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This Week's New Books--Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America, Plus Three Paperback Releases

Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America Daniel K. Richter 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4500-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0830-6 | $45.00s | £29.50 In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power. Read more . . .

Now in Paperback Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road Johan Elverskog 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 48 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4237-9 | $69.95 | £45.50 Paper 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2259-3 | $29.95 | £19.50 EBook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0531-2 | $29.95 | £19.50 A volume in the Encounters with Asia series This groundbreaking work challenges contemporary stereotypes by revealing how both Buddhist and Muslim religious traditions were shaped by a millennium of cross-cultural exchange along the Silk Road from Iran to China. Read more . . .

Now in Paperback Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic Edited by Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4289-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2260-9 | $27.50 | £18.00 Focusing on the formative period of European exploration, settlement, and conquest in the Americas, from roughly 1500 to 1760, Empires of God brings together literary scholars and historians of the English, French, and Spanish Americas to demonstrate the power of religious ideas and narratives to create kingdoms both imagined and real. Read more . . .

Now in Paperback Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets Sónia Silva 188 pages | 6 x 9 | 37 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4293-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper Apr 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2268-5 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series Anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past. Read more . . .

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This Week's New Books: The Jet Sex, Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture, Stuyvesant Bound, and Owning William Shakespeare

Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture Edited by Gary Hatfield and Holly Pittman 496 pages | 6 x 9 | 27 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-1-934536-49-0 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology series Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture draws together studies in archaeology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, genetics, neuroscience, and environmental science to investigate the evolution of the human mind, the brain, and the human capacity for culture. Read more...

Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time Donna Merwick 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth Apr 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4503-5 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the Early American Studies series Stuyvesant Bound is an innovative, compelling reassessment of the last Director-General of New Netherland. Donna Merwick employs a multidisciplinary approach to examine the layers of culture within which Peter Stuyvesant forged his career and performed his identity. Read more...

The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon Victoria Vantoch 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus. Cloth Apr 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4481-6 | $34.95 | £23.00 Victoria Vantoch takes us on a fascinating journey into the golden era of air travel. The Jet Sex explores the much-mythologized stewardess within the context of the Cold War, globalization, and the emerging culture of glamour to reveal how beauty and sexuality were critical to national identity and international politics. Read more...

Now in Paperback Owning William Shakespeare: The King's Men and Their Intellectual Property James J. Marino 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4296-6 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2254-8 | $22.50 | £15.00 A volume in the Material Texts series This book explores actors' systems of intellectual property in early modern England. Focusing on Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and other plays, James Marino demonstrates how Shakespeare's company asserted ownership of its plays through intense ongoing revision and through insistent attribution to Shakespeare. Read more...

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Penn Museum Books Archaeological Data Sets Now Available Online

The digital supplementary material from 18 books in our Penn Museum series is now available online through University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (PennMuseum) collection in tDAR.

These incredible materials include rich data sets, images, and reports, all available for download by registered tDAR users. tDAR is the digital repository of Digital Antiquity, a collaborative organization dedicated to enhancing preservation and access to the digital records of archaeological investigations.

This Week's New Books: Agriculture, Love, and Archaeology

Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges Edited by Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 104 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4529-5 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the International Food Policy Research Institute series In this volume, policy experts provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade, and provide insights into building resilience to natural disasters and food crises.

Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity Carmen Nocentelli 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4483-0 | $55.00 | £36.00 Drawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities. al ventures have formed political associations to promote and defend their interests.

The Archaeology of Phrygian Gordion, Royal City of Midas: Gordion Special Studies 7 Edited by C. Brian Rose 360 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 13 color, 230 b/w illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-1-934536-48-3 | $79.95 | £52.00 A volume in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology series This volume covers all aspects of Gordion's Phrygian settlement topography from the arrival of the Phrygians in the tenth century B.C. through the arrival of Alexander the Great in 333 B.C., focusing on the site's changing topography and the consistently fluctuating interaction between the inhabitants and the landscape.

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This Week's New Books: Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians plus 5 paperback releases

Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana Sophie White 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 33 color, 17 b/w Cloth Dec 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4437-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume in the Early American Studies series Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America. Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture—especially dress—was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.

Now in Paperback The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus Rebecca Bryant 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4260-7 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper Dec 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2231-9 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series By examining oral history collected during two years of fieldwork, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant investigates why the 2003 opening of the ceasefire line dividing Cyprus has not led the country any closer to reunification, and how in many ways it has driven the two communities of the island farther apart.

Now in Paperback The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century Richard Cándida Smith 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4188-4 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2221-0 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America series Exploring the transformation of California into a center for contemporary art through the twentieth century, this book dramatically illustrates the paths California artists took toward a more diverse and inclusive culture.

Now in Paperback Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast Joseph M. Hall, Jr. 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4179-2 | $37.50 | £24.50 Paper Dec 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2223-4 | $22.50 | £15.00 A volume in the Early American Studies series Zamumo's Gifts traces the evolution of Indian-European exchange, from gift giving as a diplomatic tool to the trade of commodities that bound colonists and Natives in commercial relations.

Now in Paperback Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper Jan 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2234-0 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India through examining the everyday acts of women activists, finding that women's ability to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds and the movement's willingness to accommodate a multiplicity of positions are central to understanding its expansionary power.

Now in Paperback El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy Ellen Moodie 304 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4228-7 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper Jan 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2235-7 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series After El Salvador's brutal civil war ended in 1992, crime rates shot up. People began to speak of the peace as "worse than the war." This study examines how narratives of post-conflict violence, told by ordinary people, offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy.

Now in Paperback Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building Edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2237-1 | $24.95 | £16.50 Ebook 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0589-3 | $24.95 | £16.50 This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank, revealing that treachery is a constant and essential part of the processes through which social and political order is reproduced.

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This Week's New Books

Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes Ellen F. Arnold 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 maps Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4463-2 | $65.00 | £42.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0752-1 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in the Middle Ages Series Ellen Arnold draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections and saints' lives to explore the ways in which interaction with the natural world affected the 'environmental imagination' and identity of the Benedictine monks of Stavelot-Malmedy in the medieval Ardennes.

The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island Edited by Jonathan Conlin 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 73 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4438-0 | $69.95 | £45.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0732-3 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth.

Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire Edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4468-7 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0757-6 | $45.00 | £29.50 Frontier Cities recovers the history of borderland cities in a range of periods and locations—from eighteenth-century Detroit and nineteenth-century Seattle to twentieth-century Los Angeles. Frontier cities embody the earliest mode of American urban experience and testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history.

Now in Paperback Ethnographies of Neoliberalism Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4192-1 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2232-6 | $27.50 | £18.00 Ebook 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0001-0 | $27.50 | £18.00 What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of people's self-understandings as social and political actors.

Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 Lidwien Kapteijns 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 map Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4467-0 | $69.95 | £45.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0758-3 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series Clan Cleansing in Somalia deals with the transformative violence that helped cause the collapse of the Somali state in 1991. Kapteijns argues that public acknowledgment of the clan cleansing of this period is indispensable to social and moral repair, and to the critical memory work required from Somalis on all sides of this conflict.

Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico Anna More 448 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4469-4 | $65.00 | £42.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0655-5 | $65.00 | £42.50 Baroque Sovereignty examines the emergence of a creole archive of artifacts, history, and traditions of colonial Mexico, primarily curated by the polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. Anna More posits the centrality of this archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins of Spanish imperialism.

Now in Paperback The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i Christine Skwiot 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4244-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2228-9 | $26.50 | £17.50 Ebook 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0003-4 | $26.50 | £17.50 The Purposes of Paradise shows how travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i between the 1850s, when expansionists imagined them as twin possessions, and revolution and statehood in 1959. It explores the relationships between imperial fantasies and political practices in Americans' favorite tropical isles.

Now in Paperback Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building Edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2237-1 | $24.95 | £16.50 Ebook 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0589-3 | $24.95 | £16.50 This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank, revealing that treachery is a constant and essential part of the processes through which social and political order is reproduced.

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This Week's New Books: Matching Organs with Donors, Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Not in This Family, Sweet Liberty

Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants Marie-Andrée Jacob 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8122-4432-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0650-0 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series This sensitive ethnography reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel's living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how these actors identify and adjudicate suitable matches between donor and recipient using terms borrowed from definitions of kinship.

Now in Paperback Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 24 illus. Cloth  | ISBN 978-0-8122-4280-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper | ISBN 978-0-8122-2216-6 | $26.50 | £17.50 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0467-4 | $26.50 | £17.50 A volume in the Material Texts series The author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related.

Now in Paperback Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America Heather Murray 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4268-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2224-1 | $24.95 | £16.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0740-8 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series Not in This Family shows how gays and their heterosexual parents both have animated each other's sensibilities, consciousness, and even culture and politics. Author Heather Murray suggests a reciprocal family life and complicates the notion of gay banishment.

Now in Paperback Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4172-3 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2227-2 | $24.95 | £16.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0356-1 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Early American Studies series Sweet Liberty offers a history of Martinique and its relationship to metropolitan France during the final years of slavery in the French empire. It argues that an Atlantic-world approach reveals how race, slavery, class, and gender shaped what it meant to be French on both sides of the ocean.

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Paul's Pick: a Free Article from Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals.

Paul's Pick for September is "Current Trends in the Application of Cognitive Science to Magic" by Edward Bever at SUNY College of Old Westbury.

Bever writes that "evolutionary psychologists have developed increasingly sophisticated, although still controversial,theories explaining in terms of natural selection the reasons that specific cognitive capabilities became hard-wired into our brains." Yet, he observes "Historians of magic have paid relatively little attention to this fundamental change in our understanding of how the mind works."

Bever's article will appear in the Summer issue of the Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft.

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This Week's New Books: Regulatory Breakdown and Healing Secular Life

Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation Edited by Cary Coglianese Description, Table of Contents, and More "Everybody talks about regulatory failure, but no one does much about it. This book investigates claims of regulatory breakdown in the United States and provides helpful clues as to what might be done."--Jerry Mashaw, Yale Law School 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Hardcover  2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4460-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0749-1 | $49.95 | £32.50

Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey Christopher Dole Description, Table of Contents, and More "A fine ethnography that examines the cultural politics of healing practices in contemporary Turkey. It offers a fresh and original account of the cultural discourses and modes of aesthetic representation and perception that congeal around questions of religious healing."--Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Hardcover 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4416-8 | $69.95 | £45.50 Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4416-8 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series

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This Week's New Books: "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana," The Conversion of Herman the Jew, The Folkstories of Children,

Now in Paperback
"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity
Miguel de Cervantes. Edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika
208 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 map
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4209-6 | $34.95 | £23.00
Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2215-9 | $19.95 | £13.00

The first English translation of two captivity plays by Cervantes, set in Algiers and Constantinople. Featuring a lively cast of corsairs, captives, and renegades, they offer important insights into early modern Spain's conception of the world of Islam. Read more . . .

 

 

Now in Paperback
The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century
Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by Alex J. Novikoff
320 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4254-6 | $59.95 | £39.00
Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2219-7 | $26.50 | £17.50
A volume in the Middle Ages Series

Jean-Claude Schmitt examines a unique and controversial conversion narrative to explore its meaning within the society and culture of its period as well as what it has to tell us about the way historians think and write. Read more . . .

 

Now in Paperback
The Folkstories of Children
Brian Sutton-Smith
328 pages | 6 x 9
Paper 1981 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1108-5 | $22.50 | £15.00
A volume in the Publications of the American Folklore Society series

The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of two and ten and transcribed word for word. The stories are organized chronologically by age of the teller, revealing the progression of the children's cognition and verbal competence. Read more . . .

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