University Press Alert

Area Studies

New books from university presses

(1) Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism
Edited by Stefan Vogt, Derek Penslar, and Arieh Saposnik
ISBN: 9781684581542
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(2) Across the Worlds of Islam: Muslim Identities, Beliefs, and Practices from Asia to America
Edited by Edward E. Curtis IV
ISBN: 9780231210652
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Choson Diplomacy with Ming China
Sixiang Wang
ISBN: 9780231205474
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement
David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman
ISBN: 9780231210010
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) Deserved: Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
Till Hilmar
ISBN: 9780231209793
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(6) Feeling Memory: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France
Lindsey Dodd
ISBN: 9780231209199
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(7) Joseph Conrad and Material Culture: From the Rise of the Commodity Transcendent to the Scramble for Africa
Merry M. Pawlowski
ISBN: 9788322796382
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(8) Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong
Mark L. Clifford
ISBN: 9780231201698
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(9) Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System
Anne Irfan
ISBN: 9780231202855
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(10) Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-optation in North Africa
Sofia Fenner
ISBN: 9780231208598
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(11) Siegfried the Wrestler: The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel
Peter S. Fisher
ISBN: 9783837666915
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(12) The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960
Janet Y. Chen
ISBN: 9780231209038
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(13) The Tarikh-i Ḥamidi: A Late-Qing Uyghur History
Musa Sayrami. Translated by Eric Schluessel
ISBN: 9780231210034
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(14) A Language of One’s Own: Literary Arabic, the Palestinians and Israel
Ismail Nashef
ISBN: 9781399512015
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(15) Arabic Political Discourse in Transition: Connected Histories
El Mustapha Lahlali
ISBN: 9780748697885
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(16) Authoritarianism and Kurdish Alternative Politics: Governmentality, Gender and Justice
Latif Tas
ISBN: 9781474457422
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(17) Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark: Supporting the Struggle in Syria
Anne Sofie Schøtt
ISBN: 9781474491716
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(18) Middle Eastern and European Christianity, 16th-20th Century: Connected Histories
Bernard Heyberger
ISBN: 9781399503532
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(19) Neo-traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics
Walaa Quisay
ISBN: 9781399502771
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(20) Pulpit, Mosque and Nation: Turkish Friday Sermons as Text and Ritual
Elisabeth Özdalga
ISBN: 9781474488211
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(21) The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination
Rebecca Ruth Gould
ISBN: 9781474484022
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(22) The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey: Turkish Friday Sermons as Text and Ritual
Pierre Hecker; Ivo Furman|Kaya Akyıldız
ISBN: 9781474490290
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(23) The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia: Governmentality, Gender and Justice
Iulia Lumina
ISBN: 9781474466844
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(24) The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought
Wang Hui, Michael Gibbs Hill
ISBN: 9780674046764
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(25) Citizens, Civil Society, and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia: An Analysis from Below
Camille Pellerin; Logan Cochrane
ISBN: 9780228017516
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(26) Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria
Katarzyna Nowak
ISBN: 9780228017301
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(27) Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War
Audrey Wu Clark
ISBN: 9780814215449
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(28) Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai'i
Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.
ISBN: 9780813565651
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(29) Between Self and Community: Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea
Junehui Ahn
ISBN: 9781978831384
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(30) Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror
David Gillota
ISBN: 9781978834163
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(31) Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington
Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens and Darryl L. Chambers
ISBN: 9781978817364
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(32) Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico
Tabea Alexa Linhard
ISBN: 9781503634695
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(33) Feminist Spiritualities: Conjuring Resistance in the Afro-Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Joshua R. Deckman; SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
ISBN: 9781438493404
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(34) Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish Poetry
Shirley Lau Wong
ISBN: 9781438493824
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(35) Transforming One's Self: The Therapeutic Ethical Pragmatism of William James
Clifford S. Stagoll; SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
ISBN: 9781438493268
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(36) Fighting Monsters in the Abyss: The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010
Harvey F. Kline
ISBN: 9780817360795
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(37) Soloveitchik's Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
Daniel Ross Goodman
ISBN: 9780817360924
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(38) Forging Diasporic Citizenship: Narratives from German-Born Turkish Ausländer
Gül Çalışkan
ISBN: 9780774866125
View at publisher (University of British Columbia Press)


(39) A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone
by Daniel Martinez HoSang (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395602
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(40) Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants
by Melissa Villa-Nicholas (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386075
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(41) Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles
by Özge Yaka (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393615
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(42) Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador
by David Carey Jr. (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344792
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(43) The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: Volume I
by Fernand Braudel (Author)
ISBN: 9780520400658
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(44) The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: Volume II
by Fernand Braudel (Author)
ISBN: 9780520400665
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(45) Kore-eda Hirokazu:
Marc Yamada
ISBN: 978-0-252-04512-7
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(46) Transnational Communism across the Americas:
Edited by Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob A. Zumoff
ISBN: 978-0-252-04522-6
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(47) Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance
Monique Mojica & Brenda Farnell
ISBN: 9780472076215
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(48) Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence
Ruth Sacks
ISBN: 9780472056316
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(49) Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
Connor Ryan
ISBN: 9780472055791
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(50) Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Katie N. Johnson
ISBN: 9780472075782
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(51) A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965
Maxwell Johnson
ISBN: 9781496224323
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(52) Biblical Women Speak: Hearing Their Voices through New and Ancient Midrash
Rabbi Marla J. Feldman
ISBN: 9780827615144
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(53) Hoarding New Guinea: Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures
Rainer F. Buschmann
ISBN: 9781496234643
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(54) Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779
A. Lynn Smith
ISBN: 9781496206961
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(55) My Side of the River: An Alaska Native Story
Elias Kelly
ISBN: 9781496235091
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(56) Open Judaism: A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
ISBN: 9780827615243
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(57) Bahian Recôncavo Plantations: Spaces of Power and Resistance
Doriane Andrade Meyer
ISBN: 9781469677217
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(58) Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West
Edited by David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson
ISBN: 9780268108267
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(59) Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience
Marda Dunsky
ISBN: 9780268200343
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(60) Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emmanuel Katongole
ISBN: 9780268202576
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(61) Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture
Rebekka Voß
ISBN: 9781512824322
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(62) An Age of Hubris: Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
Timothy Keegan
ISBN: 9780813949161
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(63) An Ecological History of Modern China
Stevan Harrell
ISBN: 9780295751719
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(64) China's Hidden Century: 1796-1912
Jessica Harrison-Hall, Julia Lovell
ISBN: 9780295751856
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(65) Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Sumit Guha. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295751498
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(66) Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape
Satsuki Takahashi. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295751344
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(67) Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar’s Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam
Cai Tinglan. Translated by Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu
ISBN: 9780295751672
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(68) Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai
Julie E. Starr
ISBN: 9780295751764
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(69) After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Nicole Fox
ISBN: 9780299332242
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(70) Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War
Kosal Path
ISBN: 9780299322748
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(71) Arnulf Rainer: Rosarot Himmelblau
Friedl, Helmut
ISBN: 9783777441627
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Der Mucha: An Initial Suspicion
Gaensheimer, Susanne
ISBN: 9783777439860
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan
Culcasi, Karen
ISBN: 9780226827063
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision and Companions
Cusato, Michael F.
ISBN: 9781789147834
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–45
Rodriguez, Andres
ISBN: 9780774867566
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639
Casale, Sinem
ISBN: 9780226820422
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Homage to Aert van der Neer
Reguera, Alberto
ISBN: 9789887470779
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Land Art as Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park
Ferry, Robert
ISBN: 9783777440934
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830
Eddy, Matthew
ISBN: 9780226183862
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance
Newitt, Malyn
ISBN: 9781789147025
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Zwigenberg, Ran
ISBN: 9780226826769
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany: On fire
Davies, Mererid Puw
ISBN: 9781787352896
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America
Witham, Nick
ISBN: 9780226826998
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(84) Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision
Winston, Diane
ISBN: 9780226824529
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) Ruth Baumgarte: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Illustrations
Kunststiftung Ruth Baumgarte,
ISBN: 9783777438382
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) St Peter-On-The-Wall: Landscape and Heritage on the Essex Coast
Dale, Johanna
ISBN: 9781800084377
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money
Grubb, Farley
ISBN: 9780226826035
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(88) The Feeling of Forgetting: Christianity, Race, and Violence in America
Corrigan, John
ISBN: 9780226827650
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(89) The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School
George, Sam
ISBN: 9780774880855
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(90) They All Made Peace – What Is Peace?: The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order
Conlin, Jonathan
ISBN: 9781914983054
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(91) Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History
Harte, Jeremy
ISBN: 9781789147162
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(92) Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism
Vogt, Stefan
ISBN: 9781684581559
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(93) When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America
Strolovitch, Dara
ISBN: 9780226798813
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(94) Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master
Gwenda Young
ISBN: 9780813198408
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(95) New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky
John David Smith
ISBN: 9780813197807
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(96) Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho: Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina
Koichi Hagimoto
ISBN: 9780826505699
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(97) Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now
Amy E. Wright
ISBN: 9780826505613
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)