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78 Religion/US Studies Charity The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition Gary A. Anderson It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theatres and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we explain this difference? In this significant reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition, Gary Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. Though concerns for social justice were not unknown to early Jews and Christians, the poor achieved the importance they did primarily because they were thought to be ‘living altars’, a place to make a sacrifice, a loan to God that he, as the ultimate guarantor, could be trusted to repay in turn. Contrary to the assertions of Reformation and modern critiques, belief in a heavenly treasury was not just about self-interest. Sifting through biblical and postbiblical texts, Anderson shows how charity affirms the goodness of the created order; the world was created through charity and therefore rewards it. Gary A. Anderson is Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Notre Dame. His most recent book, the critically acclaimed Sin: A History, won a Christianity Today Book Award. September 256 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18133-3 £20.00 The Great Rent Wars New York, 1917–1929 Robert M. Fogelson The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in America’s largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the postwar housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations. The Great Rent Wars traces the tumultuous history of rent control in New York from its inception to its expiration as it unfolded in New York, Albany and Washington, D.C. At the heart of this story are such memorable figures as Al Smith, Fiorello H. La Guardia and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as a host of tenants, landlords, judges and politicians who have long been forgotten. Fogelson also explores the heated debates over landlord-tenant law, housing policy and other issues that are as controversial today as they were a century ago. Robert M. Fogelson is professor of urban studies and history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of several books, most recently Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1930, and Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870 –1930, both published by Yale. November 504 pp. 241x165mm. 23 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19172-1 £30.00* Translation rights: Kneerim and Williams, Boston Before the Door of God An Anthology of Devotional Poetry Edited by Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional Englishlanguage poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current 21stcentury incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry – poetry that speaks to the divine – remains in vigorous practice, but also that the tradition reaches back to the very origins of poetry in English. There is a sense in these pages that the tradition of lyric poetry that developed was nearly inevitable, given the inherent concerns of the genre. Featuring the work of poets over a three-thousand-year period, Before the Door of God places the devotional lyric in its cultural, historical and aesthetic contexts. Jay Hopler is associate professor of English at the University of South Florida. He received the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 2005 for his first book of poems, Green Squall. Kimberly Johnson is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and a translation of Virgil’s Georgics. November 352 pp. 234x156mm. 2 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17520-2 £25.00* Judges 1–12 A New Translation Introduction and Commentary by Jack M. Sasson Informed by the literature and language of the ancient Near East, this new commentary to Chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical Book of Judges provides a literary and theological analysis of some of Scripture’s most stirring narratives and verses. Addressed are issues about the techniques that advance the text’s objectives, the impulses behind its composition, the motivations behind its preservation, the diversity of interpretations during its transmission in several ancient languages and the learned attention it has gathered over time in faith traditions, Jewish, Christian and Muslim. In its pages is a fair sampling from ancient Near Eastern documents to illumine specific biblical passages or to bolster the interpretation of contexts. A comprehensive Introduction surveys issues and approaches in the study of Judges. Introductory Remarks identify issues of religious, social, cultural or historical significance appropriate to each segment. As such, they provide a background to the Notes and a frame for the exposition in the concluding Comments. Jack M. Sasson is Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University. The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries November 592 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19033-5 £70.00
The Worth of the University Richard C. Levin Published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin’s retirement as president of Yale University, this collection of speeches and essays from the past decade reflects both his varied intellectual passions and his deep commitment to university life and leadership. This collection is a sequel to The Work of the University. Richard C. Levin, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, is the twenty-second president of Yale University. Levin serves on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. July 296 pp. 210x140mm. 5 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19725-9 £18.99 US Studies 79 Against the Profit Motive The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780–1940 Nicholas R. Parrillo In this innovative book Nicholas Parrillo uses the history of how federal employees have been compensated to derive an original and important lesson about the legitimacy of government. Nicholas R. Parrillo is associate professor of law at Yale University. Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference November 576 pp. 234x156mm. 3 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17658-2 £85.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-19475-3 £35.00 The Letters of C. Vann Woodward Edited by Michael O’Brien C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the 20th century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters. For the first time, his sprightly, wry, sympathetic and often funny letters are published, including those he wrote to figures as diverse as John Kennedy, David Riesman, Richard Hofstadter and Robert Penn Warren. Michael O’Brien is professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge. October 480 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18534-8 £25.00 Translation rights: The Wylie Agency, New York Hollow Justice A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States David E. Wilkins This book explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity November 272 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-11926-8 £25.00 The Citizen’s Share Putting Ownership Back Into Democracy Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse Blasi, Freeman and Kruse make a compelling case for a return to the visionary economic policies of American Founding Fathers Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison. Joseph R. Blasi is professor and sociologist, and Douglas L. Kruse is professor of industrial relations and human resources, both at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. Richard B. Freeman is Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University. January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19225-4 £30.00 Before L. A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781–1894 David Samuel Torres-Rouff A bold new work of urban history explores the early development of Los Angeles, how race has always determined its social and spatial boundaries, and how a 19th-century incursion of immigrants from the US caused a profound and permanent shift in its political and physical environment. David Samuel Torres-Rouff is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Merced, CA. The Lamar Series in Western History October 368 pp. 234x156mm. 40 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-14123-8 £45.00 A Mere Machine The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy Anna Harvey In this new work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings. Anna Harvey is associate professor of political science at New York University. January 320 pp. 234x156mm. 19 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17111-2 £36.00 The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses Compiled, edited and introduced by Barry Alan Shain Letters, papers, petitions and proclamations from the mid-18th century in the American colonies, provide a different historical perspective on the Declaration of Independence. Barry Alan Shain is professor and chair of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. January 704 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-15874-8 £85.00
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