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history / classics Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte and David Frisby Metropolis Berlin 1880–1940 Metropolis Berlin reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin using over two hundred contemporary texts—virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time—by architects, planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. David Frisby was Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 46 A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Book MAY 584 pages, 6 x 9”, 50 b/w photographs European History/Architectural History World cloth 978-0-520-27037-4 $85.00tx/£59.00 Detlef Liebs Summoned to the Roman Courts Famous Trials from Antiquity Originally presented as a series of popular lectures, this book brings to life a thousand years of Roman history through sixteen studies of famous court cases—from the legendary trial of Horatius for the killing of his sister, to the trial of Jesus Christ, to that of the Christian leader Priscillian. Detlef Liebs is Professor of Legal History and Civil Law at the University of Freiburg. A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature APRIL 264 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4” Classics World cloth 978-0-520-25962-1 $60.00tx/£41.95 Susanna Elm Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome This study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non- Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrasts between them, but rather to reveal their common intellectual and social grounding. Susanna Elm is Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Transformation of the Classical Heritage, xlix A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature MARCH 558 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 map Classics/Christianity/History World cloth 978-0-520-26930-9 $75.00tx/£52.00 Albius Tibullus, with Lygdamus and Sulpicia The Complete Poems of Tibullus An En Face Bilingual Edition Translated by Rodney G. Dennis and Michael C. J. Putnam, with an Introduction by Julia Haig Gaisser These works are important for anyone who seeks to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry. A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature MAY 208 pages, 6 x 8” Classics/Poetry World cloth 978-0-520-27253-8 $50.00tx/£34.95 paper 978-0-520-27254-5 $19.95tx/£13.95 www.ucpress.edu | 43
literature / flashpoints flashpoints series For a full list of titles in this series, visit ucpress.edu/go/flashpoints Susan Hegeman The Cultural Return Susan Hegeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. FlashPoints, 7 AVAILABLE 204 pages, 6 x 9” Comparative Literature/Global Anthropology World paper 978-0-520-26898-2 $44.95tx/£30.95 Helmut Müller-Sievers The Cylinder Kinematics of the Nineteenth Century Helmut Müller-Sievers is Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts and Eaton Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder. FlashPoints, 9 MARCH 296 pages, 6 x 9", 40 b/w photographs Literature/History/History of Science World paper 978-0-520-27077-0 $49.95tx/£34.95 Subramanian Shankar Flesh and Fish Blood Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular Subramanian Shankar is Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. FlashPoints, 11 JULY 192 pages, 6 x 9” Literature/Asian Studies Omit South Asia paper 978-0-520-27252-1 $39.95tx/£27.95 Rashmi Sadana English Heart, Hindi Heartland The Political Life of Literature in India Rashmi Sadana is a Research Fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies in Delhi. FlashPoints, 8 FEBRUARY 242 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 map Literary Theory & Criticism/Asian Studies World paper 978-0-520-26957-6 $49.95tx/£34.95 Juliana Schiesari Polymorphous Domesticities Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers Juliana Schiesari is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. FlashPoints, 10 MARCH 152 pages, 6 x 9” Literature/Gender Studies/Literary Theory World paper 978-0-520-27084-8 $39.95tx/£27.95 44 | University of California Press
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