Explore the latest titles in JSTOR’s Path to Open program

A dark side of childhood in Roman society: Maltreatment and death in children’s lives
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Tereza Antošovská
Author Affiliation: University of Ostrava
Discipline: History

Description:
Children are an important part of human society, although little is known about them in the distant past. This monograph explores and reconstructs the world of the children of Roman citizens and the structure and social framework of the child’s life in the family and society of the Roman Empire, particularly the issues of violence and death in children’s lives. It analyses children’s encounters with violence and death, examining the role of the child as a victim in extreme situations (when confronted with violence or death) and as an active agent who may transgress social norms and commit violence or other forms of crime, or face death, their own and that of their loved ones.

A turbulent story: The situation of the Catholics in the People’s Republic of China
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Magdaléna Rychetská
Author Affiliation: Masaryk University
Discipline: Religion

Description:
This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the Catholic Church’s journey in the People’s Republic of China, spanning from its establishment in 1949 to the present day (2022). It provides a detailed exploration of the Church’s historical roots and its current state, shedding light on the lives of Chinese Catholics in both official and underground communities. The book delves into the contrasting experiences of those within the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and those practicing in the underground church, which remains unrecognized by the authorities. With a focus on the political and social challenges the Church has faced under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, this book examines the delicate balance between faith and governance in a rapidly evolving nation. Combining historical depth with contemporary analysis, it offers readers a nuanced understanding of the Catholic Church’s complex role in modern China.

Afro-Peruvian Mestizos: The Invisibility of Blackness in Post-Abolition Peru
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Author: Daniel S. Cozart
Author Affiliation: Hood College
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Afro-Peruvian Mestizos: The Invisibility of Blackness in Post-Abolition Peru critically evaluates white Peruvian elites’ narrative of mestizaje that ignored those of African heritage and also demonstrates contributions of Afro-Peruvians to labor and social movements.

Angalkut/Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Authors: Alice Rearden; Marie Meade
Author Affiliation: University of Alaska
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
Angalkut/Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition collects over thirty years’ worth of shaman stories, told as part of gatherings organized by Calista Education and Culture to document Yup’ik traditional knowledge. These conversations highlight the critical role angalkut played in Yup’ik life—healing the sick, interpreting dreams and unusual experiences, requesting future abundance through masked dances and other ceremonies, protecting the lives of young children, and dealing with the dead.

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Authors: Jian Xu; Glen Donnar; Divya Garg
Author Affiliation: Deakin University; RMIT University; University of Melbourne
Discipline: Cultural Studies

Description:
Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies. Highlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernisation and internationalisation of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies.

Big Feelings: Queer-Feminist Indie Rock after Riot Grrrl
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Author: Dan DiPiero
Author Affiliation: Boston University
Discipline: Feminist & Women’s Studies

Description:
In the past decade, a distinctive resurgence of indie music has seen young, queer, and feminist artists reformulating the genre with strategic reappropriations of ’90s grunge and 2000s-era pop. Big Feelings offers a nuanced analysis of these musicians and the socio-political crises informing their sounds. Dan DiPiero situates this new wave of indie music within the context of the emotional sensibilities and social orientations of a young generation flattened by an endless stream of everyday traumas. Listening closely to Soccer Mommy, Indigo De Souza, Jay Som, SASAMI, The Ophelias, Vagabon, boygenius, and more, Big Feelings traces points of resonance and connection that help fans perceive politics where it might first appear absent. By bringing listeners’ experiences into the analysis, DiPiero shows how indie rock feminisms have shifted since the 1990s, rejecting overt political messages in favor of sonic catharsis, and reflecting the complex, ambivalent feeling of being young while the world burns.

The Case for Rural America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: J. Tom Mueller
Author Affiliation: University of Kansas Medical Center
Discipline: Sociology

Description:
Rural America is at a crossroads: either it will manage to sustain itself long-term, or—as current trends suggest—it will continue to disappear through depopulation and urbanization. There have been calls for economic redevelopment, but even with these proposals, J. Tom Mueller argues that policymakers, politicians, and academics rarely make a clear case for why rural America matters, and is worth saving in the first place. In this provocative book, Mueller meets these issues head-on by presenting a critique of conventional economic development efforts while also articulating why rural America is worthy of preservation. The Case for Rural America outlines the actions necessary to save our rural places and the people who live there. By suggesting approaches that would benefit urban populations as well as rural—such as establishing a universal basic income and implementing single-payer healthcare—Mueller offers a nuanced understanding of the complex needs of rural America while providing solutions that would benefit us all.

Changing Landscapes of Northwest Indiana: Draining Beaver Lake and the Kankakee Marsh
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Author: Michael Dobberstein
Author Affiliation: Purdue University Northwest
Discipline: History

Description:
Before they were destroyed, Beaver Lake was the largest lake in Indiana, and the Kankakee Marsh was nearly half a million acres of wetland. This was one of the major inland marshes in the country before landowners drained it for farmland. Changing Landscapes of Northwest Indiana: Draining Beaver Lake and the Kankakee Marsh examines the massive ecological devastation caused by the destruction of Beaver Lake, the channelization of the Kankakee River, and the draining of the Kankakee Marsh. The book traces early efforts to drain the marsh, leading to the successful completion of the project in the twentieth century, and covers the problems that still exist today. The consequences were immense and extended beyond the struggle by conservationists to restore or preserve portions of the marsh. The loss of the marsh fostered a century of flooding in the Kankakee Valley and caused decades of conflict with Illinois, which shares the Kankakee River with Indiana. To this day there are ongoing attempts to manage flooding on the river, and residents of Illinois continue to claim that channelization caused severe environmental problems in their state.

Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Author: Rebecca Carter-Chand
Author Affiliation: US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Discipline: History

Description:
In this groundbreaking reevaluation, Rebecca Carter-Chand argues that the Salvation Army was able to emphasize different aspects of its identity to bolster and repair its reputation as needed in varied political contexts, highlighting the variability of Nazi practices of inclusion and exclusion. In that way, the organization was similar to other Christian groups in Germany. Counter to common hypotheses that minority religious groups are more likely to show empathy to other minorities, dynamics within Nazi Germany reveal that many religious minorities sought acceptance from the state in an effort to secure self-preservation.

Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World’s Most Lucrative Illicit Drug
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Authors: Sebastián A. Cutrona; Jonathan D. Rosen
Author Affiliations: Liverpool Hope University; New Jersey City University
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Cocaine offers an unprecedented global analysis of the cocaine trade, revealing how the world’s most lucrative illicit market operates today. Unlike previous works that focus on individual countries or regions, this volume takes a global view of the cocaine supply chain, tracking the drug’s journey from coca fields in the Andes to consumers in New York, Lagos, Rotterdam, Sydney, and beyond. With contributions from leading scholars in criminology, sociology, and political science, it sheds light on the expanding networks of criminal organizations that connect producer countries in Latin America to consumer markets worldwide. The book explores the profound transformation of the cocaine market, which has shifted from being dominated by a few powerful cartels to a fragmented and highly competitive underworld. Colombian, Mexican, and Brazilian organizations have traditionally controlled the market, but new actors, including Nigerian and Albanian syndicates, have emerged as key players. From the rise of transshipment hubs in West Africa to nontraditional trafficking routes in Asia, this volume demonstrates how criminal organizations adapt to evolving market demands and law enforcement crackdowns.

Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Author: Stacie A. Kent
Author Affiliation: Boston College
Discipline: History

Description:
In 1842, the Qing Empire signed a watershed commercial treaty with Great Britain, beginning a century-long period in which geopolitical and global economic entanglements intruded on Qing territory and governance. Previously understood as an era of “semi-colonialism,” Stacie A. Kent reframes this century of intervention by shedding light on the generative force of global capital. Based on extensive research conducted with British and Chinese government archives, Coercive Commerce shows how commercial treaties and the regulatory regime that grew out of them catalyzed a revised arts of governance in Qing-administered China. Capital, which had long been present in Chinese merchants’ pocket-books, came to shape and even govern Chinese statecraft during the “treaty era.” This book contends that Qing administrators alternately resisted and adapted to this new reality, through taxation systems such as transit passes and the Imperial Maritime Customs Service, by reorganizing Chinese territory into space where global circuits of capital could circulate and reproduce at ever greater scale.

Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Editors: Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer
Author Affiliations: Southern Illinois University; Arizona State University
Discipline: Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic had substantive impacts on individuals and society, including crime events, policies, and experiences within the criminal justice system. This volume considers these trends in detail, focusing on unique aspects such as those working in the system, interventions and services, and patterns of criminal behavior throughout the pandemic. Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic expands our understanding of how the pandemic influenced crime rates, criminal behavior, and the adaptations and responses exhibited by the criminal justice system. Using a mix of overviews synthesis of broader literature, innovative survey and experiential techniques, and learning directly from those in the field through interview procedures, this book offers a range of perspectives and approaches to understanding patterns and responses of crime and justice during the height of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Criminalization of Women: Abortion, Inequity, and Resistance in Chile
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Author: Michele Eggers-Barison
Author Affiliation: California State University
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Until 2017, Chile’s abortion laws remained among the most draconian in the world. The dozens of interviews that Michele Eggers-Barison conducted between 2011 and 2014 reveal how the criminalization of abortion and the construction of women as criminals went hand-in-hand—and both shaped and sustained structural, cultural, and direct forms of violence against women. Barison uncovers the narratives of economically disadvantaged, Indigenous, and immigrant women who broke the Chilean law by terminating a pregnancy. Their stories reveal how laws and policies that regulate and control women’s reproductive lives also construct women as criminals. As Barison shows, systems of inequality legitimize and sustain harmful attitudes and practices while creating concrete expressions of discrimination and other forms of violence against women. Their experience with abortion remains hidden within spaces of illegality and only becomes visible due to health or legal consequences. Yet despite the obstacles, women used individual and group action to resist laws anti-abortion and public discussion.

Curating the Commons: Engaged Public Art in the Global South
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Author: Katia Arfara
Author Affiliation: New York University Abu Dhabi
Discipline: Museum Studies

Description:
Curating the Commons is the culmination of Katia Arfara’s scholarly and curatorial work, merging critical insights from socially engaged public art projects that Arfara curated in downtown Athens during the austerity years (2010-2017), with in-depth reflections on, and archival material from, the research, production, and presentation of these projects. The artworks Arfara curated stood temporarily in marginalized neighborhoods, deteriorating parks, gentrifying ports, semi-functional train stations, asylums, and classic Athenian apartment buildings, among other places. Arfara argues that the social and political practice of introducing performance into these public spaces allows city inhabitants, who were not necessarily familiar with contemporary art practices, to take part in the research and creation of artworks and thus address their social concerns in aesthetic terms. Additionally, calls for a re-imagining of the North/South divide by situating the crisis-ridden Greece within the Global South. Following philosopher and sociologist Henri LeFebvre, Arfara uses her work as a curator to ask “who has the right to the city”; over the course of this manuscript she answers: “all of the city’s inhabitants.”

Escaping the End of Times: Dreams in the Late Ming China
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Author: Brigid E. Vance
Author Affiliation: Lawrence University; Princeton University; CG Jung Institute
Discipline: History

Description:
Escaping the End of Times invites readers to explore the intricate relationships between dreams, politics, and the Chinese writing system in early modern China. Thoroughly researched and written in an accessible manner, this book presents a series of historical encounters that reveal how scholars countered dramatic instability by compiling and editing dream texts. Readers learn how these scholars translated their dreams into action, used the past to bolster their status, reaffirmed their preferred societal order, merged myth and history, and interpreted their dreams and the dreams of others through creative techniques grounded in scholarly tradition. By combining detailed research with captivating storytelling, this book not only brings the world of late Ming dream analysis to life but also demonstrates the relevance of the past to the stories we tell now about ourselves and our own dreams.

Education for Preservation? Examining Native American Education Policy in the New Deal, 1933-1945
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Gabriella A. Treglia
Author Affiliation: Durham University
Discipline: History

Description:
Treglia examines the period when the federal government adopted what is often called the “Indian New Deal,” which attempted to move away from the imperialist boarding school policy toward a bicultural model of education. Education for Preservation? shows that this new approach, despite improvements, was fatally flawed and presented a new threat to Indigenous sovereignty.

False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Ric S. Sheffield
Author Affiliation: Kenyon College
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
Grounded in primary sources, this book uses critical fabulation to envision how men of color fought against Ohio’s racist nineteenth-century voting restrictions. False Promises reveals how contemporary voter suppression tactics have roots in Ohio’s history and challenges the perception that such historical practices were solely confined to the South.

Fangirls, Youth Political Participation and Nationalism in Contemporary China
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: Ronggang Chen
Author Affiliation: Xiamen University; London School of Economics.
Discipline: Cultural Studies

Description:
This book explores the intersection of pop idol culture, social media, and nationalism in China, focusing on the role of fangirls in the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong. By examining how algorithm- and data-driven platforms reshape fan culture and political participation, it highlights the transformation of seemingly apolitical fandom into highly politicized nationalist activism. Through in-depth interviews and digital ethnography, this book explores the gendered perspective of fangirls’ engagement, investigating how concepts of youth and nationalism, rooted in China’s modernization process, shape young women’s engagement with national identity and activism. It further examines how digital infrastructures enable large-scale mobilization, reinforcing both fandom practices and political participation. Evoking a historical perspective, it challenges the notion that fangirls’ nationalism is merely a product of coincidence, arguing that their political sentiments are deeply intertwined with their lived experiences in an era of economic reform.

The Idea of a China Arrest Warrant: Surrender of Fugitive Offenders between Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Author: Yanhong Yin
Author Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Discipline: Law

Description:
Hong Kong and Macau have both been Special Administrative Regions of China since 1999. To this day, however, the two SARs and mainland China have yet to form a cohesive agreement for extradition. Yanhong Yin proposes a theoretical model—The Idea of a China Arrest Warrant—that fulfills three essential criteria: compliance with the framework of “One Country, Two Systems,” allowance for differences within the three divergent legal systems, and sufficient human rights protection. This model takes direct inspiration from the European Arrest Warrant, which is undergirded by the principle of mutual recognition—the idea that while states may make different decisions on a wide range of matters, results will be accepted as equivalent to decisions made by one’s own state. The success of the European Union’s adoption of mutual recognition across political, economic, and legal situations is instrumental in providing a blueprint for judicial cooperation among mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, and Macau SAR. This ambitious volume seeks to resolve a legal quandary that has existed for decades without resolution and is essential reading in criminal and constitutional law.

Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication: Changemakers Respond to Ecological Crises
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Authors: Emma Frances Bloomfield and Jose Castro-Sotomayor
Author Affiliations: UNLV; Cal State Channel Islands
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication explores global environmental activism around the world, from Indigenous women’s activism in Brazil and India to energy protests in South Korea, to the Dakota Access pipeline construction on Standing Rock Sioux territory, to the contours of the internet. This volume addresses how intersectional environmental activism can effectively challenge systems and practices that perpetuate ecological degradation and environmental injustices.

The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Author: Stephen J. Hartnett
Author Affiliation: University of Colorado Denver
Discipline: Asian Studies

Description:
The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism offers a rollicking retelling of the fate of America’s diplomats stationed in China during World War II and the start of the Chinese Civil War, documenting how their efforts to find peace in China clashed with the anti-Communist network of right-wing advocates known as the China Lobby. Hartnett’s masterwork offers a haunting pre-history to our contemporary moment, when populism again stokes outrage and fear at the cost of nuanced international understanding.

Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Andrew Paxman
Author Affiliation: Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), Mexico
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Combining an accessible, narrative style with academic rigor, Andrew Paxman, a London-born, Mexico-based scholar who was a journalist there before he became an academic, has written a comprehensive account of print and online media in modern Mexico. Paxman asserts that since the late 1980s, the Mexican press has undergone three key cycles. First was a transformation from a largely state-controlled propaganda vehicle into a mainly free institution in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was followed by a 15-year period of unprecedented growth that Paxman controversially suggests saw many newspapers available to the public. Finally, Mexico saw a retrenchment in the late aughts when the press was enormously weakened by pressures from the state and from drug cartels, both of whom were unnerved by journalists’ frank coverage of Mexico’s bloody war on drugs. Paxman’s book is full of the voices and experiences of a wide range of journalists, including colleagues and acquaintances from his career in journalism, as well as interviews he conducted with industry veterans, publishers, and politicians.

Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Author: Jacob P. Chamberlain
Author Affiliation: Clark University; University of Southern Maine
Discipline: Geography

Description:
Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led by undocumented workers in a complicated and perhaps unexpected context and site: Vermont, U.S. Migrant Justice’s compelling story, which includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s use of a covert informant to infiltrate the group and deport key members of their community, provides a detailed analysis of the state of immigration enforcement in the country today, alongside an intimate portrait of successful modes of resistance against it. Migrant Justice has gone on to shape and improve the state of rights for migrants in Vermont and, as this book argues, across the country in these incredibly precarious times for migrant activists. This work places Migrant Justice’s activism within what is defined as the Age of Removal, or the last three decades in which immigration enforcement in the U.S. has increasingly utilized enhanced enforcement mechanisms like the “order of removal,” which aids in the confinement, control, and exploitation of migrants.

The Mosquito Confederation: A Borderlands History of Colonial Central America
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Author: Daniel Mendiola
Author Affiliation: Vassar College
Discipline: History

Description:
Relying on extensive new archival discoveries, The Mosquito Confederation demonstrates that the rise and decline of the Mosquito confederation was not merely a footnote in Central American history, nor was the confederation relegated to the margins of the colonial world. Indeed, the Mosquito were protagonists in shaping the region’s complex history, and the confederation’s expansionist geopolitical program represented a “conquest in its own right.”In describing these processes, Mendiola excavates the roles of diverse peoples in Central America’s Caribbean borderlands including “thoughtful Mosquito leaders who balanced complex geopolitical considerations, Afro-descended Central Americans who shaped Spanish and English responses to the Mosquito, and Amerindians who moved among Spanish, English, and Mosquito worlds.

Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Australians and the politics of loyalty, 1930s–1940s
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Author: Bolin Hu
Author Affiliation: Huaqiao University
Discipline: Asian Studies

Description:
Hu explores the Sino-Australian relationship during the Second Sino-Japanese War, where wartime propaganda wove the two nations together. Patriots and Propaganda offers a fresh perspective, challenging traditional views on ethnic contacts and deepening our understanding of the China-Australia connection.

Roads to Prosperity and Ruin: Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatán
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
Author Affiliation: Smith College
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Pisté, gateway to the famed Chichén Itzá archeological site, would be circumvented by the Tren Maya commuter rail megaproject, depriving it of the promise of steady tourist traffic. Instead of ruminating with frustration, locals set to work on negotiations with the state and federal governments. Generations of experience taught them that pragmatic engagement with mainstream political parties was essential in turning into opportunity projects with the potential to kill the local economy. Roads to Prosperity and Ruin situates the Tren Maya in a long history of roadbuilding and economic development on the Yucatán Peninsula beginning in the 1930s. Drawing together archival research and decades of ethnographic work, Armstrong-Fumero develops the concept of negative infrastructure to show how infrastructural and industrial investments configure rural economic futures as well as how communities seek to mitigate the harms from projects designed to benefit other regions or interests. The push and pull of development reveals the strategies residents use to influence political change through municipal elections and informal protest.

Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Noor Ghazal Aswad
Author Affiliation: University of Alabama
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
In Searching for Solidarity, Noor Ghazal Aswad explores how the emancipatory qualities of transnational revolutionary struggle are often denied, misunderstood, and erased. The book takes up the “radical subject”—referring to those revolting against repressive forces to achieve liberatory change in society at the risk of death, injury, or forced disappearance, and whose speaking often resists normative scripts of resistance. Ghazal Aswad contends we must look to the radical subject for an alternative definition of solidarity. Drawing on the stories of those in struggle, Searching for Solidarity opens possibilities for moving beyond dominant narratives when we conceive of those beyond our borders. Searching for Solidarity seeks to access the emancipatory qualities of the Syrian revolutionary struggle and derive a blueprint for how one might resolve controversies surrounding transnational social movements where the land’s soil, histories, and geographies are woven into the very fabric of the movements.

Secret Histories: A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Editors: Kathleen Diffley; Caroline Gebhard; Cheryl B. Torsney
Author Affiliations: University of Iowa; Tuskegee University; Temple University
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
From the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean, the eighteen essays in this volume explore Woolson’s prodigious range as the whole of her professional life comes alive in the volume’s triptych. The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with genres and casts began during the 1870s and extended until she died in 1894. Consistently, she tested the limits on representing women’s labors as well as their erotic appeal. The second section, “Postbellum Souths,” follows Woolson’s travels through a land ravaged by war and injustice. Drawing upon theories of travel, collective memory, the Lost Cause, religious controversy, and a race-bound region, these essays expose both the smugness of visitors and the agendas of residents that Woolson was among the first postwar writers to portray. The third section, “Through an International Lens,” considers expatriate perceptions of European and Mediterranean cultures as well as misconceptions about the Gilded Age. Here and throughout this collection, travel sketches mingle with fiction and poetry, while encounters with the writing of other Americans on the move demonstrate how often Woolson made her century’s literary terrain more subtle and complex.

Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Authors: Pao-chen Tang; Yuqian Yan; Ling Zhang
Author Affiliations: University of Sydney; Zhejiang University; State University of New York Purchase College
Discipline: Asian Studies

Description:
In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways in which the mass media—from photography and film to television and live streaming—has been deployed as a tool for controlling medicine and health, privileging those with power and authority from the early twentieth century to the present. Adopting anti-colonial and anti-capitalist perspectives, the contributors in this volume challenge the dominant mediations of health against the backdrop of imperialism, Cold War geopolitical tensions, and neoliberal capitalism. Collectively, they advocate for alternative understandings of medical culture through media productions that envision accessible and equitable healthcare practices.

Steamships across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Author: Ruth Mandujano López
Author Affiliation: Douglas College
Discipline: History

Description:
During the nineteenth century, the transpacific world underwent profound transformation, due to the transition from sail to steam navigation that was accompanied by a concomitant reconfiguration of power. Steamships across the Pacific explores the ways in which diverse Mexican, British, Chinese, and Japanese interests participated, particularly during Porfirio Díaz’s presidency at the peak of Mexico’s participation in the steam network: from its 1860s outset through a time of many revolutionary changes ending with the World War, the Mexican Revolution, the opening of the Panama Canal, and the introduction of a new maritime technology based on vessels run by oil. These transoceanic exchanges, generated within these new geographies of power, contributed not only to the formation of a transpacific region but also to refashioning the Mexican national imaginary. With transnationalism, global and migration studies as its main framework, this study draws upon a dazzling array of primary sources to center Mexico’s transpacific relations and the influence they wielded over the region at the height of the steamship period.

Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Author: Paula Antonella Oppermann
Author Affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilians University
Discipline: History

Description:
Thunder Cross is the first critical, in-depth study of the history of Latvia’s most prominent fascist party—the Pērkonkrusts (Thunder Cross)—and the role its members played during World War II. Based on empirical findings and analysis of sources from 19 archives in 9 different countries in Europe, North America, and Australia, Holocaust historian Paula Antonella Oppermann argues that antisemitism was the core of Pērkonkrusts’ ideology, and remained a driving force for the Latvian fascists despite shifting historical and political contexts throughout the 20th century. Thunder Cross is the most comprehensive work on Latvia’s fascist movement available in English to date, and the only work that investigates the often neglected postwar continuities of fascist antisemitism. Designed as an empirical case study, the book draws on international and interdisciplinary secondary literature and is informed by the theories and debates among scholars of fascism and the Holocaust. Connecting concepts from these fields, the book simultaneously broadens our understanding of fascism, antisemitism and mass violence across Europe, not just in Germany and Italy.

What We Mourn: Child Death and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Author: Lydia Murdoch
Author Affiliation: Vassar College
Discipline: British Studies

Description:
This book traces the changing understandings of child death within British, imperial, and transatlantic contexts and reveals the importance of youth and emotion to constructions of the modern state. As childhood took on new meanings over the course of the long nineteenth century, public mourning for the premature deaths of children emerged as a way of asserting and even redefining British rights and citizenship. Factory hands and abolitionists, sanitation reformers and suffragists democratized and politicized their grief as they called upon the state to recognize their lives as part of a new, reimagined political order. As Lydia Murdoch shows, carrying their own and others’ private grief into the public sphere—with petitions and marches, public lectures and poetry—allowed marginalized members of society to assert their claim to rights. What We Mourn explores both the power and the limitations of a new politics founded on grief and the protection of child life.

Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Baroque Ideology in the Spanish Comedia
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Author: Harrison Meadows
Author Affiliation: University of Tennessee
Discipline: Performing Arts

Description:
In Wild Theater, Harrison Meadows critically examines the genealogy of one of world literature’s most well-known figures: the “Wildman.” From its earliest manifestations in works such as The Epic of Gilgamesh to more recent films like The Green Knight, the transhistorical figure of the Wildman has fascinated generations of scholars and the broader public for centuries. Despite this widespread interest, the place of the Wildman—and ideas of wildness more generally—have been underexplored in scholarship on the Spanish Baroque period.

The Work of Music: Labor and Creativity in Germany’s Long Nineteenth Century
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Author: Celia Applegate
Author Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Discipline: Music

Description:
In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich. She explores the working world of music and musicians, the various jobs they performed, the work music did in society, the observations and commentaries of contemporaries on the shape and function of musical life, and the work of organizing music making, both amateur and professional. At a time when ideas of absolute music and music-as-leisure were both on the rise, writing about music tended to obscure these practical matters. Here, Applegate reflects on how an intensely musical society organized and understood the ubiquitous activity that underpinned it.

Zooarchaeology Beyond Human Subsistence
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Authors: Gillian L. Wong and Amy Milson Klemmer
Author Affiliations: University of Texas; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
As a subdiscipline of archaeology, zooarchaeology focuses on the faunal (animal) remains recovered at sites in order to provide insights on the role specific animals played in the past human society being studied. Often, such analyses have centered primarily on the role these animals have played in human subsistence, whether through hunting, pastoralism, domestication, or other means. Zooarchaeology Beyond Human Subsistence explores other types of interpretations that can be sought outside of those related to subsistence through a collection of case studies from around the world. Contributors range from Ph.D. candidates to early career doctorate holders to senior scholars, and lay out approaches and methodologies sure to expand the study of zooarchaeology as a whole.