Introducing the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year until 2023 we are adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As libraries and institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, KU is able to fund the ‘unlatching’ of these books, making them available as Open Access.

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Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story

In recognition of its Halloween release date, our premiere episode of Salon B is themed around bones, featuring bones both real and fabricated as well as the bone-like structure of a now ghostly bridge. Listen to “Bones” here.

Follow along with A.E. Garrison as she recounts the ghosts within the capitalist landscapes of late modernity in her illustrated chapter, “Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story,” brought to life through the author’s narration and visualization (below).

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THE ORIGINS OF MIXED HARVEST BY ROB SWIGART: Context

The Origins of
Mixed Harvest

The recently published Mixed Harvest by Rob Swigart is Berghahn’s latest feat of historical fiction, digging into the deep past of human development and its consequences through a combination of storytelling and dialogue. From the first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and a Modern Human she called Traveler to the emergence and destruction of the world’s first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Swigart provides context for the book below.

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IMPORTANT: Print Books Distribution Announcement

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As we look forward to a productive 2017, Berghahn Books Inc. is undertaking significant changes to its print books distribution management.

We are delighted to announce that as of March 1st 2017, responsibility for print distribution for the Americas, Australasia, China, Taiwan, and Japan will be taken over by the Academic Services Division of the Ingram Content Group, Inc.   

 

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America, ‘Moby Dick,’ and the Other

“John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy,” offers a succinct summation of newly published U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other. Following, editors Michael Patrick Cullinane and David Ryan use Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick as a cautionary tale, explaining that the U.S. should revise its policy of “othering” to avoid a fate similar to that of Captain Ahab and crew.

 

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Herman Melville’s Moby Dick persists in literary history as one of the greatest American novels. The book takes readers on a terminal voyage in the Pequod as it sails over oceans in search of a monstrous white whale that robbed its captain, Captain Ahab, of his leg on an earlier expedition. As literature goes, this classic depicts the struggle for identity, identification, and the distinctiveness between the self and the “other.”

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Caryn Berg Named Archaeology Editor for Berghahn Books

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We’re pleased to announce that Caryn Berg has been appointed as the first archaeology editor for Berghahn Books. For the past ten years, she was the archaeology editor for Left Coast Press, which was recently sold to Taylor and Francis. She has also worked as an educator and consulting archaeologist. Dr. Berg, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, will work remotely from her home outside Denver.

 

“Caryn came to us warmly recommended by Mitch Allen, founder of Left Coast Press, with whom she built up one of the most highly regarded archaeology lists,” Publisher Marion Berghahn said.  “This will add for us a new and exciting subject to our list.”

 

Some of the many titles Dr. Berg acquired for Left Coast Press include The National Historic Preservation Act: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Kimball M Banks and Ann M. Scott, Digging Atari, by Andrew Reinhard, Richard Rothaus, and William Caraher and Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers, edited by Mark W. Allen and Terry L. Jones.

 

Dr. Berg’s diverse experience informs her interest in the applications of archaeology in academia, private industry, museums, and government. In her new role with Berghahn Books, Dr. Berg will acquire books that amplify a wide range of practical archaeology methodology, theory, and case studies that represent research from around the world. She plans to attend several academic conferences for the firm including the Society for American Archaeology, the Society for Historical Archaeology, and the World Archaeological Congress.

 

“There is a need for a broad range of archaeological books that focus on methods, theoretical approaches, as well as case studies describing the results of research around the globe,” Dr. Berg said.   “With Berghahn Books, I will seek to meet the book needs of this wide range of archaeologists while still maintaining the scholarly standards set by the firm.”

 

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