32 History/PoliticsThe ItalianInquisitionChristopher F. BlackThe Italian Inquisition, or HolyOffice, was established in 1542,stimulated partly by the earlierSpanish operation. CertainlySpain’s ‘black legend’ affectedopinions of the Inquisition in Italy,but as this pioneering book shows,there were significant differencesbetween their operations, targets and casualties.In this history of the Italian Inquisition, Christopher F. Blackcharts how it developed and changed over time. He maps itscumbersome means of command, supervision and action, aswell as its role as a surprisingly approachable regulatory bodyworking within communities. Ranging right across the Italianpanorama, and rooting his enquiry in striking individual cases,Black uncovers Inquisitional procedure from denunciation topunishment. This scrupulous and richly rewarding book showshow the Inquisition shaped Italy’s religious and social worlds.“Christopher Black has delivered the book that historians ofearly modern Europe have all been waiting for . . . a pleasure toread and will certainly live on as a significant contribution to arange of fields for many years to come.”—David Gentilcore,<strong>University</strong> of LeicesterChristopher Black is Professor of History at the <strong>University</strong> ofGlasgow. His previous books include Early Modern Italy:A Social History and Church, Religion and Society in EarlyModern Italy.August 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus.ISBN 978-0-300-11706-6 £35.00The Cartoons ThatShook the WorldJytte KlausenOn September 30, 2005, the Danishnewspaper Jyllands-Posten publishedtwelve cartoons of the ProphetMuhammad. Five months later,thousands of Muslims inundated thenewspaper with outpourings of angerand grief by phone, email and fax; fromAsia to Europe Muslims took to thestreets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigationof the conflict that aroused debates around the world on freedomof expression, blasphemy and the nature of modern Islam.Klausen interviewed politicians in the Middle East, Muslimleaders in Europe, the Danish editors and cartoonists and theDanish imam who started the controversy. Following thewinding trail of protests across the world, she deconstructs thearguments and motives that drove the escalation of theincreasingly globalised conflict. She concludes that the Muslimreaction to the cartoons was not—as was commonly assumed—aspontaneous emotional reaction arising out of the clash ofWestern and Islamic civilisations. Rather it was orchestrated, firstby those with vested interests in elections in Denmark andEgypt, and later by Islamic extremists seeking to destabilisegovernments in Pakistan, Lebanon, Libya and Nigeria. Klausenshows how the cartoon crisis was, therefore, ultimately a politicalconflict rather than a colossal cultural misunderstanding.Jytte Klausen is Professor of Comparative Politics at Brandeis<strong>University</strong>.January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 8 b/w + 4 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-12472-9 £20.00*Not available for sale in India and PakistanIdeology and InquisitionThe World of the Censorsin Early MexicoMartin Austin NesvigThis book is the first comprehensivetreatment in English of the ideologyand practice of the Inquisitionalcensors, focusing on the case of Mexicofrom the 1520s to the 1630s. Othershave examined the effects of censorship,but Martin Nesvig employs anontraditional approach that focuses onthe inner logic of censorship in order toexamine the collective mentality,ideological formation and practicalapplication of ideology of the censorsthemselves.Martin Nesvig is Assistant Professor ofHistory at the <strong>University</strong> of Miami. Heis the editor of Local Religion inColonial Mexico and Religious Culturein Modern Mexico.October 384 pp. 234x156mm.10 b/w illus.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14040-8 £40.00Policing Stalin’sSocialismRepression and Social Orderin the Soviet Union, 1924–1953David R. ShearerPolicing Stalin’s Socialism is one of thefirst books to emphasise the importanceof social order repression by Stalin’sSoviet regime in contrast to thetraditional emphasis of historians onpolitical repression. Based on extensiveexamination of new archival materials,David Shearer finds that mostrepression during the Stalinistdictatorship of the 1930s was againstmarginal social groups such as pettycriminals, deviant youth, sectarians andthe unemployed and unproductive.David Shearer is Associate Professor ofHistory at the <strong>University</strong> of Delaware.The <strong>Yale</strong>-Hoover Series on Stalin,Stalinism, and the Cold WarOctober 544 pp. 234x156mm.17 b/w illus.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14925-8 £40.00Land Reform in RussiaInstitutional Designand Behavioral ResponsesStephen K. WegrenThis ambitious work is the definitiveaccount of Russia’s land reforminitiatives from the late 1980s to today.In Russia, a country controlling moreland than any other nation, landownership is central to structures ofpower, class division and agriculturalproduction.Wegren’s study is important and timely,as Russian land reform will have aprofound effect on Russia’s ability tocompete in an era of globalisation.Stephen Wegren is Professor ofPolitical Science and Director ofInternational and Area Studies atSouthern Methodist <strong>University</strong>.<strong>Yale</strong> Agrarian Studies SeriesJanuary 352 pp. 234x156mm.Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15097-1 £40.00*
Art 33A unique study that integratesarchitectural history,musicology and acoustics tothrow new light on the sacredarchitecture and music ofRenaissance VeniceSound and Spacein Renaissance VeniceArchitecture, Music, AcousticsDeborah Howard and Laura MorettiDuring the sixteenth-century, Venice was the setting for some of themost admired churches in the whole western canon, while majoradvances in the sophistication, richness and religious expression ofchoral polyphony led to pioneering developments in the evolution ofstereophonic sound.Deborah Howard is Professor ofArchitectural History, <strong>University</strong> ofCambridge, and Fellow of St John’sCollege, Cambridge. Her booksinclude Venice and the East:The Impact of the Islamic World onVenetian Architecture 1100–1500 andThe Architectural History of Venice.Laura Moretti is Scott Opler ResearchFellow in Architectural History,Worcester College, Oxford.October256 pp. 241x171mm.80 b/w + 40 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-14874-9 £30.00*The focus of this fascinating study is the direct relationship betweenarchitectural design and sacred music in Renaissance Venice. Thedesigns of two of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance,Sansovino and Palladio, are seen against the background of theinnovative polyphonic choral music in split-choir formation (corospezzato) pioneered in St Mark’s and disseminated as a result of the rapiddevelopment of music printing in Venice. Refined and elaborated, theseinnovations culminated in the sacred music of Monteverdi. The needsof elaborate state ceremonial stimulated the demand for musicalvirtuosity and imposing architectural settings, but the innovationsfiltered down to affect music in the simplest parish churches.The book combines historical research into the architectural andliturgical traditions of a dozen Venetian churches with the results of aparallel series of scientific surveys of the acoustic properties of thechosen buildings. The research culminated in a programme of in situchoral experiments and acoustic measurements, carried out in Veniceusing the celebrated choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, in 2007,revealing the strong awareness of acoustic effects on the part ofarchitects, musicians, patrons and churchmen of the Renaissance period.
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