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Jenny Hale Pulispher, “Swindler Sachem: The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England” (Yale UP, 2018)

Jenny Hale Pulispher
Swindler Sachem
The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England
Yale University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Biography New Books in History New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 20, 2018 Ryan Tripp

In Swindler Sachem: The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England (Yale University Press, 2018), Brigham Young University Associate Professor Jenny Hale Pulispher demonstrates that Indians, too, could play the land game for both personal and political benefit. According to his kin, John Wompas... Read More

Shyam Ranganathan
Hinduism
A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Hindu Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network August 20, 2018 Raj Balkaran

In Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (Routledge, 2018), Shyam Ranganathan argues that a careful philosophical study reveals telling philosophical disagreements across topics such as: ethics, logic, epistemology, moral standing, metaphysics, and politics. His analysis offers an innovative stance on the very study of Hinduism, and tensions between scholars and practitioners of... Read More

Lily Wong, “Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness” (Columbia UP, 2018)

Lily Wong
Transpacific Attachments
Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
Columbia University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 20, 2018 Christopher Patterson

Lily Wong‘s Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Columbia University Press, 2018) traces the genealogy of the Chinese sex worker as a figure who manifests throughout the 20th century in moments of anti-Asian racism as well as moments of sexism and nationalism within Chinese communities. Yet for... Read More

Margo Catts, “Among Lesser Gods” (Arcade Publishing, 2017)

Margo Catts
Among the Lesser Gods

Arcade Publishing, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network August 20, 2018 GP Gottlieb

Margo Catts new novel Among the Lesser Gods (Arcade Publishing, 2017) opens in 1978, as Elena Alvarez, a newly minuted physics graduate living in LA, discovers she’s pregnant. She considers it to be just one more mistake in a lifetime of screw-ups. Her mother abandoned her after she accidentally set... Read More

Mary E. Stuckey, “Political Vocabularies: FDR, The Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument” (Michigan State UP, 2018)

Mary E. Stuckey
Political Vocabularies
FDR, The Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument
Michigan State University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 20, 2018 Lilly Goren

Mary E. Stuckey’s new book, Political Vocabularies: FDR, The Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument (Michigan State University Press, 2018), is a fascinating and engaging investigation of an early period during the Roosevelt Administration that provides the reader with a broad and expansive understanding of different aspects of presidential... Read More