It’s a new year and a new season for Stanford University Press, which of course means a new catalog! Now available for perusing, the Spring 2014 catalog features two co-published art books, a genre-bending memoir from a Parisian psychoanalyst, a book on botched executions that received two thumbs up from bestselling author, Scott Turow, and much more. Take a gander at the online version here and read on below for a few highlights this month.Out this month:
Book Art Object 2 | Peter Rutledge Koch and David Jury
The most ambitious and diverse survey of the book arts published to date, Book Art Object 2 serves as a record of the third biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium, "The Fate of the Art," held in Berkeley, California in 2011. The book showcases 300 projects by 140 artists and printers, and also presents a selection of the papers delivered at the 2009 and 2011 symposium lectures.
The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson | Jessica L. Malay
The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. In it, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution and the accompanying discussion of her life provides chilling evidence of the vulnerability of seventeenth-century women and the flawed legal mechanisms that were supposed to protect them.
Law and War | Austin Sarat
Historically the term "war crime" struck some as redundant and others as oxymoronic: redundant because war itself is criminal; oxymoronic because war submits to no law. More recently, the remarkable trend toward the juridification of warfare has emerged, as law has sought to stretch its dominion over every aspect of the of armed struggle. Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law.
Now in Paperback:
The Black Middle | Matthew Restall
Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize.
The first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan, The Black Middle explores such topics as slavery and freedom, militia service and family life, bigamy and witchcraft, and the ways in which Afro-Yucatecans interacted with Mayas and Spaniards. Restall concludes that, in numerous ways, Afro-Yucatecans lived and worked in a middle space between—but closely connected to—Mayas and Spaniards.
The Battle for China | Ed. Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans Van De Ven
Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US).
Unlike most studies of the Sino-Japanese War, which are presented from the perspective of the West, The Battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted overview of the military operations that shaped much of what happened in political, economic, and cultural realms. The volume's diverse contributors consider the course and the nature of military operations, from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the final campaigns of 1945.
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