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Traitors--Now Available

Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building
Edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly
280 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus.
Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3 | $45.00 | £29.50

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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Everyday Nationalism--Now Available

Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India
Kalyani Devaki Menon
272 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus.
Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50
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.

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The Blacks of Premodern China--Now Available

The Blacks of Premodern China
Don J. Wyatt
208 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus.
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8 | $65.00 | £42.50
A volume in the Encounters with Asia series

The Blacks of Premodern China describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black. It focuses on the first exposure of Chinese to blacks hailing from East Africa, chiefly from today's Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, who arrived in China as slaves between the seventh and seventeenth centuries C.E.

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Ethnographies of Neoliberalism--Now Available

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

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.

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Muslims in Global Politics--Now Available

Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights
Mahmood Monshipouri
368 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4181-5 | $65.00 | £42.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

In Muslims in Global Politics, Mahmood Monshipouri examines the role identity plays in the political dynamics of six different Muslim nations—Egypt, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Iran, and Indonesia—as well as in Muslim diaspora communities in Europe and North America.

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Listen to an interview with Mahmood Monshipouri at the Penn Press podcast website.

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Brendan O'Leary Interview on YouTube

Brendan O'Leary, author of How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity and contributor to the forthcoming Getting Out, appeared on UCFTV's Global Perspectives program to discuss the Iraqi constitution, its natural resources, and other factors in the future of Iraq and U.S. involvement in that country.

The interview is available on YouTube.

Aceh, Indonesia--Now in Paperback

Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State
Elizabeth F. Drexler
296 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4057-3 | $59.95 | £39.00
Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2071-1 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series

"A needed critique of the often-romanticized vision of 'reconciliation through truth commissions' for nations caught up in historical cycles of violence."--Susan Rodgers, College of the Holy Cross

"Elizabeth Drexler's sensitive treatment of Aceh's recent history is an invaluable contribution to the debate."--Goenawan Mohamad, author of Conversations with Difference

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Liang and Lin--Now in Paperback

Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past
Wilma Fairbank. Foreword by Jonathan Spence
256 pages | 6 x 9 | 31 illus.
Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2040-7 | $19.95 | £13.00

Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of the first historians of Chinese architecture.

"Liang and Lin is the story of a romance and of a heroic struggle against great odds. . . . Wilma Fairbank, who is the only person . . . who could have written this story, has created an affecting portrait of the final years of an epoch when Old China faded away and New China took its place."--New York Times

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Aceh, Indonesia Book Receives Currey Award

Elizabeth F. Drexler has accepted the Association of Third World Studies Cecil B.Currey Book-Length Publications Award for 2007-2008 for her book, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State. This award is named in honor of one of the foremost experts on the war in Vietnam.

Congratulations, Elizabeth!

Human Rights--Now in Paperback

Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique
Makau Mutua
256 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3653-8 | $59.95 | £39.00
Paper 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2049-0 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique provides a bracing and controversial analysis of the scope of human rights and lays the groundwork for a multicultural and more universal understanding of these rights. Read more . . .

Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact Ellen Trachtenberg.