ALT Banner for the USA Semiquincentennial The center text reads, “USA Semiquincentennial – 250 Years in the Making—and Still Evolving.” Surrounding the text are historical and contemporary images, including workers in a black-and-white group photo, young people reading a newspaper, a panoramic historic cityscape, a rural hay bale painted with the American flag, and a sepia-toned scene of people and horses along a canal. The collage highlights the nation’s history, people, and ongoing development.
New from @fernpub! THE CONSULTING TRAP does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and accessible public services. buff.ly/450g4bk
Now available! An unprecedented account of China’s transgender histories, this book also sheds new light on a range of themes in Ming and Qing law, religion, medicine, literature, and culture. buff.ly/48rbdzR#PrideBooks#LGBTQIA#Transgender#China
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New from Roseway Publishing! Building on the work of trailblazing anthologies, Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada. buff.ly/46xdXMR@SoniaSulaiman @fernpub
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Now Available! "What nationality are you? In his stunning book, Will Hanley follows this modern question deep into the social existence of ordinary Alexandrians, demonstrating the contradictory effects of its imposition," says @samuelmoyn. buff.ly/3A3hIK3#History#Law
Now available! "With its rigorous scholarship and insightful arguments, this book takes the analysis of how things, words, and people were entangled in the Ming-Qing period to a new level of sophistication."—Craig Clunas buff.ly/46xYw6f@HarvardArtsHum@FairbankCenter
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New from @ibidem11! This collection of essays and articles illuminates recent Russian international affairs through the lens of Moscow’s propaganda tactics. buff.ly/4eQpzOQ
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Now available! SLAVES OF THE EMPEROR provides a new framework for understanding the structure and function of elites both in China and across Eurasia in the early modern period. buff.ly/3R3ngNc@huwaliyasuntob
Now Available! IF ALL THE WORLD WERE PAPER sets out a novel program for engaging with the archive of Hindi and of South Asian languages more broadly at a moment when much of that archive faces existential threats. . buff.ly/4bVp03j@Pravasi101#HindiLiterature
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"This book is quite simply the best guide to today’s dominant ideologies. Blakely is concise, sympathetic, insightful, critical and fair." —William T. Cavanaugh on LOST IN IDEOLOGY. Read the full book review in American Magazine. buff.ly/3NhLwtg@AgendaPub@americamag
Now available! "Backed up by rich fieldwork and painstaking research over many years, this book tells a poignant story of China’s prodigious urbanization, on the back of a huge migrant labor class." - Kam Wing Chan buff.ly/398ACFG#education#China#Labor#Migration
Now available! Katharina Pistor calls COOPERATION by @BernardHarcourt "An inspiration for all who wish to move beyond the old dichotomy of capitalism and communism." buff.ly/3ytSoMX
"A bold intervention that will resonate with students of Islamic studies and critical secularism studies."—Hafsa Kanjwal, @InverseJournal on PROPHETIC MAHARAJA buff.ly/4gS5Izo
“I still think that an editor at a major university press can have a more stimulating intellectual life than most faculty members have the luxury to develop.“@WmGermano on his time at Columbia University Press. #ReadUP#TBT#CUP125@Columbia@aupressesow.ly/Zrn430k3gsN
Four new translations from the Russian Library are on @RussiaBeyond's list of the best Russian books published in English this year! buff.ly/32c59zn @RusLibrary
Now available! "Placing spoken language at the heart of historical explanation, THE SOUNDS OF MANDARIN is by turns hilarious and sobering."—Gail Hershatter buff.ly/3qKfgaw#China#Linguistics#ChineseHistory
We are pleased to announce that BECOMING GUANYIN by Yuhang Li is the inaugural winner of the 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book in Ming Studies from the Society for Ming Studies. buff.ly/448gKed
Maggie Hennefeld, author of SPECTERS OF SLAPSTICK AND SILENT FILM COMEDIENNES, lists her top 10 favorite comedies starring #women from over 100 years ago. @magshenny #WomenInFilm#feministbuff.ly/2TGWSvU#WHM2021
"Good palaeoartists stay informed of the latest scientific research and discoveries, with several often working very closely with palaeontologists to ensure their reconstructions are scientifically accurate."- @Dean_R_Lomax@nhbsNewsbuff.ly/30Mhq9c#AuthorInterview
RETHINKING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES WITH SAM MOYO brings together renowned scholars from four continents to celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Moyo to the social sciences. buff.ly/3hzCxSM Order by Sept. 26 and save 20% with coupon code cup20! @Tulikabooksdel
Now Available! "Thomas Bauer's A CULTURE OF AMBIGUITY belongs to the rare class of books that can change our thinking about a whole era of history—here premodern Islam." -Ahmed El Shamsy buff.ly/3fqCKrQ#Religion#Islam#MiddleEast#NewRelease
Now available! By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society. buff.ly/4eDoTvp
New from @agendapub! "In this terrific book, Jason Blakely clarifies the shifting pathways and maps that shape both ideologies and possibilities for moving beyond them."—Craig Calhoun buff.ly/3wqQmzj
New from @ibidem11! UKRAINE VS. DARKNESS draws on the author’s experience from 26 years of Ukrainian diplomatic service to reflect his views of international affairs from a Ukrainian perspective. buff.ly/309NaVo
Join Darren Byler, Andrew J. Nathan, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a virtual book talk about THE BACKSTREETS tomorrow, January 30 from 4:00PM - 5:30PM ET. RSVP Today! buff.ly/3WK5uQl@WEAI_Columbia@Columbia@dtbyler
Congratulations to @trengriffin for A DOZEN LESSONS FOR ENTREPRENEURS winning the Silver Medal for the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award in Entrepreneurship and Small Business!
"In her new book Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, Laura E. Helton lays out a clear vision of Black public bibliophilia in the first half of the 20th century."—Dorothy Berry, @LAReviewofBooksbuff.ly/3WtR61L
Congratulations to @MCLowISU for IMPERIAL MECCA: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj making the shortlist for the 2021 @bkfsbookprize! buff.ly/3zdFj94
Looking for a book that changes your perspective? Author @thechloegong recommends THE MEMBRANES by @Tawei_Chi: "It completely made me rethink the human experience and my grasp on reality." buff.ly/3uiceZ9@NZHViva
Now available! "DAYS OF OPPORTUNITY is a compelling account of how the nation came to be embroiled in U.S.-Soviet Cold War conflict and the terrible costs to the Afghan people."—Mary L. Dudziak buff.ly/3Xh4MeM@RobRakove
"Disasters of all kinds are prompting unprecedented displacement and massive migrations worldwide. … What happened? Why couldn’t we contain the destruction?" - @invisibl_houses. #Read the introduction to UNNATURAL DISASTERS today! buff.ly/3xuOxgl#ClimateChange
New from @ibidem11! THE NEW AUTHORITARIANISM by Alan Waring is a “brilliant new volume on the sources, ideas, ideologies, networks, and activities of the Alt, Far, and Extreme Right in world and domestic politics." - Inderjeet Parmar buff.ly/2RndWci#PoliSci
We are pleased to announce that THE FERRANTE LETTERS by @sarahchihaya, @mervatim, @KHill0 , and @JillCRichards will receive the Honorable Mention for the 2020–2021 @MLAnews for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship\buff.ly/3WsILb9
Read an excerpt about How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life from Emily Hodgson Anderson new book SHADOW WORK on @lithubbuff.ly/sJycy0g
Now available! "EURASIAN CROSSROADS remains the best introduction to the history of this region ... This book was once pathbreaking—today it is essential." - @EricTSchluessel buff.ly/3CcPV93#History#AsianStudies@JimMillward
Now available! FEELING MEMORY is "A sensitive and imaginative exploration of the connections among war, childhood, and memory that demonstrates the meaning of emotions and feelings as historical forces."—Alessandro Portelli buff.ly/3JaQ17o@DrLindseyD@HistoryatHud
Now available! DESIRE IN LANGUAGE presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. buff.ly/48nfyET#NovelTheory#LiteraryAnalysis#CriticalTheory
We are pleased to announce that Dan Sinykin's BIG FICTION has been shortlisted for the 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. buff.ly/3XO5QZP@SHARPorg@SHARPorgNews @dan_sinykin
New from @agendapub! "This is illuminating and essential reading at a critical turn in world politics when geoeconomics is returning to centre stage."—Naná de Graaff buff.ly/3KVUhaQ
New from @transcriptweb! In this book, Natalie Dederichs draws on the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics to introduce a poetics of atmospheric reading experiences. buff.ly/3pAVEFv
"I believe I write so as to continue to exist, and also to perform disappearance, nonexistence." - Kate Zambreno. Read the full interview in @The_Millions today! buff.ly/2TUwQrD#WomenWriters#Fiction
"The #literature that arose from the influenza #pandemic speaks to our current moment in profound ways" Elizabeth Outka, author of VIRAL MODERNISM, looks back to the #1918Influenza to reflect on our current state in @ParisReview. buff.ly/2xdVU1W
"“Poetic, stunning, fascinating, and deeply insightful, Kristeva’s readings of Dostoyevsky are as much about us and our time as they are about him and his works.” –Kelly Oliver buff.ly/41PISS4#BookReview#JuliaKristeva#ReadUP
Now Available! CHRONOS "is a magisterial book, breathtaking in scope and precision," says @ekleinberg. Check out how this work explores our ungraspable relationship with #time! buff.ly/3QLwKuC#History#WorldHistory