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SPORTS/FOOTBALL 

MAY 

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Randy Roberts, professor of history at Purdue 

University, is the author or editor of fourteen 

books, including Pittsburgh Sports: Stories from 

the Steel City. He is the recipient of the Ray and 

Pat Browne Award from the Popular Culture 

Association. 

David Welky is assistant professor of history at 

University of Central Arkansas. He is coeditor, 

with Randy Roberts, of Charles A. Lindbergh: 

The Power and Peril of Celebrity, 1927–1941. 

One for the Thumb 

The New Steelers Reader 

Edited by Randy Roberts and David Welky 

“An excellent publication all fans of the Steelers must read.” 

—Dan Rooney 

“A touchdown! This book is sure to touch the heart and soul of every Pittsburgh Steelers 

fan. Highly recommended reading.” 

—Franco Harris 

“Fantastic, filled with articles written by people who were fascinated with the players 

and understood the aspects of the game . . . interesting for the die-hard fan and the casual 

observer alike, giving a complete picture of the Steelers and their impact on Pittsburgh 

sports, from their less-than-memorable moments to their greatest achievements.” 

—Pittsburgh City Paper 

“What better way to learn the history of the Steelers than through the words of the 

sportswriters who covered them and the athletes who played for them?” 

—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

On February 5, 2006, the Pittsburgh Steelers joined the ranks of the elite teams 

in National Football League history, celebrating their fifth Super Bowl victory. 

From an unspectacular 7-5 start, to completing the greatest playoff run ever, 

to the fairy tale ending of Jerome Bettis’s Hall of Fame career and the vindication of Bill 

Cowher’s coaching tenure, the 2005 season was not only one for the thumb, but “truly 

one for the ages.” 

One for the Thumb is a collection of the best stories about the fabled franchise by 

local and national sportswriters, and former players. It covers the team’s history from Art 

Rooney Sr.’s purchase of the NFL franchise in 1933 for $2,500 to their Super Bowl XL 

victory. From their frustrating early days as the Pirates, Steagles, and Card-Pitts, through 

their four Super Bowl wins in the 1970s, to the fateful day in 2004 when they selected Ben 

Roethlisberger as the eleventh overall pick in the draft, One for the Thumb captures the 

essence of the team whose identity is forever linked with the spirit of the hardworking, 

blue-collar city it represents. 

From immortals Bobby Layne, Ernie Stautner, and John Henry Johnson, to Chuck 

Noll, Terry Bradshaw, Mean Joe Greene, Rocky Bleier, and Neil O’Donnell, to current greats 

Troy Polamalu, Jerome Bettis, Ben Roethlisberger, and Bill Cowher, One for the Thumb is 

the definitive anthology of the Pittsburgh Steelers—a must-read for all fans of the team and 

the game of football. 

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ART HISTORY 

JUNE 

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BORN OF FIRE 

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Westmoreland Museum of American Art 

Greensburg, Pennsylvania 

6/11/06—9/3/06 

Rhineland Industrial Museum 

Oberhausen, Germany 

02/15/07–05/15/07 

Barbara L. Jones is curator of the 

Westmoreland Museum of American Art in 

Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 

Born of Fire 

The Valley of Work 

Barbara L. Jones 

Drawn from an era that saw Pittsburgh’s ascension to the height of industrial 

prowess in the United States and the world, the art in Born of Fire depicts all the 

drama and awe inspired by that epic age of industry. 

In the first half of the twentieth century, as smokestacks filled the sky and blast furnaces 

roared day and night, local and national artists sought to capture the raw energy and 

visual spectacle of the industrial landscape. The tools and fruits of industry became the 

glorified subjects of art—railroads, skyscrapers, bridges, steel mills, factories, forges, and 

laborers are among those portrayed. The collection is also significant for its broad range of 

artistic styles, and includes a variety of media: pencil drawings, etchings, lithographs, 

pastels, oil paintings, watercolors, and photographs. Among the artists represented are 

Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh, Aaron Harry Gorson, Emil Bott, Otto Kuhler, Hayley 

Lever, Ernest Lawson, and Johanna Knowles Woodwell Hailman. 

Born of Fire catalogs a monumental period in the history of both art and industry, 

and provides a widely varied collection of artists and images that ennobled the spirit of 

human achievement. 

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Robin Becker, professor of English and 

women’s studies at The Pennsylvania State 

University, is the author of six collections of 

poetry, including The Horse Fair, All-American 

Girl, and Giacometti’s Dog. In 2002, the Frick Art 

and Historical Center in Pittsburgh published 

Venetian Blue, a limited-edition chapbook of 

Becker’s art poems. Becker is the recipient of 

individual fellowships from the Bunting Institute, 

the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the 

National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000, she 

won the George Atherton Award for Excellence 

in Teaching from Penn State. 

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POETRY 

AUGUST 

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PITT POETRY SERIES 

Domain of Perfect Affection 

Robin Becker 

“Robin Becker achieves what may be one of the early twenty first century’s most difficult 

accomplishments—to write a credible poetry of affirmation. In the doing, she doesn’t 

pretty up the world. Rather, she finds language that embraces our dualities, our manyselved 

presences, regularly demonstrating her kind of perfect affection: ‘Come up for the 

lunch I made you, / O handy lover, with your retractable blade, / your small drill, your 

paint brushes bristling.’” 

—Stephen Dunn 

“A deft painter of scenes and lives, Robin Becker follows a thread of comedy in the dark 

labyrinth of the family saga. We could call that thread compassion. We could call it 

wisdom. Becker is an afficionado of old and odd paintings, of summer and seashore, of 

friends, lovers, and autumn heat, of whatever may ‘disappoint and delight.’ She is a lover of 

life and language—stubborn as they come. Domain of Perfect Affection is a poet in her prime.” 

—Alicia Suskin Ostriker 

“In Domain of Perfect Affection, Robin Becker has again written poetry that, in Wordsworth’s 

phrase, ‘is carried alive into the heart by passion.’ She bears forth her father’s wisdom, ‘The 

most important thing: / to love your work,’ and in poem after poem that love is obvious: 

‘How many words for glisten, sparkle, glister?’ Yet her passion for language spells a deeper 

passion to ‘inhabit / a place of such tenderness’ where the poet might ‘accept myself / for 

what I am—androgynous, sublime.’ Line by line, these poems create such a place, a domain 

where celebrations ‘of our communal selves, / sheared of the theoretical,’ quicken our 

lives, endowing us with ‘the dignity / of exile.’ In poems of startling clarity and intensity, in 

poems of—yes!—androgynous sublimity, Robin Becker reveals herself to be one of our 

most generous and essential poets.” 

—Michael Waters 

Praise for The Horse Fair: 

“This generous poet is never less than attentive and responsive to the world that surrounds 

her.”—Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times Book Review 

“Becker’s painstaking, emphatic use of language celebrates a patient yet intrepid dedication 

to art as well as the indomitable spirit of life, human or otherwise, in the face of oppression 

and death.”—Floyd Collins, West Branch 

InDomain of Perfect Affection, Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we 

experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard, or 

museum; New York or New Mexico. “The Mosaic injunction against / the graven 

image” inspires meditations on drawings by Dürer, Evans, Klee, Marin, and del Sarto. To 

the consolations of art and human intimacy, Becker brings playfulness—“Worry stole the 

kayaks and soured the milk”—suffused with self-knowledge: “Worry wraps her long legs / 

around me, promises to be mine forever.” In “The New Egypt,” the narrator mines her family’s 

legacy: “From my father I learned the dignity / of exile and the fire of acquisition, / not 

to live in places lightly, but to plant / the self like an orange tree in the desert.” Becker’s 

shapely stanzas—couplets, tercets, quatrains, pantoum, sonnet, syllabics—subvert her 

colloquial diction, creating a seamless merging of subject and form. Luminous, sensual, 

these poems offer sharp pleasures as they argue, elegize, mourn, praise, and sing. 


POETRY 

SEPTEMBER 

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John Hodgen is an adjunct professor of English 

and creative writing at Assumption College and 

Mount Wachusett Community College. He is the 

author of two previous books of poetry: In My 

Father’s House, winner of the Bluestem Award, 

and Bread Without Sorrow, winner of the 

Balcones Poetry Prize. Hodgen is the recipient of 

numerous other awards, including the Foley 

Poetry Prize, the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, the 

Grolier Prize, an Arvon Foundation Award, and 

the 2000 Massachusetts Cultural Commission 

Artist Foundation Grant in Poetry. 

Grace 

John Hodgen 

Winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry 

“The poems in Grace are energetic and intelligent. At their best, they manifest the kind of 

eloquence and spaciousness in the poetry by Walt Whitman and C. K. Williams. Here the 

poet shows us a world shaded by darkness and fractured by violence, but not devoid of the 

light of hope and dream. This is a voice that speaks directly from the heart.” 

—Ha Jin 

“John Hodgen’s Grace presents an operatic cast that includes Abraham Lincoln, the poet’s 

family, Harpo Marx, Boris Karloff, Boxcar Willie, and Garbo—to name a few—and a wide 

range of settings from Fenway Park in Boston, to Florence and Rome, to ‘backwoods 

Tennessee’ and the ‘Coolawhatchie Blimpie Gas n’ Go.’ Through lively diction and skillful 

work with form, Hodgen turns zaniness to tenderness; loneliness to joy. This surprising, 

welcome book of poems is full of thanksgiving, charm, and much good grace.” 

—Maggie Anderson 

“John Hodgen’s beautiful book is a reminder that the elegiac exists not to invoke sadness, 

but to open and, finally, celebrate our shared experience of the great depth of feeling loss 

reveals in us. Few poets have rung this bell with the silver and loving precision to be found 

in Grace. Poem after poem is so charged with affectionate clarity that the whole book 

breaks, like a wave, toward a kind of atonement.” 

—Christopher Howell 

“Hard and dark as the world of these poems often is, Hodgen manages again and again to 

somehow transform the crucified world into a dazzling vortex of language and syntax and 

yet authentic shivelights of grace. Here is a unique and unmistakable voice for our moment.” 

—Paul Mariani 

Grace is John Hodgen’s third book of poetry. He is a poet of extreme contrasts, 

offering us the dregs of despair, yet instantly recalling hope in the beauty of 

nature or in a moment in time when all is right, when we realize grace. In “For the 

Leapers” the narrator relates, “We will fall past the angels, / we will fall from such height, / 

our tears will lift up from our eyes. / We will fall straight through hell. / And then we will rise.” 

Hodgen’s poems roam through history, religion, man-made disasters, baseball, pop 

culture, and Wal-Marts, on paths that come full circle with remarkable completeness, 

maturity, and dexterity. 


POETRY 

SEPTEMBER 

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Rick Hilles teaches courses in poetry at 

Vanderbilt University. He has been the Amy 

Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar, a Wallace 

Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and the 

Ruth and Jay C. Halls Fellow at the University of 

Wisconsin–Madison and has received the Larry 

Levis Editor’s Prize in Poetry from the Missouri 

Review. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The 

Nation, The New Republic, Ploughshares, 

Salmagundi, and Witness. 

Photo by Nancy Reisman 

Brother Salvage 

Poems 

Rick Hilles 

Winner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize 

“In this remarkably fulfilled first book I salute a visionary poet who has eluded the provincialism 

of our American Narcissus: Hilles has gathered violent glosses and ventriloquial 

gleams from the ruined scriptures of Europe, reaching as far back as Swedenborg, Novalis, 

even Catherine Blake, and as far ahead as what I had (wrongly) supposed the sealed echochamber 

of the Holocaust. Hence the sought and granted power of his luminous texts, so 

reticent yet so generous, their authority proceeding from banked energies of consultation.” 

—Richard Howard 

“The poems in Brother Salvage are the traffic between worlds—between past and present, 

self and other, beauty and horror. These are passionate acts of retrieval—deeply intelligent 

and superbly graceful, they bring us news of the human wherever it survives, ‘alive and at 

the brink of shattering.’” 

—Kim Addonizio 

“Hilles is a poet very much of our moment, one that does not seem to pass. He reflects a 

tension between realistic depiction even of atrocity and a countervailing decorum based on 

a deeply sensitive empathic gift. He thinks himself into others, ordinary folk, or nearmythic 

figures. His cascading images and brilliant metaphors juxtapose everyday life and 

the Holocaust with precision as well as pathos. Poetry in his hands is a recording mechanism 

aware it cannot keep up yet also refusing to overlook ‘the smallest thing that ever made you 

want your life.’” 

—Geoffrey Hartman 

“Brother Salvage faces up to our terrors, as poetry must do, and it has the vigor and 

daring of language, without which poetry gets nowhere. Hilles realizes extreme states of 

consciousness, and vividly realizes such common things as a jukebox that ‘shoots sparkling 

pink and green / soda pop through its veins.’” 

—Richard Wilbur 

“At one time poetry was praised for its ability to astonish ordinary people. Then television 

took over, and poetry became a murmuring monotone from the back row. Now Rick Hilles, 

in his first book, shows us how even life in our time can be astonished.” 

—Hayden Carruth 

The name of the title poem—“Brother Salvage: a genizah,” provides a skeleton 

key to unlock the powerful forces that bind Rick Hilles’s collection. A genizah is 

a depository, or hiding place, for sacred texts. It performs a double function: to 

keep hallowed objects safe and to prevent more destructive forces from circulating and 

causing further harm. Brother Salvage serves exactly this purpose. The poems are 

heartrending and incisive, preserving stories and lives that should not be forgotten. Yet, 

through the poet’s eloquent craft, painful histories and images are beautifully and luminously 

contained. Like scholars sifting through ancient genizahs in search of spiritual and 

historical insights, readers immersed in Brother Salvage will find, at the heart of the book, 

the most sacred entity: hope. 


FICTION 

SEPTEMBER 

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Todd James Pierce is assistant professor of 

English at California Polytechnic University in 

San Luis Obispo. He is the author of the novel 

The Australia Stories, and coauthor of the textbook 

Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft. 

Photo by Kerry Davies Pierce 

Newsworld 

Todd James Pierce 

Winner of the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize 

“Newsworld is ambitious and exhilarating, an original collection awake to the larger world.” 

—Joan Didion 

“Lordy, what a splendid collection of stories Newsworld is, not least for Pierce’s wit about 

and passion for our analogues, those folks, courtesy of celebrity or notoriety, we root for 

and against on CNN and Access Hollywood, the folks for whom Disney World is the real 

world. Pierce understands that the news, like politics, is always local and always personal, 

and as a fiction writer he reminds us that we, but for time and chance, are OJ or Dylan 

Klebold, that ours are times both fetching and frightening, and that the only way to 

understand ourselves is in a tale told tight.” 

—Lee K. Abbott 

News is “one of the few things that connects us as a nation,” observes the protagonist 

in the title story of Newsworld, a new collection by Todd James Pierce 

that explores America’s obsession with news and entertainment culture. The 

characters in “Newsworld” seek to design realistic theme park attractions, such as “OJ’s 

Bronco: The Ride” and “Siege at Waco,” that allow park guests to experience the complexities 

of contemporary news events for themselves. In the story “Columbine: The Musical,” 

high school students stage a musical written as a means of discussing school violence, 

while their vice principal wrangles a 10 percent discount on a school security system in 

exchange for corporate sponsorship of the play. In “Wrestling Al Gore,” a national wrestling 

federation uses costumed wrestlers to cast the Gore/Bush election recount into the ring. In 

an ironic twist, fans become sympathetic to the underdog Gore, champion his cause, and 

ultimately reflect on the fate of the real politician. In “The Yoshi Compound: A Story of Post- 

Waco Texas,” the followers of the Dalai Yoshi amass weapons and riot gear in hopes of 

attracting media attention. 

The characters in Newsworld, like many Americans, are engulfed in a life-imitating-art 

phenomenon caused by the hyperreality presented in the media. They struggle with this 

overwhelming influence trying to understand whether their own lives fall within or outside 

of its domain. 


SECURITY STUDIES 

AUGUST 

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Kerry G. Herron is a research scientist at the 

George Bush School of Government and Public 

Service at Texas A&M University. He served as a 

colonel in the United States Air Force and is the 

author of numerous articles on security and policy 

issues. 

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith is professor of public 

policy at the George Bush School of Government 

and Public Service at Texas A&M University, 

where he holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano 

Chair of Business and Government. He is the 

author of Democratic Politics and Policy Analysis, 

and coeditor of Policy Change and Learning: An 

Advocacy Coalition Approach. 

Critical Masses 

and Critical Choices 

Evolving Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons, 

Terrorism, and Security 

Kerry G. Herron and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith 

“Since Converse’s seminal essay in 1964, political scientists have argued over whether the 

general public has relatively coherent policy belief systems linking severity and causes of a 

problem, political ideology, and the probable impacts of policy alternatives. Most traditionalists—myself 

included—have concluded that they don’t. The evidence presented in this 

book suggests that we are wrong. And wrong in a policy domain, national security, where 

a tradition of secrecy and lack of personal experience make it especially difficult for the 

general public to develop informed preferences.” 

—Paul Sabatier, University of California, Davis 

“Critical Masses and Critical Choices contains a gold mine of data on public attitudes concerning 

security threats and terrorism and how the public balances the issue of liberty versus security. 

In this important book, Herron and Jenkins-Smith provide us with a careful analysis of a 

unique and valuable set of data about public policy preferences and beliefs as they examine 

the changing nature of security threats from the end of the Cold War through the rise of 

global terror threats.” 

—Neil J. Mitchell, University of Aberdeen 

“This is an important book for anyone interested in American public opinion and the 

critical national security choices that face this country today.” 

—Stanley Renshon, The City University of New York 

Critical Masses and Critical Choices examines American attitudes on issues of 

national and international security. Based on over 13,000 in-depth interviews 

conducted over a ten-year period, Kerry Herron and Hank Jenkins-Smith have 

created a unique and rich set of data providing insights into public opinion on nuclear 

deterrence, terrorism, and other security issues from the end of the Cold War to the present 

day. Their goal is to shed light not only on changes in public opinion about a range of 

security-related policy issues, but also to gauge the depth of the public’s actual understanding 

of these matters. Prior to this study, the predominant view held that the American 

people were incapable of articulate and consistent thought on complex political subjects. 

This book overturns that notion and demonstrates the sometimes surprisingly cogent 

positions held by ordinary members of the public on intricate national issues. 

The book’s solid data, based on long-term studies, combined with crisp writing and 

often startling conclusions, will appeal to a wide range of readers: scholars, journalists, and 

policy makers. Critical Masses and Critical Choices is the definitive account of the change 

in public perceptions on security threats and reactive strategies from the early 1990s to the 

post-9/11 period. This broad and highly original study will prove an indispensable tool for 

policy makers and scholars alike. 


POLITICAL SECURITY STUDIES SCIENCE 

SEPTEMBER 

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SECURITY CONTINUUM 

A series published in association with the 

Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International 

Security Studies and the Ford Institute 

for Human Security 

William W. Keller is Wesley W. Posvar Professor 

of International Security Studies, and director of 

the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International 

Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. 

He is the author of The Liberals and J. Edgar 

Hoover: Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence 

State and Arm-in-Arm: The Political Economy of 

the Global Arms Trade, coauthor of The Myth of 

the Global Corporation, and coeditor of Crisis 

and Innovation in Asian Technology. 

Gordon R. Mitchell is associate professor of 

communication and director of debate at the 

University of Pittsburgh. He is chair of the 

Ridgway Working Group on Preemptive and 

Preventive Military Intervention, author of 

Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and 

Politics in Missle Defense Advocacy, and winner 

of the National Communication Association’s 

Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished 

Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. 

Hitting First 

Preventive Force in U.S.Security Strategy 

Edited by William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell 

“Hitting First breaks new ground in exposing political and semantic manipulations on the 

road to war in Iraq, the dumbing-down of threat ‘imminence,’ the covering up of internal 

dissent, skill in pulling certitude from uncertainty, and success in controlling the public case 

for war. Iran’s new prominence as a possible target for American-Israeli first strikes makes 

all this particularly prescient and timely.” 

—Thomas L. Hughes, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research 

“Hitting First locates a principal source of the preventive war against Iraq in the national 

‘discourse failure’ surrounding the decision to go to war—rather than only in the intelligence 

failure concerning Iraq’s WMD and the influence of the neoconservatives. It is thus an 

important contribution to understanding and developing correctives to the doctrinal 

embrace of preventive war in U.S. grand strategy.” 

—Seyom Brown, Brandeis University 

“A very thoughtful and provocative collection on the U.S. policy of preemption and preventive 

war, drawing in a wide range of history and legal philosophy, but focused closely on 

today’s events.” 

—George Quester, University of Maryland 

“Unfortunately, the academic division of labor benefits those policy makers who would 

prefer to escape accountability. By contrast, the strong interdisciplinary format of Hitting 

First draws out the many strands that were woven together to justify administration security 

strategy after 9/11. The book accounts for both duplicity and complexity while providing an 

excellent framework for thoughtful deliberation by policy makers, scholars, and citizens.” 

—Robert Hariman, Northwestern University 

The U.S. war in Iraq was not only an intelligence failure—it was a failure in democratic 

discourse. Hitting First offers a critical analysis of the political dialogue leading 

up to the American embrace of preventive war as national policy and as the 

rationale for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Taking as its point of departure the important 

distinction between preemptive and preventive war, the contributors examine how the 

rhetoric of policy makers conflated these two very different concepts until the public could 

no longer effectively distinguish between a war of necessity and a war of choice. 

Although the book focuses on recent events, Hitting First takes into consideration the 

broader historical, ethical, and legal context of current American policies. Precedents are 

examined for preventive military action based on conventional as well as nuclear, biological, 

and chemical weapons threats. The authors also consider recent examples of the rhetoric 

of “humanitarian intervention,” which have tended to undermine traditional notions of 

national sovereignty, making purportedly “morally justifiable” actions easier to entertain. 

Intelligence gathering and its use, manipulation, and distortion to suit policy agendas are 

also analyzed, as are the realities of the application of military force, military requirements 

to sustain a policy of preventive war, and post-conflict reconstruction. 

Hitting First presents a timely and essential view of the lessons learned from the 

failures of the Iraqi conflict and offers a framework for avoiding future policy breakdowns 

through a process of deliberative public and governmental debate within a free market 

of ideas. The critiques and prescriptions offered here provide a unique and valuable 

perspective on the challenges of formulating and conducting national security policy 

while sustaining the principles and institutions of American democracy. This collection 

will appeal to students and scholars of American foreign policy, international relations, 

political communication, and ethics. 


ASIAN STUDIES/SOCIOLOGY 

OCTOBER 

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Wenfang Tang is associate professor of political 

science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the 

author of Public Opinion and Political Change in 

China, and coauthor of Chinese Urban Life Under 

Market Reform: The Changing Social Contract. 

Burkart Holzner is professor of sociology and 

public and international affairs, and Distinguished 

Service Professor Emeritus of International 

Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the 

author of Reality Construction in Society, and 

coauthor of Transparency in Global Change: The 

Vanguard of the Open Society and Knowledge 

Application: The Knowledge System in Society. 

Social Change 

in Contemporary China 

C.K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion 

Edited by Wenfang Tang and Burkart Holzner 

“C. K. Yang was a pioneer in extending the sociological approach to understanding Chinese 

society. His study of village life in China at the time of land reform remains an important 

benchmark in the sociological study of Chinese social organization. He wrote insightfully 

about institutions and institutional change. This volume by leading social scientists of China 

conveys the impressive scope of Yang’s sociological vision and the enduring influence of his 

scholarship. It also offers an unusually rich selection of essays analyzing contemporary 

Chinese society, politics, and economy.” 

—Victor Nee, Cornell University 

“This is a very important and welcome volume, not only for sociologists interested in 

Chinese society but for sociologists in general. C. K. Yang was an intellectual giant and a 

peerless sociologist, and this work will go a long way toward bridging the gap between 

different generations of Chinese sociologists.” 

—Yung-mei Tsai, Texas Tech University 

Social Change in Contemporary China offers a wide-ranging examination of Chinese 

institutional change in areas of education, religion, health care, economics, labor, 

family, and local communities in the post-Mao era. Based on the pioneering work 

of sociologist C. K. Yang (1911–1999) and his institutional diffusion theory, the essays analyze 

and develop the theory as it applies to both public and private institutions. The interrelationship 

of these institutions composes what Yang termed the Chinese “system” and 

affects nearly every aspect of life. Yang examined the influence of external factors on each 

institution, such as the influence of Westernization and Communism on family and the 

impact of industrialization on rural markets. He also analyzed the impact of public opinion 

and past culture on institutions, therein revealing the circular nature of diffusion. Perhaps 

most significant are Yang’s insights on the role of religion in Chinese society. Despite the 

common perception that China had no religion, he uncovers the influence of classical 

Confucianism as the basis for many ethical value systems and follows its diffusion into 

state and kinship systems, as well as Taoism and Buddhism. 

Writing in the early years of Communism, Yang had little hard data with which to test 

his theories. The contributors to this volume expand upon Yang’s groundbreaking 

approach and apply the model of diffusion to a rapidly evolving contemporary China, 

providing a window into an increasingly modern Chinese society and its institutions. 


HISTORY/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 

OCTOBER 

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HISTORY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT 

Michael F. Logan is professor of history at 

Oklahoma State University. He is the author of 

The Lessening Stream: The Environmental 

History of the Santa Cruz River and Fighting 

Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban 

Growth in the Southwest. 

Desert Cities 

The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson 

Michael F. Logan 

“Desert Cities offers a valuable new approach to the well-studied topic of urban competition. 

By factoring in the key roles of both ethnicity and the natural environment in shaping the 

divergent development of Phoenix and Tucson, Michael Logan successfully blends the 

interests of urban history, environmental history, and borderlands history.” 

—Carl Abbott, Portland State University 

“Desert Cities takes an interesting approach to understanding the confluence of urbanization 

and environment in two of the fastest growing cities in the United States today. And 

because of its clear and engaging writing style, it’s the kind of scholarly text that can easily 

cross over to a more popular audience.” 

—Sallie A. Marston, University of Arizona 

Phoenix is known as the “Valley of the Sun,” while Tucson is referred to as “The Old 

Pueblo.” These nicknames epitomize the difference in the public’s perception of 

each city. Phoenix continues to sprawl as one of America’s largest and fastestgrowing 

cities. Tucson has witnessed a slower rate of growth, and has only one quarter of 

Phoenix’s population. This was not always the case. Prior to 1920, Tucson had a larger 

population. How did two cities with such close physical proximity and similar natural 

environments develop so differently? 

Desert Cities examines the environmental circumstances that led to the starkly divergent 

growth of these two cities. Michael Logan traces this significant imbalance to two 

main factors: water resources and cultural differences. Both cities began as agricultural 

communities. Phoenix had the advantage of a larger water supply, the Salt River, which has 

four and one half times the volume of Tucson’s Santa Cruz River. Because Phoenix had a 

larger river, it received federal assistance in the early twentieth century for the Salt River 

project, which provided water storage facilities. Tucson received no federal aid. Moreover, 

a significant cultural difference existed. Tucson, though it became a U.S. possession in 

1853, always had a sizable Hispanic population. Phoenix was settled in the 1870s by Anglo 

pioneers who brought their visions of landscape development and commerce with them. 

By examining the factors of watershed, culture, ethnicity, terrain, political favoritism, 

economic development, and history, Desert Cities offers a comprehensive evaluation that 

illuminates the causes of growth disparity in two major southwestern cities and provides a 

model for the study of bi-city resource competition. 


ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES/FORESTRY 

DECEMBER 

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Samuel P. Hays is University Professor Emeritus 

of History at the University of Pittsburgh, and the 

recipient of the 1999 Organization of American 

Historians Distinguished Service Award. He is 

the author of A History of Environmental Politics 

since 1945; Explorations in Environmental 

History; Conservation and the Gospel of 

Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation 

Movement, 1890–1920; and, with Barbara D. 

Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: 

Environmental Politics in the United States, 

1955–1985. 

Wars in the Woods 

The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America 

Samuel P. Hays 

“The combination of scholarly analysis and personal reflection makes this volume unique 

and highly valuable. Unlike most historians, Hays lived through, and was personally 

involved in, most of the events profiled in the book. He has the deep knowledge and 

authority of an embedded eyewitness, as well as the analytical perspective of a renowned 

scholar of environmental policy and conservation history.” 

—Paul Hirt, Arizona State University 

“Hays’s focus in Wars in the Woods is the emergence of new actors in forest debates—particularly 

the grassroots reform organizations—and the resistance of traditional actors, such as 

forestry schools, forestry organizations, and state programs, to new ways of practicing 

forestry. Most original are Hays’s analyses of certification and conservancies. The material 

on procedural changes under different presidential administrations is quite eye-opening.” 

—Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin–Madison 

Wars in the Woods examines the conflicts that have developed over the 

preservation of forests in America, and how government agencies and 

advocacy groups have influenced the management of forests and their 

resources for more than a century. Samuel Hays provides an astute analysis of manipulations 

of conservation law that have touched off a battle between what he terms “ecological 

forestry” and “commodity forestry.” Hays also reveals the pervading influence of the 

wood products industry, and the training of the U.S. Forest Service to value tree species 

marketable as wood products, as the primary forces behind forestry policy since the 

Forest Management Act of 1897. 

Wars in the Woods gives a comprehensive account of the many grassroots and scientific 

organizations that have emerged since then to combat the lumber industry and other 

special interest groups and work to promote legislation to protect forests, parks, and 

wildlife habitats. It also offers a review of current forestry practices, citing the recent 

federal easing of protections as a challenge to the progress made in the last third of the 

twentieth century. 

Hays describes an increased focus on ecological forestry in areas such as biodiversity, 

wildlife habitat, structural diversity, soil conservation, watershed management, native 

forests, and old growth. He provides a valuable framework for the critical assessment of 

forest management policies and the future study and protection of forest resources. 


HISTORY/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 

JULY 

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HISTORY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT 

William Deverell, professor of history at the 

University of Southern California and director of 

the Huntington-USC Institute on California and 

the West, is the author of Whitewashed Adobe: 

The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its 

Mexican Past and editor of A Companion to the 

American West. With Greg Hise, he coauthored 

Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew 

Plan for the Los Angeles Region. 

Greg Hise is an urban historian in the School of 

Policy, Planning, and Development at the 

University of Southern California. He is the 

author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the 

Twentieth-Century Metropolis and coeditor of 

Rethinking Los Angeles. 

New in Paper 

Land of Sunshine 

An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles 

Edited by William Deverell and Greg Hise 

“Land of Sunshine is highly recommended to readers interested in Los Angeles or California 

history, urban environmental history, and urban planning. It is a fine and eminently 

readable addition to the growing collection of anthologies on the environmental history 

of American cities.” 

—H-Environment 

“An important contribution to the growing literature on urban environmental history and 

a wonderful introduction to a city that is notoriously placeless.” 

—Environmental History 

“An enlightening mix of research and writing . . . marked by significant differences in voice, 

research philosophies, topical interests, and writing styles, the result could not be better 

suited to a young, vibrant region that steadfastly defies centralized themes and obedient 

categories. What emerges is a thoughtful, nuanced consideration of the relationship 

between people and the natural environment in Los Angeles as it has evolved over time.” 

—H-Urban 

“This incisive, diverse, and illuminating collection sheds new light on Los Angeles’ relationship 

with its natural landscape as it has evolved over time. The book’s great strength is the 

depth and diversity of perspectives and the resulting rich blend of viewpoints.” 

—California Coast and Ocean 

Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of 

a city—the great “what not to do” of twentieth-century city building. But 

there’s much more to LA’s story than this shallow stereotype. History shows 

that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning—the 

environmental history of urbanism—is one place to turn for the more complex 

lessons LA has to offer. 

Working forward from ancient times and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, 

Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los 

Angeles. The essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, consider 

the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature. 

In the nineteenth century, for example, “density” was considered an evil, and reformers 

struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and 

flowers and parks “made life seem worth the living.” We now call that vision “sprawl,” and 

we struggle just as much to bring middle-class people back into the core of American 

cities. There’s nothing natural, or inevitable, about such turns of events. It’s only by paying 

very close attention to the ways metropolitan nature has been constructed and construed 

that meaningful lessons can be drawn. 

The result is a rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and 

environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the 

quality and viability of cities. 


URBAN STUDIES/HISTORY 

OCTOBER 

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John F. Bauman is a visiting research professor 

at Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at 

the University of Southern Maine and Professor 

Emeritus at California University of Pennsylvania. 

Bauman is past president of the Pennsylvania 

Historical Association and the Society for City 

and Regional Planning History. He the author of 

Public Housing, Race and Renewal: Urban 

Planning in Philadelphia, 1920–1974. 

Edward K. Muller is professor of history at the 

University of Pittsburgh and director of the urban 

studies program. He is chair of the board of 

trustees of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage 

Area in Pittsburgh. Muller is the editor of 

DeVoto’s West: History, Conservation, and the 

Public Good. 

Before Renaissance 

Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889–1943 

John F. Bauman and Edward K. Muller 

“In Before Renaissance Bauman and Muller secure Pittsburgh’s place as a leading edge in the 

formation of professional planning. By detailing how planners narrowed the progressive 

reform agenda even as they achieved considerable success in instilling a strong planning 

ethos, they show how the city’s experience set the stage for urban renewal efforts following 

World War II. Sure to be influential in rethinking the formative history of urban and 

regional management, their work deserves a wide and attentive audience.” 

—Howard Gillette Jr., Rutgers University–Camden 

“Before Renaissance is an outstanding history of planning in Pittsburgh. Based on extensive 

research, it illuminates the conflicting forces of rationalism, politics, and power that shaped 

the built environment of the preeminent industrial city.” 

—Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University 

“Bauman and Muller deftly weave planning theories and municipal politics, national and 

local personalities, parks and parking lots, economic transformation and local topographies 

into an absorbing and wide-ranging history of Pittsburgh’s urban modernization. Before 

Renaissance shows us the varied and often effective urban-planning initiatives of an era often 

derided for its inattention to urban issues. It is as catholic and as complex as the planners it 

chronicles.” 

—Dell Upton, University of Virginia 

Before Renaissance examines a half-century epoch during which planners, public 

officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning 

and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh. 

Planning emerged from the concerns of progressive reformers and businessmen over 

the social and physical problems of the city. In the Steel City, enlightened planners such as 

Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Frederick Bigger pioneered the practical approach to 

reordering the chaotic urban-industrial landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the 

embedded tradition of privatism, rugged topography, inherited built environment, and 

chronic political fragmentation, they established a tradition of modern planning in Pittsburgh. 

Over the years a mélange of other distinguished local and national figures joined in the 

planning dialogue, among them the park founder Edward Bigelow, political bosses 

Christopher Magee and William Flinn, mayors George Guthrie and William Magee, industrialists 

Andrew Carnegie and Howard Heinz, financier Richard King Mellon, and planning 

luminaries Charles Mulford Robinson, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Harland Bartholomew, 

Robert Moses, and Pittsburgh’s Frederick Bigger. The famed alliance of Richard King 

Mellon and Mayor David Lawrence, which heralded the Renaissance, owed a great debt to 

Pittsburgh’s prior planning experience. 

John Bauman and Edward Muller recount the city’s long tradition of public/private 

partnerships as an important factor in the pursuit of orderly and stable urban growth. 

Before Renaissance provides insights into the major themes, benchmarks, successes, and 

limitations that marked the formative days of urban planning. It defines Pittsburgh’s key 

role in the vanguard of the national movement and reveals the individuals and processes 

that impacted the physical shape and form of a city for generations to come. 


ARCHITECTURE/HISTORY 

OCTOBER 

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Martin Aurand is architecture librarian and 

archivist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the 

author of The Progressive Architecture of 

Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., for which he received 

an Award of Merit from the Pittsburgh History 

and Landmarks Foundation and the James Van 

Trump Award from Preservation Pittsburgh. 

The Spectator and the 

Topographical City 

Martin Aurand 

“From the headwaters of the three rivers through Iron City, Martin Aurand reveals the 

historic terrestrial foundation for Pittsburgh’s cultural ecology. Tracking the spectator across 

the city’s unique human and geologic morphology, he reveals that the true city landmark is 

more than the signature skyscraper or civic monument, but the land markings themselves— 

a civilizing terrain. As places compete globally for their identity, their topography becomes 

more than scenery but that distinguishing feature that cannot be replicated.” 

—William R. Morrish, University of Virginia 

“Like Poe’s ‘Purloined Letter,’ the topography of Pittsburgh is hidden in plain sight, 

obscured not only by our scholarly preoccupation with the industrialists, politicians, and 

philanthropists who dominate most histories of the city, but also due to the simple fact that 

it is so difficult to see Pittsburgh at a single glance. Dividing the city into three ‘terrestrial 

rooms,’ Aurand proposes a novel design imperative to explain much of Pittsburgh’s 

development: the ‘mimetic geomorphic construction.’” 

—Dan Willis, The Pennsylvania State University 

“The Spectator and the Topographical City is intellectually stimulating, fresh, and painstakingly 

researched. Human beings need to be seen in their native habitat, and anyone who has 

thought about it understands that the built environment enriches or detracts from the 

quality of our lives. Aurand has a lot to teach us about this subject.” 

—Kenneth Kolson, Deputy Director, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment 

for the Humanities 

The Spectator and the Topographical City examines Pittsburgh’s built environment 

as it relates to the city’s unique topography. Martin Aurand explores the conditions 

present in the natural landscape that led to the creation of architectural 

forms: the human response to an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, and rivers. From its origins 

as a frontier fortification to its heyday of industrial expansion, through eras of City Beautiful 

planning and urban Renaissance to today’s vision of a green sustainable city, Pittsburgh 

has offered environmental and architectural experiences unlike any other place. 

Aurand adopts the viewpoint of the spectator to study three of Pittsburgh’s “terrestrial 

rooms”: the downtown Golden Triangle; the Turtle Creek Valley with its industrial landscape; 

and Oakland, the cultural and university district. He examines the development of 

these areas and their significance to our perceptions of a singular American city, shaped to 

its topography. 


POLITICAL SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 

NOVEMBER 


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PITT SERIES IN RUSSIAN 

AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES 

Katrina Z. S. Schwartz is assistant professor of 

political science at the University of Florida. She 

is a former postdoctoral fellow of the Harriman 

Institute at Columbia University. 

Nature and National Identity 

after Communism 

Globalizing the Ethnoscape 

Katrina Z. S. Schwartz 

“Nature and National Identity after Communism deserves a wide readership. This highly 

original work focuses on the environmental politics and seemingly local issues in a small 

post-Soviet country—but Katrina Schwartz presents her story in a broad theoretical 

framework and raises important general questions about the responses of nations whose 

identities had been formed in an earlier, preindustrial era to the challenges of globalization. 

The book has something new to teach scholars in a variety of disciplines, regardless of 

their particular geographical focus.” 

—Roman Szporluk, Harvard University 

“Struggles over land use, as Katrina Schwartz brilliantly shows, are always struggles over 

power and values. The Latvian “environment” has become a bitterly contested battleground 

between two social and cultural visions of that country’s future. Schwartz has given 

us the keys to understand what is at stake. Her book is a major conceptual contribution for 

environmental history.” 

—Douglas R. Weiner, University of Arizona 

In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental 

politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: 

modern-day Latvia. Based on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse 

analysis, it explores that country’s post-Soviet responses to European assistance and 

political pressure in nature management, biodiversity conservation, and rural development. 

These responses were shaped by hotly contested notions of national identity articulated as 

contrasting visions of the “ideal” rural landscape. 

The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other traditional rural dwellers, 

environmental advocates, and professionals with divided attitudes toward new European 

approaches to sustainable development. An entrenched set of forestry and land management 

practices, with roots in the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras, confront growing international 

pressures on the small country to conform to current (Western) notions of environmental 

responsibility—notions often perceived by Latvians to be at odds with local interests. While 

the case is that of Latvia, the dynamics Schwartz explores have wide applicability and 

speak powerfully to broader theoretical discussions about sustainable development, social 

constructions of nature, the sources of nationalism, and the impacts of globalization and 

regional integration on the traditional nation-state. 


ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES/HISTORY 

NOVEMBER 

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PITT SERIES IN RUSSIAN 

AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES 

Grigory Ioffe is professor of geography at 

Radford University in Virginia. He is coauthor, 

with Tatyana Nefedova, of The Environs of 

Russian Cities and Continuity and Change in 

Rural Russia: A Geographical Perspective. 

Tatyana Nefedova is a senior research associate 

at the Institute of Geography in Moscow and 

director of the Moscow Branch of the Institute 

für Landerkunde (Leipzig, Germany). 

Ilya Zaslavsky is director of the Spatial 

Information Systems Laboratory at the San 

Diego Supercomputer Center, University of 

California, San Diego. 

The End of Peasantry? 

The Disintegration of Rural Russia 

Grigory Ioffe, Tatyana Nefedova, and Ilya Zaslavsky 

“The End of Peasantry? provides a vivid and rich account of the transition of Russian 

agriculture and rural life since the end of the Soviet era. The economic, political, and 

social trends that helped to shape the transition are clearly spelled out, and the authors’ 

arguments are well documented. I doubt that there is another book available as 

comprehensive, as up-to-date, or as well written and documented as this one.” 

—John S. Adams, University of Minnesota 

“The End of Peasantry? is a truly outstanding contribution to our understanding of the 

changes in contemporary Russian agriculture. The startling transformation taking place in 

the rural landscape is brilliantly revealed by the authors: land abandonment, the rise of 

agribusiness and household farming operations, rural out-migration, village abandonment, 

and much more. If there is one book on the topic that one must read, this is it.” 

—George J. Demko, Dartmouth College 

“Ioffe, Nefedova, and Zaslavsky successfully address a number of questions regarding 

the impacts and dynamics of the social and economic ‘transition’ underway in Russia as 

manifested in the countryside. The End of Peasantry? adds to a deeper historical, cultural, 

and environmental understanding of the Russian rural landscape that has often been lost 

on scholars who have attempted to interpret Russian rural/agricultural change simply in 

terms of modern Western social science theories. This work is superbly written, rigorous, 

extremely well researched, current, insightful, and much needed.” 

—Craig ZumBrunnen, University of Washington 

The End of Peasantry? examines the dramatic recent decline of agriculture in 

post-Soviet Russia. Historically, Russian farmers have encountered difficulties 

relating to the sheer abundance of land, the vast distances between population 

centers, and harsh environmental conditions. More recently, the drastic depopulation of 

rural spaces, decreases in sown acreage, and overall inefficiency of land usage have resulted 

in the disruption and spatial fragmentation of the countryside. For many decades, rural 

migration has been a selective process, resulting in the most enterprising and self-motivated 

people leaving the rural periphery. The new agricultural operators representing nascent but 

aggressive Russian agribusiness have difficulty co-opting traditional rural communities 

afflicted by profound social dysfunction. The contrast between agriculture in proximity to 

large cities and in their hinterlands is as sharp as ever, and some vacant niches are increasingly 

occupied by ethnically non-Russian migrants. All of these conditions existed to some 

degree in pre-Soviet times, but they have been exacerbated since Russia took steps 

toward a market economy. 

Understudied and often underestimated in the West, the crisis facing Russian agriculture 

has profound implications for the political and economic stability of Russia. The 

authors see hope in the significant increase in land use intensity on vastly diminished 

farmland. The lessons gathered from this thoroughly researched study are far-reaching 

and relevant to the disciplines of Slavic and European studies, agriculture, political 

science, economics, and human geography. 


LATIN AMERICA/ANTHROPOLOGY 

JANUARY 


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ILLUMINATIONS: CULTURAL FORMATIONS 

OF THE AMERICAS 

Ticio Escobar is founder and former director of 

the Museo del Barro in Asunción, Paraguay, 

which is dedicated to preserving and promoting 

Paraguayan indigenous art. He was Director of 

Culture for the city of Asunción from 1991 to 

1996. Escobar is the recipient of a Guggenheim 

Fellowship, the Prince Claus Prize, and the 

Basilio Uribe Prize from the International 

Association of Art Critics, among others. He is 

the author of more than ten books, including Una 

interpretación de las artes visuales en el Paraguay; 

Misión: etnocido; and Textos varios sobre 

Cultura, Transición y Modernidad. 

The Curse of Nemur 

Art, Myth,and Ritual of the Ishir 

Ticio Escobar 

Translated by Adriana Michele Campos Johnson 

Foreword by Michael Taussig 

“The Curse of Nemur is a service to literature, to art criticism, to the comparative study of 

religions, to shamanism, the practice of anthropology, and above all to the rethinking of 

the role of Native Americans in shaping the self-understanding of the Americas.” 

—Michael Taussig, Columbia University, from the foreword 

The Tomáraho, a subgroup of the Ishir (Chamacoco) of Paraguay, are one of the 

few remaining indigenous populations who have managed to keep both their 

language and spiritual beliefs intact. They have lived for many years in a remote 

region of the Gran Chaco, having limited contact with European or Latin American cultures. 

The survival of the Tomáraho has been tenuous at best; at the time of this writing there 

were only eighty-seven surviving members. 

Ticio Escobar, who lived extensively among the Tomáraho, draws on his acquired 

knowledge of Ishir beliefs to confront them with his own Western ideology, and records a 

unique dialogue between cultures that counters traditional anthropological interpretation. 

The Curse of Nemur—which is part field diary, part art critique, and part cultural anthropology—offers 

us a view of the world from an entirely new perspective, that of the Ishir. We 

acquire deep insights into their powerful and enigmatic narrative myths, which find expression 

in the forms of body painting, feather decoration, dream songs, shamanism, and ritual. 

Through dramatic photographs, native drawings, extensive examination of color and 

its importance in Ishir art, and Escobar’s lucid observation, The Curse of Nemur illuminates 

the seamless connection of religious practice and art in Ishir culture. It offers a glimpse of 

an aesthetic “other,” and in so doing, causes us to reexamine Western perspectives on the 

interpretation of art, belief, and Native American culture. 


LATIN AMERICA/HISTORY 

NOVEMBER 


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Christopher Schmidt-Nowara is associate professor 

of history at Fordham University. He is the 

author of Empire and Antislavery and coeditor of 

Interpreting Spanish Colonialism. 

The Conquest of History 

Spanish Colonialismand National Histories 

in the Nineteenth Century 

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara 

“First-class, a pleasure to read. The Conquest of History openly challenges recent studies on 

memory and historiography in Spanish nation-building, which have managed to ignore 

the colonial dimensions of the nation; it contributes to current scholarship on nations as 

imagined communities and to the field of postcolonial studies; finally, it sheds light on the 

origins of the discourse on ‘mestizaje.’ Filled with fresh insights, this book is an important 

contribution to the fields of cultural history, nation-building studies, and Atlantic (and 

Filipino) history.” 

—Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin 

“A major contribution to our understanding of the relation between history and nationalism 

in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. It is a global history in the best sense, not a random 

comparison, but a connected history.” 

—James E. Sanders, Utah State University 

As Spain rebuilt its colonial regime in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines 

after the Spanish American revolutions, it turned to history to justify continued 

dominance. The metropolitan vision of history, however, always met with 

opposition in the colonies. 

The Conquest of History examines how historians, officials, and civic groups in Spain 

and its colonies forged national histories out of the ruins and relics of the imperial past. 

By exploring controversies over the veracity of the Black Legend, the location of 

Christopher Columbus’s mortal remains, and the survival of indigenous cultures, 

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s richly documented study shows how history became 

implicated in the struggles over empire. It also considers how these approaches to the 

past, whether intended to defend or to criticize colonial rule, called into being new 

postcolonial histories of empire and of nations. 


LATIN AMERICA/POLITICAL SCIENCE 

JULY 

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Catherine M. Conaghan, professor of political 

studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, 

Ontario, was an election observer in Peru for the 

1995 and 2000 elections and was the editor of 

the Web site Peru Election 2000. 

New in Paper 

Fujimori’s Peru 

Deception in the Public Sphere 

Catherine M. Conaghan 

“This riveting book illuminates the extraordinary rise and fall of Peru’s Alberto Fujimori 

and Vladimiro Montesinos. Conaghan probes a serious challenge facing not only Peru but 

many countries in the world today—the moral decay of elites who abet a corrupt government’s 

capacity to maintain a veneer of legitimacy. Required reading for scholars, it will 

engage students and informed publics throughout the hemisphere.” 

—Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University 

“A fascinating account of Peruvian politics. Focusing on the public sphere Conaghan 

effectively demonstrates how it can be used to both buttress authoritarianism as well as 

undermine it. The book will be of great interest to people studying Peru, as well as people 

interested in Latin America and democracy more generally.” 

—Phillip Oxhorn, McGill University 

“In sparkling prose, Conaghan exposes one of Latin America’s corrupt authoritarian 

regimes hiding behind a thin veil of democracy. Her tale of government manipulation of 

public opinion and institutions holds lessons for many other countries, including our own.” 

—Paul W. Drake, University of California, San Diego 

Alberto Fujimori ascended to the presidency of Peru in 1990, boldly promising to 

remake the country. Ten years later, he hastily sent his resignation from exile in 

Japan, leaving behind a trail of lies, deceit, and corruption. While piecing together 

the shards of Fujimori’s presidency, prosecutors uncovered a vast criminal conspiracy 

fueled by political ambition and personal greed. 

The Fujimori regime managed to maintain a facade of democracy while systematically 

eviscerating democratic institutions and the rule of law through legal subterfuge, 

intimidation, and outright bribery. The architect of this strategy was Fujimori’s notorious 

intelligence advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos. With great skill, Fujimori and Montesinos 

created the appearance of a democratic public sphere but ensured it would work only to 

suit their personal motives. The press was allowed to operate, but information exchange 

was under strict control. The more government officials tampered with the free flow of 

ideas, the more they inadvertently exposed the ills they were trying to cover up. And that 

proved to be their downfall. 

Merging penetrating analysis and a journalist’s flair for narrative, Catherine Conaghan 

reveals the thin line between democracy and dictatorship, and shows how public institutions 

can both empower dictators and bring them down. 


LATIN AMERICA/HISTORY 

JULY 

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Paul Sullivan is an independent scholar and 

anthropologist. He is the author of Unfinished 

Conversations: Mayas and Foreigners Between 

Two Wars. 

New in Paper 

Xuxub Must Die 

The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan 

Paul Sullivan 

“An extraordinary historical reconstruction told with consummate narrative skill. A key text 

for students seeking to understand the intriguing and complex history of nineteenth-century 

Yucatan.” 

—History 

“For today’s Maya, Xuxub resonates as a memory of the potential (but also the pitfalls) 

of indigenous agency. Paul Sullivan’s careful but lively account allows us to glimpse an 

alternative, ‘subaltern’ history.” 

—Times Literary Supplement 

“Under layers of greed, lust, anger and envy, Sullivan discovers a treasure trove of Yucatan 

history. Xuxub was, to borrow a metaphor from science, a butterfly that fluttered its wings 

and sent a ripple of discord to far-flung places” 

—Wall Street Journal 

Inthe nineteenth century, Americans came to the Yucatan Peninsula in search of fortune, 

taking advantage of cheap Mayan labor and abundant natural resources. Like 

their other white predecessors, these foreigners inspired hatred among the indigenous 

population for their arrogance and oppression. In 1875, American Robert Stephens, 

along with many of his workers and their wives and children, was killed at the Xuxub sugar 

plantation he managed, victims of Maya rebels. To this day, the motive remains unclear, 

shrouded in mystery like the overgrowth that consumes the remains of the once-thriving 

plantation. Was Xuxub a clash of culture and economics, a local power struggle, an act of 

war—or simply cold-blooded murder? 

Paul Sullivan first heard of this mystery while living among the Maya as an anthropologist. 

Nearly a decade later, work on another story led him to archival records about the 

murders. Sullivan’s research unveiled a complex maze of characters and events, seemingly 

drawn from fiction, that he employs along with local storytelling to illuminate the dark 

forces at work on that fateful day. The result is a fascinating blend of fact, opinion, and 

myth that examines the motives and perspectives of those lives that Xuxub ensnared, and 

the diplomatic and legal battles that resulted from the heinous crime that made front-page 

news in New York and caused a public outcry demanding justice for an American simply 

“trying to make a living.” 

Sullivan masterfully weaves the intricately tangled threads of this story into a fascinating 

account of human accomplishments and failings, in which good and evil are never quite 

what they seem at first, and truth proves to be elusive. 


PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 

DECEMBER 

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Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of 

Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where 

he is also chairman of the Center for Philosophy 

of Science. He has served as president of the 

American Philosophical Association, the Leibniz 

Society of North America, the Charles S. Peirce 

Society, and the American Catholic Philosophical 

Association. He is currently president of the 

Metaphysical Society of America. In addition to 

visiting lectureships at Oxford, Konstanz, 

Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Rescher has 

received seven honorary degrees from universities 

on three continents. Author of nearly one hundred 

books ranging over many areas of philosophy, he 

was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize 

for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984. 

Photo by Jonas 

Error 

(On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong) 

Nicholas Rescher 

“This book offers an interesting new interpretation and synthesis of familiar and disparate 

material about error. I know of no other work like it. It will interest not just specialists, 

but also general readers.” 

—Alan Musgrave, University of Otago 

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Before Renaissance ……………………………14 

Born of Fire……………………………………2–3 

Brother Salvage …………………………………6 

Conquest of History, The ……………………19 

Critical Masses and Critical Choices …………8 

Cuban Studies 37 ………………………………24 

Curse of Nemur, The …………………………18 

Desert Cities ……………………………………11 

Domain of Perfect Affection……………………4 

End of Peasantry, The? ………………………17 

Error ……………………………………………22 

Fujimori’s Peru …………………………………20 

Grace ……………………………………………5 

Hitting First………………………………………9 

Land of Sunshine ………………………………13 

Milton Studies 46 ………………………………24 

Nature and National Identity 

after Communism …………………………16 

Newsworld ………………………………………7 

One for the Thumb ……………………………1 

Social Change in Contemporary China ……10 

Spectator and the Topographical City, The …15 

Wars in the Woods ……………………………12 

Who Says? ………………………………………23 

Xuxub Must Die ………………………………21 

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Becker, Robin ……………………………………4 

Bauman, John F. ………………………………14 

Conaghan, Catherine M. ………………………20 

DeGenaro, William ……………………………23 

Deverell, William ………………………………13 

Escobar, Ticio …………………………………18 

Hays, Samuel P.…………………………………12 

Herron, Kerry……………………………………8 

Hilles, Rick ………………………………………6 

Hise, Greg ………………………………………13 

Hodgen, John ……………………………………5 

Holzner, Burkart ………………………………10 

Ioffe, Grigory …………………………………17 

Jenkins-Smith, Hank ……………………………8 

Jones, Barbara L.………………………………2–3 

Keller, William W. ………………………………9 

Labriola, Albert C. ……………………………24 

Logan, Michael F. ………………………………11 

Mitchell, Gordon R. ……………………………9 

Muller, Edward K. ……………………………14 

Nefedova, Tatyana ……………………………17 

Pérez, Louis A. Jr.………………………………24 

Pierce, Todd James ………………………………7 

Rescher, Nicholas ………………………………22 

Roberts, Randy …………………………………1 

Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher ………………19 

Schwartz, Katrina Z. S. ………………………16 

Sullivan, Paul……………………………………21 

Tang, Wenfang …………………………………10 

Welky, David ……………………………………1 

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INTERROGATION PALACE 

New and Selected Poems 1982–2004 

by David Wojahn 

0-8229-5917-8 • $14.00t Paper 

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angels and rock music, soothsayers and popular history, 

and philosophers and postmodern mystery. 

This wonderful poet knows how to conjure laughter 

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—Yusef Komunyakaa 

MY BROTHER IS GETTING ARRESTED AGAIN 

by Daisy Fried 

0-8229-5919-4 • $14.00t Paper 

“Daisy Fried’s poetry is fluid and quicksilver as life 

seen close up. Here is an original voice: provocative, 

poignant, and often very funny.” 

—Joyce Carol Oates 

THE CONTRACTED WORLD 

New & More Selected Poems 

by Peter Meinke 

0-8229-5918-6 • $14.00t Paper 

“These poems get hold of us by the coat lapels and 

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considerably wiser.” 

—Ted Kooser on Scars 

ASTORIA 

by Malena Mörling 

0-8229-5920-8 • $14.00t Paper 

“Truly a wondrous book. The poems are constant 

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and the mind and the world.” 

—Michael Burkard 

FLYING AT NIGHT 

by Ted Kooser 

U.S. Poet Laureate 

0-8229-5877-5 • $14.95t Paper 

0-8229-4258-5 • $24.95t Cloth 

“Will one day rank alongside Edgar Lee Masters, 

Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams.” 

—Minneapolis Tribune 

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MURIEL RUKEYSER 

Edited by Janet E. Kaufman and Anne F. Herzog 

with Jan Heller Levi 

0-8229-5924-0 • $27.95t Paper 

“Now at last comes this scholarly, yet beautifully 

accessible edition of [Rukeyser’s] lifework in poetry—a 

great gift to the 21st century.” 

—Adrienne Rich 

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Latin America ………………………………………18–21, 24 

Literature ……………………………………………………24 

Philosophy of Science ………………………………………22 

Poetry ………………………………………………………4–6 

Political Science ………………………………………………16 

Security Studies ……………………………………………8–9 

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Urban Studies…………………………………………………14 

Writing ………………………………………………………23 

RECENTLY PUBLISHED ……………………………………25–31 

GOLDEN TRIANGLE FICTION FOR YOUNG READERS……………31 

INDEX …………………………………………………………32 

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BETWEEN CAMELOTS 

by David Harris Ebenbach 

Selected by Stewart O’Nan 

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“These stories of searching young Americans are 

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need to carry on. Ebenbach is always in full command.”—Stewart 

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BRING YOUR LEGS WITH YOU 

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Selected by Michael Chabon 

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SPEED–WALK AND OTHER STORIES 

by Suzanne Greenberg 

Selected by Rick Moody 

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collection. A confident, strong, and utterly 

unique writer.”—Michael Collier 

AMERICAN STANDARD 

by John Blair 

Selected by Elizabeth Hardwick 

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landscapes from disconcerting angles. The stories 

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DESTINATION KNOWN 

by Brett Ellen Block 

Selected by C. Michael Curtis 

0-8229-4168-6 • Cloth $22.50t 

“The stories in Brett Ellen Block’s new collection 

are motion-blurred as snapshots taken from a 

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and runaways that populate her best stories in 

mid-flight, when a moment’s hesitation or a step 

in a different direction makes all the difference in 

the world.”—New York Times Book Review

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