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African American Studies …………………………………………………21 Architectural History …………………………………………………………1 Cultural Studies…………………………………………………………………20 Environmental History …………………………………………………10–13 History of Science ……………………………………………………………21 Poetry ………………………………………………………………………………4–9 Philosophy…………………………………………………………………………15 Latin American Studies ………………………………………………18–20 Rhetoric ……………………………………………………………………………14 Russian History ……………………………………………………………16–17 Science and Technology ……………………………………………………11 United States History ……………………………………………………2, 21 Women’s Studies ………………………………………………………………13

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ARCHITECTURAL HI S T ORY

Allegheny City A History of Pittsburgh’s North Side Dan Rooney and Carol Peterson “This book is an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in Pittsburgh. It is a serious, thoroughly researched history of the North Side with a wealth of fascinating detail. Architecture, land use, business trends, demographic shifts, and natural disasters all take their place in this sprawling history, mirroring trends in the larger American society. Dan Rooney’s afterword urges an optimistic approach, saying ‘we must all come together with a common purpose: to make the North Side a grand place to work and live.’ In our often-divided society, that’s a ringing cry for cooperation that should resonate with Pittsburghers who love their city.” —Meg Cheever, President and CEO, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy “Dan Rooney is a man of few words. When he speaks, it is best to listen. When he speaks about Pittsburgh’s North Side, listen carefully—there is much to be learned about the amazing history of Allegheny City and the evolution of an American community.” —Andrew E. Masich, President and CEO, Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh

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“The North Side is coming back. . . . This book tells the Allegheny City/North Side story from the days of canals and cotton mills through the present day. Dan Rooney, who grew up in the neighborhood, has joined with Carol Peterson, a tireless scholar of Pittsburgh’s history, to coauthor this essential story. . . . If you have any interest in the way American cities evolved—and if you have a particular interest in Pittsburgh—this is the book for its largest section, the North Side.” —Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, from the foreword

DAN ROONEY

is United States Ambassador to Ireland and chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers. A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he is the author of Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL.

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CAROL PETERSON

is an architectural historian who specializes in the buildings, homes, and communities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo by Mark Knobil

llegheny City, known today as Pittsburgh’s North Side, was the third-largest city in Pennsylvania when it was controversially annexed by the City of Pittsburgh in 1907. Founded in 1787 as a reserve land tract for Revolutionary War veterans in compensation for their service, it quickly evolved into a thriving urban center with its own character, industry, and accomplished residents. Among those to inhabit the area, which came to be known affectionately as “The Ward,” were Andrew Carnegie, Mary Cassatt, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Foster, and Martha Graham. Once a station along the underground railroad, home to the first wire suspension bridge, and host to the first World Series, the North Side is now the site of Heinz Field, PNC Park, the Andy Warhol Museum, the National Aviary, and world headquarters for corporations such as Alcoa and the H. J. Heinz Company. Dan Rooney, longtime North Side resident, joins local historian Carol Peterson in creating this highly engaging history of the cultural, industrial, and architectural achievements of Allegheny City from its humble beginnings until the present day. The authors cover the history of the city from its origins as a simple colonial outpost and agricultural center to its rapid emergence alongside Pittsburgh as one of the most important industrial cities in the world and an engine of the American economy. They explore the life of its people in this journey as they experienced war and peace, economic boom and bust, great poverty and wealth—the challenges and opportunities that fused them into a strong and durable community, ready for whatever the future holds. Supplemented by historic and contemporary photos, the authors take the reader on a fascinating and often surprising street-level tour of this colorful, vibrant, and proud place.

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UNITED STATES HI S T ORY

Pastoral and Monumental Dams, Postcards, and the American Landscape

Donald C. Jackson

“Combining expertise in civil engineering with extensive knowledge of popular images, Donald C. Jackson shows that Americans celebrated dams as beautifying improvements that enabled logging, manufacturing, navigation, irrigation, hydropower, flood control, and recreation. He re-creates the enthusiasm that, despite occasional disasters, culminated during the New Deal, followed by increasing environmental criticism. An engrossing book.” —David E. Nye, University of Southern Denmark “Donald C. Jackson shows just how thoroughly dams captured the American imagination in this stimulating book. The last word on postcards.” —Ted Steinberg, Case Western Reserve University

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DONALD C. JACKSON is professor of

history at Lafayette College. He is the author of Great American Bridges and Dams and Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West, and coauthor of Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics.

“Through the medium of picture postcards, Donald C. Jackson relates the history of dams as a feature of the American landscape, demonstrating the value of such ‘ephemera’ as a resource for historical inquiry and a means of enhancing our understanding of the built environment. The illustrations are compelling and often surprising.” —Carol Poh, Historical Consultant and past President, Society for Industrial Archeology

n Pastoral and Monumental, Donald C. Jackson chronicles America’s longtime love affair with dams as represented on picture postcards from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Through nearly four hundred images, Jackson documents the remarkable transformation of dams and their significance to the environment and culture of America.

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Initially, dams were portrayed in pastoral settings on postcards that might jokingly proclaim them as “a dam pretty place.” But scenes of flood damage, dam collapses, and other disasters also captured people’s attention. Later, images of New Deal projects, such as the Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, and Norris Dam, symbolized America’s rise from the Great Depression through monumental public works and technological innovation. Jackson relates the practical applications of dams, describing their use in irrigation, navigation, flood control, hydroelectric power, milling, mining, and manufacturing. He chronicles changing construction techniques, from small timber mill dams to those more massive and more critical to a society dependent on instant access to electricity and potable water. Concurrent to the evolution of dam technology, Jackson recounts the rise of a postcard culture that was fueled by advances in printing, photography, lowered postal rates, and America’s fascination with visual imagery. In 1907 over one billion postcards were mailed through the U.S. Postal Service, and for a period of over fifty years, postcards featuring dams were “all the rage.” Whether displaying the charms of an old mill, the aftermath of a devastating flood, or the construction of a colossal gravity dam, these postcards were a testament to how people perceived dams as structures of both beauty and technological power.

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Translations from the Flesh Elton Glaser

“Like the moon moving toward eclipse, the luminous realm of desire in Elton Glaser’s superb new collection is always in danger of erasure by the mortal shadow thrown by the earth. Translations from the Flesh is a stunning journal of passage from adolescent audacity to mature reflection, and these poems are without question Elton Glaser’s finest and most powerful work yet.” —David St. John “Was it Patsy Cline who said her voice was trouble and honey? The same is true of Elton Glaser, whose new book Translations from the Flesh is further testimony that the restless imagination and keen wit spring from and return to love. Master of vernacular surprises and erudite on everything from Propertius to pop culture, Glaser offers ‘the uncontrollable truth’ throughout this splendid collection.” —R. T. Smith

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ELTON GLASER is the author of six previous poetry collections: Relics, Tropical Depressions, Color Photographs of the Ruins, Winter Amnesties, Pelican Tracks, and Here and Hereafter. His poems have appeared in the 1995, 1997, and 2000 editions of The Best American Poetry. Among Glaser’s awards are two fellowships from the NEA, seven fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the 1996 Ohionana Poetry Award. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Akron, former director of the University of Akron Press, and former editor of the Akron Series in Poetry.

“Elton Glaser has long been a poetic provocateur of the first order, a master of charged and highly kinetic language that delights in revealing our secret, true, shaded selves. In Translations from the Flesh, Glaser sets every poem, every line, on fire with his wicked wit and wound-up music, enlisting his speakers in a cage match between the sacred and the profane, between ‘the dark instincts of ecstasy,’ and ‘other punishments the stars pronounce.’ These poems are lightning-bright, unapologetic, unsparing—especially of themselves—and very, very funny.” —Dorothy Barresi

SOLO IN THE SKELETON KEY

Who would plant, in this stony ground, narcissus and love-lies-bleeding? It’s too late to be young among the primitives. Winter withers the stalks. The air reeks of it, decay and the odor of innocence gone to seed. The time for riots and tattoos is over. Who dances the Dazzle now, or the Swerve? Long before the armada and the asp, Antony must have tired of Cleopatra, Those heavy breasts, that midnight skin, a name that thickened in his throat. In the heat from eating an incandescent pepper, there’s neither passion Nor apocalypse, just tongues in hell, just retching and the runs.

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What honey comes from old drones? Forget the hoodoo and the holy water. Pray only in Jerusalem, at the Church of Our Lady of the Spasm.

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Love’s no trick of ecstasy, no lightning strike in the mind. Each new child Struggles out, bloody and stunned, one more last chance to get it right.


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What Things Are Made Of Charles Harper Webb “What Things Are Made Of is a delicious antidote to the solemnities, banalities, and absurdities of our culture, treated by Charles Harper Webb with hilarity and amiability. But lest you be tomfooled into thinking Webb is one of those poets who is all language and no heart, be warned—he also writes some of the best poems of love, sex, childhood, and mortality that we’ve got. I hope Webb enjoyed writing this book as much as I enjoyed reading it.”—Alicia Suskin Ostriker “As in a madman’s rickety invention, the silver ball of Charles Harper Webb’s imagination rolls down Egyptian railroad tracks in locomotives powered by burning mummies, until its final moonwalk stage left to the end of nostalgia—where it puts a period to the modern age to which we’re sentenced. It’s a wild ride, and it’s over too soon, but for just ten cents you can turn the page and start at the top again. Hilarious, kinetic, profound, Webb’s poems are always a strange and fun adventure. So buy this book, plug in your dime, and get the ball rolling!”—Tony Barnstone

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“Flannery O’Connor said that the best comedy ‘is always about matters of life and death,’ a truth demonstrated masterfully in What Things Are Made Of. With his discerning wit, musician’s ear, and big heart—plus a newly deepened tone of melancholy—Webb takes us on a seriocomic journey down the potholey road from youth to maturity in an age where ‘truth shifts like ants on a Klondike bar.’ The melancholy is countered by the book’s prevailing motif: love—schmaltz-free—of wife and son, of beleaguered humankind (most of it), of rock ‘n’ roll and fly fishing, of the ‘big band’ of a new day. If you’re looking for a reader friendly work by one of America’s best poets writing at his best, get out your wallet.”—William Trowbridge

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CHARLES HARPER WEBB is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Reading the Water, Liver, Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies, Hot Popsicles, Amplified Dog, and Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, and Poets of the New Century. Webb has received the Morse Prize, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Pollak Prize, and Saltman Prize, as well as a Whiting Writer's Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. He is professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, and teaches in the MFA in creative writing program there.

“Crafted from a cynical romanticism that dreams with one eye open, Webb’s What Things Are Made Of groans and growls out of the ‘cracked crankcase’ of his wildness. Dare, dear reader, to harness yourself to this bungee jump—anguished, masterful, and still deeply funny on the hundredth reading— that will dangle you over the precipice for an eyeful, an earful, and a polyphonic three-bone time.” —Roger Weingarten

LIAR’S BALL

My wife points to pencil-snarls scrawled on the wall. “Erik, who did this?” “Da-Da!” he pipes cheerfully. Wham-bam, he’s in a chandeliered ballroom with Peter, who denied Christ; Clinton, who disclaimed Paula; Arnold Upchurch, who disputes DNA, wailing, “I didn't do it,” as the state’s poison pours in. Hurray— we’re at the Liar’s Ball, where Erik, tuxed by Baby Gap, is Toddler King. We wear false faces, and dance the Duplicity here. We play Prevaricator’s Waltz in shifting keys. “Da-Da!” Erik cries to wild applause, hands raised like goalposts, fibbing’s football tumbling through. My squawk-puppet’s a real boy now. He’s joined the League of Lying Animals—totem, the angler fish; mascot, the trap door spider. He wears the sacred T-shirt: Adam, whining, “What apple?!” “The bosses can hijack your body any time,” I tell him. “But your mind’s a temple. Never tell them how you dance in there.” UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS

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Blowout Denise Duhamel “Denise Duhamel’s Blowout chronicles the journey from heartbreak to new love but is so much more. It is a meditation on love and the sacrifices we make to create it in tenements, in condos, on boardwalks, and in our own hearts. Wearing her rare shade of Bali Brown lipstick, Duhamel strides through lovelorn streets like a Valkyrie, a straight-talking goddess, who takes on the teeming world and makes it her own.”—Barbara Hamby “The discerning exuberance that has long defined Denise Duhamel’s work is distressed in Blowout, but it is ultimately resilient. These poems traverse the distance between loss (the first poem is ‘How Will It End’) and praise (the last poem is ‘Ode to Eyebrows’) with the urgency of someone ‘trying to remember the exact wording of [her] fortune.’ Duhamel’s poems continue shouldering difficult, disorderly subjects with remarkable imagination and candor. She remains one of the best poets writing today. Blowout is a devastating book.”—Terrance Hayes

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“Blowout is a terrific book of poems that delivers the pleasures of a good novel. Its protagonist is brave and resilient. She’s observant and curious about the world no matter what happens to her. She’s unsparing and hilarious. Whether wrenched by uncoupling, or catapulted back to childhood, or plummeting from fiscal cliffs, or shooting the rapids of postmodern romance, she is our hero. She never retreats, never turns bitter, gives everyone and everything (no matter how painful) its due, never losing eloquence or nerve. If I had a daughter old enough to read what a woman’s life really is, the glory and the comedy and the hell of it, I’d give her this book.”—Amy Gerstler

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DENISE DUHAMEL is professor of English at Florida International University and the author of numerous poetry collections, including Ka-Ching, Two and Two, and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems. Duhamel has written five chapbooks of poetry and coedited, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. The recipient of numerous awards, including an NEA fellowship, she has been anthologized widely, including Penguin Academics: Contemporary American Poetry; Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else; and Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Duhamel is guest editor for Best American Poetry 2013.

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SLEEP SEEDS

I read about a mother who licked her infant daughter’s eyes open, washed away the sleep seeds with her tongue. This must have been a woman without a facecloth or warm water, a child with terrible allergies. This must have had something to do with poverty. Or maybe I was reading about the grooming habits of gorillas or chimps. I have asked you to blow dust away from my lower lid. I have pressed the open parenthesis of a lash from your cheek onto my fingertip and kept it. And if, one morning, you wake but cannot see me, I will also be the woman who laps your glued eyelids until they part. I will ease away each sleep seed, each tear’s unbeautiful sister. Though I can’t remember if the mother and daughter were from a magazine article or novel or poem, the gesture has stayed with me. Back then, before I met you, I thought gross. Now I think love— our eyes forming crystals and diamonds when we dream. UNIVERSITY OF PIT TSBURGH PRESS

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Women’s Poetry Poems and Advice Daisy Fried “The poetry of Daisy Fried practices for a for-real poetry vérité; Fried loves the rough, tumbling texture of vernacular impressionism, all the quirks and idiomatic pell-mell of spoken consciousness. Her poetic voice—long-striding, unpretentious, unsentimental—is anchored by a rock-solid, almost rude, recurrent honesty, intimate as a punch in the arm. The result of Fried’s vigorous, forward-rushing style, her passionate and tender social acumen, and her blunt, sensible clarity is a poetry more convincingly in touch with the lived life than almost anyone else’s. I go back to her books over and over.” —Tony Hoagland

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“‘I, too, dislike it’. Daisy Fried’s witty take on Women’s Poetry isn’t what you’d expect. This isn’t the grapey communion wine of the sisterhood, but a galling, and galvanic, and gimlet-eyed appraisal of human behavior across a panoply of contexts. To my ear, what Fried does with the American vernacular is matchless: She infuses it with the savage energy that William Carlos Williams was looking for a century ago when he wrote despairingly, ‘We believe that life in America is compact of violence and the shock of immediacy. This is not so. Were it so, there would be a corresponding beauty of the spirit, to bear it witness.’ Here is a woman who strides across a moonlit back lawn to feed feral kittens she has named Raphael, Gabriel, and Lucifer. Such are the revamped angels in the house of women’s poetry. To which I say Amen.”—Ange Mlinko


DAISY FRIED is the author of My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She has received Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares. Fried reviews poetry books for the New York Times, Poetry, and the Threepenny Review and was awarded Poetry magazine’s Editor’s Prize. She has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and in Warren Wilson College’s low-residency MFA program.

“‘She was tired of sad modern endings. . . . She narrated things calmly and swiftly,’ Daisy Fried writes, as her steely narration, calm and swift, dismantles our expectations for poetries that address gender, class, motherhood, politics, and poetries. In ‘sourness a kind of joy,’ she asserts, and throughout this stunning collection demonstrates this over and again, most strikingly in the beautiful braidings of ‘Attenti Agli Zingari.’ These poems end as they begin: fiercely, frankly, getting the last word: ‘scomplicated.’”—Susan Wheeler “Passionate, nervy (as in ‘you’ve got a lot of . . . ’), telegraphic, indecorous, chewy, sharply observed, and smart; this is decidedly not Kathie Lee’s America we’re encountering in Daisy Fried’s wonderful new collection. Off come the pink happy goggles and on come the lights. Be unsettled, it’s quite all right. Women’s Poetry is bold, joyfully energetic poetry, and most invigorating, even if you’re a guy.”—August Kleinzahler “Lyrical, idiosyncratic, electrically gifted, no one writes quite like Daisy Fried, perhaps not even Daisy Fried. The poems come at you with flailing elbows, blurted youthspeak mashed-up with Italianate parlor musings, a unique conjury of angles, rhythms, and rhetorical postures, aswerve, aslant, aflutter, akimbo. This third book extends her range to the long sequence, the epistolary pseudo-poem, and heaven knows what else: don’t think too hard, buy it.”—Campbell McGrath

WOMEN’S POETRY

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I, too, dislike it. However, I was trying to not think when out of the gaping wound of the car-detailing garage (smells like metallic sex) came a Nissan GT-R fitted with an oversized spoiler. Backing out sounded like clearing the throat of god. A gold snake zizzed around the license plate. Sunburst hubcaps, fancy undercarriage installation casting a pool of violet light on the pocked pavement of gum blots. Was it this that filled me with desire?


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The Government of Nature Afaa Michael Weaver Past praise for Afaa Michael Weaver “Afaa Michael Weaver is one of the most significant poets writing today. With its blend of Chinese spiritualism and American groundedness, his poetry presents the reader (and the listener, for his body of work is meant to be read aloud) with challenging questions about identity, about how physicality and spirit act together or counteract each other to shape who we are in the world. His attention to the way language works is rare, and the effects of that attention on his poetry are distinctive and expansive.” —Henry Louis Gates for Baltimore Magazine

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“Weaver . . . finds a place in the legacy of Whitman and the mid-nineteenth century when in the evolution of American poetry the glory of vernacular speech first became fused in verse with an inspired sense of the American self, sensuous and yet transcendent. Weaver’s verse acknowledges the guidance of that tradition and honors it. . . . His vision is local and focused, and as befits a poet of genuine depth and seriousness of purpose, it is as wide as the horizon itself. . . . We see Weaver’s world through the eye of an intensely private and personal self, which both embraces the public sphere and holds it at bay. . . . The range of his poetical language stretches wide.” —Arnold Rampersad from his introduction to Multitudes “It is nothing less than a personal cosmogony, cosmology: each section heralded by the five elements of Chinese philosophy. . . . It is a tour de force of expansiveness in African American poetics. . . . Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious.” —Vince Gotera, North American Review on The Plum Flower Dance

AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER is the author

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of eleven previous poetry collections, including Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems, My Father’s Geography, and The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005. He is alumnae professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. Weaver is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Pew fellowship, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright scholar appointment, among other honors.

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LEAVES

The lines that make you are infinite, but I count them every day to hear the stories you carry. These are not secrets but records, things we should know but ignore. If I commit the sin of tearing you from the tree, I find another world inside the torn vein, another lifetime of counting the records of who walked here before, of what lovers lay here holding each other through wars and starvation. Some days I stand here until I lose focus and travel, drifting off out of the moment, too full of it, and my legs are now like trees, mindless but vigilant, held into the earth by the rules of debt, what we owe to nature for trying to tear ourselves away. I drift and the pleasure of touch comes again, layers of green in the mountainside a tickling in my palms. The pleasure is that of being lost here in the crowd of trunks and pulp, the ground thick with the death of you, sinking under my feet as I go, touching one and another, linking myself through until the place where I entered is gone. When I am afraid, my breath is caught in my throat. When I am not afraid, I lift both hands up under a bunch of you to find the way the world felt on the first day.


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The Switching/Yard Jan Beatty “The Switching/Yard is Jan Beatty’s unflinching and unapologetic turn, a fierce conflagration of lyric and gorgeously rendered narrative that refuses to give the reader a chance, or reason, to turn away. There is no predictable rooting here, no way to dismiss these stanzas as simple leaps in the evolution of a starkly talented storyteller. Beatty’s staunch refusal to bow to the ordinary—her ‘switching’ of gender roles, positions of power, or the very idea of home—infuses this volume with a brilliance not open to debate.” —Patricia Smith “When I step inside Jan Beatty’s poetry, I know I’m entering a place that is inhabited. I feel her presence in every space—whether it’s the ghostly train yard (‘the brokenness of a highway dream’) or a maximum-security prison. Beatty is a poet who speaks with courage and experience. Her poems are electrifyingly candid. Remember the scene in Mommy Dearest when Faye Dunaway stares down the stuffed shirts of the corporate boardroom? ‘This ain’t my first time at the rodeo.’ Jan Beatty could have snapped that entire table in half with the raw energy of her words. In the words of R&B vocalist Carl Carlton, ‘she’s a bad mamajama.’” —D. A. Powell

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JAN BEATTY is the author of three previous

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poetry collections: Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of the Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, among other honors. Beatty is cohost and producer of Prosody, a weekly radio program featuring the work of national writers. She is the director of the creative writing program at Carlow University.

“In this aptly titled collection, Jan Beatty zigzags back and forth from mournful balladeer to hoppedup punk, from Pittsburgh smokestacks to Fresno train yards, ‘from wreckage to plunder.’ Full of Western vistas, dead-end bars, lying fathers, and midnight highways, The Switching/Yard is a ferocious post-post-Beatnik mash-up—part Bukowski, part Wanda Coleman—a barbaric yawp ‘lost in the big cosmic bath / where grief and ecstasy meet.’” —Campbell McGrath

VISITATION AT GOGAMA No shirt, was drying his long hair with a towel and staring at the train, he looked about 30. I saw my birth father young and alive, he stepped out of a brown house with a white sign on the side: WILD BILL (his nickname) in big block letters. I saw him the way he was before he made me— beautiful and astonishing in his maleness. I tell you this is my family tree—no noble phrases, no graveyards on the hill, just visitations. Now pieces of discarded track, explosion of purple wildflowers along the side, solid wall of rock 5 ft from the train, then a river/bridge/floating leaves that look like giant lily pads—is that possible? We’re approaching the town of Gogama, Ontario—small railroad town erased by the diesel engine. There’s a bar called “Restaurant/Tavern” and a meat market called “Meat Market” and a motel called “Motel”—no other names. In this place of no-naming or maybe first-naming, I decide I’ll call myself “bastard”— it’s plain and accurate, you can count on it. We approach a signal, a woman in a black tank top with killer arms slouches in a gray Buick Century at the crossing in a modified gangster lean. I decide I love her, call her free.


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ENVIRONMENTAL HI S T ORY

London Water and the Making of the Modern City John Broich

“Much more than an account of the watering of a great metropolis, Broich’s book reminds us that cities are infrastructural achievements, that creating infrastructure is complicated and divisive and yet profoundly transformative.” —Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame “A pleasure to read. Broich demonstrates that the resolution of the problems of supplying water to London—the first world city—hampered as it had been by deeply entrenched interests, brought about a new level of ideological politicization of the water industry in Britain. He shows how the dynamics of ‘progress’ and inertia are not straightforward.” —Raymond Smith, environmental historian

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JOHN BROICH is assistant professor of the

history of modern Britain and its empire at Case Western Reserve University.

s people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric.

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The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out—in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London’s water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London’s water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As John Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.

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ENVIRONMENTAL HI S T ORY/ SCIENCE AND TECHNOL OGY

New Natures Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies Edited by Dolly Jørgensen, Finn Arne Jørgensen, and Sara B. Pritchard Contributors Kevin C. Armitage, Eunice Blavascunas, Stephen Bocking, Michael Egan, Thomas D. Finger, Dolly Jørgensen, Finn Arne Jørgensen, Valerie A. Olson, Sara B. Pritchard, Tiago Saraiva, Sverker Sörlin, David Tomblin, Frank Uekoetter, Anya Zilberstein

“Timely and important. A welcome volume that seizes upon an emerging interest and body of scholarship at the intersections of environmental history and science and technology studies, particularly among a younger generation of scholars in both fields.”

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—Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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DOLLY JØRGENSEN is a researcher in the department of ecology and environmental science at Umeå University, Sweden. FINN ARNE JØRGENSEN is associate

senior lecturer of history of technology and environment at Umeå University, Sweden. SARA B. PRITCHARD is assistant

professor in the department of science and technology studies at Cornell University.

ew Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.

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The chapters follow three central themes: ways of knowing, or how knowledge is produced and how this mediates our understanding of the environment; constructions of environmental expertise, showing how expertise is evaluated according to categories, categorization, hierarchies, and the power afforded to expertise; and lastly, an analysis of networks, mobilities, and boundaries, demonstrating how knowledge is both diffused and constrained and what this means for humans and the environment. Contributors explore these themes by discussing a wide array of topics, including farming, forestry, indigenous land management, ecological science, pollution, trade, energy, and outer space, among others. The epilogue, by the eminent environmental historian Sverker Sörlin, views the deep entanglements of humans and nature in contemporary urbanity and argues we should preserve this relationship in the future. Additionally, the volume looks to extend the valuable conversation between STS and environmental history to wider communities that include policy makers and other stakeholders, as many of the issues raised can inform future courses of action.


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The City Natural Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism Shen Hou “With clear and engaging prose, The City Natural reconstructs an early and surprisingly expansive environmental vision that was as concerned with places like Boston and New York City as it was with Walden Pond and Yosemite. The book not only adds a new dimension to the history of environmentalism but contains important lessons for our increasingly urban present.” —Michael J. Rawson, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center “Shen Hou brings to life the most astonishing periodical in American environmental history! More than a century ago, Garden and Forest challenged readers to ponder the meaning of nature in an urbanizing world, and Hou’s provocative book now challenges historians to reexamine the relationship of urban and rural reform in the formative period of American environmentalism.” —Adam Rome, University of Delaware

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SHEN HOU is assistant professor of world

history at Renmin University of China, Beijing.

he weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888–1897). Yet, in that brief span, it brought to light many of the issues that would influence the future of American environmentalism. In The City Natural, Shen Hou presents the first “biography” of this important but largely overlooked vehicle for individuals with the common goal of preserving nature in American civilization.

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As Hou’s study reveals, Garden and Forest was instrumental in redefining the fields of botany and horticulture, while also helping to shape the fledgling professions of landscape architecture and forestry. The publication actively called for reform in government policy, urban design, and future planning for the preservation and inclusion of nature in cities. It also attempted to shape public opinion on these issues through a democratic ideal that every citizen had the right (and need) to access nature. These notions would anticipate the conservation and “city beautiful” movements that followed in the early twentieth century. Hou explains the social and environmental conditions that led to the rise of reform efforts, organizations, and publications such as Garden and Forest. She reveals the intellectual core and vision of the magazine as a proponent of the city natural movement that sought to relate nature and civilization through the arts and sciences. Garden and Forest was a staunch advocate of urban living made better through careful planning and design. As Hou shows, the publication also promoted forest management and preservation, not only as a natural resource but as an economic one. She also profiles the editors and contributors who set the magazine’s tone and follows their efforts to expand America’s environmental expertise. Through the pages of Garden and Forest, the early period of environmentalism was especially fruitful and optimistic; many individuals joined forces for the benefit of humankind and helped lay the foundation for a coherent national movement. Shen Hou’s study gives Garden and Forest its due and adds an important new chapter to the early history of American environmentalism.

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ENVIRONMENTAL HI S T ORY/ WOMEN’S STUDI E S

Cultivating Victory The Women’s Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant “Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant offers an original look at the back and forth conversations between the women (and the governments) of Britain and the United States as they defined urban women’s responsibilities in securing food production during the First and Second World Wars. Exhaustively researched, with an engaging set of illustrations from the period, Cultivating Victory convincingly lays out the shift from growing roses in support of home to growing tomatoes in support of troops, leading in the process to a more complex understanding of the relationships among nationalism, internationalism, food production, and women’s roles in all these arenas during the twentieth century.” —Vera Norwood, University of New Mexico, emeritus

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CECILIA GOWDY-WYGANT teaches

history at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

“Through her study of gardening campaigns during the First and Second World Wars in both Britain and the United States, Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant reaffirms that civic interest in gardening and farming reflects personal and national identity. Amid current interest in urban agriculture and local food production, Cultivating Victory contributes a richly researched historical context that builds the case for gardening as a permanent, multibeneficial resource for individuals and communities.” —Laura J. Lawson, Rutgers University

uring the First and Second World Wars, food shortages reached critical levels in the Allied nations. The situation in England, which relied heavily on imports and faced German naval blockades, was particularly dire. Government campaigns were introduced in both Britain and the United States to recruit individuals to work on rural farms and to raise gardens in urban areas. These recruits were primarily women, who readily volunteered in what came to be known as Women’s Land Armies. Stirred by national propaganda campaigns and a sense of adventure, these women, eager to help in any way possible, worked tirelessly to help their nations grow “victory gardens” to win the war against hunger and fascism. In vacant lots, parks, backyards, between row houses, in flowerboxes, and on farms, groups of primarily urban, middle-class women cultivated vegetables along with a sense of personal pride and achievement.

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In Cultivating Victory, Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant presents a compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles by these wartime campaigns. As she demonstrates, the seeds of this transformation were sown years before the First World War by women suffragists and international women’s organizations. Gowdy-Wygant profiles the foundational organizations and significant individuals in Britain and America, such as Lady Gertrude Denman and Harriet Stanton Blatch, who directed the Women’s Land Armies and fought to leverage the wartime efforts of women to eventually win voting rights and garner new positions in the workforce and politics. In her original transnational history, Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through changing gender roles and women’s ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women’s Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.


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RHETORIC

Ambient Rhetoric The Attunements of Rhetorical Being Thomas Rickert “Ambient Rhetoric will immediately find an audience of rhetorical scholars who will want to grapple with its many provocative directions. Not only is it a well-conceived and well-executed book, but it is an important one.” —John Muckelbauer, University of South Carolina “Thematically, Ambient Rhetoric is at the cutting edge of rhetorical theory in the U.S. context . . . What would it mean for rhetoric to reside outside the control of human agency? The strength of Rickert’s book is the rich response to this question.” —Daniel M. Gross, University of California, Irvine

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THOMAS RICKERT is associate professor of English at Purdue University and author of Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Žižek, and the Return of the Subject, winner of the 2007 JAC Gary A. Olson Award.

n Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain tied to the autonomy of human will and cognition as the sole determinants in the discursive act.

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Rickert develops the concept of ambience in order to engage all of the elements that comprise the ecologies in which we exist. Culling from Martin Heidegger’s hermeneutical phenomenology in Being and Time, Rickert finds the basis for ambience in Heidegger’s assertion that humans do not exist in a vacuum; there is a constant and fluid relation to the material, informational, and emotional spaces in which they dwell. Hence, humans are not the exclusive actors in the rhetorical equation; agency can be found in innumerable things, objects, and spaces. As Rickert asserts, it is only after we become attuned to these influences that rhetoric can make a first step toward sufficiency. Rickert also recalls the foundational Greek philosophical concepts of kairos (time), chōra (space/place), and periechon (surroundings) and cites their repurposing by modern and postmodern thinkers as “informational scaffolding” for how we reason, feel, and act. He discusses contemporary theory in cognitive science, rhetoric, and object-oriented philosophy to expand his argument for the essentiality of ambience to the field of rhetoric. Rickert then examines works of ambient music that incorporate natural and artificial sound, spaces, and technologies, finding them to be exemplary of a more fully resonant and experiential media. In his preface, Rickert compares ambience to the fermenting of wine—how its distinctive flavor can be traced to innumerable factors, including sun, soil, water, region, and grape variety. The environment and company with whom it’s consumed further enhance the taste experience. And so it should be with rhetoric—to be considered among all of its influences. As Rickert demonstrates, the larger world that we inhabit (and that inhabits us) must be fully embraced if we are to advance as beings and rhetors within it.

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PHILOSOPHY

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology Allan Gotthelf, Editor James G. Lennox, Associate Editor Contributors Benjamin Bayer, Jim Bogen, Bill Brewer Richard M. Burian, Onkar Ghate, Allan Gotthelf Paul E. Griffiths, Pierre Le Morvan, James G. Lennox Gregory Salmieri

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“A landmark set of essays, with comments and responses, exploring the implications of Rand's theories on perception, concept-formation, definition, justification, and conceptual change in science. The publication of this remarkable and engaging volume brings to the attention of professionals a theory of knowledge whose depth, breadth, and nuance may surprise them.” —Harry Binswanger, Editor, second edition of Ayn Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

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“By locating Rand’s theory of concepts in both traditional and contemporary debates, this collection offers a textured portrait of her distinctive view while also advancing the debates themselves. The essays are uniformly engaging and incisive, making substantial contributions on such topics as definitions, theory change, and epistemic justification. The crosscurrents in the comments and responses make the issues come alive, and broader applications (such as for value theory) are apparent. Overall, a terrific contribution.”

ALLAN GOTTHELF is Anthem Foundation

—Tara A. Smith, University of Texas-Austin

Distinguished Fellow for Research and Teaching in Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Ayn Rand and Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle’s Biology and coeditor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle’s Biology and the forthcoming Ayn Rand: A Companion to Her Works and Thought.

he philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905–1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than twenty-eight million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. Despite her popularity, Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism has received little serious attention from academic philosophers.

JAMES G. LENNOX is professor of history

and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals I–IV and Aristotle’s Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science. Lennox is coeditor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle’s Biology; Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf; and Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences.

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Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand’s radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand’s theory of concepts— including its new account of abstraction and essence—and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author’s responses to those commentaries. This is the second book published in Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies, which was developed in conjunction with the Ayn Rand Society to offer a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The Ayn Rand Society, an affiliated group of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, seeks to foster scholarly study by philosophers of the philosophical thought and writings of Ayn Rand.


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Soviet Mass Festivals, 1917–1991 Malte Rolf Translated by Cynthia Klohr Praise for the German edition “In his innovative and stimulating book, Malte Rolf explores with subtlety and insight the complex and contested processes of festivities, festivals, and parades through which the Communist Party and the Soviet state tried to legitimize themselves. It adds much to our knowledge of the cultural history of the Stalinist period in general and marks a welcome departure in scholarship on Soviet festivals and celebrations in particular.”—Russian Review “Innovative and well-written . . . should interest scholars of the Soviet Union and of other state socialist societies as well as those exploring the role of festivals and choreographed displays of power in nonsocialist societies. For those who do not read German, it would be a great benefit if Rolf’s book were translated into English.”—Slavic Review

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“A brilliant analysis of the way mass celebrations were designed, planned, and orchestrated by the party center and then transformed, modified, and reinterpreted on the peripheries of the Soviet Union. . . . Rolf closes his narrative with a comparative assessment of rituals and celebrations in twentiethcentury regimes (fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union) and in the United States in the 1930s. Many readers will find this part of the book most useful, as it is one of the rare attempts to portray socialist, Nazi, fascist, and democratic rituals in contrast to one another.”—Kritika

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MALTE ROLF is professor of history at the

University of Bamberg, Germany. He is the recipient of the Klaus Mehnert Award from the German Society for East European Studies, the 2008 Geisteswissenschaften Award, and the University of Tübingen’s doctoral thesis award. CYNTHIA KLOHR taught philosophy for

many years at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. She has translated books in philosophy, psychology, the history and theory of science, human rights, music, and cultural history.

ass festivals were a trademark of twentieth-century authoritarianism, as seen in fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and elsewhere. But nowhere was this phenomenon more prevalent than in the Soviet Union. Despite being a dominant feature of Soviet culture, these public spectacles have been largely overlooked as objects of study by historians.

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Originally published in German, Malte Rolf’s highly acclaimed work examines the creation and perpetuation of large-scale celebrations such as May Day, the anniversary of the October Revolution, Harvest Day, and others throughout the Soviet era. He chronicles the overt political agendas, public displays of power, forced participation, and widespread use of these events in the Soviet drive to eradicate existing cultural norms and replace them with new icons of Soviet ideology. Rolf shows how the new Red Calendar became an essential tool in redefining celebrations in the Soviet Union. Rolf traces the roots of Soviet mass festivals in disparate multiethnic celebrations, protests, and street marches during the late imperial era. He then contrasts these with postrevolutionary events that sought to dissolve ethnic rituals and unify the masses. By the end of the civil war, the Bolsheviks had a well-defined calendar of events and began to dictate the forms of public celebration in accordance with party rhetoric. In distant regions, organizers attempted to follow the models of Moscow and Leningrad, despite budgetary constraints and local resistance. In many outlying areas a hybridization of events developed as local customs merged with party mandates. People often made use of official holidays to adopt their own agendas, yet continued to follow the line of an official Soviet culture. Mass festivals were thus an important tool for “Sovietizing” the cultural landscape. After the Second World War, the Soviets exported their festival culture to Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, which resulted in a melding of Soviet guidelines with national cultural forms. Additionally, Rolf compares and contrasts Soviet mass spectacles with mass events in Italy, Germany, and the United States to reveal their similar influence despite divergent political, cultural, and social systems. In the Soviet Union, mass festivals continued through the time of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and up until perestroika, despite their fading political impact. Rolf finds that in the end, Soviet celebrations became effectively ingrained in Russia’s post-Soviet national memory, which ironically was the intent of the original festival planners.

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Bread upon the Waters The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811 Robert E. Jones

“Bread upon the Waters is exemplary for the lucidity with which it presents complex interrelations of geography, economics, foreign policy, technology, and political history. The book’s larger agenda is to describe and evaluate the Russian economy as a whole with important implications for the longer term of Russian history." —Robert Geraci, University of Virginia

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ROBERT E. JONES is professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of two previous books, Provincial Development in Russia: Catherine II and Jakob Sievers and The Emancipation of the Russian Nobility, 1763-1785.

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n eighteenth-century Russia, as elsewhere in Europe, bread was a dietary staple— truly grain was the staff of economic, social, and political life. Early on Tsar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg to export goods from Russia’s vast but remote interior and by doing so to drive Russia’s growth and prosperity. But the new city also had to be fed with grain brought over great distances from those same interior provinces. In this compelling account, Robert E. Jones chronicles how the unparalleled effort put into the building of a wide infrastructure to support the provisioning of the newly created but physically isolated city of St. Petersburg profoundly affected all of Russia’s economic life and, ultimately, the historical trajectory of the Russian Empire as a whole. Jones details the planning, engineering, and construction of extensive canal systems that efficiently connected the new capital city to grain and other resources as far away as the Urals, the Volga, and Ukraine. He then offers fresh insights to the state’s careful promotion and management of the grain trade during the long eighteenth century. He shows how the government established public granaries to combat shortages, created credit instruments to encourage risk taking by grain merchants, and encouraged the development of capital markets and private enterprise. The result was the emergence of an increasingly important cash economy along with a reliable system of provisioning the fifth largest city in Europe, with the political benefit that St. Petersburg never suffered the food riots common elsewhere in Europe. Thanks to this well-regulated but distinctly free-market trade arrangement, the grain-fueled economy became a wellspring for national economic growth, while also providing a substantial infrastructural foundation for a modernizing Russian state. In many ways, this account reveals the foresight of both Peter I and Catherine II and their determination to steer imperial Russia’s national economy away from statist solutions and onto a path remarkably similar to that taken by Western European countries but distinctly different than that of either their Muscovite predecessors or Soviet successors.


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Acting Inca National Belonging in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia E. Gabrielle Kuenzli “Acting Inca examines how different groups in the twentieth century revised Bolivian history in order to ‘recast’ its present. In lively prose, Kuenzli tells the fascinating and disturbing story of how the Liberal Party, Aymara intellectuals, and others refashioned the Inca and Tiwanaku past, particularly the role of indigenous people. This book should appeal to scholars working on performance, race, and memory as well as everyone interested in contemporary Bolivia.” —Charles Walker, University of California-Davis

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E. GABRIELLE KUENZLI is assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina.

“Acting Inca is an important book that presents novel interpretations of how intellectuals and activists intentionally construct politically acceptable forms of identity. It examines how the convergence of Aymara and Liberal interests established new forms of Bolivian identities based on the imagined memories of an Inca past rather than the realities of an Aymara present. Kuenzli challenges standard interpretations of the roles that the Aymara have played in Bolivia’s history and, in the process, historicizes the actions of the current administration of Evo Morales. Written in a clear and readable style, this book will appeal to a broad audience.” —Marc Becker, Truman State University

or most of the postcolonial era, the Aymara Indians of highland Bolivia were a group without representation in national politics. Believing that their cause would finally be recognized, the Aymara fought alongside the victorious liberals during the Civil War of 1899. Despite Aymara loyalty, liberals quickly moved to marginalize them after the war. In her groundbreaking study, E. Gabrielle Kuenzli revisits the events of the civil war and its aftermath to dispel popular myths about the Aymara and reveal their forgotten role in the nation-building project of modern Bolivia.

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Kuenzli examines documents from the famous postwar Peñas Trial to recover Aymara testimony during what essentially became a witch hunt. She reveals that the Aymara served as both dutiful plaintiffs allied with liberals and unwitting defendants charged with wartime atrocities and instigating a race war. To further combat their “Indian problem,” Creole liberals developed a public discourse that positioned the Inca as the only Indians worthy of national inclusion. This was justified by the Incas’ high civilization and reputation as noble conquerors, along with their current non-threatening nature. The “whitening” of Incans was a thinly veiled attempt to block the Aymara from politics, while also consolidating the power of the Liberal Party. Kuenzli posits that despite their repression, the Aymara did not stagnate as an idle, apolitical body after the civil war. She demonstrates how the Aymara appropriated the liberal’s Indian discourse by creating theatrical productions that glorified Incan elements of the Aymara past. In this way, the Aymara were able to carve an acceptable space as “progressive Indians” in society. Kuenzli provides an extensive case study of an “Inca play” created in the Aymara town of Caracollo, which proved highly popular and helped to unify the Aymara. As her study shows, the Amyara engaged liberal Creoles in a variety of ways at the start of the twentieth century, shaping national discourse and identity in a tradition of activism that continues to this day.

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Race and the Chilean Miracle Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights Patricia Richards “Drawing on notions of race and multiculturalism, Patricia Richards contributes to a growing literature critical of the so-called Chilean miracle. Counterposing testimonies from Mapuche individuals, political authorities, and activists to those of Chilean state officials and local elites, Richards traces the continuities, for the Mapuche people, between colonial dispossession and current neoliberal policies.” —Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Provides a clear, scrupulous, and detailed account of the responses of indigenous and nonindigenous peoples to the unique combination of neoliberalism and multiculturalism in Chile. Descriptively rich and analytically powerful, it thereby contributes a Chilean dimension to wider debates.” —Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge

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“Richards skillfully weaves local voices and perspectives with theoretical analysis. The discussions of Mapuche racial identity and local elite perspectives in particular are rich in detail and provide evidence of complex, sometimes contradictory, forms of consciousness. Race and the Chilean Miracle is unique in its in-depth study of multiculturalism in neoliberal Chile, its data on nonindigenous local perspectives, and the theoretical arguments it advances.” —Lynn Horton, Chapman University

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he economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet’s regime (1973–1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The famed economist Milton Friedman would later describe the transition as the “Miracle of Chile.” Yet, as Patricia Richards reveals, beneath this veneer of progress lies a reality of social conflict and inequity that has been perpetuated by many of the same neoliberal programs.

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In Race and the Chilean Miracle, Richards examines conflicts between Mapuche indigenous people and state and private actors over natural resources, territorial claims, and collective rights in the Araucanía region. Through ground-level fieldwork, extensive interviews with local Mapuche and Chileans, and analysis of contemporary race and governance theory, Richards exposes the ways that local, regional, and transnational realities are shaped by systemic racism in the context of neoliberal multiculturalism. Richards demonstrates how state programs and policies run counter to Mapuche claims for autonomy and cultural recognition. The Mapuche, whose ancestral lands have been appropriated for timber and farming, have been branded as terrorists for their activism and sometimes-violent responses to state and private sector interventions. Through their interviews, many Mapuche cite the perpetuation of colonialism under the guise of development projects, multicultural policies, and assimilationist narratives. Many Chilean locals and political elites see the continued defiance of the Mapuche in their tenacious connection to the land, resistance to integration, and insistence on their rights as a people. These diametrically opposed worldviews form the basis of the racial dichotomy that continues to pervade Chilean society. In her study, Richards traces systemic racism that follows both a top-down path (global, state, and regional) as well as a bottom-up one (local agencies and actors), detailing their historic roots. Richards also describes potential positive outcomes in the form of intercultural coalitions or indigenous autonomy. Her compelling analysis offers new perspectives on indigenous rights, race, and neoliberal multiculturalism in Latin America and globally.


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Speculative Fictions Chilean Culture, Economics, and the Neoliberal Transition Alessandro Fornazzari “Alessandro Fornazzari’s brilliantly argued book sheds new light on the neoliberal turn that transformed Chile’s public discourse since 1973. His compelling and sophisticated readings of novels, films, and essays constitute an important contribution to our understanding of the ways in which cultural artifacts work through the traumatic effects of the economic reshaping of the social sphere. From the political mediation of commodity fetishism on aesthetic grounds to the failure of allegory as a transitional form and the necessity and impossibility of critical restitution, Fornazzari’s creative reinscriptions of crucial theoretical notions turn contemporary fiction into a privileged social space for the interpretation of Chile’s political and economical unconscious.” —Mariano Siskind, Harvard University

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“Many books and articles have been published on the Chilean transition to democracy and on the impact of neoliberal policies on the country. Speculative Fictions, however, stands alone. I am particularly struck by the author’s elegant, simple, and apparently effortless rendering of highly complex theoretical material. Much of the pleasure in reading this work comes from its sophisticated and almost seamless fusing of theoretical points with cultural analysis.” —Horacio Legras, University of California, Irvine

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ALESSANDRO FORNAZZARI is associate professor of Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside.

peculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present. To Alessandro Fornazzari, the move to market capitalism effectively blurred the lines between economics and aesthetics, perhaps nowhere more evidently than in Chile.

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Through exemplary works of film, literature, the visual arts, testimonials, and cultural theory, Fornazzari reveals the influence of economics over nearly every aspect of culture and society. Citing Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Willy Thayer, Milton Friedman, and others, Fornazzari forms the theoretical basis for his neoliberal transitional discourse as a logical progression of capitalism. Fornazzari identifies Casa de campo, José Donoso’s allegory of the military coup of 1973 and the ensuing monetary crisis, as a harbinger of transitional texts, challenging them to explore new forms of abstraction. Those forms are explored in the novels Oir su voz by Arturo Fontaine and Mano de obra by Diamela Eltit, where Fornazzari examines divergent views of workers in the form of neoliberal human capital or postFordist immaterial labor. In documentaries by Patricio Guzmán and Silvio Caiozzi, he juxtaposes depictions of mass mobilization and protest to the mass marketing of individual memory and loss, claiming they serve as symbols of the polarities of dictatorship and neoliberalism. Fornazzari then relates the subsuming of the individual under both fascism and neoliberalism by recalling the iconic imbunche (a mutilated figure whose orifices have been sewn closed) in works by Donoso and the visual artist Catalina Parra. He continues the theme of subsumption in his discussion of the obliteration of the divide between physical labor and intellectualism under neoliberalism, as evidenced in the detective novel A la sombra del dinero by Ramón Díaz Eterovic. In these examples and others, Fornazzari presents a firmly grounded theoretical analysis that will appeal to Latin Americanists in general and to those interested in the intersection of economics and culture. The Chilean experience provides a case study that will also inform students and scholars of neoliberal transitions globally.

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HISTORY OF SCI E NC E

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