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Ex Libris 2024

Books published recently with NEH support

HUMANITIES, Summer 2024, Volume 45, Number 3
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PRIZES
 

Business History Conference, 2022 Ralph Gomory Prize 
Liu, Andrew. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. Yale University Press, 2020.

National Jewish Book Awards, 2023 Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year
Eichler, Jeremy. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance. Knopf, 2023.

National Jewish Book Awards, 2023 Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial History Award
Eichler, Jeremy. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance. Knopf, 2023.

National Jewish Book Awards, 2023 Holocaust Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel
Eichler, Jeremy. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance. Knopf, 2023.

New England American Studies Association, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize
Murphy, Brian Michael. We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Conference on History Book Award winner
Verney, Michael A. A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and the Global Empire in the Early U.S. Republic. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Studies in English Literature, Robert Lowry Patten Award for Best Contribution to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Wall, Cynthia. Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Sunday Times of London, History Book of the Year 2023
Eichler, Jeremy. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance. Knopf, 2023.

 

THE ARTS: History and Criticism

Baughan, Elizabeth with Lisa Pieraccini, eds. Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Belisle, Brooke. Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation. University of California Press, 2023.

DeClue, Jennifer. Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema. Duke University Press, 2022.

Donoghue, Courtney. The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere. University of Texas Press, 2023. 

Dykstra, Natalie. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2024.

Goin, Peter. The Nature of Lake Tahoe, A Photographic History 1860–1960. University of New Mexico Press, 2022.

Ho, Christine. Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China. University of California Press, 2020.

Lutz, Deborah. Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials. Oxford University Press, 2023. 

Mittell, Jason. The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad: A Videographic Book. Lever Press, 2024. 

Wang, Yiman. To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World. University of California Press, 2024.

Wunder, Amanda. Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV. Yale University Press,March 2024.

 

HISTORY: Non-U.S.

Bawalsa, Nadim. Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948. Stanford University Press, 2022.

Bian, He. Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China. Princeton University Press, 2020.

Blanc, Jacob. The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil. Duke University Press, 2024.

Bobaljik, Jonathan D., Maria Pupynina, Arzhaana Syuryun, eds. Bogaras’s 1901 Itelmen Notebooks. Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2023.

Browne, Randy. The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

Byler, Darren. In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony. Columbia University Global Reports, 2021.

Byler, Darren. Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. Duke University Press, 2022.

Clothey, Rebecca with Dilmurat Mahmut, eds. Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis. Routledge, 2024.

Evered, Emine. Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity. University of Texas Press, 2024. 

Gua, Shaohua. The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public. Stanford University Press, 2020.

Jasper, Kathryn. Bounded Wilderness: Land and Reform at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana, ca. 1035–1072. Cornell University Press, 2024.

Johnson, Ian. Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future. Oxford University Press, 2023.

King, Michelle T. Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food. W. W. Norton, 2024.

Korkman, Zeynep. Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey. Duke University Press, 2023.

Kousser, Rachel. Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great. HarperCollins, 2024.

Lavelle, Peter. The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China. Columbia University Press, 2020. 

Liu, Andrew. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. Yale University Press, 2020.

Lothspeich, Pamela, ed. The Epic World. Routledge, 2023.

Mini, Darshana. Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India. University of California Press, 2024.

Morrison, Gayle L. Deep Tears: Post-War Hmong Resistance in Laos (1975–1990). Independent, 2023.

Palen, Marc-William. Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. Princeton University Press, 2024.

Rijke-Epstein, Tasha. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar. Duke University Press, 2023.

Serchuk, Camille with J. Dumasy-Rabineau and E. Vagnon, eds. Pour une histoire des cartes locales en Europe au Moyen Â ge et à la Renaissance/Towards a History of Local Maps in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Éditions Le Passage, 2022.

Stern, Philip. Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism. Harvard University Press, 2023.

Wilson, Margaret. Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain. Sourcebooks, 2023.

 

HISTORY: Science and Technology

Pincock, Christopher. Mathematics and Explanation. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Ramsey, Grant with A. de Block, eds. The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022.

Ramsey, Grant with H. Desmond, eds. Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Vanderbes, Jennifer. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims. Random House, 2023.

 

HISTORY: U.S.

Aprahamian, Serouj. The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Blower, Brooke. Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Castronovo, Russ. American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Cirillo, Frank J. The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union. Louisiana State University Press, 2023.

Cleary, Patricia. Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis. University of Missouri Press, 2023.

Cohn, Ellen R. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin: Volume 44, March 16 through September 13, 1785. Yale University Press, 2023.

Croft, Clare. Jill Johnston in Motion: Dancing, Writing, and Lesbian Life. Duke University Press, 2024.

Currie Navakas, Michelle. Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Feller, Daniel. The Papers of Andrew Jackson, volume 12, 1834. University of Tennessee Press, 2023.

Good, Cassandra A. First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America. Hanover Square Press, 2023.

Helton, Laura E. Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. Columbia University Press, 2024.

Kamensky, Jane. Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below. W. W. Norton, 2024.

Kelley, Blair LM. Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. Liveright Publishing Corporation, W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.

LaCroix, Alison. The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms. Yale University Press, 2024.

Lebovic, Sam. State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime. Basic Books, 2023.

Mandell, Daniel R. The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 

Manion, Jen. Female Husbands: A Trans History. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 

Martin, Lerone. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism. Princeton University Press, 2023.

Mattes, Armin. The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series, volume 4. University of Virginia Press, 2023.

McClure, James P. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 46: July to November 1805. Princeton University Press, 2022.

Murphy, Sharon. Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Nicolaides, Becky. The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Ornelas-Higdon, Julia. The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920. University of Nebraska Press, 2023.

Pawley, Emily. The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North. University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Purkiss, Ava. Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Reed, Peter. Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Robertson, Stephen. Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935. Stanford University Press, 2024.

Shandler, Jeffrey. Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum. Indiana University Press, 2024.

Sinha, Manisha. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920. Liveright, 2024.

Smith II, Bobby J. Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 

Stertzer, Jennifer. The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Volume 31. University of Virginia Press, 2023.

Stromquist, Shelton. Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism. Verso Books, 2023.

Vanatta, Sean. Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards and the End of Financial Control. Yale University Press, 2024.

Vandersommers, Daniel. Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive. University Press of Kansas, 2023.

Verney, Michael A. A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and the Global Empire in the Early U. S. Republic. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Walker, Rachel E. Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Wuest, Joanna. Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement.University of Chicago Press, 2023.

 

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND LITERARY THEORY

Beier, Christine with Lev Michael Jaime Pacaya Inuma, Ema Llona Yareja, Hermenegildo Dí­az Cuyasa, Ligia Inuma. Iquito-English Dictionary. Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2019. 

Benjamin, Griffin, ed. Pudd’nhead Wilson: The Works of Mark Twain. University of California Press, 2024.

Bitel, Lisa. Otherworld: Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Bowler, Rebecca and Stanislava Dikova. May Sinclair’s Workbooks: Archiving Intellectual Life. Bloomsbury, 2024.

Christensen, Matthew J. Anglophone African Detective Fiction: The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal. James Curry/Boydell and Brewer, 2024.

Cramer, Jennifer and Allison Burkette. The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes. Routledge, 2024.

Green, Sharony. The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras.John Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Kelley Philip and Edward Hagan. The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 29. Wedgewood Press, 2023.

Koenig, Amy. The Fractured Voice: Silence and Power in Imperial Roman Literature. University of Wisconsin Press, 2024.

Mansky, Serouj. Libels and Theater in Shakespeare’s England: Publics, Politics, Performance. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Masiki, Trent. The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Parsons, Ben. Two Middle English Prayer Cycles: Holkham “Prayers and Meditations” and Simon Appulby’s “The Fruyte of Redempcyon.” Medieval Institute Press, 2023.

Satyanarayanan, Kusuma with Joel Lee, eds. Concealing Caste: Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Seidman, Naomi. Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish. Stanford University Press, 2024.

Shapiro, Lisa and Karen Detlefsen. The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern Philosophers. Routledge, 2023.

Sinche, Bryan. Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. University of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Spanier, Sandra W., Verna Kale, and Miriam B. Mandel. Letters of Ernest Hemingway: volume 6, 1934–1936. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Visser, Robin. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan. Columbia University Press, 2023.

Wall, Cynthia. Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque. University of Chicago Press, 2019.

West III, James L. W. Business Is Good: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Professional Writer. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.

 

MUSIC

Bernard, Sheila Curran. “Bring Judgment Day”: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Eichler, Jeremy. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance. Knopf, 2023.

Gershwin, George. Rhapsody in Blue for Piano and Jazz Band, full score. Schott Music, 2023.

 

PHILOSOPHY

Bellitto, Christopher. Humility:The Secret History of a Lost Virtue. Georgetown University Press, 2023.

Helfer, Ariel. Plato’s “Letters”: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life. Cornell University Press, 2023.

Klima, Gyula, Peter G. Sobol, Peter Hartman, and Jack Zupko. John Buridan’s Questions on Aristotle’s de Anima. Springer, 2023.

Kraus, Katharina. Kant’s Ideas of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Spiech, David E., Martin A. Coleman, and Faedra Lazar Weiss. The Works of George Santayana: Volume IX, The Winds of Doctrine. MIT Press, 2023.

Stein, Nathanael. Causality and Causal Explanation in Aristotle. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Wilkin, Rebecca and Angela Hunter. Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections. Oxford University Press, 2023.

 

RELIGION

Asatryan, Mushegh and David Hollenberg. An Eleventh-Century Compendium of Nusayri Doctrine: ʿIṣmat al-Dawla’s Manhaj al-ʿilm wal-bayān wa-nuzhat al-samʿ wal-ʿiyān (The Path of Knowledge and Clarification and the Bliss of Listening and Seeing). Brill Shii Texts and Studies, 2024.

Drewes, Hans-Anton and Henrich Stoevesandt. The Early Barth—Lectures and Shorter Works, Volume 1, 1905–1909. Westminster John Knox Press, 2023.

Warner, J. Christopher, ed. The Exposition of 1 John and An Exposition upon Matthew V-VII. The Independent Works of William Tyndale. Catholic University of America Press, 2023.

Teter, Magda. Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism. Princeton University Press, 2023.

 

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Anjaria, Jonathan S. Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility. University of Washington Press, 2024.

Breen, Benjamin. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science. Grand Central Publishing, 2024.

Yokoyama, Olga. Pavlov on the conditional reflex: papers, 1903–1936. Oxford University Press, 2023.