New from Rutgers University Press: Wake: Why the Battle over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters by Karey Alison Harwood. About the book, from the publisher: The Wake County Public School System was once described as a beacon of hope for American school districts. It was both academically successful and successfully integrated. It accomplished these goals through the hard work of teachers and administrators, and through a student assignment policy that made sure no school in the countywide district became a high poverty school. Although most students attended their closest school, the “diver ..read more

New from Oxford University Press: Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage by Gianna Englert. About the book, from the publisher: Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we wish or need to have? With recent arguments "against democracy" and fears about the rise of populism, there is growing scepticism about whether liberalism and democracy can continue to survive together. Some even question whether democracy is worth saving. In Democracy Tamed, Gianna Englert argue ..read more

New from Princeton University Press: A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook. About the book, from the publisher: A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provide ..read more

New from the University of Chicago Press: Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy by Carola Binder. About the book, from the publisher: How inflation and deflation fears shape American democracy. Many foundational moments in American economic history—the establishment of paper money, wartime price controls, the rise of the modern Federal Reserve—occurred during financial panics as prices either inflated or deflated sharply. The government’s decisions in these moments, intended to control price fluctuations, have produced both lasting effects and some of the most contentious ..read more

New from Cornell University Press: Italian Forgers: The Art Market and the Weight of the Past in Modern Italy by Carol Helstosky. About the book, from the publisher: Italian Forgers takes an unorthodox approach to the fascinating topic of art forgery, focusing not on art forgery per se, but on the major forgery scandals that shifted the Italian art market in response to constant, and often intense, demand for Italian objects. By focusing on power dynamics that both precipitated forgery scandals and forged Italian cultural identities, this book connects the debates and discussions about three ..read more

New from Columbia University Press: Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt by Amanda McMillan Lequieu. About the book, from the publisher: Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and economic crises. Why do people remain in declining areas through difficult circumstances? What do their choices tell us about rootedness in a time of flux? Through the cases of the form ..read more

New from Stanford University Press: Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea by Ed Pulford. About the book, from the publisher: While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmi ..read more

New from Princeton University Press: Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. About the book, from the publisher: A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture t ..read more

New from Oxford University Press: Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance by Basak Kus. About the book, from the publisher: During the last two decades, there has been much scholarly and popular interest in the financialization of the American economy--why the turn to finance has taken place, what constituted it, and what has come out of it. In Disembedded, Basak Kus draws from the theories of Karl Polanyi--one of the greatest and most influential political economists of the twentieth century--to answer these questions. Focused primarily on the state's regulatory ..read more

New from Columbia University Press: Mayors in the Middle: Indirect Rule and Local Government in Occupied Palestine by Diana B. Greenwald. About the book, from the publisher: What does local self-government look like in the absence of sovereignty? From the beginning of its occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israel has experimented with different forms of rule. Since the 1990s, it has delegated certain governing responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority (PA), an organization that, Israel hoped, would act as a buffer between the military occupation and the Palestinian population. Through ..read more