{"id":8618,"date":"2016-06-01T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:43:56","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-may-2016-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-may-2016-new-books","title":{"rendered":"Simulated Shelves: Browse May 2016 New Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted\u00a0to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology<\/a>, Cultural Studies<\/a>, History<\/a> and Refugee & Migration Studies<\/a>, along with our New in Paperback<\/a> titles.<\/p>\n

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\"\"COMING OF AGE<\/a>
\nConstucting and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973
\nMartin Kalb<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a strong contribution to the (still under-researched) post-war history of West Germany, one that also provides fresh insights into the histories of European youth and Cold War cultural politics. It transcends traditional markers of German history such as Stunde Null, moving from a \u2018generational\u2019 approach to one more rooted in the everyday history of youth.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Alan McDougall<\/strong>, University of Guelph<\/p>\n

In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this fascinating study, constructs like the rowdy young boy and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the diffuse fears of adult society, while allowing authorities ranging from local institutions to the U.S. military government to strengthen forms of social control.<\/p>\n

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\"\"RESCUING THE VULNERABLE<\/a>
\nPoverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
\nEdited by Beate Althammer, Lutz Raphael, and Tamara Stazic-Wendt<\/p>\n

Volume 27, International Studies in Social History<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization\u2014challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations\u2014neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed\u2014it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Intrdouction: Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"CROWN, CHURCH AND CONSTITUTION<\/a>
\nPopular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867
\nJ\u00f6rg Neuheiser
\nTranslated from the German by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Studies in British and Imperial History<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the century\u2019s first decades. Comparatively neglected have been the impetuous patriotism, royalism, and xenophobic anti-Catholicism that countless men and women demonstrated in the early Victorian period. This much-needed study of the era\u2019s \u201cconservatism from below\u201d explores the role of religion in everyday culture and the Tories\u2019 successful mobilization across class boundaries. Long before they were able to vote, large swathes of the lower classes embraced Britain\u2019s monarchical, religious, and legal institutions in the defense of traditional English culture.<\/p>\n

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\"\"FASCIST INTERACTIONS<\/a>
\nProposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945
\nDavid D. Roberts<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe literature on fascism has become so elaborate and dense during the past couple of decades that we badly need surefooted critical guidance of the kind that Roberts provides. This consistently interesting volume is the culminating statement of a long and distinguished career.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Geoff Eley<\/strong>, University of Michigan<\/p>\n

Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained focus on the relationships among different fascist formations before 1945. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this rigorous volume charts a historiographical path that transcends rigid distinctions while still developing meaningful criteria of differentiation. Even as we take fascism seriously as a political phenomenon, such an approach allows us to better understand its distinctive contradictions and historical variations.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DOING CONCEPTUAL HISTORY IN AFRICA<\/a>
\nEdited by Axel Fleisch and Rhiannon Stephens<\/p>\n

Volume 25, Making Sense of History<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa\u2019s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global, engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like \u201cwork,\u201d \u201cmarriage,\u201d and \u201cland\u201d take shape.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"MIGRATION BY BOAT<\/a>
\nDiscourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival
\nEdited by Lynda Mannik<\/p>\n

Volume 35, Forced Migration<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism. The ambiguous nature of memories, media representations and popular culture productions are highlighted throughout in order to address negative stereotypes and conversely, humanize the individuals involved.<\/p>\n

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\"\"TROPICS OF VIENNA<\/a>
\nColonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
\nUlrich E. Bach<\/p>\n

Volume 19, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era\u2019s colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of the \u201cnation-state\u201d prevalent at the time.<\/p>\n

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\"\"OWNERSHIP AND NURTURE<\/a>
\nStudies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
\nEdited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto, and Vanessa Grotti
\nForeword by James Leach<\/p>\n

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The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture<\/em> sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Altering Ownership in Amazonia<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"BEING AND BECOMING<\/a>
\nEmbodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra
\nRamsey Elkholy
\nForeword by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n

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For the Orang Rimba of Sumatra \u2013 and tropical foragers in general \u2013 life in the forest engenders a kind of \u201cconnectedness\u201d that is contingent not only on harmonious relations between people, but also between people and the non-human environment, including those supernatural agencies of the forest that people depend on for their spiritual and emotional wellbeing. Exploring this world, anthropologist Ramsey Elkholy treats embodied action and perception as the basis of shared experience and shows how various forms of embodied experience constitute the very foundations of human culture. In a unique methodological contribution, Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which people engage with the world. Being and Becoming is an important contribution to phenomenological anthropology, hunter-gatherer studies, and to Southeast Asian ethnography more generally.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DOMESTICATING YOUTH<\/a>
\nYouth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan
\nSophie Roche
\nForeword by G\u00fcnther Schlee<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c[This] is an interesting and valuable study of Tajikistan, but its lessons have much broader implications. Roche has illustrated powerfully that age is a central structural issue in society and that each particular age-category has its own history, interests, and experiences\u2026Fieldworkers and theorists [should] absorb this message and investigate age concepts, relationships, institutions, and practices in all cultures, where no doubt many valuable things will be learned.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropology Review Database<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Youth (Bulge) and Conflict<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE LEGACIES OF A HAWAIIAN GENERATION<\/a>
\nFrom Territorial Subject to American Citizen
\nJudith Schachter<\/p>\n

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\u201cSchachter has written a book that models how anthropologists can be responsible and responsive to indigenous people. [It is] massively researched but exceedingly accessible, ethically and methodologically groundbreaking, and yet humble in its ambition and presentation. This book deserves a wide audience, and will appeal to Hawai\u2018i specialists, as well as scholars of the Pacific and indigeneity. It is also imminently suited to classroom use, if students are ready for ethnographic detail\u2026[and] will leave its own rich legacy for future generations of scholars.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Asia Pacific Viewpoint<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Chapter 1. <\/strong>Introduction\u2014A perspective on Hawai`i-US relations<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"FROM ANTIQUITIES TO HERITAGE<\/a>
\nTransformations of Cultural Memory
\nAnne Eriksen<\/p>\n

Volume 1, Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018”The case studies supply the overall argument with a desirable empirical specificity; they deepen and enrich it, while they at the same time challenge common generalizations, current theories and habitual ways of thinking. This works on two parallel levels: the empirical cases are lifted out of their immediate contexts and used to examine and discuss theoretical arguments, and then carried back to shed new light on their historical settings.”<\/em> \u00b7 Nordic Museology<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"DURKHEIM, THE DURKHEIMIANS, AND THE ARTS<\/a>
\nEdited by Alexander Tristan Riley, W.S.F. Pickering, and William Watts Miller
\nPublished in Association with the Durkheim Press<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe strengths of the book are the featuring of the diversity of the [Durkheim] tradition and the many lines linking broadly Durkheimian themes to current work on the arts\u2026 [It] illustrates powerfully how Durkheimian concepts live with us today and how we can benefit by comparisons with this rich tradition. Read and be inspired.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 American Journal of Sociology<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe triumvirate editors have put together an imaginative set of authors, representing different generations, who have already made important contributions to recent Durheimiana.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Canadian Journal of Sociology\/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie<\/strong><\/p>\n

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