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Contents
NEW BOOKS
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
NEW PAPERBACKS ………………………………………………………………………21
RECENT AND BEST SELLERS ……………………………………………22–23
INDEX ………………………………………………………………………………………………24
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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
May
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75 ILLUSTRATIO N S
“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.
A
Photo courtesy of the
United States Embassy
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
April
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398 ILLUSTRATIO N S
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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POETRY
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
February
PAPER $15.95t • 978-0-8229-6234-2
6 x 9 • 80 pp.
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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.
Photo by Aline Stern
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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POETRY
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
January
PAPER $15.95t • 978-0-8229-6229-8
6 x 9 • 104 pp.
“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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Photo by Karen Schneider-Webb
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.”
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POETRY
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
February
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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
6 x 8.5 • 104 pp.
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Photo by Gary Lanier
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.
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POETRY
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
March
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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
6 x 9 • 80 pp.
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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
Photo by Pierce Backes
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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POETRY
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
February
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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
Photo by Catherine Laine, Pained Foot Photography
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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POETRY
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
March
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PITT POETRY SERIES
JAN BEATTY is the author of three previous
Photo by Don Hollowood
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
May
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HISTORY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
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.”
June
—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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ENVIRONMENTAL HI S T ORY
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
February
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HISTORY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
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.
T
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
April
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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.
D
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
May
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PITTSBURGH SERIES IN COMPOSITION,
LITERACY, AND CULTURE
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.
I
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
May
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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
6 x 9 • 320 pp.
AYN RAND SOCIETY
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
“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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RUSSIAN HIST ORY
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
June
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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
6.125 x 9.25 • 460 pp.
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PITT SERIES IN RUSSIAN
AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
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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RUSSIAN HIST ORY
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
June
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PITT SERIES IN RUSSIAN
AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
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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LATIN AMERICAN HI S T ORY
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
May
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PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES
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.
F
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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LATIN AMERICAN S T UDI E S
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
June
PAPER $26.95s • 978-0-8229-6237-3
6 x 9 • 256 pp.
“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
PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES
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.
T
PATRICIA RICHARDS is associate
professor of sociology and women’s studies at
the University of Georgia. She is the author of
Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State: Conflicts
Over Women's Rights in Chile.
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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LATIN AMERICAN S T UDI E S /
CULTURAL STUDI E S
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
June
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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
5.75 x 9 • 144 pp.
ILLUMINATIONS: CULTURAL FORMATIONS
OF THE AMERICAS
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.
S
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
NEW IN PAPER
Science Secrets
March
The Truth about Darwin’s Finches,
Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths
Alberto A. Martínez
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6 x 9 • 344 pp.
40 ILLUSTRATIO N S
ALBERTO A. MARTÍNEZ is associate
professor of history at the University of Texas
at Austin. He is the author of Kinematics: The
Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity, Negative
Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be
Positively Bent, and The Cult of Pythagoras:
Math and Myths.
“Did Galileo really study gravity by dropping objects from the
Leaning Tower of Pisa, as many of us learned in school? According to science historian Martínez, a rich variety of tall tales,
myths, and fictitious accounts have congealed around famous
scientists ‘like plaster, paint, and acrylic gloss.’ In a laudable effort to separate the fragments of truth from the hype surrounding a number of eureka moments in
the history of science, Martínez skillfully reveals how even the best biographers and writers make
plausible but incorrect connections between historical events and often rely on their imagination instead of the facts. Martínez’s more truthful reconstructions of these mythlike stories about Newton,
Einstein, Darwin, and other scientists are only a starting point for a fascinating analysis of the historical and social factors that created these legends and keep them alive. This book should be required reading for all college science majors. The author’s meticulous and engaging use of historical
evidence will also appeal to history of science enthusiasts.”
—Library Journal
“Combines the best qualities of popular science writing with the thorough documentation that one
would expect from a professional historian. Highly recommended.”
—Choice
AFRICAN AMERICAN S T UDI E S /
UNITED STATES HI S T ORY
NEW IN PAPER
Race and Renaissance
African Americans in Pittsburgh
since World War II
April
Joe W. Trotter and Jared N. Day
PAPER $24.95t • 978-0-8229-6243-4
6 x 9 • 352 pp.
55 ILLUSTRATIO N S
JOE W. TROTTER is Giant Eagle Professor
of History and Social Justice, head of the
history department, and director of the Center
for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the
Economy (CAUSE) at Carnegie Mellon
University. He is the author of numerous
books, including The African American
Experience and River Jordan: African American
Urban Life in the Ohio Valley.
JARED N. DAY is adjunct professor and
research associate in the history department at
Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author
of Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and
Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943.
“In providing us with this lucid history of Pittsburgh’s African
American community, Trotter and Day shed new light on how
past actions inform present conditions in the Steel City’s black
neighborhoods. Their case study, the first of its kind on postwar Pittsburgh, will prove especially useful to urban historians
seeking new ways to understand African American’s changing roles and responses in the face of
the structural reordering of postwar urban America.”
—H-Net Reviews
“An excellent book. The authors’ research is exemplary, providing a model for similar studies as well
as a reminder for everyone that the civil rights revolution is far from complete. Highly recommended.”
—Choice
“By no means the last word on the subject . . . only the first, but it issues a wakeup call to the collective civic conscience that is long overdue.”
—Pittsburgh Quarterly
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