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Woman Lawyer Contents
The Trials of
Clara Foltz United States. . . . . . . . . 2-3
Barbara Babcock Europe.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Woman Lawyer tells the
Cold War History. . . . . . . . . 7
story of Clara Foltz, the
first woman admitted Latin America.. . . . . . . . 8-9
to the California Bar.
Famous in her time as a Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12
public intellectual, leader Middle East.. . . . . . 13-15
of the women’s move-
ment, and legal reformer, Jewish History.. . 16-17
Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized oppo- Cultural and
2 sition to women lawyers as she tried cases in front of Intellectual History. . . 18
all-male juries, raised five children as a single mother,
Also of Interest.. . . . . . . . 19
and stumped for political candidates. She was the
first to propose the creation of a public defender to
balance the public prosecutor. This book uncovers the Exam Copy Policy.. . . . 19
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—Peter A. Coclanis,
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Gilman and the Story of dential authority.”
A Biography Hodgkin’s Disease —Meena Bose,
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United States
Paris, 1200
John W. Baldwin
Paris in 1200 was a city
in transition. The great
cathedral of Notre Dame
was halfway through its
construction and walls
were being built to enclose
the new, larger limits of
the city. Pope Innocent
III ordered all French
churches closed to punish
King Philip Augustus for
From Deficit to Deluge
his remarriage; the king himself negotiated an un-
The Origins of the
4 precedented truce with the English; and the students French Revolution
of Paris threatened a general strike, punctuated with Edited by Thomas E. Kaiser
incidents of violence, to protest infringements of and Dale K. Van Kley
their rights. “This excellent collection is
representative of the many
John W. Baldwin brilliantly resurrects this key mo- analytical pathways explored
ment in Parisian history using documents only from in the so-called ‘post-revisionist’
era of French Revolutionary
1190 to 1210—a narrow focus made possible by the studies. The contributors bring
availability of collections of the Capetian monarchy together a nice mix of perspec-
and the medieval scholastic thinkers. This unique tives and subjects and show
approach results in a vivid snapshot of the city at the impressive mastery over the
relevant scholarship. The edi-
turn of the thirteenth century. tors impose an unusual degree
of unity on the volume with
Paris, 1200 introduces the reader to the city itself and their thoughtful disquisition on
its inhabitants. Three "faces" exemplify these inhabit- origins and their state of the art
ants: that of the celebrated scholar Pierre the Chanter, historiographical framing.”
of King Philip Augustus, and of the more deeply hid- —Jay Smith,
University of North Carolina
den visages of women. The book examines the city’s at Chapel Hill
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sian life in this period.
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Defending National Paris Dreams,
Treasures Paris Memories
French Art and Heritage
Under Vichy The City and
Elizabeth Campbell Its Mystique
Karlsgodt Charles Rearick
“This book makes several
How did Paris become what
critical arguments, including a
strongly documented case for it is today? Charles Rearick
continuity in French cultural argues that we can best find
policy from the Third Republic the answer by understand-
through Vichy and the post-
ing Paris as several cities in
war years. Karlsgodt shows
that French cultural policy one, each with its own his-
during the Occupation must tory and its own imaginary
be understood more in terms shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long been at
of domestic interests than as
a function of collaboration
once a cosmopolitan City of Light and of modernity, a 5
with the Germans. She raises patchwork of time-resistant urban “villages,” a treasured
important ethical questions heirloom (“old Paris”), a crowded and dirty hell without
about museum acquisitions opportunities for the downtrodden, and a legendary
policies, not only in Vichy
pleasure dome. These different faces of Paris have all
France, but also in postwar
France and elsewhere.” played a part in making the enchanting, beloved, flawed
—Bertram Gordon, city of our time.
Mills College

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Paris Dreams, Paris Memories reveals that, more than is
1 map, 2011 commonly recognized, Paris’s contemporary buildings,
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Captives and Corsairs “Rearick has written not so much a history of Paris, but
France and Slavery a history of the history of Paris. He deals with the ways
in the Early Modern
Mediterranean observers (mostly Parisian) have envisaged the city and
Gillian Weiss confronted the ways in which it has changed. This is
“Captives and Corsairs is a fasci- a book who will appeal to anyone—tourist or profes-
nating chronicle of changing sional historian—who has learned to love Paris, warts
cultural perceptions that will and all.”
be warmly welcomed by all —William Irvine, York University
historians of modern Europe,
all scholars of slavery, and all “Rearick is an expert guide through the tricky territory
thinking individuals concerned
of people’s perceptions and expectations, and his dis-
with West/East and Christian/
Islamic relations.” cussion of the tension between Parisians who would
—Colin Jones, preserve their vision of the past and those who would
Queen Mary, University of London modernize the city is important for understanding how
384 pp., 5 tables, 14 figures, 1 map, 2011 Paris functions today.”
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Europe
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Special Relations ianism, 1590–1640 Mobility, Identity,
6 The Americanization Polly Ha and Conflict in a
of Britain? “Ha presents us with a quite
Globalized World
H. L. Malchow original vision both of the con- Edited by Roland Hsu
“This is a major work of his- tinuity of Presbyterian thought “This book is a timely and
torical interpretation, strongly between 1590 and 1640, incisive contribution to our un-
revisionist in its approach and when that discussion was sup- derstanding of migration flows
cogently argued. A skeptical posed to have vanished, and into Europe in today’s global-
critic, Malchow offers an unsen- of a full-fledged Presbyterian ized world. Substantial move-
timental, nuanced approach polity that compelled the ments of peoples into Europe,
that eschews naïve anglophilia loyalty and active involvement from far beyond traditional
or American triumphalism. An of a large number of English countries of origin, present
American scholar who has urban people.” the European Union and the
closely observed life in Britain —Paul S. Seaver, countries of Europe with fun-
over many years, his personal Stanford University damental challenges in human,
experience clearly informs a social, and political terms. [It]
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than any other on the subject.” in analyzing a subject of major
—Fred Leventhal, new in paperback importance for the road ahead
Boston University for European integration.”
Sir Edward Coke and
—Jan Eliasson,
392 pp., 9 illustrations, 2011
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the Elizabethan Age Former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Allen D. Boyer of Sweden and President of the
United Nations General Assembly
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Creation of a Dynasty scholarship which brings light
The Critical Years to bear upon the historical mi-
1806–1816 lieu in which Sir Edward Coke
Herbert H. Kaplan rose to prominence.”
224 pp., 1 table, 7 illustrations, 2006 —Australian Journal of
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Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory


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Europe
Cold War International History Project
Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Stalin and Togliatti A Distant Front AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2011 7


Italy and the Origins in the Cold War The Cold War in East
of the Cold War The USSR in West Asia, 1945–1991
Elena Agarossi and Africa and the Congo, Edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Victor Zaslavsky 1956–1964 “There is, clearly, a real need for
“The book has a sense of history Sergey Mazov a book of this sort and it will
in the making: it combines at “This book addresses a subject doubtless be welcomed by
times gripping narrative with on which almost nothing is scholars in all of those fields, as
sober synopses of complicated available on the Russian side, well as international/diplomatic
and controversial policies.” and so it covers a very impor- historians more broadly and
—Carl Levy, tant ‘blank spot of history’. ” area specialists and comparativ-
Department of Politics, ists in Political Science.”
—Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya,
University of London
George Washington University —Robert McMahon,
“The scholarship that went Professor of History at
“For the first time, this book Ohio State University
into this work is analytically
uncovers flaws in Soviet policy
excellent and rigorous, and “This edited volume provides
toward Africa, inherent weak-
superior to anything that a wealth of new information
nesses relating to the lack of
exists on the connections coming from fresh research in
resources and imagination,
between Italian communists Japanese, American, East Euro-
bureaucratic impediments and
and Moscow in the English- pean, U.S., and Chinese archival
ignorance, which led eventu-
language historiography.” and primary sources. This is an
ally to failure to compete with
—Vladislav Zubok, the United States for the ‘hearts important contribution to the
Temple University state of the field.”
and minds’ of Africans.”
320 pp., 2010 —Ilya Gaiduk, —Christopher Goscha,
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Russian Academy of Sciences 344 pp., 2011
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Decolonization and the 9780804760591 Cloth $60.00  $48.00 sale
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Edited by Christopher Poland 1956 The Sino-Soviet Struggle
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Cold War History


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Conquest The Invisible War Winner of the 2009 James A.
8 A Nahua Historian’s Indigenous Devotions,
Rawley Prize in Atlantic History,
sponsored by the American
Historical Association
Rewriting of Francisco Discipline, and Dissent
Lopez de Gomara’s in Colonial Mexico Winner of the 2009 Mexican
History Book Prize, sponsored
La conquista de Mexico David Tavárez by the Conference on Latin
American History
Edited and Translated “The Invisible War provides a
by Susan Schroeder, remarkably full and genuinely Genealogical Fictions
Anne J. Cruz, Cristián Roa- historical study of the little- Limpieza de Sangre,
de-la-Carrera, and David E. known extirpation campaigns
Tavárez Religion, and Gender
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in Colonial Mexico
“Here we have a fascinating in practice, idolatry in ‘Indian’
María Elena Martínez
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new in paperback
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Chimalpahin’s Conquest is a nobles, shamans, and villagers, by the Southern Historical
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significant contribution to the and an array of ritual practices and Caribbean Section
growing literature on the Con- and sacred texts. While insisting
quest of Mexico.” on local ‘diversity of indigenous Empire of Law and
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University of California, Los Angeles Tavárez offers a sustained, Colonial Mexico
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ical dissent to Christian evan-
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—William B Taylor,
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Latin America
Before the Shining Path Brazil’s Steel City The Tourism
Politics in Rural Ayacucho, Developmentalism, Encounter
1895–1980 Strategic Power, and Fashioning Latin 9
Jaymie Patricia Heilman Industrial Relations American Nations
“This book is a sensitive and in Volta Redonda, and Histories
probing analysis of tensions in 1941–1964 Florence E. Babb
Ayacucho before the Shining Oliver J. Dinius
“Mark Twain once wrote that
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area in the 1980s. It is not easy understanding of labor and narrow-mindedness. Yet as
to understand the violence that business history in Brazil. Un- Florence Babb shows effec-
swept through this area, but Heil- like other works in Brazilian tively in this panoramic journey
man’s work provides important labor history, this one deals and anthropological analysis of
insights into local dynamics. Heil- with one of the most strategic post-revolutionary Cuba, Nica-
man excels at combining archival industries in Brazil, one that is ragua, Peru, and Chiapas, travel
research with oral history inter- state-owned and central to the cannot escape history. In The
views to create a complex and development plans of Brazilian Tourism Encounter, Babb shows
nuanced study of class and racial political elites. The very special that travel in the form of tour-
dynamics in the countryside.” labor history presented in Bra- ism is always packed with the
—Marc Becker, zil’s Steel City forces us to rethink politics of social relations, past
Truman State University those other studies of (largely and present. And that’s just the
272 pp., 1 map, 2010 privately owned) industries.” way it should be, as this book
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A Poverty of Rights
Citizenship and Inequality
in Twentieth-Century
Rio de Janeiro
Brodwyn Fischer
488 pp., 14 tables, 3 figures, 5 illustrations,
5 maps, 2008
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Latin America
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The Oil Prince’s Becoming Asia Modern China’s
10 Legacy Change and Continuity Network Revolution
Rockefeller Philanthropy in Asian International Chambers of Commerce
in China Relations Since World and Sociopolitical Change
Mary Brown Bullock War II in the Early Twentieth
Alice Lyman Miller and Century
The Oil Prince’s Legacy traces
Richard Wich Zhongping Chen
Rockefeller philanthropy in
China from the nineteenth This work fills a gap by pro- Zhongping Chen examines
century to today. Family diaries, viding a comprehensive, Chinese chambers of com-
letters, interviews in China, systemic account of Asian merce and their network devel-
and institutional archival affairs, including South and opment across Lower Yangzi
records are used to tell a com- Central Asia along with East cities and towns, as well as the
pelling story about successive Asia. It explains how Asia, nationwide arena. He details
Rockefeller generations and hardly more than a geographic how they achieved increas-
U.S.–China cultural relations. expression at the end of World ing integration, and how their
War II, became the vibrant, collective actions deeply influ-
This book describes how Rock- assertive region that it is today. enced nationalistic, reformist,
efeller philanthropy came to fo- Major themes are the interplay and revolutionary movements.
cus on elite science and medi- between nationalism and Cold With both historical narrative
cine and ensured their ongoing War bipolarity during the first and theoretical analysis of the
importance in the American- postwar decades, the rise of long neglected local chamber
Chinese relationship. largely export-led economies networks, this study offers a
and the search for regional keen historical understanding
“This is an extraordinary nu- integration.
anced and complex evaluation of the interaction of Chinese
of the Rockefeller family’s society, business, and politics in
“Tailor made for advanced
motives, actions, and achieve- the early twentieth century.
courses on the history of Asian
ments where East Asia is con- international relations, its read- “This is an insightful, carefully
cerned. Showing the impact ability and narrative structure researched study that should
of China on the Rockefellers as also offer the general reader ac- be on the reading list of all who
well as the Rockefellers impact cess to a historical perspective are interested in the social and
on China makes for some cap- on a region that is transforming economic history of China.”
tivating and at times breathtak- the world today.” —Di Wang,
ing reading.” —Carla Freeman, Texas A&M University
—Laurence A. Schneider, Johns Hopkins School of
Washington University in St. Louis Advanced International Studies 320 pp., 2011
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Asia
Gourmets in the The Battle for China Tokyo in Transit
Land of Famine Essays on the Military Japanese Culture on
The Culture and Politics History of the Sino- the Rails and Road 11
of Rice in Modern Canton Japanese War of Alisa Freedman
Seung-joon Lee 1937–1945 This work discusses literary
A study of the politics of rice
Edited by Mark Peattie, depictions of mass transit in
in Canton, this book sheds Edward Drea, and 20th century Tokyo in the
new light on the local history Hans van de Ven decades preceding World War
of the city and illuminates how The Sino-Japanese War has II. It cuts across literary and
China’s struggles with food inspired numerous specialized historical/sociological analysis,
shortages in the early twentieth studies—some analyzing diplo- and contributes to the growing
century unfolded and the ways matic relations, some address- body of work examining Japa-
in which they were affected by ing specific incidents, and still nese urbanism, gender, and
the rise of nationalism and the others documenting the rise modernism.
fluctuation of global commerce. of Communism in China. The
“A significant contribution
war itself, however, has usu-
“In this creative and thoroughly to Japanese literary studies,
ally been presented from the
researched book, Seung-joon Tokyo in Transit offers such a
perspective of the West.
Lee explores a vitally impor- readable, compelling cultural
tant but largely ignored topic Departing from this tradition, history that anyone who has
in Chinese history: rice. Lee The Battle for China brings to- ever taken a train or waited
situates the marketing and gether Chinese, Japanese, and at a bus stop will find a story
consumption of rice at the in- Western scholars of the first here that strikes a chord.”
tersection of major forces in the rank to provide a comprehen- —Jan Bardsley,
early twentieth century, from sive and multifaceted overview University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
imperialism and revolution, to of the military operations that
regionalism and nationalism, to shaped much of what hap- 352 pp., 16 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps, 2010
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—Steven B. Miles,
author of The Sea of Learning:
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Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou tone, [it] is a uniquely compre-
hensive overview of the mili-
320 pp., 3 tables, 6 illustrations, 3 maps , 2011
9780804772266 Cloth $55.00  $44.00 sale tary operations that shaped
events in both China and
Japan from 1937–1945.”
—Dennis Showalter,
Colorado College

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Asia
new in paperback

12 Winner of the 2009 Joseph


Levenson Book Prize, sponsored by
The Precious Raft Winner of the 2009 Academic
Excellence Award, sponsored
the Association for Asian Studies of History by the Chinese Historians in
the United States
Revolution of The Past, the West, and the
Woman Question in China Winner of the 2009 Cecil B. Currey
the Heart Book Award, sponsored by the
A Genealogy of Love Joan Judge Association of Third World Studies
in China, 1900–1950 “This fascinating book strips away
Haiyan Lee scholarly illusions about ruptures Village China Under
“A solid, carefully structured and
in China’s nineteenth and early- Socialism and Reform
twentieth century history, and re- A Micro-History,
thoughtfully argued theoreti-
veals how new roles for women 1948–2008
cal account of the centrality of
have deep roots in a dense
emotion in the transformation Huaiyin Li
textual and cultural past.”
of modernity and the construc-
— Susan Mann, “Based upon extensive use of
tion of the modern self in China
University of California, Davis rare local documentation as
from 1900 to 1950. Interdis- well as the author’s intimate
ciplinary in nature, the book 416 pp., 51 illustrations, 2008 familiarity with his own local
encompasses literature, mod- 9780804773263 Paper $29.95  $23.96 sale
community, this well-crafted
ern social history and cultural analysis of rural evolutionary
studies Haiyan Lee’s book is an Winner of the 2009 Outstanding
Academic Title Award, CHOICE transformation in east-central
ambitious and interesting proj- China deserves a wide reading.”
ect, to be lauded for the ways it Science for the Empire
—CHOICE
synthesizes complex and con- Scientific Nationalism
tentious theoretical issues.” in Modern Japan 424 pp., 9 tables, 3 figures, 10 illustrations,
3 maps, 2009
—The China Quarterly Hiromi Mizuno
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384 pp., 1 figure, 1 illustration, 2007 “A very important contribution
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social history. Mizuno’s book The Muslim Rebellion
will require historians and social and State in Chinese
scientists of Japan to consider Central Asia, 1864–1877
further the importance of the Hodong Kim
natural sciences, nationalism, and
discourses about them for the “Kim’s narrative and analysis are
larger field of study.” far more complete than any
—James Bartholomew,
other work on the rebellion.”
The Ohio State University —The International History Review

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Asia
AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2011 Ottoman Brothers AVAILABLE IN MAY 2011
Ottoman Ulema, Muslims, Christians, and Contested Conver-
Turkish Republic Jews in Early Twentieth- sions to Islam 13
Agents of Change and Century Palestine Narratives of Religious
Guardians of Tradition Michelle U. Campos Change in the Early
Amit Bein “Ottoman Brothers offers a star- Modern Ottoman Empire
“Bein addresses the obviously tling new insight into a globally Tijana Krstić
important, seriously under- important case: for a brief pe- “Rejecting both nationalist
studied reform of the ulema in riod in the not-so-distant past, preoccupations and a purely Is-
the last years of the Ottoman Palestine was consumed by lamic framework, Krstić looks at
Empire and the early years of civic activism and democratic Ottoman conversion narratives
the Turkish republic. He demon- co-existence, and was not nec- within their early modern con-
strates clearly how the seeds of essarily headed toward inevi- text. Drawing on a breathtak-
profound change were sown in table conflict. Campos delivers ingly wide range of sources, the
the Ottoman era with the par- a wonderfully rich contribution author gives us a sense of what
ticipation and support of much to the study of the modern it meant to be a Muslim in the
of the religious establishment, Middle East.” early modern Ottoman Empire.
and provides valuable historical —Charles Kurzman, She also engages issues of
context for those interested University of North Carolina reading, texts, and knowledge
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The Margins very significant contribution healthy scholarly debate. An
to Kurdish history and to the excellent book.”
of Empire history of the eastern prov- —Fatma Müge Göçek,
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Ottoman Tribal Zone period. The rich documenta- 344 pp., 2011
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Middle East
Connecting Histories Palestinian Village Ghosts of Revolution
in Afghanistan Histories Rekindled Memories of
14 Market Relations and Geographies of the Imprisonment in Iran
State Formation on a Displaced Shahla Talebi
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tional view of Afghanistan as a was reconfigured but how it political prisons will leave you
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power is a myth and that in a mobile form of imagining, is remarkable for its generous
reality Afghanistan was from shaping identities and long- empathy, its poetry in evoking
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whose economic institutions, and a keen ear, Davis provides women with whom she shared
in particular its commercial insightful reflections on how, her prison experience, and its
and monetary policies, were in the process of colonial state brilliance in analyzing the dark
determined by policies over building and the violent trans- horrors inflicted on the men
which it had little or no control. formation of landscape, local and women condemned to
Students of Afghan history will forms of knowledge and ways these death-spaces that were,
never approach it in quite the of knowing place are carried in the 1970s and 1980s, and are
same way again.” into exile. A voluminous body even today, so strangely tied to
—Robert D. McChesney, of ethnographic and literary the exercise of power in Iran.”
New York University material provides poignant —Lila Abu-Lughod,
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of nations, and through the life modern Egypt. Demonstrating tions regarding the formation
and death of the Ottoman em- that bachelors—not single of nationalism, particularly in
pire to reconstruct the history women—stoked the anxiety its early stages, providing a
of a misunderstood group.” of Egyptians, she persuasively thought-provoking contribu-
—Sarah Abrevaya Stein, connects the marriage crisis tion to our understanding of
University of California, Los Angeles to concerns about national how agents propelled the for-
independence. For Better, For mation of nationalism in Egypt
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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Cultures A series

16 From Kabbalah to Memoirs of a The Jewish Persona


Class Struggle Grandmother in the European
Expressionism, Marxism, Scenes from the Cultural Imagination
and Yiddish Literature History of the Jews of A Case of Russian
in the Life and Work of Russia in the Nineteenth Literature
Meir Wiener Century, Volume One Leonid Livak
Mikhail Krutikov Pauline Wengeroff
This book argues that the rep-
An intellectual biography of Meir Translated with an Introduction, resentation of Jews in Euro-
Wiener (1893-1941), an Austrian Notes, and Commentary by pean literature has little to do
Jewish intellectual and a student Shulamit S. Magnus with actual, human Jews, but
of Jewish mysticism, who emi- “This is a stunning piece of work. rather is derived from the con-
grated to the Soviet Union in 1926 Wengeroff’s recreation of a ception of Jews as Christianity’s
and reinvented himself as a Marx- life during the transition from paradigmatic Other, eternally
ist scholar and Yiddish writer. traditional to modern Jewish reenacting their morally am-
culture in 19th century Russia is biguous New Testament role as
“This fascinating book offers the
engrossing, powerfully written, the Christ-bearing and -killing
first complete evaluation of the
and often lyric. As a window chosen people of God.
legacy of Meir Wiener, one of the
most prominent Jewish intellectu- into women’s lives and wom-
“Contributes a new understand-
als and writers of the twentieth en’s perspective on their com-
ing both of familiar Russian lit-
century. Wiener was, until now, munity’s life, this is an almost
erary texts and less familiar East
deprived of well deserved interest unparalleled source. Magnus’s
Slavic religious and folkloric
and fame because he chose to commentary is brilliant: she
texts. Livak’s theory is power-
share the fortunes of the Soviet has a fine eye for what needs
fully explanatory and will excite
Yiddish Communist establish- to be annotated and is remark-
controversy and debate.”
ment . . . . Krutikov is an ideal ably astute about the central
themes of the memoir.” —Gabriella Safran,
commentator, equipped with all Stanford University
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Jewish History
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East West Mimesis


Auerbach in Turkey
Rabbis and Revolution Literary Passports Kader Konuk 17
The Jews of Moravia in the The Making of Modernist “Konuk’s groundbreaking study
Age of Emancipation Hebrew Fiction in Europe significantly enhances our
understanding of the shared
Michael Laurence Miller Shachar M. Pinsker
intellectual, literary, and politi-
A deeply researched and reveal- “A breakthrough in the under- cal history that links twentieth-
ing study of the Jews of Mora- standing of the literary modern- century Turkey to major
via throughout the nineteenth ism that flourished in Hebrew on developments in Europe. Her
century. European soil during the early work poses a significant chal-
decades of the twentieth cen- lenge to persistent beliefs
“Rabbis and Revolution is a work tury. Its vivid investigation of the about the ‘backwardness’ and
of the highest order: thoroughly cafe world of the Hebrew writers ‘Orientalness’ of modern Turkey,
original, rigorously focused, ex- locates their work in concrete revealing that Turkey has never
haustively researched and finely cultural space, and the discus- been properly understood in
crafted. This is the first synthetic sion of sexual themes in Hebrew the context of the Orientalism
study of Moravian Jewry as a modernism shows how deeply debate.”
whole, and Miller highlights how engaged it was in the prevalent —Nina Berman,
extensively it differed from the European discourse of the era.” Ohio State University
Jewries of other Hapsburg lands. —Robert Alter,
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Jewish History
What Is Life? Police Aesthetics Violence as Worship
The Intellectual Literature, Film, and Religious Wars in the
18 Pertinence of the Secret Police in Age of Globalization
Erwin Schrödinger Soviet Times Hans G. Kippenberg
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Cristina Vatulescu Translated by Brian McNeil
Robert Pogue Harrison, “This is a very important, ground- “This book is both one of the
Michael R. Hendrickson, breaking book, one of the most best contributions to the study
and Robert B. Laughlin original and illuminating works of contemporary world conflicts
In this volume, four leading I have seen in recent years in and an impressive new ap-
American scientists and human- comparative Slavic studies. Po- proach to research on religious-
ists unfold the controversial po- lice Aesthetics will unquestion- ly inspired political conflicts in
tential of Schrödinger’s thought. ably position Cristina Vatulescu general. Kippenberg’s approach
as one of the foremost scholars is directed against all attempts
“An imaginative and highly of Soviet culture.” to essentialize ‘religion’ and
interdisciplinary invitation —Catharine Nepomnyashchy, ‘violence:’ instead, he focusses
to rethink the work of Erwin Columbia University on religious motivations and in-
Schrödinger, one of the most terpretations of violent acts by
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phers of the last two hundred —Hans Joas,
years. Each author brings a dif- Imagining Harmony Max Weber Center, University of
ferent perspective—two from Poetry, Empathy, and Erfurt, Germany, and Committee on
the humanities, two from the Social Thought, University of Chicago
Community in Mid-
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Harvard University fresh starting point for studies French Thought
of both literary and sociopo-
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