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Thomas S. Mullaney, “The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China” (Stanford UP, 2019)

Thomas S. Mullaney
The Chinese Deathscape
Grave Reform in Modern China
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Chinese Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network New Work in Digital Humanities October 23, 2020 Luca Scholz

In the past decade alone, more than ten million corpses have been exhumed and reburied across the Chinese landscape. The campaign has transformed China’s graveyards into sites of acute personal, social, political, and economic contestation. In The Chinese Deathscape. Grave Reform in Modern China, three historians of China, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke,... Read More

William Germano, “Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books” (U Chicago Press, 2016)

William Germano
Getting it Published
A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (3rd Edition)
University of Chicago Press, 2020

NBN Book of the Day NBN Special Series New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network Scholarly Communications October 23, 2020 Daniel Shea

When I put down Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 2016), I looked up and began to wonder. I wondered about the book on gnomic poetry in Medieval Greek I had read over the weekend. I wondered about the... Read More

Margrit Pernau, “Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Margrit Pernau
Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India
From Balance to Fervor
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network October 23, 2020 SherAli Tareen

In her stunning and conceptually adventurous new book Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor (Oxford University Press, 2020), Margrit Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought. By considering a wide array of sources... Read More

Anne Louise Bannon
Death of the Chinese Field Hands

Healcroft House, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network October 23, 2020 GP Gottlieb

When Anne Louise Bannon heard her husband, then archivist for the City of Los Angeles, speak about how early Angelenos dug a large ditch (a zanja) to cull water from the Porciuncula River (now known as the Los Angeles River), her first thought was that the Zanja would be an... Read More

Lisa B. Thompson, “Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays” (Northwestern UP, 2020)

Lisa B. Thompson
Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues
Three Plays
Northwestern University Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Performing Arts October 23, 2020 Andy Boyd

Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright. Her latest book Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays (Northwestern University Press 2020) collects plays from throughout her two decades as a playwright. “Underground” is a tense two-hander exploring themes of... Read More

Simone C. Drake, “Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century” (Duke UP, 2020)

Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson
Are You Entertained?
Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Sociology October 22, 2020 Lilly Goren

Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson’s Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Duke UP, 2020) is an engaging and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary black popular culture and how to think about this broad and diverse landscape, especially in relation to power, capitalism, gender identity, and presidential... Read More

Nadia Nurhussein, “Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America” (Princeton UP, 2019)

Nadia Nurhussein
Black Land
Imperial Ethiopianism and African America
Princeton University Press, 2019

NBN Special Series New Books in African American Studies New Books in African Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in World Affairs New Books Network Princeton UP Ideas Podcast October 21, 2020 Sharika Crawford

In Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America (Princeton University Press, 2019), Nadia Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia. Widely celebrated as one of two African nations to resist European colonization in the age of modern imperialism, Ethiopia... Read More

Robert Bartlett, “Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy” (U California Press, 2020)

Robert Bartlett
Against Demagogues
What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Performing Arts New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 21, 2020 Andy Boyd

With Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy (University of California Press, 2020) Robert Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. In his translations of two lesser-known plays,... Read More

Heather Lende
Of Bears and Ballots
An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
Algonquin Books, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 21, 2020 Christina Gessler

Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines, Alaska, cost less than $1,000, she won! But tiny, breathtakingly beautiful Haines—a place accessible from the nearest city,... Read More

D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, “Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s ‘Atalanta fugiens’ (1618)” (U Virginia Press, 2020)

Donna Bilak and Tara Nummedal
Furnace & Fugue
A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary
University of Virginia Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network New Work in Digital Humanities October 21, 2020 Molly Taylor-Poleskey

In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect. The book unfolds as a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains an... Read More