – across species and cultures Maybe this is because we are keen to understand our very own motivations, backstories, and futures when it comes to intimate connection
Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relationships, reluctantly taking the digital plunge by downloading a dating app. Instead of the fun, easy experiences advertised on swiping platforms, she discovered endless upkeep, ghosting, fleeting moments of sexual connection, and a steady flow of misogyny.
In Sticky, Sexy, Sad, Orchard uses her skills as both an anthropologist who studies sexuality and a sex-positive feminist to explore what it feels like to want love while also resisting the addictive pull of platforms designed to make us swipe-dependent. She asks important questions for those searching for love in the modern era: What are the social and human impacts of using dating apps? How can we maintain our integrity and warm-blooded desire for intimacy while swiping? Can we resist some of the problematic aspects of swipe culture? Is love on dating apps even possible?
April 2024
224 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Cloth 978-1-4875-4930-5
$29.95 (£19.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-5114-8
$29.95
Dating / Memoir
From the moment she redefines the dating apps people in search of companionship cannot avoid as a new, strange, and seemingly limitless culture in the palm of our hands, Treena Orchard plants a stake in the ground What makes Sticky, Sexy, Sad so important and surprising is that it manages to both update and upend a long tradition of academic inquiry into what makes us tick, sexually speaking
If you’re dating or have ever dated, if you know anyone who dates, if you have ever found yourself bewildered by your desires or the people you desire, Sticky, Sexy, Sad will delight you, educate you, and make you feel more connected to the humans you know and the ones you don’t ”
Revealing how dating apps are powerful social and sexual technologies that are radically transforming sexuality, relationships, and how we think about ourselves, this remarkable book cracks the code of modern romance. Told with humor and vulnerability, Sticky, Sexy, Sad is a riveting and inspiring guide to staying true to ourselves amid the digitization of love in the twenty-first century.
Wednesday Martin, PhD
New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue and Untrue
Treena Orchard is an anthropologist and associate professor in the School of Health Studies at Western University. She researches and engages in activist debates about sexuality, gender, and health among diverse cultural and digital communities. Deeply committed to public scholarship, she regularly writes for and is featured in leading online publications, including Cosmopolitan , Men’s Health, and The Conversation
Sugar An Ethnographic Novel
Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips
Teaching Culture
This captivating ethnographic novel tells a story about global inequality through a rich, poignant, and often humorous portrait of everyday life in the postcolonial Pacific .
In Suva, the bustling capital of Fiji, a tropical cyclone is looming. In this city of dazzling contradictions, three strangers are living worlds apart.
Hannah is a young Australian expat who volunteers at a local health organization while leading a heady life of house parties and weekend getaways. Isikeli is a teenager from the informal settlement who has given up on his childhood dream of playing professional rugby and cares for his diabetic grandmother. Rishika is an Indo-Fijian historian who put her career on hold when she got married, only to find that her once compassionate and fun-loving husband has become increasingly estranged. When a brutal murder causes their worlds to collide, this unlikely trio must search for answers in the cyclone-ravaged city. Along the way, they are each forced to confront uncomfortable truths about development, its darker side, and their place within it.
Based on a combination of long-term research and lived experience, this compelling ethnographic novel reveals the hidden ways in which global inequality and violence play out in the developing world. Keenly observed and full of heart, Sugar is an intimate portrayal of grief, friendship, and culture clash that will prompt new ways of thinking about the world.
March 2024
304 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-5497-2
$80.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5498-9
$26.95 (£17.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-5499-6
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Fiction / Anthropology
Jess Auerbach
978-1-4875-2433-3
Edward Narain is a Fijian political analyst, researcher, and writer.
Tarryn Phillips is a medical anthropologist and sociolegal scholar in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University.
Becoming Middle Class in Angola JESS AUERBACH FROM WATER TO WINE
An Ethnographic Novel
EDWARD NARAIN and TARRYN PHILLIPS Of related
This Pilgrim Nation
The Making of the Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America
Gilberto Fernandes
This book tells the transnational history of Portuguese communities in Canada and the United States, and their relations with host and homeland governments, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Portuguese Colonial Wars, the American Civil Rights Movement, and Canadian multiculturalism
This Pilgrim Nation examines the social, cultural, religious, economic, and political processes involved in the making of competing diasporas in North America’s largest Portuguese communities (i.e. Toronto, Montreal, greater New York City, and various New England cities). It considers the ethnic, racial, class, gender, linguistic, regional, and generational permutations of “Portuguese” diaspora from both a transnational and comparative perspective. In addition to showing that diasporas and nations can be codependent, this book counters the common notion that hybrid diasporic identities are largely benign and empowering by revealing how they can perpetuate asymmetrical power relations.
Gilberto Fernandes is a post-doctoral visitor at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University.
“Detailed, thorough and solid, This Pilgrim Nation offers a refined and detailed analysis of Portuguese immigrant communities in North America, and the Portuguese diaspora in the period between 1945 and roughly 1980. This was a period of profound change in Portugal and the author demonstrates how these changes shaped and were shaped by the diaspora.”
Caroline B. Brettell, Anthropology, Southern Methodist University
All rights available except Portuguese
416 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2019 30 illustrations Cloth 978-1-4426-3065-9
$85.00 (£57.99) A Paper 978-1-4426-3066-6
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History
Luca Codignola
Of related interest: Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763–1846 By Luca Codignola 978-1-4875-0456-4
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Toxic
A Tour of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Amelia Fiske and Jonas Fischer
ethnoGRAPHIC
This graphic ethnography takes the reader on a “toxic tour” of the Ecuadorian Amazon and reveals the struggles for environmental justice in everyday life .
Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through “Toxic Tours” in which a guide brings participants – students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, or foreign tourists – to visit contaminated sites. These toxic tours combine personal experience and local knowledge to convince visitors of the immediacy of environmental issues.
Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, Toxic takes the reader on a visual toxic tour through the Amazon. Following the story of three fictional participants, this graphic novel paints a visceral picture of the waste pits, gas flares, and precarious lives of people in this region. The book challenges the reader to consider what it means to live in a place and historical moment where those most burdened by industrial toxicants are continually required to prove that harm has occurred.
Toxic is a vivid reflection on the role of pollutants in our everyday lives, ultimately asking readers to reflect on how we are each implicated in the production, consumption, and exposure of pollution both in the Amazon and at home.
All rights available except German and Spanish
February 2024
184 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
Full-colour illustrations throughout Cloth 978-1-4875-0951-4
$65.00 (£42.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-0952-1
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Graphic Novels / Anthropology
Amelia Fiske is a senior research fellow in the Institute for History and Ethics in Medicine at the Technical University of Munich.
Of related interest: Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil
By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
Adapted by William Flynn
Illustrated by Debora Santos 978-1-4875-9452-7
Jonas Fischer is an illustrator and comic artist and holds a Master of Arts from the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design.
Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan William Flynn Débora Santos
Tuzo
The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics
Nick Eyles
Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet
Your home is not where it was last night, and it will be in a different place tomorrow. This is the result of plate tectonics, a process most of us accept without hesitation today, but whose discovery was a true revolution that for ever changed how we think of planet Earth.
TUZO
In 1961, a Canadian geologist named John “Jock” Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) jettisoned decades of strongly held opposition to theories of moving continents and embraced the idea that they drift across the surface of the Earth on large plates of crust. Against the backdrop of the wider social and political upheavals of the 1960s, plate tectonics revolutionized the science of geology.
Tuzo tells the fascinating life story of Tuzo Wilson, from his early forays as a teenaged geological assistant working on the remote Canadian Shield in the 1920s to his experiences as a civilian-soldier in the Second World War to his ultimate role as the venerated father of plate tectonics.
Illuminating how science is done, this book blends Tuzo’s life story with the development of the theory of plate tectonics, showing along the way how scientific theories are debated, rejected, and accepted. Gorgeously illustrated, Tuzo will appeal to anyone interested in the natural world around them.
Nick Eyles is the awardwinning author of multiple books, including Canada Rocks: The Geologic Journey and Road Rocks Ontario: Over 250 Geological Wonders to Discover. He is the recipient of the McNeil Medal from the Royal Society of Canada and the E.R. Ward Neale Medal from the Geological Association of Canada. He is a professor in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Of related interest: Accidental Wilderness: The Origins and Ecology of Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park
By Walter H Kehm
Photographer Robert Burley 978-1-4875-0834-0
The Typewriter Century
A Cultural History of Writing Practices
Martyn Lyons
Studies in Book and Print Culture
As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices
Martyn Lyons
Approx. 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021 13 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-0824-1
$90.00 (£67.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2573-6
$34.95 (£26.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3783-8 $34.95
Literary Studies
GENERAL INTEREST
Medievalism the of United S tates
By Ruth Panofsky 978-1-4875-2386-2
Edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021
60 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0738-1
$95.00 (£71.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2508-8
$42.95 (£32.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3614-5 $42.95 Medieval Studies
This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters, tracing this connection from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded the typewriter. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focuses on “celebrity writers,” including Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote prolifically and mechanically and developed routines in which typing, handwriting, and dictation fulfilled important functions.
The typewriter de-personalized the text; the office typewriter bureaucratized it. Some authors found a new and disturbing distance between themselves and their compositions, while others believed the typewriter facilitated spontaneous and automatic typing. The Typewriter Century provides a cultural history of the typewriter, outlining the ways in which the typewriter can be considered an agent of change as well as demonstrating how it influenced all writers, canonical and otherwise.
Martyn Lyons is an emeritus professor of history & European studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Spanish rights sold
The United States of Medievalism
Edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein
This fascinating collection explores America’s appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation’s complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.
The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. Today, American-built medievalisms continue to shape the nation’s communities, collapsing the binaries between past and present, medieval and modern, European and American.
university of toronto press
The volume’s chapters visit the nation’s many medieval-inspired spaces, from Sherwood Forest in Texas to California’s San Andreas Fault. Stops are made in New York City’s churches, Boston’s gardens, Philadelphia’s Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Orlando’s Magic Kingdom, Appalachian highways, Minnesota’s Viking Villages, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the Las Vegas Strip. As Pugh, Aronstein, and their fellow essayists take the reader on this trip across the United States, they ponder the cultural work done by the nation’s medievalized spaces.
In its exploration of a seemingly distant period, this collection challenges the underexamined legacy of the Middle Ages on the western side of the Atlantic. Full of intriguing case studies and reflections, this book is informative reading for anyone interested in the contemporary vestiges of the Middle Ages.
Tison Pugh is a Pegasus Professor at the University of Central Florida.
Susan Aronstein is a professor of English and Honors at the University of Wyoming.
Of related interest: Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing
Urban Mobility
How the iPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything
Edited by Shauna Brail and Betsy Donald
This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities
Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first century Canadian cities. The book explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobility to meaningfully respond to the climate crisis.
Featuring contributions from leading Canadian and American scholars and researchers, this edited collection traverses disciplines including geography, engineering, management, policy studies, political science, and urban planning. Chapters illuminate novel research findings related to a variety of modes of mobility, including public transit, e-scooters, bike sharing, ride-hailing, and autonomous vehicles. Contributors draw out the connections between urban challenges, technological change, societal need, and governance mechanisms. The collection demonstrates why the smartphone, COVID-19, and climate present a crucial lens through which to understand the present and future of urban mobility. The way we move in cities has been disrupted and altered because of technological innovation, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and efforts to reduce transport-related emissions.
Urban Mobility concludes that the path forward requires good public policy from all levels of government, working in partnership with the private sector and non-profits to direct and address the best urban mobility framework for Canadian cities.
Shauna Brail is an associate professor at the Institute for Management and Innovation, cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Edited by Debra Mackinnon, Ryan Burns, and Victoria Fast
978-1-4875-2716-7
Betsy Donald is a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University.
The Viking Immigrants
Icelandic North Americans
Laurie Bertram
Each chapter in The Viking Immigrants is devoted to exploring the Islandic community through a particular methodological lens, from oral histories and material culture to histories of food and drink
From 1870 until 1914, almost one quarter of the population of Iceland migrated to North America. The Viking Immigrants examines how the distinctive everyday culture that emerged in Icelandic North American communities – from food and fashion to ghost stories and Viking parades – sheds light on a century and a half of change and adaptation. Through an analysis of the history of everyday forms of expression, this book reveals the larger forces that shaped the evolution of an immigrant community. This exploration of the Icelandic North American community draws on rare and fascinating sources of community life, including oral histories, recipes, photographs, and memoirs. By using a multi-sensory approach to immigrant experience, The Viking Immigrants uses often-overlooked cultural practices like clothing production, the preservation of recipes, and the telling of ghost stories to understand tension and transformation in an immigrant community.
Laurie Bertram is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
“ The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans contributes to the fields of Canadian immigrant studies, Icelandic history, and ethnology, and displays throughout the book a close and personal engagement with the major scholarly works on Icelandic culture and history. With interesting analysis enhanced by Laurie Bertram’s personal connection to the topic, on the relationship between the Icelanders and the expatriate community, this book will also attract a ‘heritage’ readership of Canadians of Icelandic descent interested in their family history.”
Karen Oslund, Department of History, Towson University
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30 illustrations Cloth 978-1-4426-4551-6
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History
Of related interest: Prairie Fairies A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930–1985 By Valerie J. Korinek 978-0-8020-9531-2
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2019
PRAIRIE FAIRIES
The Wonder of Water
Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Judgment calls, values, and perceptions often implicitly affect decisions around water policies and programs This book explores how embodied, lived experience informs such values, and impacts policy and practice around water issues in critical ways
Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human perspectives impact decision-making and behaviour.
The Wonder of Water explores how human experience – from embodied cultural paradigms to value systems and personal biases –impact decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, one of its specific aims is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices.
Case studies describe specific architectural and planning decisions, fisheries policies, urban ecological restorations and more. The overarching phenomenological perspective, however, means that these discussions emerge within a sensibility toward the foundational significance of human embodiment, culture, language, worldviews, and, ultimately, moral attunement to place.
Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is dean of the Faculty of Environment and professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. She is also a professor emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
“Contributors demonstrate how a more comprehensive, engaged knowledge of and responsibility for water can guide water restoration and propel sustainable environmental and landscape design and policy.”
David Seamon, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University
Of related interest: Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture By Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall 978-1-4426-2855-7
What’s in Your Genome?
90% of Your Genome Is Junk
Laurence A . Moran
What’s in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community
The human genome contains about 25,000 protein-coding and noncoding genes and many other functional elements, such as origins of replication, regulatory elements, and centromeres. Functional elements occupy only about 10% of the more than three billion base pairs in the human genome. Much of the rest is composed of ancient fragments of broken genes, transposons, and viruses. Almost all of this is thought to be junk DNA, based on evidence that dates back fifty years.
This conclusion is controversial. What’s in Your Genome? describes the arguments on both sides of the debate and attempts to explain the reasoning behind those different points of view. The book aims to correct a number of false narratives that have arisen in recent years and examine how they have affected the debate over junk DNA. In addition, Laurence A. Moran focuses on scientific misconceptions and misinformation and on how the junk DNA controversy has been incorrectly portrayed in both the scientific literature and the popular press. Tracing the earliest indications of junk DNA back to the 1960s, the book explains the success of Nearly-Neutral Theory and the importance of random genetic drift, which gave rise to the view that evolution produces sloppy genomes full of junk DNA. What’s in Your Genome? aims to offer the most accurate and current account of the human genome.
Of related interest: The Story of CO2: Big Ideas for a
By Geoffrey A Ozin and Mireille F Ghoussoub
978-1-4875-0636-0
WHAT’S IN YOUR GENOME?
90% OF YOUR GENOME IS JUNK
LAURENCE A. MORAN
May 2023
368 pages, 6 x 9 28 b&w figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0859-3
$39.95 (£26.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3857-6
$39.95 Science
GEOFFREY A. OZIN MIREILLE F. GHOUSSOUB
Small Molecule
Laurence (Larry) A. Moran is a professor emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto. His main interests are gene expression, genomes, and molecular evolution, and he writes a popular blog called Sandwalk. He has co-authored a number of biochemistry textbooks and maintains a keen interest in science education.
Artistry Unleashed A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life
Hilary Austen Foreword by Roger Martin
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Helping individuals deal effectively with risks, failures, and successes, Artistry Unleashed stimulates great performance and innovation in the workplace.
Artistry Unleashed is about working and living at the edge of what you know and beyond. Surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity, intensity, and change are all disruptive forces that we often avoid or fear. Yet they are the essential origin of both creativity and great performance.
Imagine if you could make effective progress with no clear plan or destination in view; if you could achieve excellence without sacrificing creativity; if you could invest passion even as you apply reason and intelligence.
Learn how artistry, when allowed to escape studio walls, can motivate painters, CEOs, athletes, scientists, chefs, and you to achieve these powerful capabilities. Artistry Unleashed provides original and practical tools to transform what we think about artistry ’s role in professions, in organizations, in education, and, most importantly, in everyday life.
Artistry Unleashed reveals the unique features of artistic work in any field: enigmatic problems, qualitative intelligence, cognitive emotions, downstream and upstream learning, and your personal knowledge system.
Hilary Austen was an adjunct professor and member of the Dean’s advisory board at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
In Sight
My Life in Science and Biotech
Julia Levy
Rotman-UTP Publishing
Covering issues within the scientific community, In Sight is a deeply personal memoir of a woman’s experience taking a major scientific treatment from grassroots development to commercial breakthrough .
utorontopress.com
In Sight is a memoir about how a love of science and discovery drove Julia Levy, a celebrated scholar and biotech CEO, to work her way through gender bias in order to achieve academic and professional recognition. Her story traces the unconventional invention of a breakthrough drug treatment, from its development in the laboratory to its application as a medical treatment for vision loss.
Told from a female perspective, In Sight is a unique and personal story covering Levy’s early years as a refugee, her university training in the UK, and her appointment as professor at the University of British Columbia. Years spent as an academic gave the author unexpected exposure to the biotechnology industry, and a chance meeting with colleagues led to the formation of a lucrative biotechnology company known today as QLT Inc. The bulk of the book covers the years spent building the company and Levy’s surprising transition from chief scientific officer to CEO. In Sight is an honest description of the trials of drug development, the tensions inherent in the commercialization of health innovations, and the truly remarkable hurdles faced by women in the scientific community.
Julia Levy is a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia.
Approx. 226 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2021 Paper 978-1-4875-2838-6
$29.95 (£22.99) T Art / Business
978-1-4875-0170-9
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2020
24 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-0831-9
$34.95 (£26.99) T
eBook 978-1-4875-3799-9 $34.95
Business / Memoir
Of related interest: Design Thinking at Work: How Innovative Organizations are Embracing Design By David Dunne
ROTMAN-UTP PUBLISHING
Balancing Acts
A Human Systems Approach to Organizational Change
James Conklin
Balancing Acts presents an iterative, democratic, and inclusive approach to organizational change that is suited to the complexities of the twenty-first century.
Balancing Acts is about organizational change. It offers consultants and managers a simple, powerful way to think about change, and describes a four-phase iterative process for implementing change. The book is full of examples of change initiatives in different types of organizations, and confronts head-on the problems and pitfalls that often arise. Conklin explains why organizational change can be so difficult, and shows that by balancing a set of competing psychological and systemic challenges interveners will increase their chance of success.
Conklin shows that human groups function as complex systems, and that a change initiative is not a linear progression toward a predefined conclusion. Instead, change is an iterative process that involves a search for feasible and useful solutions. The book’s central argument is that while leading or supporting this search, consultants and leaders must balance four critical concerns. They must balance confrontation with compassion, participation with observation, assertion with inquiry, and planfulness with emergence.
The Behaviorally Informed Organization
The Behaviorally Informed Organization Of related interest: The Behaviorally Informed Organization
Edited by Dilip Soman and Catherine Yeung Foreword by Cass R. Sunstein
Edited by Dilip Soman and Catherine Yeung, with a foreword by Cass R. Sunstein 978-1-4875-0789-3
James Conklin is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University and an investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute.
The Bartering Mindset
A Mostly Forgotten Framework for Mastering Your Next Negotiation
Brian C . Gunia NEW IN PAPERBACK
This book reveals how negotiation begins before anyone sits down at the bargaining table .
We use money to solve our everyday problems, and it generally works well. Despite its economic benefits, however, money has a psychological downside: it trains us to think about negotiations narrow-mindedly, leading us to negotiate badly. Suggesting that we need a non-monetary mindset to negotiate better, The Bartering Mindset shows us how to look outside the monetary economy – to the bartering economies of the past, where people traded what they had for what they needed. The book argues that, because of the economic difficulties associated with bartering, barterers had to use a more sophisticated form of negotiation – a strategic approach that can make us master negotiators today. Now available in paperback, this book immerses readers in the assumptions made by barterers, collectively referred to as the “bartering mindset,” and then demonstrates how to apply this mindset to modern, monetary negotiations. The Bartering Mindset concludes that our individual, organizational, and social problems fester for a predictable reason: we apply a monetary mindset to our negotiations, leading to suboptimal thinking, counterproductive behaviors, and disappointing outcomes. By offering the bartering mindset as an alternative, this book will help people negotiate better and thrive.
THE BARTERING MINDSET
A Mostly Forgotten Framework for Mastering Your Next Negotiation
BRIAN C. GUNIA
August 2022
248 pages, 6 x 9 21 b&w tables
Paper 978-1-4875-4846-9
$29.95 (£19.99) T
eBook 978-1-4875-1217-0
$29.95
Business
Brian C. Gunia is a professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University. He works with faculty and staff to ensure curricular excellence across academic programs. He is the author of a negotiation blog called Life’s Negotiable
BRANDDRIVEN CEO
By David Kincaid
Behavioral Science in the Wild
Edited by Nina Mažar and Dilip Soman
Behaviorally Informed Organizations
Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers understand how to use insights from the behavioral sciences to create change in the real world
Written to provide grounding in behavioral insights research, Behavioral Science in the Wild assists managers to implement research findings on behavioral change in their own workplace operations. In particular, this book shares prescriptive advice on how a manager who reads a specific research finding from a paper can incorporate that finding into their business or policy problem.
Created as a follow-up to The Behaviorally Informed Organization co-edited by Dilip Soman, Behavioral Science in the Wild takes a step back to address the “why” and “how” behind BI’s origins, and how best to translate and scale behavioral science from lab-based research findings. Governments, for-profit enterprises, and welfare organizations have increasingly started relying on findings from the behavioral sciences to develop more accessible and userfriendly products, processes, and experiences for their endusers. While there is a burgeoning science that helps to understand why people act and make the decisions that they do, and how their actions can be influenced, we still lack a precise science and strategic insights into how some key theoretical findings can be successfully translated, scaled, and applied in the field.
Nina Mažar and Dilip Soman are joined by leading figures from both the academic and applied behavioral sciences to develop a nuanced framework for how managers can best translate results from pilot studies into their own organizations and behavior change challenges using behavioral science.
May 2022
320 pages, 6 x 9 20 b&w figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-2751-8
$35.95 (£23.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-2753-2
$35.95 Business
Nina Mažar is a professor of marketing at Boston University Questrom School of Business.
The Behaviorally Informed Organization
The Behaviorally Informed Organization
Edited by Dilip Soman and Catherine Yeung Foreword by Cass R. Sunstein
Of related interest: The Behaviorally Informed Organization Edited by Dilip
Soman
and Catherine Yeung 978-1-4875-0789-3
Dilip Soman holds the Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and serves as the project director of the Behaviorally Informed Organizations initiative.
Behaviourally Informed Organizations
To date there has been a lack of practical advice for organizations based on behavioural research The Behaviourally Informed Organizations series fills this gap with a strategic perspective on how governments, businesses, and other organizations have embedded behavioural insights into their operations The series is rooted in work by academics and practitioners and is written in a highly accessible style to highlight key ideas, pragmatic frameworks, and prescriptive outcomes based on illustrative case studies
The Behaviorally Informed Organization
The Behaviorally Informed Organization
The Behaviorally Informed Organization
Edited by Dilip Soman and Catherine Yeung Foreword by Cass Sunstein
Rotman-UTP Publishing
Using case studies and best practices as examples of success, this book helps managers understand why and how they can embed behavioural insights in the structure and operations of any organization
Edited by Dilip Soman and Catherine Yeung
Foreword by Cass Sunstein
Approx. 344 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2021 20 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0789-3
$35.95 (£26.99) T
eBook 978-1-4875-3717-3 $35.95 Business / Economics
Every organization is fundamentally in the business of behaviour change. Whether it be a government trying to get business to comply with environmental regulation, a business urging its customers to be loyal to their products, or a financial advisor encouraging a client to start saving for retirement, behaviour change is critical to organizational success. Despite its centrality to organizations, behaviour change lacks a good scientific framework, and we do not have a good understanding of how organizations can embed insights from behavioural science into their operations. To overcome this void, this book develops an overarching framework for using behavioural science. It shows how behavioural insights (BI) can be embedded in organizations to achieve better outcomes, improve the efficiency of processes, and maximize stakeholder engagement.
This edited volume provides an enterprise-wide strategic perspective of how governments, businesses, and other organizations have and should embed BI into their operations. It is based on research by academics and practitioners from the Behaviourally Informed Organizations Partnership and highlights ideas, pragmatic frameworks, and prescriptive outcomes, based on illustrative case studies. Featuring a foreword by Cass Sunstein, this book investigates key findings from BI, with an eye toward how it can be used to solve problems and seize opportunities in diverse organizations.
Dilip Soman is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Catherine Yeung is an associate professor of marketing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
university of toronto press
Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies
A Behavioral Lens
Edited by Jiaying Zhao, Saugato Datta, and Dilip Soman
Behaviourally Informed Organizations
The latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series offers practical advice on how best to successfully design, deliver, and evaluate efficient cash transfer programs .
While much progress has been made in reducing poverty worldwide – especially in the pre-pandemic era – it is fair to say that an unacceptably large proportion of the world’s people still live in poverty. Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies sheds light on the widely prevalent cash transfer programs. The book asks these central questions: What is the state of the art in the development of welfare programs? What do we know works in these programs and what does not? How can an understanding of behavioral science better inform the design, delivery, and evaluation of welfare programs?
The latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series, the book develops a nuanced framework for how governments, practitioners, and society in general should design cash transfer programs to improve inclusivity, reduce poverty, and improve equality. It draws on field experiments and case studies to showcase past successes, while also building frameworks and developing prescriptive advice that we can give to practitioners who are looking to design a behaviorally informed cash transfer program. With contributions from leading academics as well as seasoned practitioners, Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies presents a new model to policymakers to study and shift the discourse on poverty alleviation from purely economic factors to also behavioral ones.
Of related interest: Behavioral Science in the Wild Edited by Nina Mažar and Dilip Soman 978-1-4875-2751-8
CASH TRANSFERS FOR INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES A BEHAVIORAL LENS
EDITED BY JIAYING ZHAO, SAUGATO DATTA, AND DILIP SOMAN
Jiaying Zhao is the Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Sustainability and an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
Saugato Datta is a managing director at ideas42, leading the leading the Global Social and Economic Development portfolio.
Dilip Soman is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Behavioural Science and Economics, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and the director of Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman [BEAR] research centre.
Creating Healthy Organizations
Taking Action to Improve Employee Well-Being, Revised and Expanded Edition
Graham Lowe
Rotman-UTP Publishing
Creating Healthy Organizations provides an evidence-based, practical guide to strengthening the links between employee well-being and performance in any organization
How can you future-proof your organization by making it humanly sustainable? Creating Healthy Organizations answers this question, showing how to forge stronger links between employee well-being and the future success of any organization. The book makes a compelling case for resilient and humanly sustainable businesses by focusing on improving employees’ well-being.
Employee stress, burnout, work-life conflict, and disengagement remain significant workplace problems. Yet, there are important signs of progress. The healthy organization concept has begun moving into the mainstream of corporate wellness. Scholarly research has advanced beyond making a business case for workplace health promotion to showing how successful interventions are based on a culture of health and closer ties with occupational health and safety. More companies are addressing mental health issues, striving to make workplaces psychologically healthy and safe. Expanded environmental sustainability frameworks provide an opening for the more sustainable use of human resources. As well, extensive tools are now available in many countries to guide actions aimed at developing healthy, safe, and thriving workplaces.
These recent workplace trends and resources highlight the need for an updated, concise, integrated, and practical analysis of the challenges of creating a healthier organization, the hurdles that must be overcome along the way, and the key success factors that can guide the improvement process. Creating Healthy Organizations, Revised and Expanded Edition fills this gap in knowledge and practice, guiding those committed to making their organizations healthier.
Graham Lowe is president of The Graham Lowe Group Inc., a workplace consulting and research firm, and a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta.
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020
10 figures, 7 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0515-8
$34.95 (£26.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3165-2 $34.95
Business
Redesigning Work
Also by Graham Lowe: Redesigning Work
A Blueprint for Canada’s Future Well-Being and Prosperity By Graham Lowe and Frank Graves 978-1-4426-4445-8
LOWE and FRANK GRAVES
Dangerous Opportunities
The Future of Financial Institutions, Housing Policy, and Governance
Edited by Stephanie Ben-Ishai
Dangerous Opportunities presents a timely contribution that provides lessons for post-pandemic economic recovery from the pre-pandemic Home Capital crisis, a watershed in Canadian financial markets.
The 2017 Home Capital saga represents the shortcomings of a financial system challenged by distinct, siloed regulatory frameworks that fail to communicate with each other. Home Capital is a publicly traded company that acts as a lender through the Home Trust Company, most often providing mortgages to clients rejected by traditional banks. Home Capital’s 2017 announcement that it required $2 billion to sustain a $600-million loss shook customer confidence, and fueled by allegations of corruption, they suffered a rapid decline in stock price.
The Home Capital crisis is the most recent pre-pandemic example of systemic risk in the financial sector in Canada and highlights the invaluable opportunity that we have to avoid past mistakes in the nearing post-pandemic economic reality.
Dangerous Opportunities sheds light, using the 2017 Home Capital saga as a starting point, on the compartmentalization of regulators and its greater ramifications on board independence and corporate governance, taxation in the competitive housing context, and non-bank financial institutions’ success in various jurisdictions. A hybrid of law and business, Dangerous Opportunities is a must-read for those interested in the underbelly of financial institutions, and is an inspired read in the aftermath of the recent housing crisis, which saw many aspiring homeowners seeking dangerous opportunities outside of the traditional banking system.
August 2021
208 pages, 6 x 9 1 table
Cloth 978-1-4875-0608-7
$34.95 (£23.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3327-4
$34.95
Business
Stephanie Ben-Ishai is Distinguished Research Professor and Full Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is also Academic Director and Founder of the LLM in Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, Co-Academic Director of the LLM in Banking Law, and Academic Director of the Osgoode Small Business Clinic. She is the co-author of numerous law textbooks.
Of related interest: Better Boardrooms: Repairing Corporate Governance for the 21st Century By
Patricia Meredith
978-1-4426-4975-0
Decoding CEO-Speak
Russell Craig and Joel Amernic
Decoding CEO-Speak monitors the written and oral language of CEOs to reveal its manipulative, enlightening, frustrating, inspiring, and disturbing characteristics.
The words of business leaders matter. They can spark action, enhance branding, share knowledge, transmit values, and influence social and cultural behaviour.
Decoding CEO-Speak critiques the public language of a powerful class of people – the chief executive officers of major companies. Interest in the behaviour and thinking of CEOs is not confined to their corporations’ direct stakeholders only; the public is increasingly interested in where CEOs stand on current issues and community debate. Through case study analysis of companies such as News Corporation, BP, Wells Fargo, Satyam, Uber, Canadian National Railway, Tesla, and Boeing, authors Russell Craig and Joel Amernic illustrate ways of mining meaning or decoding a CEO’s written words and speeches. They critically examine a variety of public media, including social media, testimony, and speeches, performed by leaders of major companies.
Decoding CEO-Speak demonstrates how monitoring the language of CEOs can yield valuable insights into a company’s policy, strategy, and ethicality, and how it can point to the priorities, values, and personality of the CEO. The book will appeal to CEOs, senior managers, and public relations and media consultants, as well as business professors, students, and corporate stakeholders who want to find otherwise disguised meaning in the words of leaders.
DECODING SPEAK CEO Decoding Speak
Ru
OPENING DOORS
TO DIVERSITY
IN LEADERSHIP
BOBBY SIU
Of related interest: Opening Doors to Diversity in Leadership By Bobby Siu 978-1-4875-0087-0
Russell Craig is an internationally recognized scholar who has held senior academic positions at universities in Australia, United States, Canada, and New Zealand. He is currently a full professor in the Faculty of Business at Durham University and is an honorary adjunct professor at the University of Canterbury and Victoria University. He is the author of over 150 research papers, research monographs, and book chapters.
Joel Amernic is a professor of accounting and past editor of Canadian Accounting Perspectives. He is the author and co-author of seven books. He is a full professor in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Design Thinking at Work
How Innovative Organizations Are Embracing Design
David Dunne NEW IN PAPERBACK
Design Thinking at Work challenges many of the wild claims organizations face in applying design thinking, while offering a way forward .
The result of extensive international research with multinationals, governments, and non-profits, Design Thinking at Work explores the challenges that organizations face when developing creative strategies to innovate and solve problems. Now available for the first time in paper, Design Thinking at Work explores how many organizations have embraced “design thinking” as a fresh approach to fundamental problems, and how it may be applied in practice. Design thinkers constantly run headlong into challenges in bureaucratic and hostile cultures. Through compelling examples and stories from the field, Dunne explains the challenges they face, how the best organizations, including Procter & Gamble and the Australian Tax Office, are dealing with these challenges, and what lessons can be distilled from their experiences. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in how design works in the real world.
Japanese rights sold
BRANDDRIVEN CEO
Of related interest: The Brand-Driven CEO: Embedding Brand into Business Strategy
By David Kincaid
978-1-4426-4985-9
Available 232 pages, 6 x 9 37 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-4878-0
$29.95 (£19.99) T Business
University of Victoria.
David Dunne is a Professor at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business,
Fintech Explained
How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services
Michael R . King
Examining innovative business models, Fintech Explained illuminates how financial technology companies are transforming the customer experience in financial services
Financial technology (fintech) is the digital delivery of financial products and services via the Internet or a mobile phone. Entrepreneurial start-ups, mature businesses, digitalonly banks, and global technology companies are leveraging technology to solve customer pain points and provide financial solutions that are cheaper, easier to use, faster, and more convenient than traditional methods.
Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation strategy, business model and valuation of leading fintechs in crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi), crowdfunding and online lending, robo-advice and digital wealth management, payments and insurtech, digital banking, and bigtech. The book profiles the successes and failures of over thirty highprofile fintechs from North and South America, Europe, and Asia, including Wealthsimple’s pitch to angel investors, Wise Financial’s market opportunity in online money transfers, Nubank’s value proposition as a digital-only bank, and Ant Group’s multi-sided platform in financial services, among others.
The book combines insights from founders, early-stage investors, financial incumbents, and other stakeholders in this dynamic ecosystem. Combining clear descriptions and cases studies with the latest findings from academic research, Fintech Explained provides a complete course for educating undergraduate and graduate students, executives, and interested professionals.
MICHAEL R. KING
September 2023
360 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services
37 b&w figures, 51 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4408-9
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4409-6
$49.95 (£32.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-4410-2
$39.95
Business
Michael R. King is an associate professor and Lansdowne Chair in Finance at the University of Victoria. He is the co-founder of Canada’s first fintech research centre, the Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab.
R. King and Richard W. Nesbitt
Flow
How the Best Supply Chains Thrive
Rob Handfield and Tom Linton
With supply chain disruptions increasingly discussed in the media and impacting our daily lives, Flow offers an important framework and solutions for remedying the rampant delays and bottlenecks that exist in global supply chains .
This book describes the concept of flow, which evokes physical properties that exist in nature, such as the flow of electricity, the flow of time, and the flow of materials. In terms of process optimization, flow encompasses the integration of end-to-end supply chains and the movement towards relocation of the global supply base to near-shore and on-shore geographies. Achieving flow is essential for organizations seeking to improve their supply chain performance in a time of increasing disruption that is likely to continue for some time.
This book highlights the high-level effectiveness of business strategies that use predictions based on the sequence of world events, global supply chains, and data gathered by smart technologies. By broadly applying physical laws to the global supply chain, Rob Handfield and Tom Linton explore the impact of supply chain physics on global market policies, such as tariffs, factory location, pandemic response, supply-based geographies, and outsourcing.
The authors provide specific recommendations on what to do to improve supply chain flows, and include impor tant insights for managers with examples from companies such as Biogen, General Motors, Siemens, and Flex on their response to COVID-19. Flow is an important resource not only for procurement and supply chain management profes sionals, but for any manager concerned with enterprise-level success.
flow
HOW THE BEST SUPPLY CHAINS THRIVE
Rob Handfield, PhD & Tom Linton
July 2022
232 pages, 6 x 9 9 b&w figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0832-6
$36.95 (£24.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3801-9
$36.95 Business
Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative.
Of related interest: Shift: A New Mindset for Sustainable Execution By M Kathryn Brohman, Eileen Brown, and Jim McSheffrey 978-1-4875-0378-9
Tom Linton is a globally recognized thought leader, author, and former Chief Supply Chain Officer and Chief Procurement Officer. He currently is a senior advisor at McKinsey and Company, as well as executive advisory board member at supply chain software leaders Resilinc and Project 44.
The Management of Innovation
Managing and Creating Technology Capital
Alberto Galasso
Drawing on economics, management, and innovation literatures, this book explores how new technologies can be managed and created
Despite the importance of innovation for the growth of firms, industries, and the national economy, the strategic tools available to effectively manage and create new technologies are often neglected by entrepreneurs and corporate managers. The Management of Innovation examines how firms can leverage and create technology capital.
Over the past two decades, economists and management scholars have developed several new insights into how large companies and start-ups can be more innovative. Many of these research findings have not yet reached management practice. Alberto Galasso aims to address this issue by providing an accessible overview of the innovation literature and a discussion of the latest research findings.
The analysis considers the two key stages of the innovation process: technology management and technology creation. Each stage involves complex managerial decisions related to resource allocation and the assessment of relevant costs and benefits. This book examines the most frequent trade-offs that shape the innovation process across these two stages. It also provides an introduction to intellectual property and patent analytics. In doing so, The Management of Innovation provides MBA students and practitioners the necessary tools and insights to help avoid poor decisions by start-up entrepreneurs and corporate managers alike.
THE BARTERING MINDSET
By Brian Gunia
The Management of Inn vation
Alberto Galasso
May 2024
256 pages, 6 x 9
11 b&w figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-5356-2
$37.95 (£25.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-5359-3
$37.95 Business
Alberto Galasso is a professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, where he holds the Rotman Chair in Life Sciences Commercialization. He is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He serves as co-editor for the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, as associate editor for the Journal of Industrial Economics and the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and as member of the editorial board for the Strategic Management Journal
BRIAN C. GUNIA
Precision Retailing
Driving Results with Behavioral Insights and Data Analytics
Edited by Laurette Dubé, Maxime C . Cohen, Nathan Yang, and Bassem Monla
Behaviourally Informed Organizations
Precision Retailing explores the challenges and opportunities that exist in contemporary retail and offers advice on how to apply behavioral insights and analytics to thrive in a digital world .
Without a doubt, the COVID-19 era has forced the retail sector to rethink the way it conducts business. Customer experience has largely shifted into the digital realm, and questions have emerged about how to best optimize and evolve business operations in light of this change.
Drawing on a host of expert contributors, Precision Retailing takes a broad perspective of precision retailing as the interaction point between individuals, organizations, institutions, systems, and policies that support them in ever-changing contexts. The book assembles precision retailing key concepts, methods, and tools that complement existing behavioral research. The decision support tools will help managers better capture in real-time the multiscale drivers of consumer behavior and successfully integrate these into their retail strategy and tactics. Each chapter includes a short strategic brief for successful human-centred digital transformation that focuses squarely on actionable insights for practitioners. Shedding light on the way we understand and handle this complex customer journey, Precision Retailing examines how retail will evolve in the post-COVID era, shaping how businesses meet their future, and the inevitable continuation of the digital transition.
Laurette Dubé is a professor of marketing, James McGill Chair of Consumer and Lifestyle Psychology and Marketing, and Chair and Scientific Director at the Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics at McGill University.
Maxime C. Cohen is the Scale AI Chair Professor of Retail and Operations Management and Director of Research at McGill University.
Of related interest: Flow: How the Best Supply Chains Thrive By Rob Handfield, PhD and Tom Linton
978-1-4875-0832-6
Nathan Yang is an assistant professor of marketing at the Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.
Bassem Monla is the Practice Leader for Data, Analytics, and AI at IBM/LGS Quebec and a professor of practice for AI and advanced analytics in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.
EDITED BY Laurette Dubé Maxime C. Cohen Nathan Yang Bassem Monla
Rob Handfield, PhD & Tom Linton
Searching for Trust in the Global Economy
Jeanne M Brett and Tyree D Mitchell
Searching for Trust in the Global Economy offers a simple, yet powerful, evidence-based framework to explain how managers in different parts of the world go about the process of deciding how to trust new business partners .
Trust is the foundation for strong working relationships, but the way people from different cultures search for and decide to trust varies. Searching for Trust in the Global Economy describes these cultural differences from the perspective of 82 managers from 33 different national cultures in four regions of the world. It addresses the current global business climate with insights from managers describing how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the process of searching for and deciding to trust new business partners.
Jeanne M. Brett and Tyree D. Mitchell propose a simple, but general framework that explains the cultural differences in deciding to trust new business partners. They suggest that the key to understanding cultural differences in the process lies in the interplay between cultural levels of trust and “tightness-looseness,” or the degree to which a culture strongly enforces its norms. They explain how searching for and deciding to trust is different in the high trust, loose cultures of the West, the high trust, tight cultures in East Asia, the low trust, tight cultures in the Middle East/South Asia, and the low trust, loose cultures in Latin America.
Searching for Trust in the Global Economy is based on managers’ experiences building new business relationships around the world, but its practical advice for searching for and deciding to trust is useful not only for business leaders, but also for government, not-for-profit, and other leaders who are responsible for building new relationships in the global economy.
THE BARTERING MINDSET
SEARCHING FOR TRUST IN THE GL BAL ECONOMY
May 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9
3 b&w figures, 7 b&w tables
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Jeanne M. Brett is the DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Tyree D. Mitchell is an assistant professor at the School of Leadership and Human Resource Development at Louisiana State University.
By Brian Gunia
JEANNE M. BRETT and TYREE D. MITCHELL
184 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available 10 figures, 5 tables Cloth 978-1-4875-0378-9
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The
Innovation Navigator
Tucker J. Marion
Sebastian K. Fixson
Of related interest: The Innovation Navigator Transforming Your Organization in the Era of Digital Design and Collaborative Culture
By Tucker J. Marion and Sebastian K. Fixson 978-1-4875-0111-2
Shift
A New Mindset for Sustainable Execution
M Kathryn Brohman, PhD, Eileen Brown, and Jim McSheffrey
Rotman-UTP Publishing
Previously Announced
Shift provides managers with a conceptual framework and best practices to identify and remedy barriers in order to effectively execute their organizational strategy
Organizations all too often create impressive strategies but fail at implementing them. Based on research with over 750 organizations, Shift conceptualizes execution with energy management in mind to offer discrete capabilities that will help leaders “shift” into more sustainable and dynamic execution practices. With the importance of balancing organizational stability and flexibility at its core, Shift is written in four parts – identifying execution barriers, filling gaps, removing distractions, and differentiating execution leaders who are capable of driving improvement.
Most novel is the introduction of a performance indicator, called the Cost of Execution (COx), that quantifies execution capabilities and challenges. Shift includes real case studies and describes a comprehensive approach that will help organizations satisfy the business demands of today and adapt to embrace the challenges of tomorrow.
M Kathryn Brohman, associate professor at Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, conducts leading-edge research in strategy execution and shares her expertise across a variety of executive education and MBA programs.
Eileen Brown is an accomplished executive with a proven track record for transformative execution in operations, supply chain, acquisitions, and IT with companies such as IBM, Celestica, and BlackBerry.
Jim McSheffrey spent his career at 3M and held senior executive roles, including president and general manager of 3M Canada, and managing director of both 3M UK and 3M China.
university of toronto press
The Technological Revolution in Financial Services
How Banks, FinTechs, and Customers Win Together
Edited by Michael R . King and Richard W . Nesbitt Rotman-UTP Publishing
Industry specialists and thought leaders explain how financial services will evolve in the coming decade in response to heightened regulation, technological disruption, and changing demographics
While the financial services industry is continuously evolving, the speed and breadth of changes over the past decade have been unprecedented. Structural forces including changing regulation, technology, and demographics have lowered barriers to entry, increasing competition from within and outside the industry.
The new entrants in financial services range from entrepreneurial financial technology (FinTech) start-ups to large, non-financial technology-based companies (TechFins and BigTech). While some new entrants may be looking to replace incumbents, others are motivated to partner with them. This increased competition is forcing the financial incumbents to improve their product offerings and customer service.
This edited volume outlines the strategic implications for financial services firms in North America, Europe, and other advanced economies. The most successful banks, insurance companies, and asset managers will partner with FinTech companies to provide a better and more innovative experience to retail customers and small businesses. Ultimately this technological revolution will benefit customers and lead to a more open and inclusive financial system.
Michael R King is the Lansdowne Chair in Finance at University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business.
Richard W Nesbitt is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
The Brand-Driven CEO
Embedding Brand into Business Strategy
David Kincaid
Rotman-UTP Publishing
This book provides practical strategic and managerial guidance for business leaders looking to find new sources of value and to maximize their brand’s potential in today’s fast-changing global marketplace .
The Brand-Driven CEO demonstrates how senior leadership can use their brand to align and guide the behaviours, decisions, and operations of their organization in order to drive shareholder value. Author David Kincaid delivers practical assessments and game plans for senior executives and managers across functional areas, clarifying the confusion between brand and marketing management. He introduces the “New 4Ps” of brand management: people, process, IP, and partnerships. This paradigm shift equips business leaders with a new approach to managing growth, profitability, risk, and sustainable value creation.
Using real-life, current case studies from today’s fastest-growing and most valuable brands – including Starbucks, Apple, and BMW – this book reveals how big businesses are being led and managed as integrated business systems and not by marketing departments. The Brand-Driven CEO includes criteria to conduct your own brand self-assessment and a step-by-step roadmap that can be applied to help transform your brand and its management.
David Kincaid is an adjunct professor at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and in the Schulich Executive Education Centre at York University.
The Technological Revolution in Financial Services
How Banks, FinTechs, and Customers Win Together
Edited by Michael R. King and Richard W. Nesbitt
Approx. 384 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2020 12 tables / 22 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0602-5
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Approx. 340 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2020 2 halftones, 37 figures
Cloth 978-1-4426-4985-9
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Business
Stumbling Giants: Transforming Canada’s Banks
By Patricia Meredith and James L. Darroch
Transform with Design
Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking
Edited by Jochen Schweitzer, Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, and Sebastian Fixson
Written by a team of experienced innovators and researchers, Transform with Design provides unique case studies with lessons learned by organizations when building their innovation muscle
Design thinking is widely recognized as an alternative approach to innovation, but it can be challenging to implement, often conflicting with organizational structures, cultures, and processes. The practise of design thinking calls for a new mindset that moves past conventional approaches to innovation, and embraces ambiguity, risktaking, and collaboration.
Transform with Design presents examples of creative organizations across industries and geographies, and recounts the stories of how they adapted design thinking to build their innovation capabilities. Written by leading industry experts and design thinking scholars, the book features ten anecdotal experiences by professionals who detail the implementation of design thinking as it unfolded for them. Contributors share how they navigated the many barriers and obstacles they encountered along the way and describe their experience from early beginnings to the present, revealing valuable lessons for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation.
Providing a rich tapestry of examples, anecdotes, and lessons that place design thinking in perspective, Transform with Design is for innovators interested in learning how design has transformed organizations while also gaining a current perspective on what others are doing in their field.
Jochen Schweitzer is an associate professor of Strategy and Innovation and Director of Entrepreneurship at the University of Technology Sydney Business School.
Sihem BenMahmoudJouini is an associate professor of Innovation at HEC (Paris) and Director of Masters in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design and Executive MBA specialization.
Of related interest: Design Thinking at Work: How Innovative Organizations Are Embracing Design
By David Dunne
978-1-4875-4878-0
Sebastian Fixson is the associate dean of Academic Programs and Innovation at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a professor of Innovation and Design at Babson College.
What Works, What Doesn’t (and When)
Case Studies in Applied Behavioral Science
Edited by Dilip Soman
Foreword by Michael Hallsworth
Behaviourally Informed Organizations
Using seventeen cases where researchers applied behavioral interventions in the field, this book identifies not only what works but also what does not work (and when)
How well do behavioral science interventions translate and scale in the real world? Consider a practitioner who is looking to create behavior change through an intervention – perhaps it involves getting people to conserve energy, increase compliance with a medication regime, reduce misinformation, or improve tax collection. The behavioral science practitioner will typically draw inspiration from a previous study or intervention to translate into their own intervention.
The latest book in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series, What Works, What Doesn’t (and When) presents a collection of studies in applied behavioral research with a behind-the-scenes look at how the project actually unfolded. Using seventeen case studies of such translation and scaling projects in diverse domains such as financial decisions, health, energy conservation, development, reducing absenteeism, diversity and inclusion, and reducing fare evasion, the book outlines the processes, the potential pitfalls, as well as some prescriptions on how to enhance the success of behavioral interventions. The cases showcase how behavioral science research is done – from getting inspiration, adapting research into context, designing tailored interventions, and comparing and reconciling results.
With contributions from leading academics and seasoned practitioners, What Works, What Doesn’t (and When) provides prescriptive advice on how to make behavior change projects happen and what pitfalls to watch out for.
What Works, What Doesn’t (and When)
Case
Studies in Applied Behavioral Science
EDITED BY DILIP SOMAN FOREWORD BY MICHAEL HALLSWORTH
Dilip Soman is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Behavioural Science and Economics, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and the director of Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman [BEAR] research centre.
Of related interest: Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies: A Behavioral Lens Edited by Jiaying Zhao, Saugato Datta, and Dilip Soman 978-1-4875-4517-8
From Cells to Organisms
Re-envisioning Cell Theory
Sherrie L. LyonS
FROM CELLS to ORGANISMS " "
re-enviSioning CeLL Theory
Sherrie L Lyons
From Cells to Organisms is both a history of science and a history of how ideas are developed and accepted in society
More than a history, From Cells to Organisms delves into the nature of scientific practice, showing that results are interpreted not only through the lens of a microscope but also through the lens of particular ideas and prior philosophical commitments.
Before the twentieth century, heredity and development were considered to be complementary aspects of the fundamental problem of generation but later became distinct disciplines with the rise of genetics. Focusing on how cell theory shaped investigations of development, this book delves into evolution, vitalism, the role of the nucleus, and the concept of biological individuality. Building upon current research from biologists such as Daniel Mazia, From Cells to Organisms covers ongoing debates over cell theory and uses interesting case studies to examine the nature of scientific practice, the role of prestige, and the dynamics of theory change.
GLOBAL HEALTH VILLAGE
Global Health and the Village Transnational Contexts
Governing Birth in Northern Uganda
Sarah Rudrum
Drawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and the Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women’s access to safe maternity care into focus.
Bridging faced by families of the key lives of challenges.
Sherrie L Lyons is the author of numerous books on the history of biology, including Evolution: The Basics and Species, Spirits, Serpents, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age.
Approx. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020 17 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4426-3510-4
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HEALTH AND MEDICINE
The accounts of women navigating pregnancy in a post-conflict setting are characterized by widespread poverty, weak infrastructure, and inadequate health services. In investigating maternity care and birth, Global Health and the Village examines a remote rural agrarian region of northern Uganda, a region characterized by a weak healthcare system in the aftermath of decades-long armed conflict.
Examining local cultural, social, economic, and health-system factors shaping maternity care and birth, Rudrum analyzes the encounter between ambitious global health goals and the local realities of a remote, agrarian, post-conflict community with poor health services. Interrogating how culture and technical problems are framed in international health interventions, Rudrum reveals that the objectifying and colonizing premises on which interventions are based mean that rather than being “unanticipated,” the negative consequences that too often result from international interventions in health are structurally determined.
Sarah Rudrum is an associate professor of sociology at Acadia University.
December 2021
192 pages, 6 x 9 3 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0455-7
$50.00 (£32.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3043-3
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Health and Medicine
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232 pages, 2 tables,
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Implementing Trauma- and ViolenceInformed Care
Implementing Traumaand ViolenceInformed Care A Handbook
Edited by C . Nadine Wathen and Colleen Varcoe
Shedding light on structural and systemic factors that impact health and well-being, this collection provides how-to guidance for implementing trauma- and violence-informed care to improve experiences in health and social service settings
The need for health and social services to be trauma- and violence-informed has never been so pressing. In the wake of COVID-19, racial violence intensified and violence against women spiked globally. Mental health for many is worsening, while the ongoing toxic drug overdose crisis provides horrendous evidence of the impact of trauma, violence, stigma, and social inequities. Implementing Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care aims to support health and social service organizations and providers to create environments, policies, and practices to mitigate the harms of structural and interpersonal violence and the trauma that ensues. The book is organized around case examples of trauma- and violence-informed care (TVIC) implementation and impact in diverse settings, providing how-to guidance for getting started, sustaining momentum, and assessing outcomes. The book presents TVIC as a call to action to improve service user experiences and outcomes, efficient and effective use of resources, and the health and wellbeing of staff, while addressing and reducing health and social inequities.
C. Nadine Wathen is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University.
Colleen Varcoe is a professor emeritus in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia.
This book explores the complex connections between the memories, emotions, and objects that hold special meaning for us across the years .
Many of us have particular things in our lives – photographs, paintings, old letters, books, furniture, jewellery, or clothing – that hold special meaning for us. Often, they correspond to pivotal memories and can be central to our sense of self and our life narratives, all the more so as we age. Things That Matter sheds important light on the intricate intertwining of mementos with stories – and vice versa – in most people’s lives.
The book explores the significance of cherished objects within the life stories of nine participants in a qualitative study of the links between reminiscence and resilience in later life. The researchers who conducted the study represent a variety of fields, from gerontology to social work to ministry, and from nursing to literature to education. The book details how these stories can be fraught with a wide range of insights and questions from the memories that get stirred up as people embark on the process of “life review” prompted by the challenges and changes of aging. Shedding light on the complex emotional, psychological, and spiritual findings of the study, Things That Matter ultimately reveals the intricacy of personal narrative and the incredible ways in which things and stories are interwoven in our lives over time.
William L. Randall is a retired professor of gerontology at St. Thomas University.
Matte Robinson is an associate professor and chair of English at St. Thomas University.
February 2024
368 pages, 6 x 9
4 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0665-0
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2447-0
$37.95 (£25.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3460-8
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Health and Medicine
Edited by C. Nadine Wathen and Colleen Varcoe
Organs for Sale
Bioethics, Neoliberalism, and Public Moral Deliberation
Ryan Gillespie
Organs for Sale is an extended case study of a lively public moral debate that delves into how a society assigns worth as well as what ought to be for sale and why
Organs for Sale is a study of the bioethical question of how to increase human organ supply. But it is also an inquiry into public moral deliberation and the relationship between economic worth and the value systems of a society. Looking closely at human organ procurement debates, the author offers a critique of neoliberalism in bioethics and asks what kind of society we truly want.
While society is concerned with the practical question of organ procurement, a better understanding of the rhetoric of advocates and philosophical underpinnings of the debate might indeed improve our public moral deliberation in general and organ policy more specifically. Examining public arguments, this book uses a range of source material, from medical journals to Congressional hearings to New York Times op-eds, to provide the most up-to-date and thorough analysis of the topic. Organs for Sale posits that deciding together on the limits of markets, and on what is and ought to be for sale, sheds light on the moral fiber of our society and what it needs to thrive.
Ryan Gillespie is a lecturer in the Study of Religion Program at UCLA.
Approx. 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2020 Cloth 978-1-4875-0603-2
$85.00 (£63.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2405-0
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Health and Medicine / Philosophy
Annemarie Goldstein Jutel
TRUTHS AND TALES
Of related interest: Diagnosis: Truths and Tales By Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Foreword by Lisa Sanders, MD 978-1-4875-2226-1
Research Project Management and Leadership
A Handbook for Everyone
P . Alison Paprica
This handbook presents practical guidance on how to apply project management and leadership tools, processes, and practices in academic settings .
The project management approaches which are used by millions of people internationally are often too detailed or constraining to be applied to research. In this handbook, project management expert P. Alison Paprica presents guidance specifically developed to help with the planning, management, and leadership of research.
Research Project Management and Leadership provides simplified versions of globally utilized project management tools, such as the work breakdown structure to visualize scope, and offers guidance on processes, including a five-step process to identify and respond to risks. The complementary leadership guidance in the handbook is presented in the form of interview writeups with 19 Canadian and international research leaders, each of whom describes a situation where leadership skills were important, how they responded, and what they learned. The accessible language and practical guidance in the handbook make it a valuable resource for everyone from principal investigators leading multi-million-dollar projects to graduate students planning their thesis research. The book aims to help readers understand which management and leadership tools, processes, and practices are helpful in different circumstances, and how to implement them in research settings.
P. Alison Paprica is an adjunct professor and senior fellow at the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet considers what it takes to cultivate human and planetary health in a time of rapid ecological, economic, and social change .
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health. Grounded in first-hand accounts from researchers, health practitioners, and social innovators across diverse fields, Katharine Zywert’s book argues that the most promising approaches often depart substantially from the incentive structures, goals, and mindsets that define the status quo and do not necessarily align with mainstream sustainability discourses.
The book instead presents promising approaches that disrupt dominant ideas about mental health, ageing, and chronic illness; circumvent exploitative markets for medications, medical technologies, and professionalized care; attend not only to the health of individual human bodies, but to the health of internal ecologies, human populations, nonhuman species, and the planet as a whole; and embody alternative, more inclusive ways of practicing medicine within communities and ecosystems.
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet challenges conventional ways of thinking about the future of health systems and asks hard questions about what it takes to cultivate human and planetary health in a time of rapid ecological, economic, and social change.
Katharine Zywert is an independent researcher and writer working at the intersection of social-ecological systems change and health.
How to Survive and Thrive after Medical School, Seventh Edition
Allan D . Peterkin, MD, and Derek Puddester, MD
The seventh edition of Staying Human during Residency Training presents an invaluable how-to guide for learning, coping, surviving, and thriving as a medical trainee in both the US and Canada
The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents, and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident’s life – from choosing a residency program to coping with stress, enhancing self-care, and protecting personal and professional relationships.
Updated to reflect the latest research and resources, the seventh edition provides new emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion, social justice, and accountability in the context of medical education. It offers practical strategies learned from new technologies and new insight on the COVID-19 pandemic regarding public health, virtual appointment protocols, and AI developments. Presenting practical antidotes regarding cynicism, careerism, and burnout, the book also offers guidance on fostering more empathic connections with patients and deepening relationships with colleagues, friends, and family.
Allan D. Peterkin is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Toronto.
Derek Puddester is an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa, and clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia.
March 2024
328 pages, 6 x 9
2 b&w figures, 12 b&w tables
Paper 978-1-4875-5547-4
$42.95 (£28.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-5549-8
$42.95
Health and Medicine
Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Policy Gain or Confidence Game?
Edited by Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder
Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry to account through greater transparency.
There is plenty of controversy surrounding pharmaceuticals, but it cannot be denied that the pharmaceutical industry is both socially beneficial and profitable. Regulators are expected to ensure that the economic success of the industry does not come at the expense of public safety, yet they have also assumed a cooperative role by providing advice on regulation and by targeting unmet medical needs. Concerns over regulatory standards, conflicts of interest, and the manipulation of information on drug safety and effectiveness have led to public mistrust, and a greater need for transparency between the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators.
Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry responsible for creating this sense of transparency in the industry, from development to market. The contributors to this volume examine the various mechanisms introduced to make the regulatory process more informative, and situate these efforts, within the larger project of enhancing the safety of drugs, vaccines, and other products.
Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Policy Gain or Confidence Game?
Edited by Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder
August 2021 304 pages, 6 x 9 1 figure, 10 tables Cloth 978-1-4875-2903-1
$80.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2904-8
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Health and Medicine
Katherine Fierlbeck is the McCulloch Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University, with a cross-appointment as professor of community health and epidemiology.
Janice Graham is a professor of pediatrics (infectious diseases) and medical anthropology and a university research professor at Dalhousie University.
Matthew Herder is the director of the Health Law Institute and an associate professor of medicine and law at Dalhousie University.
Also by Katherine Fierlbeck: Nova Scotia: A Health System Profile 978-1-4875-2214-8
When Medicine Goes Awry
Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death
Juanne Nancarrow Clarke
Examining high-profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry .
Medical error is the third leading cause of death in hospitals, resulting in disability and in some cases death. Despite its frequency, medical error has been largely invisible to the mainstream public. Within the medical system itself, medical error is often understood as the result of an isolated case of malpractice. When Medicine Goes Awry argues that the causes of medical error are not an anomaly but instead the outcome of a number of factors at play, ranging from political to social to economic. When Medicine Goes Awry posits that medical error is inevitable and dismisses the common blame perspective associated with medical malpractice, instead asserting that medical error will continue to be inevitable given the relentless and expanding processes of medicalization. Shedding light on the ways these forces lead to medicine going awry, the book examines seven well-known cases of medical error. Taking an in-depth look at both patients and medical care providers, Juanne Nancarrow Clarke applies sociological research and theory to the larger societal forces, offering a novel approach to medical error and mishap.
When Medicine Goes Awry
Case Studies in Medically Caused Suffering and Death
Juanne Nancarrow Clarke is a professor emeritus of sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University.
JUANNE NANCARROW CLARKE
Approx. 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0844-9
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Animals as Legal Beings
Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders
Maneesha Deckha
In the ongoing quest to protect animals from exploitation, this book discusses “beingness” – as an alternative to “personhood” – as an impactful and animal-centred legal status that recognizes and values animals for who they are .
In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called “beingness.”
In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals, directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems.
Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument for a meaningful, more-than-human turn in law and policy.
Maneesha Deckha is a professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria.
Laws of Transgression
The Return of Judge Schreber
Edited by Peter Goodrich and Katrin Truestedt
Offering diverse perspectives on Daniel Paul Scheber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, this volume uses law and legal thought to uncover fundamental questions about the nature of law, sexuality, and normativity.
Of related interest: Punished for Aging: Vulnerability, Rights, and Access to Justice in Canadian Penitentiaries By Adelina Iftene 978-1-4875-2428-9
Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), a chamber president of the German Supreme Court who was confined to a mental asylum after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman. Schreber was not only a successful judge, but was also to become the author of one of the most commented upon texts in psychiatric literature, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Published in 1903, this remarkable work documented Schreber’s visions, desires, jurisprudence, and theology. Far from ending the judge’s legal investments, however, manifested an intensification of engagement with the law in the attempt to prove that becoming a woman did not deprive the judge of legal competence.
Schreber’s experience of physical change and his account of interior life has been the subject of over a century of psychoanalytic and medical scrutiny. With our contemporary awareness of transgender identity, interest in the judge’s desire to become a woman has intensified. In Laws of Transgression, Peter Goodrich, Katrin Truestedt, and their contributing authors, set out to unfold Schreber’s complex relation to the law. The collection revisits and rediscovers the Memoirs, not only in its juridical and political implications, but also as a transitional and transgressional text that has challenged law and heteronormativity.
Peter Goodrich is a professor and director in the program of Law and Humanities at the Cardozo School of Law.
Katrin Truestedt is an assistant professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
Approx. 224 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021
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Law and Society
ADELINA IFTENE
Edited by Peter Goodrich and Katrin Truestedt
Human Rights after Corporate Personhood
Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education
An Uneasy Merger?
David Sandomierski
Edited by Jody Greene and Sharif Youssef
Wounded Feelings
The United Nations Genocide Convention
Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950
An Introduction
Eric H Reiter
in LEGAL EDUCATION
Interdisciplinary in scope, this book draws from a range of specialized scholarship and archival research to intervene in current debates on the study of corporations
Using extensive and novel new research, this book explores one of the longstanding challenges in legal education – the prospects of bringing legal theory into the training of future lawyers
Contrary to conventional narratives about legal education, Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education reveals a widespread desire among law teachers to integrate both theory and practice into the education of versatile and civic-minded lawyers. Despite this stated desire, however, this aspiration is largely unrealized due to a host of intellectual and institutional factors that produce a profound gap between what professors believe about law and the ideas they communicate through their teaching.
Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the “outrage response” often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory. Through original and innovative analyses, the volume offers an alternative account of corporate juridical personality and its relation to the human, one that departs from accounts offered by public law. In addition, it explores opportunities for the application of legal personality to assist progressive projects, including, but not limited to, environmental justice, animal rights, and Indigenous land claims.
Presented accessibly for the benefit of non-specialist readers, the volume offers original arguments and draws on eclectic sources, from law and poetry to fiction and film. At the same time, it is firmly grounded in legal scholarship and, thus, serves as an essential reference for scholars, students, lawmakers, and anyone seeking a better understanding of the interface between corporations and the law in the twentyfirst century.
Drawing on interviews with over sixty law professors in Canada, David Sandomierski makes two important empirical discoveries in this book. First, he establishes that, contrary to a dominant narrative in legal education that conceives of theory and practice as oppositional, the vast majority of law professors consider theory to be vitally important in preparing “better lawyers.” Second, he uncovers a significant gap between the realist theoretical commitments held by a majority of professors and the formalist theories they almost uniformly convey through their teaching and conceptions of legal reasoning. Understanding the intellectual and institutional factors that account for these tensions, Sandomierski argues, is essential for any meaningful project of legal education reform.
Jody Greene is associate vice provost for Teaching and Learning and professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sharif Youssef is an assistant professor of English and Legal Studies at Ashoka University.
David Sandomierski is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at Western University.
Approx. 384 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2020
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0594-3
22 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0696-4
$75.00 (£56.99) A
$70.00 (£47.99) A Law / Education / History
eBook 978-1-4875-3529-2 $75.00 Law and Society
Samuel Totten and Henry Theriault
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
THE UNCG is a complicated piece of international law
Litigating Emotions
Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada
This book, authored by two experts on the topic of genocide, enables readers to more accurately analyze these horrific events
It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG). This brief but cogent book provides an introduction to the unique wording, legal terminology, and key components of the convention, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
Providing clarity on the distinctions between genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, this book is designed to be an entry into further study of genocide in its legal, historical, political, and philosophical dimensions. Key terms, such as intent and motive, are explained, case studies are included, and a detailed bibliography at the conclusion of the book offers suggested avenues for more advanced study of the UNCG.
Wounded Feelings explores how people brought their stories of betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and how lawyers and judges translated those human feelings into the rational language and categories of the law. Through detailed histories of how people litigated emotional injuries before the Quebec civil courts from 1870 to 1950, it explores the confrontation between people’s lived experience of emotion and the legal categories and terminology of lawyers, judges, and courts. Drawing on archival case files, supplemented by other sources such as newspapers and contemporary legal writings, it examines how individuals narrated their claims of injured feelings, and how the courts assessed those claims, using legal rules, social norms, and the judges’ own feelings to validate certain emotional injuries and reject others. The cases raised various emotional claims and the family, gender, class, linguistic, and racial dynamics that shaped the claims and their adjudication.
Samuel Totten is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville where he taught from 1987 to 2012. Henry Theriault is currently professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Worcester State University.
Eric H Reiter is an associate professor in the Department of History at Concordia University.
Approx. 464 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2019
Cloth 978-1-4875-0655-1
176 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / Available
Cloth 978-1-4875-0606-3
$60.00 (£44.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2408-1
$90.00 (£61.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3441-7 $90.00 History / Law
$24.95 (£18.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3322-9 $19.95 History / International Relations
Big Crime and Big Policing
All about Big Money?
Edited by Tonita Murray, Elizabeth Kirley, and Stephen Schneider
In Big Crime and Big Policing, an interdisciplinary group of contributors uncover the various links between money, crime, and policing
Following money over national borders, banking systems, casinos, and free trade zones as well as the world of corrupt elites, Big Crime and Big Policing brings new scholarly and practical insights to our understanding of the interplay of money, crime, and policing on the grand scale.
In this wide-ranging volume, a mixed group of scholars and practitioners aim to show how money dictates the scope and nature of financial and corporate crimes, and the impact on national economies, social institutions, and communal wellbeing alike. The book examines how the combined efforts of governments and international organizations fail to stop financial crime at its source and, despite apparently generous human and financial resources, police and law enforcement efforts ultimately fall short of defeating big crime and of meeting public safety needs. International in scope, Big Crime and Big Policing provides fresh reflection on a significant problem, one that demands greater attention from governments and the public.
Tonita Murray is an independent researcher and police reform consultant.
Elizabeth Kirley is a professor in the Professional LLM program at Osgoode Hall Law School and called to the Ontario bar.
Stephen Schneider is a professor in the Department of Criminology at Saint Mary’s University.
August 2024
320 pages, 6 x 9 3 b&w illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-5373-9
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5376-0
$45.95 (£30.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5377-7
$45.95 Law
Territorial Correctional Officers
By Rosemary Ricciardelli
Constructing the Family
Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law
Luke Taylor
This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought in the long nineteenth century .
In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family.
Constructing the Family examines the evolution of the legaldiscursive framework governing work and family relations. Luke Taylor considers the intersecting intellectual and institutional forces that contributed to the dissolution of the household, the establishment of separate spheres of work and family, and the emergence of modern legal and social ideas concerning work and family. He shows how specific legal-institutional moves contributed to the creation of the family’s categorical status in the social and legal order and a distinct and exceptional body of rules – Family Law – for its governance.
Shedding light on the historical processes that contributed to the emergence of English family law, Constructing the Family shows how work and family became separate regulatory domains, and in so doing reveals the contingent nature of the modern legal family.
Luke Taylor is an assistant professor at Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Ryerson University.
Of related interest: Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950 By Eric H Reiter 978-1-4875-2698-6
M arriage and W ork in n ineteenth -C entury e nglish l a W CONSTRUCTING the FAMILY
Luke Taylor
Controversies in the Common Law
Tracing the Contributions of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
Edited by Vanessa Gruben, Graham Mayeda, and Owen Rees
Controversies in the Common Law identifies some of the thorniest problems in private and public law, and explains how Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin addressed them by applying a common law approach to judging.
Beverley McLachlin was the first woman to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Joining the court while it was establishing its approach to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, McLachlin aided the court in weathering the public backlash against controversial decisions during her tenure.
Controversies in the Common Law explores Chief Justice McLachlin’s approach to legal reasoning, examines her remarkable contributions in controversial areas of the common law, and highlights the role of judicial philosophy in shaping the law. Chapters in this book span thirty years, and deal with a variety of topics – including tort, unjust enrichment, administrative, and criminal law. The contributors show that McLachlin had a philosophical streak that drove her to ensure unity and consistency in the common law, and to prefer incremental change over revolution.
Celebrating the career of an influential jurist, Controversies in the Common Law demonstrates how the common law approach taken by Chief Justice McLachlin has been successful in managing criticism and ensuring the legitimacy of the court.
April 2022
336 pages, 6 x 9 1 figure
Cloth 978-1-4875-4072-2
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4074-6
$70.00
Law
Vanessa Gruben is Vice Dean of the English Common Law Program and an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.
Graham Mayeda is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.
Owen Rees is Deputy Assistant Deputy Attorney General with the Department of Justice Canada and an adjunct lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University.
Of related interest: Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma
By Martin L. Friedland
978-1-4875-2525-5
Paradoxes of Professional Regulation
In Search of Regulatory Principles
Michael J . Trebilcock
Paradoxes of Professional Regulation draws on case studies to develop a coherent and consistent set of regulatory principles for diverse professions .
Occupational licensure, including regulation of the professions, dates back to the medieval period. While the guilds that performed this regulatory function have long since vanished, professional regulation continues to this day. For instance, in the United States, 22 per cent of American workers must hold licenses simply to do their jobs. While long-established professions have more settled regulatory paradigms, Paradoxes of Professional Regulation presents a case for stronger regulation of other professions, taking note of incompetent services and the serious risks they pose to the physical, mental, or emotional health, financial well-being, or legal status of uninformed consumers.
Michael J. Trebilcock examines five case studies of the regulation of diverse professions, including alternative medicine, mental health care provision, financial planning, immigration consultants, and legal services. Noting the widely divergent approaches to the regulation of the same professions across different jurisdictions – paradoxes of professional regulation – the book is an attempt to develop a set of regulatory principles for the future. In its comparative approach, Paradoxes of Professional Regulation gets at the heart of the tensions influencing the regulatory landscape, and works toward practical lessons for bringing greater coherence to the way in which professions are regulated.
Paradoxes Professional OF Regulation
In Search of Regulatory Principles
March 2022
192 pages, 6 x 9 23 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4304-4
$45.00 (£29.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4305-1
$45.00
Law
Michael J. Trebilcock is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
Michael J. Trebilcock
The Pluralist Right to Health Care
A Framework and Case Study
Michael Da Silva
Offering a new conception of the right to health care as a complex but morally justifiable and realistically achievable right, this book helps resolve persistent problems with the idea of health rights.
Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not easily fit the traditional “claim right” model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. The Pluralist Right to Health Care addresses this break between theory and practice with an account of the right to health care that is philosophically and practically sound.
Utilizing a pluralist framework, Michael Da Silva argues that the right to health care is best understood as a set of claims to related ends: the goods necessary for a dignified existence, procedural fairness in determining what other goods to provide and in the provision of goods, and a functioning health care system. Through philosophical reasoning, analysis of relevant international human rights law, and a close study of the Canadian case, The Pluralist Right to Health Care provides crucial insight into the potential of law and policy to improve health care systems in Canada and beyond.
Michael Da Silva is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.
Michael Da Silva
Pluralist Right to Health Care
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021 3 tables / 1 figure Cloth 978-1-4875-0872-2
$75.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3883-5 $75.00
Law and Society
Of related interest: Distributed Democracy: Health Care Governance in Ontario By Carey Doberstein 978-1-4875-0725-1
Public Inquiries
A Scholar’s Engagements with the Policy-Making Process
Michael J . Trebilcock
UTP Insights
Public Inquiries provides first-hand insights and expert perspectives on Canada’s policy-making process
An internationally renowned scholar of law and economics, Michael J. Trebilcock has spent over fifty years teaching and researching at the intersection between ideas, interests, and institutions. In Public Inquiries , Trebilcock reflects on his extensive experiences and sheds light on the role of scholars in engaging with the Canadian public policy-making process.
Drawing on a number of case studies, Public Inquiries gives an informed overview of the role of ideas and interests in shaping the policy-making process. Trebilcock takes readers through his personal experiences and what he has learned throughout his career. He puts forward general lessons about the public policymaking process and reform in areas including consumer protection, competition policy, trade policy, electricity reform, and legal aid.
By showing that not all experiences have been triumphant, and that disappointments can be as revealing as successes, Trebilcock draws out personal lessons and insights with a view to improving the structure and effectiveness of public inquiries.
Of related interest: Paradoxes of Professional Regulation: In Search of Regulatory Principles
By Michael J Trebilcock
PUBLIC INQUIRIES
PUBLIC INQUIR ES
August 2022
128 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Cloth 978-1-4875-5115-5
$39.95 (£26.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5667-9
$39.95
Law / Politics
J. Trebilcock is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
Michael
MICHAEL J. TREBILCOCK
APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS, TRADE, AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY ANALYSIS
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Approx. 424 pp. / 8 x 10 / April 2021
70 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0607-0
$165.00 (£123.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2409-8
$79.95 (£59.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3324-3 $63.95 Economics
Applied Welfare Economics, Trade, and Agricultural Policy Analysis
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Providing a broad-based background for analysing economic policies, this textbook brings economic rationality to political decision-making.
This textbook integrates three related fields in economics, namely agricultural/ forestry economics, environmental economics, and international trade, by foregrounding cost-benefit analysis as a significant policy tool.
Exploring how welfare measures can be used in the analysis of agricultural, trade, and other economic policies, Applied Welfare Economics, Trade, and Agricultural Policy Analysis fills a gap in the literature on agricultural policy analysis by explaining the economic efficiency improvements and income transfers of various agricultural policy reforms in the United States, Canada, and the European Union.
G. Cornelis van Kooten addresses methods of identifying and measuring economic surpluses (costs and benefits), the precautionary principle, identification of an appropriate discount rate, the importance of non-market values, and the role of agriculture in trade negotiations and climate change. Applied Welfare Economics, Trade, and Agricultural Policy Analysis draws on new research, brings attention to the existing literature, and includes review questions that challenge programming skills. The techniques developed in this text can be applied to the development and reform of agricultural policies in various regions in response to trade negotiations and many other situations involving government policy.
G. Cornelis van Kooten is Canada Research Chair in Environmental Studies & Climate and a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria.
Social Service, Private Gain
The Political Economy of Social Impact Bonds
Jesse Hajer and John Loxley
This book examines social impact bonds as a means to finance social services, and how mainstream and heterodox economic theory can help understand their existence and emergence.
Of related interest: Finance or Food?: The Role of Cultures, Values, and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations Edited by Hilde Bjørkhaug, Philip McMichael, and Bruce Muirhead 978-1-4875-2247-6
The 2008 financial crisis and its subsequent economic impacts generated a challenge for national and regional governments across the world. From this economic ruin, the social impact bond (SIB) was born as an alternative mechanism for government procurement and delivery of social public services.
Social Service, Private Gain examines the evolution of SIBs, how they work, what their theoretical motivation is, and their proliferation globally in their short period of existence. The main intervention of the book is to critically assess the potential of SIBs to constructively contribute to solving the multifaceted social challenges emerging from a context of entrenched and growing inequality. Claiming to bring incremental resources to the rescue, SIBs have taken up disproportionate space with new legislation, policy, subsidies, institutional supports, lobbyists, and “intermediaries” facilitating SIBs and thriving on their associated transactions costs. Drawing on mainstream and unconventional economic theory, practical case studies, and empirical data, Jesse Hajer and John Loxley generate new insights based on the limited but still suggestive publicly available data on SIBs projects. Challenging the assumptions and narratives put forward by proponents of the model, the authors offer practical policy recommendations for SIBs along with what the model tells us about the potential for transformational change for the better.
Jesse Hajer is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba.
John Loxley was a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Approx. 384 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2021 10 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0328-4
$85.00 (£63.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2691-7
$39.95 (£29.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1762-5 $39.95 Economics
university of toronto press
JESSE HAJER AND JOHN LOXLEY
JESSE HAJER AND JOHN LOXLEY
THE CARIBBEAN ON THE EDGE
The Caribbean on the Edge
The Political Stress of Stability, Equality, and Diplomacy
Winston Dookeran
The Caribbean on the Edge offers an in-depth study of policy issues facing the Caribbean and recommends a new way of thinking to those who influence public decision-making.
In a time of persistent uncertainty, fragile eco-structures, the politics of “populism,” and limits in institutional leadership, The Caribbean on the Edge acts as an analytical roadmap into a challenging era of globalization for the countries on the edge of history in the Caribbean, those often on a policy standstill pondering which way and how to turn.
Winston Dookeran traces ideas evolved in development and diplomacy over the last decade to identify the path for new analytical leadership. The Caribbean on the Edge discusses the ideas central to leadership, including the political issues involved in development, governance, and diplomacy.
Tracing the evolution of various schools of thought that influence policy choices, The Caribbean on the Edge introduces new approaches and risk factors that are aligned with the current realities in the region. Above all, this book is about the development of new practices that will usher in a radical shift in thinking, policy, and practice in order to unlock the paralysis of a Caribbean on the edge.
Winston Dookeran is a professor of practice in the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies. He has held positions in Trinidad and Tobago as governor of the Central Bank, minister of finance, and minister of foreign affairs.
January 2022
240 pages, 6 x 9
3 black-and-white illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-2944-4
$75.00 (£49.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-2946-8
$75.00
International Relations / Economics
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia
Fighting Poverty, Inequality, and Exclusion
By John Richards, Manzoor Ahmed, and Shahidul Islam
Foreword by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia documents the weak core competency (reading and math) outcomes in government primary schools in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, and the consequent rapid growth of non-government schools over the last two decades. Discussing reform options, it makes the case that public good and public priorities are better served when both public and non-government providers come under a strong public policy and accountability framework.
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia draws on the authors’ broad engagement in education research and practice in South Asia, as well as analysis by prominent professors of education and NGO leaders, to place basic education in a broad context and make the case that universal literacy and numeracy are necessary foundations for economic growth.
John Richards is an economist and a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, and a scholar-inresidence at the C.D. Howe Institute.
Manzoor Ahmed is a professor emeritus at BRAC University, chair of Bangladesh Early Childhood Development Network (BEN), and vice chair of Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE).
Shahidul Islam served as senior education advisor to USAID and is currently a consultant on education reform projects in South Asia.
February 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9 31 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0326-0
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2255-1
$36.95 (£24.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1758-8
$36.95
Economics / Education
Territorial rights sold for Bangladesh and Pakistan
Winston Dookeran
The Political Stress of Stability, Equality, and Diplomacy
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia
Fighting Poverty, Inequality, and Exclusion
Cybersecurity Management
An Organizational and Strategic Approach
Nir Kshetri
Cybersecurity Management analyzes the current state of cybercrime and explores how organizations can develop resources and capabilities to prepare for the changing cybersecurity environment.
Cyber-threats are among the most critical issues facing the world today. Cybersecurity Management draws on case studies to analyse cybercrime at the macro-level, and evaluates the strategic and organizational issues connected to cybersecurity. Cross-disciplinary in its focus, orientation, and scope, this textbook looks at emerging communication technologies that are currently under development. Cybersecurity Management is suitable for courses in business and public policy.
Cybersecurity Management provides insights into the nature and extent of cyber-threats to organizations and consumers, and how such threats evolve with new technological advances. Cybersecurity Management articulates the effects of new and evolving information and communication technologies and systems on cybersecurity and privacy issues. As the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed, we are all dependent on the internet as not only a source for information, but also person to person connection, thus our chances of encountering cyber threats are higher than ever. Cybersecurity Management aims to increase the awareness of and preparedness to handle such threats among policymakers, planners, and the public.
October 2021
424 pages, 7.25 x 9.5 42 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0496-0
$140.00 (£92.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2362-6
$69.95 (£46.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3125-6
$55.95
Business / Public Policy / Economics
Nir Kshetri is a professor in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
By Stephanie Carvin
NIR KSHETRI
An Anthropogenic Table of Elements
Experiments
in the Fundamental
Edited by Timothy Neale, Courtney Addison, and Thao Phan
Technoscience and Society
With stories of life in the Anthropocene, this book places Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements and his groundbreaking theory of elementality into modern context .
An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements, bringing together “elemental” stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene.
Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental objects and forces, such as carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and environmental reparation they might usher into the world as they do so.
Bringing together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars, this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances, responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful effects and vast journeys across time and space.
Technoscience and Society
If our world and our futures are technoscientific, then how should we organize this world? And how should we understand these futures? Our new series Technoscience and Society seeks to provide new analytical tools to do this, as well as new empirical insights into the changes happening around us. The series encourages shorter, punchier scholarly books providing a cross-over forum in which both established researchers and new and emerging scholars can present their investigations into the ever-changing relationship between technoscience and society.
Timothy Neale is a DECRA senior research fellow and senior lecturer in Anthropology at Deakin University.
Courtney Addison is a lecturer in the Centre for Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington.
Thao Phan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University.
courtney addison
thao phan
Being a Scientist
Tools for Science Students
Michael H . Schmidt
Being a Scientist is an innovative text designed to help undergraduate students become members of the scientific community
Being a Scientist is a comprehensive introduction to the many aspects of scientific life beyond the classroom and laboratory. Written with undergraduate science majors in mind, the book covers ethics, the philosophical bases of scientific methods, library research, reading, peer review, creativity, proposal and paper writing, and oral and poster presentations.
In contrast to other texts in the field, which often take a simple prescriptive approach to these topics, Being a Scientist connects them to the historical and philosophical roots of modern science, as well as the common experiences of all people.
Written in a conversational style, the book makes use of metaphor, historical anecdote, and hypothetical research about everyday household questions. This approach helps undergraduates learn basic research skills without being too intimidated by the advanced concepts, vocabulary, and methods which are encountered in looking at the current scientific literature.
Being a Scientist is a textbook for a semester-long course devoted to teaching research and communication skills to undergraduate science majors, but it can be adapted for use in summer research experiences, capstone research courses, and other courses throughout the undergraduate curriculum.
Michael H Schmidt is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University, San Marcos.
“ Being a Scientist is wide in its scope, covering such topics as research ethics to scientific writing. Written with a personable style, this book will help research trainees, and will be an excellent single resource for students.”
Pasan Fernando, Department of Biology, Carleton University
SCIENCE
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021
6 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0893-7
$70.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3935-1 $70.00
Science
320 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available 16 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-8845-8
$85.00 ( £63.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-8844-1
$36.95 (£27.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8846-5 $29.95
Science and Technology / Education
Making a Grade
Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing
James Elwick
Making a Grade uses historiographic and sociological perspectives to understand the large-scale scientific and technical systems that were used to develop the system of standardized testing most familiar today.
Starting in the 1850s, achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the century, over two million people had written mass exams, particularly in science, technology, and mathematics. Some candidates responded to this standardization by cramming or cheating; others embraced the hope that such tests rewarded not only knowledge but also merit.
Written with humour, Making a Grade looks at how standardized testing practices quietly appeared, and then spread worldwide. This book situates mass exams, marks, and credentials in an emerging paper-based meritocracy, arguing that such exams often first appeared as “cameras” to neutrally record achievement, and then became “engines” to revise curricula. Taking the perspectives of both examiners and examinees, Making a Grade claims that our own culture’s desire for accountability through objective testing has a long history.
James Elwick is an associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at York University.
Edited by Debra Mackinnon, Ryan Burns, and Victoria Fast
Technoscience and Society
This book explores relations between smartness and social justice, and questions whether working toward more just and sustainable cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of “smartness” altogether
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In the contemporary moment, smart cities have become the dominant paradigm for urban planning and administration, weaving the urban fabric with digital technologies. Recently, however, the promises of smart cities have been gradually supplanted by recognition of their inherent inequalities, and scholars are increasingly working to envision alternative smart cities.
Informed by these pressing challenges, Digital (In)justice in the Smart City foregrounds discussions of how we should think of and work toward urban digital justice in the smart city. It provides a deep exploration of the sources of injustice that percolate throughout a range of sociotechnical assemblages, and it questions whether working toward more just, sustainable, livable, and egalitarian cities requires that we look beyond the limitations of “smartness” altogether. The book grapples with how geographies impact smart city visions and roll-outs, on one hand, and how (unjust) geographies are produced in smart pursuits, on the other. Ultimately, Digital (In)justice in the Smart City envisions alternative cities – smart or merely digital – and outlines the sorts of roles that the commons, utopia, and the law might take on in our conceptions and realizations of better cities.
Debra Mackinnon is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Lakehead University.
Ryan Burns is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary.
Victoria Fast is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary.
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Beyond History for Historical Consciousness
Students, Narratives, and Memory
Stéphane Lévesque and Jean-Philippe Croteau
Foreword by Jocelyn Létourneau
This book offers the first ever comparative study of historical consciousness among young citizens from different regions, provinces, identities, and first languages
As issues of history, memory, and identity collide in society and in the classroom, the timing is ideal to investigate the views of twenty-first-century students. Relying on the theory of historical consciousness, this book presents the results of a comprehensive study conducted with over six hundred French Canadian students, examining their narrative views of the collective past. The authors offer new evidence on how young citizens from various regions and ethnocultural groups of Québec and Ontario think about their national history in the twenty-first century and what impact education, historical culture, and the “real-life” curriculum of meaningful experiences have on the formation of narration, identity, and historical consciousness.
Stéphane Lévesque is professor and director of the Virtual History and Stories Lab at the University of Ottawa. Jean-Philippe Croteau is professor of French literature at the Department of French Studies at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.
Approx. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020
21 figures, 20 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0675-9
$75.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2453-1
$29.95 (£22.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3479-0 $29.95 Education
Falsehood and Fallacy
How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-First Century
Bethany Kilcrease
THINK , READ,
AND WRITE
Falsehood and Fallacy emphasizes that in our politically divided landscape, we all need to be able to read and research more critically in order to make well-reasoned arguments.
Falsehood and Fallacy shows students how to evaluate what they read in a digital age now that old institutional gatekeepers, such as the media or institutions of higher education, no longer hold a monopoly on disseminating knowledge. Short chapters cover the problems that exist as a result of the current flow of unmediated information, fake news, and bad arguments, and demonstrate how to critically evaluate sources – particularly those that appear online.
Kilcrease provides a range of tools to help students evaluate the legitimacy of what they read. She discusses how to be on the lookout for bad arguments and logical fallacies and explains how students can produce clear and convincing academic writing. Exercises are included throughout the book to test student knowledge. Written with humour, Falsehood and Fallacy embraces the idea that everyone is a writer and has aptitude for further growth.
Bethany Kilcrease is a professor of history at Aquinas College. Approx. 208 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / March 2021
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Cultivating Kindness
Cultivating Kindness
An Educator’s Guide
John-Tyler Binfet
A practical guide to understanding and fostering kindness, this book aims to transform the thinking and practice of educators as they seek to cultivate kind classrooms
Cultivating Kindness sheds light on just how children and adolescents are kind, especially in school. Grounded in psychological and educational research on kindness and supported with illustrations capturing the voices of public school students, this book enhances our understanding of kindness.
Written with educators in mind, Cultivating Kindness draws from surveys and interviews with over three thousand children and adolescents. Author John-Tyler Binfet shares perspectives on kindness from the very individuals from whom we hope to see kindness embraced. Interwoven among examples from students are findings from peer-reviewed studies on topics exploring the role of joy and stress contagions on fostering or thwarting kindness, the concept of kind discipline, and how to measure kindness in school. This book also includes a kindness checklist to guide educators wishing to implement and foster kindness in their classrooms or schools. In addition to practical scenarios challenging the reader to respond kindly, a repository of kindness resources to support the continued kindness education of readers is also included.
John-Tyler Binfet is an associate professor of education in the Okanagan School of Education at the University of British Columbia.
Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later Situating Deschooling Society in His Intellectual and Personal Journey
Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar
Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later introduces the reader to the process that led to the writing of one of the most controversial and well-known books that indicted schooling, not only as an institution but as an ethos
In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state. On occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later looks at the theological roots of Illich’s thought and the intellectual and ideological strands that contributed to his ideas.
Guided by the central question of how Illich reached the point of writing Deschooling Society, the book sheds light on how Illich produced a critique of schooling that can be defined by its eclecticism. Bruno-Jofré and Igelmo Zaldívar explore how this controversial book was framed by Illich’s early neoscholastic and anti-modern foundation, his discovery of St. Thomas through Jacques Maritain, and the existential turning points that influenced his public life and intellectual direction in moving from a critique of the Church as institution to a critique of schooling.
Rosa Bruno-Jofré is a professor in the Faculty of Education cross-appointed to the Department of History at Queen’s University.
Jon Igelmo Zaldívar is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the Complutense University of Madrid.
October 2022
192 pages, 6 x 9 9 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4506-2
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Education
Beyond the Sage on the Stage
Beyond the Sage on the Stage Communicating Science and Contemporary Issues
Effectively
S L Seethaler
Beyond the Sage on the Stage provides practical, evidence-based communication lessons and debunks often-repeated communication myths
Communication failures are ubiquitous. Exacerbating the situation, much communication advice is superficial, and the vast research base that should inform best practices in communication is difficult to navigate. Beyond the Sage on the Stage translates lessons from carefully documented scholarship into lucid prose with meaningful examples that illustrate readily applicable communication strategies.
This user-friendly guide provides a unique crossdisciplinary approach to developing the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to achieve evolving communication goals. Topics include optimizing language and visuals, designing comparisons, composing logic stories, conveying authenticity, clarifying data and uncertainty, supporting reasoning and decision-making, avoiding backfires, reading body language, and cultivating empathy.
The book is constructed with a clear progression of logic based on a proven educational framework and provides guidance for communication about both uncontroversial and controversial topics. Demonstrating how commonly dispensed communication advice is often counterproductive, Beyond the Sage on the Stage is an innovative toolkit for being understood, fostering trust and genuine connection, and building a foundation for more effective, inclusive communication.
S.L. Seethaler directs education initiatives and teaches research communications at the University of California, San Diego.
March 2024
336 pages, 6 x 9
24 b&w figures, 17 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4748-6
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Education
FEELING OBLIGATED
Feeling Obligated Teaching in Neoliberal Times
Anne M . Phelan and Melanie D . Janzen
Feeling Obligated illustrates and interrogates the experience of teaching in today’s Canadian schools
Feeling Obligated combines theoretical insights with the first-hand experiences of Canadian teachers to illustrate the impact of neoliberalism – the installation of market norms into educational and social policies – on teachers’ professional integrity.
Anne M. Phelan and Melanie D. Janzen illustrate the miserable conditions in which teachers teach, their efforts to navigate and withstand those circumstances, and their struggle to respond ethically to students, especially those already marginalized economically and socially. Exploring how educational policies attempt to recast teachers as skilled clinicians, the book revitalizes a conversation about teaching as a vocation wherein the challenge of obligation is of central concern. Haunted by what has already happened and threatened by what may yet occur, Feeling Obligated foregrounds the challenge of ethical obligation in teaching and makes a strong case for the revitalization of teaching as a vocation, involving commitment, resolve, and trust in a future yet to come.
Anne M. Phelan is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia and an honorary professor at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Melanie D. Janzen is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Manitoba.
May 2024
128 pages, 6 x 9
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Education
CommuniCating SCienCe and Contemporary iSSueS effeCtively
S. L. SEETHALER
ANNE M. PHELAN and MELANIE D. JANZEN
Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge
POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE GLOBAL UNIVERSITY RANKINGS AND THE
Edited by Michelle Stack
Edited by Michelle Stack
This book draws on discourse analysis, theory, ethnography, and case studies, to consider the question of how knowledge is produced and shared.
For many institutions, to ignore your university’s ranking is to become invisible, a risky proposition in a competitive search for funding. But rankings tell us little if anything about the education, scholarship, or engagement with communities offered by a university. Drawing on a range of research and inquiry-based methods, Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge exposes how universities became servants to the education industry.
Conceptually unique in its scope, this book addresses the lack of empirical research behind university and journal ranking systems. Chapters from internationally recognized scholars in decolonial studies provide readers with robust frameworks to understand the intersections of coloniality and Indigeneity and how they play out in higher education. Including contributions from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts, this book explores the political economy of rankings within the contexts of the Global North and South, and examines alternatives to media-driven rankings. This book allows readers to consider the intersections of power and knowledge within the wider contexts of politics, culture, and the economy.
Michelle Stack is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2021
1 figure / 10 tables
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Education
Global Citizenship Education
Challenges and Successes
Edited by Eva Aboagye and S. Nombuso Dlamini
This book highlights how global citizenship education can be used to critically educate about the complexity and repressive nature of global events and our collective role in creating a just world.
The idea of citizenship and conceptions of what it means to be a good citizen has evolved over time. On the one hand, good citizenship entails the ability to live with others in diverse societies, and to promote a common set of values of acceptance, human rights, and democracy. On the other hand, in order to compete in the global economy, nations require a more innovative workforce, meaning good citizens are also those who successfully participate in the economic development of themselves and their country. These competing conceptions of good citizenship can result in people’s participation in activities, that contradict human rights and democratic tenants. Thus, global citizenship education is fundamental to teaching, learning and redressing sociopolitical, economic, and environmental exploitation, globally. Global Citizenship Education provides a critical discourse on global citizenship education (GCE). Contributors offer underpinnings of global citizenship education by discussing contemporary theories and methodologies, as well as specific case studies that illustrate the application of GCE initiatives.
Eva Aboagye is a program manager in the Office of Research and Innovation at George Brown College.
S. Nombuso Dlamini is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at York University.
Approx. 328 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2021 10 tables / 1 figure Cloth 978-1-4875-0637-7
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Historical Consciousness and Practical Life
A Theory and Methodology
Paul Zanazanian
This book examines how individuals produce and use historical knowledge to position themselves on historically rooted social problems
Historical Consciousness and Practical Life introduces a novel approach to examining how everyday people construct and employ historical knowledge in their daily lives. In viewing history as an embodied cultural practice that constitutes the background to our meaning making, the book demonstrates how researchers and others can investigate the ways in which people make sense of time’s flow in their now-moment engagements with the world and use that information to position themselves regarding key social problems with historical roots.
The book provides a glimpse at how humans enter historically embedded thinking problems, seeking to resolve them. Paul Zanazanian draws on a study of the community leaders of English-speaking Quebec to illustrate the practical life methodology’s workings. In looking at their different uses of history for strengthening their group’s vitality in the province, he identifies five key stances they employ for positioning their sense of purpose and responsibility for securing English-speaking Quebec’s future. Ultimately, Historical Consciousness and Practical Life argues that community leaders who complicate and problematize their uses of history are the best positioned to make positive transformations for their group.
Paul Zanazanian is an associate professor of social studies education at McGill University.
December 2024
352 pages, 6 x 9
17 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0383-3
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Education
AIM High Growing the Motivational Potential of Youth Psychological Assessment
Jacqueline Pei and Lia M . Daniels
This book integrates perspectives on growth-focused motivation into the practice of psychological assessment and intervention with children and youth .
In AIM High, Jacqueline Pei and Lia M. Daniels combine their decades of theoretical and applied expertise to bring motivation theory alongside the practice of psychological assessment.
The book explores ways in which all participants in the assessment process – including psychologists, caregivers, and allied professionals – share responsibility to build relational systems, seek understanding about the child, and engage in intentional communication. Pei and Daniels highlight ways in which the referral, assessment, and communication processes of assessment may grow through motivational perspectives that recognise the inherent movement of children. These ideas are leveraged to advance professional practices through the AIM Model (Assessment for Intervention and Motivation) a framework on which readers can organise and evaluate their existing experiences of the practice of psychological assessment, while emphasizing the shared understandings necessary to pursue healthy outcomes for all children.
Whether you are just beginning your training to work with children or have been at it for decades, AIM High reveals compelling ideas to help you see the evidence of growth in yourself and the youth with whom you work.
Jacqueline Pei is a professor in the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta.
Lia M. Daniels is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Alberta and a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association.
November 2024
176 pages, 6 x 9
4 b&w illustrations, 25 b&w figures, 6 b&w tables
Paper 978-1-4875-5808-6
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Education
PAUL ZANAZANIAN
A Theory and Methodology
Jacqueline Pei and Lia M. Daniels
Growing the Motivational Potential of Youth Psychological Assessment
Kathleen Gallagher
Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
With Andrew Kushnir and his original script Towards Youth: a play on radical hope
This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.
For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle with common purpose and across difference to create something together. Drawing on collaborations across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes theatre to build its methodology and create new data with young people as they seek the language of performance to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public.
Using both ethnographic study and playwriting, a collaboration of social scientist and playwright, Hope in a Collapsing World is a groundbreaking hybrid format of research text and the original script built from it –Towards Youth: a play on radical hope – for reading, experimentation, and performance.
Kathleen Gallagher is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a distinguished professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, cross-appointed to the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.
Andrew Kushnir is an independent artist and artistic director of Project: Humanity.
Degrees of Dignity examines how global discourses and policy models are affecting and altering contemporary higher education systems in the Arab Middle East and North Africa.
Presenting an analysis of higher education in eight countries in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Degrees of Dignity works to dismantle narratives of crisis and assert approaches to institutional reform. Drawing on policy documents, media narratives, interviews, and personal experiences, Elizabeth Buckner explores how apolitical external reform models become contested and modified by local actors in ways that are simultaneously complicated, surprising, and even inspiring.
Degrees of Dignity documents how the global discourses of neoliberalism have legitimized specific policy models for higher education reform in the Arab world, including quality assurance, privatization, and internationalization. Through a multi-level and comparative analysis, this book examines how policy models are implemented, with often complex results, in countries throughout the region.
Ultimately, Degrees of Dignity calls on the field of higher education development to rethink current approaches to higher education reform: rather than viewing the Arab world as a site for intervention, it argues that the Arab world can act as a source for insight on resilient higher education systems.
Elizabeth Buckner is an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
November 2021
288 pages, 6 x 9 9 tables, 8 figures
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Education ARAB HIGHER EDUCATION in the GLOBAL ERA
An Intense Calling
How Ethics Is Essential to Education
Jesse Bazzul
This book re-centres the practice and discipline of ethics as the core aspect of education
Positing that education is a movement from one way of being to another more desirable one, An Intense Calling argues that ethics should be the prime focus for the field of education. The book locates ethics, education, and justice in human subjectivity and describes education as a necessary practice for ethical reflexivity, change, and becoming (ethically) different. It also situates ethics as something that exceeds subjectivity thereby engaging ethics as a material phenomenon through topics such as aesthetics and solidarity with non-humans.
Jesse Bazzul explores various concepts in the book including power, biopolitics, the commons, subjectivity, and materiality and draws from over twenty years of experience teaching in different countries including Canada, Ireland, the United States, China, and Ukraine. Taking a wide-ranging philosophical approach, the book entangles ethics, urgent political issues, and pressing educational contexts of the twenty-first century. In doing so, An Intense Calling maintains that ethics is the core of education because education involves finding better ways of living and being in the world.
Jesse Bazzul is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.
Of related interest: Public Education, Neoliberalism, and Teachers: New York, Mexico City, Toronto By Paul Bocking 978-1-4875-0660-5
Mihyon Jeon,
New Generation Korean
Beginner Level, Second Edition
Kyoungrok
Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi, and Ahrong Lee
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this textbook covers the essential content for Korean language learning .
New Generation Korean is an immersive and visually appealing resource specifically designed for secondary and post-secondary Korean language learners, as well as independent self-study enthusiasts. Meticulously crafted by experienced instructors with a deep understanding of the Korean language, this revised second edition presents targeted learning objectives and bestpractice lessons across eight comprehensive chapters. With a focus on practicality and effectiveness, New Generation Korean guides students on a path toward attaining Korean language proficiency while fostering a genuine appreciation for Korean culture. The thoughtfully illustrated textbook engages learners through its rich visuals, bringing the language to life and enhancing comprehension. To further enhance the learning experience, audio files are included, complementing the content with authentic auditory material.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Kyoungrok Ko is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Daehee Kim is a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education at Wonkwang University.
Yujeong Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ahrong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Available
184 pages, 8 x 10
Full colour throughout Paper 978-1-4875-5707-2
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Education / Language
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New Generation Korean Workbook
Beginner Level, Second Edition
Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi, and Ahrong Lee
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps students acquire and practice their Korean language skills
New Generation Korean Workbook serves as an invaluable companion to the New Generation Korean: Beginner Level textbook, supporting students in acquiring essential reading, writing, and comprehension skills in the Korean language. Designed to be user-friendly, this second edition spans eight chapters, aligning seamlessly with the textbook.
Within each chapter, students will discover wellcrafted practice questions accompanied by helpful cues, prompting them to reinforce their knowledge. The workbook also features QR codes strategically placed to facilitate access to audio clips, ensuring students have ample opportunities for listening comprehension exercises. Guided instruction and selfassessment opportunities throughout the workbook empower students to steadily build confidence as they engage in vocabulary expansion, grammar exercises, listening practice, and writing activities.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Kyoungrok Ko is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Daehee Kim is a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education at Wonkwang University.
Yujeong Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ahrong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Available
178 pages, 8 x 10
Full colour throughout Paper 978-1-4875-5704-1
$29.95 (£19.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-5705-8
$23.95
Education / Language
All rights available except Korean territorial
NEW GENERATION KOREAN
New Generation Korean Intermediate Level
Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi, and Ahrong Lee
Expanding on lessons taught in the beginnerlevel textbook, New Generation Korean 2 covers the essential content for intermediate-level Korean language learning
Attractive and easy to navigate, New Generation Korean is a full-colour and engaging textbook designed for Korean language learners at the secondary and postsecondary education levels, as well as for independent self-study learners. Building on the content in the beginner textbook, the intermediate volume presents learning goals and best practice lessons developed by professors with extensive Korean language experience. The eight-chapter format fits perfectly with Canadian Korean language courses and includes lists of vocabulary, answer keys, Korean script, and English translations and conjugation tables.
With classroom-tested lessons, New Generation Korean will guide students to effective and efficient learning of the Korean language and an appreciation of Korean culture, while supporting the teaching and learning of Korean in a fun and effective way. The heavily illustrated textbook is accompanied by a workbook, audio files, and PowerPoint slides.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.
Kyoungrok Ko is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Daehee Kim is a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education at Wonkwang University.
Yujeong Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ahrong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.
Available
198 pages, 8 x 10
Paper 978-1-4875-4428-7
$54.95 (£36.99) X
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$43.95
Education / Language
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NEW GENERATION KOREAN
WORKBOOK
New Generation Korean Workbook Intermediate Level
Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi, and Ahrong Lee
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps intermediate-level students practice their Korean language skills
New Generation Korean Workbook is a student-friendly resource for acquiring intermediate Korean language skills, including reading, writing, and comprehension. It is designed to accompany the textbook, New Generation Korean: Intermediate Level . Each chapter in the workbook includes extensive practice questions with cues that prompt students to either choose, match, or fill in the blanks. Throughout the book, QR codes link to audio clips for listening and comprehension lessons. With guidance in every lesson and self-assessment opportunities, students will build confidence while working through vocabulary, grammar, listening, and writing activities.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.
Kyoungrok Ko is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Daehee Kim is a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education at Wonkwang University.
Yujeong Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ahrong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.
Available 188 pages, 8 x 10 Paper 978-1-4875-4425-6
$27.95 (£18.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-4426-3
$22.95
Education / Language
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NEW GENERATION KOREAN
New Generation Korean Advanced Level
Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi, and Ahrong Lee
Expanding on lessons taught in the intermediate-level textbook, New Generation Korean 3 covers the essential content for advanced-level Korean language learning .
Attractive and easy to navigate, New Generation Korean 3 is a full-colour and engaging textbook designed for Korean language learners at the secondary and postsecondary education levels, as well as for independent self-study learners. Building on the content in the intermediate textbook, the advanced volume presents learning goals and best practice lessons developed by professors with extensive Korean language teaching experience. The textbook is appended with lists of vocabulary, answer keys, Korean scripts, and English translations.
With classroom-tested lessons, New Generation Korean 3 will guide students to effective and efficient learning of the Korean language and an appreciation of Korean culture. The heavily illustrated textbook is accompanied by a workbook, audio files, and PowerPoint slides.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Kyoungrok Ko is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Daehee Kim is a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education at Wonkwang University.
Yujeong Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ahrong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
August 2023
208 pages, 8 x 10
Paper 978-1-4875-4616-8
$54.95 (£36.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-4617-5
$43.95
Education / Language
All rights available except Korean territorial
NEW GENERATION KOREAN
New Generation Korean Workbook
Advanced Level
Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi, and Ahrong Lee
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this workbook helps advanced-level students practice their Korean language skills
New Generation Korean Workbook 3 is a student-friendly resource for acquiring advanced Korean language skills, including reading, writing, and comprehension. It is designed to accompany the textbook, New Generation Korean 3
Each chapter in the workbook includes extensive practice questions with cues that prompt students to either choose, match, or fill in the blanks. Throughout the book, QR codes link to audio clips for listening and reading comprehension exercises. With guidance in every lesson and self-assessment opportunities, students will build confidence while working through vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Kyoungrok Ko is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Daehee Kim is a professor in the Department of Korean Language Education at Wonkwang University.
Yujeong Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ahrong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
August 2023
208 pages, 8 x 10
Paper 978-1-4875-4653-3
$27.95 (£18.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-4654-0
$22.95
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The New Spirit of Creativity
Work, Compromise, and the Art and Design University
Saara Liinamaa
This book traces the many alignments between contemporary artistic creativity and its formal organization within higher education .
The New Spirit of Creativity examines creativity as an embedded institutional value and priority within public art institutions and higher education. The book unpacks the everyday work, organization, and administration of artistic creativity and its clashes with a “new spirit” of creativity that has widely taken hold. Based on fieldwork conducted at three art and design universities in Canada, Saara Liinamaa tackles the fraught landscape of contemporary higher education, the uncertainties of cultural work, and ongoing concerns around austerity in Canada. This book traces how creativity is not simply practiced within the art school, but also inequitably recognized and rewarded. Liinamaa identifies the many compromises required between artistic creativity and the new spirit, while demonstrating how not all compromises are created equally; compromise can support or erode creative diversity. Drawing on a range of original sources – including interviews, participant observation, policy and planning, and media – this work makes a compelling case as to why art and design schools are worthy of sustained attention. By connecting shared interests across sociology, education, cultural studies, art history, and cultural theory, The New Spirit of Creativity makes a novel and agenda-setting contribution to our understanding of artistic creativity, compromise, and cultural work.
THE NEW SPIRIT OF CREATIVITY
WORK, COMPROMISE, AND THE ART AND DESIGN UNIVERSITY SAARA LIINAMAA
Saara Liinamaa is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.
Of related interest: Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching: A Globally Informed Approach Edited by Fernanda CarraSalsberg, Maria Figueredo, and Mihyon Jeon 978-1-4875-2891-1
Fernanda Carra-Salsberg, Maria Figueredo, and Mihyon Jeon
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Teaching Where You Are
Teaching Where You Are
A Research Agenda for Graduate Education
Brian S. Mitchell
Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies
Brian S. Mitchell
Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller
A Research Agenda for Graduate Education is a challenge to the higher education community to conduct research on graduate education as it would on any other area of educational research.
Drawing on First Peoples Principles of Education, this book highlights the ways in which Indigenous learning and pedagogies parallel the western notion of Slow pedagogy .
Post-baccalaureate education continues to expand at an accelerated rate as new degree programs are developed, enrollments rise, online instruction matures, and the number of institutions offering advanced degrees increases. Our level of understanding of graduate and professional education has not kept pace, especially in comparison to the depth of scholarship available on primary, secondary, and baccalaureate education.
Greening Social Work Education
Edited by Susan Hillock
Bringing together the voices, experiences, and expertise of top Canadian scholars, this book helps incorporate sustainability content into social work teaching methods
Teaching Where You Are offers a guide for non-Indigenous educators to work in good ways with Indigenous students and provides resources across curricular areas to support all students. In this book, two seasoned educators, one Indigenous and one settler, bring to bear their years of experience teaching in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary contexts to explore the ways in which Indigenous and Slow approaches to teaching and learning mirror and complement one another. Using the holistic framework of the Medicine Wheel, Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller illustrate the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking, a focus on experiential learning, and the thoughtful application of the 4Rs – Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, and Responsibility – can bring us back to the principle of teaching people, not subjects. Bringing forth the ways in which colonialism and cognitive imperialism have shaped Canadian curriculum and consciousness, the book offers avenues for the development of decolonial literacy to support the work of Indigenizing education. Teaching Where You Are presents a text useful for teachers and educators grappling with the ongoing impacts of colonialism and the soul-work of how to decolonize and rehumanize education in meaningful ways.
A Research Agenda for Graduate Education is a call to action for the graduate education community to commit to the same level of research and scholarship on itself that it expects from its students in their own disciplinary training. In this book, Brian S. Mitchell explores the current literature on graduate education for theoretical models that need testing, previous research that needs updating, and future research that may be investigated.
The book is divided into research questions on the science of graduate learning, graduate student career preparation, and graduate program improvement with special attention placed on current research topics. Targeted to higher education researchers, including educational psychologists and disciplinary-based researchers specializing in graduate education, this volume will also be of interest to funding agencies, university administrators, and faculty mentors.
Shannon Leddy is an associate professor of Art Education at the University of British Columbia.
Brian S. Mitchell is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Tulane University.
Lorrie Miller is a sessional lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia.
November 2021
160 pages, 6 x 9
Despite urgent calls for global action, sustainable social work practice, and a solid “green” theoretical knowledge base, North American social work and helping professions have been slow to learn from community activists, acknowledge the international climate emergency, and act collectively to achieve climate justice. Greening Social Work Education examines how social work educators can best incorporate sustainability content into social work curricula, integrate green teaching methods, and mobilize students and colleagues towards climate action, justice, and leadership. Drawing on Canadian content, this collection highlights Indigenous, eco-feminist, collective-action, and multi-interdisciplinary approaches to social work. The book provides a rationale for why the topic of greening is important for social work and the helping professions; discussion of current debates, tensions, and issues; useful ideas related to innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, analyses, and constructs; and practical recommendations for teaching green social work education. In doing so, Greening Social Work Education strives to help social workers and educators gain the confidence and tools they need to transform their teaching and curricula.
Susan Hillock is a professor of social work at Trent University.
April 2024
320 pages, 6 x 9
10 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-5520-7
22 figures, 5 tables
January 2024
178 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-0861-6
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Education
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Education
Graduate Education
Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies shannon leddy and lorrie miller
Edited
Role of Play and Place in Young Children’s Language and Literacy
Edited by Shelley Stagg Peterson and Nicola Friedrich
This book brings notions of play and place as cultural constructions into conversations about language and literacy.
Dominant assumptions about place tend to be defined in relation to urban communities. To assume a singular construction of urban places misrepresents the experiences, perspectives, and identities of urban children, making their identities become invisible to researchers, educators, and curriculum developers.
Role of Play and Place in Young Children’s Language and Literacy sheds light on language and literacy learning in play-based early childhood settings where place plays an important role in teaching and learning. Drawing on geographic contexts, this book joins forces with the work of literacy and early childhood education researchers to create an interdisciplinary collage of theory, research, and practice.
Bringing play and place together, a concept Shelley Stagg Peterson and Nicola Friedrich call playce-based learning, this book provides new and compelling ways to think about equity and educational opportunity in the language and literacy development of young children, and offers spaces for them to construct their own identities in positive ways.
Shelley Stagg Peterson is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto.
Nicola Friedrich is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto.
February 2022
272 pages, 6 x 9
33 black-and-white images, 8 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-2921-5
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CURRICULUM DESIGN AND PRAXIS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching A Globally Informed Approach
Edited by Fernanda Carra-Salsberg, Maria Figueredo, and Mihyon Jeon
This edited collection bridges successful teaching and learning ideas across the fields of languages, literatures, and linguistics.
Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching presents a variety of methodologies and theoretical perspectives designed for current and future postsecondary instructors in the areas of linguistics, second language acquisition, and world literatures. The materials presented in this collection integrate perspectives and resources from various target languages, world regions, and cultures into areas related to teaching and learning within the field of language. Including inter-artistic approaches, case studies and practical guides, this book provides theoretical and hands-on suggestions regarding how to mindfully reinforce students’ socio-cultural engagement and linguistic development both inside and outside of their language learning classrooms. While implementing technology, enhancing engaged spaces of learning , and adapting to the ever-changing field of pedagogy, the innovative ideas for language pedagogy presented in this publication attest to agile ways of blending old and new approaches to carry forward in twenty-first century postsecondary classrooms.
Fernanda Carra-Salsberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.
Maria L. Figueredo is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University.
January 2022
352 pages, 6 x 9
10 black-and-white images, 15 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-2890-4
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The ROLE of PLACE and PLAY in YOUNG CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE and LITERACY
by SHELLEY STAGG PETTERSON and NICOLA FRIEDRICH
EDITED BY Fernanda Carra-Salsberg, Maria Figueredo, and Mihyon Jeon
A Globally Informed Approach
Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning
Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, and Jessica Riddell
Taking cues from the energy of the stage, this book harnesses lessons from some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays to help cultivate critical hope and empathy .
How would our world look if we took critical hope, empathy, and love as the starting point for our learning and our lives? Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning presents a conversation between Shakespeare’s most popular plays and our modern experience, between teachers and learners, and between the hopeful and the world at large.
The book analyzes four of Shakespeare’s plays – King Lear, As You Like It , Henry V, and Hamlet – and reveals how they help us to occupy, appreciate, and responsibly interrogate the perspectives of others. Award-winning teachers Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray, and Jessica Riddell explore a diversity of genres – tragedy, history, and comedy – with distinct perspectives from their own lived experiences. They carry on lively conversations in the margins of each essay, mirroring the kind of open, ongoing, and collaborative thinking Shakespeare demands of us. In their quest for critical empathy, they approach each play with the following question: “What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?”
The book is informed by ideas of social justice and transformation, articulated by such thinkers as Paulo Freire, Parker J. Palmer, Ira Shor, John D. Caputo, and bell hooks. In exploring the joy of teaching and experiencing Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning advocates for a critical hope that arises from classroom experiences and moves into the world at large.
Lisa Dickson is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and a full professor of early modern literature and literary theory at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Shannon Murray is a 3M National Teaching Fellow and a full professor of early modern and children’s literature at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Jessica Riddell is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, and a full professor of early modern literature at Bishop’s University.
The book reveals how processes of racialized, gendered and classed exclusion are organized across institutional contexts, including social housing, education and neighbourhood policing
NEW GENERATION KOREAN
This book underlines the value of simulation-based education as an approach that fosters authentic engagement and deep learning
Simulation-based education (SBE) is a teaching strategy where students adopt a character as part of the learning process. SBE has become a fixture in the university classroom based on its ability to stimulate student interest and deepen analytical thinking.
Working with young people, using a range of participatory institutional ethnographic strategies this book investigates the social and institutional relations which differentially punctuate our lives. While research began with what young people know and have experienced, this starting place anchors an investigation of public sector institutions and institutional processes that remain implicated in social-historical-economic processes of global capitalism, imperialism and colonialism. Youth, School, and Community connects the dots between the abstract objectified accounts produced by institutions and enabling institutional action and accounting practices, and the actual material conditions of young people’s lives and development. Focusing on specific policies and procedures that produce young people’s experiences of racialized inclusion/exclusion, makes this book particularly useful to academics, and activists who want to ensure that young people experience equitable access to public sector resources and not disproportionate exposure to public sector punishments and punitive interventions.
Simulations and Student Learning is the first piece of scholarship that brings together experts from the social, natural, and health sciences in order to open up new opportunities for learning about different strategies, methods, and practices of immersive learning. This collection advances current scholarly thinking by integrating insights from across a range of disciplines on how to effectively design, execute, and evaluate simulations, leading to a deeper understanding of how SBE can be used to cultivate skills and capabilities that students will require to achieve success after graduation.
Matthew A Schnurr is an associate professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University.
Anna MacLeod is a professor in the Faculties of Medicine and Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University and holds academic appointments at St. Francis Xavier University, Acadia University, and the University of Toronto.
Approx. 312 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021
Naomi Nichols is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University.
7 tables / 8 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0773-2
Approx. 224 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2019
Cloth 978-1-4875-0333-8
$75.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2533-0
$75.00 (£51.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2259-9
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Mihyon Jeon, Kyoungrok Ko, Daehee Kim, Yujeong Choi, and Ahrong Lee
EDUCATIONALIZATION AND ITS COMPLEXITIES
RELIGION, POLITICS, and TECHNOLOGY
Bringing a new dimension to the literature on educationalization, this book is grounded in historical research, curricular analysis, and philosophical reflection
Designed by instructors with long-standing experience in teaching Korean, this textbook covers the essential content for Korean language learning through creativity and motivation
This edited collection brings together scholars from Canadian and international institutions to discuss the concept of educationalization, a trend in modern societies of transferring social responsibilities onto the school system. It offers critical observations on the way the concept has been applied and its meaning construed.
New Generation Korean is a full-colour and engaging textbook designed for Korean language learners at the secondary and post-secondary education levels, as well as for independent self-study learners. It presents learning goals and best-practice lessons developed by instructors with extensive Korean language experience.
With classroom-tested lessons, New Generation Korean will guide students to effective and efficient learning of the Korean language and an appreciation of Korean culture. The heavily illustrated textbook is accompanied by audio files and a vocabulary app. A workbook and e-book will also be available.
This book brings a new dimension to the literature on educationalization by including Catholicism, rights to education, historical studies grounded in Canada and Chile, Indigenous issues, and the concept in relation to our digital age in the conversation. In these contributions, the concept is re-signified in that its heuristic power is expanded or problematized.
Rosa Bruno-Jofré is professor and former dean (2000–2010) of the Faculty of Education, cross-appointed to the Department of History, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, at Queen’s University.
Mihyon Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Kyoungrok Ko is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2019 5 figures, 4 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0534-9
Daehee Kim is a professor in the Department of Education at Wonkwang University, South Korea.
$75.00 (£51.99) A Education / Religious Studies
Yujeong Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ahrong Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Approx. 232 pp. / 8 x 10 / March 2021
Full colour throughout Paper 978-1-4875-2605-4
$59.95 (£44.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3877-4 $47.95
Education / Language
EDITED by ROSA BRUNO-JOFRÉ
Edited by Anne M. Phelan and William F. Pinar
Curriculum Studies in Canada
SMALLEST CIRCLES
Smallest Circles First Exploring
Curriculum Studies in Canada Present Preoccupations
Teacher Reconciliatory Praxis through Drama Education
Edited by Anne M . Phelan and William F . Pinar
Mindy R . Carter
This collection reveals what preoccupies curriculum studies scholars in the present historical moment
Smallest Circles First showcases how arts can be used with students, teachers, and communities to explore and learn about taking up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action for Education
The largest specialization in Faculties of Education in Canada is curriculum studies. Curriculum Studies in Canada represents the present preoccupations of curriculum scholars in Canada. Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, contributors engage with significant themes, among them ongoing efforts at justice for Indigenous Peoples, the continuing arrival of immigrants and refugees, Canada’s complex relationship to the United States, and issues related to the climate crisis.
Drawing from studies with pre- and in-service teachers in Quebec, Smallest Circles First looks at how teacher agency engages with the educational calls to action from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Using drama education and theatre, the book explores how the classroom can be used as a liminal educational site for reconciliatory praxis.
Smallest Circles First presents several arts-based educational research examples that illustrate how the arts provide a space for students, teachers, and communities to explore and learn about reconciliation praxis and responsibilities. By implementing arts -based counter-narratives set against settler Canadian history and geography, Smallest Circles First considers the implications of systemic racism, colonization, and political, social, and economic ramifications of governmental policies. Tangible examples from the book showcase how teachers and students can use the arts to learn specifically about their responsibilities in engaging with the TRC, and to how this work can still meet curricular learning outcomes.
Addressing such realities through the field of curriculum studies and the school curriculum is critical at this historical conjuncture given the complex and shifting intersections of local and global dynamics restricting education. To this end, contributing scholars serve as intellectual activists to address the critical need for understanding curriculum responsive to the vexed relations among schools, nation-building, social reconstruction, and identity development. Their activism yields more sophisticated understandings of what it means to be educated in Canada. Contributors trace the legacy of their work and reflect on their present scholarly preoccupations in light of their past endeavours. In doing so, Curriculum Studies in Canada offers an invitation to readers: to study, remember, dialogue, and navigate an uncertain world with them. From these shared responsibilities, the future unfolds.
Mindy R. Carter is an associate professor and the director of teacher education at McGill University.
Anne M. Phelan is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia and an honorary professor at The Education University of Hong Kong.
May 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9
5 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w figures, 2 b&w tables
William F. Pinar is the Tetsuo Aoki Professor in Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Cloth 978-1-4875-0549-3
July 2024
$80.00 (£52.99) A
320 pages, 6 x 9
Paper 978-1-4875-2383-1
3 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w figures
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Education
POP CULTURE AND POWER
VITALIZING VOCABULARY
Vitalizing Vocabulary
Pop Culture and Power Teaching Media Literacy for Social Justice
Doing Pedagogy and Language in Early Childhood Education
Dawn H . Currie and Deirdre M . Kelly
Nicole Land and Cristina D . Vintimilla
Drawing from theory and case studies, Pop Culture and Power takes apart popular culture and reassembles it in ways that empower students to develop analytical sensibilities and design the socially just world they want to live in
Vitalizing Vocabulary proposes that early childhood education in Canada must create a rich and lively lexicon for studying, shaping, intervening in, and creating the worlds that we share with children .
Literacy education has historically characterized mass media as manipulative towards young people who, as a result, are in need of close-reading “skills.” By contrast, Pop Culture and Power treats literacy as a dynamic practice, shaped by its social and cultural context.
Thinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the antiintellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial care. Vitalizing Vocabulary insists that early childhood education in Canada must unsettle our inherited demand for technocratic, instrumental, and accessible relations with language.
At the collision of research and practice, Nicole Land and Cristina D. Vintimilla propose that cultivating playful, speculative, inventive, accountable, and answerable relations with words, concepts, and language is a critical move toward broadening early childhood education’s intellectual and interdisciplinary horizons. The book is organized into four actions that activate pedagogical grammars: reading, writing, citing, and speaking. Each section plays with the purposes of a glossary by proposing language that we would work to erase, reclaim, and introduce. This situates language as an ethical, political, and creative pedagogical process that puts specific relations, curricula, and subjectivities into motion.
Deeming pop culture as an opportunity rather than a threat, Dawn H. Currie and Deirdre M. Kelly worked with K-12 educators to investigate how pop culture can support teaching for social justice. Currie and Kelly began the research for this project with a teacher education seminar in media analysis, where participants designed classroom activities using board games, popular film, music videos, and advertisements. These activities were later piloted in the participants’ classrooms, enabling the authors to identify and address practical issues encountered by student learners. Case studies presented in this book describe the design, implementation, and retrospective assessment of activities engaging learners in media analysis and production. Following the case studies, the authors consider how their approach can foster ethical practices when engaging in the digital environment.
Pop Culture and Power offers theoretically informed yet practical tools that can help educators prepare youth for engagement in our increasingly complex world of mediated meaning making.
Vitalizing Vocabulary ultimately envisions a project of early childhood education where students, educators, pedagogists, researchers, community, and others share a common commitment to creating responsive, meaningful, ethical, and political pedagogies.
Nicole Land is an assistant professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Dawn H. Currie is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Cristina D. Vintimilla is an associate professor of Early Childhood in the Faculty of Education at York University.
Deirdre M. Kelly is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
October 2024
May 2022
160 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
368 pages, 6 x 9
Paper 978-1-4875-5939-7
11 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w figures, 6 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0759-6
$29.95 (£19.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5941-0
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Education
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Education
Mindy R. Carter
PRESENT PREOCCUPATIONS
NICOLE LAND AND CRISTINA D. VINTIMILLA
Doing Pedagogy and Language in Early Childhood Education
Social Justice Pedagogies
Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches
Edited by Katrina Sark
This collection aims to develop and provide new platforms and strategies for making social justice education more accessible .
Social Justice Pedagogies provides a diverse and wide perspective into making education more robust and useful in light of global injustices and new challenges posed by new media and communication practices, media manipulation, right-wing populism, climate crisis, and intersectional discriminations. Meant to inspire readers to see learning and teaching from a wider perspective of justice, inclusion, equity, and creativity, it argues that relational and mindful approaches to teaching and learning in specific contexts, settings, and place-based experiences are essential in how we determine the value of education. The book draws on contributions from scholars and experts who incorporate social justice into their teaching practices in different disciplines in universities across Canada, the US, and Europe. Social Justice Pedagogies uniquely presents a wide interdisciplinary perspective on social justice in education practices in order to speak to the ways in which we all want to make our research, our classrooms, and our institutions more just. It argues that pedagogy, and specifically teaching and learning, constitutes a process of building relationships between people and knowledge by fostering a learning community.
Katrina Sark is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Design, Learning, and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark.
Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches
July 2023
312 pages, 6 x 9 12 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4933-6
$79.95 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5546-7
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Education
JESSE BAZZUL Of related interest: An Intense Calling: How Ethics Is Essential to Education
By Jesse Bazzul
978-1-4875-5058-5
Success in Graduate School and Beyond A Guide for STEM Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Nana Lee and Reinhart Reithmeier
Illustrated by Nikko Torres
This guidebook offers practical advice and tips for the professional and career development of graduate students in the sciences .
Success in Graduate School and Beyond is designed to empower graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in STEM with practical tools, tips, and skill development strategies to plan and create their dream career pathway. Intended as a professional development course book, this balanced, self-reflective guide to workplace readiness is organized into five sections that support graduate student development: self-reflection, wellness, skills, networking, and planning for future success. Written in a conversational style, this guidebook includes clear learning outcomes based on the authors’ successful graduate professional development course at the University of Toronto. Covering increasingly important career subjects such as mentorships, transferrable skill development, emotional intelligence, and EDI, this guidebook solves a skills gap and builds core competencies demanded from industries and academia. Interspersed personal accounts from the authors about key topics and seven “Alumni Career Profiles” describing various career trajectories work to encourage self-awareness, promote essential skill development, and networking proficiency.
Nana Lee is the director of the Graduate Professional Development and Mentorship in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and an associate professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Immunology at the University of Toronto.
Reinhart Reithmeier is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto.
March 2024
328 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
22 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w figure, 6 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-2651-1
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2650-4
$35.95 (£23.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3964-1
$28.95
Education
Rethinking Freire and Illich
Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives
Edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Michael Attridge, and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar
Analysing the influential work of Freire and Illich, this collection examines their intellectual and political roots and their lasting impact in educational theory and practice
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both Freire and Illich led in different ways to a new approach to perceiving and understanding the concept of liberation as a human condition, while also presenting current criticisms of their work from a gendered perspective and by Indigenous scholars in the US and Canada.
The book offers a historical analysis using extensive primary sources and an originality of topics. Rethinking Freire and Illich presents Freire and Illich in light of contemporary issues in this generation, and offers renewed searches for a good and just life and a reconstructed democratic education.
Rosa Bruno-Jofré is a professor in the Faculty of Education cross-appointed to the Department of History at Queen’s University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Michael Attridge teaches historical and systematic theology at the Toronto School of Theology.
Jon Igelmo Zaldívar is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the Complutense University of Madrid.
October 2023
360 pages, 6 x 9
16 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w table
Cloth 978-1-4875-5043-1
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5052-3
$75.00
Education
IN GRADUATE SCHOOL AND BEYOND
Nana Lee and Reinhart Reithmeier Illustrated by Nikko Torres
Edited by ROSA BRUNO-JOFRÉ, MICHAEL ATTRIDGE, JON IGELMO ZALVÍDAR
Supervising Conflict A Guide for Faculty
Heather McGhee Peggs
This book provides practical advice for faculty who supervise PhD and master’s students about how to proactively manage the most common conflicts that arise in graduate studies
Cultivating respectful and productive academic relationships is a priority within higher education. What can faculty do when conflict disrupts research progress and strains the supervisor/ student relationship?
Supervising Conflict offers practical advice and tools to help faculty identify and actively respond to the most common grad school concerns – the “everyday” conflicts. Drawing on data collected over four years at a large research-intensive university in Canada, Heather McGhee Peggs provides faculty with a map to where issues are likely to emerge based on hundreds of coaching conversations with faculty and students.
While ideally every campus would have a dispute resolution office and a graduate peer support team to help individuals navigate conflict, the reality is that faculty are often managing complex and difficult situations on their own. This unique resource combines negotiation and fair complaints-handling principles with insights from a multidisciplinary graduate peer team and highlights the critical role that equitable, restorative, and trauma-informed approaches can play in the emergence and resolution of conflict. This book includes opportunities for self-reflection, real-life case studies, and activities for professional faculty development. Supervising Conflict guides administrators seeking to address graduate concerns earlier and more effectively at a systemic level.
Heather McGhee Peggs is a lawyer and former manager of the Graduate Conflict Resolution Centre at the University of Toronto.
This book explores the holistic and harmonious principles of Taoism in relation to teaching and learning
The ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism contains profound wisdom about the cosmos, nature, human life, and education. Taoism seeks to be in harmony with nature and using it as a guide can help us live in a way that is healing to both ourselves and the planet.
Taoism, Teaching, and Learning identifies key aspects of Taoist thought and highlights how these principles can promote a holistic approach to teaching and learning. In particular, this book offers educators guidelines and pedagogical examples for how to instill a perspective of interconnectedness into their classrooms. It sheds light on how Philosophical Taoism articulates a vision of the universe and life that mirrors the actual realities of nature.
Providing the frameworks and methods to teaching and learning based on the interconnectedness of life, Taoism, Teaching, and Learning develops an inspiring vision for education and helps us to see our world in a deeply holistic and more meaningful way.
August 2022
176 pages, 6 x 9 2 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4094-4
$65.00 (£42.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4095-1
$29.95 (£19.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4097-5
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John P. Miller is a full professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Toronto.
Xiang Li earned her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Pedagogy from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Tian Ruan earned her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Pedagogy from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Of related interest: The Holistic Curriculum, Third Edition By John P Miller 978-1-4875-2317-6
Viral Contagion and Death of the Social
Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker
TECHNOLOGIES OF THE NEW REAL Technologies of the New Real
Digital
Futures
Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.
With astonishing speed and relatively little public debate, we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and high-level surveillance are not uncommon. In this age of groundbreaking developments in robotic technologies, synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence and articulated robotic limbs, forming a newly blended reality of machines, bodies, and affect.
Technologies of the New Real draws from critical intersections of technology and society, including drones, surveillance, DIY bodies, and innovations in robotic technology, to explore what these advances in science and technology can tell us about our present reality, or what authors Arthur and Marilouise Kroker deem the “new real” of digital culture in the twenty-first century.
Technologies of the New Real explores the many technologies of our reality as they penetrate the social, political, and economic static of our everyday lives, seemingly erasing traditionally conceived boundaries between humans and machines, and rendering fully ambivalent borders between the human mind and simulated data.
VIRAL CONTAGION AND DEATH OF THE SOCIAL
ARTHUR KROKER & MARILOUISE KROKER
December 2021
192 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-4021-0
$60.00 (£39.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4022-7
$27.95 (£18.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4024-1
$27.95
Science and Technology
Arthur Kroker is a professor emeritus and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria, and the director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC).
Marilouise Kroker was a feminist scholar, publisher, editor, writer, theorist, and performance artist.
Of related interest: Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games
By Sara M. Grimes
978-1-4426-1556-4
Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools
Edited by Thomas Falkenberg
This collection brings education scholars from Manitoba together to inquire into issues arising from the idea to make school education primarily about student well-being .
By its very nature, school education is concerned with student well-being. Written by Canadian education scholars from a Manitoba-based research group, Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools aims to develop the notion that what we wish for our children is their well-being and well-becoming as they live their lives. This collection brings education scholars together to focus on a timely topic that has been of rapidly increasing interest to the research and education communities: student well-being and flourishing schools.
Contributors address a broad range of issues that arise from this position to create a rich and integrated understanding of the topic. Chapters focus on foundational issues, conceptual issues, socio-cultural and organizational issues, and pedagogical and curricular issues. Ultimately, Well-Being and Well-Becoming in Schools weaves together substantial ideas to create an integrative framework that will not only serve as a guide for further research, but also for school educational leaders and educators to implement the idea of making school education primarily about student well-being.
Thomas Falkenberg is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.
The book reveals how processes of racialized, gendered and classed exclusion are organized across institutional contexts, including social housing, education and neighbourhood policing
Working with young people, using a range of participatory institutional ethnographic strategies this book investigates the social and institutional relations which differentially punctuate our lives. While research began with what young people know and have experienced, this starting place anchors an investigation of public sector institutions and institutional processes that remain implicated in social-historical-economic processes of global capitalism, imperialism and colonialism.
Youth, School, and Community connects the dots between the abstract objectified accounts produced by institutions and enabling institutional action and accounting practices, and the actual material conditions of young people’s lives and development. Focusing on specific policies and procedures that produce young people’s experiences of racialized inclusion/exclusion, makes this book particularly useful to academics, and activists who want to ensure that young people experience equitable access to public sector resources and not disproportionate exposure to public sector punishments and punitive interventions.
Naomi Nichols is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University.
Approx. 224 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2019
Cloth 978-1-4875-0333-8
$75.00 (£51.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2259-9
$32.95 (£22.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1773-1 $32.95 Education / Social Work / Urban Studies
Educationalization and Its Complexities
Religion, Politics, and Technology
Edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré
EDUCATIONALIZATION AND ITS COMPLEXITIES
RELIGION, POLITICS, and TECHNOLOGY
Bringing a new dimension to the literature on educationalization, this book is grounded in historical research, curricular analysis, and philosophical reflection
This edited collection brings together scholars from Canadian and international institutions to discuss the concept of educationalization, a trend in modern societies of transferring social responsibilities onto the school system. It offers critical observations on the way the concept has been applied and its meaning construed.
This book brings a new dimension to the literature on educationalization by including Catholicism, rights to education, historical studies grounded in Canada and Chile, Indigenous issues, and the concept in relation to our digital age in the conversation. In these contributions, the concept is re-signified in that its heuristic power is expanded or problematized.
Rosa Bruno-Jofré is professor and former dean (2000–2010) of the Faculty of Education, cross-appointed to the Department of History, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, at Queen’s University.
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2019
5 figures, 4 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0534-9
$75.00 (£51.99) A Education / Religious Studies
EDITED by ROSA BRUNO-JOFRÉ
Ageism at Work
Deconstructing Age and Gender in the Discriminating Labour Market
Ellie D. Berger
This book looks at how ageism plays out in the labour market and how it intersects with sexism from the perspective of both older workers and employers.
The Canadian population is aging, which has brought about an increasing number of social and economic challenges. With the aging of the workforce, the reconceptualization of older workers, the increasing number of women in the labour force, the elimination of mandatory retirement, the fluctuating economy, and the changes to the pension system, barriers to employment for older workers, such as ageism, need to be of central concern.
Ageism at Work examines the subjective experiences of older workers in Canada and explores how they negotiate ageism and manage their interactions in the employment setting. Ellie D. Berger looks at the intersection between age and gender and examines employers’ attitudes towards older workers quantitatively, while also exploring their first-hand accounts about them through qualitative inquiry. Understanding how ageism plays out in the labour market, how it intersects with sexism, and its consequences on a personal level, are critical to moving the discussion on discrimination and human rights forward in Canada.
Ellie D. Berger is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nipissing University.
Approx. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2021
7 tables / 1 figure
Cloth 978-1-4426-4713-8
$70.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4426-1528-1
$29.95 (£22.99) A eBook 978-1-4426-6736-5 $29.95 Sociology
Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity
A Comparative Introduction
Gregg M. Olsen
Drawing from a range of comparative vantage points, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of poverty.
In wealthy nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issues of poverty and homelessness have often been displaced or sidelined by the accelerating number of studies on income inequality and wealth disparity. In Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity, Gregg M. Olsen refocuses our attention on rising levels of poverty and homelessness, suggesting what we can do to address these issues.
Highlighting the important differences between Canada, the UK, and the US, this volume explores the broad and narrow ways that poverty and homelessness have been conceptualized, and how this has shaped the way they are defined, measured, and addressed in each country.
Olsen presents and critically contrasts the two main theoretical traditions – individual and societal – that have emerged to explain poverty and homelessness. Olsen argues that societal approaches to the study of poverty are better equipped to explain the developments unfolding across these nations, and that the eradication of poverty will happen only when the socio-economic system has been seriously overhauled and founded upon economic democracy.
Gregg M. Olsen is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba. His other books include The Politics of the Welfare State and Power and Inequality.
Approx. 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021 4 figures / 8 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0984-2
$59.00 (£44.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-0985-9
$28.95 (£21.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-0987-3 $28.95 Sociology
Gregg M. Olsen
BURNT BURNT BY DEMOCRACY
Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life
Jacqueline Kennelly
Burnt by Democracy
Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life
Jacqueline Kennelly
Drawing on interviews with young activists and young people who have experienced homelessness, Burnt by Democracy illustrates how growing wealth inequality has weakened democracy across five Western nations .
Burnt by Democracy traces the political ascendance of neoliberalism and its effects on youth. The book explores democracy and citizenship as described in interviews with over forty young people – ages 16 to 30 – who have either experienced homelessness or identify as an activist, living in five liberal democracies: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Highlighting significant cuts to social and affordable housing, astronomical increases in the costs of higher education, and the transformation and erosion of state benefits systems, Jacqueline Kennelly argues that democracy’s decline is not occurring because young people are apathetic, or focused on informal politics, or unaware of their civic duties. Rather, it is because of collective misunderstanding about how democracy is actually structured, and how growing wealth inequality has undermined the capacity of those at the bottom to meaningfully advocate for changes.
Against a vivid and often heart-breaking backdrop of stories from young people struggling to survive and thrive under conditions of ever-expanding state retrenchment and inequality, Burnt by Democracy makes a timely and impassioned plea for protecting and strengthening democracy by truly levelling the playing field for all.
Jacqueline Kennelly is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Urban Youth Research at Carleton University.
April 2024
272 pages, 6 x 9
2 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4847-6
$85.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5164-3
$34.95 (£23.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-5900-7
$34.95
Sociology
Reconfiguring Global Societies in the PreVaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Edited by Jack Fong
This book examines how COVID-19 resulted in traumatic changes in society around the world before the arrival of vaccines in 2020 .
Reconfiguring Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic examines lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in communities and societies around the world before the arrival of vaccines. This collection presents analyses of scholars from eight countries, all of whom were engaged in the unfolding crisis of social forces across the world.
This timely volume conveys valuable insights about how public officials, the state, healthcare workers, and, ultimately, citizens responded to consequences of the pandemic upon not only the body but also social relations in community, city, and society. The contributing scholars document how state apparatuses, urban configurations, places of employment, legal structures, and ways of life responded to crisis-altered social conditions during the pandemic.
This collection brings together a cross section of scholars experiencing the same temporal moment of crisis together, watching and observing how the pandemic of their age uncoiled itself into the fabric of community, onto the institutions and bureaucracies of society, and into the most intimate confines of the home.
Jack Fong is a professor of sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
May 2024
432 pages, 6 x 9
16 b&w illustrations, 13 b&w figures, and 4 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-2707-5
$110.00 (£72.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2708-2
$52.95 (£34.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2710-5
$52.95
Sociology
Edited by Jack Fong
Reconfiguring
Global Societies in the Pre-Vaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
CAPITALISM AND CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY
Capitalism and Classical Social Theory
Fourth Edition
John Bratton and David Denham
The fourth edition of this critical text offers a concise and accessible survey of early social theorists, with updates that link classical theories to current events .
Capitalism and Classical Social Theory offers a rigorous introduction to classical social theory, highlighting the enduring relevance of classical works for understanding the many crises of the contemporary world. This popular theory book introduces students to a selection of classical social thinkers and demonstrates the relevance of the classical canon in contemporary society – a society marked by social inequality, insecurity, transformative AI, and the climate emergency. The fourth edition features updated examples, data, and images throughout, as well as new material on early American sociology and new literature on classical social theorists from the past five years. It reintroduces a chapter on Georg Simmel and urbanism, and it includes a new chapter exploring the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and class, race, and gender. While attentive to historical context, Capitalism and Classical Social Theory argues that classical theorists speak directly to the present challenges of inequality, social change, and the climate crisis in the twenty-first century.
John Bratton is an honorary professor at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
David Denham is a retired lecturer of sociology at the University of Wolverhampton.
June 2024
464 pages, 6 x 9
41 b&w illustrations, 9 b&w figures, 3 b&w tables
Paper 978-1-4875-5631-0
$54.95 (£36.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-5633-4
$43.95
Sociology
Practising Social Work Research
Practising Social Work Research Case Studies for Learning,
Third Edition
Rick Csiernik and Rachel Birnbaum
The third edition of Practising Social Work Research introduces real-world research issues and, through case study descriptions, places readers within the environment to resolve the problem .
Research skills are as critical to social work practitioners as skills in individual and group counselling, policy analysis, and community development. Adopting strategies similar to those used in direct practice courses, this book integrates research with social work practice, and in so doing promotes an understanding and appreciation of the research process.
The third edition of Practising Social Work Research comprises twenty-seven case studies that illustrate different research approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, single-subject, and mixed methods. The third edition also adopts a greater equity, diversity, and inclusivity focus than the previous editions.
Through the use of applied, real-life examples, the authors demonstrate the processes of conceptualization, operationalization, sampling, data collection and processing, and implementation. Designed to help the student and practitioner become more comfortable with research procedures, Practising Social Work Research capitalizes on the strengths that social work students bring to assessment and problem solving.
Rick Csiernik is a professor in the School of Social Work at King’s University College.
Rachel Birnbaum is a distinguished university emerita professor in the School of Social Work at King’s University College.
May 2024
456 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
43 b&w figures, 34 b&w tables
Paper 978-1-4875-6867-2
$59.95 (£39.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-5203-9
$47.95
Sociology
John Bratton & David Denham
Rick Csiernik and Rachel Birnbaum
Contested Fields
A Global History of Modern Football
Alan McDougall International Themes and Issues
Interrogating the costs and benefits of the game’s controversial path to global preeminence, Contested Fields shows how and why football matters in the modern world – as part of the social fabric and as a site of political power and resistance
Few cultural activities speak more powerfully to international histories of the modern world than football. In the late nineteenth century, this cheap and simple sport emerged as a major legacy of Britain’s formal and informal empires and spread quickly across Europe, South America, and Africa. More slowly and hesitantly, it made inroads into the sports cultures of North America and Australasia. Today, football (known to many as soccer) is arguably the world’s most popular pastime, an activity played and watched by millions of people around the globe. It has also become the focus of a rich and diverse body of scholarly research.
Contested Fields introduces readers to key aspects of the global game, synthesizing research on football’s transnational role in reflecting and shaping political, socio-economic, and cultural developments over the past 150 years. Each chapter uses case studies and cutting-edge scholarship to analyze an important element of football’s international story: migration, money, competition, gender, race, space, spectatorship, and confrontation.
Alan McDougall is a professor of History at the University of Guelph.
Approx. 256 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / April 2020 2 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-9457-2
$65.00 (£48.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-9456-5
$26.95 (£20.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-9458-9 $21.95 History / Sociology of Sport
Canada at a Crossroads
Crime and Criminality
Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations
Social, Psychological and Neurobiological Explanations
Jeffrey S Denis
Ehor Boyanowsky
Unprecedented in the way it draws on many different theories to explain crime and violent phenomena, this highly readable book is sure to fascinate readers
Canada at a Crossroads investigates the boundaries and bridges between Indigenous and settler communities and the persistence of anti-Indigenous racism in twenty-first-century small-town Canada
This informative and entertaining book, peppered with personal anecdotes, and rich in case studies, adopts an eclectic approach to studying the causes of crime. Rather than rely on one theoretical position, Boyanowsky opts to borrow from a variety of theories to arrive at the most effective answer. As a result, even seasoned veterans will learn from this book.
Crime and Criminality employs case studies, both notorious and lesser known, to bring theories to life, and to offer insight into vital contemporary topics like domestic violence, child pornography, genocide, the effect of climate change on crime, and the evolution of cybercrime. Entertaining, and accessible, and comparative in scope, this book is ideal for anyone interested in understanding the varied causes of crime.
Ehor Boyanowsky is a retired professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2019
Drawing on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing, Canada at a Crossroads emphasizes the social psychological barriers to transforming white settler ideologies and practices and working towards decolonization. After tracing settlers’ sense of group superiority and entitlement to historical and ongoing colonial processes, Denis illustrates how contemporary Indigenous and settler residents think about and relate to one another. He highlights how, despite often having close cross-group relationships, residents maintain conflicting perspectives on land, culture, history, and treaties, and Indigenous residents frequently experience interpersonal and systemic racism. Denis then critically assesses the promise and pitfalls of commonly proposed solutions, including intergroup contact, education, apologies, and collective action, and concludes that genuine reconciliation will require radically restructuring Canadian society and perpetually fulfilling treaty responsibilities.
9 figures, 4 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0562-2
$80.00 (£54.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2389-3
Jeffrey S Denis is an associate professor of Sociology at McMaster University and a settler Canadian of mixed European ancestry living on the lands of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee nations in Dish with One Spoon territory.
Transnational and book temporary analyses shaped Contributors including mentation approaches derpinned of state racist regulated flected dissent. understood well times Robert munication associate University.
Approx.
$95.00
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COSMOPOLITAN MATERNALISMS
Migration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in Modernity
PERFORMING POSTRACIALISM
Philip S S Howard
Performing Postracialism
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms Migration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in
Modernity
Chand Somaiah
Reflections on Antiblackness, Nation, and Education through Contemporary Blackface in Canada
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms presents an in-depth, gendered, and qualitative analysis of contemporary maternity and mothering practices among a South Asian immigrant community .
Performing Postracialism provides an in-depth investigation of contemporary blackface incidents in Canada and its educational institutions
This women-centred study examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women – Kodavathees – in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney through conceptual lenses of new cosmopolitanisms and new maternalisms.
Blackface – instances in which non-Black persons temporarily darken their skin with make-up to impersonate Black people, usually for fun, and frequently in educational contexts – constitutes a postracialist pedagogy that propagates antiblack logics.
Rescuing Humanity Transcending
Playing the Supporting Role Strip
the Limits of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Club Managers and Other Third Parties
Tuulia Law
Willem H . Vanderburg
Playing the Supporting Role draws on interviews with strippers and strip club management to bring to life the daily routines, personalities, conflicts, and challenges of managing and working in the erotic dance sector
Rescuing Humanity examines the possible roots of most planetary crises and reveals how we might instead create a livable and sustainable future
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms explores how Kodavathee immigrant mothering is practised with a pragmatic awareness of adapting the ways of the ancestors to the promises and pitfalls associated with living in modernity. As a member of this community, which possesses martial and agricultural traditions, and as an immigrant mother herself, Chand Somaiah engages in maternal conversations and in-depth qualitative interviews with forty-three mothers. The book emphasizes the sociocultural processes associated with cosmopolitanization that accomplish mothering in general, and that affect these Kodavathee mothers specifically. Cosmopolitan Maternalisms makes sense of the gendered and globalized convictions, contradictions, and aspirations shared by these mothers who are poised to slowly challenge the heteronormative maternal pedestals and patriarchal structures of middle-class transnational India.
In Performing Postracialism , Philip S.S. Howard examines instances of contemporary blackface in Canada and argues that it is more than a simple matter of racial (mis)representation. The book looks at the ostensible humour and dominant conversations around blackface, arguing that they are manifestations of the particular formations of antiblackness in the Canadian nation state and its educational institutions. It posits that the occurrence of blackface in universities is not incidental, and outlines how educational institutions’ responses to blackface in Canada rely upon a motivation to protect whiteness.
Performing Postracialism draws from focus groups and individual interviews conducted with university students, faculty, administrators, and Black student associations, along with online articles about blackface, to provide the basis for a nuanced examination of the ways that blackface is experienced by Black persons.
Chand Somaiah holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute and Yale-NUS College.
March 2024
360 pages, 6 x 9
Philip S.S. Howard is an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University.
Strippers may be the main attraction of strip clubs, but their work is bolstered by people who are rarely meaningfully considered: those who organize, supervise, manage, or coordinate the labour of erotic dancers, including managers, bouncers, and disc jockeys. Playing the Supporting Role contends it is essential to explore the managerial layer in order to have a comprehensive understanding of the power relations and working conditions in the erotic dance sector – and, consequently, distinguish banal or beneficial from unfair or exploitative sex-industry labour practices.
In Rescuing Humanity , Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing for less than a century. During this brief period, these approaches have become responsible for both our spectacular successes and most of our social and environmental crises. At their roots is a cultural mutation that includes secular religious attitudes that veil the limits of these approaches, leading to their overvaluation.
Vanderburg begins to explore the limits of discipline-based approaches, which guides the way toward developing complementary ones capable of transcending these limits. It is no different from a carpenter going beyond the limits of his hammer by reaching for other tools. As we grapple with everything from the impacts of social media, the ongoing climate crisis, and divisive political ideologies, Rescuing Humanity reveals that our civilization must learn to do the equivalent if humans and other living things are to continue making earth a home.
Focusing primarily on third parties in the erotic dance sector, this book examines who these individuals are; how they manage clients, workers, security, and stigma; the services and resources they provide; and, in turn, strippers’ experiences and perceptions of these practices. Through qualitative interview data with third parties and strippers from two Ontario cities, Playing the Supporting Role ultimately advances an understanding of third-party work as gendered, classed, and racialized occupational performance in a stigmatized labour sector that is simultaneously over- and under-regulated.
Tuulia Law is an assistant professor of criminology at York University.
Willem H. Vanderburg has taught preventive engineering, sociology, and environmental studies at the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto.
September 2023
April 2023
192 pages, 6 x 9
384 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4894-0
1 b&w table
Cloth 978-1-4875-5110-0
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4979-4
$99.00 (£65.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5247-3
$29.95 (£19.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5113-1
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Sociology
$48.95
Sociology
Chand Somaiah
PHILIP S.S. HOWARD
DECOLONIZING DATA
Decolonizing Data
Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods
Jacqueline M. Quinless
Decolonizing Data yields valuable insights into the decolonization of research methods by addressing and examining health inequalities from an anti-racist and anti-oppressive standpoint.
Canada’s colonial history continues to have a devastating impact on Indigenous peoples and communities. Decolonizing Data explores how ongoing structures of colonialization negatively impact the well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities across Canada, resulting in persistent health inequalities. In addressing the social dimensions of health, particularly as they affect Indigenous peoples and BIPOC communities, Decolonizing Data asks, should these groups be given priority for future health policy considerations?
Decolonizing Data provides a deeper understanding of the social dimensions of health as applied to Indigenous peoples, who have been historically underfunded in and excluded from health services, programs, and quality of care; this has most recently been seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Drawing on both Western and Indigenous methodologies, this unique scholarly contribution takes a sociological perspective, as well as the “two-eyed seeing” approach to research methods. By looking at the ways that everyday research practices contribute to the colonization of health outcomes for Indigenous peoples, Decolonizing Data exposes the social dimensions of health care, and offers a careful and respectful reflection on how to “unsettle conversations” about applied social research initiatives for our most vulnerable groups.
Jacqueline M. Quinless is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.
December 2021
184 pages, 6 x 9
7 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0440-3
$60.00 (£39.99) A
Paper 978-1-4875-2333-6
$24.95 (£16.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-3010-5
$24.95
Sociology / Indigenous Studies
Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials
Transnational Value Transfers and Losses
Edited by Margaret Walton-Roberts
This edited collection explores how the value of training and skills invested in internationally educated health professionals is transferred, transformed, and in some cases tarnished, at all stages of the international migration process.
Bringing together diverse approaches and case studies of international health worker migration, Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials critically reimagines how we conceptualize the transfer of value embodied in internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs).
This volume provides key insights into economistic and feminist concepts of global value transmission, complexity of health worker migration, and the gendered and intersectional intricacies involved in the workplace integration of immigrant health care workers. The contributions to this edited collection uncover the multitude of actors who play a role in creating, transmitting, transforming, and utilizing the value embedded in international health migrants.
Margaret Walton-Roberts is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
December 2021
368 pages, 6 x 9
26 tables, 14 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0520-2
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2373-2
$44.95 (£29.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3175-1
$44.95
Sociology / Geography
JACQUELINE M. QUINLESS
Edited By MARGARET WALTON-ROBERTS
The Joy of Stats
A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Third Edition
Roberta Garner with Michael Ash
The Joy of Stats opens the door to social statistics with a simple and approachable guide for students and professionals .
The Joy of Stats offers a reader-friendly introduction to applied statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences and public policy. Perfect as an undergraduate text or self-study manual, it emphasizes how to understand concepts, interpret algorithms and formulas, analyse data, and answer research questions.
This brand-new edition offers examples and visualizations using real-life data, a revised discussion of statistical inference, consistent integration of research questions and design, and closer links between concepts and formulas. The third edition has been extensively reorganized with shorter chapters and practice exercises throughout, while retaining useful pedagogical features such as key terms, “math thoughts”, and, a math refresher, for review. The Joy of Stats also places a strong emphasis on learning how to write and speak clearly about data results.
Supported by a companion website with data sets and additional resources, The Joy of Stats is a superb choice for introducing students to applied statistics and for refreshing and reviewing stats as a social scientist, public policy professional, or community activist.
THE OF STATS
THIRD EDITION
August 2022
400 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
50 b&w figures, 50 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-2728-0
$125.00 (£82.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2729-7
$59.95 (£39.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-2731-0
$47.95
Sociology
Roberta Garner is a professor in the Department of Sociology at DePaul University.
Michael Ash is a professor in the Department of Economics and School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
By Jacqueline M Quinless
978-1-4875-2333-6
Roberta Garner with Michael Ash
Playing Out of Bounds
“Belonging” and the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament
Yuka Nakamura
This book uses the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT) to examine processes of constructing identity, belonging, and community, and how these processes mobilize, deploy, and are therefore embedded in intersecting and socially constructed notions of race, gender, class, and culture
Playing Out of Bounds investigates the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT), an annual event that began in the 1930s in the streets of Manhattan, and now attracts 1200 competitors from the U.S. and Canada. The tournament features a 9-player game, instead of the usual six, and player eligibility is limited to “100% Chinese,” as defined in the tournament rules. Rules that limit competitors to specific ethno-racial groups are justified by the discrimination that Chinese people faced when they were denied access to physical activity spaces, and instead played in the alleyways and streets of Chinatown.
Drawing on interviews, participant-observation, and analysis of websites and tournament documents, Playing Out of Bounds explores how participants understand and negotiate their sense of belonging within this community of volleyball players, and how both the boundaries of this community are continually being (re)defined. This identity/community building occurs within a context of anti-Asian racism, growing numbers of mixed race players, and fluidity of what it means to be Canadian, American, Chinese and Asian.
Yuka Nakamura is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University.
PLAYING OUT OF BOUNDS
“Belonging” and the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament
Approx. 216 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2019 15 photos, 2 figures, 1 table Cloth 978-1-4875-0499-1
$75.00 (£51.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2364-0
$29.95(£20.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3131-7 $29.95
Sociology
BAYANIHAN and BELONGING
Filipinos and Religion in Canada ALISON R. MARSHALL Of related interest: Bayanihan and Belonging Filipinos and Religion in Canada By Alison R. Marshall 978-1-4875-2250-6
YUKA NAKAMURA
Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations
Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope
Amber Gazso
Through rich and poignant stories and critical analysis of policy, this book sheds light on what it is like, and how it feels, to manage substance use while on welfare
Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations uses intimate, complex portraits to tell the stories of people who have lived some part of their life course while using or recovering from using substances (such as alcohol or illicit or prescription drugs) and also being part of a family and experiencing poverties.
Through these multifaceted stories, layered with a critical analysis of welfare policy, the book probes the deeply entrenched stigma of living with addiction and in low income. Amber Gazso’s work revolves around the three-principles idea that (1) addiction is part of everyday life; (2) if we believe that people are not their addictions, then stigmatizing addiction has no place in society; and (3) destigmatizing addiction and providing better, more imaginative programs and services invites and supports actionable hope. Reflecting on qualitative data, both narrative interviews and policy discourse, Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations illuminates how stigmas can be overturned through a collective praxis of hope.
Amber Gazso is an associate professor of sociology at York University.
December 2023
272 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-4677-9
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4753-0
$36.95 (£24.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5096-7
$36.95
Sociology
PROSPERITY
Gregg M. Olsen
By Gregg M Olsen
978-1-4875-0985-9
Where Am I in the Picture? Researcher
Positionality in Rural Studies
Edited by Claudia Mitchell, Katarina Giritli-Nygren, and Relebohile Moletsane
Drawing on unique visual methods, Where Am I in the Picture? explores researcher positionality in transnational studies of rurality
Positionality and researcher reflexivity – how to account for one’s subject position – remain as challenges for new researchers. But they also remain as challenges for experienced researchers, who are often involved in multiple research projects simultaneously. Where Am I in the Picture? sheds light on the idea of researcher positionality through visual methodologies, particularly in the context of studying rurality in Canada, Sweden, and South Africa.
The book is intended for new and experienced researchers seeking to decolonize their own perspectives in research in the social sciences and humanities. Drawing together compelling narratives from researchers about their positionality in studying rurality, the book highlights a need for greater attention to “where we are in the picture” more broadly. It suggests that when it comes to the rural, researchers need to rethink the interplay of dominant images, insider and outsider perspectives, and what this interplay means in relation to interpretation.
Claudia Mitchell is a distinguished James McGill professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and an honorary professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Katarina Giritli-Nygren is a professor of sociology at Mid Sweden University.
Relebohile Moletsane is the JL Dube chair in rural education in the School of Education and the pro vice chancellor of social cohesion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
October 2023
296 pages, 6 x 9
39 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map
Cloth 978-1-4875-0622-3
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4782-0
$32.95 (£21.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3356-4
$32.95
Sociology
Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology
Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology
Margo C . Watt
This collection of case studies illustrates how the science of clinical forensic psychology informs all aspects of criminal cases and the criminal justice process in Canada
Clinical forensic psychology is defined by the application of clinical psychology – assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and consultation – in legal contexts. The term captures the integration of clinical psychology as an applied professional discipline and forensic psychology as an experimental discipline.
Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology offers a series of case studies that allow readers to take a close and personal look at the criminal justice system in Canada. Clinical forensic psychologist Margo C. Watt examines the particulars of each case, including the biological, psychological, social, cultural, and legal factors. The book takes an evidence-based approach and highlights how the science of clinical forensic psychology informs all aspects of criminal cases: police investigative techniques, eyewitness testimony, pretrial publicity, jury selection and decision-making, forensic evaluations, psychological autopsies, mental health in corrections, and more.
Examining incidents ranging from false confessions to wrongful convictions to deaths in custody and the ones who got away, Cases in Clinical Forensic Psychology questions how and why these events happened and considers what we can learn from them.
Margo C. Watt is a professor of psychology, practising clinical psychologist, and the coordinator of applied forensic psychology at St. Francis Xavier University.
September 2023
248 pages, 6 x 9
40 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4277-1
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4278-8
$44.95 (£29.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-4279-5
$35.95
Sociology / Psychology
Margo C. Watt
Teaching Social Work
REFLECTIONS ON PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
Edited by Rick Csiernik and Susan Hillock
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021
5 tables / 1 figure
Cloth 978-1-4875-0382-6
$55.00 (£41.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1887-5 $55.00
Social Work / Education
Teaching Social Work
Reflections on Pedagogy and Practice
Edited by Rick Csiernik and Susan Hillock
Exploring major themes in social work education, including pedagogy, practice, and issues in teaching, this book is for both new and experienced social work educators
Social work education has the potential to be transformative and consciousness raising, and to produce social change and liberation, while inspiring hope in students for the creation of more just systems. An understanding of oppression, its diverse manifestations, and its differential impact on vulnerable individuals and groups is essential to contemporary social work education. What then is the best manner in which to prepare educators for their immensely important, complex, and multidimensional role as teachers of social work?
Most social work instructors learn to teach through trial and error, bringing their own style, experiences, and preferences to the endeavour rather than having a formal program of education and instruction on how to best educate and instruct. This book addresses the complex and uncertain field of social work education, bringing together thirty experienced professors and practitioners who teach in BSW, MSW, and PhD programs. Together, the contributors create a framework for social work educators to reflect on how they teach, why they teach in specific ways, and what works best for teaching in the discipline of social work.
Rick Csiernik is a professor in the School of Social Work, King’s University College at Western University.
Susan Hillock is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work and the Department of Graduate Studies in Education at Trent University.
Also by Rick Csiernik: Practising Social Work Research: Case Studies for Learning, Second Edition 978-1-4875-2015-1
Trauma, Spirituality, and Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Social Work Practice
Edited by Heather M . Boynton and Jo-Ann Vis
Written by Canadian social work scholars, this book addresses the impact of trauma related events and emphasizes the importance of spirituality and posttraumatic growth .
Trauma and the exposure to a traumatic event is part of life, making the need for current and informed social work research and training essential. Trauma, Spirituality, and Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Social Work Practice highlights unique and diverse circumstances throughout a client’s lifecycle where trauma is experienced, how one’s spirituality is awakened or activated, and how this experience can intersect with interventions toward posttraumatic growth (PTG). More than just a primer on trauma effects, the book offers social workers insights into how to properly assess current resources and individual levels of distress. It also provides practical strategies on how spiritual practices can be integrated into psychotherapeutic interventions at various levels of social work practice.
Addressing the impact of trauma related events and emphasizing the importance of spirituality, the book will inspire and provide transferable knowledge that social workers can use to meet the unique needs of the clients, families, and communities they serve.
June 2022
206 pages, 6 x 9 1 b&w figure
Cloth 978-1-4875-4394-5
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4395-2
$32.95 (£21.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4396-9
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Social Work
Heather M. Boynton is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, an adjunct professor of Kinesiology at Lakehead University, and faculty at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and Vice President of the Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work.
Jo-Ann Vis is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Lakehead University.
Of related interest: Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility
By Yonatan N Gez, Yvan Droz, Jeanne Rey, and Edio Soares
978-1-4875-0880-7
The Art of Religious Mobility Yonatan N. Gez
THE ANTHROPOLOGY
OF PRECIOUS MINERALS
edited by
elizabeth ferry, annabel vallard, and andrew walsh
216 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Cloth 978-1-4875-0317-8
$55.00 (£41.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1734-2 $55.00 Anthropology
The Anthropology of Precious Minerals
Edited by Elizabeth Ferry, Annabel Vallard, and Andrew Walsh
Based on a Wenner-Gren international workshop, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, this book addresses the complexity of human-mineral engagements through ethnographic case studies and anthropological reflections on different people and the minerals they deem “precious ”
Gemstones, gold, rare earths, and other coveted but ostensibly scarce minerals are “precious” to humans in two ways: first as hard-to-access materials that miners, traders, collectors, consumers, salvagers, and others imagine, pursue, and handle with great precision and/or care in a variety of contextually specific ways, and second as highly valued, high-price, natural resources that circulate as commodities through local and global markets. The Anthropology of Precious Minerals presents ethnographic case studies and anthropological reflections that illustrate and interrogate the ways in which such doubly precious minerals figure in human lives. The contributors illustrate how the preciousness of precious minerals can be understood as the product of two interconnected, relational processes: the first involving the engagements (or lack thereof) of miners, traders, investors, collectors, speculators, consumers, and salvagers, with the matter of particular minerals, and the second involving these same situated actors’ relations with one another in the uneven social, political, and economic networks through which these minerals, their transporters, and information about them circulate. By emphasizing the complementarity of these two processes, this volume will inspire new perspectives on the role of affect and materiality in the formation of intersubjective relations and exchanges involving people and minerals, and will enrich understandings of what is at stake in markets for precious and/or scarce resources.
Elizabeth Ferry is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Annabel Vallard is a researcher at The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France). Andrew Walsh is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Western University.
Of related interest: Made in Madagascar Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar By Andrew Walsh 978-1-4426-0374-5
“Sophisticated and fascinating, The Anthropology of Precious Minerals makes valuable contributions to several key theoretical issues in contemporary anthropology, and features notable scholarship and excellent prose.” Anne Meneley, Department of Anthropology, Trent University
university of toronto press
BETWEEN LIFE AND THOUGHT
Amdo Lullaby An
Between Life and Thought Existential
Anthropology and the Study of Religion
Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau
Shannon M . Ward
Edited by Don Seeman and Devaka Premawardhana
Anthropological Horizons
This book explores the burgeoning subfield of existential anthropology as a truly humanistic social science, a space of convergence for anthropology, philosophy, and religious studies
This book analyses the everyday conversations of children in eastern Tibet (contemporary People’s Republic of China) to demonstrate how they use language to navigate the social and cultural changes caused by rural to urban migration
Existential anthropology is an approach inspired by existential and phenomenological thought to further our understanding of the human condition.
Gathering leading anthropologists and religion scholars, Between Life and Thought opens with a comprehensive introduction to phenomenology and existentialism in anthropology and religious studies and concludes with an analysis of how existential anthropology might address the long-standing problem of constructivism and perennialism in religious studies. The chapters altogether present existential anthropology as an especially generative paradigm with which to rethink and remake both anthropology and the academic study of religion.
A timely and significant intervention across multiple areas of research, Between Life and Thought is an invaluable source for critically exploring the prospects, as well as the limits, of an anthropological approach to religion grounded in experiential ethnography and existential thought.
Don Seeman is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.
Devaka Premawardhana is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and current occupant of a Winship Distinguished Research Chair at Emory University.
In Amdo, a region of eastern Tibet incorporated into mainland China, young children are being raised in a time of social change. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, Chinese state development policies are catalysing rural to urban migration, consolidating schooling in urban centres, and leading Tibetan farmers and nomads to give up their traditional livelihoods. As a result, children face increasing pressure to adopt the state’s official language of Mandarin. Amdo Lullaby charts the contrasting language socialization trajectories of rural and urban children from one extended family, who are native speakers of a Tibetan language known locally as “Farmer Talk.” By integrating a fine-grained analysis of everyday conversations and oral history interviews, linguistic anthropologist Shannon M. Ward examines the forms of migration and resulting language contact that contribute to Farmer Talk’s unique grammatical structures, and that shape Amdo Tibetan children’s language choices. This analysis reveals that young children are not passively abandoning their mother tongue for standard Mandarin, but instead are reformatting traditional Amdo Tibetan cultural associations among language, place, and kinship as they build their peer relationships in everyday play.
March 2024
Shannon M. Ward is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
288 pages, 6 x 9
October 2024
8 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5258-9
240 pages, 6 x 9
8 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps, 1 b&w figure
$95.00 (£62.99) A
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Anthropology
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Anthropology
Relative Strangers
Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
RELATIVE STRANGERS
Thailand’s Far South Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict
Kee Howe Yong
Arpan Roy Anthropological Horizons
Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand’s Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand’s southern region
Engaging classic anthropological theory, Relative Strangers offers a fresh perspective on kinship in Palestine by focusing on Romani families of the region .
In Thailand’s Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand’s far south. The book focuses on the relationship between the construction of minorities – and thus majority – and issues of engaging with the difficulties of their realities: loss, violence, history, memory, livelihood, fear and paranoia, and political formations.
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Romani communities living between Palestine and Jordan, zooming in on everyday life in working-class neighborhoods, and under conditions of perpetual war and instability.
The book focuses on how Doms are able to sustain ethnic difference through kinship, even when public performances of difference are no longer emphasized; a kind of alterity that is neither visible by obvious markers like race or religious difference, nor detected by the antennas of the state. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Amman, Roy makes a case for such “other” alterity for Romani people and other groups in the region.
Analyzing intimate ethnographic scenes through anthropological theories of kinship, psychoanalysis, social theory from the Global South, and more, the book reveals how alterity in the Middle East does not adhere to rigid identitarian categories. Ultimately, Relative Strangers demonstrates the inadequacy of transposing models of pluralism centered on European and American experiences of minoritization onto other contexts.
The book explores the ways in which regimes of fear affect the way minorities relate to one another and to those in authority. It reveals how Muslim identities in southern Thailand are produced – under what constraints and structures, and by what technologies and force. Drawing on methodologies of narrative theory, performative aspects of language, and questions of history and memory, Yong demonstrates the ways the conflict was and is differently engaged by Malay Muslim interlocutors. The book addresses the generally ignored topic of the varied positions of the Malay Muslims at the borderland of Thailand’s far south and the implications of these positions in understanding the meaning of the current insurgency for the heterogeneous Malay Muslim population. In doing so, Thailand’s Far South provides an invaluable contribution to the southern Thai conflict, fieldwork in conflict zones, and the literature on violence, political science, history, security studies, and philosophies of violence.
Arpan Roy is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
October 2024
Kee Howe Yong is an associate professor of anthropology at McMaster University.
192 pages, 6 x 9 3 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-5871-0
May 2024
264 pages, 6 x 9
$60.00 (£39.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5874-1
Cloth 978-1-4875-5612-9
$60.00
Anthropology
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5615-0
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Anthropology
Amdo Lullaby
ARPAN ROY
Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference
Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica
Susan Frohlick
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
This creative ethnography explores the surprising entanglements between tourism and reproduction on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica
Tourism generates intense atmospheric relations between people and places. Exploring the complex nature of these relations, Bloom Spaces considers the experiences of women who travel to Costa Rica in search of health and wellness, and find that it leads to an unexpected but seemingly natural outcome: pregnancy. The book looks beyond pregnancy as the result of an isolated act between two people, and instead probes the ways that the reproductive experience resonates with powerful tourist imaginaries of the Caribbean and multisensory environments of culture and place.
Inviting readers into a world of yoga studios, beaches, and rainforests, Susan Frohlick investigates how atmosphere can create “bloom spaces” that lead tourists down reproductive paths. Through an experimental approach that combines creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, and narrative ethnographic writing, this book seeks to capture the feelings and sensations that influence reproduction in tourist destinations. Ultimately, the book urges a rethinking of tourism that takes reproduction into consideration, highlighting the multiple actors involved in reproduction and the inequities of tourism that are reproduced.
February 2023
160 pages, 6 x 9
30 colour photos, 1 colour map
Cloth 978-0-3698-0490-7
$70.00 (£46.99) A Paper 978-0-3698-0751-9
$27.95 (£18.99) X eBook 978-0-3698-1131-8
$22.95 Anthropology
Susan Frohlick is a professor of anthropology and gender and women’s studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
Illustrated by Debora Santos
Adapted by William Flynn 978-1-4875-9452-7
SUSAN FROHLICK
Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers
Anthropological Insights
Thomas M . Wilson
Anthropological Insights
Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers presents a short and accessible introduction to border studies from an anthropological perspective
International borders are among the most significant political inventions of modern times. The borders between national states are not just important to the peoples and governments who face each other across the borderline – any international border can become a regional hotspot of global concern. But aside from the significant role borders play in national and international affairs, borders are also places and spaces where people live, work, raise families, and build businesses.
Written for students across disciplines, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers introduces readers to the study of borders and border cultures. Thomas M. Wilson examines both historical foundations and current developments in the field, with an emphasis on anthropological contributions. Ultimately, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers encourages students to explore the role anthropology plays in the understanding of contemporary borders.
Thomas M. Wilson is a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Of related interest: Sightlines: Beyond the Beyond in Ireland
By Eileen Kane
978-1-4875-4499-7
February 2024 160 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-0640-7
$70.00 (£46.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2432-6
$24.95 (£16.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3409-7
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Anthropology
BORDERS, BOUNDARIES, FRONTIERS
Thomas M. Wilson
Butinage
The Art of Religious Mobility
Yonatan N. Gez, Yvan Droz, Jeanne Rey, and Edio Soares
BUTINAGE
This book explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity.
Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of “religious butinage” as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed metaphorically to refer to the “to-ing and fro-ing” of believers between religious institutions.
Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as located at the meeting points between religious-institutional rules and narratives, local social norms, and individual agency and practice.
Yonatan N. Gez is a Humboldt Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and a research associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Yvan Droz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Jeanne Rey is a professor at the University of Teacher Education in Fribourg and a research associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Edio Soares is a research associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Approx. 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2021
Cloth 978-1-4875-0880-7
$60.00 (£44.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3899-6 $60.00 Anthropology
The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast
THE
Matthew W.
Betts and M. Gabriel Hrynick
This book offers the first comprehensive look at the archaeological history of the Atlantic Northeast.
Filling a notable gap in North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across the region
Beginning with the earliest Indigenous occupation of the area, about 13,000 years ago, Betts and Hrynick weave together the histories of the Indigenous peoples whose traditional lands make up this territory, including the Innu, Beothuk, Inuit, and numerous Wabanaki bands and tribes.
Emphasizing connection, cultural continuity, and in-place history, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast tracks the development of the earliest peoples as they transformed their glacier-edge way of life to one on the water’s edge, becoming one of the most successful and longstanding marine-oriented cultures in North America. Supported by illustrations and maps documenting the archaeological legacy, this text is ideal for students, researchers, professional archaeologists, and anyone interested in the history of this region.
Matthew W. Betts is the curator of Eastern Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of History.
M. Gabriel Hrynick is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick.
$59.95 (£44.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8796-3 $47.95 Anthropology / Archaeology
ArchAeology OF THE AtlAntic northeAst
MATTHEW W. BETTS AND M. GABRIEL HRYNICK
The Art of Religious Mobility
Yonatan N. Gez | Yvan Droz | Jeanne Rey Edio Soares
Virtual Activism
Capturing the Ineffable
An Anthropology of Wisdom
Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore
Edited by Philip Y Kao and Joseph S Alter
Edited by PHILIP Y KAOandJOSEPHS ALTER
Capturing THE INEFFABLE
Robert Phillips Anthropological Horizons
Wisdom transcends knowledge but is only meaningful and relevant in context This book explores the tensions and paradoxes associated with the ineffability of wisdom in a range of social and cultural contexts
This book provides the first detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study looking at changes in LGBT activism in Singapore
Grounded in ethnographic case studies that examine experiences from which wisdom emerges, Capturing the Ineffable provides a rigorous analysis of the sociocultural context of wisdom in the contemporary world. Each chapter in the volume deals with different aspects and showcases how communities in different contexts – nursing homes, religious organizations, corporations, and monastic institutions, for example –engage with the ineffability of wisdom. In the end, Capturing the Ineffable reveals how the conception and paradoxical nature of wisdom dispels the dichotomies of self/other, structure/agency, known/unknown, nature/culture, and the like. What is at stake is a recasting of wisdom as a particular kind of anthropological endeavour and, thus, a return to and modification of philosophical anthropology.
In Virtual Activism, cultural anthropologist Robert Phillips explores the changes in LGBT activism in Singapore in the period 1993–2019. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with activist organizations and individuals, Phillips illustrates key theoretical ideas – including illiberal pragmatics and neoliberal homonormativity – that, in combination with the introduction of the internet, have shaped the manner by which LGBT Singaporeans are framing and subsequently claiming rights.
Phillips argues that the activism engaged in by LGBT Singaporeans for governmental and societal recognition is in many respects virtual. His analysis documents how the actions of activists have resulted in some noteworthy changes, but nothing as grand as some would have hoped. Yet, Virtual Activism also demonstrates how these actions have encouraged LGBT Singaporeans to fight even harder for their rights, signalling the possibilities that the virtual holds.
Philip Y Kao is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Joseph S Alter is Director of the Asian Studies Center and a professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Robert Phillips is an assistant professor of anthropology at Ball State University.
Approx. 180 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
7 colour illustrations
Approx. 264 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020 13 images / 1 figure
Cloth 978-1-4875-0745-9
Cloth 978-1-4875-0313-0
$75.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2513-2
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$26.95 (£20.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3628-2 $26.95 Anthropology
Social Palliation
Introducing Archaeology
Third Edition
Canadian Muslims’ Storied Lives on Living and Dying
Parin Dossa
Robert J . Muckle and Stacey L . Camp
By focusing on the humane aspects of social palliation, this book foregrounds sacred traditions to illustrate their potential to evoke conversations across sociopolitical boundaries on what it is like to live and die in the contemporary world
Situating archaeology in academic, social, and political contexts, the third edition increases the representation of women and Indigenous scholars and includes new content on the archaeology of recent and contemporary times
Social Palliation is a pioneering study on living and dying as articulated by first-generation Iranian and Ismaili Muslim communities in Canada. Using ethnographic narratives, Parin Dossa makes a case for a paradigm shift from palliative care to social palliation.
Now in its third edition, Introducing Archaeology continues to be a lively and accessible textbook for introductory-level students. Covering traditional fixtures of archaeology, such as methods and prehistory, the new edition also opens up greater conversations about the current state of archaeology, discussing issues of representation, inclusion, and diversity in the field.
The third edition highlights recent archaeological developments in digital and public archaeology, as well as the social and political contexts of archaeological fieldwork, with examples including the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay), and Indigenous residential schools.
The new edition features over 50 full-color images throughout, including original ink drawings by Katherine Cook. It is accompanied by updated resources and teaching materials for use in the classroom.
Robert J Muckle is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Capilano University.
Experiences of displacement and resettlement reveal that life and death must be understood as an integrated unit if we are to appreciate what it is like to be awakened to our human existence. In the wake of structural exclusion and systemic suffering, social palliation brings to light displaced persons’ endeavours to restore the integrity of life and death. Here, a caring society is not perceived in fragments, as is the case with traditional institutional care. Rather, Dossa draws attention to an organic form of caring, illustrated through the trajectories of storied lives. In exemplifying more humane aspects of social palliation, this book foregrounds sacred traditions to illustrate their potential to evoke deep-level conversations across socio-political boundaries on what it is like to live and die in the contemporary world.
Stacey L . Camp is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the director of the Michigan State University Campus Archaeology Program.
Parin Dossa is a professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Approx. 200 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0523-3
Approx. 304 pp. / 7.5 x 9.25 / November 2020
57 photos and illustrations / 11 maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-0662-9
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An Anthropology of Wisdom
Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore
ROBERT PHILLIPS
Collective Care
Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS
Collective Care
Pamela J Downe
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
This engaging ethnography explores how Indigenous women and their communities practice collective care to sustain traditional lifeways in what has been called Canada’s “HIV hot zone .”
Collective Care provides an ethnographic representation of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan’s HIV epidemic. Based on a five-year study with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin care and non-Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the forces of HIV to render motherhood a site of cultural meaning, personal and collective well-being, and sometimes individual and community despair.
Featuring in-depth narrative interviews, notes from participant observation, and a photovoice component, this book offers an accessible account of an engaged anthropologist’s work with a community that is both vulnerable and resilient. Each chapter begins with an ethnographic vignette that introduces central concepts, with the overall aim of humanizing those affected by HIV in western Canada and beyond.
Pamela J Downe is an associate professor in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan and past president of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA).
Approx. 160 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021 8 halftones
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Esperanza Speaks
Confronting a Century of Global Change in Rural Panama
Gloria Rudolf
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
This compelling narrative details the life history of Esperanza Ruiz and four generations of her family
Their stories recount a century of change in a poor highland community in Panama and how ordinary people struggle, survive, and live through history
History is often viewed from the top down, with powerful elites at center stage. This book examines a century-long process of socioeconomic change from the bottom up, primarily through the experiences of one woman, Esperanza Ruiz, and four generations of her family growing up in a highland community in central Panama.
This view shows how ordinary people, through their choices and actions, are affected by and, in turn, can affect how history unfolds. Readers see Esperanza’s family as both victims and protagonists in their own histories. Born into rural poverty with limited options, they still find small openings for actions that might improve their lives.
Based on twenty field visits over the course of fifty years, Esperanza Speaks is the result of a dedicated anthropologist’s long-term engagement with the individuals of a single community, and a beautiful example of ethnographic storytelling.
Gloria Rudolf is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Approx. 160 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021 12 halftones / 4 maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-9470-1
$65.00 (£48.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-9469-5
$25.95 (£18.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-9471-8 $20.95
Anthropology / Latin American Studies
Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS
PAMELA J. DOWNE
Confronting a Century of Global Change in Rural Panama
Gloria r udolf
Esp E ranza s p E aks
Concepts and Persons
Michael Lambek
Documenting Michael Lambek’s Tanner Lecture, Concepts and Persons is an accessible and engaging reflection on ethical life and thought.
The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions around the world, including the universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. In January 2019, University of Toronto’s Michael Lambek, professor, former Canada Research Chair, and member of the Royal Society of Canada, delivered the Tanner Lecture at the University of Michigan’s Department of Philosophy on the topic of “Concepts and Persons.”
As well as tracing his career in social and cultural anthropology, Lambek’s lecture spoke on the intersection of anthropology and philosophy as a means of articulating the moral basis of human action. By elucidating where anthropology and philosophy might intersect, Lambek’s lecture is a profound examination of the human condition and is beautifully captured in this publication.
Concepts and Persons recounts the lecture as delivered at the prestigious event, the commentaries of three distinguished respondents, and Lambek’s own responses to those commentaries. The book’s presentation of the lecture also includes a rich and layered set of notes that augment the lecture significantly, as well as offering additional clarification and thought that has developed since the event.
Concepts and Persons
Michael Lambek
November 2021
160 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
1 black-and-white image Cloth 978-1-4875-0905-7
$34.95 (£23.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3960-3
$34.95
Anthropology
Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Cool Anthropology
How to Engage the Public with Academic Research
Edited by Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa
Cool Anthropology is a practical how-to guide for anthropologists looking to make their work relevant and accessible to a wide audience
Through a series of case studies by leading anthropologists, Cool Anthropology highlights the many different approaches that scholars have used to engage the public with their research. Editors Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa showcase efforts to make meaningful connections with communities outside the walls of academia, pushing anthropological thinking beyond the discipline.
Cool Anthropology offers insights into the entire research and dissemination process – from making early relationships, to securing funding, to employing appropriate technology, to defining an audience and then engaging that audience. Contributors to the volume shed light on their own ways of reaching the public with anthropological research and methods, including virtual reality, performance art, film, and comics, as well as social media, blogs, online magazines, and classroom activities. Through their focus on collaborative efforts, they push against the exclusivity of “knowledge production” to ask how engaging communities as both producers and consumers of academic research helps to both promote anthropology better and do anthropology better.
Kristina Baines is an associate professor of anthropology at CUNY Guttman Community College, affiliated faculty at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and the founder and director of anthropology at Cool Anthropology.
Victoria Costa is a creative technologist and community organizer, and the founder and director of cool at Cool Anthropology.
Of related interest: Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning
By
Alisse Waterston
Illustrated by Charlotte Corden 978-1-4875-2640-5
Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean
Edited by Melanie A . Medeiros and Jennifer R Guzmán
This comprehensive collection examines how communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are responding in dynamic ways to pressing contemporary challenges
Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean offers a compelling introduction to the region by providing a series of ethnographic case studies that examine the most pressing issues communities are facing today. These case studies address key topics such as inequities during COVID-19 and Zika, antiBlack racism, resistance against extractive industries, migration and transnational families, revitalization of Indigenous languages, art and solidarity in the wake of political violence, resilience in the face of climate change, and recent political organizing and social movements.
Designed for courses in a variety of disciplines, this expansive volume is organized in thematic sections, with introductions that draw important connections between chapters. The first section provides essential background on ethnography, archaeology, and history, while chapters in the following sections center local perspectives, strategies, and voices. Each chapter ends with reflection and discussion questions, key concepts with definitions, and resources to explore further.
Presenting a snapshot of life during the early decades of the twenty-first century, Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean illuminates the structural forces and human agency that are determining the future of the region and the world.
Melanie A. Medeiros is an associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Geneseo.
Jennifer R. Guzmán is an associate professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Geneseo.
ETHNOGRAPHIC INSIGHTS on
AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN
Edited by Melanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer R. Guzmán
April 2023
520 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
41 colour illustrations, 10 colour maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-4798-1
$125.00 (£82.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5150-6
$64.95 (£42.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-5559-7
$51.95
Anthropology / Latin American Studies
Exemplary Life
Modelling Sainthood in Christian Syria
Andreas Bandak
Anthropological Horizons
Exemplary Life explores the world of the followers of Our Lady of Soufanieh in order to understand the role of exemplarity in social and religious life .
Based on over five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Exemplary Life focuses on the life of a Damascus woman, Myrna Akhras, who served as an aspirational figure to the followers in her community. Myrna is regarded by her followers as an exemplary figure, a living saint, and the messages, apparitions, stigmata, and oil that have marked Myrna since 1982 have corroborated her status as chosen by God.
Exemplary Life probes the power of examples, the modelling of sainthood around Myrna’s figure, and the broader context for Syrian Christians in the changing landscape of the Middle East. The book highlights the social use of examples such as the ones inhabited by Myrna’s devout followers and how they reveal the broader structures of illustration, evidence, and persuasion in social and cultural settings. Andreas Bandak argues that the role of the example should incite us to investigate which trains of thought set local worlds in motion. In doing so, Exemplary Life presents a novel frame for examining how religion comes to matter to people and adds a critical dimension to current anthropological engagements with ethics and morality.
September 2022
264 pages, 6 x 9 11 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4293-1
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4294-8
$34.95 (£23.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4295-5
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Anthropology / Religion
Andreas Bandak is an associate professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Stuart Earle Strange
Fat in Four Cultures
A Global Ethnography of Weight
Gordura Lapo’a Futotteru Fat in Four Cultures
Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, and Amber Wutich
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
This comparative ethnography takes a nuanced approach to the myriad meanings of “being fat.”
Fat in Four Cultures reveals the shared struggles and local distinctions of how people across the globe are coping with a constant anti-fat messages. Highlighting important differences in how people experience “being fat,” the cases in this book are based on fieldwork by five anthropologists working together, simultaneously, in four different sites across the globe: Japan, the United States, Paraguay, and Samoa. Through these cases, Fat in Four Cultures considers what insights can be gained through systematic, cross-cultural comparison and explores a series of fundamental questions about the present and future of fat and obesity.
Cindi SturtzSreetharan is an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
Alexandra Brewis is President’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
Jessica Hardin is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Sarah Trainer is the SU ADVANCE Program and Research Coordinator at Seattle University.
Amber Wutich is President’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
Approx. 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2021
164 photos / 1 map / 5 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0800-5
$70.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2562-0
$26.95 (£20.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3736-4 $22.35 Anthropology
The Living Inca Town
Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes
Karoline Guelke
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
This creative ethnography illustrates how tourism can perpetuate global inequalities.
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, but its social and economic benefits, are not felt by the majority of local inhabitants. The Living Inca Town provides a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the Southern Peruvian Andes and the starting point for many popular treks to Machu Picchu.
Tourism is generally welcomed in Ollantaytambo, as it provides a steady stream of work for local businesses, particularly those run by women. However, the obvious material inequalities between locals and tourists affect many interactions, contributing to conflict and aggression in the community. Based on four years of field research, The Living Inca Town examines the experiences and interactions of locals, visitors, and tourism brokers. The book makes room for unique perspectives, and uses innovative visual methods, including photovoice images and pen-and-ink drawings, to illustrate different viewpoints of day-to-day tourist encounters.
Karoline Guelke is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria.
Cindi SturtzSreetharan Alexandra Brewis Jessica Hardin Sarah Trainer Amber Wutich
Forgotten Things
The Story of the Seymour Valley Archaeology Project
Robert J . Muckle
Teaching Archaeology
The first book in a new series, Forgotten Things demonstrates the process of archaeological research and explores the culture of archaeological fieldwork
Based on a long-term archaeology project, Forgotten Things provides an account of working with archaeology field school students to uncover early-twentieth-century Japanese logging camps in the Seymour Valley of British Columbia.
The first book in the new Teaching Archaeology series, Forgotten Things aims to provide students with a real-world example of archaeological research in practice. It provides an overview of the Seymour Valley Archaeological Project from the initial telephone call to the disposition of artefacts and the archiving of records. The book takes the reader through creating the research design, doing the fieldwork and laboratory work, drawing inferences from the findings, and making the research meaningful. It delves into considerations that guide research design and methods, and it gives an honest look at the culture of archaeological fieldwork.
Through anecdotes, stories from the field, and extracts from field notes, Forgotten Things offers rare insights into the realities of archaeological research that are not often seen in archaeological studies.
Introducing Archaeology
Of related interest: Introducing Archaeology, Third Edition
By Robert J . Muckle and Stacey L Camp
978-1-4875-2445-6
ROBERT J. MUCKLE
FORGOTTEN THINGS
June 2022
152 pages, 6 x 9 16 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-8853-3
$60.00 (£39.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-8852-6
$24.95 (£16.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8854-0
$19.95
Anthropology
Robert J. Muckle is a professor of anthropology and archaeology at Capilano University. He is author, co-author, or editor of several books, including Introducing Archaeology, Through the Lens of Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples of North America , and Reading Archaeology.
Teaching Archaeology is an exciting new series of concise archaeological case studies that are engaging to read, manageable to teach, and flexible enough to be used in multiple courses. Books in the series provide students with real-world examples of the archaeological research process, as well as insights into the practical realities of doing fieldwork, including unexpected events, unplanned discoveries, logistical challenges, and reflections on ethics, collaboration, and the role of archaeology in the modern world. Each book includes photographs from the field and pedagogical features such as discussion questions, further readings, and a glossary of key terms.
THE STORY OF THE SEYMOUR VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT
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From Water to Wine
Becoming Middle Class in Angola
Jess Auerbach
Teaching Culture
Part monograph, part methods handbook, this highly original work explores the emergent middle class in Angola through the lens of the senses
From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is the middle class – defined in the book as those with a house, a car, and an education – and their aspirations, and hopes for their families. It is a book that takes as its starting point “what is working in Angola?” rather than “what is going wrong?” and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history.
The book is uniquely structured: each chapter focuses on one of the five senses (smell, touch, taste, hearing, and sight, respectively) with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (kinesthesia) and empathy respectively. A variety of media are employed – poetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experiments – to engage readers and the senses. Written for a broad audience, readers will be both fascinated and delighted by Auerbach’s keen insights and poetic descriptions of contemporary urban Angola.
Jess Auerbach is a visiting researcher at The Open University of Mauritius.
Approx. 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020
13 photos plus 2 photo essays
Cloth 978-1-4875-0641-4
$55.00 (£37.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2433-3
$26.95 (£18.99) X eBook $21.95 Anthropology
All rights available except Portuguese language and distribution on the African continent
A History of Anthropological Theory
Sixth Edition
Paul A. Erickson and Liam D. Murphy
The sixth edition of this bestselling text offers a concise history of anthropological theory from antiquity to the twentyfirst century, with new and significantly revised sections that reflect the current state of the field.
For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how the discipline has evolved from its origins to the present day. The sixth edition of this text offers substantial updates, including more balanced coverage of the four fields of anthropology; significantly revised discussions of public anthropology, gender and sexuality, and race and ethnicity; and an entirely new section on the Anthropocene. Written in accessible prose and enhanced with illustrations, definitions of key terms, and study questions, this text remains essential reading for those interested in studying the history of anthropology.
A History of Anthropological Theory provides comprehensive coverage in a flexible and easy-to-use format for teaching in the undergraduate anthropology classroom.
Paul A. Erickson is a past professor in the Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary’s University.
Liam D. Murphy is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Sacramento.
Approx. 376 pp. / 8 x 10 / May 2021 52 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0729-9
$110.00 (£82.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2498-2
$49.95 (£37.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3596-4 $39.95 Anthropology
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Millennial Movements
Positive Social Change in Urban Costa Rica
Karen Stocker
Millennial Movements
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
In these brief and accessible case studies, Costa Rican millennial leaders draw from global solutions to address local problems
Through social movements that are both grassroots and global, young leaders in San José, Costa Rica, have sought to create positive social change in their communities. Using social media, art, local organizations, corporations, and government entities, these leaders have found creative ways to connect with and support one another’s efforts to promote change and tackle growing concerns, including environmental sustainability, freedom from sexual assault, food security, LGBTQ+ rights, and more.
Karen Stocker is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton.
Approx. 128 pp. / 6 x 9 / June 2020
Approx. 10 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-8868-7
$55.00 (£41.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-8867-0
$26.95 (£20.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8869-4 $21.95 Anthropology / Urban Studies
I Was Never Alone or Oporniki
An
Ethnographic
Play
I WAS NEVER ALONE
on Disability in Russia
Cassandra Hartblay
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology
I Was Never Alone, or Oporniki presents an original ethnographic stage play, based on fieldwork conducted in Russia with adults with disabilities. The core of the work is the script of the play itself, which is accompanied by a description of the script development process, from the research in the field to rehearsals for public performances. In a supporting essay, the author argues that both ethnography and theatre can be understood as designs for being together in unusual ways, and that both practices can be deepened by recognizing the vibrant social impact of interdependency animated by vulnerability, as identified by disability theorists and activists.
Cassandra Hartblay is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Health Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
Approx. 168 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2020 8-page colour insert
Cloth 978-1-4875-8841-0
$75.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-8840-3
$26.95 (£20.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8842-7 $21.95
Anthropology / Theatre
All rights available except Russian
Karen Stocker
Moral Figures
Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu
Alexandra Widmer
Anthropological Horizons
Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous relationalities to understand gendered consequences of making reproduction public .
In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous relationalities.
Through her examination of how reproduction is made public, Alexandra Widmer demonstrates how population sciences have naturalized a focus on women’s fertility and privileged issues of wage labour over women’s land access and broader social relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific Islands in global histories of demographic science and the medicalization of birth, the book presents archival material in a way that emphasizes bureaucratic practices in how colonial documents attempted to render Indigenous relationalities of reproduction governable.
While demographic imaginaries and biomedical practices increasingly frame fertility control as an investment in the reproductive health of individual bodies, the Ni-Vanuatu worlds presented in Moral Figures show that relationships between people, land, knowledge, kin, and care make reproduction a distributed and assisted process.
MORAL FIGURES
MAKING REPRODUCTION PUBLIC IN VANUATU
Alexandra Widmer
February 2023
224 pages, 6 x 9 16 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-4320-4
$78.00 (£51.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4321-1
$29.95 (£19.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4322-8
$29.95 Anthropology
By Péter Berta
978-1-4875-2040-3
Alexandra Widmer is an assistant professor of social anthropology at York University.
MOVING WORDS
Moving Words Literature,
Memory, and Migration in Berlin
Andrew Brandel
Anthropological Horizons
A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin’s status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – a place where artists from around the world gather and can make a life. Moving Words foregrounds the many contexts in which life in the city of Berlin is made literary –from old neighbourhood bookshops to new reading circles, NGOs working to secure asylum for writers living in exile to specialized workshops for young migrant poets. Highlighting the differences, tensions, and contradictions of these scenes, this book reveals how literature can be both a site of domination and a resource for resisting and transforming those conditions.
Rooted in ethnographic fieldwork, rich historical archives, and literary analysis, Moving Words examines the different claims people make on and for literature as it carries them through the city on irregular and intersecting paths. Along the way, Brandel offers a new approach to the ethnography of literature that aims to think anthropologically about crossings in time and in space, where literature provides a footing in a world constituted by a multiplicity of real possibilities.
Andrew Brandel is an assistant research professor and the assistant director of Jewish studies at Pennsylvania State University.
October 2023
256 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4368-6
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4369-3
$32.95 (£21.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4370-9
$32.95
Anthropology
Making Gender
Making Gender Big
Pharma, HPV Vaccine Policy, and Women’s Ontological Decision-Making
Michelle WyndhamWest
This book aims to understand how gender and risk have been incorporated into women’s decision-making around the HPV vaccine
Making Gender endeavours to understand how the HPV vaccine became gendered within the Canadian policy landscape – when the virus is gender blind and is linked to cancer in all genders – and how women’s experiences with this “gendered risk” have been folded into their vaccine decision-making.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Michelle Wyndham-West explores the creation and circulation of gendered risk as it was deployed in pharmaceutical and policy discourses surrounding the rollout of the HPV vaccine. The book contextualizes the background for how gendered risk was mediated by two groups of women: mothers negotiating the vaccine for their daughters in schoolbased immunization programs and university students who experienced frequent HPV infections. The book explores these women’s efforts to be good mothers and strong young women entering adulthood who felt vulnerable in sexual health negotiation. As a result, Making Gender reveals how vaccine decision-making took an ontological form, as an inherently social and cultural process embedded in women’s experiences.
Michelle Wyndham-West is the graduate program director of the Design for Health and Inclusive Design programs and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University.
October 2023
200 pages, 6 x 9
3 b&w figures, 3 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0920-0
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3990-0
$65.00
Anthropology
Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin
ANDREW BRANDEL
Big Pharma, HPV Vaccine Policy, and Women’s Ontological Decision-Making
Michelle Wyndham-West
ON SPEAKING TERMS
Luke Owles Fleming
On Speaking Terms Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship
Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
On Speaking Terms examines the sociolinguistic and non-verbal codes that enact interpersonal avoidance relationships in more than one hundred societies
Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into “joking” and “avoidance” relations? In this extensively researched comparative study, linguistic anthropologist Luke Owles Fleming offers a bold new answer to this problem.
With a particular focus on avoidance relationships, On Speaking Terms argues that in order to understand cross-cultural convergences in the patterning of kinship-keyed comportments, we must attend to the sociolinguistic codes through which kinship relationships are enacted. Drawing on ethnographic data from more than one hundred different societies, the book documents and analyses parallels in the linguistic and non-verbal signs through which avoidance relationships are experientially realized. With discussions of name and word tabooing practices, pronominal honorification, and non-verbal strategies of avoidance, it reveals recurrent sociolinguistic patterns attested in kinship avoidance. In demonstrating the vital role of sociolinguistic codes for transforming kinship categories into phenomenologically rich relationships, On Speaking Terms makes an important contribution to the anthropology of kinship.
Luke Owles Fleming is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal.
December 2024
296 pages, 6 x 9
15 b&w figures, 10 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4970-1
$60.00 (£39.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5302-9
$60.00
Anthropology
Freedoms of Speech Anthropological Perspectives on Language,
Ethics, and Power
Edited by Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, and Fiona Wright
Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
This collection brings together leading anthropologists and fresh new voices in the discipline to consider freedoms of speech with a wide comparative lens .
Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms
The book broadly interrogates the classic vision of a singular “Western liberal tradition” of freedom of speech. Chapters analyse subjects commonly linked to freedom-of-speech debates, shedding new light on familiar topics that include campus speech codes, defamation, and press freedom, while also exploring unexpected ones such as therapy, gift-giving, and martyrdom. These analyses provide unique insights, contributing to a rich, interdisciplinary, and human understanding of the nature of freedom of speech.
Matei Candea is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Taras Fedirko is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Paolo Heywood is an assistant professor of social anthropology at Durham University.
Fiona Wright is a research fellow at the Advanced Care Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh.
November 2024
496 pages, 6 x 9
6 b&w figures
Paper 978-1-4875-4884-1
$49.95 (£32.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5087-5
$49.95
Anthropology
LUKE OWLES FLEMING
Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship
Onscreen/Offscreen
Constantine V . Nakassis
Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India
Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over the question “what is an image?” Answers to this question may be found in the ontological politics that take place on film sets, in theatre halls, and in the social fabric of everyday life in South India, from populist electoral politics and the gendering of social space to caste uplift and domination.
Bridging and synthesizing linguistic anthropology, film studies, visual studies, and media anthropology, Onscreen/Offscreen rethinks key issues across a number of fields concerned with the semiotic constitution of social life, from the performativity and ontology of images to questions of spectatorship, realism, and presence. In doing so, it offers both a challenge to any approach that would separate image from social context and a new vision for linguistic anthropology beyond the question of “language.”
Constantine V. Nakassis is an associate professor of anthropology and social sciences in the College, resource faculty in Cinema and Media Studies, faculty associate in Comparative Human Development, and core faculty on the Committee for International Relations at the University of Chicago.
Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life focuses on cutting-edge developments in the analysis of linguistic and semiotic processes within a comparative, ethnographic, and sociohistorical context. The series provides a home for innovative, boundary-pushing scholarship in linguistic anthropology, as well as work in sociolinguistics, the sociology of interaction, and semiotics. Including both ethnographic monographs and theoretical explorations, books in this series present new ways of understanding the centrality of language and other sign systems to social and cultural life.
CONSTANTINE V. NAKASSIS
The Sensory Studies Manifesto
Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences
David Howes
The Sensory Studies Manifesto explores the origin and development of the revolutionary new field of sensory studies .
The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring groundbreaking experimentation in the world of art and design, where the focus is now on mixing and manipulating the senses.
The Sensory Studies Manifesto tracks these transformations and opens multiple lines of investigation into the diverse ways in which human beings sense and make sense of the world. This unique volume treats the human sensorium as a dynamic whole, which is best approached from historical, anthropological, geographic, and sociological perspectives. In doing so, it has altered our understanding of sense perception by directing attention to the sociality of sensation and the cultural mediation of sense experience and expression.
David Howes challenges the assumptions of mainstream Western psychology by foregrounding the agency, interactivity, creativity, and wisdom of the senses as shaped by culture. The Sensory Studies Manifesto sets the stage for a radical reorientation of research in the human sciences and artistic practice.
David Howes is a professor of anthropology and co-director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University.
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Kristina Jacobsen
Teaching Culture: Ethnographies for the Classroom
This multi-sensory ethnography invites readers and listeners to discover the Italian island of Sardinia through storytelling, music, and song
Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks: How are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music?
The book shows how Sardinian musicians sing their own history between the lines, in songs, in stories about songs, in the recording studio, and in the “stage patter” performed between songs during performances. It reveals how Sardinian songs become a site of transduction where, through the process of songwriting, recording, and performance, the energy from one genre of music and lingua-culture is harnessed to signal another one much closer to home.
Sing Me Back Home is accompanied by an album of original songs written and recorded in the field, with links to songs in each chapter. It includes songwriting prompts and lyrics, a glossary of key terms, tables to break down theoretical concepts, and photographs from the field. Drawing on work from critical collaborative research, auto-ethnography, public anthropology, arts-based research, and ethnographic poetry, this sensory ethnography offers new ways for us to hear culture.
Kristina Jacobsen is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
October 2024
296 pages, 6 x 9
21 colour illustrations, 3 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-5385-2
$80.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5386-9
$32.95 (£21.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-5387-6
$26.95
Anthropology
Through the Lens of Anthropology
An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition
Robert J. Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González, and Stacey L. Camp
Now in its third edition, this four-field introduction to anthropology shows students how anthropologists think about the world, highlighting anthropological perspectives on pandemics, social movements, and more.
Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to illustrate the connected nature of the discipline’s many subfields. The third edition remains a highly readable text that encourages students to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens.
Beautifully illustrated with over 100 full-colour images and maps, along with detailed figures and boxes, this is an anthropology book with a fresh perspective and a lively narrative that is filled with popular topics. The new edition has been updated to reflect the most recent developments in anthropology and the contributions of marginalized scholars, while the use of gender-neutral language makes for a more inclusive text. New content offers anthropological insight into contemporary issues such as COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo.
Through the Lens of Anthropology continues to be an essential text for those interested in learning more about the relevance and value of anthropology. The third edition is supplemented by a full suite of updated instructor and student resources that can be accessed online.
THROUGH THE LENS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture
January 2022
448 pages, 8 x 10
100 colour images, 3 maps, 32 tables, 50 boxes
Cloth 978-1-4875-4014-2
$185.00 (£122.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4015-9
$84.95 (£56.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-4017-3
$67.95
Anthropology
Robert J. Muckle is a professor of anthropology at Capilano University.
Laura Tubelle de González is a professor of anthropology at San Diego Miramar College.
Stacey L. Camp is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University.
Of related interest: The King of Bangkok
By Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, and Chiara Natalucci
978-1-4875-2641-2
Robert J. Muckle
Laura Tubelle de González
Stacey L. Camp
Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology
Second Edition
Laura Tubelle de González
The second edition of this beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to the field of cultural anthropology and encourages them to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens .
Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology presents an introduction to cultural anthropology designed to engage students who are learning about the anthropological perspective for the first time. The book offers a sustained focus on language, food, and sustainability in an inclusive format that is sensitive to issues of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Integrating personal stories from her own fieldwork, Laura Tubelle de González brings her passion for transformative learning to students in a way that is both timely and thought-provoking.
The second edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect recent developments in the field. It includes further discussion of globalization; an expanded focus on Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada; revised discussion of sexuality and gender identities across the globe; a brief introduction to the anthropology of science; and updated box features and additional discussion questions that focus on applying concepts.
Beautifully illustrated with over sixty full-color images, including comics and maps, Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology brings concepts to life in a way that resonates with student readers. The second edition is supplemented by a full suite of updated instructor and student resources. For more information, go to lensofculturalanthropology.com.
College.
By Robert J Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González, and Stacey L Camp
Laura Tubelle de González is a professor of anthropology at San Diego Miramar
Suspect Others
Suspect Others
Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname
Stuart Earle Strange
Anthropological Horizons
This ethnography explores how ideas of selfknowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion.
Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self.
Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Stuart Earle Strange investigates key questions about the nature of self-knowledge, religious revelation, and racial discourse in a hyper-diverse society. At a moment when exclusionary suspicions dominate global politics, Suspect Others elucidates self-identity as a social process that emerges from the paradoxical ways in which people must look to others to know themselves.
Stuart Earle Strange is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College.
September 2021
264 pages, 6 x 9
10 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0970-5
$70.00 (£46.99) A
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Anthropology / Religious Studies
SHADOW PLAY
Information
Shadow Play Information
Politics in Urban Indonesia
Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Anthropological Horizons
Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.
Focusing on a government-organized street vendor relocations in Indonesia, Shadow Play carefully exposes why conflicts over urban planning are fought through information politics.
Anthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings shows that information politics are the principal avenues through which the municipal government seeks to implement its urban projects. Information politics are also the primary means through which street vendors, activists, and NGOs can challenge these plans. Through extensive interviews and lengthy participant observation in Yogyakarta city, Gibbings shows that both state and non-state actors engage in transparency, rumours, conspiracies, and surveillance practices.
Gibbings reveals that these entangled information practices create suspicion and fear, form new solidarities, and dissolve relationships. Shadow Play is a compelling study that shows that we cannot understand urban projects in post-Suharto Indonesia and the resistance to them without first understanding the complexities embedded in the information practices.
Sheri Lynn Gibbings is an adjunct professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and a research affiliate at the University of Manitoba.
August 2021
312 pages, 6 x 9
11 black-and-white illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0819-7
$85.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2572-9
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Anthropology / Sociology / Urban Studies
Stuart Earle Strange
Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname
Unjuk Rasa: PKL Mangkubumi Tetap Menolak Relokasi
Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Untold Stories
Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life
David Divita
Anthropological Horizons
Featuring a community of Spanish labour migrants in France who came of age during General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Untold Stories reveals how legacies of authoritarianism circulate in the lives of older adults .
Forgetting Spain’s civil war (1936–39) and subsequent dictatorship was long seen as a necessary safeguard for the democracy that emerged after General Francisco Franco’s death in 1975. Since the early 2000s, however, public discussion of historical memory has awakened efforts to remember this past through the personal testimonies of Spaniards who experienced it firsthand.
Untold Stories expands accounts of twentieth-century Spain by presenting an ethnography of an ignored population: the impoverished men and women who fled Franco’s dictatorship in the 1960s. Now in their eighties, they were born around the time of the civil war and came of age during its repressive aftermath before leaving Spain as young adults.
David Divita analyses conversational encounters recorded among the seniors to demonstrate how a turbulent past shapes mundane moments of social interaction in the present. Documenting what is said as well as what is not, Divita reveals how silence can pervade the creation of social meanings – such as belonging, authority, and legitimacy.
David Divita is a professor of Romance languages at Pomona College.
March 2024
182 pages, 6 x 9
6 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5427-9
$85.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5429-3
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Anthropology
A WINNING DIALECT
A Winning Dialect
Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
Thea R . Strand
Teaching Culture
A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades
Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest? How could such a contest take place as a form of popular entertainment to begin with? What were the effects of this win, and what has happened to the winning dialect since?
A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural transformation in the rural district of Valdres, Norway. It shows how lifelong residents have adapted to changing social, economic, and political circumstances – particularly the shift from family farming to tourism development – and how they have used local linguistic and cultural resources to craft a viable future for themselves and the places their ancestors have called home for centuries. Once stigmatized as poor and uneducated, today the distinctive dialect of Valdres holds a special place as a valuable part of Norwegian national heritage, as well as a marker of local belonging. Based on two decades of research and fieldwork, A Winning Dialect considers how a traditional dialect is transformed – linguistically and culturally – as it is put to new uses in the contemporary world.
Thea R. Strand is a senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago.
Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine
Emily Channell-Justice
Anthropological Horizons
Without the State traces the transformation of the citizen-state relationship during and after the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine
Without the State explores the 2013–14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine – through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book is organized around the concept of “self-organization,” the notion that if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should simply do it.
Emily Channell-Justice reveals how self-organization in Ukraine came out of leftist practices but was adopted by actors from across the spectrum of political views over the course of Euromaidan, including far-right groups. The book shows how the widespread adoption of self-organization has encouraged Ukrainians to rethink their expectations of the relationship between citizens and their state. It explains how self-organized practices have changed people’s views on what they think they can contribute to their own communities, and in the wake of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has also motivated new networks of mutual aid within Ukraine and beyond. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, including the author’s firsthand experience of the entirety of the Euromaidan protests, Without the State provides a unique analytical account of this crucial moment in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history.
Emily Channell-Justice is the director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.
WITHOUT THE STATE
SELF-ORGANIZATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN UKRAINE
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302 pages, 6 x 9
36 colour illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0973-6
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Anthropology
Of related interest: Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in TwentyFirst-Century Ukraine
By Jessica Zychowicz
978-1-4875-0168-6
EMILY CHANNELL-JUSTICE
After Suburbia
Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Roger Keil and Fulong Wu
Global Suburbanisms
After Suburbia presents state-of-the-art suburban research to examine twenty-first-century cities from the point of view of their peripheries
After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an indepth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.
Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially the North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a postsuburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries that mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.
After Suburbia
Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
Of related interest: Streetlife: Urban Retail Perspectives and Prospects
Edited
by Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen 978-1-4875-2481-4
Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University.
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London.
Edited by ROGER KEIL and FULONG WU
Beyond the Megacity
New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
Edited by Nadine Reis and Michael Lukas
Global Suburbanisms
Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South
Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of “peripheral urbanization” as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-Marxist accounts of planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, Beyond the Megacity investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering different theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. Beyond the Megacity unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past.
All rights available except Spanish and Portuguese
Beyond the Megacity
New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
Edited by Nadine Reis and Michael Lukas
Of related interest: Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto: A Visual Analysis of Change
Nadine Reis is an assistant professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at El Colegio de México.
Michael Lukas is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Chile.
Life Angeles
Hwee-Hwa of Angeles, socioculof both multiple common desticohesiveness beliefs, pracintersect in multi-method experiences of origin, comin three income cognitive mapinterviews, this book socio-spatially planning and learning doing so, active force environments. of urban Singapore.
Creativity from Suburban Nowheres
Creativity from Suburban Nowheres Rethinking Cultural
and Creative Practices
Edited by Ilja Van Damme, Ruth McManus, and Michiel Dehaene
Global Suburbanisms
This book interrogates and questions the meaning and implications of suburban creativity .
Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea that suburbs are sites of “ordinary,” “mundane,” and “everyday” practices. Situating creativity in place and time, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres displaces mainstream understandings of creativity and widespread stereotypes commonly associated with the suburbs.
Contributors explore the particular forms of creativity that suburbs elicit both in the process of their making, materialization, and community construction, and in the myriad ways in which suburbs are inhabited and experienced. They highlight accounts of suburbs as places that give people the space and latitude to shape individual and collective identities through creative practices at odds with mainstream culture.
Ilja Van Damme is an associate professor of urban history at the University of Antwerp.
Ruth McManus is an associate professor of geography and associate dean for Teaching & Learning in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University.
Michiel Dehaene is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University.
Edited by Ilja Van Damme Ruth McManus and Michiel Dehaene
In the Suburbs of History
Modernist Visions of the Urban Periphery
Steven Logan
In the Suburbs of History
The Speculative City Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment
Global Suburbanisms
Reading modern architecture and urbanism in socialist and capitalist cities, this work challenges the twentieth-century divide between East and West in favour of a shared and contested history that plays out on the peripheries of the world’s cities
In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto were sites for experimental urban development.
In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as they shaped and reshaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning.
From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces.
Steven Logan is adjunct faculty at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021
45 colour illustrations / 5 maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-0788-6
$90.00 (£67.99 ) A
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Edited by Cecilia L Chu and Shenjing He
By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrates both the novelty and historical continuity of urbanization in the twentieth-first century
The Speculative City explores property speculation as a key aspect of financialization and its role in reshaping the contemporary built environment. The book offers a series of case studies that encompass a range of cities whose urban fabrics have undergone significant transformation in recent years.
While the forms of these developments shared many similarities, their trajectories and social outcomes were contingent upon existing planning and policy frameworks and the historical roles assumed by the state and the private sector in housing and welfare provision. By paying close attention to the forces and actors involved in property development, this book underscores that the built environment has played an integral part in the shaping of new values and collective aspirations while facilitating the spread of financial logics in urban governance.
Cecilia L Chu is an associate professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.
Shenjing He is a professor and associate dean in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.
Approx. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / Feb 2021 2 maps / 1 table / 19 halftones / 5 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0719-0
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On the Margins of Urban South Korea
Core Location as Method and Praxis
Edited
Edited by Jesook Song and Laam Hae
Bridging area and postcolonial studies with the critical political economy of South Korea
This book provides a rich and illuminating account of the peripheries of urban, regional, and transnational development in South Korea. Examining cases set in Chinatown, the Jeju English education city, rural areas of migrant wives, greenbelts, anti-poverty activist sites, places of community activism, and textile factories in Korea, each chapter develops a relational understanding of a place, in which a place is analyzed as a constellation of local and global forces and processes that interact and contradict in particular ways. Each chapter also explores multiple modes of urban marginality, and discusses how understanding them shapes the methods of academic praxis for social justice causes and decolonial scholarship.
Jesook Song is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Laam Hae is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at York University.
208 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available
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Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms
Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective
Edited by Lisa B Welch Drummond and Douglas Young
Considering the endurance of socialist spaces in contemporary, political, and cultural environments, this book investigates key aspects of socialist urbanism
Socialist cities have special qualities which endure in particular, subtle, and often under-theorized ways. This book engages with socialism on a global scale, as well as the variety of socialist urbanisms and post-socialist urbanisms, and the range of ways in which globalization intersects with changes in socialist and post-socialist cities.
Offering a unique international comparative focus, the book’s fourteen case studies from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa are grouped under three main themes: housing experiences and life trajectories, planning and architecture, and governance and social order. Featuring contributors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and research foci, Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms brings together a collection of essays on cities that are often overlooked in mainstream urban studies.
Lisa B Welch Drummond is an associate professor in the Urban Studies Program In the Department of Social Science at York University. Douglas Young is an associate professor in the Urban Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. Approx. 352 pp. / 6 x 9 / June 2020 14 maps, 2 tables, 34 halftones Cloth 978-1-4426-3283-7
$95.00 (£71.99) A Paper 978-1-4426-3253-0
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by Jesook Song and Laam Hae
Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms
Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective
Edited by Lisa B.W. Drummond and Douglas Young
Politics of the Periphery
Governing Global Suburbia
Edited by Pierre Hamel
Global Suburbanisms
Politics of the Periphery discusses empirical studies of post-metropolitan regions around the world
New urban forms characterizing contemporary metropolises reflect a certain continuity with the patterns of the past. They also include unexpected forms of settlement and design that have emerged in response to social and economic needs and as a way of leveraging new technologies. Politics of the Periphery sets out to explore sub/urban governance in diverse contexts in order to better understand how materiality and space are shaped by the possibilities and constraints of confronting actors.
This collection, edited by Pierre Hamel, examines the empirical aspects of collective action and planning in eight urban regions around the world – across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa – and reveals the impacts and consequences of various structures of suburban governance. The case studies feature a diverse range of local actors facing both the specificity of their respective milieus and the broader context of extended urbanization as metropolitan regions cope with new territorial challenges.
The book focuses on suburbanization processes that characterize most of these post-metropolitan regions and questions whether it is possible to improve suburban governance in the face of growing uncertainties arising from structural and subjective transformations. Paying close attention to the relationship between the local and the global, Politics of the Periphery challenges the planning processes of evolving metropolitan regions.
Pierre Hamel is a professor emeritus of sociology at the Université de Montréal.
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Hoi L . Kong and Tanya Monforte
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance examines sustainable development challenges in law, planning, and policy, and offers municipal actors strategies for overcoming them .
The inaction of nation-states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment. By contrast, cities are sites of action and innovation. In Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance, contributors researching in the areas of law, urban planning, geography, and philosophy identify approaches for tackling many of the most challenging environmental problems facing cities today.
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance facilitates two strands of dialogue about climate change. First, it integrates legal perspectives into policy debates about urban sustainability and governance, from which law has typically stood apart. Second, it brings case studies from Quebec into a rare conversation with examples drawn from elsewhere in Canada. The collection proposes humane and inclusive processes for arriving at effective policy outcomes. Some chapters examine governance mechanisms that reconcile clashes of incommensurable values and resolve conflicts about collective interests. Other chapters provide platforms for social movements that have faced obstacles to communicating to a broad public. The collection’s proposals respond to drastic changes in urban environments. Some changes are imminent. Others are upon us already. All threaten the present and future well-being of urban communities.
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance
Hoi L. Kong holds the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.
Tanya Monforte is an assistant professor of political science at Concordia University.
David Miller
Dreams of Presence
A Geographical Theory of Culture
Mitch Rose
Drawing on contemporary debates in philosophy and cultural theory, Dreams of Presence revives the concept of culture as an existential phenomenon and explores geography’s role in making it present as an abiding force in everyday social life .
Throughout the twentieth century, the question of culture was a central pillar of social scientific thought. Today, however, the concept has disappeared from the academic landscape. Despite pressing political debates about culture wars, identity politics, cultural appropriation, and nativism, the concept of culture is no longer seen as a credible explanatory tool.
Dreams of Presence provides a novel theoretical approach to the question of culture and will be of use to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and social theorists grappling to understand why culture continues to be a dominant political force in our contemporary world. Drawing on Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Zizek, Mitch Rose provides an existential, rather than sociological, account of culture, conceptualizing it as a refuge where subjects endeavour to establish ownership over a life that perpetually eludes them. The book argues that culture is a claim; not something subjects ever have but something they desire; not something properly present but a dream of presence : an imagination of identity we cultivate, care for, and materially build in order to assure ourselves that we are sovereign, selfstanding beings.
Mitch Rose is a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and a reader in the Graduate School at Aberystwyth University.
November 2024
200 pages, 6 x 9 3 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-6617-3
$54.95 (£36.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-6967-9
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Geography
and Persons
Of related interest: Concepts and Persons By
Michael Lambek
978-1-4875-0905-7
Remapping an Ableist World
Disability and Oppression under Capitalism
Vera Chouinard
Drawing on personal and transnational case studies, this book explores the factors that influence our lives within an able capitalist society .
Remapping an Ableist World examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and the organ trade to illustrate connections between able capitalist ways of life, impairment, disability, and oppression.
The book addresses ableness as a regime of power and oppression intrinsic to global capitalism and, as such, a system that touches all of our lives, albeit in different ways. Vera Chouinard offers an intersectional analysis of the production of impairment and disability, drawing on autoethnographic and autobiographical methodologies, case studies of disability in the Global South and North, and comparative accounts of processes such as the uneven development of disability law. Inviting readers to rethink the causes and consequences of the ableist capitalist order in which we find ourselves, Remapping an Ableist World reminds us that for our own well-being and that of generations to comes we must forge a less destructive and more nurturing way of life.
Vera Chouinard is a professor emeritus of Earth, environment, and society at McMaster University.
REMAPPING AN ABLEIST WORLD
VERA CHOUINARD
Of related interest: Missed and Dismissed Voices: Living with Hidden Chronic Health Problems
By Alexander Segall
978-1-4875-2340-4
October 2024
200 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-0718-3
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Geography
Settler Ecologies
The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya
Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio
Settler Ecologies reveals how settler colonialism impacts and endures through ecological relations
Settler Ecologies tells the story of how settler colonialism becomes memorialized and lives on through ecological relations. Drawing on eight years of research in Laikipia, Kenya, Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio use immersive methods to reveal how animals and plants can be enrolled in the reproduction of settler colonialism.
The book details how ecological relations have been unmade and remade to enable settler colonialism to endure as a structure in this part of Kenya. It describes five modes of violent ecological transformation used to prolong structures of settler colonialism: eliminating undesired species; rewilding landscapes with species desirable to settler ecologists; repeopling nature to create seemingly more inclusive ecologies and capitalize on biocultural diversity; rescuing injured animals and endangered species to shore up support for settler ecologies; and extending settler ecologies through landscape approaches to conservation that scale wild spaces.
Settler Ecologies serves as a cautionary tale for future conservation agendas in all settler colonies. While urgent action is needed to halt global biodiversity loss, this book underscores the need to continually question whether the types of nature being preserved advance settler colonial structures or create conditions in which ecologies can otherwise be (re)made and flourish.
Charis Enns is a presidential fellow in socio-environmental systems at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester.
Brock Bersaglio is an associate professor of environment and development in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham.
Streetlife reflects on the purpose, value, and meaning of our long valued but often taken-for-granted urban storefronts.
Our street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and storefront vacancy, along with a cultural shift from material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to an economic upheaval as commercial corridors and the small businesses they house face sweeping closures, bankruptcy, and job losses.
Streetlife brings together scholars who have been trying to make sense of the changing retail landscape at street level and what it means for urbanism’s future. Streetlife pays special attention to the varied responses and policies that have emerged to address the competing realities of small business loss and neighbourhood need. With case studies from the United States, as well as contributions covering Canada and Europe, this book demystifies the logic behind street-level urban retail and calls for better plans, designs, policies, and innovations to bolster sales.
Streetlife shows that now, more than ever before, we need to understand what makes our storefronts tick, what awaits them, and what we can do as planners, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to maintain retail as integral to urban lifestyle.
Conrad Kickert is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Buffalo.
Emily Talen is a professor in the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.
Edited by Jan Nijman
Of related interest: Amsterdam’s Canal District: Origins, Evolution, and Future Prospects
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Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge
State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine
Mayhill C . Fowler
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Exploring Ukraine’s multi-ethnic population, this book presents a critical response to Moscow- and Russo-centric narratives of the Soviet Union
In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theatre and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the regions have been all but forgotten despite the quality of their art. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge restores the periphery to the centre of Soviet culture. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish highlight the important multi-ethnic context and the challenges inherent in constructing Ukrainian culture in a place of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge traces the growing overlap between the arts and the state in the early Soviet years, and explains the intertwining of politics and culture in the region today.
Mayhill C. Fowler is an associate professor of history at Stetson University.
October 2023
312 pages, 6 x 9
13 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-5352-4
$37.95 (£25.99) A History
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FEEDING FASCISM
Feeding Fascism
The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Diana Garvin
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Toronto Italian Studies
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship
Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women’s experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Over the past decade, Diana Garvin has conducted extensive research in Italian museums, libraries, and archives. Feeding Fascism includes illustrations of rare cookbooks, kitchen utensils, cafeteria plans, and culinary propaganda to connect women’s political beliefs with the places that they lived and worked and the objects that they owned and borrowed. Garvin draws on first-hand accounts, such as diaries, work songs, and drawings, that demonstrate how women and the Fascist state vied for control over national diet across many manifestations – cooking, feeding, and eating – to assert and negotiate their authority. Revealing the national stakes of daily choices, and the fine line between resistance and consent, Feeding Fascism attests to the power of food.
Diana Garvin is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Oregon.
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292 pages, 7 x 10
32 colour illustrations, 49 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-5157-5
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THE POLITICS OF WOM E N ’S FOOD WORK
DIANA GARVIN
Beauty or Statistics
Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000
L .G .T . Theunissen
The long tradition of livestock breeding in the Netherlands serves as a valuable example of the delicate balance between art and science, beauty and statistics in the modernizing field of agriculture
In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-science scenario is too simplistic to do justice to the complex dynamic that characterized the transformation of the field.
The livestock breeds that take central stage in this book – dairy cattle, chickens, pigs, sheep, and horses – were products of the twentieth century. The methods used by breeders to improve their animals, however, were much older. Tracing the history of practical stockbreeding, the role of Mendelism in scientific breeding, and the emergence of quantitative genetics, Beauty or Statistics shows that the story of the scientific modernization of livestock breeding can be more fruitfully analyzed from the perspective of changing cultures of breeding, taking practical, commercial, normative, and aesthetic considerations into account.
L G T Theunissen is the director of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, and the Chair of the History of Science Program at Utrecht University.
Holding On and Holding Out
Jewish Diaries from Wartime France
Anne Freadman
Studying the diary as a genre, this book examines Jewish diary entries written in Occupied France
Examining the diary as a particular form of expression, Holding On and Holding Out provides unique insight into the experiences of Jews in France during the Second World War. Unlike memoirs and autobiographies that reconstruct particular life stories or events, diaries record daily events without the benefit of retrospect, describing events as they unfold. Holding On and Holding Out assesses how individuals used diaries to record their daily life under persecution, each waiting for some end with a mix of hope and despair. Some used their diary to bear witness not only to the terror of their own lives but also to the lives and suffering of others. Others used their writing as a memorial to people who were killed. All used their writing to assert: “I live; I will have lived.”
Holding On and Holding Out follows the diaries of two specific individuals, Raymond-Raoul Lambert and Benjamin Schatzman, from their first entries to the last ones before the diarists each disappeared into the Nazi extermination camps. The book concludes by considering how diarists’ reflections on their experiences are informed by the times in which they lived before the advent of persecution.
Anne Freadman is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.
“Deftly weaving extensive diary excerpts makes Holding On and Holding Out a gripping read.”
Susan Ashley, Department of History, Colorado College
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History / History of Science / Agriculture
ART AND SCIENCE IN BREEDING
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Approx. 280 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020
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History / Jewish Studies
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / June 2020 24 halftones
The Bridge in the Parks
The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence
Edited by Dennis G. Molinaro
The Bridge in the Parks examines how security and counter-intelligence functioned during the early Cold War.
Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The alliance was integral to shaping domestic and international security decisions during the Cold War, yet much of the intelligence history of these countries remains unknown. In The Bridge in the Park s, intelligence scholars from across the Five Eyes come together to present case studies detailing the varied successes and struggles their countries experienced in the world of Cold War counter-intelligence.
The case studies in The Bridge in the Parks draw on newly declassified documents across a variety of topics, including civil liberties, agent handling, wiretapping, and international relations. Collectively, these studies highlight how Cold War intelligence history is more nuanced than it has often been portrayed – and much like in the world of intelligence, nothing is ever entirely as it seems.
THE BRIDGE IN THE PARKS
THE FIVE EYES AND COLD WAR COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE
EDITED
BY
DENNIS G. MOLINARO
October 2021
288 pages, 6 x 9 3 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0512-7
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History
Dennis G. Molinaro is an author and researcher with a PhD in history from the University of Toronto.
TERRORISM AND COUNTERTERRORISM
Of related interest: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada
Edited by Jez Littlewood, Lorne L. Dawson, and Sara K. Thompson
978-1-4875-2170-7
Citizens without Borders
Yugoslavia and
Its
Migrant Workers in Western Europe
CITIZENS WITHOUT BORDERS
Brigitte Le Normand
This study examines Yugoslavia’s efforts to build and maintain a relationship with its migrant workers in Western Europe through cultural and educational programs
Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land
Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe
Epidemics
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Among Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe’s liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who left to work in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policymakers and social scientists, and how they were portrayed in popular culture, including radio, newspapers, and cinema.
Created to nurture ties with migrants and their children, state cultural, educational, and informational programs were a way of continuing to govern across international borders. These programs relied heavily on the promotion of the idea of homeland. The book also examines how migrants responded to these efforts and how they perceived their own relationship to the homeland, based on their migration experiences. Citizens without Borders shows how, in their efforts to win over migrant workers, governments promoted sometimes widely divergent notions of belonging, grounded in different concepts of “home.”
Brigitte Le Normand is an associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2021
28 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0750-3
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university of toronto press research
Aileen E Friesen
This book examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan
The movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the latenineteenth and early-twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. This book examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan as Russian state officials aspired to lay claim to land that was politically under their authority but remained culturally unfamiliar. By exploring the formation and evolution of Omsk diocese, this book reveals how the migration of settlers expanded the role of Orthodoxy as a cultural force in transforming Russia’s imperial periphery by “Russifying” the land with Orthodox settlers.
In the first study exploring the role of Orthodoxy in settler colonialism, Aileen E. Friesen shows how settlers, clergymen, and state officials viewed the recreation of Orthodox parish life as fundamental to the establishment of settler communities. Despite this agreement, tensions existed not only among settlers, but also within the Orthodox Church as these groups struggled to define what constituted the Russian Orthodox faith and culture.
Aileen E Friesen is an assistant professor and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Approx. 256 pp / 6 x 9 / February 2020 10 photos, 2 maps
Cloth 978-1-4426-3719-1
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Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land
Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe
AILEEN E. FRIESEN
Coerced Liberation
Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan
Zamira Abman
This book offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation of women in Tajikistan
In 1924, the Bolshevik regime began an unprecedented campaign to forcibly emancipate the Muslim women of Tajikistan. The emancipatory reforms included unveiling women, passing progressive family code laws, and educating women. By the 1950s, the Soviet regime largely succeeded in putting an end to veiling, child marriage, polygamy, and bride payments. Yet today there is a resurgence in these practices the Bolsheviks claimed to have eliminated. Coerced Liberation reveals that the Soviet regime transformed the lives of urban women within a single generation but without lasting effect.
Drawing on unique primary sources, the book examines why this occurred. It addresses questions that are pertinent to ongoing debates in the international arena: What happens when an outside force attempts to modernize a society deeply rooted in centuries of patriarchal norms and values? In what ways can a devout religious rural community respond to, survive, and adapt to such interventions? And how does a state-centred, topdown approach towards women’s emancipation work?
Coerced Liberation presents critical insights for readers interested in gender dynamics within Muslim communities, the roles of women in Islam, the resurgence of Islam in former colonial territories, the effectiveness of a top-down approach toward women’s movements, and more.
Zamira Abman is the director of the Comparative International Studies Program at San Diego State University.
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Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan
June 2024
232 pages, 6 x 9 9 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-5318-0
$42.95 (£28.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5321-0
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History
By Katya Hokanson
ZAMIRA ABMAN
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography
Abraham Rubin
German and European Studies
This book explores the fraught relationship between religion, politics, and Holocaust memory from an autobiographical perspective
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Focusing on personal testimonies that fuse historical trauma and spiritual illumination into one narrative, the book explores how Jewish emigrants interpreted their experiences of persecution and displacement through the hermeneutics of Christian conversion. It draws on autobiographies, novels, religious writings, and newspaper articles as well as unpublished archival materials such as diaries, lecture notes, and private correspondence.
The book explores how chosen genres of writing both enabled and hindered self-understanding. It also assesses whether the literary paradigm of Christian conversion, highlighting an individual’s separation from a past sinful self, is suitable for expressing a collective catastrophe. Applying psychoanalysis, disability studies, and autobiographical theory to the life writing of converted Jews, the book offers new avenues for conceptualizing the Jewishness of historical subjects who disavowed their ties to Judaism.
Abraham Rubin is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton.
January 2025
232 pages, 6 x 9
31 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5734-8
$90.00 (£59.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-6109-3
$29.95 (£19.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5736-2
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History / Jewish Studies
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Of related interest: Kingdom of Night: Witnesses to the Holocaust By
Mark Celinscak
978-1-4875-2392-3
The Crimean War and Cultural Memory
The War France Won and Forgot
Sima Godfrey
Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten
The Crimean War (1854–56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches –precursors of the Great War. It is also the first media war: the first to know the impact of a correspondent on the field of battle and the first war to be documented in photographs. No one, however, including the French themselves, seems to remember that France was there, fighting in Crimea, losing 95,000 soldiers and leading the Allied campaign to victory. It would seem that the Crimean War has no place in the canon of culturally retained historical events that define modern French identity.
Looking at literature, art, theatre, material objects, and medical reports, The Crimean War and Cultural Memory considers how the Crimean War was and was not represented in French cultural history in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, the book illuminates the forgotten traces that the Crimean War left on the French cultural landscape.
Sima Godfrey is an associate professor emerita of French at the University of British Columbia.
and Forgot
By Rory Finnin
978-1-4875-0781-7
September 2023
224 pages, 6 x 9 75 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4777-6
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4778-3
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History
SIMA GODFREY
The War France Won
French rights sold
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HARBIN
Edited by Rebecca Wittmann
Harbin A Cross-Cultural Biography
The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered
Mark Gamsa NEW IN PAPERBACK
Edited by Rebecca Wittmann German and European Studies
Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography details the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin .
The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered explores the legacy and consequences of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Open Letters
Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880–1922
Alison Rowley NEW IN PAPERBACK
Gorgeously illustrated, Open Letters uses picture postcards to explore aspects of Russian popular culture in the fin-de-siècle era
This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social and political changes.
The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered brings together leading authorities in a transnational, international, and supranational study of Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Israelis in Argentina and tried in Jerusalem in 1961.
The essays in this important new collection span the disciplines of history, film studies, political science, sociology, psychology, and law. Contributing scholars adopt a wide historical lens, pushing outwards in time and space to examine the historical and legal influence that Adolf Eichmann and his trial held for Israel, West Germany, and the Middle East. In addition to taking up the question of what drove Eichmann, contributors explore the motivation of prosecutors, lawyers, diplomats, and neighbouring countries before, during, and after the trial ended.
Using surviving letters, archival photographs, and rare publications, this book also tells the personal story of a forgotten city resident, Baron Roger Budberg, a physician who, being neither Russian nor Chinese, nevertheless stood at the very centre of the cross-cultural divide in Harbin. The biography of an important city, fleshing out its place in the global history of EastWest contacts and twentieth-century diasporas, this book is also the history of an individual life and an original experiment in historical writing.
During the fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary eras, picture postcards were an important medium of communication for Russians of all backgrounds. In Open Letters , the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of Russian popular culture. The book is lavishly illustrated with more than 130 images, most of which have never been published before.
The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered puts Eichmann at the centre of an exploration of German versus Israeli jurisprudence, national Israeli identities and politics, and the conflict between German, Israeli, and Arab states.
Mark Gamsa is an associate professor in the School of History at Tel Aviv University.
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394 pages, 6 x 9
Through her examinations of postcards, Rowley addresses a diverse range of topics: how landscape postcards conveyed notions of imperialism; the role of postcards in the rise of celebrity culture; depictions of the body on erotic and pornographic postcards; how postcards were employed to promote differing interpretations of the First World War; and the use of postcards by revolutionary groups seeking to overthrow the Tsarist government. Rowley determines the extent to which Russia was embedded in Europe-wide cultural trends by situating the Russian case within a larger European context.
22 b&w illustrations
Rebecca Wittmann is an associate professor of History at the University of Toronto
Paper 978-1-4875-4424-9
January 2022
$39.95 (£26.99) A History / Slavic Studies
280 pages, 6 x 9
4 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0849-4
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3837-8
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History
Alison Rowley is an associate professor in the Department of History at Concordia University.
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336 pages, 6 x 9
138 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-4528-4
$36.95 (£24.99) A History / Slavic Studies
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Generations of Empire Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean
Andreas Guidi
Toronto Italian Studies
Generations of Empire rethinks modern Mediterranean history through changing generational dynamics and representations of youth
In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. Rhodes became a territory of Italy’s empire in 1923 following the Treaty of Lausanne, only one year after Mussolini seized power in Rome. The Ottoman demise corresponded to the expansion of fascist imperialism in the Mediterranean. Both the Ottoman Young Turks and Italian colonial governors invoked the role of a “new generation” of youth in imperial rule.
Generations of Empire investigates the relationship between state and society in light of successive transformations of imperial rule, rethinking Italian colonialism as post-Ottoman history. Andreas Guidi explores how communal life in the town of Rhodes was affected by the transition between these regimes, from an autocratic to a constitutional empire in late Ottoman years to Italian military occupation to fascist annexation. Based on archival sources in five languages from seven different countries, the book investigates generational dynamics in the domains of political activism, the family, education, work and leisure, and mobility.
Andreas Guidi is a research associate in the Department of History at the University of Konstanz.
Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World
This book explores the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–1
Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the democratic principles espoused by Young Europe’s founder, Giuseppe Mazzini.
Based on archival sources as well as well-documented publications in Eastern Europe, this study highlights that the national awakening among the Czechs, Slovaks, and Galician Ukrainians was not just cultural, as is typically assumed, but political as well. The documentary sources testify that at its inception the political nationalism in Eastern Europe, founded on the humanistic ideals promoted by Mazzini, was republican-democratic in nature and that the clandestine groups in Eastern Europe were cooperating with one another through underground channels. It was through this cooperation during the 1830s that the better-educated Poles and Ukrainians in the political underground tied to Young Europe became aware that the interests of their nations, bound together by the forces of history and political necessity, were best served when they worked closely together.
Anna Procyk is Professor Emerita in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York.
June 2022
288 pages, 6 x 9
21 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-4573-4
$35.95 (£23.99) A History
Ukrainian rights sold
Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin Refugee Scientists in the USSR
David Zimmerman
Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin examines the lives of the scientists and scholars who sought refuge in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight.
David Zimmerman is a professor of military history at the University of Victoria.
Of related interest: The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
By Pey-Yi Chu
978-1-4875-0193-8
April 2023
376 pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-4365-5
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4366-2
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History
Entangled Emancipation
Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany
Alexandria N . Ruble
German and European Studies
Entangled Emancipation examines the struggle to redefine the gender order and women’s rights in East and West Germany after the Second World War
In 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens in marriage, parental rights, and marital property. Despite the upheavals in early twentieth-century Germany – the fall of the German Empire after the First World War, the tumultuous Weimar Republic, and the destructive Third Reich – the Civil Code remained the law of the land. After Nazi Germany’s defeat in 1945 and the founding of East and West Germany, legislators in both states finally replaced the old law with new versions that expanded women’s rights in marriage and the family.
Entangled Emancipation reveals how the complex relationship between the divided Germanys in the early Cold War catalysed but sometimes blocked efforts to reshape legal understandings of gender and the family after decades of inequality. Using methods drawn from gender history and discourse analysis, the book restores the history of the women’s movements in East and West Germany. Entangled Emancipation ultimately explores the parallel processes through which East and West Germany reimagined, negotiated, and created new civil laws governing women’s rights after the Second World War.
Alexandria N. Ruble is an assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho.
January 2024
288 pages, 6 x 9 12 b&w illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-5026-4
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5027-1
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History
By Andrea Rottmann
Transnational Mennonite Studies
This interdisciplinary series presents the history and culture of Mennonites within a transnational context It explores Mennonites as a global people, considering the worlds of both acculturated and traditional Mennonites across the Americas, in Europe, and around the world . Books in the series will address a diverse range of topics, including religious practice, migration/mobility, environmental interaction, agriculture, gender, and development/relief work as well as issues of race, settler colonialism, and non-violence
EUROPEAN MENNONITES and the HOLOCAUST
Edited by MARK JANTZEN and JOHN D. THIESEN
European Mennonites and the Holocaust
Edited by Mark Jantzen and John D . Thiesen
Transnational Mennonite Studies
European Mennonites and the Holocaust is one of the first books to examine Mennonite involvement in the Holocaust, sometimes as rescuers but more often as killers, accomplices, beneficiaries, and bystanders
Mennonites in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Ukraine lived in communities with Jews and close to various Nazi camps and Holocaust killing sites. As a result of this proximity, Mennonites were neighbours to and witnessed the destruction of European Jews. In some cases they were beneficiaries or even enablers of the Holocaust. Much of this history was forgotten after the war, as Mennonites sought to rebuild or find new homes as refugees. The result was a myth of Mennonite innocence and ignorance that connected their own suffering during the 1930s and 1940s with earlier centuries of persecution and marginalization.
Approx. 344 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2020
7 images / 4 maps / 1 figure
Cloth 978-1-4875-0795-4
$95.00 (£71.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2554-5
$39.95 (£29.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3725-8 $39.95
History / Slavic Studies
Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
European Mennonites and the Holocaust identifies a significant number of Mennonite perpetrators, along with a smaller number of Mennonites who helped Jews survive, examining the context in which they acted. In some cases, theology led them to accept or reject Nazi ideals. In others, Mennonites chose a closer embrace of German identity as a strategy to improve their standing with Germans or for material benefit.
A powerful and unflinching examination of a difficult history, European Mennonites and the Holocaust uncovers a more comprehensive picture of Mennonite life during these years, underscoring actions that were not always innocent.
Mark Jantzen is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Conflict Studies at Bethel College.
John D Thiesen is an archivist and Co-director of Libraries at Bethel College.
university of toronto press
THE FALL OF A CAROLINGIAN KINGDOM
LOTHARINGIA, 855–869
CHARLES WEST
The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom
Lotharingia 855–869
Charles West
Opening up Carolingian history to a new generation, this book draws on recently translated primary sources to examine the collapse of an early medieval kingdom
The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish middle kingdom Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent interpretations.
The book tracks the twists and turns of the scandal as it unfolded over a crucial decade and a half in the ninth century. It pinpoints key decisions and traces their consequences, placing them in the wider context of Carolingian politics, as the heirs of the Frankish emperors Charlemagne and Louis the Pious struggled to master their legacies. Drawing on primary sources such as letters, material culture, and secret treaties, The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom offers readers a sharply defined window onto one of the most dramatic episodes in Carolingian history, rich with insights into the workings of early medieval society.
Charles West is a professor of history at the University of Sheffield.
October 2023
240 pages, 6 x 9
5 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map, 1 b&w figure
Cloth 978-1-4875-4509-3
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4516-1
$39.95 (£26.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-4518-5
$31.95
History / Medieval Studies
Medieval Eastern Europe, 500–1300 A Reader
Edited by Florin Curta
Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
Medieval Eastern Europe offers a selection of fascinating primary sources pertaining to the history of East Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages .
Medieval Eastern Europe is the first collection of primary sources in English translation covering the history of the whole eastern region of the European continent between 500 and 1300. Florin Curta, a leading scholar of medieval Eastern Europe, gathers sources from a geographic area ranging from the Czech lands in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east, and from northern Russia to Greece.
The collection includes traditional narrative sources, such as chronicles and annals, as well as treaties, charters, letters, and legal texts. Each primary source is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by guiding questions. Organized chronologically into thematic chapters, the selections touch upon a wide variety of topics, including political developments; conversion to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; economic and social issues; literature; laws; religious beliefs and practices; and much more.
Florin Curta is a professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida.
February 2024
400 pages, 6 x 9
13 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-4487-4
$120.00 (£79.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4490-4
$49.95 (£32.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-4491-1
$39.95
History / Medieval Studies
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man
German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941
Sebastian Huebel
German and European Studies
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man explores how GermanJewish men tried to maintain their understandings of masculinity under Nazi rule.
When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man focuses on the gendered experiences and discrimination that German-Jewish men faced between 1933 and 1941.
Sebastian Huebel argues that Jewish men’s gender identities, intersecting with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and age, underwent a profound process of marginalization that destabilized their accustomed ways of performing masculinity. At the same time, in their attempts to sustain their conceptions of masculinity these men maintained agency and developed coping strategies that prevented their full-scale emasculation. Huebel draws on a rich archive of diaries, letters, and autobiographies to interpret the experiences of these men, focusing on their roles as soldiers and protectors, professionals and breadwinners, and parents and husbands.
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man sheds light on how the Nazis sought to emasculate Jewish men through propaganda, the law, and violence, and how in turn German-Jewish men were able to defy emasculation and adapt – at least temporarily – to their marginalized status as men.
January 2022
264 pages, 6 x 9 29 black-and-white images Cloth 978-1-4875-4123-1
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4124-8
$32.95 (£21.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4126-2
$32.95
History
Sebastian Huebel is a faculty member in the Department of History at the University of the Fraser Valley and head of the Department of Humanities at Alexander College in Vancouver.
Of related interest: Holding On and Holding Out: Jewish Diaries from Wartime France
By Anne Freadman
978-1-4875-2519-4
Food Mobilities
Making World Cuisines
Edited by Daniel E Bender and Simone Cinotto
Culinaria
Food Mobilities tells the fascinating story of how we cook, shop, and eat in today’s global food system
Food moves. Today, shoppers can load their shopping basket with spices from India, fruit from Honduras, and canned goods from Italy. Diners can decide between restaurants offering the cuisines of the world. Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times.
This collection of essays addresses the connections between the symbolic relations of mobility and systems of food politics, production, transformation, exchange, and consumption. The authors offer a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian foods in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in Toronto, and beer all around the world.
The book demonstrates that mobility is not only a logistical question of moving people, animals, plants, and commodities but also one of knowledge production. In exploring the origins of the contemporary global food system and how we cook and eat today, Food Mobilities uncovers the local and global circulation of food, ingredients, cooks, commodities, labour, and knowledge.
Daniel E. Bender is Canada Research Chair in Food and Culture, professor of food studies and history, and director of the Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto.
Simone Cinotto is an associate professor of modern history and director of the Master of Gastronomy: World Food Cultures and Mobility program at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.
August 2023
352 pages, 6 x 9
28 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0902-6
$80.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2649-8
$24.95 (£16.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3954-2
$24.95
History
By Erin Alice Cowling
CULINARIA is dedicated to understanding where our food comes from, and how it shapes bodies, identities, pasts, presents, and futures. It conceives of food in three interconnected ways: food for thought, food for pleasure, and food for change. The series aims to contribute to global conversations around food culture, politics and activism, food science and sustainability, gastronomy, and culinary innovation.
For Russia with Hitler
White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War
Oleg Beyda
This book explores the active involvement of Russian exiles in the Second World War, with thousands of émigrés fighting alongside Hitler .
The Bolshevik takeover of Russia created an alternative Russia in exile which never laid down its arms. For two decades, expelled White Russians sought ways to retaliate against the Soviet Union and return home. Their irreconcilability was galvanized by a superstructure, the dominant military organization, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). Eventually, militant anti-Bolshevism led the exiled Russians into alliance with Nazi Germany, despite the latter’s antiSlavic stance. For Russia with Hitler tells the story of how thousands of White Russian émigrés joined the German invasion of the Soviet Union as soldiers, translators, and civilian workers.
Oleg Beyda investigates and contextualizes émigré collaboration with National Socialist Germany, explaining how it was possible for Russians to fight against the Russians. The book reveals that the exiles, although united ideologically by Russian nationalism in a general sense, did not establish one single, clear-cut political solution for a future “liberated Russia.” Drawing on wide archival material, For Russia with Hitler details the background and ideological framework of the émigrés, how they rationalized their support for Nazism, and what they did on the Eastern Front, including their reactions to life in occupation, war crimes, and the Holocaust.
Oleg Beyda is the Hansen Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Melbourne.
September 2024
408 pages, 6 x 9
12 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5648-8
$125.00 (£82.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-5651-8
$125.00
History
Blood of Others
Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity
Rory Finnin
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe’s most volatile flashpoints, by chronicling the aftermath of Stalin’s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars in four different literary traditions .
In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey were works of literature. These texts of poetry and prose – some passed hand-tohand underground, others published to controversy –shocked the conscience of readers and sought to move them to action.
Blood of Others presents these works as vivid evidence of literature’s power to lift our moral horizons. In bringing these remarkable texts to light and contextualizing them among Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian representations of Crimea from 1783, Rory Finnin provides an innovative cultural history of the Black Sea region. He reveals how a “poetics of solidarity” promoted empathy and support for an oppressed people through complex provocations of guilt rather than shame.
Forging new roads between Slavic studies and Middle Eastern studies, Blood of Others is a compelling and timely exploration of the ideas and identities coursing between Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine –three countries determining the fate of a volatile and geopolitically pivotal part of our world.
Rory Finnin is a professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Available
352 pages, 6 x 9
7 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps
Paper 978-1-4875-5825-3
$34.95 (£23.99) A Literary Studies / History
GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY THROUGH BRITISH EYES
German Social Democracy through British Eyes
A Documentary History, 1870–1914
James Retallack
German Social Democracy through British Eyes uses diplomatic reports sent from Germany to Britain to document the rise of social democracy as well as efforts to repress it.
On the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world. German Social Democracy through British Eyes examines the SPD’s rise using British diplomatic reports from Saxony, the third-largest federal state in Imperial Germany and the cradle of the socialist movement in that country.
Rather than focusing on the Anglo-German antagonism leading to the First World War, the book peers into the everyday struggles of German workers to build a political movement and emancipate themselves from the worst features of a modern capitalist system: exploitation, poverty, and injustice. The archival documents, most of which have never been published before, raise the question of how people from one nation view people from another nation. The documents also illuminate political systems, election practices, and anti-democratic strategies at the local and regional levels, allowing readers to test hypotheses derived only from national-level studies.
This collection of primary sources shows why, despite the inhospitable environment of German authoritarianism, Saxony and Germany were among the most important incubators of socialism.
James Retallack is a University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
January 2022
400 pages, 6 x 9
30 black-and-white images, 2 maps, 19 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-2747-1
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2748-8
$37.95 (£25.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2750-1
$37.95
History
AUTHENTICITY AND VICTIMHOOD AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War Narratives
from Europe and East
Asia
Edited by Randall Hansen, Achim Saupe, Andreas Wirsching, and Daqing Yang
German and European Studies
This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second World War.
The shadow of the Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession.
Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims’ histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events.
Randall Hansen is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School.
Achim Saupe is the director of the Leibniz Research Alliance for Historical Authenticity at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF).
Andreas Wirsching is the director of the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ).
Daqing Yang is an associate professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University.
January 2022
328 pages, 6 x 9
1 black-and-white image Cloth 978-1-4875-2821-8
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2823-2
$75.00
History
JAMES RETALLACK
Heavenly Fatherland
German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire
Jeremy Best
German and European Studies
A history of German Protestant missionaries, Heavenly Fatherland investigates the theological, cultural, and political activities of missionaries and their allies in Germany and the German colonial empire before the First World War.
Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work. As a result of their travels, these missionaries contributed to Germany’s colonial culture. Because of their theology of Christian universalism, they worked against the bigoted racialism and ultra-nationalism of secular German empirebuilding. Heavenly Fatherland provides a detailed political and cultural analysis of missionaries, mission societies, mission intellectuals, and missionary supporters.
Combining cases studies from East Africa with studies of the metropole, this book demonstrates that missionaries’ ideas about race and colonialism influenced ordinary Germans’ experience of globalization and colonialism at the same time that the missionaries shaped colonial governance.
Jeremy Best is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
Approx. 344 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2021
5 illustrations / 4 maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-0563-9
$75.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3245-1 $75.00 History / European History
Art Work
Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism
ART WORK
Katja
Praznik
By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists’ rights.
In Art Work , Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as an activity done out of love, a passion for self-expression, and without any concern for financial aspects – and instead builds a case for understanding art as a form of invisible labour. Focusing on the experiences of art workers and the history of labour regulation in the arts in socialist Yugoslavia, Praznik helps elucidate the contradiction at the heart of artistic production and the origins of the mystification of art as labour.
This profoundly interdisciplinary book highlights the Yugoslav socialist model of culture as the blueprint for uncovering the interconnected aesthetic and economic mechanisms at work in the exploitation of artistic labour. It also shows the historical trajectory of how policies toward art and artistic labour changed by the end of the 1980s. Calling for a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions of Western art and exploitative labour practices across the world, Art Work will be of interest to scholars in Eastern European studies, art theory, and cultural policy, as well as to practicing artists.
Katja Praznik is an associate professor in the Department of Media Study/Arts Management Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Approx. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2021 9 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0841-8
$75.00 ( £56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3819-4 $75.00 History / Art
All rights available except Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, and Macedonian
KATJA PRAZNIK
In the Kingdom of Shoes
Bata, Zlín, Globalization, 1894–1945
Zachary Austin Doleshal
In the Kingdom of Shoes tells the story of the pioneering Bata Company, which created a fascinating company culture as it globalized industrial shoe production.
One of the world’s largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia, has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern. In the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, it Americanized its production model while also trying to Americanize its workforce. In the chaos of postwar Czechoslovakia, it promised a technocratic form of governance. During the Roaring Twenties, Bata became synonymous with rationalization across Europe and thus a flashpoint for a continent-wide debate. In the Great Depression, Bata globalized when others contracted, and in doing so, became the first shoe company to unlock the potential of globalization.
As Bata expanded worldwide, it became an example of corporate national indifference, where company personnel were trained to be able to slip into and out of national identifications with ease. Such indifference, however, was seriously challenged by the geopolitical crisis of the 1930s. Bata management turned nationalist, even fascist, on the cusp of the Second World War.
In the Kingdom of Shoes unravels the way the Bata project swept away tradition and enmeshed the lives of thousands of people around the world in the industrial production of shoes. Using a rich array of archival materials from two continents, the book answers how Bata’s rise to the world’s largest producer of shoes challenged the nation-state, democracy, and Americanization.
January 2022
304 pages, 6 x 9 18 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0658-2
$90.00 (£59.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2444-9
$39.95 (£26.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3447-9
$39.95
History
Zachary Austin Doleshal is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of History at Sam Houston State University.
By Katja Praznik
Jews, Judaism, and Success
How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement
Robert Eisen
Robert Eisen attributes the surprising success of Jews in the modern world to a religious culture that, over the centuries, prepared them to flourish .
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern western world?
Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were unusually well-prepared for it by their religion – in particular, Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the Talmud, this form of Judaism instilled in Jews key values that paved the way for success in modern western society: autonomy, freedom of thought, worldliness, and education. The book carefully analyses the evolution of these four values over the past two thousand years in order to demonstrate that they had a longer and richer history in Jewish culture than in western culture. The book thus disputes the common assumption that Rabbinic Judaism was always an obstacle to Jews becoming modern. It demonstrates that while modern Jews rejected aspects of Rabbinic Judaism, they also retained some of its values, and these values in particular led to Jewish success.
Written for a broad range of readers, Jews, Judaism, and Success provides unique insights on the meaning of success and how it is achieved in the modern world.
Robert Eisen is a professor of religion and Judaic studies at George Washington University.
ROBERT EISEN JEWS, JUDAISM, AND SUCCESS
May 2023
480 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4822-3
$115.00 (£75.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4823-0
$49.95 (£32.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4824-7
$49.95
History / Jewish Studies
Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine
John R . Staples
Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
Drawing on the story of the leader of a small Mennonite community in southern Ukraine, this book explores how colonial subjects were shaped by and helped shape Russian imperial policy
In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789–1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era.
Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine uses the life story of Johann Cornies to explore how colonial subjects interacted with Russian imperial policy. The book reveals how tsarist imperial policy shifted toward Russification in the 1830s and 1840s and became increasingly intolerant of ethno-cultural and ethno-religious minorities. It shows that Russia employed the Mennonite settlement as a colonial laboratory of modernity, and that the Mennonites were among Russia’s most economically productive subjects. This microhistory illuminates the role of Johann Cornies as a mediator between the empire and the Mennonite colonists, and it ultimately aims to bring light to the history of nineteenthcentury Russia and Ukraine.
John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
Of related interest: European Mennonites and the Holocaust
Edited by Mark Jantzen and John D Thiesen
978-1-4875-2554-5
Johann Cornies , the Mennonites , and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine
March 2024
344 pages, 6 x 9 2 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-4916-9
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4917-6
$75.00
History
JOHN R. STAPLES
Kingdom of Night
Witnesses to the Holocaust
Mark Celinscak
Kingdom of Night tells the stories of Canadians – in their own voices – during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
In April 1945, when the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was surrendered and handed over to the British Army, Canadian forces arrived on scene to provide support, to bear witness, and to document the crimes. They were overwhelmed, understaffed, and left without adequate supplies, equipment, and medicine. Their encounters at the camp were haunting, transformative experiences that forever changed their lives.
In Kingdom of Night , Mark Celinscak reveals the engagement of Canadian troops and other personnel at the BergenBelsen concentration camp. The book brings together a series of gripping, often deeply moving accounts that demonstrate the critical relief work carried out by Canadians who have been largely overlooked for more than seventy-five years. It outlines in both stark and moving detail what a cross-section of Canadians both said and did during the liberation efforts at one of the most notorious sites in Hitler’s camp system.
In addition, biographical overviews are presented for each Canadian featured in the book, not only highlighting some of their life-saving and humanitarian work, but also revealing what ultimately became of their lives after the war. Kingdom of Night depicts the gruelling efforts by those who assisted the victims of one of the most heinous crimes in history.
November 2021
352 pages, 6 x 9
50 black-and-white illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0574-5
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2392-3
$34.95 (£23.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3259-8
$34.95
Canadian History
Mark Celinscak is the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the executive director of the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Of related interest: Dance on the Razor’s Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos
By Svenja Bethke
978-1-4875-2354-1
The Life of Permafrost
Orality and Literacy Reflections
across Disciplines
A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Pey-Yi Chu
NEW IN PAPERBACK
This diverse collection of essays looks at the relationship between orality and literacy from a series of disciplinary-based perspectives.
By tracing the English word “permafrost” back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon
Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments.
In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define permafrost as ground that maintains a negative temperature for at least two years. But where did this particular conception of permafrost originate, and what alternatives existed?
Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure, performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society’s uses of and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject, illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function.
Keith Thor Carlson is a professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley where he holds a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History.
Kristina Fagan is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.
The Life of Permafrost provides an intellectual history of permafrost, placing the phenomenon squarely in the political, social, and material context of Russian and Soviet science. Pey-Yi Chu shows that understandings of frozen earth were shaped by two key experiences in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. On one hand, the colonization and industrialization of Siberia nourished an engineering perspective on frozen earth that viewed the phenomenon as an aggregate physical structure: ground. On the other hand, a Russian and Soviet tradition of systems thinking encouraged approaching frozen earth as a process, condition, and space tied to planetary exchanges of energy and matter. The Life of Permafrost tells the fascinating story of how permafrost came to acquire life as Russian and Soviet scientists studied, named, and defined it.
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is the director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.
Approx. 344 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Paper 978-1-4875-2768-6
Pey-Yi Chu is an associate professor of history at Pomona College.
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021
$39.95 (£29.99) A History
3 illustrations / 6 maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-0193-8
$70.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1425-9 $70.00 History / Slavic Studies / History of Science
Of Apes and Ancestors
Harbin
A Cross-Cultural Biography
Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
HARBIN
Mark Gamsa
Ian Hesketh
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Told alongside the life of a unique city resident, Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography is the history of Russian-Chinese relations in the Manchurian city of Harbin
Of Apes and Ancestors reconstructs the famous Oxford debate of 1860, the first public debate between supporters and opponents of Darwin’s recently published Origin of Species.
This book offers an intimate portrait of early-twentiethcentury Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social and political changes.
In June 1860, some of Britain’s most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin’s recently published Origin of Species. The Bishop of Oxford, “Soapy” Samuel Wilberforce, clashed swords with Darwin’s most outspoken supporter, Thomas Henry Huxley. The latter’s triumph, amid quips about apes and ancestry, has become a mythologized event, symbolizing the supposed war between science and Christianity. But did the debate really happen in this way?
Using surviving letters, archival photographs, and forgotten publications, this book also tells the personal story of a forgotten city resident, Baron Roger Budberg, a physician who, being neither Russian nor Chinese, nevertheless stood at the very centre of the cross-cultural divide in Harbin. The biography of an important city, fleshing out its place in the global history of East-West contacts and twentieth-century diasporas, this book is also the history of an individual life and an original experiment in historical writing.
Mark Gamsa is an associate professor in the School of History at Tel Aviv University.
Approx. 400 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021 22 illustrations
Of Apes and Ancestors argues that this one-dimensional interpretation was constructed and disseminated by Darwin’s supporters, becoming an imagined victory in the struggle to overcome Anglican dogmatism. By reconstructing the Oxford debate and carefully considering the individual perspectives of the main participants, Ian Hesketh argues that personal jealousies and professional agendas played a formative role in shaping the response to Darwin’s hypothesis, with religious anxieties overlapping with a whole host of other cultural and scientific considerations.
Cloth 978-1-4875-0628-5
$90.00 (£67.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3376-2 $90.00 History / Slavic Studies
Ian Hesketh is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland.
Approx. 152 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Paper 978-1-4875-2680-1
$24.95 (£18.99) A History
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Made to Order
The Designing of Animals
Margaret E . Derry
Made to Order explains more than three centuries of attitudes toward animal breeding
Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret E. Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries. Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation. Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole. It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding as seen through pedigrees. In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize our interactions with all-natural processes.
Margaret E. Derry is an adjunct professor in the Department of History and associated faculty at the Campbell Centre for Animal Welfare in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Guelph.
April 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9
12 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4160-6
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4163-7
$70.00 History
Reading History
Michael Burger
Short and succinct, Reading History introduces students to different kinds of historical writing, acting as a guide to help them read and understand primary and secondary sources.
History students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And they read textbooks. Yet students are beginners, and as beginners they need to learn the differences among various kinds of readings – their natures, their challenges, and the unique expectations one needs to bring to each of them.
HISTORY
Reading History is a practical guide to help students read better. Uniquely designed with the author’s engaging explanations in the margins, the book describes primary sources across various genres, including documents of practice, treatises, and literary works, as well as secondary sources such as textbooks, articles, and monographs. An appendix contains tips and questions for reading primary or secondary sources.
Full of practical advice and hands-on training that will allow students to be successful, Reading History also helps cultivate a wider appreciation for the discipline of history.
Michael Burger is a professor of History at Auburn University at Montgomery.
September 2021
96 pages, 8 x 10
18 black-and-white illustrations, 1 map, 1 table
Cloth 978-1-4875-0560-8
$50.00 (£32.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2387-9
$21.95 (£14.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3238-3
$15.95 History
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Lesley B. at the University
March 2022 480 pages, 8 colour
The Designing of Animals
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Through
Much Tribulation
Leonard G . Friesen
Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
This book offers a history of Mennonites from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire to the collapse of the USSR
Mennonites in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is the first history of Mennonite life from its origins in the Dutch Reformation of the sixteenth century, through migration to Poland and Prussia, and on to more than two centuries of settlement in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Leonard G. Friesen sheds light on religious, economic, social, and political changes within Mennonite communities as they confronted the many faces of modernity. He shows how the Mennonite minority remained engaged with the wider empire that surrounded them, and how they reconstructed and reconfigured their identity after the Bolsheviks seized power and formed a Soviet regime committed to atheism.
Integrating Mennonite history into developments in the empire and the USSR, Friesen provides a history of an ethno-religious people that illuminates the larger canvas of Imperial Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet history.
Leonard G. Friesen is a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University.
February 2023
416 pages, 6 x 9
12 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-0551-6
$95.00 (£62.99) A
Paper 978-1-4875-2465-4
$42.95 (£28.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-0568-4
$42.95
History
Colonial Geography
Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905
Matthew Unangst
German and European Studies
Colonial Geography explores how spatial thinking shaped the creation and government of the German imperial colony of East Africa .
Colonial Geography charts changes in conceptions of the relationship between people and landscapes in mainland Tanzania during the German colonial period. In German minds, colonial development would depend on the relationship between East Africans and the landscape. Colonial Geography argues that the most important element in German imperialism was not its violence but its attempts to apply racial thinking to the mastery and control of space.
Utilizing approaches drawn from critical geography, the book argues that the development of a representational space of empire had serious consequences for German colonialism and the population of East Africa. Colonial Geography shows how spatial thinking shaped ideas about race and empire in the period of New Imperialism.
Matthew Unangst is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Oneonta.
October 2022
320 pages, 6 x 9
13 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4340-2
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4341-9
$85.00
History
MENNONITES in the RUSSIAN EMPIRE and the SOVIET UNION
The New Spice Box
Contemporary Jewish Writing
Edited by Ruth Panofsky
New
Jewish Press
The New Spice Box brings together contemporary short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry by a mix of authors offering a window onto new and exciting Jewish writing
The New Spice Box includes short fiction, personal essays, and poetry by Jewish writers from a broad range of cultural backgrounds. Fresh and relevant, profound and lasting, this anthology features works by acclaimed short story writers David Bezmozgis, Mireille Silcoff, and Ayelet Tsabari; groundbreaking memoirists Bernice Eisenstein and Alison Pick; and award-winning poets Isa Milman, Jacob Scheier, and Adam Sol.
The driving force behind The New Spice Box is the desire to uncover the twin touchstones of original expression and writerly craft and to balance the representation of genres, styles, and authorial perspectives. Here, authors summon the past as they probe their cultural inheritance and move forward into the future. The New Spice Box shows that Jewish literary tradition, Jewish experience, and Jewish identity can be expressed in innumerable ways.
Ruth Panofsky is a professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University.
Edited by RUTH PANOFSKY
Approx. 176 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2020 15 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0866-1
$60.00 (£44.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2600-9
$24.95 (£18.99) T eBook 978-1-4875-3873-6 $24.95
Jewish Studies
Of related interest: Come Back for Me
By Sharon Hart-Green 978-1-9883-2606-1
None Is Too Many
Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933–1948
40th Anniversary Edition
Irving Abella and Harold Troper
Foreword by Richard Menkis
Afterword by David Koffman
One of the most important books in Canadian history, None Is Too Many conclusively lays to rest the comfortable notion that Canada has always been an accepting and welcoming society .
Today, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 to 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi persecution, Canada refused to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to those in threat of their lives.
Rigorously documented and brilliantly researched, None Is Too Many tells the story of Canada’s response to the plight of European Jews during the Nazi era and its immediate aftermath, exploring why and how Canada turned its back and hardened its heart against the entry of Jewish refugees. Recounting a shameful period in Canadian history, Irving Abella and Harold Troper trace the origins and results of Canadian immigration policies towards Jews and conclusively demonstrate that the forces against admitting them were pervasive and rooted in antisemitism.
First published in 1983, None Is Too Many has become one of the most significant books ever published in Canada. This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates the book’s ongoing impact on public discourse, generating debate on ethics and morality in government, the workings of Canadian immigration and refugee policy, the responsibility of bystanders, righting historical wrongs, and the historian as witness. Above all, the reader is asked: “What kind of Canada do we want to be?”
September 2023
464 pages, 6 x 9
15 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-5438-5
$37.95 (£25.99) T
eBook 978-1-4875-5441-5
$37.95
Jewish Studies / Canadian History
Irving Abella (1940–2022) was the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and professor emeritus of history at York University. Abella served as president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. He was a past president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Harold Troper is professor emeritus of education and history at the University of Toronto. Troper’s work has received numerous honors and awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the American Jewish Book Award, the Canadian Historical Association prize for best book in Canadian history, the J.I. Segal Book Award and he is three-time winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award.
Praise for None Is Too Many
CANADA
“A brilliant work of history ” Leonard Dinnerstein, American Jewish History
Of related interest: Faces in the Crowd: The Jews of Canada By Franklin Bialystok 978-1-4426-0441-4
“Irving Abella and Harold Troper have done a superb job of unearthing this sorry chapter in our hidden history . The general outlines were dimly known before, but by exhaustively pursuing primary sources they have documented the details with chilling precision ” William French, The Globe and Mail
“[A] heart-rending book ”
FACES IN THE CROWD
THE JEWS OF
FRANKLIN BIALYSTOK
Carol Goar, The Toronto Star
One Word Shapes a Nation Integration Politics in Germany
Johanna Schuster-Craig
German and European Studies
One Word Shapes a Nation examines the cultural, political, social, and economic influences on German integration politics, the field of public policy that shapes attitudes toward immigrants and refugees .
One Word Shapes a Nation demonstrates that integration politics limit how immigrants, refugees, and their descendants can participate in German society and how Germans imagine their national future. By reconstructing recent polemic media scandals, reinterpreting historical narratives about migration after the Second World War, and conducting extensive fieldwork with social work organizations that implement “integrative” programs, Johanna Schuster-Craig explores the intersection between media, capital, nationbuilding, and human lives in contemporary German society.
The book reveals that while anti-immigrant tropes are long-standing in German post-war history, integration is not the only potential model.
Drawing on media analysis of key public speeches and debates, historical analysis, and ethnographic observation and interviews, Schuster-Craig examines the nature and impact of an integrative apparatus. One Word Shapes a Nation ultimately asks what it would take to reimagine immigrant incorporation as a form of citizenship that applies to everyone.
Johanna Schuster-Craig is an assistant professor of German and global studies at Michigan State University.
August 2024
424 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-5116-2
$105.00 (£69.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-5117-9
$44.95 (£29.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5119-3
$44.95
History / German Studies
Russia’s Turkish Wars
Russia’s Turkish Wars
The Tsarist Army and the Balkan Peoples in the Nineteenth Century
Victor Taki
This book explores Russia’s recurrent wars with the Ottoman Empire as an important and largely neglected angle on the genesis of modern warfare
Russia’s Turkish Wars examines the changing place of the Balkan population in Russian military thought, strategic planning, and occupation policies. It reveals that choices made by the tsarist strategists and commanders during the Russian-Ottoman wars, reflecting a general reconceptualization of the role of “the people” in modern warfare that took place during the nineteenth century.
The book explores the tsarist military’s engagement with the population of the Balkans in the wake of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. It draws on previously unpublished materials from Russian archives as well as a broad range of published primary sources. Victor Taki relates the discussions among Russian military men to the international relations of the nineteenth century. Russia’s Turkish Wars ultimately provides a new perspective on both Imperial Russia’s Balkan entanglements and military change in the nineteenth century.
Victor Taki is a sessional instructor of history at Concordia University of Edmonton and the author of Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire and Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834
April 2024
344 pages, 6 x 9 12 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-0163-1
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1365-8
$95.00
History
Russian rights sold
THE TSARIST ARMY AND THE BALKAN PEOPLES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Victor Taki
Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red
The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918–1925
Stephen Velychenko NEW IN PAPERBACK
Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red presents an account of Russian communist rule in Ukraine with a focus on the Ukrainian Communists
In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red , Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anticolonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who regarded Russian rule over their country as colonialism. He then discusses the rise of “national communism” in Russia and Ukraine and the Ukrainian Marxist critique of Russian imperialism and colonialism. The first extended analysis of Russian communist rule in Ukraine to focus on the Ukrainian communists, their attempted anti-Bolshevik uprising in 1919, and their exclusion from the Comintern, Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red re- opens a long forgotten chapter of the early years of the Soviet Union and the relationship between nationalism and communism. An appendix provides a valuable selection of Ukrainian Marxist texts, all translated into English for the first time.
Stephen Velychenko is a historian and research fellow at the Chair for Ukrainian Studies of the University of Toronto.
Available
306 pages, 6 x 9
21 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-4805-6
$36.95 (£24.99) A History / Ukrainian Studies
Breaking the Tongue Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–
1934
Matthew D . Pauly NEW IN PAPERBACK
Drawing from hundreds of archival sources, Breaking the Tongue explores local implications of Ukrainization in the 1920s and early 1930s .
In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Communist Party embraced a policy to promote national consciousness among the Soviet Union’s many national minorities as a means of Sovietizing them. In Ukraine, Ukrainian-language schooling, coupled with pedagogical innovation, was expected to serve as the lynchpin of this social transformation for the republic’s children.
The first detailed archival study of the local implications of Soviet nationalities policy, Breaking the Tongue examines the implementation of the Ukrainization of schools and children’s organizations. Matthew D. Pauly demonstrates that Ukrainization faltered because of local resistance, a lack of resources, and Communist Party anxieties about nationalism and a weakening of Soviet power – a process that culminated in mass arrests, repression, and a fundamental adjustment in policy.
Matthew D. Pauly is an associate professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University.
The Rebirth of Revelation German Theology in an Age of Reason
and History, 1750–1850
Tuska Benes
German and European Studies
The Rebirth of Revelation explores the different and important ways religious thinkers across Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism modernized the concept of revelation from 1750 to 1850
Despite being a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the idea of revelation was deeply discredited over the course of the Enlightenment. The post-Enlightenment restoration of revelation among German religious thinkers is a fascinating yet underappreciated moment in modern efforts to navigate between reason and faith.
The Rebirth of Revelation compares Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish reflections on revelation from 1750 to 1850 and asserts that a strategic transformation in the term’s meaning secured its relevance for the modern age. Tuska Benes argues that “propositional” revelation, understood as the infallible dispensation of doctrine, gave way to revelation as a subjective process of inner transformation or the historical disclosure of divine being in the world.
By comparatively approaching the unconventional ways in which Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism have rehabilitated the concept of revelation, The Rebirth of Revelation restores theology to a central place in modern European intellectual history.
Tuska Benes is an associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary.
March 2022
368 pages, 6 x 9
2 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-4307-5
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4308-2
$75.00
History / Religion
The Persistence of the Sacred German Catholic Pilgrimage,
1832–1937
Skye Doney
German and European Studies
The Persistence of the Sacred examines how Catholic religious practices endured over a century of conflict, revolution, and dramatic social upheaval
For millions of Catholic believers, pilgrimage has offered possible answers to the mysteries of sickness, life, and death. The Persistence of the Sacred explores the religious worldviews of Europeans who traveled to Trier and Aachen, two cities in western Germany, to view the sacred relics in their cathedrals.
The Persistence of the Sacred challenges the narrative of widespread secularization in Europe during the long nineteenth century and reveals that religious practices thrived well into the modern period. Drawing on private ephemeral and material sources including films, photographs, postcards, correspondence, and souvenirs, Skye Doney uncovers the enduring and diverse sacred worldview of German Catholics and argues that laity and clergy had very different perspectives on the meaning of the pilgrimage.
Recovering the history of Catholic pilgrimage, The Persistence of the Sacred aims to understand the relationship between relics and religiosity, between modernity and faith, and between humanity and God.
Skye Doney is the director of the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
August 2022
360 pages, 6 x 9
47 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps, 5 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4310-5
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4311-2
$85.00
History / Religion
TUSKA BENES
Remembering Anne Beach
Love, Scandal, and Sickness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Carolyn A . Day
Remembering Anne Beach explores illness, love, and scandal in eighteenth-century Britain through the eyes of one doomed couple .
Remembering Anne Beach pulls back the veil on the challenges of research, the problems of gaps in archives, and the long process involved in constructing historical narratives. Through the tragic tale of an ill-fated couple and their disapproving families, this microhistory explores not only forbidden love but also marriage, illness, death, disability, and scandal in eighteenthcentury society.
Drawing on the story of Anne Beach, the author sheds light on the lost experiences of early modern women as well as those with mental afflictions who have left us mere fragments of their lived experiences. In weaving a tragic narrative, Day also tackles the problem of archival silences and provides the reader with insight into the highs and lows of the research process. With charm and clarity, Day describes the frustration, skill, determination, obsession, and sheer luck required to be able to provide a diligent, more inclusive perception of our past.
Carolyn A. Day is an associate professor of history at Furman University.
By Leah Shopkow
October 2024
208 pages, 6 x 9 18 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-9391-9
$60.00 (£39.99) X Paper 978-1-4875-9390-2
$26.95 (£17.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-9392-6
$26.95
History
LOVE, SCANDAL, AND SICKNESS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
REMEMBERING ANNE BEACH
CAROLYN A. DAY
shopkow
revolutionary aftereffects
Revolutionary Aftereffects Material, Social, and Cultural Legacies of 1917 in Russia Today
Edited by Megan Swift
Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the legacies of the 1917 Revolution in Russia today through a variety of disciplinary lenses
Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1917 Revolution still looms large, not only because Russians remain divided over whether it was a colossally tragic or colossally generative event, but also because the social, cultural, scientific, and even moral residues of the revolution remain everywhere in Putin’s Russia.
Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the ways in which 1917 has and continues to be commemorated in Russia. Although post-Soviet Russia has emphasized its complete break with the past, this study of the memorialization and legacy of 1917 explores a fundamental continuity underlying an apparent discourse of discontinuity in post-socialist Russia. Contributors provide insight into the continuing reverberations of the revolution from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: not just history and literary studies but also heritage studies, anthropology, geography, and sociology. Collectively, their essays demonstrate the changing nature of the revolution’s memorialization in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and the ambivalence and contradictions within those narratives.
Megan Swift is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.
July 2022
272 pages, 6 x 9
29 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-2956-7
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2958-1
$75.00
History
Beyond the Great War
Making Peace in a Disordered World
Edited by Norman Ingram and Carl Bouchard
This collection addresses the impact of the end of the First World War and challenges the positive vision of a new world order that emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 .
Following the end of the First World War, a new world order emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was an order riddled with contradictions and problems that were only finally resolved after the Second World War.
Beyond the Great War brings together a group of both well-established and younger historians who share a rejection of the dominant view of the peace process that ended the First World War. The book moves beyond the traditional focus on diplomatic and high political history to question the assumption that the Paris Peace Treaties were the progenitors of a new world order. Extending the ongoing debate about the success of the Treaty of Versailles and surrounding events, this collection approaches the heritage of the Great War through a variety of lenses: gender, race, the high politics of diplomacy, the peace movement, provision for veterans, international science, socialism, and the way the war ended. Collectively, contributors argue that the treaties were at best a mitigated success and that the “brave new world” of 1919 cannot be separated from the Great War that preceded it.
Norman Ingram is a professor of modern French history at Concordia University.
Carl Bouchard is a professor of modern history and international relations at the Université de Montréal.
March 2022
240 pages, 6 x 9
2 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4274-0
$60.00 (£39.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4275-7
$60.00
History
Russia and Central Asia
Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence
Shoshana Keller
This introduction to Central Asia and its relationship with Russia helps restore Central Asia to the general narrative of Russian and world history
Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between these two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which they have influenced and been influenced by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This readable synthesis, covering early coexistence in the seventeenth century to the present day, seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about how the modern world developed.
Shoshana Keller focuses on the five major “Stans”: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. Cultural and social history are interwoven with the military narrative to provide a sense of the people, their religion, and their practices – all of which were severely tested under Stalin.
The text includes a glossary as well as images and maps that help to highlight 500 years of changes, bringing Central Asia into the general narrative of Russian and world history and introducing a fresh perspective on colonialism and modernity.
Shoshana Keller is a professor in the Department of History at Hamilton College.
Approx. 328 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020
8 maps, 6 tables, 13 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-9435-0
$99.95 (£68.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-9434-3
$49.95 (£34.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-9436-7
$39.95 History
War and Enlightenment in Russia
Military Culture in the Age of Catherine II
Eugene Miakinkov
Featuring rare letters of recommendation and military manuals, this is the first book to explore the intersection of the European Enlightenment and the military in Russia .
War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority.
While there is a sizable literature about the impact of the Enlightenment on government, economy, manners, and literature in Russia, no analytical framework that outlines its impact on the military exists. Eugene Miakinkov’s research addresses this gap and challenges the assumption that the military was an unadaptable and vertical institution. Using archival sources, military manuals, essays, memoirs, and letters, the author demonstrates how the Russian militaires philosophes operationalized the Enlightenment by turning thought into reality.
Eugene Miakinkov is a lecturer in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University.
Approx. 336 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020 11 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-0354-3
$75.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1820-2 $75.00
History / Slavic Studies
War and Enlightenment in Russia
Military Culture in the Age of Catherine II
Eugene Miakinkov
Scholars in Exile
The Ukrainian Intellectual World in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Nadia Zavorotna
This book provides a comprehensive account of Ukrainian émigré scholarly life in Czechoslovakia between the world wars
In the interwar years, émigré scholars in Czechoslovakia provided continuity and a bridge for Ukrainian scholarship from its inception at the end of the nineteenth century to the development of Ukrainian studies in the twenty-first century.
Narrated from a Ukrainian perspective, Scholars in Exile concentrates on the astounding efforts by Ukrainians to establish institutions of higher learning in the unique democratic spirit of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. The book also explores Ukrainian scholarly and professional societies, museum and archival collections, scholarly publishing, and little-known intellectual connections between Ukrainian émigré scholars and their colleagues in Czechoslovakia and various other European countries. Scholars in Exile brings to light an interesting facet of modern Ukrainian history, allowing for a better understanding of the general intellectual and institutional history of Ukraine.
Nadia Zavorotna is a research fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 280 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2020
21 tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0445-8
$75.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3021-1 $75.00 History / Slavic Studies / Ukrainian Studies
Picturing the Page
Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin
Megan Swift
Lavishly illustrated with colour and black and white images, this book uses rarely-seen images to explore illustrated children’s literature under Lenin and Stalin
Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children’s literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin – a period when mass publishing for children and universal public education became available for the first time in Russia. Through an analysis of illustrations in fairy tales, classics, and wartime picture books, Megan Swift elucidates the vital and multifaceted function of illustrated children’s literature in repurposing the past.
Picturing the Page demonstrates that while the texts of the past remained fixed, illustrations could slip between the pages to mediate and annotate that past, as well as connect with anti-religious, patriotic, and other campaigns that were central to Soviet children’s culture after the 1917 Revolution.
Megan Swift is an associate professor of Russian Studies at the University of Victoria.
Approx. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / June 2020
83 halftones and 16 colour illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4426-4715-2
$75.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4426-1531-1
$29.95 (£22.99) A eBook 978-1-4426-6742-6 $29.95
History / Slavic Studies
THE SPANISH BLUE DIVISION ON THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941 1945
War, Occupation, Memory
The Shaping of Western Civilization
Third Edition
The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945
Michael Burger
War, Occupation, Memory
The third edition of this bestselling textbook provides a coherent history of the West, pointing students to major issues and modelling how historians interpret and use evidence
Xosé M . Núñez Seixas
Imperial Engineers
Toronto Iberic
Michael Burger’s goal in this overview is to provide a brief historical narrative of Western civilization. The no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, oneauthor approach make this book an affordable yet valuable asset for every history student.
The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 addresses the history and memory of the Spanish volunteers that served alongside the German army in the invasion of Russia
The Shaping of Western Civilization models how historians use written and material evidence so students can learn to draw conclusions more effectively from sources. Volume One includes additional coverage of the neolithic revolution, the evolving self-definition of the West, race in the Middle Ages, the Crusades, and the conquest of the Americas. Volume Two includes new material on race and slavery in the eighteenth century, twentieth-century imperialism, and twenty-firstcentury developments such as populism – both right and left. New and improved maps will make it easier for students to follow major developments.
In 1941, the Franco regime established the Spanish Division of Volunteers to take part in the Russian campaign as a unit integrated into the German Wehrmacht. Recruited by both the Fascist Party (Falange ) and the Spanish army, around 47,000 Spanish volunteers joined what would become known as the “Blue Division.”
Michael Burger is a professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery.
Volume One: From Antiquity to the Reformation
June 2024
356 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
31 b&w illustrations, 16 b&w maps
Paper 978-1-4875-2969-7
$54.95 (£36.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-2971-0
$36.99
The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 explores an intimate history of the Blue Division “from below,” using personal war diaries, letters, and memoirs, as well as official documents from military archives in Spain, Germany, Britain, and Russia. Xosé M. Núñez Seixas takes on controversial topics including the Blue Division’s proximity to the Holocaust and how members of the Blue Division have been remembered and commemorated. Addressing issues such as the behaviour of the Spaniards as occupiers, their perception by the Russians, their witnessing of the Holocaust, their commitment to the war aims of Nazi Germany, and their narratives on the war after 1945, this book illuminates the experience of Spanish combatants and occupied civilians.
History
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas is a professor of modern European history at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Volume Two: From the Reformation to the Present August 2024
288 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
April 2022
21 b&w illustrations, 16 b&w maps
352 pages, 6 x 9
Paper 978-1-4875-2973-4
$54.95 (£36.99) X
24 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps, 1 b&w table
Cloth 978-1-4875-4165-1
eBook 978-1-4875-2975-8
$36.99
History
$90.00 (£59.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4166-8
$39.95 (£26.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-4168-2
$39.95
History
Sources for the History of Western Civilization Third Edition
The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill
Richard Hornsey
Edited by Michael Burger
This collection of diverse primary sources introduces students to the essential skill of reading historical sources
Imperial Engineers traces the history of what was once the preeminent engineering school of the British Empire, from its foundation to its final crises and closure .
Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents. Michael Burger provides only the editorial guidance that students truly require, without unnecessary interventions.
Like the companion textbook, The Shaping of Western Civilization, this two-volume sourcebook ranges in space and time from the ancient Near East to twentiethcentury Canada and twenty-first-century Central Europe. In Volume One, students and instructors will find new material on the West’s relations with the wider world c. 1100–1600. Volume Two includes an extensive table of comparative GDPs of various countries, c. 1500–2000, positioning students to make quantitative as well as qualitative arguments.
Michael Burger is a professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery.
Volume One: From Antiquity to the Reformation June 2024
544 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
17 colour illustrations, 2 b&w figures
Paper 978-1-4875-4034-0
Established in 1871 on the outskirts of London, the Royal Indian Engineering College at Coopers Hill was arguably the first engineering school in Britain. For thirty-five years the college helped staff the governing institutions of British India responsible for the railways, irrigation systems, telegraph network, and forestry. Founded to meet the high demand for engineers in India, the college was closed because its educational innovations had been surpassed by Britain’s universities – on both its founding and later its closure were the wishes of the government of India. Imperial Engineers offers a complete history of the Royal Indian Engineering College. Drawing on the diaries of graduates working in India, the college magazine, student and alumni periodicals, and other archival documents, Richard Hornsey details why the college was established and how the students’ education prepared them for their work. Illustrating the impact of the college and its graduates in India and beyond, Imperial Engineers illuminates the personal and professional experiences of British men in India as well as the transformation of engineering education at a time of social and technological change.
$67.95 (£44.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-4035-7
$54.95
History
Richard Hornsey is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University.
Volume Two: From the Reformation to the Present August 2024
July 2022
432 pages, 6 x 9
540 pages, 7.5 x 9.25
20 b&w illustrations
41 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w figures, 8 b&w tables
Paper 978-1-4875-4038-8
Cloth 978-1-4875-0686-5
$67.95 (£44.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-4040-1
$90.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3505-6
$54.95
$90.00
History
History
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
RICHARD HORNSEY
The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill
A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
Renée Worringer
It is impossible to understand the modern Middle East without knowledge of the empire that dominated the region for hundreds of years This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century .
The question of “who were the Ottomans” has occupied many scholars over the last hundred years. The Ottoman Empire was a formidable force involved in European politics and commerce almost since its inception; yet, despite its prominence, the Ottomans are often not emphasized in narratives of medieval and early modern Europe.
Beginning with an introduction to pre-Ottoman history, this book traces the emergence of the Ottoman Empire from the Turkic migrations out of central Asia to their encounters with the Islamic world. Uncovering the strategies behind the longevity of the Ottoman Empire, the author highlights the Empire’s pragmatism and flexibility in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, A Short History of the Ottoman Empire uses clear headings, themes, text boxes, primary source translations, and maps to assist students in understanding the Empire’s complex and long history.
Renée Worringer is an associate professor of Islamic and Middle East history in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.
Approx. 384 pp. / 8 x 10 / April 2020
90 color images / 20 color maps
Cloth 978-1-4426-0042-3
$115.00 (£86.99) A Paper 978-1-4426-0041-6
$54.95 (£41.99) X eBook 978-1-4426-0044-7 $43.95 History
Turkish rights sold
Assassination in Vichy
Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France
ASSASSINATION IN VICHY
Gayle K Brunelle and Annette FinleyCroswhite
A combination of engrossing “whodunnit” and historical study of France’s deep political divisions and wartime choices, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of right-wing extremism in wartime France
During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of former French Interior Minister Marx Dormoy. The explosion launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy’s murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the “Cagoule,” a violent ultra-right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot.
Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy’s murder and of the investigation, led by courageous Police Superintendent Charles Chenevier, who persisted despite opposition from the Vichy regime. A book about France’s deep political divisions, wartime choices, and post-war memory, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of fascist extremism on France’s history and explains why after the war none of Dormoy’s assassins were punished for his murder.
Annette Finley-Croswhite is a professor of history and director of the Center for Faculty Development at Old Dominion University.
Gayle K Brunelle is a professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020 20 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-8837-3
$75.00 (£56.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-8836-6
$29.95 (£22.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8838-0 $22.95 History
French rights sold
MARX DORMOY and the STRUGGLE for the SOUL of FRANCE
GAYLE K. BRUNELLE AND ANNETTE FINLEY-CROSWHITE
Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev
The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Edited by Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B . Retish
Reassessing the structures and strategies of the Soviet state, this book examines how social control under Stalin and Khrushchev evolved from mass repression to legal pressure
How did the Soviet Union control the behaviour of its people? How did the people themselves engage with the official rules and the threat of violence in their lives?
In this book, Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish, along with a collection of international scholars, examine how social control developed under Stalin and Khrushchev. Drawing on deep archival research from across the former Soviet Union, they analyse the wide network of state institutions that were used for regulating individual behaviour and how Soviet citizens interacted with them. Together they show that social control in the Soviet Union was not entirely about the monolithic state imposing its vision with violent force. Instead, a wide range of institutions such as the police, the justice system, and party-sponsored structures in factories and farms tried to enforce control.
The book reveals that the Soviet state did not exclusively rely on violence in its efforts to transform society and that under Khrushchev, these methods widened. It highlights how the state leadership itself adjusted its policing strategies and moved away from mass repression towards legal pressure for policing society. Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev explores how the Soviet state controlled the behaviour of its citizens and how the people relied on these structures.
Immo Rebitschek is a research associate and an assistant professor of Russian history at the University of Jena.
Aaron B. Retish is a professor of Russian history at Wayne State University.
Of related interest: Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR By David Zimmerman 978-1-4875-4365-5
The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burgtheater, 1814–1867
Martin Wagner
German and European Studies
This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century
A Stage for Debate presents a detailed analysis of the repertoire of the leading German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna’s Burgtheater. The book explores the extent to which the Burgtheater repertoire contributed to important political and cultural debates on individual liberty, the role of women in society, and the understanding of national and regional identity.
The relevance of the Burgtheater as a forum for political debate is assessed not by the degree to which the performed plays transgressed established norms, but by the range of positions that were voiced on a given topic. Martin Wagner investigates the roughly 1,000 plays from across Europe that were introduced to the Burgtheater’s repertoire between 1814 and 1867 by combining a general overview with detailed interpretations of especially successful plays. Wagner reveals that the Burgtheater was significantly more involved in contemporary debates than the stereotype of this stage as an artistically refined but apolitical institution suggests. Drawing from theatre studies and German and Austrian studies more broadly, A Stage for Debate revises the history of one of Europe’s leading theatres.
Martin Wagner is an associate professor of German at the University of Calgary.
August 2023
240 pages, 6 x 9 4 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0955-2
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-0957-6
$70.00
History
THEATRE OF Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
Olivia Landry
Of related interest: Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
By Olivia Landry
978-1-4875-0769-5
Stalin’s Gamble
The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936
Michael Jabara Carley
Drawing from Soviet archives, Stalin’s Gamble traces the role played by the Soviet Union in the origins of the Second World War
Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin’s Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the 1930s. The book explores the Soviet Union’s efforts to organize a defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, in effect rebuilding the anti-German Entente of the First World War.
Drawing on extensive research in Soviet as well as Western archives, Michael Jabara Carley offers an in-depth account of the diplomatic manoeuvrings which surrounded the rise of Hitler and Soviet efforts to construct an alliance against future German aggression. Paying close attention to the beliefs and interactions of senior politicians and diplomats, the book seeks to replace one-sided Western histories with records from both sides. The book also offers an inside look at Soviet foreign policy making, with a focus on Stalin as foreign policy maker and his interactions with his colleagues. Told in a fascinating narrative style, Stalin’s Gamble attempts to see the European crisis of the 1930s through Soviet eyes.
Michael Jabara Carley is a professor of history at the Université de Montréal.
The Sword of Luchana
Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879
Stalin’s Failed Alliance
The
Struggle
Adrian Shubert
Toronto Iberic
for Collective Security, 1936–1939
Michael Jabara Carley
The Sword of Luchana is the first Englishlanguage biography of Baldomero Espartero, the most important figure in nineteenth-century Spain.
Drawing on extensive archival research, Stalin’s Failed Alliance presents an inside look at Soviet foreign policy making
Galeazzo Ciano
The Fascist Pretender
The Crusades A Reader, Third Edition
Tobias Hof
Edited by S .J . Allen and Emilie Amt
Toronto Italian Studies
Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero (1793–1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by Stendhal or Gabriel García Márquez. As a seventy-five-year-old man he was offered – and turned down – the throne of an industrializing nation. He fought against Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and other Latin American independence leaders; won a seven-year civil war, the Carlist War of 1833–1840; served as Regent for the child queen Isabella II; and spent years in exile in England. He governed Spain as prime minister and also received multiple noble titles, including that of prince, which was normally reserved for members of the royal family. By his sixties, Espartero represented an almost mythical figure.
In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an antiNazi alliance was failing. Stalin continued nevertheless to support diplomatic efforts to stop Nazi aggression in Europe. In Stalin’s Failed Alliance, the sequel to Stalin’s Gamble, Michael Jabara Carley continues his reevaluation of European diplomacy during the critical events between May 1936 and August 1939.
This narrative history examines the great crises of the pre-war period – the Spanish Civil War, Anschluss, and Munich accords – as well as both the last Soviet efforts to organize an anti-Nazi alliance in the spring–summer of 1939 and Moscow’s shocking volte-face, the signature of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact.
Based on comprehensive archival research in Spain, Argentina, and the United Kingdom, The Sword of Luchana explores the public and private lives of this archetypal nineteenth-century hero. Including unprecedented access to Espartero’s personal papers, and set against the background of wars and revolutions in Spain and its American empire, The Sword of Luchana is a compelling account of the history of a crucial period of war, revolution, and political and social change.
Adrian Shubert is a university professor in the Department of History at York University.
Approx. 464 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2021 18 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0860-9
$90.00 (£67.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3859-0 $90.00 History
Carley’s history traces the lead-up to the outbreak of war in Europe on 1 September 1939 and sheds light on the Soviet Union’s efforts to organize a defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, in effect rebuilding the anti-German Entente of the First World War. The author argues for the sincerity of Soviet overtures to the western European powers and that the non-aggression pact was a last-ditch response to the refusal of other states, especially Britain and France, to conclude an alliance with the USSR against Nazi Germany. Drawing on extensive archival research in Soviet and Western archival papers, Stalin’s Failed Alliance aims to see the European crisis of the 1930s through Soviet eyes.
Michael Jabara Carley is a professor of history at the Université de Montréal.
May 2024
648 pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w illustrations, 4 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-5342-5
$110.00 (£72.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5347-0
$110.00
History
Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
This biography is a comprehensive study of a leading member of the Italian fascist regime, second only to Benito Mussolini.
This collection of medieval primary sources provides a comprehensive view of the Crusades from multiple perspectives .
Building on extensive archival research and important scholarly analysis, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender examines the life of Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of fascist Italy from 1936 to 1943 and Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law. Ciano’s life serves as the lens through which we gain a better understanding of crucial issues of Italian and European fascism, including the fascistization of society and politics, foreign relations, and the problem of succession. In order to accomplish this, the biography follows an innovative thematic structure that focuses on major aspects of Ciano’s life, including his family, his political career, his diplomacy, and his desire to succeed Mussolini.
Filling a substantial gap in the existing literature on the history of fascism, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of a key player of Italian fascism other than Mussolini; it also offers a long overdue critical assessment of Ciano’s famous diary, one of the most important texts from the period. Using visual materials such as photographs and films as sources and not just as illustrative material, Tobias Hof allows us to rethink our understanding of fascism and offers a new perspective on the history of fascist Italy.
Tobias Hof is a Privatdozent for Modern History at the LudwigMaximilians-Universität.
Approx. 456 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2021 21 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0798-5
$80.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3731-9 $80.00 History
Since its first appearance in 2004, The Crusades: A Reader has been the go-to sourcebook in the field. It covers the entire crusading movement, from its origins to its modern afterlife, using key primary source documents. Muslim, Jewish, and Byzantine voices are represented here alongside those of European Christians. The geographic range is also broad, covering not only Crusades in the Middle East, but also in Spain and in northern Europe and against European heretics. Each reading or visual source is preceded by a short introduction to set it in context and followed by questions for discussion. The introduction to the third edition includes a guide for students on how to use the book; the new edition also features more content on women, material culture, Jewish and Byzantine perspectives, Muslim-Crusader interactions, and modern use of Crusade imagery and rhetoric by the Far Right. While scholarship, courses, and textbooks on the Crusades have proliferated over the past twenty years, The Crusades: A Reader remains the only comprehensive, up-to-date, and in-print sourcebook available on the subject.
S.J. Allen is a medieval historian and an associate lecturer at The Open University.
Amt is an emeritus professor of history at Hood College.
May 2024
512 pages, 6 x 9
19 b&w illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-2578-1
$54.95 (£36.99) X
eBook 978-1-4875-3793-7
$43.95
History / Medieval Studies
Emilie
THE SWORD of LUCHANA
THE FASCIST PRETENDER
GALEAZZO CIANO TOBIAS HOF
STALIN’S NIÑOS
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020 6 photos, 2 tables, 2 maps Cloth 978-1-4875-0358-1
$95.00 (£64.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2275-9
$37.95 (£25.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1829-5 $37.95 History / Slavic Studies
Stalin’s Niños
Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951
Karl D . Qualls
Using multiple languages, numerous archives, press reports, oral histories, letters, and memoirs, Stalin’s Niños investigates the well-resourced boarding schools designed specifically for nearly 3000 child refugees from the Spanish Civil War
Stalin’s Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs reveals that this little-known story exemplifies the Soviet transformation of children into future builders of communism and illuminates the educational techniques shared with other modern states. Classroom education taught patriotism for the two homelands and the importance of emulating Spanish and Soviet heroes, scientists, soldiers, and artists. Extra-curricular clubs and activities reinforced classroom experiences and helped discipline the mind, body, and behaviors. Adult mentors, like the heroes studied in the classroom, provided models to emulate and became the tangible expression of the ideal Spaniard and Soviet. The Basque and Spanish children thus were transformed into hybrid Hispano-Soviets fully engaged with their native language, culture, and traditions while also imbued with Russian language and culture and Soviet ideals of hard work, comradery, internationalism, and sacrifice for ideals and others.
UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN IN AMERICAN-OCCUPIED GERMANY, 1945-1952
TAYLOR IN THE CHILDREN’S BEST INTERESTS
Even during their horrific evacuation to the Soviet interior during World War II, the twenty-two Soviet boarding schools designed specifically for the Spanish refugee children – and better provisioned than those for Soviet children – served these displaced niños for fourteen years and transformed them into Red Army heroes, award-winning Soviet athletes and artists, successful educators and workers, and aids to Fidel Castro in building Cuba after his revolution. Stalin’s Niños also sheds new light on the education of non-Russian Soviet and international students and the process of constructing a supranational Soviet identity.
Of related interest: In the Children’s Best Interests Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany, 1945–1952 By Lynne Taylor 978-1-4875-2194-3
Karl D Qualls is the John B. Parsons Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Dickinson College.
Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951
KARL D. QUALLS
Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period
Edited by Stefan Winter and Zainab HajHasan
New Landscapes in Middle East Studies
This collection sheds light on different aspects of the history of the Kurds in Syria during the Ottoman period .
Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period is a collection of essays on different aspects of the history of the Kurdish people in Syria under the Ottoman Empire, by specialists from Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Syria, Turkey, and the United States.
The book explores the junctures and crossings of Kurdish lives, Syrian geography in the broadest terms, and the Ottoman rule. The contributors draw on new research in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and a range of other archival and narrative sources to examine the history of Kurdish settlement in Syria, including Ottoman sedentarization policies, Kurdish notable families, trade, landowning, Kurdish-Bedouin relations, Kurdish-Ottoman civil servants, Sufism, and nineteenth-century state reforms. Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period traces a social, political, economic, and religious history across nearly 400 years.
Stefan Winter is a professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and visiting professor at Koç University.
Zainab HajHasan is a PhD candidate in history at Koç University and a language instructor at ANAMED (Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) in Istanbul.
SYRIAN-KURDISH INTERSECTIONS in the OTTOMAN PERIOD
New Landscapes in Middle East Studies is a multidisciplinary series that showcases stateof-the-art research on the history, culture, and society of the Middle East produced by Canadian scholars, at Canadian institutions, or through Canadian research projects. It focuses on work that uses Arabic, Ottoman/ Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, or other regional source languages, and particularly welcomes submissions with a strong theoretical or area studies perspective.
Of related interest: Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean
By Andreas Guidi
978-1-4875-4127-9
Tangled Transformations
Unifying Germany and Integrating Europe, 1985–1995
Edited by Kiran Klaus Patel
German and European Studies
Drawing on archival material, this collection analyses German unification and European integration as interconnected processes
Tangled Transformations presents a historical analysis of the interplay between German unification and European integration from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Building on freshly released documents, the book’s sixteen chapters explore constellations in which the two processes accelerated and informed one another.
The book highlights the role of Germany’s neighbours to the east, with chapters discussing the co-transformation between East and West as well as chapters dedicated to Poland, Romania, and Hungary. It sheds new light on the two interrelated processes by examining the role of Germany’s most important Western neighbours and partners: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The book pays particular attention to the role of the European Commission as well as to monetary and industrial policy. It also moves beyond the economic sphere by discussing foreign and security policy issues, justice and home affairs, German debates about European integration at the time, and the significance of the German federal states. Ultimately, Tangled Transformations demonstrates the strong interlinkages between German unification and European union.
Kiran Klaus Patel is the Chair of Modern History at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.
September 2024
392 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-5684-6
$90.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5686-0
$90.00 History
The Time of Enlightenment
Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
William Max Nelson
THE TIME OF ENLIGHTENMENT
The Time of Enlightenment investigates how a new idea of the future emerged with the development of modern practices in France from 1750 to Year One, the first year of the Republican calendar that marked the Revolutionary caesura in time.
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present.
The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future first arose through the development of practices and instruments aimed at countering degeneration. In their attempts to regenerate a healthy natural state, Enlightenment philosophes created the means to exceed previously recognized limits and build a future that was not merely a recuperation of the past, but fundamentally different from it. A theoretically inflected work combining intellectual history and the history of science, this book will appeal to anyone interested in European history and the history of science, as well as the history of France, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.
William Max Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Approx. 224 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021
15 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0770-1
$75.00 (£56.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-3678-7 $75.00 History of Science / Philosophy
New Soviet Gypsies
Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union
Brigid O’Keeffe
NEW IN PAPERBACK
New Soviet Gypsies is a unique study of how Roma mobilized the Bolsheviks’ “affirmative action” nationality policy in the 1920s and 1930s, thereby transforming themselves into integrated citizens of the multiethnic Soviet Union.
As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural “backwardness,” and sought to sovietize Roma through a range of nation-building projects. Yet as Brigid O’Keeffe shows in this book, Roma actively engaged with Bolshevik nationality policies, thereby assimilating Soviet culture, social customs, and economic relations.
New Soviet Gypsies provides a unique history of Roma, an overwhelmingly understudied and misunderstood diasporic people, by focusing on their social and political lives in the early Soviet Union. O’Keeffe illustrates how Roma mobilized and performed “Gypsiness” as a means of advancing themselves socially, culturally, and economically as Soviet citizens. Exploring the intersection between nationality, performance, and self-fashioning, O’Keeffe shows that Roma not only defy easy typecasting, but also deserve study as agents of history.
Brigid O’Keeffe is an associate professor in the Department of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Approx. 344 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2020
8 illustrations
Paper 978-1-4875-2829-4
$34.95 (£26.99) A History
Transforming DENTISTRY
Transforming Dentistry
The Rise and Near Demise of Dentistry at Western University
David J . Kenny and Shelley McKellar
Transforming Dentistry traces the rise and near demise of the dentistry program at Western University
The history of the dental program at Western University is a spirited and gritty story of grand visions, strong personalities, and contentious leadership. Focusing on the years from 1965 to 2015, Transforming Dentistry highlights Western University’s ambitious plans to create and situate a dental program within a health sciences complex; the practical challenges involved in implementing a curriculum and populating a new school; the influence of key dental faculty, community dentists, and students in shaping the program; and the school’s near closure during the 1990s.
David J. Kenny and Shelley McKellar detail how and why the training of dentists was transformed by science, technology, and individual educators. The book focuses on the unique aspects of Western’s dental program and situates it in comparison with Canada’s other nine dental programs. Today, the strong reputation of Western’s dental school is a direct result of the ambitious visions, professional commitment, and steadfast leadership employed by London dentists and university educators over more than five decades.
David J. Kenny is a professor of dentistry at the University of Toronto and an honorary staff dentist at SickKids Hospital.
Shelley McKellar is the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and a professor in the Department of History at Western University.
November 2022
352 pages, 6 x 9
52 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-2989-5
$49.95 (£32.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-2991-8
$49.95
History
The Flawed Genius of William Playfair
The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics
David R . Bellhouse
This book shares the life story of William Playfair, the father of statistical graphics, who experienced extreme ups and downs in his various careers including as a statistician, economist, and fraudster .
A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759–1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed –erroneously – that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to print French revolutionary paper money.
The Flawed Genius of William Playfair offers a complete account of Playfair’s life, richly contextualized in the economic, political, and cultural history of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. The book explores the many peaks and troughs of Playfair’s career, ranging from moderate prosperity to bankruptcy and imprisonment.
Through careful analysis, David R. Bellhouse shows that Playfair was neither a spy nor a forger, but perhaps briefly a one-time courier for a government minister. Disputing the misinformation about the man, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair highlights that the truth about Playfair’s life is often more intriguing than the fictions that surround him.
David R. Bellhouse is a professor emeritus in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at Western University.
February 2023
352 pages, 6 x 9
42 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4503-1
$65.00 (£42.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-4504-8
$65.00
History
The Rise and Near Demise of Dentistry at Western University
DAVID J. KENNY and SHELLEY M c KELLAR
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds
Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR
Diana Cucuz
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through “polite propaganda . ”
Throughout the Cold War, Soviet citizens had limited access to US life and culture. Amerika, a glossy Russian-language magazine similar to Life, provided a rare exception. Produced by the United States Information Agency (USIA), America’s first peacetime propaganda organization, Amerika was used to influence Russians, and convince women in particular that an American-style consumer culture and conservative gender norms could better their lives. Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds relies on USIA archives, issues of Amerika , and American women’s magazines such as the Ladies’ Home Journal to show how, during the postwar period, USIA officials deployed idealized images of American women as happy, fulfilled, and feminine wives, mothers, and homemakers.
This study analyses how Amerika was used to appeal to Russian women. Portrayed in the US media as “babushkas,” they were considered unfeminine, overworked, and deprived of consumer goods and services by a repressive regime. Diana Cucuz provides a gendered analysis of the USIA and of Amerika , whose propaganda campaign relied heavily on postwar conservative gender norms and images of domestic contentment to convey positive messages about the American way of life in the hopes of undermining that Soviet regime. Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds sheds light on the significance of women, gender, and consumption to international politics during the Cold War.
WINNING WOMEN’S HEARTS AND MINDS
August 2022
328 pages, 6 x 9
39 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-0377-2
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1873-8
$85.00
History
Diana Cucuz holds a PhD and is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.
By Marko Dumančić
DIANA CUCUZ
SELLING COLD WAR CULTURE IN THE US AND THE USSR
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Babyn Yar History and Memory
The Wisdom of Order An Exploration of Lonergan’s Method in Theology
Edited by Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi
John D . Dadosky
Lonergan Studies
This book examines the brutal twentiethcentury tragedies that took place at Babyn Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv in modern-day Ukraine
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Bernard Lonergan’s Method in Theology, this book presents a concise summary and commentary of Lonergan’s groundbreaking work
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity
Melissa Kravetz
German and European Studies
In 1972, renowned Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan published Method in Theology. Now, following the fiftieth anniversary of his landmark work, The Wisdom of Order presents the next step in advancing the thought of this significant religious theorist.
The twentieth century was filled with many tragedies. During the Second World War, Babyn Yar – a ravine outside Kyiv where victims were shot dead and dumped into pits – became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust. This deadly process began in September 1941 with the murder of nearly 34,000 Jews and continued over the next several years with the shootings of tens of thousands more Jews as well as the Roma people, the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian national activists, Communist party members, and ordinary residents of Kyiv taken as hostages. Bringing together leading scholars, Babyn Yar presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most traumatic sites in the Ukrainian experience of the war.
In addition to the previously compiled Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, this book aims to provide an appreciation and exploration of Method in Theology It analyses the first five chapters of the work with commentaries to help readers traverse Lonergan’s thought more effectively and deeply. John D. Dadosky presents compelling exposition and observations to assist readers.
The book provides an overview of the geographical space of the ravine and the historical conditions in Europe and Ukraine leading up to the war. It details the mechanism by which Nazi Germany carried out the 1941 massacre and the on-going killing of Jews and non-Jews at Babyn Yar during the remaining years of the war. Drawing on depictions in personal memoirs, oral history, literary works, art, cinema, and music, the book analyses in great detail the ways in which Babyn Yar has been remembered by survivors.
The book explores questions related to the philosophical status of beauty, which Lonergan does not address. In addition to Lonergan’s three stages of meaning, the book also seeks to develop a fourth stage that pertains to the turn to alterity emphasizing positive relations with other cultures and religions. As a result, The Wisdom of Order critically analyses an important groundbreaking work while also highlighting areas for further development.
This book reveals how female physicians seized upon what they considered their unique insights as women to fashion themselves as advocates for lower-class women during the Nazi regime
Examining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes. Melissa Kravetz explains how and why women occupied particular fields within the medical profession, how they presented themselves in their professional writing, and how they reconciled their medical perspectives with their views of the Weimar and later the Nazi state.
Vladyslav Hrynevych is a senior researcher at the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
John D. Dadosky is a professor of philosophy and theology at the University of Toronto.
August 2024
Focusing primarily on those women who were members of the Bund Deutscher Ärztinnen (League of German Female Physicians or BDÄ), this study shows that female physicians used maternalist and, to a lesser extent, eugenic arguments to make a case for their presence in particular medical spaces. They emphasized gender difference to claim that they were better suited than male practitioners to care for women and children in a range of new medical spaces. During the Weimar Republic, they laid claim to marriage counselling centres, school health reform, and the movements against alcoholism, venereal disease, and prostitution.
Melissa Kravetz is an associate professor of history and co-chair of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Longwood University.
176 pages, 6 x 9
Robert Magocsi is a professor of history and political science and the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Writing and Rewriting the Reich offers a comprehensive history of German women journalists throughout the Nazi era
Writing and Rewriting the Reich tells the complex story of women journalists as both outsiders and insiders in the German press of the National Socialist and post-war years. From 1933 onward, Nazi press authorities valued female journalists as a means to influence the public through charm and subtlety rather than intimidation or militant language. Deborah Barton reveals that despite the deep sexism inherent in the Nazi press, some women were able to capitalize on the gaps between gender rhetoric and reality to establish prominent careers in both soft and hard news.
Based on data collected on over 1,500 women journalists, Writing and Rewriting the Reich describes the professional opportunities open to women during the Nazi era, their gendered contribution to Nazi press and propaganda goals, and the ways in which their Third Reich experiences proved useful in post-war divided Germany. It draws on a range of sources including editorial proceedings, press association membership records, personal correspondence, newspapers, diaries, and memoirs. It also sheds light on both unknown journalists and famous figures including Margret Boveri, Ruth AndreasFriedrich, and Ursula von Kardorff.
Addressing the long-term influence of women journalists, Writing and Rewriting the Reich illuminates some of the most salient issues in the nature of Nazi propaganda, the depiction of wartime violence, and historical memory.
Deborah Barton is an assistant professor of modern European history at the Université de Montréal.
AND REWRITING
women jOUrnalists in the nazi and post-war Press
May 2023
344 pages, 6 x 9 14 b&w illustrations
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History
Of related interest: Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire By Jeremy Best 978-1-4875-0563-9
WRITING
THE REICH DEBORAH BARTON
JERUSALEM ATHENS
DAVID NOVAK
Approx. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2019 Cloth 978-1-4875-0617-9
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Religion / Jewish Studies / Philosophy
Athens and Jerusalem
God, Humans, and Nature
David Novak
The Kenneth Michael Tanenbaum Series in Jewish Studies
Despite tensions between Jewish and Christian doctrine, this book argues that tensions may be lessened if texts are regarded as philosophical frameworks of exploration as opposed to ethical commitments
What is the relation of philosophy and theology? This question has been a matter of perennial concern in the history of Western thought. Written by one of the premier philosophers in the areas of Jewish ethics and interfaith issues between Judaism and Christianity, Athens and Jerusalem contends that philosophy and theology are not mutually exclusive.
Based on the Gifford Lectures David Novak delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 2017, this book explores the commonalities and common concerns that exist between philosophy and theology on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions. Where are they different and where are they the same? And, how can they speak to one another?
David Novak is the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
“The erudition of the volume is extremely impressive, with David Novak demonstrating a magisterial grasp of the primary texts.”
Tom Angier, Philosophy, University of Cape Town
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Erasmus on the New Testament
Edited by Robert D Sider Erasmus Studies
Through well-chosen excerpts from Erasmus’ writings, this book provides a clear picture of his extensive work on the New Testament
Of related interest: “I AM”
Monotheism and the Philosophy of the Bible
By Mark Glouberman 978-1-4875-0340-6
When Erasmus, at Cambridge in 1512, began to mark up his copy of the Vulgate Bible with a few alternative Latin translations and a biting comment here and there in Latin, he could not have guessed that his work would grow over the next twenty-three years into the twenty volumes currently being produced as annotated translations in The Collected Works of Erasmus. Paraphrases vastly expanded the text of the New Testament books, and brought dynamic and controversial interpretations to the traditional reading of the Latin texts. A new translation based on the Greek text, the first ever to be published by a printing firm, became the basis for ever-expanding notes that explained the Greek, measured the contemporary church against the truth revealed by the Greek, taunted critics and opponents, and revealed the mind of a humanist at work on the Scriptures. The sheer vastness of the work that finally accumulated is almost beyond the reach of a single individual. By excerpts chosen over the entire extent of Erasmus’ New Testament work, this book hopes to reduce that immensity to manageable size, and bring the rich, virtually unlimited treasure of the Erasmian mind on the Scriptures within the comfortable reach of every interested individual.
Robert D Sider is the Charles A. Dana professor emeritus of Classical Languages at Dickinson College, and adjunct professor of History at University of Saskatchewan.
on the NEW TESTAMENT ERASMUS
university of toronto press
EDITED BY ROBERT D. SIDER
Approx. 336 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2020
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Religious Studies
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2803 to 2939
By Desiderius Erasmus
Translated by Clarence H Miller and annotated by James M Estes
Collected Works of Erasmus, Volume 20
The thirteen months covered in this volume reveal the decline of Erasmus’ health and the creation of his most famous work, On Preparing for Death.
In the months covered by this volume, Erasmus experienced deteriorating health and thoughts of approaching death. The seemingly imminent threat of religious civil war in Germany affected Erasmus in two ways. First, he made up his mind to leave Germany. However, the arrival of an invitation from Queen Mary coincided with the onset of chronic ill health. Second, Erasmus did what he could to promote the cause of religious unity. In On Mending the Peace of the Church, he urged rulers to enact moderate reforms that would satisfy all parties. When Martin Luther responded to this attempt at a “middle path” in his Letter Concerning Erasmus of Rotterdam, denouncing Erasmus as a sceptic and not a Christian, Erasmus responded indignantly with his Purgation against the Slanderous Letter of Luther. Erasmus’ only other work published in this period turned out to be one of his most popular, On Preparing for Death.
Clarence H Miller was a professor emeritus of English at Saint Louis University.
James M Estes is a professor emeritus of history at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
Approx. 392 pp. / 6.75 x 9.75 / October 2020
13 illustrations
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Erasmus on Literature
His Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518–1519
Erasmus
on Literature
Edited by Mark Vessey from the translation and notes by Robert D Sider With a foreword by Anthony Grafton
Erasmus’ Ratio or ‘System’ is an almost-lost masterpiece of Renaissance literary theory and interpretive practice, now available for the first time in English in a convenient student edition
This Ratio or compendious ‘System’ gives advice on how to interpret complex texts and develop persuasive arguments. Its lessons are applied to the canonical Scriptures as source and to everyday Christian theology as target discourse. They unfold in response to the special difficulties and incitements of the biblical text in Latin and Greek. At every turn, the Ratio reveals the instincts and intuitions of an exceptional theorist and practitioner of the cognitive, social, and political arts of written language. This student edition, the first of its kind in any language, is based on the translation and notes by Robert D. Sider in the Collected Works of Erasmus. It is designed to make it easier to estimate the long-term value of Erasmus’ works more generally and to allow for a multidisciplinary understanding of the lives of human beings as symbol-using creatures in worlds constructed partly by texts.
Mark Vessey is Principal of Green College and Professor of English literature at the University of British Columbia.
Robert D Sider is General Editor of the New Testament Scholarship for the Collected Works of Erasmus.
Approx. 376 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2020 4 images
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Covenantal Thinking
Essays on the Philosophy and Theology of David Novak
Edited by Paul E . Nahme and Yaniv Feller
The Kenneth Michael Tanenbaum Series in Jewish Studies
This collection of essays sheds new light on the thought of David Novak, one of the leading Jewish theologians and philosophers of the post-war era
The philosophy and theology of David Novak, one of the most prominent and creative contemporary Jewish thinkers, grapples with Judaism, Christian theology, the tradition of natural law, and the Western philosophical canon. Never shying away from contested ethical and religious themes, Novak’s original insights and intellectual spirit have spanned voluminous publications and inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers to engage concepts such as religious liberty, covenantal morality, and the importance of theological reasoning.
Written primarily by scholars in the field of Jewish thought, Covenantal Thinking is a collection of essays dedicated to Novak’s work. The book examines topics such as election, natural law, Jewish political thought, the question of Zionism, and the relation between reason and revelation. This collection is unique because it includes Novak’s replies to his critics, including his clarifications of his philosophical and theological positions. Offering a vital contribution to contemporary Jewish thought, Covenantal Thinking illuminates Novak’s contributions as a scholar who trained, conversed with, and inspired the next generation of philosophical theologians.
Paul E. Nahme is Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic studies and an assistant professor of religious studies at Brown University.
Yaniv Feller is an assistant professor of religion and Jewish studies at the University of Florida.
March 2024
336 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-0398-7
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Religion and Philosophy / Jewish Studies
Dana Hollander
DANA HOLLANDER
Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources
Edited by Kenneth Hart Green and Martin D. Yaffe
The Kenneth Michael Tanenbaum Series in Jewish Studies
Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources engages with the philosophers who made the greatest impact on the thought of Emil Fackenheim.
Recognized as one of the leading philosophers and Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Emil Ludwig Fackenheim has been widely praised for his boldness, originality, and profundity. As is well-known, a striking feature of Fackenheim’s thought is his unwavering contention that the Holocaust brought about a radical shift in human history, so monumental and unprecedented that nothing can ever be the same again. Fackenheim regarded it as the specific duty of thinkers and scholars to assume responsibility to probe this historical event for its impact on the human future and to make its immense ramifications evident.
In Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources, scholars consider important figures in the history of philosophy – including Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and Strauss – and trace how Fackenheim’s philosophical confrontations with each of them shaped his overall thought. This collection details which philosophers exercised the greatest influence on Fackenheim, and how he diverged from them.
Incorporating widely varying approaches, the contributors in the volume wrestle with this challenge historically, politically, and philosophically in order to illuminate the depths of Fackenheim’s own thought.
Edited by Kenneth Hart Green & Martin D. Yaffe
Hollander
Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources
November 2021
320 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-2964-2
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Religion / Philosophy
Kenneth Hart Green is a professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
Martin D. Yaffe is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas.
DANA HOLLANDER
Ethics Out of Law
Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor” Dana Hollander
This is the first book in English to lay out the philosophical ethics and philosophy of law of Hermann Cohen, one of the leading figures in both Neo-Kantian and Jewish philosophy
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was a leading figure in the NeoKantian philosophical movement that dominated European thought before 1918. He was also an inaugural figure in modern Jewish philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores Cohen’s striking claim that ethics is rooted in law – a claim developed both in his philosophical ethics and his philosophy of Judaism, in particular in his writings on “love-of-neighbor,” up to and including his well-known Religion of Reason.
Dana Hollander proposes that neither Cohen’s systematic philosophy nor his “Jewish” philosophy should be seen as the dominant framework for his oeuvre as a whole, but that his understanding of key philosophical questions take shape in the passages between both corpuses, a trait that could be seen as paradigmatic for modern Jewish philosophy. Ethics Out of Law taps into one of the prime topics of current interest in the field of Jewish philosophy: the nature of Jewish political existence and the changing configurations of “law” that this entails.
Dana Hollander is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0624-7
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Heidegger on Truth
Its Essence and Its Fate
HEIDEGGER ON TRUTH
Graeme Nicholson
New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
This book closely examines Heidegger’s account of truth, not only for the sake of reading and understanding philosophy but as an important inquiry into what his work might mean to us in our own time .
“What is truth?” This much-pondered question received a novel answer from Martin Heidegger, who was guided by the methods of phenomenology. Heidegger’s 1930 address “On the Essence of Truth” takes us on a pathway of thinking that starts from the standard “correspondence theory of truth” and moves into larger discussions on truth, along the way drawing in such timeless issues as the freedom of human conduct and choices.
Heidegger on Truth is a close reading of this address, and of the essay that Heidegger published under the same title years later – first in 1943, and then in 1949. In Part I of this book, Nicholson explores Heidegger’s movements of thought as they are presented in the original address. In Part II, Nicholson compares this lecture with its subsequent versions, uncovering the changes and detours in Heidegger’s conceptualization of “truth.” Part II also considers Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato, scholasticism, and the tradition of modern rationalism. Accessibly written, this book provides a thorough examination of Heidegger’s thoughts on the concept of “truth.”
Graeme Nicholson is a professor emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
216 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Cloth 978-1-4875-0441-0
$60.00 (£44.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3013-6 $60.00 Philosophy / German Studies
GRAEME NICHOLSON
Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger’s Thinking
Kenneth Maly
New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
An unconventional introduction to Heidegger’s thinking, this book reads like a very personal and meaningful encounter with Heidegger’s major contributions to philosophy
Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger’s Thinking presents a fresh interpretation of some of Heidegger’s most difficult but important works, including his Beiträge ( Contributions ) and engages with his notion of “the reading in thinking.”
In new translations of central texts, Kenneth Maly invites the reader to think along the way by reading, contemplating, and translating Heidegger’s ideas into context. An introduction to the field of philosophy and more specifically to Heidegger’s thought, Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger’s Thinking asks the reader, in some manner, to actively do the philosophizing.
Kenneth Maly is an emeritus professor of philosophy and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Approx. 216 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021
Cloth 978-1-4875-0801-2
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Hannah Arendt
Life Is a Narrative
Julia Kristeva Alexander Lectures
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Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative makes a compelling case that Arendt may be the twentieth century’s only true political philosopher
In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt’s work: Arendt’s understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. Kristeva’s aim is to clarify contradictions in Arendt’s thought as well as correct misapprehensions about her political and philosophical views.
While providing an examination of Arendt’s work in relation to her twentieth-century contemporaries, including Dinesen, Brecht, Kafka, and Sarraute, Kristeva also delves into discussion surrounding Arendt’s acceptance of Arendt’s own Jewishness and her original conception of human narrative. Altogether, Kristeva’s account is clear, coherent, forceful, and often impassioned.
Julia Kristeva is a literary theorist, psychoanalyst, and writer. She is the director of the Doctoral School for Languages, Literature, Image, Civilisation and Social Sciences at the University of Paris.
Approx. 108 pages / 5.5 x 8.5 / May 2020
Paper 978-1-4875-2642-9
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Heidegger’s Being The Shimmering Unfolding
Richard Capobianco
New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
This book sheds light on the seminal ideas of Martin Heidegger’s lifelong attention to the question of Being .
In Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger’s thinking about Being.
As in his earlier books, Capobianco offers a meditative path through Heidegger’s thought. He illuminates major motifs that are overlooked or set aside by most contemporary readings of Heidegger, amplifying these motifs in an original, heartfelt, and eloquent way. The book also offers a series of reflections that bring Heidegger’s thinking into close proximity to other thinkers and poets, including Alfred North Whitehead, C.G. Jung, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Rumi.
Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding is intended not only for dedicated students of Heidegger’s work but also for engaged general readers who wish to come to a deeper appreciation of his distinctive vision of Being.
Richard Capobianco
Of related interest: Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger’s Thinking By Kenneth Maly 978-1-4875-2563-7
HEIDEGGER’S BEING THE SHIMMERING UNFOLDING
June 2022
176 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth 978-1-4875-4458-4
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Religion and Philosophy
Richard Capobianco is a professor of Philosophy and Meehan Humanities Scholar at Stonehill College. He is the author of Heidegger’s Way of Being and Engaging Heidegger
Author of Heidegger’s Way of Being and Engaging Heidegger
Persons and Other Things
Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible
Persons and Other Things
Mark Glouberman
Persons and Other Things looks closely at the Bible as a philosophical work, and asks insightful questions about how to interpret the Hebrew Bible, what it means to be Jewish, and how to live a meaningful and moral life.
The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God’s name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible’s core anthropological teachings.
In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible’s philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the “religious” glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world.
Persons and Other Things is also the author’s testament about the practise of philosophy. Glouberman sets out, and in the chapters that pursue the theme he puts into practice, the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers.
Mark Glouberman is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2021
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Religion / Philosophy
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2940 to 3141
Volume 21
By Desiderius Erasmus
Edited by James M. Estes
Translated
by Alexander Dalzell
The Collected Works of Erasmus
This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.
This volume comprises Erasmus’ correspondence during the final two years of his life, June 1534–August 1536. In the public sphere it was a time of dramatic events: the reconquest of the duchy Württemberg from its Austrian occupiers; the siege and destruction of the Anabaptist “kingdom” at Münster; Charles V’s great victory at Tunis; and the resumption of the Habsburg-Valois wars in Italy. In the private sphere, these were years of deteriorating health, thoughts of impending death, and the loss of close friends (including Thomas Fisher and Thomas More, both executed by Henry VIII). At the same time, however, Erasmus managed to publish his longest book, Ecclesiastes, and to make arrangements, in his final will, for his considerable wealth to be spent for charitable purposes after his death.
James M. Estes is professor emeritus of history at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
Alexander Dalzell was professor emeritus of classics at Trinity College, University of Toronto.
Approx. 712 pp. / 6.75 x 9.75 / August 2021
12 illustrations
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Mark Glouberman
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking
Kenneth Maly
New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
This book presents a rethinking of Greek philosophy to offer the West a path to a more holistic and less conceptual understanding of the way things are .
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries – beginning with the late Greeks, then Christianity, and then rationalism from the seventeenth century onward – and misrepresented by mistranslations from then on. Using Heidegger’s work with Greek thinking as a springboard, the book shows how the covering over of this essential thread happened.
Kenneth Maly provides a frame by which those not trained in philosophy and phenomenology of experience can grasp the wider import of this rethinking of Greek philosophy. The book delves deep into key questions, preparing readers for extensive and more technical work with the key Greek words and their meanings, hidden for centuries. It includes a significant investigation of how this task requires a different way of language, how early Western thinking mirrors non-Western Daoism and Buddhism, and how quantum physics gets to the same place in its “philosophy,” with an emphasis on the work of David Bohm. In doing so, the book reveals how Daoism, Buddhism, the quantum potential of quantum physics, and Heidegger’s being-beyng are all mirrored in Greek philosophy, above all in early Greek thinking.
Kenneth Maly is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking
Kenneth Maly
KENNETH MALY
May 2024
288 pages, 6 x 9
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Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion
The Example of Sargent Shriver
Shariʿa and Life Authority, Compromise, and Mission in European Mosques
Uriya Shavit and Fabian Spengler
James R Price and Kenneth R . Melchin
Shari ʿa and Life examines the degree of individual discretion and flexibility Muslims apply when reconciling the challenges of everyday life with their religious beliefs
Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion provides a framework that enables us to think critically about how diverse belief traditions influence political life, for better and for worse .
Drawing on five years of field studies in pragmaticand dogmatic-inclined mosques across Europe, Shariʿa and Life explores how Muslims engage with shariʿ a norms in general, and specifically with the challenges they face as Muslims living in majority non-Muslim societies.
The clash of religion and politics has been a steady source of polarization in North America. In order to think wisely and constructively about the spiritual dimension of our political life, there is need for an approach that can both maintain the diversity of belief and foster values founded on the principles of religion.
The book examines how fatwas (advice on shariʿ arelated matters) are quested, negotiated, paraphrased, contested, or ignored in mosques, on the internet, and elsewhere. It also analyses individual strategies, external to religio-legal discourse, through which Muslims mitigate conflicts between interpretations of shariʿa and everyday life.
Among the issues discussed in the book are financial transactions, education, the workplace, sports, electoral participation, Christmas greetings, proselytizing, and the legitimacy of choosing to live in a nonMuslim country. Shifting the focus from the authors and texts of fatwas to their recipients, Shariʿa and Life gives voice to those often left voiceless and demonstrates the great discretion and flexibility with which tensions between shariʿa and life are resolved.
Uriya Shavit is a professor of Islamic, Democracy, and Migration studies at Tel Aviv University.
Fabian Spengler is a PhD Candidate at Tel Aviv University.
In Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion , James R. Price and Kenneth R. Melchin provide a possible framework, approaching issues in politics via a profile of Sargent Shriver (1915–2011), an American diplomat, politician, and a driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps. Focusing on the speeches Shriver delivered in the course of his work to advance civil rights and build world peace, Price and Melchin highlight the spiritual component of his efforts to improve institutional structures and solve social problems. They contextualize Shriver’s approach by contrasting it with contemporary, landmark decisions of the US Supreme Court on the role of religion in politics. In doing so, Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion explains that navigating the relationship of religion and politics requires attending to both the religious diversity that politics must guard and the religious involvements that politics needs to do its work.
James R. Price is the executive director of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute.
September 2023
296 pages, 6 x 9
6 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5227-5
Kenneth R. Melchin is a professor emeritus in theology and director of the Lonergan Centre at Saint Paul University.
$95.00 (£62.99) A
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April 2022
$46.95 (£30.99) A
192 pages, 6 x 9
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Religion and Philosophy
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Religion / Philosophy
The Human Paradox Rediscovering the Nature of the Human
Heidegger’s Being The Shimmering Unfolding
Ralph Heintzman
Richard Capobianco
NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Human Paradox shows how the nature of the human is structured by the conflicting human values and virtues that have shaped Western culture, and are visible across the world today .
New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
This book sheds light on the seminal ideas of Martin Heidegger’s lifelong attention to the question of Being
What is a human being? What does it mean to be human? How can you lead your life in ways that best fulfill your own nature? In The Human Paradox, Ralph Heintzman explores these vital questions and offers an exciting new vision of the nature of the human.
In Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding , the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger’s thinking about Being.
The Human Paradox aims to counter or correct several contemporary assumptions about the nature of the human, especially the tendency of Western culture, since the seventeenth century, to identify the human with rationality and the rational mind. Using the lens of the virtues, The Human Paradox shows how rediscovering the nature of the human can help not just to understand one’s own paradoxical nature but to act in ways that are more consistent with its full reality.
As in his earlier books, Capobianco offers a meditative path through Heidegger’s thought. He illuminates major motifs that are overlooked or set aside by most contemporary readings of Heidegger, amplifying these motifs in an original, heartfelt, and eloquent way. The book also offers a series of reflections that bring Heidegger’s thinking into close proximity to other thinkers and poets, including Alfred North Whitehead, C.G. Jung, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Rumi.
Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding is intended not only for dedicated students of Heidegger’s work but also for engaged general readers who wish to come to a deeper appreciation of his distinctive vision of Being.
Offering accessible insight from both traditional and contemporary thought, The Human Paradox shows how a fuller, richer vision of the human can help address urgent contemporary problems, including the challenges of cultural and religious diversity, human migration and human rights, the role of the market, artificial intelligence (AI), the future of democracy, and global climate change. This fresh perspective on the Western past will guide readers into what it means to be human and open new possibilities for the future.
Richard Capobianco is a professor of philosophy and Meehan Humanities Scholar at Stonehill College. He is the author of Heidegger’s Way of Being and Engaging Heidegger.
June 2023
200 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Paper 978-1-4875-5137-7
Ralph Heintzman is a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto and an honorary senior fellow in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
$24.95 (£16.99) A Religion and Philosophy
July 2022
816 pages, 6 x 9
78 b&w illustrations, 14 b&w tables
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Philosophy
Author of Heidegger’s Way of Being and Engaging Heidegger
HEIDEGGER’S BEING THE SHIMMERING UNFOLDING
Richard Capobianco
THE ART OF WITNESSING
The Art of Witnessing
Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War
Michael Iarocci
Toronto
Iberic
The Art of Witnessing offers a compelling new framework for understanding Francisco de Goya’s famous print series, The Disasters of War
Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya’s renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation.
The Art of Witnessing provides a new account of Goya’s print series by taking readers through the forty-seven prints he dedicated to the violence of war. Drawing on facets of Goya’s artistry rarely considered together before, the book challenges the notion that documentary realism and historical testimony were his primary aims. Michael Iarocci argues that while the depiction of war’s atrocities was central to Goya’s project, the lasting power of the print series stems from the artist’s complex moral and aesthetic meditations on the subject.
Making novel contributions to longstanding debates about historical memory, testimony, and the representation of violence, The Art of Witnessing tells a new story, print by print, to highlight the ways in which Goya’s masterpiece extends far beyond conventional understandings of visual testimony.
Michael Iarocci is a professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley.
December 2022
304 pages, 6 x 9
48 b&w illustrations
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Cultural Studies / Art History
Italian Film in the Present Tense
Millicent Marcus Toronto Italian Studies
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century
For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tens e confronts this narrative of decline with strong evidence to the contrary.
Millicent Marcus highlights Italian cinema’s new sources of industrial strength, its replacement of the Rome-centred studio system with regional film commissions, its contemporary breakthroughs on the aesthetic front, and its vital engagement with the changing economic and socio-political circumstances in twenty-first-century Italian life. Examining works that stand out for their formal brilliance and their moral urgency, the book presents a series of fourteen case studies, featuring analyses of such renowned films as Il Divo, Gomorrah, The Great Beauty, We Have a Pope, The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer, and Fire at Sea, along with lesser-known works deserving of serious critical scrutiny. In doing so, Italian Film in the Present Tense contests the widely held perception of a medium languishing in its “post-Fellini” moment, and instead acknowledges the ethical persistence and forward-looking currents of Italian cinema in the present tense.
Millicent Marcus is a professor of Italian Studies and Film & Media Studies at Yale University.
February 2023
248 pages, 6 x 9
24 b&w illustrations
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Cultural Studies / Film Studies
Michael Iarocci
Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War
Catalan Cinema
The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde
Edited by Anton Pujol and Jaume Martí-Olivella
Toronto Iberic
This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe
Catalan Cinema offers a theoretical reading of the most relevant cinematic productions to emerge from Catalonia in the last twenty years. The essays in this collection examine cinema in relation to the Escola de Barcelona (The Barcelona School), a group of cinema directors that drew inspiration from British pop-art, Free Cinema, and the Nouvelle Vague to create works that defied and challenged the Franco dictatorship.
Highlighting the aesthetic, social, and political elements of Catalan cinematography, contributors to this volume explore what young directors have in common with works created by more notable directors such as Joaquim Jordà, Jacinto Esteva, Jordi Grau, and Pere Portabella. Catalan Cinema focuses on the importance of modern production and its connection with the avant-garde and underground cinema from the Barcelona School. Establishing a cinematic genealogy, the volume ultimately questions if Catalan cinema’s own push for self-expression may be interpreted as a connection to Catalonia’s current drive for independence.
Anton Pujol is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Jaume Martí-Olivella is an associate professor of Hispanic film and cultural studies at the University of New Hampshire.
FASHIONING
By Jorge Pérez
CATALAN CINEMA
February 2024
376 pages, 6 x 9 21 b&w illustrations
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Cultural Studies
Edited by Anton Pujol and Jaume Martí-Olivella
The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde
Consequential Art
Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain
Samuel Amago and Matthew J Marr
Toronto Iberic
Deploying diverse theoretical approaches, this volume explores contemporary Spain’s vibrant, diverse, and longstanding comics culture
Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs published, and an array of cultural institutions in Spain have increasingly promoted the pleasures, pertinence, and power of graphic narrative to an ever-expanding readership – all in an area of cultural production that was held, until recently, to be the stuff of child’s play, the unenlightened, or the unsophisticated. This volume takes up the overarching charge of examining how contemporary comics in Spain have confronted questions of cultural legitimacy through serious and timely engagement with diverse themes, forms, and approaches: a collective undertaking which, while keenly in step with transnational theoretical trends, foregrounds local, regional, and national dimensions particular to the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Spanish milieu. The essays collected in Consequential Art account for several key ways in which a range of comics practitioners in Spain have deployed the image-text connection and alternative ways of seeing to interrogate some of the most significant cultural issues that Spain has faced since 1990.
Samuel Amago is professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. Matthew J Marr is associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at The Pennsylvania State University.
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2019
60 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0503-5
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Minds Alive
Libraries and Archives Now
Edited by Patricia Demers and Toni Samek
This book explores the enduring role and intrinsic value of libraries and archives as public institutions in the digital age
Featuring international contributors, this volume delves into libraries and archives as institutions and institutional partners, the professional responsibilities of librarians and archivists, and the ways in which librarians and archivists continue to respond to the networked age, digital culture, and digitization.
The endless possibilities and robust importance of libraries and archives are at the heart of this optimistic collection. Topics include: transformations in the networked digital age; Indigenous issues and challenges in custodianship, ownership and access; the importance of the harmonization of memory institutions today; and the overarching significance of libraries and archives in the public sphere. Libraries and archives – at once public institutions providing both communal and private havens of discovery – are being repurposed and transformed in intercultural contexts. Only by keeping pace with users’ changing needs can they continue to provide the richest resources of an informed citizenry.
Patricia Demers is a distinguished university professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Toni Samek is a professor and chair at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta.
Approx. 296 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020
32 Illustrations
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A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
Olivia Landry
A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction
The recording of Indigenous voices is one of the most wellknown methods of colonial ethnography. In A Decolonizing Ear, Olivia Landry offers a skeptical account of listening as a highly mediated and extractive act, influenced by technology and ideology. Returning to early ethnographic practices of voice recording and archiving at the turn of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the German paradigm, she reveals the entanglement of listening in the logic of Euro-American empire and the ways in which contemporary films can destabilize the history of colonial sound reproduction.
Landry provides close readings of several disparate documentary films from the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The book pays attention to technology and knowledge production to examine how these films employ recordings plucked from different colonial sound archives and disrupt their purposes. Drawing on film and documentary studies, sound studies, German studies, archival studies, postcolonial studies, and media history, A Decolonizing Ear develops a method of decolonizing listening from the insights provided by the films themselves.
A DECOLONIZING EAR
DOCUMENTARY FILM DISRUPTS THE ARCHIVE
Olivia Landry
Olivia Landry
February 2023
248 pages, 6 x 9
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Cultural Studies
OLIVIA LANDRY
Olivia Landry is an assistant professor of German at Lehigh University.
Archival Material
Early Papers on History, Volume 25
By Bernard Lonergan
Edited by Robert M Doran and John D Dadosky
Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
Digital Playgrounds
The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America
The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games
Archival Material: Early Papers on History
In order to correctly assess Lonergan’s life’s work, it is crucial to have a familiarity with his early forays into the philosophical and theological matters presented in this volume
In the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work.
The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan’s own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the “mediated object” of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the “doctrines” that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on “redemption.” The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan’s work will find their understanding of his philosophy profoundly affected by the essays in this volume.
Robert M . Doran is the Emmett Doerr Chair in Catholic Systematic Theology at Marquette University. John D Dadosky is a professor of theology and philosophy at Regis College at the University of Toronto.
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Languages
The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America
Sara M. Grimes
Edited by Gregory P . Floyd and Stephanie Rumpza
Why has continental philosophy so often made its North American home in Catholic institutions?
Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.
This volume by leading philosophers and theologians explores the reception of continental philosophy in North America and its ongoing relation to Catholic institutions. What has prompted so many North American Catholics to support this particular school of thought? Why do so many Catholics continue to find continental philosophy attractive, and why do so many continental philosophers work in Catholic departments?
The establishment of the relationship between continental philosophy and Catholicism was not obvious, nor was it easy. Many of the contributors to this volume have played important roles in its development, and in these pages they take a stance on this evolving relationship and demonstrate that the engagement is far from over. Exploring the mutual interests that made this alliance possible as well as the underlying tensions, the volume provides, for the first time, an extended reflection on the historical, institutional, and intellectual relationship between Catholicism and continental philosophy on North American soil up to the present day.
Digital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped children’s commercial digital play spaces over the past two decades. It argues that children’s online playgrounds, virtual worlds, and connected games are much more than mere sources of fun and diversion – they serve as the sites of complex negotiations of power between children, parents, developers, politicians, and other actors with a stake in determining what, how, and where children’s play unfolds. Through an innovative, transdisciplinary framework combining science and technology studies, critical communication studies, and children’s cultural studies, Digital Playgrounds focuses on the contents and contexts of actual technological artefacts as a necessary entry point for understanding the meanings and politics of children’s digital play. The discussion draws on several research studies designed and marketed to children aged six to twelve years, revealing how various problematic tendencies prevent most digital play spaces from effectively supporting children’s culture, rights, and – ironically – play.
Gregory P Floyd is a professor at Seton Hall University in the Department of the Core. Stephanie Rumpza is a visiting researcher in Philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Approx. 400 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021
12 illustrations
History, diverse erature, images. are frequently intervention.
Prevailing according which means from texts – striving history histories
Peter Germanic
Julia Culture, Jason Grand
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This edition of Empire and Communications enriches
Miglena S. Todorova
Harold A Innis’s examination of the relationship between communications and power structures .
Unequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called good societies revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.
Originally published in 1950, Harold A. Innis’s Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its origins have received little attention. Ambitious in its scope, the book spans five millennia, tracing a path of development around the globe from 2900 BCE to the twentieth century and revealing the cyclical interplay between communications and power structures across space and time.
In this new edition, William J. Buxton pays close attention to handwritten glosses that Innis added to a copy of the original edition and the revisions undertaken by his widow, Mary Q. Innis. A new introduction provides a detailed account of how the book emerged from lectures that Innis delivered at Oxford University in 1948. It explores how Innis sought to enrich his analysis by incorporating material related to phenomena such as war, education, religion, culture, geography, and finance. An insightful foreword by Marshall McLuhan is included, as well as bibliographical references and a revised index.
Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria the book traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure.
Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University
Jorge Pérez
Toronto Iberic
Edited by Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith
Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.
Acting as a lightning rod for transformative thinking, Transverse Disciplines offers exciting new methodologies for reshaping academic work beyond the bounds of traditional disciplines
Costume design is a crucial, but frequently overlooked, aspect of film that fosters an appreciation of the diverse ways in which film and fashion enrich each other. These influential industries offer representations of ideas, values, and beliefs that shape and construct cultural identities. In Fashioning Spanish Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyses the use of clothing and fashion as costumes within Spanish cinema, paying particular attention to the significance of those costumes in relation to the visual styles and the narratives of the films. The author examines the links between costume analysis and other fields and theoretical frameworks such as fashion studies, the history of dress, celebrity studies, and gender and feminist studies.
By providing a narrative based on extensive notes from Innis, this edition makes Empire and Communications more accessible and contributes to the broad efforts to shape Innis’s legacy.
Covering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, Unequal under Socialism focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, Miglena S. Todorova suggests, is an under-recognized but important force shaping how women in former socialist countries have related to one another and to other women in the global North and South.
Harold A. Innis was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media and communication theory.
Transverse Disciplines offers an overview of the current research on the humanities and the academy at large and proposes creative and courageous ideas for the university of the future. Using German studies as a case study, the book examines localized academic work in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States in order to model new ideas for invigorated thinking beyond disciplinary specificity, university communities, and entrenched academic practices. In contributions that are theoretical, speculative, experimental, and deeply personal, contributors suggest that German studies might do better to stop trying to protect existing national and disciplinary arrangements. Instead, the discipline should embrace feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial academic practices and commitments, including communitybased work, research-creation, and scholar activism.
Transverse Disciplines takes stock of the increasingly tenuous position of the humanities and stakes a claim for the importance of imagining new disciplinary futures within the often restrictive and harmful structures of the academy.
Simone Pfleger is an assistant professor of gender studies and German studies at the University of Alberta.
William J. Buxton is a professor emeritus of communication studies at Concordia.
Miglena S. Todorova is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Media, Culture, and Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
October 2021
July 2022
272 pages, 6 x 9
240 pages, 6 x 9 11 black-and-white images
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Fashioning Spanish Cinema looks at instances in which costumes are essential to shaping the public image of stars, such as Conchita Montenegro, Sara Montiel, Victoria Abril, and Penélope Cruz. Focusing on examples in which costumes have discursive autonomy, the book explores how costumes engage with broader issues of identity and, relatedly, how costumes impact everyday practices and fashion trends beyond cinema. Drawing on case studies from multiple periods, films by contemporary directors and genres, and red-carpet events such as the Oscars and the Goya Awards, Fashioning Spanish Cinema contributes a pivotal Spanish perspective to expanding interdisciplinary work on the intersections between film and fashion.
Carrie Smith is the vice dean of the Faculty of Arts and a professor of German studies at the University of Alberta.
Jorge Pérez is Peter T. Flawn Centennial Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin.
August 2022
October 2021
368 pages, 6 x 9
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19 black-and-white images
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Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Costume, Identity, and Stardom
JORGE PÉREZ
and introduced by
Introducing Communication
Perspectives, Assumptions, and Implications
Amardo Rodriguez
This book introduces students to different communication perspectives and concepts from around the world, encouraging them to reflect on the consequences and implications that come with each of these perspectives
The study of communication deepens our understanding of the human condition, enlarges how we frame and resolve human problems and struggles, and allows us to appreciate the different perspectives that communication brings to the study of the human experience. Introducing Communication provides an overview of eight different communication perspectives and explores important concepts from around the world, highlighting the consequences and implications that come with diverse ways of defining, understanding, and studying communication. Featuring discussions on issues and challenges associated with mass globalization and new technologies, this smart and sophisticated text encourages students to reflect on how these consequences and implications come to bear on how we live and communicate.
Introducing Communication is ideally suited for instructors who teach introductory communication courses and are seeking a text that is theoretically rigorous, intellectually expansive, and pedagogically elegant.
Amardo Rodriguez is a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.
I N T R O D U C I N G C O M M U N I C AT I O N
PERSPECTIVES, ASSUMPTIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS
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Cultural Studies / Communication
Of related interest: Crisis Communication in Canada By Duncan Koerber 978-1-4426-0922-8
AMARDO RODRIGUEZ
Italian Neorealism A
Cultural History
Charles L . Leavitt IV
Toronto
Italian Studies
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis
Neorealism emerged as a cultural exchange and a field of discourse that served to shift the confines of creativity and revise the terms of artistic expression not only in Italy but worldwide. If neorealism was thus a global phenomenon, it is because of its revolutionary portrayal of a transformative moment in the local, regional, and national histories of Italy. At once guiding and guided by that transformative moment, neorealist texts took up, reflected, and performed the contentious conditions of their creation, not just at the level of narrative content but also in their form, language, and structure. Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History demonstrates how they did so through a series of representative case studies. Recounting the history of a generation of artists, this study offers fundamental insights into one of the most innovative and influential cultural moments of the twentieth century.
Charles L Leavitt IV is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame.
Approx. 344 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0710-7
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“Fixing” Series, Nikita Kadan, 2010
Superfluous Women
Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine
Jessica Zychowicz
Using firsthand interviews, archival documents, and visual analysis, Superfluous Women explores the intersections between art, protest, and feminism in today’s Ukraine
Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in Ukraine have contested Soviet and Western connotations of feminism to draw attention to a range of human rights issues with global impact.
In the book, Zychowicz summarizes and engages with more recent critical scholarship on the role of digital media and virtual environments in concepts of the public sphere. Mapping out several key changes in newly independent Ukraine, she traces the discursive links between distinct eras, marked by mass gatherings on Kyiv’s main square, in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving feminist protest and politics today.
Jessica Zychowicz is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta in the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program (CUSP) and was recently a U.S. Fulbright Scholar at Kyiv-Mohyla University. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan.
Approx. 400 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2020
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Mafia Movies
A Reader, Second Edition
Edited by Dana Renga
This reader provides incisive interpretations of over fifty films and television programs about the Italian and ItalianAmerican Mafias
The mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers. This collection looks at mafia movies and television over time and across cultures, from the early classics to the Godfather trilogy and contemporary Italian films and television series. The only comprehensive collection of its type, Mafia Movies treats over fifty films and TV shows created since 1906, while introducing Italian and Italian-American mafia history and culture.
The second edition includes new original essays on essential films and TV shows that have emerged since the publication of the first edition, such as Boardwalk Empire and Mob Wives, as well as a new roundtable section on Italy’s “other” mafias in film and television. The edition also introduces a new section called “Double Takes” that elaborates on some of the most popular mafia films and TV shows (e.g. The Godfather and The Sopranos) organized around themes such as adaptation, gender and politics, urban spaces, and performance and stardom.
Dana Renga is Associate Professor of Italian at The Ohio State University.
Approx. 480 pp. / 7.5 x 9.25 / September 2019
28 illustrations
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Screening Religions in Italy
Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-secular Public Sphere
SCREENING RELIGIONS IN ITALY
Clodagh J Brook
Toronto Italian Studies
This is the first booklength study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television fiction
Religion has been foundational in shaping Italy. Home to the Vatican State, the Italian peninsula is the religious center for one billion Catholics globally. It is also increasingly home to those of other faiths, especially Islam. Italy’s development as a contemporary post-secular and multi-religious society is fraught and fascinating.
Screening Religions in Italy identifies two key questions: how Italian filmmaking constructs the continuing position of religion in the public sphere and why religion persists on Italian screens. It spans genres such as horror, comedy, hagiopics, and TV fiction, and explores both commercial to art-house filmmaking. It treats films and television series that range from Moretti’s Habemus Papam to Sorrentino’s The Young Pope
Clodagh J Brook is an associate professor and Head of Italian at Trinity College, Dublin.
Approx. 216 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2019
Cloth 978-1-4875-0347-5
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Cultural Studies / Italian Studies / Literary Studies
CLODAGH J. BROOK
Naturalism’s Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century
RANSOM KIDNAPPING IN ITALY
Sara Pappas
University of Toronto Romance Series
Analysing the works of literary naturalists writing about art, this book argues for the importance of disorder in the French art world in the nineteenth century
Naturalism’s Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century examines one of the most revered art historical narratives of Western art: the famous turning point for painting and sculpture usually emblematized by the works of Édouard Manet and then the Impressionists.
Instead of the usual revaluation of this turning point, Sara Pappas argues for the importance of the failure to find a cohesive story for the art world in the period itself, a difficulty that carries forward to galleries today. In order to demonstrate the importance of incongruity and disorder, Pappas brings together two worlds that may seem incompatible: nineteenthcentury literary writers involved in naturalism and the organization of permanent collections of later nineteenth-century French art in today’s museums. Drawing on the art novels and art criticism of these writers, the book provides optimal access to the questions that continue to haunt the categorization and display of nineteenth-century art.
Sara Pappas is an associate professor of French and visual culture at the University of Richmond.
This book analyses the media, cultural, and testimonial narratives of ransom kidnapping in Italy, a phenomenon linked to banditry and organized crime that terrorized the country for decades
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnapping perpetrated by bandits and organized crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh captivities and psychological abuse, the victims spent months and even years in isolation while law enforcement and the state struggled to find them.
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy examines this Italian criminal phenomenon. Alessandra Montalbano argues that abduction is a key vantage point from which to understand modern Italy: it troubled the law, terrified society, ignited juridical and parliamentary debates, and mobilized citizens. Bringing together archival and media materials with the victims’ accounts and diverse forms of cultural response, the book examines ransom kidnapping through the lenses of historiography, law, literary criticism, trauma studies, phenomenology, and political philosophy. Ransom Kidnapping in Italy traces how and at what price Italians became aware of living in a country that was being blackmailed by criminal organizations that arguably jeopardized the nation even more than terrorism.
Alessandra Montalbano is an associate professor of Italian at the University of Alabama.
March 2024
320 pages, 6 x 9
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Cultural Studies
Naturalism’s Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century
SARA PAPPAS
CRIME, MEMORY, AND VIOLENCE
POLITICALLY ANIMATED
Politically Animated Non-fiction Animation from the Hispanic World
Jennifer Nagtegaal Toronto Iberic
Shedding light on the political implications that arise from narrative decision-making, this book examines animated non-fiction from the Spanish-speaking world
Politically Animated studies the convergence of animation and actuality within films, television series, and digital shorts from across the Spanish-speaking world. It interrogates the many ways in which animation as a stylistic tool and storytelling device participates in political projects underpinning an array of non-fiction works.
The case studies in the book cover a diverse geographical scope, including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. They critically analyse different works such as feature-length animated documentary films, a work of animated journalism, a short animated essay, and micro-short episodes from a televised animated documentary series. Jennifer Nagtegaal employs the term “politically animated” in reference to the ideological implications of choosing specific techniques and styles of animation within certain socio-historical and cultural contexts.
Nagtegaal illuminates the creative union of animated documentary and the comics medium currently being exploited by Spanish and Latin American cartoonists and filmmakers alike. By paying particular attention to cultural production beyond the big screen, Politically Animated continues to stretch the bounds of animated documentary scholarship.
Jennifer Nagtegaal is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic studies at the University of British Columbia.
December 2023
304 pages, 6 x 9
28 colour illustrations, 5 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4442-3
$90.00 (£59.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-4534-5
$90.00
Cultural Studies
Toronto Iberic
Beyond Human Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism
Edited by Maryanne L Leone and Shanna Lino
Beyond Human probes Spanish cultural production across hundreds of years to query the damaging ideologies and ecological practices that have perpetuated human and non-human suffering
Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of morethan-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene.
Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human/human dichotomy and nature/culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series.
By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.
Maryanne L. Leone is an associate professor of Spanish at Assumption University.
Shanna Lino is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at York University’s Glendon College.
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Pulcinella’s Brood Popular Culture in the Enlightenment
Narratology in Practice
Mieke Bal
Karen T . Raizen
Toronto Italian Studies
Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.
This book traces the transnational arc of the Neapolitan clown Pulcinella in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring how this unlikely hero and his brood engaged with questions that defined the Enlightenment in Europe .
Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Mieke Bal reduces narrative theory to simple definitions of the main concepts and demonstrates their relevance through brief essays on narrative aspects in visual, cinematic, argumentative, historical, and methodological texts.
Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dell’arte tradition, went viral in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was an unlikely hero, grotesque in his mannerisms, with a bulging belly, occasional hunchback, and an insatiable desire for macaroni. Still, this bulbous misfit took his place next to kings, caliphs, and intellectual heavyweights.
Written as a companion to Mieke Bal’s international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, where the examples focus almost exclusively on literary studies, this new book offers more elaborate analyses of visual media, especially visual art and film. Read independently or in parallel with its companion, Narratology in Practice enables readers to use the suggested concepts as tools to assist them in practising narrative analysis. Demonstrating that narrative is not bound to language and that it is present everywhere in modern culture, Narratology in Practice makes theory useful for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines.
Feeling Wayward
Wayward Feeling
Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in PostRainbow South Africa
Helene Strauss
African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.
CULTURAL
Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa’s colonial and apartheid histories continue to trail in their wake. Wayward Feeling reveals how racism, sexism, and other forms of structural disenfranchisement have continued to assert themselves in affective terms, and how these terms have been recast in spaces both public and intimate in “post-rainbow” times.
STUDIES
Mieke Bal is an award-winning cultural theorist, critic, video artist, curator, and professor of cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam.
Pulcinella’s Brood traces the transnational arc of the Enlightenment-era Pulcinella, from his native Naples to Paris, from Rome to London. The book explores how Pulcinella was inserted into discourses about social order, aesthetics, and politics – how he became a revolutionary, a critic of the Catholic Church, and a champion of education. It examines how Pulcinella, along with his transnational brood, was a constant, pervasive presence during the Enlightenment and a squeaky-voiced participant in the ideological and theoretical debates that defined the era.
October 2021
256 pages, 6 x 9
22 colour images, 10 black-and-white images
Exploring the diffusion of Italian popular comedy throughout Europe, Pulcinella’s Brood proposes that Pulcinella, a grotesque, food-obsessed clown, can be wielded as a historical disruptor and a rich and dynamic source for casting both the Enlightenment and our contemporary world in a different light.
Cloth 978-1-4426-5036-7
$70.00 (£46.99) A Paper 978-1-4426-2837-3
$32.95 (£21.99) X
eBook 978-1-4426-2292-0
Helene Strauss argues that the tension between aspiration and achievability has yielded modes of feeling that increasingly disrupt the thrall of post-apartheid nation-building and reconciliation myths, even as widespread attachment to the utopian ideals of the antiapartheid struggle continues to shape dissenting political organising and cultural production. Drawing on a variety of audio-visual forms – including video installations, conceptual artwork, documentary film, live art, and sonic installations – Wayward Feeling examines some of the affective resources that people in contemporary South Africa have been drawing on to make difficult lives more bearable.
$26.95 Cultural Studies
Karen T. Raizen is an assistant professor of Italian and music at Bard College.
November 2024
368 pages, 6 x 9
30 b&w illustrations, 7 b&w figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-5578-8
$90.00 (£59.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-5580-1
$90.00
Cultural Studies / Italian Studies
Helene Strauss is a professor in the Department of English at the University of the Free State.
March 2022
272 pages, 6 x 9 15 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-4058-6
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4060-9
$70.00
Cultural Studies
PULCINELLA’S BROOD Popular Culture in the Enlightenment
Mieke Bal
The Quest for Meaning
A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition
Marcel Danesi
The go-to introductory guide to semiotic theory and practice, this second edition features a new chapter on semiotics in the digital age and sheds light on how we grasp for meaning in the modern world
Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a “technique” and a “science” that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses signs, such as words and symbols, to think, communicate, reflect, transmit, and preserve knowledge.
Since the initial publication of The Quest for Meaning in 2007, the world has changed dramatically with the advent of online culture, new technologies, and new ways of making signs and symbols. Updated to reflect these many changes, the second edition includes a comprehensive chapter on the use of semiotics in the Internet age. Written in a student-friendly style, featuring examples from everyday life, the book explains what semiotics is all about and why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature.
Marcel Danesi is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2020 5 illustrations, 15 tables, 30 figures
Cloth 978-1-4875-0485-4
$80.00 (£59.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-2351-0
$34.95 (£26.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3103-4 $27.95 Cultural Studies
This highly original book addresses the under studied connection between food and authoritarian control during the Franco regime
Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early-Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating and thinking about food that privileged patriotism over personal desire. The author examines a diverse range of official and non-official food texts to highlight how discourse helped construct and contest identities in line with the three ideological pillars of the regime: autarky, prescriptive gender roles, and monolithic nationalism. Official food discourse produced an audience with a taste for local foodstuffs, and also created a unified gastronomic space in which regional cuisines were coopted for the purposes of culinary nationalism.
The author discusses a genre of official texts directed solely at women, which demanded women’s compliance and exclusive dedication to domesticity. Alongside such examples, Control and Resistance includes texts that offer resistance to the Franco hegemony. If the traditional view of food writing as connected to domesticity viewed such writing as apolitical, this book accordingly foregrounds food discourse as a place where identities were contested.
Lara Anderson is convenor of the Spanish & Latin American Studies program at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.
Can a work of art help us know our world differently? In this first scholarly study of Giuseppe Penone, art historian Elizabeth Mangini argues that the Italian artist’s engagement of the body’s multiple senses constitutes a new theory of sculpture as a means to connect with and know the phenomenal world. Through close readings of signal works across Penone’s five-decade career – from his emergence in the context of 1960s Arte Povera to his position as a preeminent contemporary artist today – Mangini demonstrates that Penone refuses modernist opticality, recasts artistic labour, and emphasizes a non-anthropocentric concept of time. By locating Penone’s art in its social context and connecting it to broader discourses about art’s status, theories of phenomenology, and the anthropocene, this book offers an original reading of Penone’s work, as well as a wider view to the artistic generation for whom sculpture was a means to probe the nature of experience itself at the dawn of postmodernism.
Elizabeth Mangini is an associate professor at California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
$65.00 (£48.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3693-0 $65.00 Art / Cultural Studies
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
Edited by Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
UCLA Clark Memorial Library
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.
In this edited collection, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evaluate the longoverlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century.
Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. The book argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia.
Clorinda Donato is a professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach.
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink is a senior professor in the Department of Romance Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at Saarland University.
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2021
7 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0890-6
$80.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3927-6 $80.00 Cultural Studies
ELIZABETH MANGINI
Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Staging the Absolute
Ritual in Russia’s Modern Era
Thomas Seifrid
Staging the Absolute examines the use of public ritual to interrupt the flow of history, a distinct element in Russian culture during the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries
Staging the Absolute argues that an array of practices and beliefs came together to define an essential aspect of Russian and Soviet culture in the twentieth century: the persistent desire to interrupt – or disrupt – history. Drawing on sources that define the nature of public rituals, the book reveals the pervasive presence of the impulse to impede history in Russia’s modern era and the realization of the idea in the form of the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s.
Thomas Seifrid analyses Soviet festivals, public displays of agitational propaganda, and urban planning, together with such modernist precursors as fin-de-siècle and early twentiethcentury projects for reviving the theatre, modernist adaptations of puppet theatre, the Faust legend and its vogue in early twentiethcentury Russia, and the nineteenth-century panorama. The book reveals that what binds these otherwise disparate phenomena together is a shared impatience with history and a corresponding desire to appropriate urban space. Illuminating the deeper meanings in these revived archaic forms, Staging the Absolute shows how pervasive the interest in disrupting history was in the Russian modern era.
Thomas Seifrid is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Southern California.
STAGING THE ABSOLUTE
February 2024
272 pages, 6 x 9 10 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5180-3
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5182-7
$80.00
Cultural Studies / Slavic Studies
By Rory Finnin
Ritual in Russia’s Modern Era
THOMAS SEIFRID
Theatre of Anger
Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
THEATRE OF Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
ANGER
Olivia Landry
Olivia Landry
German
and European Studies
Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks
In Theatre of Anger, Olivia Landry offers a provocative new vision of anger as more than just hate and violence. Studying the work of a new generation of transnational theatre practitioners in Berlin, she illuminates how anger can be an affirmative and critical tool in the project of social justice and resistance. To develop her theory of anger, Landry delves into philosophical texts, theatre history, and Black feminist theory, from Aristotle, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Bertolt Brecht to Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Sara Ahmed.
Landry focuses not only on the social and political significance of the theatre of anger and the ways in which it rages against racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, and homophobia but also on its aesthetic and theoretical innovation. Through readings of key works, Theatre of Anger asks what it means in our present world to construct political theatre.
Olivia Landry is an assistant professor of German at Lehigh University.
Approx. 256 pp./ 6 x 9 / February 2021
8 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0769-5
$75.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3676-3 $75.00 German Studies / Cultural Studies
Revolutionary Visions
Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
Stephanie Pridgeon Latinoamericana
Revolutionary Visions traces the emergence of a growing corpus of Latin American films that explore the legacy of Jewish encounters with revolutionary political movements in 1960s and 1970s Latin America
The first book in a new series focused on all aspects of Latin American literature, history, and culture, Revolutionary Visions examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements. The book bridges critical theory on religion, politics, and hegemony from regional Latin American, national, and global perspectives. Placing these theories in dialogue with recent films, the author asks the following questions: How did revolutionary commitment change Jewish community and families in twentieth-century Latin America? How did Jews contribute to revolutionary causes, and what is the place of Jews in the legacies of revolutionary movements? How is film used to project self-representations of Jewish communities in the national project for a mainstream audience? Jewish involvement in revolutionary movements is rife with contradictions. These contradictions between Jewish selfidentification and revolutionary activity continue to confound cultural understandings between identities and political affinities. In this way, Revolutionary Visions contributes to timely debates within cultural studies surrounding identities and politics.
Stephanie Pridgeon is an assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Approx. 224 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021
Cloth 978-1-4875-0814-2
$50.00 (£37.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3765-4 $50.00
Cultural Studies / Latin American Studies
The Akunin Project
The Mysteries and Histories of Russia’s Bestselling Author
Edited by Elena V . Baraban and Stephen M Norris
You may not know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century .
The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Chkhartishvili published over sixty books under pen names, most commonly Boris Akunin. His series featuring the tsarist secret policeman Erast Fandorin has sold over 15 million books in Russia alone, making Akunin one of the bestselling authors of the post-Soviet era. Akunin’s public profile has been further enhanced by his active involvement in mass political protests against Vladimir Putin.
Despite Akunin’s international reputation as a celebrated writer, there is very little critical work on his literary output and his mysterious persona. The Akunin Project fills this gap by exploring the author’s bestselling adventure novels and recent histories of the Russian state. The book includes translations of five short works previously unavailable in English as well as an interview with the author.
Elena V Baraban is an associate professor of Russian in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Stephen M Norris is Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio.
This book examines the uses of conspiracy tropes in postSoviet culture, providing a systematic, in-depth analysis of Russia’s most “paranoid” contemporary authors
Contemporary Russia stand s apart as one of the most prolific generators of conspiracy theories and paranoid rhetoric.
Conspiracy Culture traces the roots of the phenomenon within the sphere of culture and history, examining the long arc of Russian paranoia from the present moment back to earlier nineteenth-century sources, such as Dostoevsky’s anti-nihilist novel Demons
Conspiracy Culture examines the use of conspiracy tropes by contemporary Russian authors and filmmakers including the postmodernist writer Viktor Pelevin, the conservative author and pundit Aleksandr Prokhanov, and the popular director Timur Bekmambetov. It also explores paranoia as an instrument within contemporary Russian political rhetoric as well as in Russian pseudo-historical works.
Keith A Livers is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0737-4
$75.00 (£56.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-3612-1 $75.00
Literary Studies / Slavic Studies
Ariosto in the Machine Age
Alessandro Giammei
Toronto Italian Studies
Ariosto in the Machine Age reimagines reception theory through the modern afterlife of a Renaissance literary icon
Ariosto in the Machine Age reveals how the most influential poet of the Renaissance was conjured or appropriated to shape magical realism, avant-garde painting, Fascist cultural propaganda, and cinema in modern Italy between the birth of Futurism and the end of World War II.
Based on substantial archival findings, bold iconographic hypotheses, and novel interpretations of literary texts, the book proposes a new account of Italy’s twentieth-century culture through a unique take on Ludovico Ariosto’s early modern poetics and legacy. Starting from the unexpected passéism of Futurists visiting Ferrara on the eve of World War I, it re-reads the development of Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Art and Massimo Bontempelli’s Realismo Magico. The book reconstructs the multimedia archive of the Fascist initiatives for the centennial anniversary of Ariosto’s death in 1933, and then focuses on the passage between Fascist cinema and the birth of Neorealism, unearthing unfinished adaptations of the Orlando Furioso by Luchino Visconti and Alessandro Blasetti. Questioning the very concept of reception, this radically interdisciplinary book warns twenty-first-century readers about the risks of monumentalizing the “great authors” of the past.
Alessandro Giammei is an assistant professor of Italian studies at Yale University.
All rights available except Italian
Of related interest: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo: Joseph Tusiani’s Classic Translation
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Edited by Gianluca Rizzo
Translated by Joseph
978-1-4875-4362-4
January 2024
464 pages, 6 x 9
104 colour illustrations, 31 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4679-3
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4680-9
$95.00
Literary Studies
Tusiani
Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians
The Story of Books in Modern Spain
Robert Richmond Ellis
Toronto Iberic
Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians delves into the practice of bibliophilia – the love of books – and the many ways in which books are represented in modern Spanish literature.
The word “bibliophilia” indicates a love of books, both as texts to be read and objects to be cherished for their physical qualities. Throughout the history of Iberian print culture, bibliophiles have attempted to explain the psychological experiences of reading and collecting books, as well as the social and economic conditions of book production.
Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians analyses Spanish bibliophiles who catalogue, organize, and archive books, as well as the publishers, artists, and writers who create them. Robert Richmond Ellis examines how books are represented in modern Spanish writing and how Spanish bibliophiles reflect on the role of books in their lives and in the histories and cultures of modern Spain. Through the combined approaches of literary studies, book history, and the book arts, Ellis argues that two strains of Spanish bibliophilia coalesce in the modern period: one that envisions books as a means of achieving personal fulfilment, and another that engages with politics and uses books to affirm linguistic, cultural, and regional and national identities.
Robert Richmond Ellis is the Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish at Occidental College.
February 2022
320 pages, 6 x 9
12 colour images
Cloth 978-1-4875-4236-8
$80.00 (£52.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-4238-2
$80.00
Literary Studies
BARCELONA, City of Margins
Barcelona, City of Margins
Olga Sendra Ferrer Toronto Iberic
Barcelona, City of Margins considers the impact of narrative and photography in the construction of urban space and social movements in Francoist Spain.
Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent during the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements in the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. This space of dissent took shape in the margins of what is considered the official space of the city of Barcelona, revealing the interconnection of urbanism, literature, and photography in the formation of the political, social, and cultural movements to come in the 1970s.
Olga Sendra Ferrer draws from theoretical readings on built environments, neighbourhoods, housing projects and developments, and everyday life within Spanish urban spaces. Literature and photography demonstrate the political value of cultural production and forms of cultural representation that originate from peripheral zones – those pushed aside by exclusionary politics, fascist forms of control, surveillance, and homogenization.
In search of the origins of the protest movements and counter culture that would come in the final years of the Franco regime, Barcelona, City of Margins asserts the value of urban movement and cultural practice as a challenge to the spatial and urbanistic regime of Francoism.
Olga Sendra Ferrer is an assistant professor of Spanish at Wesleyan University.
Bridging East and West explores the literary evolution of one of Ukraine’s foremost modernist writers, Ol’ha Kobylians’ka, who was a major contributor in the intellectual debates of her time
Investigating themes of feminism, populism, Nietzscheanism, nationalism, and fascism in the works of Ol’ha Kobylians’ka, this study presents an alternative intellectual genealogy in turn-of-the-century European arts and letters whose implications reach far beyond the field of Ukrainian studies. Rather than repeating various narratives about modernism as a radical response to nineteenth-century bourgeois culture or an aesthetic of fragmentation, this study highlights the aesthetic and philosophical fissures and fusions inherent to turn-of-the-century thought. For feminist scholars, Bridging East and West makes accessible a thorough account of a central, yet overlooked, woman writer who served as a model and a contributor within a major cultural tradition.
Yuliya V Ladygina is an assistant professor in the Department of German and Russian at Pennsylvania State University.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / September 2019
10 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4426-3077-2
$85.00 (£57.99) A eBook 978-1-4426-3075-8 $85.00
Literary Studies / Slavic Studies
Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary
From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan
Oleksandra
Wallo
By writing of Ukrainian national identity from a woman-centred perspective, female authors from the last Soviet generation established themselves as authoritative critics of their culture .
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian literary world has not only experienced a true blossoming of women’s prose, but has also witnessed a number of female authors assume the roles of literary trend-setters and authoritative critics of their culture. In this first in-depth study of how Ukrainian women’s prose writing was able to re-emerge so powerfully after being marginalized in the Soviet era, Oleksandra Wallo examines the writings and literary careers of leading contemporary Ukrainian women authors, such as Oksana Zabuzhko, Ievheniia Kononenko, and Maria Matios. Her study shows how these women reshaped literary culture with their contributions to the development of the Ukrainian national imaginary in the wake of the Soviet state’s disintegration.
Oleksandra Wallo is an assistant professor of Ukrainian at the University of Kansas.
Approx. 232 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0600-1
$70.00 (£47.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3310-6 $70.00
Literary Studies / Slavic Studies
YULIYA V. LADYGINA
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain
Edited by Susan Larson Toronto Iberic
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain examines the evolution of domestic space through an analysis of the media-driven concept of comfort .
Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour.
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home. It explores how the collective experience of domestic space has been shaped by government ideologues, technocrats, and artists as well as workingand middle-class Spaniards since the late nineteenth century. The book focuses on the social and cultural meanings of domestic space in ways that invite us to cross boundaries between private and public, the particular and the general, the local and the global, and to pay attention to the role of the cultural imagination in making a house into a home.
Considering a wide variety of voices and perspectives that have resulted in new ideas about how to inhabit domestic space, Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to illuminate the cultural history of everyday life.
Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Chair of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University.
July 2024
400 pages, 6 x 9
44 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w table
Cloth 978-1-4875-2910-9
$100.00 (£65.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2912-3
$100.00
Literary Studies / Cultural Studies
CARTOGRAPHIES
Cartographies of Disappearance Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature
Enric Bou
Toronto Iberic
Cartographies of Disappearance sheds light on representations of everyday life in an Iberian context
The everyday can be defined as the routine that happens day after day and becomes our most permanent reality. It is made up of different identifiable areas of life, such as the home, the street, the subway, the park, the workplace, and local institutions. Focusing on literary texts and artistic forms, Cartographies of Disappearance addresses representations of everyday life from varying perspectives.
Opening our eyes to a new understanding of our daily environment, the book presents detailed readings of texts, practices, and mythologies of everyday life within Spanish and Catalan culture. Enric Bou examines how and to what extent issues of identity, space, memory, and immigration have impacted everyday life in Spain. The book explores five major instances of representing the everyday in literature and the arts: routines and disappearances, observations of the nearby, the uses of public transportation, thanatourism, and food.
Acknowledging that the everyday is a matter of study and observation, the book reveals how to look at the world from a different perspective. While the everyday is filled with the unorganized accumulation of objects and beings, Cartographies of Disappearance addresses the inclination to make sense of it all.
October 2024
320 pages, 6 x 9
13 colour illustrations, 2 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5467-5
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5469-9
$80.00
Literary Studies
All rights available except Catalan
Enric Bou is a professor of Iberian studies at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
ENRIC BOU
Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature OF DISAPPEARANCE
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Joseph Tusiani’s Classic Translation
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Translated by Joseph Tusiani
Edited by Gianluca Rizzo
Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani’s classic translation of Michelangelo’s poetry .
Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature.
In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered the first English translations of the complete corpus of Michelangelo’s poems. These translations illuminated the subtleties of both the source and target language, giving Michelangelo’s verse a freshness, a depth, and an inventiveness that time has not been able to obscure.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo reproduces Tusiani’s masterful translation. In addition to Tusiani’s introduction and translations, this new edition contains Michelangelo’s original Italian poetry, a chronology of his life and works, a biographical profile of Tusiani, and an interview with Tusiani exploring his musings on classic literature and the subtle art of translation.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo sheds light on Tusiani’s many exceptional accomplishments during his long and prolific life as a scholar, poet, translator, and artist.
December 2022
400 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth 978-1-4875-4361-7
$95.00 (£62.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-4362-4
$39.95 (£26.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4363-1
$39.95
Literary Studies
Michelangelo Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
Joseph Tusiani was a professor emeritus at the Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York.
Gianluca Rizzo is the Paul D. and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Colby College.
By Giacomo da Lentini
Introduction by Akash Kumar
Translated with commentary by Richard Lansing 978-1-4875-2286-5
Giacomo da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini
Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond
Kathleen Ann Myers, Beth T Boyd, Pablo García Loaeza, Cara Anne Kinnally, and Alejandro Mejías-López
With an introduction by Justin Knight
Latinoamericana
Shedding light on historical moments and geographic locations, this book explores coloniality and its legacies in contemporary Mexico
Contemporary Colonialities in Mexico and Beyond explores the changing dynamic of coloniality by focusing on how modern cultural products connect to the foundational structures of colonialism. The book examines how these structures have perpetuated discourses of racial, ethnic, gender, and social exclusion rooted in Mexico’s history. Given the intimate relationship between coloniality and modernity, the volume addresses three central questions: How does the Mexican colonial history influence the definition of Mexico from within and outside its borders? What issues rooted in coloniality recur over time and space? And finally, how do cultural products provide a concrete and tangible way of studying coloniality, its history, and its evolution?
The book analyses how literary works, movies, television series, and social media posts reconfigure colonial difference and spatialization. Supported by careful historical and cultural contextualization, these analyses will allow readers to appreciate contemporary Mexico vis-à-vis culture and borderland issues in the United States and debates on imperial memory in Spain.
Kathleen Ann Myers is a professor of Spanish and History at Indiana University.
Beth T. Boyd is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University.
Pablo García Loaeza is a professor of Spanish at West Virginia University.
Cara Anne Kinnally is an associate professor of Spanish at Purdue University.
Alejandro Mejías-López is an associate professor of Spanish at Indiana University.
Justin Knight holds a PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington and is on faculty at the St. Paul’s Schools in Brooklandville, Maryland.
COLONIALITIES IN MEXICO & BEYOND CONTEMPORARY
March 2024
304 pages, 6 x 9
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Kathleen Ann Myers
Beth T. Boyd
Pablo García Loaeza
Cara Anne Kinnally and Alejandro Mejías-López
Introduction by Justin Knight
Courting Celebrity
The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini
Translated, Edited, and Introduced by
Adrienne Ward and Irene Zanini-Cordi
Toronto Italian Studies
This is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italian women poets .
In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by improvising, writing, and publishing her own lyrics.
Courting Celebrity is a bilingual annotated edition of Veronese’s autobiography. To better elucidate Veronese’s thinking, the book includes the autobiographical writing of another contemporary Italian poet, Teresa Bandettini, a wellknown Tuscan poet-improviser. The book offers a substantial sample of Veronese’s poems, translated and in the original. These compositions, together with detailed bibliographical documentation, point to the success of Veronese’s autobiographical enterprise and offer an unparalleled view of both high society and popular culture at the time. In doing so, this text illustrates women’s practice in two key literary genres, poetry and autobiography, and illuminates the strategies of women’s self-fashioning and pursuit of celebrity.
Adrienne Ward is an associate professor emerita of Italian at the University of Virginia.
Irene Zanini-Cordi is an associate professor of Italian at Florida State University.
Courting Celebrity
Of related interest: Sarra Copia Sulam: A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in CounterReformation Venice By Lynn Lara Westwater 978-1-4875-0583-7
April 2023
320 pages, 6 x 9 6 b&w illustrations
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Translated, Edited, and Introduced by Adrienne Ward and Irene Zanini-Cordi
The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini
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Being Poland
Critical Alliances
Mavis Gallant
A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918
Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914
The Eye and the Ear
CRITICAL ALLIANCES
Edited by Tamara
S Brooke Cameron
Being Poland
This study argues that feminist collaboration was vital to women’s successful infiltration of the marketplace at the end of the nineteenth century
Trojanowska, Joanna Nizynska, and Przemysław Czaplinski, with the assistance of Agnieszka Polakowska New in Paperback
Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland’s return to independence
Critical Alliances argues that late-Victorian and Modernist feminist authors saw in literary representations of female collaboration an opportunity to produce new gender and economic roles for women. It is not often that one thinks of female allegiances – such as kinship networks, cultural inheritance, or lesbian marriage – as influencing the marketplace; nor does one often think of economic models when theorizing feminist cooperation. S. Brooke Cameron suggests that, through their representations of female partnership, feminist authors such as Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner, George Egerton, Amy Levy, and Michael Field redefined the gendered marketplace and, with it, women’s professional opportunities.
Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.
Interdisciplinary at its core and using a contextual approach, Critical Alliances selects cultural texts and theories relevant to each writer’s particular intervention in the marketplace. Chapters look at how different forms of feminist collaboration enabled women to stake their claim to one of the many, emergent professions at the turn of the century.
Marta Dvorák
Endowed with insights, Marta Dvorák sets up a trailblazing connection between Mavis Gallant’s dazzling writing and the whole spectrum of the arts .
S Brooke Cameron is an assistant professor in the English Department at Queen’s University.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2019
Cloth 978-1-4426-3755-9
Tamara Trojanowska is Director for the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, and an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Toronto. Joanna Nizynska is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. Przemysław Czaplinski is a professor of Polish literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. Agnieszka Polakowska works as an editor and a translator (Polish to English). Her past projects include academic essay collections, articles, doctoral dissertations, and personal memoirs.
Repositioning Mavis Gallant as a late modernist figure, this book interrogates the Paris-based Canadian expatriate at the juncture of multiple, transnational interacting fields. Marta Dvorák draws on private correspondence and conversations with the Gallant who loved pictures, films, and music to examine the writer’s relations with the arts. Deploying philosophical aesthetics, Dvorák identifies the formal painterly, cinematic, and musical dynamics which light up Gallant’s writing. Dvorák opens a dialogue between Gallant and other international modernists, and also with those they were reading, watching, and listening to. These range from the moving pictures which shaped her generation to the rhythm and dissonance of modernist compositions and jazz, which – like the Cubist rupture with academic spatial perspective – spearheaded modernity’s aesthetics of dislocation. How does Gallant’s work work? The analogies drawn between Gallant and certain European filmmakers provide a visual key to the writer’s sleights-of-hand and tonal shifts. Through hands-on analyses focusing on the eye and the ear, Dvorák investigates the osmosis between Gallant’s texts and both music and visual culture.
Marta Dvorák was born in Budapest, raised in Canada, and appointed professor of Canadian and World Literatures at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she became close to Mavis Gallant.
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MAVIS GALLANT
The Eye and the Ear
Marta Dvořák
Edited by Tamara Trojanowska
Niżyńska
Digital Encounters
Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production
Edited by Cecily Raynor and Rhian Lewis
Latinoamericana
Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.
To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cultural production.
Drawing on a spectrum of case studies, the contributors to this volume examine literature, art, and political activism as they dialogue with programming languages, social media platforms, online publishing, and geospatial metadata. Implicit within these connections are questions of power, privilege, and stratification. The book critically examines issues of inequitable access and data privacy, technology’s capacity to divide people from one another, and the digital space as a site of racialized and gendered violence.
Through an expansive approach to the study of connectivity, Digital Encounters illustrates how new connections – between analog and digital, human and machine, print text and pixel –alter representations of self, Other, and world.
Cecily Raynor is an assistant professor of Hispanic Studies and Digital Humanities at McGill University.
Rhian Lewis is an M.A. candidate in Anthropology at McGill University.
Of related interest: Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
By Stephanie Pridgeon
978-1-4875-0814-2
The Discerning Narrator
Conrad, Aristotle, and Modernity
Alexia Hannis
This book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens
The Discerning Narrator sheds new light on Joseph Conrad’s controversial critique of modernity and modernization by reading his work through an Aristotelian lens. The book proposes that we need Aristotle – a key figure in Conrad’s education – to recognize the profound significance of Conrad’s artistic vision.
Offering Aristotelian analyses of Conrad’s letters, essays, and four works of fiction, Alexia Hannis illuminates the philosophical roots and literary implications of Conrad’s critique of modernity. Hannis turns to Aristotle’s ethical formulations to trace what she calls “the discerning narrator” in Conrad’s oeuvre: a compassionate yet sceptical guide to appraising character and conduct. The book engages with past and current Conrad scholarship while drawing from Aristotle’s Poetics, Politics, and Nicomachean Ethics, as well as classical scholars to offer original philosophical analyses of Conrad’s major and understudied works.
Drawing on Aristotle, Hannis provides a fresh context for making sense of Conrad’s self-differentiation from modernity. As a result, The Discerning Narrator provides an affirmation of literature’s invitation to wonder about the possibilities inherent in human nature, including the potential for painful depravity, heroic excellence, and ordinary human happiness.
Alexia Hannis teaches at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and the University of Guelph-Humber, and she is a writing tutor at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
THE DISCERNING NARRATOR CONRAD, ARISTOTLE, AND MODERNITY
Of related interest: Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
By Taran Kang
978-1-4875-2907-9
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ALEXIA HANNIS
Dostoevsky at 200
The Novel in Modernity
Edited by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland
Reconsidering Dostoevsky’s legacy 200 years after his birth, this collection addresses how and why his novels contribute so much to what we think of as the modern condition.
Marking the bicentenary of Dostoevsky’s birth, Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity takes the writer’s art – specifically the tension between experience and formal representation – as its central theme. While many critical approaches to Dostoevsky’s works are concerned with spiritual and philosophical dilemmas, this volume focuses instead on questions of design and narrative to explore Dostoevsky and the novel from a multitude of perspectives.
Contributions situate Dostoevsky’s formal choices of narrative, plot, genre, characterization, and the novel itself within modernity and consider how the experience of modernity led to Dostoevsky’s particular engagement with form. Of interest not just to readers and scholars of Russian literature, but also to those interested in the genre of the novel more broadly, Dostoevsky at 200 is pathbreaking in its approach to the question of Dostoevsky’s contribution to the novel as a form.
Katherine Bowers is an associate professor in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Kate Holland is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2021
Cloth 978-1-4875-0863-0
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The Language of Trauma
War and Technology in
My Karst and My City and Other Essays
Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka
Scipio Slataper
John Zilcosky
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Elena Coda Translated by Nicholas Benson and Elena Coda
The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century
Richly nuanced and firmly grounded in literature, biography, and history, this book analyses three major central European writers, revealing how they incorporated and responded to psychological and historical trauma.
From the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of the First World War, writers tried to give voice to the suffering they witnessed. Yet they, like the doctors who treated the victims, repeatedly ran up against the incapacity of language to describe such anguish; those who suffered trauma, those who tried to heal it, and those who represented it could not find the words. The Language of Trauma uncovers the hidden reaction of three major central European writers – Franz Kafka, Hoffmann, and Sigmund Freud – to the birth of modern trauma in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Scipio Slataper is one of the most prominent writers from the Italian town of Trieste. Much of Slataper’s oeuvre is highly influenced by Trieste’s cultural complexity and its multi-ethnic environment.
Slataper’s major literary achievement, My Karst and My City – a fictionalized, lyrical autobiography, translated here in its entirety – offers a unique example of an Italian modernist narrative, a narrative that is influenced both by Slataper’s collaboration with the Florentine journal La Voce and by the Germanic and Scandinavian literature that he absorbed while living in Trieste. My Karst and My City, together with the excerpts from his reflections on Ibsen and other critical essays included here, adds a new voice and a different dimension to our understanding of European modernism.
Zilcosky makes the case that Kafka, Hoffmann, and Freud managed to find the language of trauma precisely by not attempting to name it conclusively and instead allowing their writing to mimic the experience itself. He places trauma where it belongs: at the heart of both medicine’s diagnostic predicament and modern literature’s most daring experiments.
John Zilcosky is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 156 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021 10 illustrations
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Scipio Slataper (1888–1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste. Elena Coda is the associate head of the School of Languages and Cultures and an associate professor of Italian at Purdue University.
$70.00 (£52.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-0942-2
Nicholas Benson is a translator.
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Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021
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Literary Studies
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Literary Studies / Italian Studies
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JOHN ZILCOSKY
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator
Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600–1800
sovereignty, power structures, and the emergent public sphere
The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator, who – in the course of the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth centuries –became central to society, politics, and culture. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon.
While a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time.
Tatiana Korneeva is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität, Berlin.
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2019
Cloth 978-1-4875-0535-6
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Pushkin’s Monument
Poem, Statue, Performance
Sidney Eric Dement
This book is the first aesthetic analysis of Russia’s most famous monument to her greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin
In August of 1836 Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as “Monument.” In the decades following his death, the poem “Monument” was transformed into a statue in central Moscow: The Pushkin Monument. At its dedication in 1880, the interaction between the verbal text and the visual monument established a creative dynamic that subsequent generations of artists and thinkers amplified through the use of allusion, the aesthetic device by which writers reference select elements of cultural history to enrich the meaning of their new creation and invite their reader into a shared experience of a tradition. By the twentieth century, both writers and readers negotiated increasingly complex allusions not only to Pushkin’s poem, but to its statuesque form in Moscow. As the population of newly literate Russians grew throughout the twentieth century, images of the future poet and the naive reader became crucial signifiers of the most meaningful allusions to the Pushkin Monument. Because of this, the story of Pushkin’s Monument is also the story of cultural memory and the aesthetic problems that accompany a cultural history that grows ever longer as it moves into the future.
Sidney Eric Dement is an assistant professor in the Department of German and Russian Studies at Binghamton University.
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2019
9 illustrations
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Extraordinary Aesthetes
Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
Edited by Joseph Bristow
UCLA Clark Memorial Library
Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century
The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn toward modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and novelists made to the cultural world of the late 1880s and 1890s. The essays illuminate a range of established, increasingly acknowledged, and lesser-known figures whose contributions to this brief but remarkably intense cultural period warrant close attention. Such figures include the critically neglected Mabel Dearmer, whose stunning illustrations appear in Evelyn Sharp’s radical fairy tales for children. Equally noteworthy is the uncompromising short fiction of Ella D’Arcy, who played a pivotal role in editing the most famous journal of the 1890s, the Yellow Book. The discussion extends to a range of legendary writers, including Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, and W.B. Yeats, whose works are placed in dialogue with authors who gained prominence during this period. Bringing women’s writing to the fore, Extraordinary Aesthetes rebalances the achievements of artists and writers during the rapidly transforming cultural world of the fin de siècle.
Joseph Bristow is a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
June 2023
376 pages, 6 x 9
30 colour illustrations, 20 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4608-3
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4609-0
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Literary Studies
Vergil and Elegy
Edited by Alison Keith and Micah Y . Myers
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
This collection explores Vergil’s engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions, and historical periods
Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and meters into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poetlover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work.
This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil’s multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil’s interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil’s hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil’s radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet’s wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.
Alison Keith is a professor of classics and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.
Micah Y. Myers is an associate professor of classics at Kenyon College.
April 2023
456 pages, 6 x 9
3 b&w Illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4795-0
$115.00 (£75.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4796-7
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Literary Studies
FINNEGANS WAKES
TALES OF TRANSLATION
PATRICK O’NEILL
Finnegans Wakes
Tales of Translation
Patrick O’Neill
In this unique book, Patrick O’Neill charts the international history of translations of the untranslatable Finnegans Wake.
James Joyce’s astonishing final text, Finnegans Wake (1939), is universally acknowledged to be entirely untranslatable. And yet, no fewer than fifteen complete renderings of the 628-page text exist to date, in twelve different languages altogether – and at least ten further complete renderings have been announced as underway for publication in the early 2020s, in nine different languages.
Finnegans Wakes delineates, for the first time in any language, the international history of these renderings and discusses the multiple issues faced by translators. The book also comments on partial and fragmentary renderings from some thirty languages altogether, including such perhaps unexpected languages as Galician, Guarani, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Irish, not to mention Latin and Ancient Egyptian. Excerpts from individual renderings are analysed in detail, together with brief biographical notes on numerous individual translators.
Chronicling renderings spanning multiple decades, Finnegans Wakes illustrates the capacity of Joyce’s final text to generate an inexhaustible multiplicity of possible meanings among the ever-increasing number of its impossible translations.
Patrick O’Neill is a professor emeritus in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s University.
February 2022
384 pages, 6 x 9
1 black-and-white image
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$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4201-6
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Literary Studies
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
Taran Kang
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores literary representations of evil, pursuing the points of intersection between aesthetics and morality.
How do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil?
In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil , Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts.
Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as it questions recent calls to “de-aestheticize” evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil’s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the “evil genius,” the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who behold scenes of suffering and acts of transgression. In grappling with these issues, Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil questions the feasibility and desirability of insulating the moral from the aesthetic.
Taran Kang is an assistant professor of Humanities at YaleNUS College.
February 2022
216 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-2907-9
$60.00 (£39.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2909-3
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Literary Studies
FOOD AND EMOTIONS IN ITALIAN WOMEN'S WRITING
A Reassessment
Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing A Reassessment
Patrizia Sambuco
Toronto Italian Studies
Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing analyses the themes of food and emotion in fiction, poetry, and historical writing by Italian women over a period of one hundred years
Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing discusses the relevance of food imaginaries in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women’s history and creativity. In this groundbreaking work, Patrizia Sambuco shows how food imaginaries in different historical periods challenge established political discourses by conveying unexpressed, alternative, or transgressive emotions. Through literary analysis, archival research, and philosophical approaches to the senses, emotions, and food, the book considers a variety of authors, from the celebrated to the hardly known. Sambuco argues that in different ways, throughout the decades, the conceptual domain of food has helped express forms of selfhood that push the boundaries of womanhood and interact with cultural and political panoramas at national and international levels. Building an alternative history of Italian women and their creativity, Sambuco shows how the interplay of the senses and emotions becomes a profitable way to illuminate overlooked aspects of women’s subjectivity. Food and Emotions in Italian Women’s Writing ultimately reassesses women’s writing, giving value to the marginality of women’s bodies and positions through the conceptual domain of food.
Patrizia Sambuco is the editor of Transmissions of Memory and Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000 and the author of Corporeal Bonds.
December 2024
224 pages, 6 x 9
7 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0683-4
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3493-6
$70.00
Literary Studies / Italian Studies
Gothic Italy Crime,
Science, and Literature after Unification, 1861–1914
Stefano Serafini
Toronto
Italian Studies
Gothic Italy explores how the Gothic permeated and shaped the project of nation-building in the aftermath of Italy’s unification
The Gothic, proliferating across different literary, sociocultural, and scientific spaces, permeated and influenced the project of Italian nation-building, casting a dark and pervasive shadow on Italian history. Gothic Italy explores the nuances, contradictions, and implications of the conflict between what the Gothic embodies in post-unification Italy and the values that a supposedly secular, modern country tries to uphold and promote. The book analyses a variety of literary works concerned with crime that tapped into fears relating to contagion, race, and class fluidity; deviant minds and abnormal sexuality; female transgression; male performativity; and the instability of the new body politic. By tracing how writers, scientists, and thinkers engaged with these issues, Gothic Italy unveils the mutual network of exchanges that informed national discourses about crime. Stefano Serafini brings attention to a historical moment that was crucial to the development of modern attitudes towards normality and deviance, which continue to circulate widely and still resonate disturbingly in contemporary society.
Stefano Serafini is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Padua.
November 2024
224 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-5863-5
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5865-9
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Literary Studies
PATRIZIA SAMBUCO
Toronto Iberic
God Made Word An Archaeology of Mystic Discourse in Early Modern Spain
Dale Shuger
God Made Word is an interdisciplinary study of mystic language across multiple genres and institutional contexts in early modern Spain .
The Golden Age of Spanish mysticism has traditionally been read in terms of individual authors or theological traditions. God Made Word , however, considers early modern Spanish mysticism as a question of language and as a discourse that circulated in concrete social, institutional, and geographic spaces.
Proposing a new reading of early modern Spanish mysticism, God Made Word traces the struggles over the representation of interiorized spiritual union – the tension between making it known and conveying its unknowability – far beyond the usual canon of mystic literature. Dale Shuger combines a study of genres that have traditionally been the object of literary study, including poetry, theatre, and autobiography, with a language-based analysis of other areas that have largely been studied by historians and theologians. Arguing that these generic separations grew out of an increasing preoccupation with the cultivation and control of interiorized spirituality, God Made Word shows that by tracing certain mystic representations we come to understand the emergence of different discursive rules and expectations for a wide range of representations of the ineffable.
Dale Shuger is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University.
June 2022
368 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-2880-5
$90.00 (£59.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-2882-9
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Literary Studies
Blood Novels
Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism
Julia H . Chang
Toronto Iberic
Blood Novels examines the significance of women’s blood and bloodlines in nineteenthcentury Spanish literature and culture, advancing the study of gender in modern Iberian studies
In the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of their fiction.
Blood Novels examines the cultural and literary significance of blood, unsettling the dominant assumption of the period that blood no longer plays a decisive role in social hierarchies. By examining fictional works through the rubric of “blood novels,” Julia H. Chang identifies a shared fascination with blood that probes the limits of realism through blood’s dual nature of matter and metaphor. Situating the literature within broader cultural and theoretical debates, Blood Novels attends to the aesthetic contours of material blood and in particular how bleeding is inflected by gender, caste, and race.
Critically engaging with feminist theory, theories of race and whiteness, literary criticism, and medical literature, this innovative study makes a case for treating blood not only as a critical analytic tool that sheds new light on Spanish realism but, more broadly, one that challenges our understanding of gendered and racialized embodiment in Spain.
Julia H. Chang is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies and a member of the core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
August 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4301-3
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4302-0
$70.00
Literary Studies
DALE SHUGER GOD MADE WORD An Archaeology of Mystic Discourse in Early Modern Spain
JULIA H. CHANG
Heroic Awe
The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic
Kelly Lehtonen
Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry
During the Renaissance, the most renowned model of epic poetry was Virgil’s Aeneid , a poem promoting an influential concept of heroism based on the commitment to one’s nation and gods. However, Longinus’s theory of the sublime – newly recovered during the Renaissance – contradicted this absolute devotion to nation as a marker of religious piety. Heroic Awe explores how Renaissance epic poetry used the sublime to challenge the assumption that epic heroism was primarily about civic duty and glorification of state.
The book demonstrates how the significant investment of Renaissance epic poetry in Longinus’s theory of the sublime reshaped the genre of epic. To do so, Kelly Lehtonen examines the intersection between the Longinian sublime and early modern Protestant and Catholic discourses in Renaissance poems such as the Gerusalemme Liberata , Les Semaines , The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost. In illuminating the role of Longinus along with that of religious discourses, Heroic Awe offers a new perspective on epic heroism in Renaissance epic poetry, redefining heroism as the capacity to be overwhelmed emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually by encounters with divine glory. In considering the links between religion, the sublime, and epic, the book aims to shed new light on several core topics in early modern studies, including epic heroism, Renaissance philosophy, theories of emotion, and the psychology of religion.
Kelly Lehtonen is an assistant professor of English at The King’s College in New York City.
December 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9 2 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4536-9
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4539-0
$70.00
Literary Studies / Renaissance Studies
David Gay
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The English Reformation in the Spanish Imagination Rewriting
Nero, Jezebel, and the Dragon
Deborah R Forteza
Toronto Iberic
This pioneering comparative study of Spanish literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries represents key moments and figures of the English Reformation .
The English Reformation in the Spanish Imagination examines early modern Spanish literary works that represent English Catholics and figures from the English Reformation, including Henry and Elizabeth Tudor, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Sir Francis Drake, and Mary Stuart. Deborah R. Forteza compares these texts to assess how rhetorical and genre distinctions open and constrain the Spanish representations and how these exchanges inform AngloSpanish perceptions and relations.
The book focuses on the literary representation of characters as classical and biblical monsters and saints and considers how these images were transformed and deployed in lesser-known poems, plays, and novels in order to capture the Spanish imagination. Through these sources, Forteza reveals the complex fraternal and antagonistic links between England and Spain.
In examining the works that shaped Spain’s view of England at the time, The English Reformation in the Spanish Imagination demonstrates the importance of transnational study and why it is essential for a more nuanced understanding of Spanish literature.
Deborah R. Forteza is an assistant professor of Spanish at Covenant College.
May 2022
248 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-6350-9
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-6352-3
$65.00
Literary Studies
Imagined Truths
Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
IMAGINED TRUTHS
Edited by Mary L Coffey and Margot Versteeg
Toronto Iberic
The essays in Imagined Truths provide an analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism
Bringing together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, this collection offers new approaches to literary and cultural criticism and reveals how Spanish realism, far from being imitative of other European movements, engaged in complex and modern concepts of representation and mimesis. Imagined Truths acknowledges the critical importance of women writers and contemporary approaches to questions of gender. The essays address the impact of economics on our perceptions of reality and our constructions of everyday life, and they argue for the importance of emotions in the social construction of individual identity. Most importantly, they also acknowledge the post-imperial turn in literary studies. Addressing a broad range of authors, works, and topics, from the continued relevance of Cervantes’ Don Quijote to Spanish realism’s ability to move beyond narrative to inhabit the spaces of both theatre and film, Imagined Truths constitutes a series of meditations on new ways for understanding the unique place of realism in Spain’s cultural history.
LITERARY
STUDIES
Mary L Coffey is an associate professor of Spanish and Associate Dean at Pomona College. Margot Versteeg is a professor of Spanish and the director of the Humanities Program at the University of Kansas.
In the Doorway of All Worlds revisits the hagiographical poetry of Gonzalo de Berceo in the context of the emergent vernacular culture of thirteenth-century Iberia
The thirteenth-century poet Gonzalo de Berceo is the first named author of Old Spanish letters and the most prolific contributor to the emergence of the body of learned vernacular verse known as the mester de clerecía.
In the Doorway of All Worlds focuses on the four hagiographies Berceo produced as a unified body of poetic expression and world-building. Robin M. Bower traces the poet’s intricate juxtaposition of contraries to shed light on a poetic world that will innovate a deceptively simple poetic vernacular and elevate its capacity to express nuance, power, and mystery.
The book examines the entanglements that bind formal and lexical choices, the inscription of performance sites and audiences, and problematic source authority. It argues that Berceo’s elaboration of a poetic vernacular was wholly enmeshed in the immediate human, experiential world and the diverse cultural, religious, linguistic, and literary contexts that framed it. The book also highlights how Berceo invented a literary vernacular that befits the spoken idiom not only for the crafting of learned fictions, but for giving linguistic shape to the ineffable. In the Doorway of All Worlds ultimately reveals how Berceo freed the meanings trapped in relics, shrines, and the impenetrable texts from which he translated the saints to circulate in a new time.
Robin M. Bower is an associate professor of Spanish at Pennsylvania State University.
May 2024
304 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4787-5
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4789-9
$75.00
Literary Studies / Medieval Studies
Speaking Truth to Power
The Legacy of the Young Cid
Matthew Bailey
Toronto Iberic
This book traces the evolution of an oral narrative tradition that inspired the Spanish epic poem Mocedades de Rodrigo.
Emerging from a richly diverse oral narrative tradition, the heroic tale of the young Cid appears in multiple textual manifestations. From its first appearance circa 1300, the dynamic narrative of the legendary deeds of this young Castilian warrior eclipses the uninspired, matter-of-fact narration of the reign of Fernando I into which it is incorporated. In its analysis of the Mocedades de Rodrigo, the epic poem of Cid’s youth, Speaking Truth to Power identifies the narrative cohesion and the aesthetic principles that elevated the story of the young Cid to its place of prominence among the epic narratives of medieval Spain.
Examining the evolution of the narrative through various textual versions, Matthew Bailey highlights the permutations that propelled the young Cid’s unparalleled popularity. The book traces this vibrant narrative tradition from its earliest manifestation in the aftermath of Charlemagne’s imperial mission in Spain to the early modern drama of Guillén de Castro. It convincingly discerns the leadership qualities and the social impact of its legendary protagonists, from their manifestation in the Latin chronicles of early Iberia through the Renaissance, incorporating a wealth of previous scholarship in its innovative findings.
Speaking Truth to Power provides readers with a heightened appreciation for the vibrancy of the poetic tradition that lives beyond the texts we study, the oral narratives that are continually refashioned for new audiences and contexts.
Matthew Bailey is a professor of Romance Languages at Washington and Lee University.
December 2023
200 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-0687-2
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3507-0
$65.00
Literary Studies / Medieval Studies
ROBIN M. BOWER
Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints
MATTHEW BAILEY
Approx. 960 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020 8 illustrations, 17 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-0597-4
$160.00 (£119.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3306-9 $160.00 Literary Studies
Journey to Italy
By Marquis de Sade
Translated, introduced, and annotated by James A . Steintrager
Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Available for the first time in English, the Marquis de Sade’s Journey to Italy provides new insight into the early life and career of this famous radical libertine writer
In 1775, the young Count de Sade decided to turn a flight from legal trouble into an opportunity to undertake the “grand tour.” He transformed his sojourns in Florence, Rome, Naples, and their environs into a philosophical travelogue; alongside advice on where to go and what to see, his Journey to Italy would include analyses of local customs and institutions, history and politics, natural phenomena, and the development of the arts.
For today’s readers, Journey to Italy provides remarkable portraits of major Italian cities and the surrounding countryside, vivid accounts of aristocratic and popular entertainments, and a clear sense of what it was like to be a tourist in eighteenth-century Italy – from scams, rough roads, and unreliable guidebooks to learned interlocutors, balls, and nights at the opera. We witness Sade learning about the lives of Roman emperors, the machinations and misdeeds of pontiffs, the power struggles of the Medici, the ancient libertine world revealed by the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and a host of artistic examples and cultural practices – the material he would soon metamorphose into trenchant satire, gothic horror, and violent sexual fantasy.
This book presents the first English translation of Sade’s unfinished and unpolished Journey to Italy along with his extensive dossiers of notations, sketches, plans, and correspondence. The translation is accompanied by extensive explanatory annotations and preceded by a critical introduction that provides biographical, artistic, historical, and intellectual context for Sade’s fascinating project, connecting his travels in and writings about Italy to his later famous and controversial works.
Marquis de Sade was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts.
Of related interest: The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society By Scipio Sighele
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Nicoletta Pireddu 978-1-4875-0318-5
James A Steintrager is a professor of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
university of toronto press
Kafka’s Italian Progeny
Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
Toronto Italian Studies
This book explores Kafka’s sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy’s modern literary landscape
While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka’s Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to reconsider its dimensions and influencers. The book calls attention to the way Kafkan themes, narrative strategies, and formal experimentation appear in a range of Italian authors. Offering new perspectives on familiar figures, such as Italo Calvino, Italo Svevo, and Elena Ferrante, it also sheds light on some lesserknown authors.
Using diverse approaches to explore thematic, generic, historical, and cultural connections between Kafka’s works and those of Italian authors, the author argues for a new view of Italian literature that includes talking animals, parental bonds, modernist realism, literary detective novels, and lyrical microfiction.
Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski is an assistant professor of Italian at Duke University.
Approx. 328 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2020 Cloth 978-1-4875-0630-8
$85.00 (£63.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3380-9 $85.00 Literary Studies / Italian Studies
Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives
Stefania Lucamante Toronto Italian Studies
This book examines the many ways in which anger and indignation shape authorial intentions and determine the products of contemporary Italian artists
Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion – particularly indignation – and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers. Noting how art often holds the power to shed light on issues surrounding inequity, inequality, and injustices, the book explores the ethical function of art as a tool in resistance and sociopolitical protest, thereby validating the axiom that ethics and aesthetics can still collaborate in the creation of meaning. Drawing on a range of Italian novels and films and examining the works of artists such as Tiziano Scarpa, Simona Vinci, Paolo Sorrentino, and Monica Stambrini, the author shows that anger can be used constructively as a weapon of resistance against negative and oppressive forces.
Stefania Lucamante is a professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at The Catholic University of America.
Approx. 344 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0688-9
$85.00 (£63.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3509-4 $85.00 Literary Studies / Italian Studies
saskia elizabeth ziolkowski
Stefania Lucamante
Localism in Hellenistic Greece
Edited by Sheila L Ager and Hans Beck
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores, in exemplary fashion, how ancient societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding world
The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores how various processes impacted the countless small-scale, local communities of the Greek mainland.
Drawing on notions of locality, localism, local tradition, and boundedness in place, Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck delve into some of the main hubs of Hellenistic Greece, from Thessaly to Cape Tainaron. Along with their contributors, they explore how polis and ethnos societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding horizon and the meaning-making force of the local. The book reveals how local discourses were energized by local sentiments and, much like an echo chamber, how discourses related back to the community and the place it occupied, prioritizing the local as the critical source of communal orientation. Engaging with debates about cultural connectivity and convergence, Localism in Hellenistic Greece offers new insights into lived experience in ancient Greece.
Sheila L. Ager is a professor of ancient history and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo.
Hans Beck is a professor and chair of Greek history at Münster University and adjunct professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.
December 2023
400 pages, 6 x 9
1 b&w illustration, 2 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-4831-5
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4837-7
$95.00
Literary Studies / Classics
Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian
Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor
Keith Bradley
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
This book offers a critical appreciation of Marguerite Yourcenar’s historical novel Mémoires d’Hadrien as an authentic portrait of a Roman emperor
Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien , her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires has a claim to historical authenticity.
In Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian, Keith Bradley explains how Mémoires d’Hadrien came to be written, gives details on Yourcenar’s own biography, and describes some of the intricate historical problems that her novel’s portrait of Hadrian presents. He draws on Yourcenar’s correspondence, her interviews with journalists, and her literary corpus as a whole, emphasizing Yourcenar’s profound knowledge of the ancient evidence on which her life of Hadrian is based and exploiting a wide range of contemporary Yourcenarian criticism.
The book pays special attention to the methods by which Yourcenar believed Hadrian’s life history to be recoverable, compares examples of modern lifewriting, and contrasts the procedures of conventional Roman biographers. Revealing how and why Mémoires d’Hadrien is as it is, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian illustrates how imaginative literary recreation is often little different from historical speculation.
Keith Bradley is the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and an adjunct professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.
January 2024
544 pages, 6 x 9
4 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4881-0
$130.00 (£85.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4889-6
$130.00
Literary Studies / Classics
The Long Century’s Long Shadow
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
Kenneth S. Calhoon
German and European Studies
The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The Long Century’s Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciprocal illumination. The author investigates different moments and media as connected phenomena, situated at alternate ends of the “long nineteenth century” but joined by their mutual rejection of the neo-classical aesthetic standard of placid and weightless poise in numerous media, including film, painting, sculpture, prose, poetry, and dance.
Connecting Weimar filmmaking to Romantic thought and practice, Kenneth S. Calhoon offers a nontechnological, aesthetic genealogy of cinema. He focuses on well-known literary and artistic works, including films such as Nosferatu, Metropolis, Frankenstein, and Fantasia; the writings of Conrad, Kafka, Goethe, and Novalis; and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the leading artists of German Romanticism. With an eye to the modernism of which Weimar filmmaking was a part, The Long Century’s Long Shadow employs the Romantic landscape in poetry and painting as a mirror in which to regard cinema.
Kenneth S. Calhoon is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
February 2022
280 pages, 6 x 9
54 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-2695-5
$70.00 (£46.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-2697-9
$70.00
Literary Studies
For Humanity’s Sake
The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture
Lina Steiner
NEW IN PAPERBACK
This study links the careers of Russia’s three most famous nineteenth-century authors – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin – into a single narrative.
For Humanity’s Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers’ shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cultural identity.
For Humanity’s Sake highlights the role of the critic Apollon Grigor’ev, who was first to formulate the difference between Western European and Russian conceptions of national education or Bildung –which he attributed to Russia’s special sociopolitical conditions, geographic breadth, and cultural heterogeneity. Steiner also shows how Grigor’ev’s cultural vision served as the catalyst for the creative explosion that produced Russia’s most famous novels of the 1860s and 1870s. Positing the classic Russian novel as an inheritor of the Enlightenment’s key values –including humanity, self-perfection, and cross-cultural communication – For Humanity’s Sake offers a unique view of Russian intellectual history and literature.
Lina Steiner is an academic advisor attached to the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
Available
294 pages, 6 x 9
Paper 978-1-4875-4182-8
$34.95 (£23.99) A Literary Studies
Kenneth S. Calhoon
Maps of Empire
A Topography of World Literature
Kyle Wanberg
MAPS OF EMPIRE
Cultural Spaces
Maps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the midtwentieth century .
During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unravelling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire “wrote back” to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation.
Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.
Kyle Wanberg is a clinical associate professor in global liberal studies at New York University.
Approx. 216 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0684-1
$65.00 (£48.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3495-0 $65.00
Literary Studies
Penetrating Critiques
Emasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa
Leslie Allin
PENETRATING
CRITIQUES
Penetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction
Tracing the intersections between archival documents and immensely popular adventure fiction set in Africa, Penetrating Critiques highlights the anxieties surrounding the vulnerability of the white male body by assessing the destabilization of narrative itself. The author considers texts ranging from private letters, governmental correspondence, periodicals, and archives to the popular works of H. Rider Haggard, Richard Marsh, and Joseph Conrad. These texts trouble the notions of bounded male bodies, impermeable histories, and solid virtues while underscoring the grotesqueness of male forms, narratives, and moralities.
Although dominant representations of martial bodies frequently emphasized boundaries, containment, and solidity, the fiction and imperial archives explored in this book expose problems of stability through tropes, images, and material evidence of perforation, penetration, and dissolution. In emphasizing the relationship between institutional imperial writing and popular discourse, Penetrating Critiques reveals that more complex, fraught, and critical approaches to imperialism and masculinity were circulating throughout Victorian culture than previously recognized.
Leslie Allin is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Guelph.
Approx. 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2020 12 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0152-5
$80.00 (£59.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-1342-9 $80.00
Literary Studies
LESLIE ALLIN
KYLE WANBERG
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres
Joseph Monteyne
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with insubstantial shadows.
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray centres on printed images and graphic satires which view paper as the foundation for the contemporary world. Through a focus on printed, visual imagery from practitioners such as James Gillray, William Blake, John Thomas Smith, and Henry Fuseli, the book addresses challenges posed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agency.
Joseph Monteyne shows that the late eighteenth-century paper age’s baseless fabric set the stage for contemporary digital media’s weightless production. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray highlights the fact that graphic culture has been overlooked as an important sphere for the production of critical and self-reflective discourses around media transformations and the visual turn in British culture.
Joseph Monteyne is an associate professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
Edited by Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak
Edited by Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak
978-1-4875-0656-8
Modernist
Idealism
Modernist Idealism Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature
Michael J. Subialka
Toronto Italian Studies
Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.
Offering a new approach to the intersection of literature and philosophy, Modernist Idealism contends that certain models of idealist thought require artistic form for their full development and that modernism realizes philosophical idealism in aesthetic form. This comparative view of modernism employs tools from intellectual history, literary analysis, and philosophical critique, focusing on the Italian reception of German idealist thought from the mid-1800s to the Second World War.
Modernist Idealism intervenes into ongoing debates about the nineteenth- and twentieth-century resurgence of materialism and spiritualism, as well as the relationship between decadent, avant-garde, and modernist production. The author aims to open new discursive space for the philosophical study of modernist literary and visual culture, considering not only philosophical and literary texts but also early cinema. Michael J. Subialka’s main contention is that, in various media and with sometimes radically different political and cultural aims, a host of modernist artists and thinkers can be seen as sharing in a project to realize idealist philosophical worldviews in aesthetic form.
Michael J. Subialka is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at the University of California, Davis.
January 2022
368 pages, 6 x 9
3 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-2865-2
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2868-3
$85.00
Literary Studies / Philosophy
Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors The
Duvakin Interviews, 1967–1974
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev, Margarita Marinova,
and Irina Evdokimova
Translated by Slav N. Gratchev and Margarita Marinova
Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors tells the stories of participants in the Russian avant-garde movement who lived through and continued to work under Stalin’s repressive regime.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin’s purges, and the Second World War. Based on archival materials held at the Moscow State University Library, Russian Modernism in the Memories of the Survivors catalogues six interviews conducted by Duvakin. The interviewees talk about their most intimate life experiences and give personal accounts of their interactions with famous writers and artists. They offer insights into the world of Russian emigrants in Prague and Paris, the uprising against the Communist government, what it was like to work at the United Nations after the Second World War, and other important aspects of life in the Soviet Union and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century.
Slav N. Gratchev is a professor of Spanish at Marshall University.
Margarita Marinova is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Christopher Newport University.
Irina Evdokimova is an independent scholar and a lawyer who used to work as a Criminal Prosecutor for the Attorney General’s Office, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
February 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9
30 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-2725-9
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2727-3
$80.00
Literary Studies / Slavic Studies
Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature
MICHAEL J. SUBIALKA
Mosaic Fictions
Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War
Emily Robins Sharpe
Mosaic Fictions reveals the tensions between national and global affiliations in Spanish Civil War literature, highlighting writers such as Leonard Cohen, Dorothy Livesay, and Mordecai Richler .
Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Treating published and archival writings, the book focuses on the extensive contributions of Jewish Canadian authors as they articulate the stakes of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) in the language of a nascent North American multiculturalism. Placing Jewish Canadian writers within overlapping North American networks of Jewish, Black, immigrant, female, and queer writers challenges the national distinctions that dominate current critical approaches to Anglophone Spanish Civil War literature.
Reframing the narrative of Spain’s noble but tragic struggle against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, the book demonstrates how marginalized North American supporters of the Spanish Republic crafted narratives of inclusive citizenship amidst a national crisis not entirely their own. Mosaic Fictions examines texts composed between the war’s outbreak and the present to illuminate the integral connections between Canada’s developing national identity and global leftist action.
Emily Robins Sharpe is an associate professor in the Department of English at Keene State College, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Approx. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020
4 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0142-6
$55.00 (£41.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1315-3 $55.00 Literary Studies
This Ghostly Poetry
History and Memory of Exiled Spanish Republican Poets
Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza Toronto Iberic
This Ghostly Poetry explores the fraught relationship between poetry and literary history in the context of the Spanish Civil War, its aftermath, and ongoing debates about historical memory in Spain
The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity.
Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.
Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Approx. 424 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2020
15 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-0381-9
$100.00 (£74.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-1885-1 $100.00
Literary Studies
university of toronto press
Nabokov’s Secret Trees
Stephen H . Blackwell
This book explores how Vladimir Nabokov wove his deep love of trees throughout all his works, granting them a powerful role in the development of his most significant themes .
In nearly all his literary works, Vladimir Nabokov inscribed networks of trees to create meaningful patterns of significance around one or more of his passionate interests – in consciousness, memory, creativity, epistemology, ethics, and love, with a deep connection to nature serving as a constant undercurrent. Nabokov’s Secret Trees explores this neglected area of his art, one that positions nature as a hidden but vital core of his work.
The book presents an entirely new, previously unsuspected Nabokov, one who crafts intricate patterns of arboreal imagery lurking behind his often-baroque psychological narratives. It reveals how Nabokov activates arboreal potentials by exploring the hidden ubiquity of trees, their essence as complex natural phenomena, and their role as quiet presences that have accompanied and fostered human civilization and art since their beginnings. The book uncovers how trees offer a rich and intricate field for structural, semantic, allusive, and metaphorical exploration.
Based on the published corpus as well as archival materials, Nabokov’s Secret Trees demonstrates that trees not only populate Nabokov’s art in stunning, yet furtive, abundance, but also as mysterious natural entities, directly animating his works’ worlds and his readers’ experience of them.
Stephen H. Blackwell is a professor of Russian at the University of Tennessee.
August 2024
320 pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-5442-2
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5443-9
$80.00
Literary Studies
and Dialogue
Of related interest: Between Rhyme and Reason: Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue
By Stanislav Shvabrin
978-1-4875-0299-7
Vladimir Nabokov, Translation,
Stanislav Shvabrin
The Near-Death of the Author
Creativity in the Internet Age
John Potts
The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age
In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases has discouraged creativity or terminated careers. Exploring technology’s impact on the status and idea of authorship in today’s world, The Near-Death of the Author reveals the many obstacles facing contemporary authors.
John Potts details how the online culture of remix and creative reuse operates in a post-authorship mode, with little regard for individual authorship. The book explores how developments in algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) have yielded novels, newspaper articles, musical works, films, and paintings without the need of human authors or artists. It also examines how these AI achievements have provoked questions regarding the authorship of new works such as: Does the author need to be human? And, more alarmingly: Is there even a need for human authors?
Providing suggestions on how contemporary authors can endure in the world of data, the book ultimately concludes that network culture has provoked the near -death, but not the death, of the author.
John Potts is a professor of media and the director of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University.
This innovative study of one of the most important writers of Russian Golden Age literature argues that Gogol adopted a deliberate hybrid identity to mimic and mock the pretensions of the dominant culture
One of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works are matched by those which surround the debate over his national identity. This book presents a completely new assessment of the problem: rather than adopting the predominant “either/or” perspective – wherein Gogol is seen as either Ukrainian or Russian – it shows how his cultural identity was a product of negotiation with imperial and national cultural codes and values. By examining Gogol’s ambivalent selffashioning, language performance, and textual practices, this book shows how Gogol played with both imperial and local sources of identity and turned his hybridity into a project of subtle cultural resistance.
Yuliya Ilchuk is an assistant professor of Slavic Literature and Culture at Stanford University.
This book provides some fascinating insights into the connections between literature and diplomacy
Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Graham Greene, John le Carré, André Malraux, Nancy Mitford, Marcel Proust, and others. What attracts writers to diplomacy, and what attracts diplomats to publishing their experiences in memoirs or novels?
Like novelists, diplomats are in the habit of describing situations with an eye for atmosphere, personalities, and looming crises. In this collection, eleven contributors reflect on diplomacy in French and British novels, with particular focus on temporality, style, comedy, characterization, and the professional liabilities attached to representing a state abroad. Using archival examples as evidence, the essays indicate that fiction about diplomacy is a response to the increasing speed of communication, the decline of imperial power, and the ceding of old ways of negotiating to new.
Isabelle Daunais is Canada Research Chair and a professor in the Department of French Literature at McGill University.
Allan Hepburn is James McGill Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at McGill University.
Approx. 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021 2 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0809-8
$65.00 (£48.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3754-8 $65.00 Literary Studies
NIKOLAI GOGOL Performing Hybrid Identity
YULIYA ILCHUK
France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature
EDITED BY Isabelle Daunais AND Allan Hepburn
Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
Edited by Blair Hoxby
This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s
Since the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of early modern composers to arrive at styles that were intensely dramatic.
Drawing on a series of case studies, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi traces the productive, if at times rivalrous, relationship between opera and tragedy from the institution of French regular tragedy under Richelieu in the 1630s to the reform of opera championed by Calzabigi and Gluck in the late eighteenth century. Blair Hoxby and his fellow contributors shed light on “neighbouring forms” of theatre, including pastoral drama, tragédie en machines, tragédie en musique, and Goldoni’s dramma giocoso. Their analysis includes famous masterpieces by Corneille, Voltaire, Metastasio, Goldoni, Calzabigi, Handel, and Gluck, as well as lesserknown artists such as Luisa Bergalli, the first female librettist to write for the public theatre in Italy. Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi delves into a series of quarrels and debates in order to illuminate the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre.
Blair Hoxby is a professor of English at Stanford University.
February 2024
336 pages, 6 x 9
25 b&w illustrations
By Joseph Monteyne
OPERA, TRAGEDY, and NEIGHBOURING FORMS from CORNEILLE to CALZABIGI
Cloth 978-1-4875-0351-2
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1809-7
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Edited by BLAIR HOXBY
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD
Performing Parenthood
Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film
Heather Jerónimo
Toronto Iberic
Drawing on examples from literature and film, Performing Parenthood explores the multiplicity within non-normative familial constructions in Spain
Performing Parenthood reveals different enactments of motherhood and fatherhood in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spain, showing how the family has adapted, or at times failed to do so, within the context of Spain’s changing socioeconomic reality.
Through an examination of examples of non-normative parenthood in contemporary Spanish literature and film – including gay literary father figures, subversive physical touch between mother and child, fathers who cross-dress, lesbian maternal community building, non-biological parenting, and disabled bodies – the book argues that current conceptualizations of parenthood should be amplified to reflect the various existing identities and performances of motherhoods and fatherhoods.
Connecting canonical works to recent works, the book establishes a unique dialogue that will expand the conversation about the Spanish family beyond the traditional view, bringing visibility to alternative family models. It argues that parental identities exist on a spectrum, enabling many parental figures to disregard heteronormative standards imposed upon the role and allowing them to experience parenthood in meaningful ways.
Heather Jerónimo is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Northern Iowa.
August 2024
256 pages, 6 x 9
9 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5421-7
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5423-1
$80.00
Literary Studies
DEFINING AND DEFYING BORDERS
Latinoamericana
Defining and Defying Borders Tracing Hispanism across
Literary Magazines
Vanessa Marie Fernández
Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America during the modernist era
Tracing heated exchanges between Spanish and Latin American intellectuals that took place in journals, magazines, and newspapers in the early twentieth century, Defining and Defying Borders details how borders and boundaries were contested within a medium that simultaneously crossed borders and defined boundaries.
Vanessa Marie Fernández demonstrates that print media is an invaluable resource for scholars because it offers a nuanced perspective of the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America that shaped aesthetic production within and beyond national boundaries. Presenting inclusive paradigms that are at once able to transcend borders, acknowledge national boundaries, and account for empire, Defining and Defying Borders illustrates that investigating journals, magazines, and newspapers is crucial to better understanding postcolonial literary and cultural production.
Vanessa Marie Fernández is an associate professor of Spanish at San Jose State University.
June 2024
208 pages, 6 x 9
30 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4862-9
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4912-1
$80.00
Literary Studies
Perfume on the Page in NineteenthCentury France
Cheryl Krueger
Toronto Romance
Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture
Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odors. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman’s scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled.
Drawing on a wealth of resources, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the distinctiveness of a text, its unique relationship to language, its style, and its ways of engaging the reader: its signature scent. Shedding light on the French perfume culture that we know today, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France follows the scent trails that ultimately challenge us to read perfume and literature in new ways.
Cheryl Krueger is an associate professor in the Department of French at the University of Virginia.
An Indwelling Voice presents a framework for understanding how, despite linguistic and philosophical barriers, sincere voices are written and read in poetry .
How have poets in recent centuries been able to inscribe recognizable and relatively sincere voices despite the wearing of poetic language and reader awareness of sincerity’s pitfalls? How are readers able to recognize sincerity at all given the mutability of sincere voices and the unavailability of inner worlds? What do disagreements about the sincerity of texts and authors tell us about competing conceptualizations of sincerity? And how has sincere expression in one particular, illustrative context – Russian poetry – both changed and remained constant?
An Indwelling Voice grapples, uniquely, with such questions. In case studies ranging from the late neoclassical period to post-postmodernism, it explores how Russian poets have generated the pragmatic framings and poetic devices that allow them to inscribe sincere voices in their poetry. Engaging Anglo-American and European literature, as well as providing close readings of Russian poetry, An Indwelling Voice helps us understand how poets have at times generated a powerful sense of presence, intimating that they speak through the poem.
Stuart Goldberg is an associate professor of Russian at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
August 2023
320 pages, 6 x 9
1 b&w illustration
Cloth 978-1-4875-4455-3
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4456-0
$95.00
Literary Studies
STUART GOLDBERG
A PlAnetAry
Garde
A Planetary Avant-Garde Experimental
Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism
Ignacio Infante
Toronto Iberic
This book illuminates the history of experimental poetics in relation to the legacy of Iberian colonialism in the early twentieth century
A Planetary Avant-Garde explores how experimental poetics and literature networks have aesthetically and politically responded to the legacy of Iberian colonialism across the world. The book examines avant-garde responses to Spanish and Portuguese imperialism across Europe, Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia between 1909 and 1929.
Ignacio Infante critically traces the hegemony and resistance to the colonial regimes of Spain and Portugal across particular avant-garde networks, expanding our understanding of Western colonial and imperial ideologies of the early twentieth century. The book extends geopolitical dimensions of the historical avant-garde into a wider transnational and planetary framework, including divergent experiences of modernity, forms of experimental poetics, and understandings of history. It sheds light on topics such as the relation between Portuguese futurism and European colonialism in West Africa, the Latin American avant-garde’s critique of European historicism, the development of Brazilian modernism in relation to the European avant-garde, the comparative poetics of modernism in the Philippines, and the 1929 Barcelona World’s Fair.
Ignacio Infante is an associate professor of comparative literature and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.
June 2023
256 pages, 6 x 9
2 colour illustrations, 2 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4426-2974-5
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4426-2976-9
$70.00
Literary Studies
Questioning the Chinese Model
Questioning the Chinese Model Oppositional Political
Novels in Early TwentyFirst Century China
Zhansui Yu
Questioning the Chinese Model sheds light on oppositional political novels produced in early twenty-first century China
In the early twenty-first century, the Chinese literary world saw an emergence of fictional works – dubbed as “oppositional political novels” – that took political articulation as their major purpose and questioned the fundamental principles and intrinsic logic of the Chinese model. Based on close readings of five representative oppositional Chinese political novels, Questioning the Chinese Model examines the sociopolitical connotations and epistemological values of these novels in the broad context of modern Chinese intellectual history and contemporary Chinese politics and society.
Zhansui Yu provides a sketch of the social, political, and intellectual landscape of present-day China. He investigates the dialectic relationship between the arts and politics in the Chinese context, the mechanisms and dynamics of censorship in the age of the Internet and commercialization, and the ideological limitations of oppositional Chinese political novels. In the process of textual and social analysis, Yu extensively cites Western political philosophers, such as Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, and references well-regarded studies on Chinese literature, politics, society, and the Chinese intelligentsia. Examining oppositional Chinese political novels from multiple perspectives, Questioning the Chinese Model applies a broad range of knowledge beyond merely the literary field.
Zhansui Yu is an associate professor of Chinese at Nazareth College.
March 2023
280 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4434-8
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4436-2
$70.00
Literary Studies
and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism
Ignacio Infante
Poetry and Crisis
Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings
Jill Robbins
Toronto Iberic
Poetry and Crisis argues that the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, with poetry taking a unique role in reflecting new political and cultural realities
On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid’s largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded. This event, known in Spain as 11M, was the second of three highly visible jihadist attacks on the West between 2001 and 2005, and the first in Europe, occurring just days before the national elections in Spain.
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Arguing that 11-M marked a critical turning point in Spanish society, this book reveals how poetry played a unique role and reflected a new political and cultural sensibility defined by informal and non-hierarchical networks of communication and memorialization. After the attacks, poems circulated in public spaces in unexpected ways, creating links and relationships that were binding: they were inscribed on banners and monuments; musicalized in anthems, protest songs, and hip-hop music; reproduced on manifestos and blogs; sent by email and text; scribbled on scraps of paper and posted on walls; performed publicly; and painted as graffiti. These forms of expression also resonated strongly with Spanish poets who had already been exploring the possibilities of ethical engagement and aesthetic creation. Poetry and Crisis explores how this essentially poetic sensibility emerged from tragedy, laying the groundwork for similar kinds of affective and grassroots mobilization that continue to grow in Europe today.
Jill Robbins is a professor emerita in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced.
Approx.
Poetry on Stage
The Queen of Scots
The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde
La reina di Scotia
Gianluca Rizzo
Toronto Italian Studies
Federico Della Valle Introduction, translation, and notes by Fabio Battista
Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and ideological climate of the sixties and seventies
This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots .
Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro. The book sheds light on a forgotten chapter of twentieth-century Italian literature, arguing that the theatre was the ideal incubator for stylistic and linguistic experiments and a means through which authors could establish direct contact with their audience and verify the solutions they were devising to the practical and theoretical problems raised by their stances in politics and poetics. A robust textual analysis of a number of exemplary texts grounds these issues in the plays and poems produced at the time and connects them with the experimentations subsequently carried out by some of the same artists.
In-depth interviews with four of the most influential figures in the field – critic Valentina Valentini, actor and director Pippo Di Marca, author Giuliano Scabia, and the late poet Nanni Balestrini – conclude the volume, providing an invaluable first-hand testimony that brings to life the people and controversies discussed.
Gianluca Rizzo is Paul D. and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Colby College.
Approx. 464 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0666-7
$80.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3463-9 $80.00 Literary Studies / Italian Studies
From the moment of her spectacular death on the scaffold, the story of Mary Queen of Scots became nothing short of a sensation across Europe. She was executed on 8 February 1587, and her death was the climax of a captivity that lasted over eighteen years. Shortly after the event, Federico Della Valle, one of Italy’s most accomplished dramatists of the time, composed La reina di Scotia (The Queen of Scots), a tragedy depicting the final hours of the Scottish queen’s life. With its restrained tone, streamlined action, and refined poetic language, The Queen of Scots ranks among the very best of early modern Italian drama. In this book, Fabio Battista provides an English-language annotated edition of Della Valle’s work, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction exploring the fictional afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots from the early modern period to today. The volume also includes the English translation of a widely circulated letter detailing the queen’s momentous execution. Made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time, this tragedy is the earliest dramatic reworking of the death of Mary Queen of Scots in a modern vernacular, spearheading a tradition that endures to this day.
Federico Della Valle was an Italian dramatist and poet.
Fabio Battista is an instructor of Italian at the University of Alabama.
February 2023
216 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4481-2
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4510-9
$65.00
Literary Studies
The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg
FORMALISTS AGAINST IMPERIALISM
Formalists against Imperialism
By Natalia Ginzburg
Translated by Paul Lewis
The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian Orientalism
Toronto Italian Studies
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Anna Aydinyan
This collection encourages a deeper understanding of Ginzburg’s life’s work and complements her larger body of writing already available in English translation
Formalists against Imperialism reveals the artistic foresight of Russian formalist and modernist writer Yuri Tynianov into the phenomenon later known as Orientalism
The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories that Ginzburg wrote between 1933 and 1965. These early works are significant in the context of Ginzburg’s wider repertoire. The key themes and ideas occurring therein would come to characterize much of her later work, particularly in terms of her exploration of the difficulties implicit in developing and sustaining meaningful human relationships.
Natalia Ginzburg (1916–1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy.
In January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian formalist writer Yuri Tynianov wrote a historical novel about the event entitled The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar.
Paul Lewis is a writer, translator, and practising barrister. He lives in Bristol, UK, with his wife and three children.
Approx. 102 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Paper 978-1-4875-2561-3
$24.95 (£18.99) A Italian Studies / Italian Literature
In this wide-ranging study, Anna Aydinyan posits that The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar conceptualizes Orientalism fifty years before Edward Said coined the term. She argues that Tynianov parodied historical works on the Caucasus in his novel in order to critique the ways in which exoticizing the East enabled imperialism and colonization. Analysing literary and non-literary texts on Russia’s relationship with Iran, along with the economic and cultural development of Transcaucasia after the Russo-Persian War, Formalists against Imperialism studies Russian culture within the framework of comparative colonialisms and examines the twentieth-century Russian reconsideration of the country’s imperial past.
Anna Aydinyan is an assistant professor of Russian at Kenyon College.
September 2022
232 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4385-3
$60.00 (£39.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4386-0
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Literary Studies
T HE QUEEN OF SCOTS LA REINA DI SCOTIA
FEDERICO DELLA VALLE Introduction, translation, and notes by Fabio Battista
ANNA AYDINYAN
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Victims of the Book
of The LOVE
LOGIC in e
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales
Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France
François Proulx
University of Toronto Romance Series
Manish Sharma
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales proposes a new way to understand the
This book shows how the adolescent male reader became a subject of grave social concern in late-nineteenth-century France
correlation between love and philosophy in Chaucer’s famous collection of stories
Writing Fear
Russian Realism and the Gothic
Katherine Bowers
Writing Fear
Writing Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism .
The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an “insoluble.” Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia , like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ’s admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the lover does not judge – does not decide on – the beloved.
Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile ( Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile ( A Sterile Life, 1892) or La Mortelle Impuissance ( Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, many of which have rarely been studied, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Against this cultural backdrop, he illuminates all that was at stake in representations of the male reader by prominent novelists of the period 1880 to 1914, including Jules Vallès, Paul Bourget, Maurice Barrès, André Gide, and Marcel Proust.
François Proulx is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Approx. 424 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2019
7 Illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0547-9
$85.00 (£57.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3218-5 $85.00 Literary Studies
Through a series of detailed and rigorously “nonjudgmental” readings, Manish Sharma provides new insight into each of the prologues and tales and intervenes into scholarly debates about their collective import. In so doing, The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales deploys Chaucer’s understanding of charity to consider the limitations of modern critical approaches to the Canterbury Tales, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. In the course of the analysis, Sharma shows not only how love and medieval philosophy together inform Chaucerian composition, but also how Chaucer could serve as a resource for contemporary theoretical reflections on love and ethics.
Manish Sharma is associate professor of Medieval English Literature at Concordia University.
July 2022
310 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-0903-3
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3956-6
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Literary Studies
In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside – a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring , persisting within later Russian literary movements . Writing Fear explores Russian literature’s engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation during the modernist period.
Bowers traces the development of gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She then investigates the hybrid genre’s function in a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address social and political issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism, Writing Fear challenges the conventional literary history of nineteenthcentury Russia.
Katherine Bowers is an associate professor in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia.
May 2022
256 pages, 6 x 9
3 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-2692-4
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2694-8
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Literary Studies
VICTIMS OF THE BOOK
MANISH SHARMA
CANTERBURY TALES
KATHERINE BOWERS
RUSSIAN REALISM AND THE GOTHIC
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700
Edited by Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes García-Arenal
UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Reflecting on humanity’s shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty and how crises produced by the religious upheavals were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, this book reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.
Barbara Fuchs is a professor of Spanish and English at UCLA.
Mercedes García-Arenal is a research professor at Grupo de Investigación de Historia Cultural del Mediterráneo.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available
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Entertaining the Idea
Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance
Entertaining the Idea
Edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton
UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare
In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s plays supply readers, listeners, viewers, and performers with equipment for living.
In plays ranging from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to King Lear and The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare invites readers and audiences to be more responsive to the texture and meaning of daily encounters, whether in the intimacies of love, the demands of social and political life, or moments of ethical decision. Entertaining the Idea features established and emerging scholars, addressing key words such as ”judgment” and “entertainment,” as well as “curse” and “care.” The volume also includes longer essays on Shakespeare, Kant, Husserl, and Hegel, as well as an afterword by theatre critic Charles McNulty on King Lear.
Lowell Gallagher is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
James Kearney is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Julia Reinhard Lupton is a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.
Approx. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2021 6 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0743-5
$60.00 (£44.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3624-4 $60.00 Literary Studies
university of toronto press
shakespeare, philosophy, and performance
Edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Quixotic Memories
Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain
Julia Domínguez
Toronto Iberic
Quixotic Memories explores the complexity of memory through the lens of Miguel de Cervantes and his famous novel Don Quixote.
The work of Miguel de Cervantes – one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe – is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes’ world, resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomized Renaissance humanist culture and that informed the transition to modernity.
Quixotic Memories offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory and demonstrates how it plays an exceptionally critical role in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The book acknowledges Cervantes’ transition into modernity as he engaged with theories of memory that were developed in classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time. Julia Domínguez explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy.
Engaging with primary and archival sources, Quixotic Memories provides a new reading of Cervantes’ famous novel by tracing the socio-historical and cultural prominence of memory throughout the author’s lifetime.
Julia Domínguez is an associate professor of Spanish at Iowa State University.
April 2022
264 pages, 6 x 9
6 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4392-1
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4393-8
$75.00
Literary Studies
Cervantes’ Architectures
The Dangers Outside
Frederick A . de Armas Toronto Iberic
Cervantes’ Architectures uncovers and examines the countless architectures found in Cervantes’ prose fiction
Cervantes’ Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes’ prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by concentrating on the role of enclosed structures as places where humans may feel safe, or as sites of beauty and harmony that provide solace. At the same time, a number of the architectures in Cervantes trigger dread and claustrophobia as they display a kind of shapelessness and a haunting aura that blends with the narrative.
This volume invites readers to discover hundreds of edifices that Cervantes built with the pen. Their variety is astounding. The narrators and characters in these novels tell of castles, fortifications, inns, mills, prisons, palaces, towers, and villas which appear in their routes or in their conversations, and which welcome them, amaze them, or entrap them.
Cervantes’ Architectures sheds light on how places and spaces are perceived through words and how impossible structures find support, paradoxically, in the literary architecture of the work.
Frederick A. de Armas is a Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.
July 2022
368 pages, 6 x 9
19 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4239-9
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4240-5
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Literary Studies
Quixotic Memories
Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain Julia Domínguez
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Cervantes’ Architectures THE DANGE R S OUTSIDE Frederick A de Armas
The Reception of Northrop Frye
Compiled by Robert D. Denham
The Reception of Northrop Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye’s diminishing status as an important critical voice.
The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye’s influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, at which point he became obsolete, his work having been buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton’s 1983 rhetorical question, “Who now reads Frye?”
In The Reception of Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham catalogues what has been written about Frye – books, articles, translations, dissertations and theses, and reviews – in order to demonstrate that the attention Frye’s work has received from the beginning has continued unabated. Denham also explores what we can discover once we have a fairly complete record of Frye’s reception in front of us – such as Hayden White’s theory of emplotments applied to historical writing and Byron Almén’s theory of musical narrative. The sheer quantity of what has been written about Frye reveals that the only valid response to Eagleton’s rhetorical question is “a very large and growing number,” the growth being not incremental but exponential.
Robert D. Denham is the John P. Fishwick Professor of English Emeritus at Roanoke College.
Approx. 720 pp. / 8.5 x 11 / July 2021
Cloth 978-1-4875-0820-3
$150.00 (£112.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3775-3 $150.00 Literary Studies
Useless Joyce
Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations
Useless
Tim Conley
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Joyce
Tim
Conley
Can we speak of literature having a “use”? Studying traditional uses of literary texts, Useless Joyce explores how James Joyce’s works weigh this question and proposes that we imagine new readings of Joyce’s works as “useful” texts.
Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ways in which texts may be assigned unexpected but thoroughly practical purposes. Conley’s accessible and witty engagement with the material views the rise of explication and commentary on Joyce’s work as an industry not unlike the rise of self-help publishing. We can therefore read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as various kinds of guides and uncover new or forgotten “uses” for them. Useless Joyce invites new discussions about the assumptions at work behind our definitions of literature, interpretation, and use.
Tim Conley is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University.
Approx. 200 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Paper 978-1-4875-1995-7
$29.95 (£22.99) A Literary Studies
Compiled by ROBERT D. DENHAM
Red Migrations
Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917
Edited by Philip Gleissner and Bradley A . Gorski
Foregrounding transnational movements in and around Soviet culture, Red Migrations rethinks the field of migration studies in socialist Eastern Europe
Together with a new political, social, and cultural order, the Bolshevik Revolution also brought about a spatial revolution. Changed patterns, motivations, and impacts of migration collided with new cultural forms and aesthetic mandates. Red Migrations highlights the various multidirectional and multilateral transnational movements of leftist thinkers, artists, and writers.
The book draws on avant-garde poets such as David Burliuk, Marxist theoreticians such as János Mácza, and “fellow travellers” such as Langston Hughes, revealing how leftists of all stripes were inspired and at times impelled by the Soviet Revolution to cross borders. It explores how the resulting circulation of ideas, aesthetic forms, and individuals not only contributed enormously to the ferment of creative activity in the early Soviet years, but also deeply informed international leftist aesthetics and political practice throughout the twentieth century.
The robust and diverse transnational networks created by these circulations are at the centre of this volume. With original archival research and insightful analyses, Red Migrations sheds light on the ideals, aspirations, and disappointments of leftist transnationalism from the 1920s through the 1960s and the aesthetic forms they engendered.
Philip Gleissner is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University.
Bradley A. Gorski is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Georgetown University.
Of related interest: Comintern Aesthetics
Edited by Amelia Glaser and Steven S Lee 978-1-4875-0465-6
August 2024
480 pages, 6 x 9
39 b&w illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-4388-4
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4389-1
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Literary Studies / History
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Redemption and Regret
FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LEARNING
Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale
The
For the Encouragement of Learning
Edited by Daniel Pieper
James Scarth Gale Library of Korean Literature
The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law
Myra Tawfik
This work presents the unpublished and largely unknown writings of the missionary James Scarth Gale, one of the most important scholars and translators in modern Korean history
Studies in Book and Print Culture
For the Encouragement of Learning examines the historical origins of copyright law in Canada
Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades (1888–1927). During his time in Korea, Gale developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history, language, and literature, completing the first translation of Korean literature into a Western language, the first translation of English literature into Korean, and the first comprehensive Korean-English dictionary.
For the Encouragement of Learning addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada’s earliest copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright’s normative purpose.
Gale lived in Korea during a tumultuous and transformative period. Pen Pictures of Old Korea and Old Corea, presented here, preserve what Gale viewed as inevitably fated for extinction. This realization imbues his writings with a sense of ambivalence towards the “passing” of traditional Korea –owing to the conflict between his profound admiration for pre-modern Korean culture and his Western missionary identity, which demanded that the country adapt to a modern, Christian world.
Daniel Pieper is a lecturer in East Asian languages and cultures at Washington University in St. Louis.
Approx. 600 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021 21 images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0434-2
$80.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2997-0 $80.00 Literary Studies / Asian Studies
Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the mass production of educational material. The book reveals that copyright laws were integral features of British North American education policy and highlights the important roles played by teachers, education reformers, and politicians in the emergence and development of the law. It also explains how policy-makers began to consider the relationship between copyright and cultural identity formation once British interference into domestic copyright affairs increased, and as Canadian Confederation neared. Using methodologies at the intersection of legal history and book history, For the Encouragement of Learning embeds the copyright legal framework within the history of Canada’s book and print culture.
Myra Tawfik is the Don Rodzik Family Chair in Law and Entrepreneurship and a Distinguished University Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.
May 2023
432 pages, 6 x 9
7 b&w figures, 4 b&w tables
Cloth 978-1-4875-4524-6
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Literary Studies
The Smallpox Report
Vaccination and the Romantic Illness Narrative Fuson Wang
The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable .
After the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination has become synonymous with an opaque biopower that legislates compulsory immunization at a distance. Contemporary illness narratives have become outlets for distrust, misinformation, reckless denialism, and selfish noncompliance. In The Smallpox Report , Fuson Wang rewinds this contemporary impasse between physician and patient back to the Romantic-era origins of vaccination.
The book offers a literary-historical account of smallpox vaccination, contending that the disease’s eventual eradication in 1980 was as much a triumph of the literary imagination as it was an achievement of medical Enlightenment science. Wang traces our modern, pandemic-era crisis of vaccine hesitancy back to Edward Jenner’s publication of his treatise on vaccination in 1798, the first rumblings of an anti-vaccination movement, and vaccination’s formative literary history that included authors such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book concludes with a re-examination of the current deeply polarized and polarizing public discourse about vaccines in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. By recovering the surprisingly literary genres of Romantic-era medical writing, The Smallpox Report models a new literary historical perspective on our own crises of vaccine refusal.
Fuson Wang is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.
May 2023
288 pages, 6 x 9 15 colour illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4659-5
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4660-1
$75.00
Literary Studies
Redemption and Regret
James Scarth Gale Edited by Daniel Pieper
Resisting Invisibility
Detecting the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction
Diana Aramburu
Toronto Iberic
This book examines representations of the female body in the early phases of contemporary female crime literature
Engaging with pre-feminist and male-authored crime literature, Resisting Invisibility offers a comparative reading of women’s bodies as represented in Spanish crime literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Utilizing the twin concepts of visibility and invisibility, the book establishes a genealogy of differing viewpoints regarding women’s positions in these narratives, before and after the birth of the modern Spanish female detective.
This examination of the politics of female visibility expands our understanding of the aesthetic regimes that have governed the female body from the early phases of the genre’s evolution. While most scholars understand the feminization of the crime genre as a response to second-wave feminism, Resisting Invisibility demonstrates that even in the earliest representations of delinquent women, the politics surrounding the female body are problematized and are more complex than previously conceptualized. Drawing on gender and queer studies, Resisting Invisibility investigates the gendering of crime fiction, forcing us to reconsider the literary history of female visibility and prompting us to establish an alternative genealogy for Spanish crime literature.
Diana Aramburu is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Davis.
“Diana Aramburu investigates feminist and gender theories of crime fiction, as well as portrayals of female bodies. These bodies include the delinquent body, the victimized body, the eroticized body, and the detecting body.”
Nina L. Molinaro, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder
Resisting Invisibility
the Female Body in Spanish
288 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2019 Cloth 978-1-4875-0459-5
$75.00 (£51.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3053-2 $75.00
Literary Studies
Of related interest: Spanish Modernism and the Poetics of Youth From Miguel de Unamuno to ‘La Joven Literatura’ By Leslie J. Harkema 978-1-4875-0196-9
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Detecting
Crime Fiction
Diana Aramburu
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
History and Representation
Edited by Sara J Brenneis and Gina Herrmann Toronto Iberic
Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is the first comprehensive historical and cultural study of Spain’s unique relationship to this turbulent historical period
Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary, scholarly collection to situate Spain in a position of influence in the history and culture of the Second World War. Featuring essays by international experts in the fields of history, literary studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and film studies, this book clarifies historical issues within Spain while also demonstrating the impact of Spain’s involvement in the Second World War on historical memory of the Holocaust.
Many of the contributors have done extensive archival research, bringing new information and perspectives to the table, and in many cases the essays published here analyze primary and secondary material previously unavailable in English. Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust reaches beyond discipline, genre, nation, and time period to offer previously unknown evidence of Spain’s continued relevance to the Holocaust and the Second World War.
Sara J Brenneis is a professor of Spanish at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
SPAIN, the SECOND WORLD WAR, and the HOLOCAUST
HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION
Edited by SARA J. BRENNEIS and GINA HERRMANN
Approx. 680 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020 17 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-0570-7
$125.00 (£85.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3251-2 $125.00
Literary Studies / Hispanic Studies / History
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Gina Herrmann is the Norman H. Brown associate professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.
Edited by MARGARET E. BOYLE and SARAH E. OWENS
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World
A Gendered Perspective
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021 11 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0518-9
$65.00 (£48.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3171-3 $65.00 Renaissance Studies
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World
A Gendered Perspective
Edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens
Toronto Iberic
Also by Sara J Brenneis: Spaniards in Mauthausen Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940–2015 978-1-4875-2131-8
This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.
Recognizing the variety of health experiences across geographical borders, Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World interrogates the concepts of “health” and “healing” between 1500 and 1800. Through an interdisciplinary approach to medical history, gender history, and the literature and culture of the early modern Atlantic World, this collection of essays points to the ways in which the practice of medicine, the delivery of healthcare, and the experiences of disease and health are gendered.
The contributors explore how the medical profession sought to exert its power over patients, determining standards that impacted conceptions of self and body, and at the same time, how this influence was mediated. Using a range of sources, the essays reveal the multiple and sometimes contradictory ways that early modern health discourse intersected with gender and sexuality, as well as its ties to interconnected ethical, racial, and class-driven concerns. Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World breaks new ground through its systematic focus on gender and sexuality as they relate to the delivery of healthcare, the practice of medicine, and the experiences of health and healing across early modern Spain and colonial Latin America.
Margaret E. Boyle is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College.
Sarah E. Owens is a professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies and Director of First Year Experience at
Spanish Fascist Writing
Topographies of Fascism
Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by
Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
Spanish Fascist Writing
Translated by María Soledad Barbón, Justin Crumbaugh, and Nil Santiáñez
Toronto Iberic
This important collection of Spanish fascist writing makes it possible for the first time to fully incorporate Spain into the global history of fascism.
Spanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of rightwing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present.
The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world.
Justin Crumbaugh is an associate professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College.
Nil Santiáñez is a professor of Spanish and international studies at Saint Louis University.
María Soledad Barbón is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021
Cloth 978-1-4875-0097-9
$90.00 (£67.99) A
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$39.95 (£29.99) X
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Nil Santiáñez
Toronto Iberic
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Topographies of Fascism proposes a new methodology for the study of space as represented in and created by Spanish fascist writing.
Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing – essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs – represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. Nil Santiáñez contends that fascism expressed its views on the state, the nation, and the society in spatial terms (for example, the state as a “building,” the nation as an “organic unity,” and society as the “people’s community”), just as its adherents celebrated fascism in its architecture, public spectacles, and military rituals.
While Topographies of Fascism centres on Spain, a nation that produced a large number of fascist texts focused on space, it also draws on works written by key German, Italian, and French fascist politicians and intellectuals. Ultimately, it provides an innovative model for analysing the comparable yet often overlooked strategies of symbolic representation and production of space in fascist political and cultural discourse.
Nil Santiáñez is a professor of Spanish and international studies at Saint Louis University.
Approx. 430 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Paper 978-1-4875-2898-0
$44.95 (£33.99) A Literary Studies
Justin Crumbaugh & Nil Santiáñez
Translated by María Soledad Barbón, Justin Crumbaugh, & Nil Santiáñez
The Stones of Venice
John Ruskin
Edited, with
an Introduction and
Notes, by William C . McKeown
Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
This updated and unabridged edition of The Stones of Venice introduces new readers to John Ruskin’s classic Victorian text
In the early 1850s, John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice, a history of Venetian architecture. He asserted the moral and aesthetic superiority of Venice’s medieval buildings over structures from the Renaissance period. Ruskin’s engaging and beautifully crafted prose inspired his Anglo-American readership to travel to Venice, to construct Gothic Revival buildings in their own cities, and to critically examine the moral virtues of modern society and how those principles are reflected in modern architecture.
Since 1904, only abridged editions of The Stones of Venice have been published – all of which sacrifice Ruskin’s didacticism in favour of the aestheticism of a few select passages. As the first unabridged edition in over a century, this book restores the context for those selections. It retains Ruskin’s tripartite history of Venice and includes material omitted from abridged versions, including Ruskin’s supplementary folio. It features reproductions of many of Ruskin’s original sketches for the book’s illustrations, which in previous editions had only appeared as engraved copies. This edition includes his list of Venice’s most important buildings, with endnotes updating their contemporary status, as well as an appendix with selections from other Venetian-themed texts by Ruskin. The book also features an introductory essay that situates The Stones of Venice within John Ruskin’s life and writings.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) was an English writer, philosopher, and art critic.
William C. McKeown is an associate professor of art history at the University of Memphis.
August 2024
896 pages, 8 x 10
55 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4719-6
$150.00 (£98.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-4720-2
$150.00
Literary Studies
The Satyrica of Petronius
Petronii Arbitri Satyrica Quae Supersunt
Introduction, Critical Text, and Translation with Cultural Notes by Wade Richardson
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
This book presents a formal critical edition and English translation of the Satyrica of Petronius
The Satyrica of Petronius is a one-of-a-kind satirical comic novel in Latin: an engaging narrative of the shady, sex-and-cash-engrossed lives of men and women in provincial first-century Italy. No critical edition in English of comparable scope exists. In this treatment, Wade Richardson, after a life’s work on the Satyrica, investigates and delineates the ingenuity and skill of the author in all features of writerly craft, within the framework of the latest critical text and a translation lively enough to satisfy the demands of today’s audiences.
Incorporating eighty new and fully argued emendations, the bulk of this volume is a facing-page text and translation, choosing English for the obverse (recto), with elaborative notes, and Latin for the reverse (verso), with an abundant apparatus. This is preceded by an introduction describing the multifarious problems posed by author and work. The edition is intended to give pure enjoyment to everyone – from curious students of Latin and beyond, including their teachers and professors – by providing a unique linguistic, literary, and cultural exposure to the author and his work.
Wade Richardson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.
July 2024
416 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-5071-4
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5072-1
$95.00
Literary Studies / Classics
Translation as Home
A Multilingual Life
Ilan Stavans
Edited by Regina Galasso
This collection presents a series of autobiographical meditations by Ilan Stavans on how language defines every aspect of our life
Translation as Home is a collection of autobiographical essays by Ilan Stavans that eloquently and unequivocally make the case that translation is not only a career, but a way of life.
Born in Mexico City, Ilan Stavans is an essayist, anthologist, literary scholar, translator, and editor. Stavans has changed languages at various points in his life: from Yiddish to Spanish to Hebrew and English. A controversial public intellectual, he is the world’s authority on hybrid languages and on the history of dictionaries. His influential studies on Spanglish have redefined many fields of study, and he has become an international authority on translation as a mechanism of survival.
This collection deals with Stavans’s three selves: Mexican, Jewish, and American. The volume presents his recent essays, some previously unpublished, addressing the themes of language, identity, and translation and emphasizing his work in Latin American and Jewish studies.
The book also features conversations between Stavans and writers, educators, and translators, including Regina Galasso, the author of the introduction and editor of the volume.
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College.
Regina Galasso is an associate professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Program and the director of the Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
All rights available except French and Spanish
April 2024
336 pages, 6 x 9
13 colour illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-4792-9
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4807-0
$75.00
Literary Studies
Of related interest: The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing Edited by Ruth Panofsky 978-1-4875-2600-9
Unselfing Global French Literature at the Limits
of Consciousness
Michaela Hulstyn
University of Toronto Romance Series
Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered
Altered states of consciousness – including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence – can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood.
Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive selfexperiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book focuses on the tension between rival conceptions of unselfing as either a form of productive self-transcendence or a form of alienating self-loss.
Michaela Hulstyn explores the shapes and meanings of unselfing through the framework of the global French literary world, encompassing texts by modernist figures in France and Belgium alongside writers from Algeria, Rwanda, and Morocco. Together these diverse texts prompt a re-evaluation of the consequences of the loss or the transcendence of the self. Through a series of close readings, Hulstyn offers a new account of the ethical questions raised by altered states and shows how philosophies of empathy can be tested against and often challenged by literary works. Drawing on cognitive science and phenomenology, Unselfing provides a new methodology for approaching texts that give shape to the fringes of conscious experience.
Michaela Hulstyn teaches in the Structured Liberal Education program at Stanford University.
December 2022
288 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4376-1
$75.00 (£49.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-4377-8
$75.00
Literary Studies
Bilingual Legacies
Bilingual Legacies
Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona
Anna Casas Aguilar
Toronto Iberic
Bilingual Legacies examines the role of father figures in shaping several major authors’ gender and linguistic consciousness in Spain after Franco’s dictatorship
Bilingual Legacies examines fatherhood in the work of four canonical Spanish authors born in Barcelona and raised during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Drawing on the autobiographical texts of Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Barral, Terenci Moix, and Clara Janés, the book explores how these authors understood gender roles and paternal figures as well as how they positioned themselves in relation to Spanish and Catalan literary traditions.
Anna Casas Aguilar contends that through their presentation of father figures, these authors subvert static ideas surrounding fatherhood. She argues that this diversity was crucial in opening the door to revised gender models in Spain during the democratic period. Moving beyond the shadow of the dictator, Casas Aguilar shows how these writers distinguished between the patriarchal “father of the nation” and their own paternal figures. In doing so, Bilingual Legacies sheds light on the complexity of Spanish conceptions of gender, language, and family and illustrates how notions of masculinity, authorship, and canon are interrelated.
Anna Casas Aguilar is an assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of British Columbia.
August 2022
240 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4500-0
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4501-7
$65.00
Literary Studies
Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona
Anna Casas Aguilar
A WomAN’S EmpirE
A Woman’s Empire Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
Katya Hokanson
A Woman’s Empire sheds light on how women’s voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia’s late imperial expansion into Asia
A Woman’s Empire explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion. The book investigates how women writers, travellers, and scientists who journeyed to and beyond Central Asia participated in Russia’s “civilizing” and colonizing mission, utilizing newly found educational opportunities while navigating powerful discourses of femininity as well as male-dominated science.
Katya Hokanson shows how these Russian women resisted domestic roles in a variety of ways. The women writers include a governor general’s wife, a fiction writer who lived in Turkestan, and a famous Theosophist, among others. They make clear the perspectives of the ruling class and outline the special role of women as describers and recorders of information about local women, and as builders of “civilized” colonial Russian society with its attendant performances and social events. Although the bulk of their writings, drawings, and photography is primarily noteworthy for its cultural and historical value, A Woman’s Empire demonstrates how they also add dimension and detail to the story of Russian imperial expansion and illuminates how women encountered, imagined, and depicted Russia’s imperial Other during this period.
Katya Hokanson is an associate professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
January 2023
360 pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-4560-4
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4561-1
$80.00
Literary Studies
Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship
Christine Arkinstall
Toronto Iberic
Drawing on feminist theories and cultural histories, this book interweaves historical and literary contexts of Spanish female writers and their works on war .
The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury Spanish women’s texts on war.
Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain’s fin de siècle, this book examines works by notable writers – including Rosario de Acuña, Blanca de los Rios, Concepción Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos – as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist war, Spain’s colonial wars, and the First World War. The selected works foreground how women’s representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works’ overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, Virgin and Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts.
Christine Arkinstall is a professor of Spanish at the University of Auckland.
March 2023
248 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4626-7
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WOMEN ON WAR in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century VIRTUE, PATRIOTISM, CITIZENSHIP
Christine Arkinstall
Writing the Empire
The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948
WRITING THE EMPIRE
The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948
Eva-Marie Kröller
Crossing time and oceans, this fascinating history of the McIlwraiths tracks the family’s imperial identities across the generations to tell a story of anthropology and empire.
Writing the Empire is a collective biography of the McIlwraiths, a family of politicians, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, scientists, and scholars. Known for their contributions to literature, politics, and anthropology, the McIlwraiths originated in Ayrshire, Scotland, and spread across the British Empire, specifically North America and Australia, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.
Focusing on imperial networking, Writing the Empire reflects on three generations of the McIlwraiths’ life-writing through contained in correspondence, diaries, memoirs, and estate papers, along with published works by members of the family. By moving from generation to generation, but also from one stage of a person’s life to the next, the author investigates some of the ways in which various McIlwraiths, both men and women, articulated their identity as subjects of the British Empire over time. Kröller identifies parallel and competing forms of communication that involved major public figures beyond the family’s immediate circle, and explores the challenges issued by Indigenous people to imperial ideologies. Drawing from private papers and public archives, Writing the Empire is an illuminating biography that will appeal to readers interested in the links between life-writing and imperial history.
Eva-Marie Kröller is a professor emerita in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.
Approx. 528 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021
23 illustrations / 1 map
Cloth 978-1-4875-0757-2
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Breviary of Aesthetics
Four Lectures
Benedetto Croce
Translated by Hiroko Fudemoto
Introduction by Remo Bodei
The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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Breviary of Aesthetics is Benedetto Croce’s decisive study of the arts, which remains a high-water mark in the philosophy of aesthetics to this day.
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) was among the most important of those philosophers of the twentieth century who grappled with issues of pure aesthetics. The series of lectures written in 1912 as the inaugural address of the Rice Institute in Texas and collected under the title Breviario di estetica ( Breviary of Aesthetics ) is undoubtedly Croce‘s definitive study of the arts, and the work remains foundational in the philosophy of aesthetics to this day. It has been translated into several languages and continues to attract a wide readership.
In this edition, Breviary of Aesthetics is presented in a brand new English translation and accompanied by informative endnotes that discuss many of the philosophers, writers, and works cited by Croce in his original text. The new translation deliberately preserves the idiosyncratic use of language for which Croce was famous, and emphasizes his writing style, which, together with that of Galileo Galilei, is considered to be among the most lucid in Italian literature.
Remo Bodei was a professor of the history of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Hiroko Fudemoto is a translator based in Los Angeles.
Approx. 144 pp. / 6 x 9 / Available Paper 978-1-4875-2610-8
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Affective Geographies Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean
AFFECTIVE GEOGRAPHIES
Paul Michael Johnson Toronto Iberic
By reading the works of Miguel de Cervantes through the history of emotion, this book defies a series of long-standing commonplaces about the author’s writing and the Mediterranean region at large
For Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to speak of an emotional experience. As its point of departure, this book takes the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are the region’s geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean.
Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes’ texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes’ writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today.
Paul Michael Johnson is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at DePauw University.
Approx. 312 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2021 13 images
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Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Edited
by Erin Alice Cowling, Tania de Miguel Magro, Mina García, and Glenda Y . Nieto-Cuebas
Toronto Iberic
This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice .
This collection of original new essays focuses on the many ways in which early modern Spanish plays engaged their audiences in a dialogue about abuse, injustice, and inequality. Far from the traditional monolithic view of theatrical works as tools for expanding ideology, these essays each recognize the power of theatre in reflecting on issues related to social justice. The first section of the book focuses on textual analysis, taking into account legal, feminist, and collective bargaining theory. The second section explores issues surrounding theatricality, performativity, and intellectual property laws through an analysis of contemporary adaptations. The final section reflects on social justice from the practitioners’ point of view, including actors and directors.
Erin Alice Cowling is an assistant professor of Spanish at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada.
Tania de Miguel Magro is an associate professor of Spanish at West Virginia University.
Mina García is an associate professor of Spanish at Elon University.
Glenda Y Nieto-Cuebas is an associate professor of modern foreign languages at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Approx. 296 pp./ 6 x 9 / November 2020 3 images
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The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving
Arte de cocina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería
Francisco Martínez Montiño
A Critical Edition and Translation by Carolyn A . Nadeau
Culinaria
Taking readers back to the Spanish Habsburg court, this critical edition and translation of Arte de cocina presents a nuanced understanding of what foods were prepared and consumed during a monumental time in Spain’s culinary history
In 1611 Francisco Martínez Montiño, chef to Philip II, Philip III, and Philip IV of Spain, published what would become the most recognized Spanish cookbook for centuries: Arte de cocina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería. This first English translation of The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving will delight and surprise readers with the rich array of ingredients and techniques found in the early modern kitchen.
Based on her substantial research and hands-on experimentation, Carolyn A. Nadeau reveals how early cookbooks were organized and read and presents an in-depth analysis of the ingredients featured in the book. She also introduces Martínez Montiño and his contributions to culinary history, along with an assessment of taste at court and an explanation of regional, ethnic, and international foodstuffs and recipes. The 506 recipes and treatises reproduced in The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving outline everything from rules for kitchen cleanliness to abstinence foods to seasonal banquet menus, providing insight into why this cookbook, penned by the chef of kings, stayed in production for centuries.
Francisco Martínez Montiño was a Spanish cook and writer of the Golden Age.
Carolyn A. Nadeau is a Byron S. Tucci Professor of Spanish at Illinois Wesleyan University.
The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving
Of related interest: The Gastronomical Arts in Spain: Food and Etiquette Edited by Frederick A de Armas and James Mandrell 978-1-4875-4052-4
A Critical Edition and Translation by Carolyn A. Nadeau
Francisco Martínez Montiño
Arte de cocina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería
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The Arts of Encounter
Toronto Iberic
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The Arts of Encounter Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
The Arts of Encounter Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain
Catherine Infante
Catherine Infante
Toronto Iberic
The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding ChristianMuslim relations in early modern Spain.
The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding ChristianMuslim relations in early modern Spain
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose to portray relations between Christians and Muslims.
Drawing on a wide variety of literary genres as well as other textual and visual sources, including historical chronicles, travel memoirs, captives’ testimonies, and paintings, Catherine Infante traces the references to religious visual culture and the responses they incited in cross-confessional negotiations. She reveals some of the anxieties about what it meant to belong to different ethnic or religious communities and how these communities interacted with each other within the fluid boundaries of the Mediterranean world. Focusing on the religious image as a point of contact between individuals of diverse beliefs and practices, The Arts of Encounter presents an original and necessary perspective on how Christian-Muslim relations were perceived and conveyed in print.
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose to portray relations between Christians and Muslims.
Measured Words
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Measured Words Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Arielle Saiber
Toronto Italian Studies
Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.
Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenthand sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista Della Porta.
Catherine Infante is an assistant professor of Spanish at Amherst College.
Drawing on a wide variety of literary genres as well as other textual and visual sources, including historical chronicles, travel memoirs, captives’ testimonies, and paintings, Catherine Infante traces the references to religious visual culture and the responses they incited in cross-confessional negotiations. She reveals some of the anxieties about what it meant to belong to different ethnic or religious communities and how these communities interacted with each other within the fluid boundaries of the Mediterranean world. Focusing on the religious image as a point of contact between individuals of diverse beliefs and practices, The Arts of Encounter presents an original and necessary perspective on how Christian-Muslim relations were perceived and conveyed in print.
February 2022
264 pages, 6 x 9
Catherine Infante is an assistant professor of Spanish at Amherst College.
18 black-and-white illustrations
Although these Renaissance humanists came from different social classes and practised the mathematical and literary arts at varying levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the literary arts and mathematics yielded extraordinary results, from Alberti’s treatise on cryptography and Pacioli’s design calculations for the Roman alphabet to Tartaglia’s poetic solutions of cubic equations and Della Porta’s dramatic applications of geometry. Through lively, cogent analysis of these and other related texts of the period, Measured Words presents, literally and figuratively, brilliant examples of what interdisciplinary work can offer us.
Arielle Saiber is a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College.
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Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy Arielle Saiber
Approx. 400 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2020 Cloth 978-1-4875-0659-9
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Also by Ross Dealy: The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ 978-1-4875-0061-0
Before Utopia
The Making of Thomas More’s Mind
Ross Dealy
This book explores the influence of Stoicism on the evolution of Thomas More’s mind, asserting that More’s engagement with the work of Erasmus radicalized his understanding of Christianity and shaped the writing of Utopia
Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy. That philosophy is not Platonism, but classical Stoicism.
Deeply disturbed in his youth by the conviction that he needed to decide between a worldly and a monastic path, Thomas More’s outlook was transformed in 1504 by Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu and Enchiridion. As a consequence, he married in 1505 and wholeheartedly committed himself to worldly affairs. His Lucian (1506), written after working directly with Erasmus, adopts the Stoic mindset; Erasmus’ Praise of Folly (1511) shows from beginning to end the workings of More’s life-changing Stoic outlook. More’s Utopia then goes on to systematically illustrate the Stoic unitary two-dimensional frame of thought within an imaginary New World setting.
Before Utopia is not just a book about Thomas More. It is a book about intellectual history and the movement of ideas from the ancient world to the Renaissance. Ross Dealy emphasizes the continuity between Erasmus and More in their religious and philosophical thought, and above all the decisive influence of Erasmus on More.
Ross Dealy is a retired associate professor at St. John’s University, NY.
Chocolate
How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature
Erin Alice Cowling
Toronto Iberic
Chocolate traces representations of chocolate in Spanish literature and historical documents, providing a fascinating and worldly narrative about one of the most beloved foods of all time.
Approx. 200 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021
5 illustrations
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university of toronto press
In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature considers chocolate as an object of collective memory used to bridge the transatlantic gap through Spanish literary works of the early modern period, tracing the mention of chocolate from indigenous legends and early chronicles of the conquistadors to the theatre and literature of Spain. Cowling also examines literary works that grapple with a variety of questions surrounding the uses of chocolate, from the ecclesiastical to medicinal, and sexual to commercial. Chocolate explores a wide range of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury texts, letters, testimonies and ship registers from the Archivo de Indias, contemporary chronicles and histories, as well as cookbooks. The book considers a variety of perspectives and material cultures, such as the pre-Colombian conception of chocolate, the commercial enterprise surrounding chocolate, and the darker side of chocolate’s connections to witchcraft and sex. Encapsulating both historical and literary interests, Chocolate will appeal to anyone interested in the global history of chocolate.
Erin Alice Cowling is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Humanities at MacEwan University.
The Court and Its Critics
Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy
Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England
Drama, Law, and Emotion
Paola Ugolini
Penelope Geng
Toronto Italian Series
This book focuses on disillusionment with courtliness, the derision of those who live at court, and the open hostility toward the court, themes common to Renaissance culture
Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.
Anti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth of modern politics and of an ethics based on merit and on individual self-interest.
The sixteenth century was a turning point for both law and drama. Relentless professionalization of the common law set off a cascade of lawyerly self-fashioning – resulting in blunt attacks on lay judgment. English playwrights, including Shakespeare, resisted the forces of legal professionalization by casting legal expertise as a detriment to moral feeling. They celebrated the ability of individuals, guided by conscience and working alongside members of their community, to restore justice.
The Court and Its Critics analyzes anti-courtly critiques using a wide variety of sources including manuals of courtliness, dialogues, satires, and plays, from the mid-fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. This book is structured around four key figures that embody different features of anti-courtly sentiments. The figure of the courtier shows that sentiments against the court were present even among those who apparently benefitted from such a system of power. The court lady allows an investigation of the intertwining between anticourtliness and anti-feminism. The satirist and the shepherd of pastoral dramas are investigated as attempts to fashion two different forms of a new self for the court intellectual.
An original and deeply sourced study of early modern literature and law, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England contributes to a growing body of scholarship devoted to the study of how drama creates and sustains community. Penelope Geng brings together a wealth of imaginative and documentary archives – including plays, sermons, conscience literature, Protestant hagiographies, legal manuals, and medieval and early modern chronicles – proving that literature never simply reacts to legal events but always actively invents legal questions, establishes legal expectations, and shapes legal norms.
Paola Ugolini is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.
Penelope Geng is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Macalester College.
Approx. 304 pages / 6 x 9 / February 2020
12 Illustrations
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Approx. 296 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2021 10 illustrations
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Dancing Queen
The Republic of Venice
De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
Marie de Médicis’ Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE
Edited by Filippo Sabetti
Melinda J. Gough NEW IN PAPERBACK
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Dancing Queen uses court ballet as a window into Marie de Médicis’ use of the performing arts as a vehicle for politically engaged queenship.
This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy
At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite argument, asking instead what makes institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century account of the Republic of Venice, to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic.
Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Médicis prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women’s and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie’s ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space.
In its long history, Venice was the only city that succeeded in constructing a durable republicanism and was one of the earliest to depart from the hierarchical world of national monarchies and sovereignty. Because of this, Sabetti suggests that Contarini’s The Republic of Venice may be just as instructive, if not more, than Machiavelli’s The Prince to students of politics. Contarini is as secular as Machiavelli and is as realistic in his view of human nature, but Contarini goes much further, examining in the case of Venice how it is possible for fallible human beings to construct a successful and stable government. This is the first modern English-language edition of Contarini’s classic work, De magistratibus et republica Venetorum, from the original Latin.
At times the queen’s productions could challenge Henri IV’s immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie’s own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen’s political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV’s untimely death.
Filippo Sabetti is a professor of Political Science at McGill University. Approx. 160 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2020 Cloth 978-1-4875-0584-4
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Melinda Gough is a professor of English and Cultural Studies, crossappointed to the Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research, at McMaster University.
Approx. 400 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2020
Renaissance Studies / History / Political Science
8 illustrations
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De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
gasparo contarini
The Gastronomical Arts in Spain
Food and Etiquette
Edited by Frederick A. de Armas and James Mandrell Toronto Iberic
This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of Spanish gastronomy and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present.
The Gastronomical Arts in Spain includes essays that span from the medieval to the contemporary world, providing a taste of the many ways in which the art of gastronomy developed in Spain over time. This collection encompasses a series of cultural objects and a number of interests, ranging from medicine to science, from meals to banquets, and from specific recipes to cookbooks.
The contributors consider Spanish cuisine as presented in a variety of texts, including literature, medical and dietary prescriptions, historical documents, cookbooks, and periodicals. They draw on literary texts in their socio-historical context in order to explore concerns related to the production and consumption of food for reasons of hunger, sustenance, health, and even gluttony.
Structured into three distinct “courses” that focus on the history of foodstuffs, food etiquette, and culinary fashion, The Gastronomical Arts in Spain brings together the many sights and sounds of the Spanish kitchen throughout the centuries.
February 2022
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Frederick A. De Armas is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.
James Mandrell is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Brandeis University.
Of related interest: Chocolate: How a New World Commodity
Conquered Spanish Literature
By Erin Alice Cowling
978-1-4875-2720-4
Alone Together
Gifts and Graces
Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia
Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan
Arms and Letters
Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain
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Henry
David Gay
Berlin Toronto Iberic
This book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy
Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.
The turn of the fifteenth century saw an explosion of literature throughout Iberia that was not just sentimental, but about sentiment. Alone Together reveals the political, ethical, and poetic dimensions of this phenomenon, which was among the most important of the substantial changes in intellectual and literary culture taking place in the crowns of Portugal, Castile, and Aragon. With careful analyses of lyric poetry, sentimental prose, and wide-ranging treatises in multiple languages, this study foregrounds the dense web of relations among these genres and linguistic and cultural traditions.
Prayer divided seventeenthcentury England. Anglican Conformists such as Lancelot Andrewes and Jeremy Taylor upheld set forms of prayer in the Book of Common Prayer, a book designed to unite the nation in worship. Puritan Reformers and Dissenters such as John Milton and John Bunyan rejected the prayer book and advocated for extemporaneous or free prayer. In 1645, the mainly Puritan Long Parliament proscribed the Book of Common Prayer and dismantled the Anglican Church in the midst of civil war. This led Anglican poets and liturgists to defend their tradition with energy and erudition in print. In 1662, with monarchy restored, the mainly Anglican Cavalier Parliament reinstated the Church and its prayer book to impose religious uniformity. This move galvanized English Nonconformity and Dissent and gave rise to a vibrant literary counter-tradition. Addressing this fascinating history, David Gay examines competing claims to spiritual gifts and graces in polemical texts and their influence on prayer and poetry. Amid the contention of differing voices, the disputed connection of poetry and prayer, imagination and religion, emerges as a central tension in early modern literature and culture.
Drawing on Stoic and early monastic thought, authors such as the Marqués de Santillana, Ausiàs March, and Alfonso de Madrigal explored the unifying potential of shared emotion in an ethical rehabilitation that cut across the personal and political, exalting friendly conversation, civic communication, and collective poetic composition. In his readings of these authors, Henry Berlin references recent work on lyric theory and the history and theory of emotion, from classical antiquity to the modern day. An exploration of the political and poetic potential of shared emotion, Alone Together shows how a heuristic focus on the notion of passion is illuminating for broader ongoing discussions about the nature of emotion, the lyric, and subjectivity.
David Gay is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Alberta.
Henry Berlin is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo SUNY. Approx. 296 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021
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Arms and Letters is the first study in English dedicated to the literary and cultural analysis of early modern Spanish military autobiographical texts
Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in contemporary historical context – including the coalescing of the first modern armies, which were partially populated by forced recruits and the urban poor – Faith S. Harden explains how soldiers adapted the concept of honour and contributed to the burgeoning autobiographical form. Harden argues that Spanish military life writing took two broad forms: the first as a petition, wherein the soldier’s service was presented as a debt of honour, and the second as a series of misadventures, staging honour as a spectacle that captivated an audience. Honour was inevitably gendered and performative, and as such, it functioned as one of the overarching metrics of value that early modern men and women applied to themselves and others. In charting how non-elite subjects rendered their lives legitimate through autobiography, Arms and Letters contributes both to a critical genealogy of honour and to the history of life writing.
Faith S Harden is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona.
Approx. 224 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
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Faith S. Harden
Goodbye Eros
Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes
Sarra Copia Sulam
A Jewish Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice
Edited by John Beusterien and Ana Maria Laguna Toronto Iberic
Goodbye Eros Goodbye Eros
A surplus of amatory tropes exhausted Spanish literature in the age of Cervantes This book examines the rich array of ways that Spanish Golden Age authors responded by crafting a new literary aesthetic
Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses of love and make them compelling again? This volume explores how Spanish letters recognized that old love paradigms presented an extraordinary opportunity for revising traditional literary strictures. As a result, during Spain’s nascent modernity, literature took up the challenge to expand existing forms of desire and subjectivity.
A range of scholars show how canonical and non-canonical Golden Age writers like Miguel de Cervantes became equal agents of the sweeping ontological reconfiguration of the idea of eros that defined their culture. Such reconfiguration includes: the troubling displacement of “self” and “other”; the overlapping of emotions such as love and jealousy; and the conflation of axioms such as eros and eris prevalent in contemporaneous epic experiments.
John Beusterien is professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University. Ana Maria Laguna is an associate professor of Spanish at Rutgers University-Camden.
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$75.00 (£51.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1967-4 $75.00 Renaissance Studies
Lynn Lara Westwater
Toronto Italian Series
This first biography of the Jewish poet and polemicist Copia Sulam situates her in the tradition of women’s writing in Venice and explores her rise and fall as a public intellectual .
For nearly a decade at the height of the Counter-Reformation in Italy, the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam (ca. 1592–1641) held a literary salon at her house in the Venetian ghetto, providing one of the most public and enduring forums for Jewish-Christian interaction in early modern Venice. Though Copia Sulam gained fame for her erudition, built a powerful intellectual network, and published a work on the immortality of the soul (1621), her career later foundered under the weight of slanderous charges against her sexual, professional, and religious integrity.
This first biography of Copia Sulam examines the explosive relationship between gender, religion, and the press in seventeenth-century Venice through a study of her literary career. The backdrop to this inquiry is Venice’s tumultuous religious, cultural, and political climate and the competitive world of its presses, where men and women, Christians and Jews, alternately collaborated and clashed as they sought to gain a foothold in the most prestigious publishing capital in Europe.
Lynn Lara Westwater is associate professor of Italian in the Department of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures at The George Washington University.
Approx. 376 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2020
33 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0583-7
$85.00 (£54.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3279-6 $80.00
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university of toronto press
Edited by Ana María Laguna and John Beusterien
The IberoAmerican Baroque
Edited by Beatriz de Alba-Koch
Toronto Iberic
The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.
The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic.
This collection of original essays focuses on the media, institutions, and technologies that were central to cultural exchanges in a broad early modern Iberian world, brought into being in the aftermath of the Spanish and Portuguese arrivals in the Americas. Focusing on the period from 1600 to 1825, these essays explore early modern Iberian architecture, painting, sculpture, music, sermons, reliquaries, processions, emblems, and dreams, shedding light on the Baroque as a historical moment of far-reaching and long-lasting importance.
Anchored in extensive empirical research that provides evidence for understanding how the Baroque became globalized, The Ibero-American Baroque showcases the ways in which the Baroque has continued to define Latin American identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Beatriz de Alba-Koch is an associate professor of History and director of Latin American Studies at the University of Victoria.
February 2022
360 pages, 6 x 9
54 colour images, 28 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4426-4883-8
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4426-1884-8
$85.00
Renaissance Studies
Poetry of Things
A Poetry of Things
The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain
Mary E. Barnard
Toronto Iberic
A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 – a time of social and economic crisis, but also of remarkable artistic and literary production.
A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598–1621). Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Juan de Arguijo, and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza cast cultural objects –ranging from books and tombstones to urban ruins, sculptures, and portraits – as participants in lively interactions with their readers and viewers across time and space.
Mary E. Barnard argues that in their dialogic performance, these objects serve as sites of inquiry for exploring contemporary political, social, and religious issues, such as the preservation of humanist learning in an age of print, the collapse of empires and the rebirth of the city, and the visual culture of the Counter-Reformation. Her inspired readings explain how the performance of cultural objects, whether they remain in situ or are displayed in a library, museum, or convent, is the most compelling.
Mary E. Barnard is an associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.
January 2022
208 pages, 6 x 9
24 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0918-7
$50.00 (£32.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3986-3
$50.00
Renaissance Studies
Edited by Beatriz de Alba-Koch
The IBERO-AMERICAN BAROQUE
The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines
Melissa Emerson Walter
This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare’s literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency
Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comic heroines express the playwright’s reading of the novella, particularly his comic vision at the turn of the seventeenth century, this book demonstrates how such a vision valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female authority in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy.
Melissa Emerson Walter is an associate professor in the Department of English at University of the Fraser Valley.
Thoughtful and thorough, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama explores the interplay between historiography and Renaissance English drama
In the decades before history was institutionalized as a scholarly discipline, historical writing was practiced by poets, record keepers, lawyers, sermonizers, mythologers, and philosophers. In the welter of competing forms of historical thought, early modern drama often operated as a site in which claims about the nature of historical change could be treated in their frequently conflicting variety.
To explore this field of competing forms of historical explanation, Untimely Deaths focuses on the problem of narrative abruption in a selection of historically-minded early modern plays as they rely on various strategies to make sense of biography and fatality. Arguing that narrative forms fail in the face of untimely death, Andrew Griffin shows that the disruption appears as a matter of trauma, making the untimely death both a point of narrative conflict and a social problem. Exploring the formula that early modern dramatists used to make sense of lives and deaths, this book draws on the wider context of the period’s culture of history writing.
Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Making Worlds Global Invention in the Early Modern Period
Edited by Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson
Clark Memorial Library Series
Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world .
Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.
Angela Vanhaelen is a professor of art history at McGill University.
Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.
December 2022
496 pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w illustrations, 70 colour illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4493-5
$95.00 (£62.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-4495-9
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Renaissance Studies
Collected Works of Erasmus Controversies, Volume 74
Desiderius Erasmus
Edited by Jan Bloemendal
This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus’ response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics
Erasmus’ thorough engagement with the New Testament, in particular his revision of the Vulgate translation, aroused much controversy, especially in the orthodox Roman Catholic country of Spain. Erasmus had to fight fierce polemics with several people, including two Spanish scholars, Diego López Zúñiga and Sancho Carranza de Miranda, who were both connected to the University of Alcalà. This quarrel lasted from 1520 to 1524, with a late response by Erasmus in 1529. The discussion started as a philological one, regarding “correct” Latin, but turned into a dogmatic-theological fight over the issues of whether the New Testament speaks of Christ as God, whether one can apply the term servus (servant) to Christ, and whether the sacramental character of matrimony can be deduced from Ephesians 5:32.
The five texts in this volume are, for the first time, translated and annotated. With elucidating notes and an introduction, the volume offers wonderful insight into a fierce and fundamental polemic over the New Testament.
Jan Bloemendal is a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute and lecturer at Ruhr University Bochum.
December 2022
320 pages, 6 ¾ x 9 ¾
Cloth 978-1-4875-4629-8
$175.00 (£115.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4630-4
$175.00
Renaissance Studies / Religious Studies
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
Jessica Goethals
Toronto Italian Studies
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century .
The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth century. She secured a steady stream of elite patrons – including popes, queens, grand dukes, and influential cardinals – while male poets and librettists wrote celebratory poetry on her behalf. In addition to her appearances as a soprano on the opera stage, Costa published a remarkable fourteen full-length texts across an expanse of genres: burlesque comedy, drama, equestrian ballet, pastoral opera, amorous letters, lyric poetry, and history.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court brings together close textual readings of Costa’s numerous publications with archival materials detailing her performance itinerary and social-cultural networks. The book progresses chronologically through her life, geographically along the routes she travelled, and thematically via the genres in which she experimented. Jessica Goethals illuminates how Costa was unafraid to leap over the boundaries of decorum that delimited what women should and did write about. More than merely a literary biography, this book is also a portrait of seventeenth-century courts, their concerns, and their entertainments.
Jessica Goethals is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Alabama.
JESSICA GOETHALS
FRANCO in Dialogue Of related interest: Veronica Franco in Dialogue By
Marilyn Migiel
978-1-4875-4258-0
MARGHERITA
COSTA
Diva of the Baroque Court
October 2023
360 pages, 6 x 9
29 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4730-1
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4731-8
$85.00
Renaissance Studies
Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
Anuradha Gobin
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal body to civic life.
Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, out, and through publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Once put to death, the criminal cadaver did not come to rest. Its movement through public spaces indicated the potent afterlife of the deviant body, especially its ability to transform civic life.
Focusing on material culture associated with key sites of punishment, Anuradha Gobin argues that the circulation of visual media related to criminal punishments was a particularly effective means of generating discourse and formulating public opinion, especially regarding the efficacy of civic authority. As Gobin shows, visual culture thus facilitated a space in which potentially dissenting positions could be formulated while also bringing together seemingly disparate groups of people in a quest for new knowledge.
Combining a diverse array of sources including architecture, paintings, prints, anatomical illustrations, and preserved body parts, Picturing Punishment demonstrates how the criminal corpse was reactivated, reanimated, and in many ways reintegrated into society.
Anuradha Gobin is an associate professor in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary.
Approx. 328 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2021 90 illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0380-2
$80.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-1881-3 $80.00 Renaissance Studies
The Trial of Jeanne Catherine
Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva
THE TRIAL OF JEANNE CATHERINE
$24.95 (£18.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8769-7 $19.95 History PICTURING
Sara Beam
This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, one of whom was her own.
In 1686 in Geneva, a single mother named Jeanne Catherine Thomasset was charged with poisoning two young children: her own illegitimate daughter and the son of a rural wet nurse. This began a protracted criminal trial during which authorities interrogated Jeanne Catherine several times, sometimes with torture, in order to determine the truth. The stakes were high since women proven to have committed infanticide were usually hanged in the seventeenth century.
The Trial of Jeanne Catherine is a suspenseful historical mystery that offers students the opportunity to learn about motherhood, child rearing, gender, religion, local politics, and the practice of criminal justice in early modern Europe. This edition provides the complete trial transcript as well as the deliberations of the Genevan authorities and relevant correspondence. Students are encouraged to read, interpret, and draw their own conclusions about the reasons for infanticide prosecutions as well as their impact on the experience of single mothers and their children.
Sara Beam is a professor of History at the University of Victoria.
Approx. 128 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021
2 illustrations / 3 maps
Cloth 978-1-4875-8768-0
$65.00 (£48.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-8767-3
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
ANURADHA GOBIN
INFANTICIDE IN EARLY MODERN GENEVA
Beam
Perilous Passions
Ethics and Emotion in Early Modern Spain
Hilaire Kallendorf
Toronto Iberic
Perilous Passions explores the ethical implications of emotion in Spanish Golden Age theatre
Can feelings be wrong? Scientists agree that emotions contain both a cognitive and a physiological component. The cognitive part can be modified, while the physiological response is largely involuntary. In religious terms, the answer is clear in its legislation of heart motives: love your enemies, lust is equivalent to adultery, hate is the same thing as murder.
In Perilous Passions, Hilaire Kallendorf draws on early modern Spanish theatre to reveal how emotions have always been understood as central to ethics. Starting with a treatise on emotion, On the Passions of the Soul by Juan Luis Vives (1493–1540), Kallendorf uses pairs of opposing emotions – love/hatred, desire/aversion, joy/sorrow, hope/despair, and courage/fear – to explore how they are depicted in Golden Age plays.
The book pinpoints and probes intersections of feelings with morality. It asks: Do emotions bear positive or negative ethical overtones? Which emotions are more conducive to virtue? Are passions perceived as perilous in early modern Spain, in agreement with Neostoic principles? Or does the Catholic liturgy’s emphasis on involving the corporeal senses in worship mean that bodily sensations, including feelings, are accorded pride of place – especially in drama? In asking these questions, Perilous Passions argues for the significance of theatre in emotional education.
Hilaire Kallendorf is a professor of Hispanic and religious studies at Texas A&M University.
PERILOUS Passions
Ethics and Emotion in Early Modern Spain
By Henry Berlin
978-1-4875-0967-5
April 2024
400 pages, 6 x 9
18 colour illustrations, 4 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-2703-7
$115.00 (£75.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-2705-1
$115.00
Renaissance Studies
HILAIRE KALLENDORF
Solitude and Speechlessness
Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation
Andrew Mattison
This book argues that experiences of isolation are inherent to the writing and reading of Renaissance literature, and finds parallels in the lives of solitary figures including Orphean poets, stoic ascetics, and anchoritic hermits
Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an alternative understanding of writing with a complementary mode of reading: literary engagement, it suggests, is the meeting of strangers, each in a state of isolation. The Renaissance authors discussed in this study did not necessarily work alone or without collaborators, but they were uncertain who would read their writings and whether those readers would understand them.
The figure of the isolated, misunderstood, or misjudged poet is a preoccupation that relies on imagining the lives of wandering and complaining youths, eloquent melancholics, exemplary hermits, homeless orphans, and retiring stoics; such figures acknowledge the isolation in literary experience. Solitude and Speechlessness proposes an interpretive mode it defines as strange reading: a reading that merges comprehension with indeterminacy and the imaginative work of interpretation with the recognition of historical difference.
Andrew Mattison teaches in the English Department at the University of Toledo.
Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance
Early Modern Asceticism
Patrick J McGrath
Challenging contemporary perceptions of the ascetic in the early modern period, this book explores asceticism as a vital site of religious conflict and literary creativity, rather than merely a vestige of a medieval past
In discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book challenges the perception that the Renaissance marks a decisive shift in attitudes towards the body, sex, and the self. In early modernity, self-respect was a Satanic impulse that had to be annihilated; the body was not celebrated, but beaten into subjection; and, feeling circumscribed by sexual desire, ascetics found relief in pain, solitude, and deformity. On the basis of this austerity, Early Modern Asceticism questions the ease with which scholarship often elides the early and the modern.
Patrick J McGrath is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Approx. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0532-5
$70.00 (£47.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-3200-0 $70.00
Literary Studies / Religious Studies
Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance
Patrick j. M c Grath
A Sudden Frenzy Improvisation, Orality,
and
Power in Renaissance Italy
James K . Coleman
Toronto Italian Studies
A Sudden Frenzy explores the intellectual and cultural history of improvisation and oral poetry in Renaissance Italy .
In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational performance of poetry that constituted one of the most popular forms of entertainment.
A Sudden Frenzy explores the development and impact of these Renaissance practices of improvisation and oral poetry. James K. Coleman shows how the confluence of humanist culture and the art of oral poetry resulted in an extraordinary turn toward improvisation and spontaneity that profoundly influenced poetry, music, and politics. By examining the culture of improvisation, this book reveals the ways in which Renaissance thinkers transcended cultural dichotomies, both in theory and in practice. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including letters, poetry, visual art, and philosophical texts, A Sudden Frenzy reveals the far-reaching and sometimes surprising ways that these phenomena shaped cultural developments in the Italian Renaissance and beyond.
James K. Coleman is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh.
June 2022
264 pages, 6 x 9
8 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-6344-8
$70.00 (£46.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-6346-2
$70.00
Renaissance Studies
Veronica
Dialogue
Marilyn Migiel
VERONICA FRANCO in Dialogue
Veronica Franco in Dialogue reconsiders the literary and cultural significance of a well-known sixteenth-century Venetian courtesan and writer .
Since the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated her sexuality, an outspoken champion of women and their worth, and an important intellectual and cultural presence in sixteenth-century Venice.
In Veronica Franco in Dialogue, Marilyn Migiel provides a nuanced account of Franco’s rhetorical strategies through a close analysis of her literary work. Focusing on the first fourteen poems in the Terze Rime, a collection of Franco’s poems published in 1575, Migiel looks specifically at back-and-forth exchanges between Franco and an unknown male author. Migiel argues that in order to better understand what Franco is doing in the poetic collection, it is essential to understand how she constructs her identity as author, lover, and sex worker in relation to this unknown male author.
Veronica Franco in Dialogue accounts for the moments of ambivalence, uncertainty, and indirectness in Franco’s poetry, as well as the polemicism and assertions of triumph. In doing so, it asks readers to consider their ideological investments in the stories we tell about early modern female authors and their cultural production.
Marilyn Migiel is a professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University.
May 2022
224 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4258-0
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4259-7
$65.00
Renaissance Studies
Franco in
Toronto Italian Studies
MARILYN MIGIEL
The War Trumpet
Iberian Epic Poetry, 1543–1639
Edited by Emiro Martínez-Osorio and Mercedes Blanco
Toronto
Iberic
This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639 .
The epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration.
The War Trumpet features nine substantial essays that expand our understanding of Iberian Renaissance epic poetry by posing questions seldom raised in relation to poems such as La Araucana , Os Lusíadas, Carlo famoso, El Bernardo, Arauco Domado, Espejo de paciencia , and Felicissima Victoria , among others. Particularly compelling are questions concerned with early modern understandings of the natural world, the practice of poetic imitation, the discipline of cartography, or the reception of Petrarchism in the newly established viceroyalties of the New World. Fostering a greater appreciation of the intersection between poetry, war, and exploration, The War Trumpet sheds light on the transformative changes that took place during the period of Iberian expansion.
Emiro Martínez-Osorio is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University.
Mercedes Blanco is a professor of Spanish Golden Age literature at Sorbonne University.
March 2023
368 pages, 6 x 9
22 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4632-8
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4633-5
$85.00
Renaissance Studies / Literary Studies
Toronto Iberic
Drawing the Curtain
Cervantes’s Theatrical Revelations
Edited by Esther Fernández and Adrienne L . Martín
Drawing the Curtain examines the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes experiments with theatre and exploits theatricality in his diverse literary creations .
Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes’s prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production.
Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook’s notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín argue that Cervantes’s omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.
Esther Fernández is an associate professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures at Rice University.
Adrienne L. Martín is a professor emerita of early modern Spanish literature and culture and former Vice Provost-Global Affairs at the University of California, Davis.
February 2023
360 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-0877-7
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3893-4
$85.00
Renaissance Studies
Edited by Emiro Martínez-Osorio & Mercedes Blanco
IBERIAN EPIC POETRY , 1543–1639
THE WAR TRUMPET
Cervantes’s Theatrical Revelations
Edited by Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín
Angles on a Kingdom
East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric
Angles on a Kingdom
Joseph Grossi
Angles on a Kingdom analyses changing attitudes towards East Anglia within early medieval England as revealed in several important literary texts.
From the eighth century to the turn of the millennium, East Anglia had a variety of identities thrust upon it by authors of the period who envisioned a unified England. Although they were not regional writers in the modern sense, Bede, Felix, the annalists of the AngloSaxon Chronicle, King Alfred of Wessex, Abbo of Fleury, and Ælfric of Eynsham took a keen interest in East Anglia, especially in its potential to undo English cultural cohesiveness as they imagined it.
Angles on a Kingdom argues that those authors treated East Anglia as both a hindrance and a stimulus to the development of early English “national” consciousness. Combining close textual reading with consideration of early medieval barrow burials, coinage, border delineation, and rivalries between monastic houses, Joseph Grossi examines various forms of cultural affirmation and manipulation. Angles on a Kingdom shows that, over the course of roughly two and a half centuries, the literary metamorphoses of East Anglia hint at the region’s recurring tensions with its neighbours –tensions which suggest that writers who sought to depict a coherent England downplayed what they deemed to be dangerous impulses emanating from the island’s easternmost corner.
Joseph Grossi is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Victoria.
Approx. 432 pp. / 6 x 9 / July 2021
1 illustration
Cloth 978-1-4875-0573-8
$85.00 (£63.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3257-4 $85.00 Medieval Studies
The Saint and the Count A
Case Study for Reading like a Historian
Leah Shopkow
In this pedagogical microhistory, Leah Shopkow demonstrates the skills used to present history through the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny.
While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts.
In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks they use. What is the nature of medieval sources and the interpretive problems they present? How does the positionality of Stephen of Fougères shape his biography of St. Vitalis? How did medieval people respond to stories of miracles? And finally, how does this biography illuminates the problem of violence in medieval society? A translation of the biography is included, so that readers can explore the text on their own.
Leah Shopkow is a professor of history at Indiana UniversityBloomington.
Approx. 216 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2021 4 illustrations / 3 maps / 1 table Cloth 978-1-4875-0843-2
$65.00 (£65.00) A Paper 978-1-4875-2586-6
$24.95 (£18.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-3823-1 $19.95 History / Medieval Studies
THE SAINT AND THE COUNT
JOSEPH GROSSI
East Anglian Identities om Bede to Æl ic
Illness and Authority
Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi
Illness & Authority
Donna Trembinski
Illness and Authority is the first monograph-length study to examine a wellknown medieval saint from the perspective of disability studies
Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach re-centres Francis’s illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding traditional modes of masculine authority within both the Franciscan Order he founded and the church hierarchy. So concerned were members of the Franciscan leadership that the future saint was compelled to seek out medical treatment and spent the last two years of his life in the nearly constant care of doctors. Unlike other studies of Francis’s ailments, Illness and Authority focuses on the impact of his illnesses on his autonomy and secular power rather than his spiritual authority.
From downplaying the comfort Francis received from music to disappearing doctors in the narratives of his life, early biographers worked to minimize the realities of his infirmities. When they could not do so, they turned the saint’s experiences into teachable moments that demonstrated his saintly and steadfast devotion and his trust in God. Illness and Authority explores the struggles that early authors of Francis’s vitae experienced as they tried to make sense of a saint whose life did not fit the traditional rhythms of a founder-saint.
Donna Trembinski is an associate professor of Medieval History at St. Francis Xavier University.
Approx. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0741-1
$65.00 (£48.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3620-6 $65.00 Medieval Studies / Religious Studies
The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
Edited by Michael Sherberg
Toronto Italian Studies
This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature
This volume, part of the Lectura Bocacccii series organized by the American Boccaccio Association, offers close readings by top scholars of Day Four of the Decameron. As fans of the Decameron know, the Fourth Day opens with an important intervention in which the author defends his project against his critics, which coincides with a significant change in tone as the subject matter turns to stories with unhappy endings. The contributors approach the stories from a variety of perspectives, including linguistic, philosophical, anthropological, and literary historical viewpoints. These fresh readings of stories that are nearly seven hundred years old testify to the enduring power of Boccaccio’s masterpiece to speak to new audiences and to find compelling relevance even at a great distance from its immediate medieval context.
Michael Sherberg is a former president of the American Boccaccio Association and erstwhile chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University.
Approx. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / November 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0747-3
$70.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3632-9 $70.00 Medieval Literature / Italian Studies
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The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
Donna Trembinski
OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Edited by David Lummus P
Approx. 328 pp. / 6 x 9 / June 2021
Cloth 978-1-4875-0871-5
$75.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-0870-8 $75.00 Medieval Literature / Italian Studies
The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
Edited by David Lummus
Toronto Italian Studies
The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio’s Decameron – a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning.
The Sixth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron marks a new beginning. Its first story is the structural centre of the one hundred tales and signals the start of the day’s reflection on the power of the word as the fundamental building block of human communication. This collection gathers together readings of each of the ten stories in Day Six of the Decameron – the shortest of the entire work. Featuring a diverse group of literary scholars whose expertise is not limited to Boccaccio studies, the collection offers both comprehensive accounts of the tales and new interpretations of their significance. A major contribution to the study of the Decameron, it will also serve as an excellent starting point for new readers of Boccaccio’s masterpiece.
The readings demonstrate how Boccaccio engaged in rethinking or elaborating on the heritage of Western literature and thought, including the Bible; the works of Dante; the Roman literary, rhetorical, and legal tradition; the writings of the Church Fathers; and the ideas of scholastic theologians. These lecturae employ a range of methodologies that account for both historical and theoretical issues in their engagement with Boccaccio’s poetic and ethical project in the Decameron
David Lummus is co-director of the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies and a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame.
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
Edited by William Robins
Toronto Italian Studies
Edited by William Robins 978-1-4875-0690-2
Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio’s Decameron
This book explores Boccaccio’s poetics of repetition, accumulation, and contiguity in Day Eight, a day rich in tales of practical jokes
Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Day Eight – a day dedicated to tales of tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante’s Commedia, and scripture, and by meditating on the dynamics of civic engagement in fourteenth-century Florence, Boccaccio develops in these stories of jests a self-consciously literary representation of the Florentine social imaginary.
The essays in this volume, all written by prominent scholars, survey previous scholarship and open up new cultural and historical perspectives on Boccaccio’s sophisticated art of storytelling. They analyze both the literary sources that Boccaccio’s comic narratives transform, as well as the political, legal, and ethical contexts with which they engage. Each contributor tackles a single tale, yet their essays also register major themes and concerns that recur throughout Day Eight, allowing for close connections among the essays.
William Robins is president of Victoria University and associate professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
THE DECAMERON EIGHTH DAY IN PERSPECTIVE
EDITED BY WILLIAM ROBINS
Approx. 296 pp. / 6 x 9 / August 2020
1 map, 1 table
Cloth 978-1-4875-0690-2
$75.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3513-1 $75.00
Medieval Studies
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
Edited by Susanna Barsella and Simone Marchesi
Toronto Italian Studies
This collection of original essays from leading scholars breaks new ground in our understanding of the tales belonging to the Ninth Day of the Decameron.
The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before the inception of the final stories dedicated to the highest civic virtues of liberality and magnificence.
This collection comprises extensive and rigorous essays by leading experts in the field of Boccaccio studies and medieval literature, shedding new critical light on the Ninth Day. The volume incorporates a multitude of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, visual arts, political history, and gender studies. Taking a holistic approach, the contributors to the volume trace the dense and multi-layered web of interrelations between the narrative units and the rest of the Decameron . Connections between individual stories are highlighted and interactions between Day Nine and its counterparts in the book are analysed. In doing so, The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective synthesizes existing scholarship but also opens up new horizons for future work.
Susanna Barsella is a professor of Italian at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department and the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University.
Simone Marchesi is an associate professor of Italian at Princeton University.
April 2022
344 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4049-4
$80.00 (£52.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4051-7
$80.00
Medieval Studies
Boccaccio’s Florence
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
Elsa Filosa
Toronto Italian Studies
Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work
Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer.
Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political, and social turbulence of Florence at this time, as well as the major players in literary and political circles, to understand the complex ways they emerged in Boccaccio’s writing. Based on extensive archival research and close reading of Boccaccio’s works, the book aims to recover the dynamics of the Florentine conspiracy of 1360 and how this event affected Boccaccio’s writing, arguing that his works reveal clear references to this episode when read in light of the reconstructed historical context.
In this rich and textured picture of the man in his time, Elsa Filosa documents a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio’s seminal works.
Elsa Filosa is an assistant of the practice in Italian at Vanderbilt University.
June 2022
400 pages, 6 x 9 6 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0580-6
$104.95 (£69.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3273-4
$104.95
Medieval Studies
THE DECAMERON Ninth Day in Perspective Edited by Susanna Barsella & Simone Marchesi
The Devil’s Historians
How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past
Amy S Kaufman and Paul B Sturtevant
The Devil’s Historians offers a passionate corrective to common – and very dangerous – myths about the medieval world
In this short and timely book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for “medieval times” behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, Kaufman and Sturtevant show us that the Middle Ages have been twisted for political purposes in every century that followed.
The Devil’s Historians casts aside the myths of an oppressive, patriarchal medieval monoculture and reveals a medieval world not often shown in popular culture: one that is diverse, thriving, courageous, compelling, and far more complex than those who want to bring us back to the Middle Ages would have you believe.
Amy S Kaufman is a scholar of medieval studies and popular culture.
Paul B Sturtevant is Editor-in-Chief of The Public Medievalist and an audience research specialist at the Smithsonian Institution.
“ The Devil’s Historians is a book that should be read by every teacher and student of medieval studies. Timely and hard-hitting, the book is unapologetic in its condemnation of modern groups who use a whitewashed version of the Middle Ages to promote their own agendas of hatred and discrimination.”
Kathy Cawsey, Dalhousie University, President of the Canadian Society of Medievalists
Serbian rights sold
Approx. 208 pp./ 5.5 x 8.5 / May 2020 4 images Cloth 978-1-4875-8785-7
$50.00 (£37.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-8784-0
$21.95 (£16.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-8786-4 $17.95
Medieval History
Of related interest: Who Is the Historian? By Nigel A. Raab 978-1-4426-3572-2
Experiencing Medieval Art
Herbert L Kessler
Rethinking the Middle Ages
Renowned art historian
Herbert L Kessler authors a love song to medieval art inviting students, teachers, and professional medievalists to experience the wondrous, complex art of the Middle Ages .
Kessler introduces the exciting discoveries and revelations that have revolutionized the understanding of medieval art and identifies the vexing challenges that still remain. Examining such well-known monuments as the stained glass in Chartres cathedral, mosaics in San Marco Venice, and Utrecht Psalter, as well as newly discovered works – including the frescoes in Rome’s “aula gotica” and a twelfth-century aquamanile in Hildesheim – Kessler makes the complex history of medieval art accessible for students of art history, teachers in the field, and scholars of medieval history, theology, and literature.
Herbert L Kessler is a professor emeritus in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University.
Approx. 296 pp. / 6.5 x 8.5 / October 2019
65 Illustrations / Colour Insert
Cloth 978-1-4426-0073-7
$90.00 (£61.99) A Paper 978-1-4426-0071-3
$42.95 (£29.99) X eBook 978-1-4426-0074-4 $34.95 Medieval Studies / Art History
Italian and Spanish rights sold
The Cartulary-Chronicle of St-Pierre of Bèze
Edited by Constance Brittain Bouchard Medieval Academy Books
The cartulary-chronicle of the Burgundian monastery of Bèze reveals how a twelfthcentury monk viewed the 500-year-long history of his house
In the early twelfth century a Burgundian monk set out to tell the 500-year history of his monastery, embedded within a broader history of early medieval France. The CartularyChronicle of St-Pierre of Bèze is both a history of the monastery and a collection of its 331 charters, from its seventhcentury foundation until the middle of the twelfth century. Bèze was a Benedictine house whose history included at least six incidents of sacking and destruction – and according to its twelfth-century chronicler it always recovered and emerged stronger than ever.
Combining the history of Burgundy and Francia with the history of his house, John, the chronicler, created a past for Bèze as he wanted it to be remembered. Based on John’s autograph manuscript, The Cartulary-Chronicle of St-Pierre of Bèze is published here in full for the first time. While the monks of Bèze have often been overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, the monks of Dijon, this edition recounts the history of one of the oldest houses in Burgundy and gives it its proper due.
Constance Brittain Bouchard is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Akron.
Approx. 368 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-0615-5
$95.00 (£68.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3340-3 $95.00 Medieval Studies
LIBER URICRISIARUM
A Reading Edition
HENRY DANIEL
Edited by E. RUTH HARVEY, M. TERESA TAVORMINA , and SARAH STAR
Approx. 472 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020 5 Illustrations Cloth 978-1-4875-0601-8
$100.00 (£68.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3312-0 $100.00 Medieval Studies / History of Medicine From Body to Community
Of related interest: From Body to Community Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain
By Cristian Berco 978-1-4426-4962-0
Liber Uricrisiarum
A Reading Edition
Henry Daniel
Edited by E Ruth Harvey, M Teresa Tavormina, and Sarah Star
Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum (finished in 1379) is one of the earliest and most elaborate expositions in English of the ancient medical art of uroscopy, diagnosis by examination of urine, presented in the larger context of contemporary medical theory
Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum is the earliest known work of academic medicine written in Middle English, presented here for the first time in a complete edition. Working in the late 1370s, Daniel combined authoritative medicine from written sources with his own personal experience, creating a text that stands out for its linguistic originality, intellectual scope, and wide circulation. Extant in over three dozen manuscript witnesses and two early modern print copies, Liber Uricrisiarum describes medieval humoral theory, anatomy, physiology, disease, medical astronomy, reproductive processes, and more, all within the broader context of uroscopic diagnosis.
This edition presents the Middle English text, with a general glossary, glossary of proper names, and explanatory notes that explain obscure words and phrases and identify Daniel’s sources. It also includes the complete set of diagrams contained in the Royal manuscript; appendices providing the Latin and English versions of the prologue and epilogue; an extensive translation from one of Daniel’s important sources, Isaac Israeli’s De urinis; tables relevant to Daniel’s astronomical measurements; and an analysis of the Royal manuscript’s dialect. Cumulatively, the edition and apparatus introduce readers to an important yet understudied text, the details of which will have significant impact on studies of medieval medicine and science, intellectual history, and Middle English language and literature.
E Ruth Harvey is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
M Teresa Tavormina is a professor emerita in the Department of English at Michigan State University.
Sarah Star is a lecturer in the Department of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.
university of toronto press
Love at a Crux
The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages
Cameron Cross
Examining the emergence of the versified love story as a genre of New Persian literature in the early eleventh century, Love at a Crux situates this literary movement within the broader global history of romance
Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rãmin (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured “myths” and “fables” from the distant past in ways that transformed the love story from a form of evening entertainment to a method of ethical, political, and affective self-inquiry. This transformation both anticipates and helps to explain the efflorescence of romance in many medieval cultures across the western flank of Afro-Eurasia.
Bringing together traditions that are often sundered by modern disciplinary boundaries, Love at a Crux unearths the interconnections between New Persian and comparable traditions in ancient and medieval Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Old French, and Middle High German, offering scholars in classics, medieval studies, Middle Eastern literatures, and premodern world literature a case study in literary history as connected history.
Cameron Cross is an assistant professor of Iranian studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
August 2023
392 pages, 6 x 9
3 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map
Cloth 978-1-4875-4727-1
$100.00 (£65.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4728-8
$100.00
Medieval Studies
Manish Sharma
Cross
Making the Bible French
The Bible historiale and the Medieval Lay Reader
Jeanette Patterson
Making the Bible French examines the Bible historiale, the most prolific and influential pre-Reformation French-language Bible.
From the end of the thirteenth century to the first decades of the sixteenth century, Guyart des Moulins’s Bible historiale was the predominant French translation of the Bible. Enhancing his translation with techniques borrowed from scholastic study, vernacular preaching, and secular fiction, Guyart produced one of the most popular, most widely copied French-language texts of the later Middle Ages.
Making the Bible French investigates how Guyart’s firstperson authorial voice narrates translation choices in terms of anticipated reader reactions and frames the biblical text as an object of dialogue with his readers. It examines the translator’s narrative strategies to aid readers’ visualization of biblical stories, to encourage their identification with its characters, and to practise patient, self-reflexive reading. Finally, it traces how the Bible historiale manuscript tradition adapts and individualizes the Bible for each new intended reader, defying modern printbased and text-centred ideas about the Bible, canonicity, and translation.
January 2022
280 pages, 6 x 9 7 black-and-white images
Cloth 978-1-4875-0888-3
$65.00 (£42.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3920-7
$65.00
Medieval Studies
Jeanette Patterson is an assistant professor of French, medieval studies, and translation studies at Binghamton University.
By Janet Schrunk Ericksen
The Bible historiale and the Medieval Lay Reader
Jeanette Patterson Making the Bible French
Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World
David A. Wacks
Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World
David A Wacks
Toronto Iberic
Medieval Iberian authors adapted French crusader culture to give voice to their own reality, shaped by domestic military conflict with Islam, and an obsession with the conversion of subject Muslims and Jews
Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of Crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The Crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of Crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interaction between Christian and Muslim states in the region.
The Crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, Chronicles of the Crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of Crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.
David A Wacks is a professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.
This highly original biography offers an intriguing and alternative perspective on one of the most turbulent eras of medieval Spain
While historians of medieval Spain have been unanimous in acknowledging the significance of Infante Manuel’s impact on the reign of his brother, Alfonso X, the Wise, and the rise to power of his nephew, Sancho IV, none have attempted a biography of his life, convinced there was insufficient material to justify the endeavor.
Systematic and persistent research over many years, however, has uncovered a profusion of facts which, together with the evidence discovered in numerous unedited archival documents, effectively establishes the prince as a major player during Alfonso’s troubled rule. In his capacity as the monarch’s closest advisor, Manuel assiduously maintained critical working relationships with the most notable leaders of his age including James I and Peter III of Aragon, Louis IX and Philippe III of France, Edward I and Queen Eleanor of England, and Popes Alexander IV and Gregory X among a host of other royal and noble personages from Europe and the Iberian Peninsula. This is the first and only book-length biography of Prince Manuel, the progenitor of the longest ruling dynasty in the history of Spain. Dawn of a Dynasty is a highly reliable source work and a significant contribution to our knowledge of late-thirteenth-century Castile.
Richard P Kinkade is a professor emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona.
Approx. 600 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2019
35 Colour Illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-0460-1
$120.00 (£81.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-3051-8 $120.00
Medieval Studies / History / Hispanic Studies
university of toronto press
On Amistà
Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy
Elizabeth Coggeshall
Toronto
Italian Studies
On Amistà comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy .
Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian society friendship raised a number of social and ethical dilemmas that needed to be carefully negotiated. On Amistà analyses these dilemmas and looks at how Dante’s strategic articulations of friendship evolved across the phases of his literary career as he maneuvered between different social groups and settings.
Elizabeth Coggeshall reveals that friendship was not an unequivocal moral good for the writers of late medieval Italy. Instead, it was an ambiguous term to be deployed strategically, describing a wide range of social relationships such as allies, collaborators, servants, patrons, rivals, and enemies. Drawing on the use of the language of friendship in the letters, correspondence poems, dedications, narratives, and treatises composed by Dante and his interlocutors, Coggeshall examines the way they skillfully negotiated around the dilemmas that friendship raised in the spheres of medieval Italian literary society. The book addresses instances of inclusivity and exclusivity, collaboration and self-interest, hierarchy and equality, and alterity and identity. Employing literary, historical, and sociological analysis, On Amistà presents a genealogy for the innovative and tactical use of the terms of friendship among the works of late medieval Italian authors.
Elizabeth Coggeshall is an assistant professor of Italian at Florida State University.
ELIZABETH COGGESHALL
On Amistà
Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy
Of related interest: Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia
By Henry Berlin
978-1-4875-0967-5
June 2023
272 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4817-9
$75.00 (£49.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4819-3
$75.00
Medieval Studies
On the Christian Religion
Marsilio Ficino
Translated from the Latin with an Introduction and Notes by Dan Attrell, Brett Bartlett, and David Porreca
This volume makes available Marsilio Ficino’s polemical work, De Christiana religione, with introduction and notes
This is the first translation into English of Marsilio Ficino’s De Christiana religione, a text first written in Latin in 1474, the year after its author’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. On the Christian Religion is this Florentine humanist’s attempt to lay out the history of the religion of Christ, the Logos (“Word” or “Reason”), in accordance with the doctrines of ancient philosophy. The work focuses on how Christ in his pre-incarnate form was revealed as much to certain ancient pagan sages and prophets as to those of the Old Testament, and how both groups played an equal role in foreshadowing the ultimate fulfillment of all the world’s religions in Christianity.
This new English translation includes an introduction that situates the text within the broader scope of Ficino’s intellectual activity and historical context. The book allows us to encounter a more nuanced image of Ficino, that of him as a theologian, historian, and anti-Jewish, anti-Islamic, anti-pagan polemicist.
Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance.
Dan Attrell is a PhD candidate in the department of history at the University of Waterloo.
Brett Bartlett is an independent scholar of Latin.
David Porreca is an associate professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo.
January 2023
280 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-4354-9
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4356-3
$95.00
Medieval Studies
THE CARTULARY OF PRÉMONTRÉ
The Cartulary of Prémontré
Edited by Heather Wacha and Yvonne Seale
Medieval Academy Books
This volume presents the first transcription and edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary of Prémontré
The thirteenth-century cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Prémontré is one of the few manuscripts to survive from this monastery. Offering a window into daily life in medieval France and to contemporary documentary practices, the cartulary of Prémontré is a rich source for the socio-economic and religious history of the Picardy and Champagne regions during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The charters contained in the cartulary illuminate how this major northern French abbey functioned as a mother house for the Premonstratensian Order, and how it interacted with people – both elite and non-elite as well as secular and ecclesiastical. It also reveals the complexities of cartulary production within a larger institutional and archival context.
In an introductory essay, Heather Wacha and Yvonne Seale consider not only the history of the manuscript and of the abbey of Prémontré, but also the cartulary’s materiality, its place within the broader field of cartulary studies, and what it shows us about women’s roles in contemporary society. In doing so, this volume offers new connections between the field of cartulary studies and feminist studies.
Yvonne Seale is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo.
Heather Wacha is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an independent researcher.
Truth Is Trickiest The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles
Anita Savo
Jennifer Neville
Toronto Iberic
This book investigates how a noted fourteenthcentury Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individual authorship
Truth Is Trickiest seeks to turn the study of Old English riddles away from reductive searches for single answers
At the end of the tenth-century English manuscript, the Exeter Book, there is a collection of almost one hundred riddles. They are notable for many reasons, but one feature in particular has challenged modern readers: their lack of solutions. In Truth Is Trickiest , Jennifer Neville argues that the absence of solutions, rather than being an unfortunate accident, uncovers an essential quality of these texts.
Portraying Authorship argues that the medieval Castilian writer Juan Manuel fashioned a seemingly modern authorial persona from the accumulation and synthesis of medieval authorial roles.
In the manuscript culture of medieval Castile and across Latin Europe, writers typically referred to their work in ways that corresponded to their role in the bookmaking process: scribes took credit for preserving the works of others, compilers for combining disparate texts in productive ways, commentators for explaining obscure works, and authors for writing their own words. Combining literary analysis with book history, Anita Savo reveals how Juan Manuel forged his authorial persona, “Don Juan,” by adopting all four medieval writerly roles, thereby reaping the ethical benefits of each one. Each chapter in Portraying Authorship highlights a different authorial role to show how Don Juan – and others who wrote in his name – assumed responsibility for that role and adapted its rhetoric to his vernacular literary project.
In opposition to the general expectation that a successfully solved riddle will have one correct answer, Neville argues that the Exeter Book riddles are written to generate multiple solutions. The correct response to an Exeter Book riddle is not a single, elegant solution but instead an ongoing process of interpretation that leads readers to question what they think they know.
Truth Is Trickiest contextualizes its readings within the larger field of Old English poetry, early medieval material culture, and Anglo-Latin riddles. The book pursues the central issue of interpretation in relation to social values, craftsmanship, hierarchical social structures, violence, irony, humour, and sexuality. It concludes with a full list of previously proposed solutions to document the history of the ongoing argument that the Exeter Book riddles have provoked.
Jennifer Neville is a reader in early medieval English literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The book concludes that Don Juan’s authorial selfportrait not only gave the humanist writers of the fifteenth century a model to imitate, but also persuaded subsequent scribes, editors, and translators to portray him as an individual author. In doing so, Portraying Authorship illuminates how Juan Manuel’s concept of authorship helped to secure him a privileged position in narratives of Spanish literary history.
May 2024
376 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-5252-7
Anita Savo is an assistant professor of Spanish at Boston University.
$95.00 (£62.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5255-8
May 2024
$95.00
304 pages, 6 x 9
Medieval Studies
17 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-5323-4
$95.00 (£62.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-5325-8
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Medieval Studies
Nothing Pure
Tropes of Engagement
Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
Leah Schwebel
Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English Mo Pareles
Exploring the work of Chaucer and Boccaccio, Tropes of Engagement redefines our understanding of textual influence by examining modes, rather than evidence, of authorial engagement
Drawing on a wide range of Old English literary and religious texts, Nothing Pure explores the cultural translation of Jewish law in preConquest England
While scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. Tropes of Engagement asks the question of what motivated Chaucer to camouflage his debt to his most prominent, yet never named, Italian source: Giovanni Boccaccio.
Early English culture depended on a Judaism translated away from Jews. Revealing the importance of Jewish law to the workings of early Christian England, Nothing Pure presents a Jewish revision of the history of English Bible translation.
The book illuminates the paradoxical process by which the abjection and dehumanization of Jews, a bitter milestone in the history of European racism, was first articulated in the cultural translation of Jewish literature. It locates Old English Bible translation within the history of cultural translation, so that instead of appearing as the romantically liberated fragments of a suppressed mode of literacy, these authorized and semi-authorized vernacular works can be seen as privileged texts appropriating a Jewish source culture into an English Christian host culture.
Leah Schwebel boldly claims that when Chaucer erases Boccaccio, he is mimicking strategies of translation practiced by his classical and continental predecessors. Tracing popular narratives from antiquity to the late Middle Ages, including the Knight’s Tale, the Clerk’s Tale, the Monk’s Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate’s Fall of Princes and Troy Book, Schwebel argues that authorial erasure, invention, and manipulation are recognizable literary tropes of engagement that poets employ to suggest their connection to, and place within, a broader authorial tradition.
Combining an attention to the cultural, historical, and material circumstances surrounding literary production with a mode of source study that looks beyond discernable influence, Tropes of Engagement recognizes authors self-consciously erasing and misreading each other as part of a process of mutual and self-promotion.
Leah Schwebel is an associate professor of English at Texas State University.
Mo Pareles proposes a theory of translation called supersessionary translation to explain the aesthetics of these texts: while at first glance they appear to dismiss irrelevant Jewish laws according to an arbitrary pattern, closer analysis reveals that they are masterful attempts to subject the legacy of Judaism, through translation, to the control of a system that has purportedly superseded and replaced it. Ultimately, Nothing Pure demonstrates the surprisingly central role of Jewish law in translation to Christian identity in late Old English ecclesiastical and monastic writings.
May 2024
352 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-5260-2
Mo Pareles is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.
$115.00 (£75.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5261-9
February 2024
$115.00
272 pages, 6 x 9
Medieval Studies
Cloth 978-1-4875-5067-7
$85.00 (£56.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5069-1
$85.00
Medieval Studies
jennifer neville
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Sixth Edition
Barbara H . Rosenwein
The sixth edition of this bestselling medieval history textbook offers a gorgeously illustrated guide to more than one thousand years of history
In this newest edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world that never loses sight of the main contours of the period ( c.300 to c.1500) or of the fate of the heirs of the Roman Empire. Its lively and informative narrative covers the major events, political and religious movements, people, saints and sinners, economic and cultural changes, ideals, fears, and fantasies of the period in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.
With a significantly revised art program, this new edition offers a way to visualize the era’s enormous political, economic, and religious changes. New content on West Africa, marginalized communities, and the Black Death has been added. A new Highlights feature prepares the student for what is addressed in each chapter. Key questions about the text, plates, maps, and other features (with possible answers), as well as important technical terms and definitions, are available online for students to review and study and for teachers to use, modify, and supplement.
Barbara H. Rosenwein is a professor emerita in history at Loyola University Chicago.
Curated by bestselling author Barbara H . Rosenwein, A Short Medieval Reader offers an exceptionally alluring and affordable set of primary sources for understanding the Middle Ages . A Short Medieval Reader contains the essential primary sources for exploring the Middle Ages in depth. Designed to work either with A Short History of the Middle Ages, 6th edition or independently in a course, this new offering provides comprehensive readings ranging from Iceland to Egypt and from England to Iraq. Beginning with the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the readings illustrate all the major events, religious and intellectual movements, people, saints and sinners, ideals, fears, and fantasies of the period in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.
The reader begins with a How To Read a Primary Source guide. Each source is preceded by a contextual paragraph with Focus Question to guide the student’s reading.
Barbara H. Rosenwein is a professor emerita in history at Loyola University Chicago.
February 2023
256 pages, 8 x 10
2 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps, 1 b&w figure
Cloth 978-1-4875-6340-0
$75.00 (£49.99) A Paper 978-1-4875-6341-7
$26.95 (£17.99) X eBook 978-1-4875-6343-1
$21.95
Medieval Studies
St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers
Jason Aaron Brown
Toronto Studies in Medieval Law
This book interprets the life and teachings of Saint Antoninus, an important Catholic saint and fifteenthcentury writer, and offers a critical edition of his major work on moral theology
Saint Antoninus of Florence was a Dominican friar and archbishop of Florence from 1446 to 1459. He composed one of the most comprehensive manuals of moral theology, the Summa , which has long been counted among the more copious, influential, and rewarding medieval sources.
St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers gives an orientation to the life and teaching of Saint Antoninus, focusing on his writings on economic ethics. It includes a critical edition of his original Latin text with an English translation. The book provides an extensive introduction to his thought, situating it in its intellectual and social context, and elucidates the development of medieval economic and moral doctrines in law and theology. The book examines historians’ arguments about Italian business culture in the wake of the medieval “Commercial Revolution” and whether this culture can be considered capitalistic. It concludes that while Saint Antoninus is surprisingly modern in the economic concepts he deploys, his moral teaching on proper means and ends in the marketplace stood against certain nascent capitalistic tendencies in fifteenth-century Florence. Through examination of the manuscripts, this book opens a window into a premodern author’s writing process that will be of interest to scholars of medieval manuscripts and literary production.
Jason Aaron Brown is a sessional instructor in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba.
St An ton i n u s of Fl or e nc e
on Trade, Merchants, and Workers
JASON AARON BROWN
October 2023
624 pages, 6 x 9
21 b&w illustrations
Cloth 978-1-4875-4594-9
$125.00 (£82.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-4599-4
$125.00
Medieval Studies
Vernacular Edens
Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions
Simone Marchesi
This book examines the literary representation of gardens – a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction –and the redeployment of classical material via vernacular translation
Late-medieval European vernacular literature defined itself as the redeployment of classical and post-classical antecedents in new cultural coordinates. Many authors of narrative and poetic fiction between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries resisted the idea that moving a text from one language to another produces a loss of meaning, or, as today’s idiom goes, that something always gets “lost in translation.” Rather, they understood the process of vernacular translation as a regenerative cultural practice and often associated it with depictions of luscious and paradisal gardens in their works.
Vernacular Edens presents a systematic study of a literary commonplace, the representation of gardens in medieval fictions, as a lens to understand the theories and practices of translation from Latin to the vernaculars. The book argues that the prominent narrative space that works composed in Old French, Italian, and Middle English give to garden-visit scenes is connected to their vindication of translation as an always-enriching practice. A wide range of texts from Marie de France’s Lais to the Roman de la Rose, from Dante’s Comedy to Boccaccio’s Decameron, and from Petrarch’s Griselda to Chaucer’s Clerk’s and Merchant’s Tales provide the body of evidence analysed in the book.
Simone Marchesi is a professor of French and Italian at Princeton University.
December 2024
316 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 978-1-4875-5830-7
$90.00 (£59.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-5832-1
$90.00
Medieval Studies
Manish Sharma
978-1-4875-0903-3
Fides in Flavian Literature
Edited by Antony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, and Claire Stocks
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
This book investigates the presence of Fides “good faith” in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance in the aftermath of Rome’s civil wars in a variety of works
Fides in Flavian Literature explores the ideology of “good faith” (fides) during the time of the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (69–96 CE), the new imperial dynasty that gained power in the wake of the civil wars of the period. The contributors to this volume consider the significance and semantic range of this Roman value in works that deal in myth, history in prose and verse, and the poetry of contemporary society. Though it does not claim to offer the comprehensive “last word” on fides in Flavian Rome, it aims to show that fides in this period was subjected to a particularly striking and special brand of contestation and re-conceptualization, used to interrogate the broad cultural changes and anxieties of the Flavian period, as well as connect to a republican and imperial past. This volume argues that fides was both a vehicle for reconciliation and a means to test the nature of “good faith” in the wake of a devastating and divisive period of Roman history.
Antony Augoustakis is a professor in the Department of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Emma Buckley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Claire Stocks is a lecturer in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University.
Approx. 304 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2019
Cloth 978-1-4875-0553-0
$75.00 (£51.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3226-0 $75.00 Literary Studies / Classics
Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy
Maternal Con C eptions
Edited by Alison Sharrock and Alison Keith
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their children
Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts.
Although almost all the ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to unpack carefully the role of the mother, not as projected by the son or other male relations, but from a woman’s own experiences to better understand how they perceived themselves and their families. Because the primary interest is in the mothers themselves, rather than the authors of the texts in which they appear, the book is organized according to the life-cycle of motherhood, rather than according to the traditional structure of the chronology of male authors. The chronology of the male authors ranges from classical Greece to late antiquity, while the motherly life-cycle ranges from pre-conception to the commemoration of offspring who have died before their mothers.
Alison Sharrock is a professor in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology at the University of Manchester. Alison Keith is a professor in the Departments of Classics and Women’s Studies and the director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / February 2020
Cloth 978-1-4875-3201-7
$75.00 (£51.99) A
eBook 978-1-4875-3203-1 $75.00
Literary Studies / Classics
university of toronto press
Edited by Alison Sharrock and Alison Keith
Walking through Elysium
Vergil’s Underworld and
the Poetics of Tradition
Edited by Bill Gladhill and Micah Young Myers
Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Walking through Elysium traces Vergil’s influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized
Walking through Elysium stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil’s underworld in Aeneid 6 into their works. These allusions operate on many levels, from the literary and political to the religious and spiritual. Aeneid 6 reshaped prior philosophical, religious, and poetic traditions of underworld descents, while offering a universalizing account of the spiritual that could accommodate prior as well as emerging religious and philosophical systems. Vergil’s underworld became an archetype, a model flexible enough to be employed across genres, and periods, and among differing cultural and religious contexts. Walking through Elysium asserts the deep and lasting influence of Vergil’s underworld from the moment of its publication to the present day.
Bill Gladhill is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at McGill University. Micah Young Myers is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at Kenyon College.
Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World
Edited by Riemer A Faber
Phoenix
Supplementary Volumes
This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity
Modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy reach back to the time of Homer’s Iliad. During the Hellenistic period, in particular, the Greek understanding of fame became more widely known, and adapted, to accommodate or respond to non-Greek understandings of reputation in society and culture.
This collection of essays illustrates the ways in which the characteristics of fame and infamy in the Hellenistic era distinguished themselves and how they were represented in diverse and unique ways throughout the Mediterranean. The means of recording fame and infamy included public art, literature, sculpture, coinage, and inscribed monuments. The authors examine the cultural means whereby fame and infamy entered social consciousness, and explore the nature and effect of this important and enduring sociological phenomenon.
Riemer A Faber is a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo.
Approx. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2020
2 tables, 41 halftones
Cloth 978-1-4875-0522-6
$85.00 (£63.99) A eBook 978-1-4875-3179-9 $85.00 Classics
university of toronto press
Celebrity, Fame, and inFamy in the Hellenistic World
by Riemer A. Faber
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