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- Meena Alexander
Fault Lines: A Memoir (Tenth-Anniversary Edition)
- Stanley Aronowitz
How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
- Nan Bauer-Maglin and Alice Radosh, editors
Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide
- Sophie Body-Gendrot and Marilyn Gittell, editors
Social Capital and Social Citizenship
- David Brotherton
Gangs and Society
- Marvin Carlson, translator and editor
The Heirs of Molière
- Mauricio Font
Transforming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspective
- David Harvey
-The New Imperialism
-Paris, Capital of Modernity
- Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch
A History of African American Theatre
- Sylvia Kahan
Music's Modern Muse
- Fred Kaplan
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
- Thomas Kessner
Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900
- Setha Low
Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America
- Patricia Mainardi
Husbands, Wives, and Lovers:
Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France
- Kathleen McCarthy
American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society 1700-1865
- Louis Menand
American Studies
- Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Global Prescriptions
- Gregory Rabassa, translator
My World Is Not of This Kingdom by Joao de Melo
Jail by Jesus Zárate
- Peter Roman
People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government, Updated Edition
- Jane C. Scheider and Peter T. Schneider
Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
- Lía Schwartz, editor
Francisco de Quevedo. La Fortuna con seso y la Hora de todos. Fantasía moral.
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Touching Feeling
- Pamela Sheingorn
Myth, Montage, & Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture
- Gerald Sider
Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North
- Neil Smith
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
- Christina Tortora, editor
The Syntax of Italian Dialects
- Cynthia Hyla Whittaker
-Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
-Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political Dialogue
Meena Alexander
Fault Lines: A Memoir (Tenth-Anniversary Edition)
(The Feminist Press, 2003; 317 pp.)
Revised and expanded in this new edition, Meena Alexander's memoir, Fault Lines—named among the best books of 1993 by
Publishers Weekly—traces one woman's evolution as a post-colonial writer, at home—and in exile—in four continents. Acclaimed poet and scholar Alexander excavates her memory and imagination, revealing her difficult recovery from a long-buried childhood trauma, with fierce lyricism and devastating honesty. In "Book of Childhood," a substantial new coda, she argues for the necessity of writing amid violence and fear, and wrestles with her responsibilities as a South Asian American woman poet in a post-9/11 world. "Alexander's writing is imbued with a poetic grace shot through with an inner violence, like a shimmering piece of two-toned silk."—Ms. She is distinguished professor of English and women's studies at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.
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Stanley Aronowitz
How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
(Yale University Press, 2003; 272 pp.)
Although most Americans defiantly identify themselves as middle class, economic inequality is greater in the United States than in most Western nations. Written by prominent sociologist and social activist Stanley Aronowitz,
How Class Works reconceptualizes the meaning and significance of class in modern America. Aronowitz shows that class should not be understood only in terms of socioeconomic stratification, but rather as the power of social groups to effect change. Groups from different economic and political positions become ruling classes when they make demands that alter the course of history, Aronowitz argues, and he analyzes the class struggles engaged in by labor movements, environmental activists, and feminists. "With this book Aronowitz puts the subject of social class squarely on the intellectual agenda...both intellectually exciting and morally challenging."—Barbara Ehrenreich. Aronowitz is a distinguished professor of sociology and urban education at The Graduate Center.
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Nan Bauer-Maglin, Alice Radosh, editors
Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide
(Rutgers University Press, 2003; 368 pp.)
As women of the baby boom generation grow older, the need for a new conversation about aging and retirement is vital. In Women Confronting Retirement, editors Nan Bauer-Maglin and Alice Radosh showcase the voices of 38 women from a wide range of professions, ages, and life situations as they confront the need to redefine who they are when they leave the workplace. The contributors urge women to find new self-images, to balance meaningful work and creative play, and to reform public policies that support enhanced opportunities for retirement. Nan Bauer-Maglin is academic director of the CUNY Baccalaureate Program at The Graduate Center; Alice Radosh, now retired, has taught psychology at Brooklyn College and directed the NYC Mayor's Office of Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Services.
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Sophie Body-Gendrot and Marilyn Gittell, editors
Social Capital and Social Citizenship
(Lexington Books, 2003; 188 pp.)
The fall of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the welfare state, changes in immigration patterns, and the rise of economic globalism have led to debate on what it means to be a citizen.
Social Capital and Social Citizenship brings together essays from Europe, North America, and South Africa that discuss the following issues: What is social capital? How can social capital be used to protect the rights of marginalized populations, such as women, racial minorities, immigrants, and the urban poor? Can voluntary associations step in where the state has failed? Can social capital lead to social change? Marilyn Gittell is professor of political science at The Graduate Center and director of the Howard Samuels State Management and Policy Center. Sophie Body-Gendrot is professor of political science and American studies at the Sorbonne and Institut d'Etude Polytechniques, Paris.
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Edited by Louis Kontos, David Brotherton, and Luis
Barrios
Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives
(Columbia University Press, 2003; 352 pp.)
Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists,
and community leaders to examine the many functions and faces of gangs today,
covering the spread of gangs from New York to Texas to the West Coast. Fifteen
timely essays represent an eclectic range of topics, such as the spirituality of
gangs, the place of women in gang culture, and the effect on gangs of a variety
of educational programs and services for at-risk youth. The final chapter,
featuring a photographic essay by award-winning journalist Donna DeCesare,
examines the "gang-photography phenomenon."
Gangs and Society is edited by Louis
Kontos, associate professor of sociology at Long Island University, C. W. Post
Campus; David C. Brotherton, associate professor of sociology and criminal
justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center; and
Luis Barrios, assistant professor of psychology at the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
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Marvin Carlson, translator and editor
The Heirs of Molière
(Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2003; 364 pp.)
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center has published The Heirs of Molière, translated and edited by Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Chair in Theatre Studies and distinguished professor of theatre and comparative literature at The Graduate Center. This volume contains four representative French comedies of the period from the death of Molière to the French Revolution:
The Absent-Minded Lover by Jean-Francois Regnard, The Conceited Count by Philippe Nicault Destouches,
The Fashionable Prejudice by Pierre Nivelle de la Chausse, and The Friend of the Laws by Jean-Louis Laya. Translated in a poetic form that seeks to capture the wit and spirit of the originals, these plays suggest something of the range of the Molière inheritance, from comedy of character, to the popular sentimental comedy of the 18th century, to comedy that employs Molière's tradition for more contemporary political ends—showing changing ideas about class, gender, and society in a turbulent century.
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Mauricio Font
Transforming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspective
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2003; 280 pp.)
Mauricio Font's Transforming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspective provides an in-depth analysis of the changes unfolding in Brazil over the past 10 years. In the context of other transformations accelerating with democratization, these reforms are opening a new era in modern Brazil, as they reshape politics, the economy, social structures, and the country's role in global affairs. Initiated by sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso during his presidency (1995-2002), the reform agenda has been maintained to a surprising extent by new Brazilian president Lula da Silva, indicating substantial agreement on the reform process. This indicates the importance, relevance, and timing of Professor Font's analysis. Mauricio Font is professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, and director of The Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies.
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David Harvey
The New Imperialism
(Oxford University Press, 2003; 253 pp.)
David Harvey, a distinguished professor of anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, and history at The Graduate Center, and one of
the most influential geographers of our time, recently published The New
Imperialism—a bold, debate-shaping response to the current direction of U.S.
foreign policy. (The book is a result of Harvey's Clarendon Lectures, delivered
at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University in February,
2003, while war against Iraq was imminent.) In The New Imperialism, Harvey
builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind
recent momentous shifts in policy and politics. Analyzing the thrust of U.S.
involvement in the Middle East, Harvey asks the big questions—What is really at
stake in the war against Iraq? Is it really all about oil? And what is the
relation between U.S. militarism abroad and domestic policies?—and provides
answers in a complex yet clearly argued narrative.
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David Harvey
Paris, Capital of Modernity
(Routledge, 2003; 372 pp.)
 This major work by David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, and history at The Graduate Center, locates the emergence of
modernity, as it is commonly understood, in a particular place and time—Paris,
between the failed revolutions of 1848 and 1871. During these days of the
"Second Empire," Baron Hausmann orchestrated the physical overhaul of Paris,
creating the grand boulevards that dominate the city today. Just as importantly,
the era saw the rise of a new form of capitalism, dominated by high finance and
the beginnings of modern consumer culture. Harvey provides a sweeping panoramic
account of this pivotal era—generously illustrated with political cartoons,
photographs, and maps—that will stand as a definitive history of the emergence
of a modern city. "David Harvey is perhaps the most important urban scholar
writing in the English language, and here he is at his best."—Thomas Bender,
author of The Unfinished City.
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Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch
A History of African American Theatre
(Cambridge University Press, 2003; 632 pp.)
This definitive history of African American theatre—the
first of its kind—embraces a wide geography, investigating companies from
coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African American
companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a
catholicity of styles—from African ritual born out of slavery to European
forms, from amateur to professional. It covers nearly two and a half centuries
of black performance and production with issues of gender, class, and race ever
in attendance. The volume encompasses aspects of performance such as minstrel shows,
vaudeville, cabaret acts, musicals, and opera. Productions by white playwrights that
used black casts, particularly in music and dance, are included, as are
productions of western classics and a host of Shakespeare plays. James V. Hatch
is professor emeritus of theatre at The Graduate Center. The late Errol G. Hill was John D. Willard Professor of Drama
and Oratory at Dartmouth and an accomplished playwright and actor.
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Sylvia Kahan
Music's Modern Muse
A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac
(University of Rochester Press, 2003, 576 pages, illustrated)
The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire at the age of
eighteen, having inherited a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine
fortune. After the death of her husband, Prince Edmond de Polignac, who had
introduced her to the elite of French society, she used her fortune to benefit
the arts, science, and letters: individuals such as Boulanger, Haskil, and
Rubinstein, and organizations such as the Ballets Russes and l'Opéra de Paris,
benefited from her patronage, as did several women composers such as Ethel Smyth
and Adela Maddison whose operas she championed. The list of works she
commissioned from often young or neglected composers include Stravinsky's Renard,
Satie's Socrate and Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro, and her salon was a
gathering place for luminaries of French culture such as Proust, Cocteau, Monet,
Diaghilev, and Colette. Pianist and scholar Sylvia Kahan, associate professor of music at The Graduate Center and chair of the
Department of Performing and Creative Arts at the College of Staten Island, brings to
life this eccentric and extravagant lover of the arts.
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Fred Kaplan
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
(Doubleday,
2003; 736 pp.)
 From Fred Kaplan—the author of acclaimed biographies of Gore Vidal, Henry James,
Charles Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle—comes a bold new portrait of a true American
original: Mark Twain. With his rollicking humor, caustic social criticism, and
dedication to portraying the way that ordinary people live and speak, Mark Twain
invented American literature as we know it. Based on original research, including
access to previously unpublished correspondence, The Singular Mark Twain
presents a fully integrated portrait of the American icon, following Twain's
extraordinary life—from a youth of restless adventure, to later fame, fortune,
and world travels. Kaplan sets the record strait about Twain's progressive ideas
on race, and he also details the darker side of Twain's story—from the illnesses
and death that plagued his family, to his absurdly terrible business sense that
almost lost him his great wealth. Fred Kaplan is distinguished professor of
English at Queens College and The Graduate Center.
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Thomas Kessner
Capital City: New York and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic
Dominance, 1860-1900
(Simon & Schuster, 2003; 416 pp.)
Thomas Kessner, a faculty member of the Ph.D. Program in History tells the
dramatic story of New York's transformation from port city to financial capital
of the world in the course of a generation. "No succeeding generation enjoyed
the economic power, the open political atmosphere, and the shaping influence
available to this group of capitalists," Kessner writes. During this period,
money accumulated in New York, as a banking culture emerged, and ambitious men
were drawn to the city to make enormous fortunes. Kessner's colorful, epic
narrative profiles such figures as J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D.
Rockefeller, who forged a brave and ruthless new brand of corporate capitalism.
In Capital City, Kessner describes the competitive climate that led to
New York—rather than Boston, Philadelphia, or any other northern city—becoming
the global financial center.
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Setha Low
Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America
(Routledge, 2003; 275 pp.)
In Behind the Gates, Setha Low investigates the fastest growing housing trend in the United States—gated communities—and provides a revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After spending years interviewing families in such communities, from the Northeast to the Southwest, Low has produced a vivid account of the hopes, dreams, and fears of residents. By walling themselves off, parents with children, young married couples, "empty nesters," and retirees all express their obsession with safety, their fear of a more ethnically diverse America, and the desire to recapture the close-knit communities of their childhoods. Ironically, Low finds that these communities are no safer than other suburbs and that many residents are disheartened by insularity and restrictive rules. Setha Low is professor of anthropology and environmental psychology at The Graduate Center.
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Patricia Mainardi
Husbands, Wives, and Lovers:
Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France
(Yale
University Press, 2003; 256 pp.)
Patricia Mainardi has written a lively, interdisciplinary exploration of the
cultural and social history of early nineteenth-century France, focusing on what
was considered a major social problem of the time—adultery. In a period when
expectations about marriage were changing, the problems of husbands, wives, and
lovers became a major theme in theater, literature, and the visual arts. This
intense interest was grounded in the post-Revolutionary collision between a new
concept of the individual's right to happiness and the traditional prerogatives
of family and state, Mainardi demonstrates. Examining the questions that
permeated French culture and society—about duty vs. happiness—about arranged
marriage vs. love, and the penalties for adultery—Mainardi argues that such
legal, social, and cultural debates led to modern bourgeois family values. She
is professor of art history and executive officer of the doctoral program in art
history at The Graduate Center.
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Kathleen McCarthy
American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society 1700-1865
(University of Chicago Press, 2003; 319 pp.)
The first historical account of the development of civil society in the United States,
American Creed by Kathleen McCarthy shows how democracy was linked with philanthropy and voluntarism throughout our nation's beginnings. The volume traces the rise of such activism from its colonial precedents—including Benjamin Franklin's "Leather Apron Men," a group of civic leaders, and Franklin's own charitable giving—to the emergence of important women's charities for the sick and poor, to religious benevolent societies, to Northern black congregations—such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church—that played a crucial role in organizing abolitionist activities. Following the "creed" of civic duty through its many tests, McCarthy provides a vital reevaluation of public life during the decades leading up to the Civil War. She is professor of history at The Graduate Center and director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.
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Louis Menand
American Studies
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003; 306 pp.)
Hot on the heels of Menand's Pulitzer Prize-winning intellectual history, The Metaphysical Club, is this collection of short essays penned for such publications as the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and Artforum. The volume, an idiosyncratic reading of American intellectual history full of lively vignettes and startling insights, ranges from topics such as anti-Semitism in the writings of T.S. Eliot to the connection between Larry Flynt's Hustler and Jerry Falwell's evangelism, from William James's nervous breakdown to the cultural implications of the atomic bomb and the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Menand, a distinguished professor of English at The Graduate Center, always writes with a witty, approachable style that is also impeccably learned, a combination that has made him both a New York Times best-selling author and a widely-esteemed cultural historian.
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Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Global
Prescriptions
(Zed Books, 2003; 320 pp.)
Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, distinguished professor of political science at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, has written a critical yet optimistic
analysis of the role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for
women's health in international and national settings. In Global Prescriptions,
she reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational
networks, national advocacy efforts, and sexual and reproductive health
provision. In the book, Petchesky critiques the Cairo, Beijing, and Copenhagen
UN conference documents; assesses capitalist obstacles to providing essential
AIDS drugs; and argues that the power of women's transnational coalitions is
only as great as their organic connections with grassroots social movements.
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Gregory Rabassa, translator
My World Is Not of This Kingdom by Joao de Melo
(Aliform Publishing, 2003; 248 pp.)
Jail by Jesus Zarate
(Aliform Publishing, 2003; 236)
One book originally published in Portuguese, My World is Not of this Kingdom by Joao de Melo, and another originally published in Spanish,
Jail by Jesus Zarate—both translated by Gregory Rabassa—were recently released by Aliform, a publisher of Latin American and world literature.
My World is Not of this Kingdom recounts the history of a small village in the Azores inhabited by a group of mythical figures, all on an island in the middle of the ocean.
Jail is set in a prison cell somewhere in Latin America, where four unlikely cellmates share the space. Rabassa has been called, by
The New York Times, "one of the best translators who ever drew breath." His previous translations include
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar. Rabassa is distinguished professor of comparative literature and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center.
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Peter Roman
People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government, Updated
Edition
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003; 304 pp.)
People's Power—the only available detailed study of the Cuban parliamentary
system—is a theoretical, historical and analytical account of representative
government that has emerged in Cuba since the 1970s. By combining original
research and extensive interviews with citizens and officials, Peter Roman
illustrates how the Cuban model was built on theoretical foundations derived
from Rousseau, Marx, and Lenin, and the historical precedents of the 1871 Paris
Commune, the 1905 and 1917 soviets, and the pre- and post-Stalin years of the
Soviet Union. Cuba's contributions to this legacy—the Organs of People's
Power—include unique approaches to the nomination and election of municipal
assembly delegates and National Assembly deputies, to citizen input and
participation, and to the role of the Communist Party. Peter Roman is professor
of political science at The Graduate Center.
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Jane C. Scheider and Peter T. Schneider
Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
(University of California Press, 2003; 340 pp.)
Succinctly written and intelligently illustrated, Reversible Destiny traces for the first time the history of the Sicilian mafia from its nineteenth-century roots right up to its twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. The issues facing Sicily's multi-faceted antimafia efforts—the capacity for the mafia to reproduce its subculture of violence through time, its dense connection of political and financial protectors, and the sad reality that repressing it can harm vulnerable communities—are described and documented in the clear-eyed, non-idealistic fashion that have become the Schneiders' standard and made them authorities in the field. Jane C. Schneider is professor of anthropology at The Graduate Center; Peter T. Schneider is professor of sociology at Fordham University.
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Lía Schwartz, editor
Francisco de Quevedo. La Fortuna con seso y la Hora de todos. Fantasía moral.
In Obras completas en prosa. Volumen primero. Tomo segundo.
(Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 2003, pp. 561-810; 840-844; 884-892 (NUEVA BIBLIOTECA DE ERUDICIÓN Y CRÍTICA))
 The text of this critical and annotated edition of Fortune in Her Wits and The Hour of All, which was commissioned for the first volume of the Complete Works in Prose, is based upon the four printed 1650 editions of Quevedo's satire, and ms. Frías, the only extant manuscript, now privately owned by James O. Crosby. In 1200 linguistic, historical, philosophical and literary notes, the editor recontextualizes this complex satirical work, in which Quevedo passes judgment on issues of national and international politics during the fourth decade of the seventeenth century, denouncing the manipulations of the Count-Duke of Olivares at Court, and of the protestant enemies of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs in the Thirty Year War. Lía Schwartz is a distinguished professor of Spanish literature in the Ph.D. programs in comparative literature and Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center; and she is executive officer of the Ph.D. program in Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Touching Feeling
(Duke University Press, 2003; 196 pp.)
Sedgwick's first full-length analytical work since the acclaimed Tendencies (1993) reflects the author's increasing interest in exploring "nondualistic modes of thought." The essays included work to deconstruct and transform such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." Offering perspectives on writing by Henry James, J.L. Austin, Judith Butler, and the psychologist Silvan Tomkins, among others, Sedgwick's moving prose performs a deep interrogation into the many manifestations of emotion—in illness, in pleasure, and in sexual identity and politics. Called by the Nation "one of the smartest and wittiest critics writing," Sedgwick's gift is to "electrify intellectual communities by reminding them that 'thought' has a temperature, a texture, and an erotics" (Wayne Koestenbaum). Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is distinguished professor of English at The Graduate Center.
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Marilynn Desmond and
Pamela Sheingorn
Myth, Montage, & Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture
(University of Michigan Press, 2003; 344 pp.)
 Early fifteenth-century Paris saw a proliferation of "luxury manuscripts" whose luminous illustrations situate the reader as a spectator, and the authors take Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea as a prime example of the power of visual representation to shape the medieval reading experience. Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn's innovative study draws extensively on film theory and its notions of spectatorship to explore the ethical implication of viewing illustrated manuscripts for the medieval reader. Focusing on two different manuscripts of Othea, they suggest that premodern and postmodern cultures share a predilection for the cinematic arrangement of knowledge in a montage format in which meaning derives from unexpected juxtapositions. Pamela Sheingorn is professor of history, medieval studies, and theatre at The Graduate Center and Marilynn Desmond is professor of English, comparative literature, and women's studies at Binghamton University, SUNY.
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Gerald Sider
Living Indian Histories:
Lumbee and Tuscarora People in
North Carolina
(University of North Carolina Press, 2003; 384 pp.)
 The Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the U.S., with 40,000 registered members, and the largest east of the Mississippi; however, they lack full federal recognition, and their history has been marked by a struggle to articulate an Indian identity. Gerald Sider explores the complexities of Lumbee tribal identity, focusing on the tribe's socioeconomic and political history from the 1960s through the 1980s and looking back to colonial roots of present issues, including the relationship between the Lumbee and Tuscarora people of Robeson County, North Carolina. In an extensive preface to this new edition—an earlier version was published in 1993—Sider brings the story forward to include changes since the 1980s. Sider is professor of anthropology at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center.
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Neil Smith
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization
(University of California Press, 2003; 570 pp.)
 Smith brings the politics—and the limits—of contemporary globalization sharply into focus in this dazzling and original work. Challenging the notion that the new American globalism was haphazardly constructed in a way that is "beyond geography," he argues that the "American Empire" was the result of a powerful geographical vision. The story follows the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), America's most famous geographer of the twentieth century, who worked closely with Woodrow Wilson and FDR to craft U.S. liberal foreign policy and create an American order to the global landscape. American Empire demonstrates the coherence of this globalization vision—one that dates back not to the 1980s but to 1919 and 1945. Neil Smith is distinguished professor of anthropology and geography and director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at The Graduate Center.
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Christina Tortora, editor
The Syntax of Italian Dialects
(Oxford University Press, 2003; 257 pp.)
This
volume collects original theoretical works on the syntax and morphology of
Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects, including Rhaeto-Romance
varieties, Paduan, Sicilian, Bellunese, Piedmontese, and Calabrian. Edited by
Christina Tortura, assistant professor of linguistics at the
College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, the collection consists of
contributions from twelve leading scholars in the area of Italian dialect
syntax. These ten essays offer insights into how Italian dialect informs our
understanding of such issues in syntactic theory as clausal structure,
pronominal syntax, verbal morpho-syntax, subject clitics, object clitics,
interrogatives, imperatives, restructuring, and the syntax-symantics interface. The
Syntax of Italian Dialects introduces novel analyses of familiar data
as well as analyses of data that are themselves altogether novel.
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Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, editor
Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
(Harvard University Press, 2003; 208 pp.)
Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 was created by leading historians in collaboration with The New York Public Library and features many of the materials from the Library's exhibit of the same name. Featuring eight essays and 120 images from the Library's distinguished collection, the book is both an engagingly written work of history and an arresting visual object. It charts Russia's emergence from an insular, medieval, liturgical realm centered on "Old Muscovy," to becoming a modern, secular, world power embodied in cosmopolitan St. Petersburg. The essays are illustrated by images of rare Russian books, manuscripts, maps, engravings, watercolors, and woodcuts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, as well as treasures of diverse minority cultures living in the territories of the Russian Empire. Whittaker is professor of history at The Graduate Center and Baruch College.
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Cynthia Hyla Whittaker
Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political
Dialogue
(Northern Illinois University Press, 2003; 320 pp.)
In this highly original work, Cynthia Hyla Whittaker challenges the view of Russian monarchs as majestic
despots, ruling over a vast, servile empire that was isolated from the rest of
Europe. The idea of monarchic rule was anything
but solidified, she argues, uncovering a political dialogue about the nature and
limitations of monarchy in eighteenth-century Russia. Starting with Peter the
Great, Russian rulers shifted their claims to legitimacy from divine right to a
more secular basis, including a felt responsibility to reform. At the same time,
hundreds of writers engaged rulers in a sophisticated public
discourse—influenced by European Enlightenment ideas—in printed publications
intended for the eyes of the monarchs as well as an educated elite. Russian
Monarchy shows how this dialogue revolutionized the concept of rule and gave
writers a role in shaping their political environment. Cynthia Hyla Whittaker is
professor of history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.
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