fall 2007 - Seton Hall University

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pirates in print
Latinos in the United States:
The Sacred and the Political (Second Edition)
By David T. Abalos, Ph.D., former professor of religious studies and social work
(University of Notre Dame Press, $30)
This revised edition explores key aspects of Latino politics, history
and culture. The edition contains extensive new material including
the politics of education, discussions of the relationship between the
sacred and political in American politics, and thoughts on what the
new wave of migration will mean to the future of the United States
and the Latino community.
The Supreme Court: An Essential History
By Williamjames Hull Hoffer, J.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of history, Peter Charles Hoffer
and N.E.H. Hull (University Press of Kansas, $34.95)
Each chapter in this book covers the Court’s years under a specific
chief justice, focusing on cases most reflective of the way the Court
saw the law and the world. It also concentrates on cases that had,
and many times still have, the greatest impact on the lives of ordinary
Americans.
The Most Arrogant Man in France:
Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture
By Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Ph.D., professor of art and music
(Princeton University Press, $45)
Petra Chu argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-77)
understood better than any painter before him the modern artist’s
dilemma: the artist must strive to be independent of the public’s taste
but also depend on the public in order to make a living. Chu demonstrates
that Courbet was one of the first artists to take advantage of
the publicity potential of newspapers, using them to create acceptance
of his work and to spread an image of himself as a radical outsider.