Looking for some summer reading? Then check out the latest titles published this month:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
Volume I. Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)
Geoffrey P. Megargee, Editor. Foreword by Elie Wiesel
"This encyclopedia will provide a host of detail about crucial aspects of the Holocaust that cannot be found elsewhere." —Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
Björk
Nicola Dibben
This book provides the first music-based account of Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk's work to date. Dibben reveals recurrent cultural themes in Björk's music: landscape and identity, the relationship between humans and technology, song as a vehicle for emotional expression, and female autonomy.
Sound Targets
American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
Jonathan Pieslak
"Sound Targets reveals just how pervasively popular music has shaped contemporary U.S. military culture. . . . This thoughtful and provocative study will certainly attract a wide audience concerned with music's roles in the time of war." —W. Anthony Sheppard, author of Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater
The Last Century of Sea Power
From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894–1922
Volume 1
H. P. Willmott
Written
by one of our foremost military historians, this volume acknowledges
the complex nature of the transition to modern war at sea, focusing on
imperialism, the growth of fleets, changes in shipbuilding and armament
technology, and doctrines about the deployment and use of force at sea,
among other factors.
Steel Giants
Historic Images from the Calumet Regional Archives
Stephen G. McShane and Gary S. Wilk
This
book presents a selection of remarkable photographs, with detailed
captions, showing the construction of the steel mills and steel towns
in the Calumet region, the early production of steel, and the people
who lived and worked in the industry.
The Historic Fort Wayne Embassy Theatre
Dyne L. Pfeffenberger
"The photos alone make the book. It helps Indiana take its rightful place as a great state of music and theatre lovers." —Donn P. Werling, Executive Director, Allen County/Fort Wayne Historical Society
Iowa's Railroads
An Album
H. Roger Grant and Don L. Hofsommer
"When two masters of railroad history combine talents in one book, they provide readers an undeniable treat. Grant and Hofsommer's complementary combination of visual and verbal text results in a very evocative and highly appealing study." —Carlos Schwantes, author of Going Places
The Masons of Djenné
Trevor H. J. Marchand
"An elegantly written and important anthropological study of indigenous
knowledge, building practices, and social relationships among
contemporary Djenné masons in Mali." —Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian
Institution
Understanding Third World Politics
Theories of Political Change and Development
Third Edition
B. C. Smith
"Smith's
work provides not only an excellent review of the literature, but a
thoughtful critical evaluation that taken as a whole constitutes a
valuable presentation of the current state of Third World studies." —Journal of Third World Studies
Genocides by the Oppressed
Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice
Edited by Nicholas A. Robins and Adam Jones
"The study of comparative genocide is one of the most important of our
era. By focusing on acts of genocide (or near genocide) committed by
oppressed people (or people who imagine themselves to be oppressed),
this book sheds light on an important dimension of the problem." —Roger
Smith, College of William and Mary
Pragmatism, Nation, and Race Community in the Age of Empire
Edited by Chad Kautzer and Eduardo Mendieta
"This
collection on American philosophy, American identity, and race will
undoubtedly make a substantive contribution to the literature and it
will be well received by scholars and teachers of many disciplines."
—José Medina, Vanderbilt University
When Kafka Says We
Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature
Vivian Liska
"I know of no book quite like Liska's in range, sophisticated
analysis, and importance for the appreciation of modern German-Jewish
literature in the wake of Kafka." —Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University
Queer in Black and White
Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture
Stefanie K. Dunning
This
book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film,
and music, exploring the ways in which the interracial intersects with
queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity.