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{"id":6557973577817,"title":"Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra — Padma","handle":"buddhism-in-the-krishna-river-valley-of-andhra-padma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sree Padma, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/staff\/spadma\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sree Padma faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eResearch Associate in Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand A.W. Barber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering perspectives from a distinguished group of international scholars, this book provides a multidisciplinary inquiry into the various forms of Buddhism that thrived during the early centuries of the common era in the Krishna River Valley areas of what is now the modern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The contributors explore not only the factors that led to the rise of Buddhist communities, but also the significance of these early Buddhist communities in the unfolding of the greater history of Buddhism throughout the Asian world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T15:36:49-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-09T15:36:38-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":6500,"price_min":6500,"price_max":6500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6500,"compare_at_price_min":6500,"compare_at_price_max":6500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39300412964953,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF362-Padma","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra — Padma","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":6500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6500,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780791474853","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra by Sree Padma","id":20333457178713,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf362-padma-buddhi.jpg?v=1617997000","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sree Padma, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/staff\/spadma\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sree Padma faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eResearch Associate in Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand A.W. Barber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering perspectives from a distinguished group of international scholars, this book provides a multidisciplinary inquiry into the various forms of Buddhism that thrived during the early centuries of the common era in the Krishna River Valley areas of what is now the modern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The contributors explore not only the factors that led to the rise of Buddhist communities, but also the significance of these early Buddhist communities in the unfolding of the greater history of Buddhism throughout the Asian world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557968302169,"title":"Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo","handle":"shen-gua-s-empiricism-zuo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShen Gua (1031–1095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of \u003ci\u003eBrush Talks from Dream Brook\u003c\/i\u003e, an old text whose remarkable “scientific” discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this first book-length study of Shen in English, Ya Zuo reveals the connection between Shen’s life as an active statesman and his ideas, specifically the empirical stance manifested through his wide-ranging inquiries. She places Shen on the broad horizon of premodern Chinese thought, and presents his empiricism within an extensive narrative of Chinese epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"clear\" id=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelying on Shen as a searchlight, Zuo focuses in on how an individual thinker summoned conditions and concepts from the vast Chinese intellectual tradition to build a singular way of knowing. Moreover, her study of Shen provides insights into the complex dynamics in play at the dawn of the age of Neo-Confucianism and compels readers to achieve a deeper appreciation of the diversity in Chinese thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T15:24:00-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-09T15:23:24-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":4995,"price_min":4995,"price_max":4995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":4995,"compare_at_price_min":4995,"compare_at_price_max":4995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39300402446425,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF361","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":4995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":4995,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780674987111","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Shen Gua's Empiricism by Ya Zuo","id":20333425721433,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf361-zuo-shen.jpg?v=1617996257","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShen Gua (1031–1095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of \u003ci\u003eBrush Talks from Dream Brook\u003c\/i\u003e, an old text whose remarkable “scientific” discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this first book-length study of Shen in English, Ya Zuo reveals the connection between Shen’s life as an active statesman and his ideas, specifically the empirical stance manifested through his wide-ranging inquiries. She places Shen on the broad horizon of premodern Chinese thought, and presents his empiricism within an extensive narrative of Chinese epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"clear\" id=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelying on Shen as a searchlight, Zuo focuses in on how an individual thinker summoned conditions and concepts from the vast Chinese intellectual tradition to build a singular way of knowing. Moreover, her study of Shen provides insights into the complex dynamics in play at the dawn of the age of Neo-Confucianism and compels readers to achieve a deeper appreciation of the diversity in Chinese thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":6557965877337,"title":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang","handle":"nature-behind-barbed-wire-chiang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in desolate camps in the nation's interior. Photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange visually captured these camps in images that depicted the environment as a source of both hope and hardship. And yet the literature on incarceration has most often focused on the legal and citizenship statuses of the incarcerees, their political struggles with the US government, and their oral testimony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the focus to the environment. It explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA's power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, the incarcerees also found that their agency in transforming and adapting to the natural world could help them survive and contest their incarceration. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, as Connie Chiang demonstrates, the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T15:16:14-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-09T15:16:13-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":3799,"price_min":3799,"price_max":3799,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3700,"compare_at_price_min":3700,"compare_at_price_max":3700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39300396089433,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF360-Chiang","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3799,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780190842062","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire by Connie Chiang","id":20333411336281,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in desolate camps in the nation's interior. Photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange visually captured these camps in images that depicted the environment as a source of both hope and hardship. And yet the literature on incarceration has most often focused on the legal and citizenship statuses of the incarcerees, their political struggles with the US government, and their oral testimony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the focus to the environment. It explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA's power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, the incarcerees also found that their agency in transforming and adapting to the natural world could help them survive and contest their incarceration. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, as Connie Chiang demonstrates, the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557393846361,"title":"Shaping the Shoreline — Chiang","handle":"shaping-the-shoreline-chiang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel \u003ci\u003eCannery Row\u003c\/i\u003e, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. \u003ci\u003eShaping the Shoreline\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and, finally, into a tourist attraction again. Through the subjects of work, recreation, and environment -- the intersections of which are applicable to communities across the United States and abroad -- she documents the struggles and contests over this magnificent coastal region. By tracing Monterey's shift from what was once the literal Cannery Row to an iconic hub that now houses an aquarium in which nature is replicated to attract tourists, the interactions of people with nature continues to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change. By integrating topics such as race, ethnicity, and class into environmental history, Chiang illustrates the idea that work and play are not mutually exclusive endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-08T16:49:51-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-08T16:49:50-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2500,"price_min":2500,"price_max":2500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2500,"compare_at_price_min":2500,"compare_at_price_max":2500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39299498704985,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF356-Chiang","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Shaping the Shoreline — Chiang","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2500,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780295991399","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Shaping the Shoreline by Connie Y. Chiang","id":20330956357721,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf356-chiang-shaping.jpg?v=1617914992","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel \u003ci\u003eCannery Row\u003c\/i\u003e, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. \u003ci\u003eShaping the Shoreline\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and, finally, into a tourist attraction again. Through the subjects of work, recreation, and environment -- the intersections of which are applicable to communities across the United States and abroad -- she documents the struggles and contests over this magnificent coastal region. By tracing Monterey's shift from what was once the literal Cannery Row to an iconic hub that now houses an aquarium in which nature is replicated to attract tourists, the interactions of people with nature continues to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change. By integrating topics such as race, ethnicity, and class into environmental history, Chiang illustrates the idea that work and play are not mutually exclusive endeavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6543815704665,"title":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","handle":"apartheid-in-south-africa-gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-11T12:23:19-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-11T12:22:35-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":2415,"price_min":2415,"price_max":2415,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2415,"compare_at_price_min":2415,"compare_at_price_max":2415,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39268038213721,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF324-Gordon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2415,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2415,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781457665547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Apartheid in South Africa by David Gordon","id":20266267902041,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":274074277,"title":"Berlin Coquette — Smith","handle":"berlin-coquette-prostitution-and-the-new-german-woman-1890-1933","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jill Suzanne Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jsmith5\/\"\u003eAssociate Professor of German\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the “Whore of Babylon.” Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In \u003cem\u003eBerlin Coquette\u003c\/em\u003e, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the “New Morality” articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the “New Woman.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women’s financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (\u003cem\u003eKokotte\u003c\/em\u003e), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBerlin Coquette \u003c\/em\u003eis published in the series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, published jointly by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2014-03-26T16:28:00-04:00","created_at":"2014-03-26T16:33:41-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2795,"price_min":2795,"price_max":2795,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":643585129,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF228-Smith","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Berlin Coquette — Smith","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2795,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780801478345","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Berlin Coquette by Jill Suzanne Smith","id":7516035809369,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf228-smith-berlin.jpg?v=1614029367","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jill Suzanne Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jsmith5\/\"\u003eAssociate Professor of German\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the “Whore of Babylon.” Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In \u003cem\u003eBerlin Coquette\u003c\/em\u003e, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the “New Morality” articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the “New Woman.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women’s financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (\u003cem\u003eKokotte\u003c\/em\u003e), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBerlin Coquette \u003c\/em\u003eis published in the series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, published jointly by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":274057557,"title":"Unruly Women — Boyle","handle":"unruly-women-performance-penitence-and-punishment-in-early-modern-spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Margaret E. Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/m\/mboyle2\/\"\u003eAssistant Professor of Romance Languages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.  Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women's deviance and rehabilitation, \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e argues that women's performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoyle looks at real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess.  \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women \u003c\/em\u003eexplores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women's non-normative relationships to the topics of marriage, sex, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2014-03-26T15:57:00-04:00","created_at":"2014-03-26T16:05:48-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":5500,"price_min":5500,"price_max":5500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":5500,"compare_at_price_min":5500,"compare_at_price_max":5500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":643522465,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF227-Boyle","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Unruly Women — Boyle","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":5500,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781442646155","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Unruly Women by Margaret Boyle","id":7518733500505,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf227-boyle-unruly.jpg?v=1614114359","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Margaret E. Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/m\/mboyle2\/\"\u003eAssistant Professor of Romance Languages\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.  Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women's deviance and rehabilitation, \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e argues that women's performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoyle looks at real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess.  \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women \u003c\/em\u003eexplores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women's non-normative relationships to the topics of marriage, sex, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":159700075,"title":"Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger","handle":"authorizing-the-shogunate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Vyjayanthi Selinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/vselinge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAssociate Professor of Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors.  How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts?  This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e corpus through ritual that map the ideal social-cosmic order, overwriting untidy historical realities.  Artifacts of material culture likewise provide the social and political codes to authenticate warrior power and manage its violence.  Through its focus on ritual and material practices, this book offers a new perspective on how texts from fourteenth century Japan harnessed symbolic understandings of authority to evoke order and contain rupture.  Equally significant is its analysis of the \u003cem\u003eGenpei jōsuiki\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e variant that played a critical role in the retrospection of medieval Japan through the early modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2013-09-23T12:02:00-04:00","created_at":"2013-09-23T12:02:25-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":12500,"price_min":12500,"price_max":12500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":12500,"compare_at_price_min":12500,"compare_at_price_max":12500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":365854821,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA223","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":12500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":12500,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789004248106","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Authorizing the Shogunate by Vyjayanthi Selinger","id":20239455256665,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf223-selinger-auth.jpg?v=1614790396","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Vyjayanthi Selinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/vselinge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAssociate Professor of Asian Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors.  How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts?  This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e corpus through ritual that map the ideal social-cosmic order, overwriting untidy historical realities.  Artifacts of material culture likewise provide the social and political codes to authenticate warrior power and manage its violence.  Through its focus on ritual and material practices, this book offers a new perspective on how texts from fourteenth century Japan harnessed symbolic understandings of authority to evoke order and contain rupture.  Equally significant is its analysis of the \u003cem\u003eGenpei jōsuiki\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eHeike monogatari\u003c\/em\u003e variant that played a critical role in the retrospection of medieval Japan through the early modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":32910722,"title":"Red to Green — Henry","handle":"red-to-green-environmental-activism-in-post-soviet-russia","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Laura A. Henry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/l\/lhenry\/\"\u003eJohn F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor, \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cnobr\u003eGovernment And Legal Studies\u003c\/nobr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eRed to Green\u003c\/span\u003e goes beyond familiar debates about the strength and weakness of civil society in Russia to identify the contradictory trends that determine the political influence of grassroots movements.  In an organizational analysis of popular mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influence of transnational actors, and the relevance of social mobilization theory to the Russian case, Laura Henry details what grassroots organizations in Russia actually do, how they use the limited economic and political opportunities that are available to them, and when they are able to influence policy and political practice.  Drawing on her in-depth interviews with activists, Henry illustrates how green organizations have pursued their goals by \"recycling\" Soviet-era norms, institutions, and networks and using them in combination with transnational ideas, resources, and partnerships.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2018-03-28T10:42:01-04:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T11:05:24-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2550,"price_min":2550,"price_max":2550,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2495,"compare_at_price_min":2495,"compare_at_price_max":2495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77672882,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF174-Henry","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Red to Green — Henry","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":2550,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780801476419","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Red to Green by Laura Henry","id":20239812001881,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":550,"width":362,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820"},"aspect_ratio":0.658,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba174-henry-red.jpg?v=1614799820","width":362}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Laura A. Henry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/l\/lhenry\/\"\u003eJohn F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor, \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cnobr\u003eGovernment And Legal Studies\u003c\/nobr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eRed to Green\u003c\/span\u003e goes beyond familiar debates about the strength and weakness of civil society in Russia to identify the contradictory trends that determine the political influence of grassroots movements.  In an organizational analysis of popular mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influence of transnational actors, and the relevance of social mobilization theory to the Russian case, Laura Henry details what grassroots organizations in Russia actually do, how they use the limited economic and political opportunities that are available to them, and when they are able to influence policy and political practice.  Drawing on her in-depth interviews with activists, Henry illustrates how green organizations have pursued their goals by \"recycling\" Soviet-era norms, institutions, and networks and using them in combination with transnational ideas, resources, and partnerships.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}

{"id":32903072,"title":"Spirits of the Place — Holt","handle":"spirits-of-the-place","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy John Clifford Holt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jholt\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWilliam R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities in Religion \u0026amp; Asian Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSpirits of the Place\u003c\/span\u003e is a rare and timely contribution to our understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia.  Most often studied as a part of Thai, Vietnamese, or Khmer history, Laos remains a terra incognita to most Westerners -- and to many people living throughout Asia as well.  John Holt's new book brings this fascinating nation into focus.  With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting political power -- from royalty to democracy to communism -- has impacted Lao religious culture, the book offers an integrated account of the entwined political and relgious history of Laos from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.\u003cbr\u003e - From the hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2015-11-24T10:37:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:52:23-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":2700,"price_min":2700,"price_max":2700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2700,"compare_at_price_min":2700,"compare_at_price_max":2700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77651982,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF169","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Spirits of the Place — Holt","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":2700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780824836573","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Spirits of the Place by John Holt","id":7516074967129,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf169-holt-spirits.jpg?v=1614030397","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy John Clifford Holt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jholt\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWilliam R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities in Religion \u0026amp; Asian Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSpirits of the Place\u003c\/span\u003e is a rare and timely contribution to our understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia.  Most often studied as a part of Thai, Vietnamese, or Khmer history, Laos remains a terra incognita to most Westerners -- and to many people living throughout Asia as well.  John Holt's new book brings this fascinating nation into focus.  With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting political power -- from royalty to democracy to communism -- has impacted Lao religious culture, the book offers an integrated account of the entwined political and relgious history of Laos from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.\u003cbr\u003e - From the hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}

{"id":32900542,"title":"Political Economy \u0026 States of Literature in Early Modern England — Kitch","handle":"political-economy-states-of-literature-in-early-modern-england","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Aaron Kitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/akitch\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAssociate Professor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Much of the historicist criticism of the past few decades has ignored the shaping influence that an emerging discourse of trade exercised on the literature of early modern England.  \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePolitical Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England\u003c\/span\u003e seeks to address that oversight by demonstrating that subjects like commerce and credit are treated thoughtfully by a range of canonical authors writing between 1570 and 1620, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Jonson.  Rather than interpreting these texts as evidence of the transition from feudalism to capitalism as a Marxist critic might, or invoking a catch-all abstraction like \"social energy\" as a New Historicist might, Kitch draws on his impressive reading in a range of subjects -- from the herring fisheries to bills of exchange -- to interpret the economic metaphors and assumptions of early modern authors in light of the local economic contexts that he carefully reconstructs.  By examining a wide range of literary forms, Kitch also invites us to ask whether we can speak of the distinct economic values of particular genres like comedy or epyllion.\u003cbr\u003e - Blair Hoxby, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:45:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:45:37-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":9995,"price_min":9995,"price_max":9995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":9995,"compare_at_price_min":9995,"compare_at_price_max":9995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77646132,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF166-Kitch","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Political Economy \u0026 States of Literature in Early Modern England — Kitch","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":9995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":9995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780754667568","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England by Aaron Kitch","id":20239815147609,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.659,"height":475,"width":313,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965"},"aspect_ratio":0.659,"height":475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965","width":313}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Aaron Kitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/akitch\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAssociate Professor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Much of the historicist criticism of the past few decades has ignored the shaping influence that an emerging discourse of trade exercised on the literature of early modern England.  \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePolitical Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England\u003c\/span\u003e seeks to address that oversight by demonstrating that subjects like commerce and credit are treated thoughtfully by a range of canonical authors writing between 1570 and 1620, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Jonson.  Rather than interpreting these texts as evidence of the transition from feudalism to capitalism as a Marxist critic might, or invoking a catch-all abstraction like \"social energy\" as a New Historicist might, Kitch draws on his impressive reading in a range of subjects -- from the herring fisheries to bills of exchange -- to interpret the economic metaphors and assumptions of early modern authors in light of the local economic contexts that he carefully reconstructs.  By examining a wide range of literary forms, Kitch also invites us to ask whether we can speak of the distinct economic values of particular genres like comedy or epyllion.\u003cbr\u003e - Blair Hoxby, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}

{"id":32898932,"title":"Monstrous Society — Collings","handle":"monstrous-society","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy David Collings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/d\/dcolling\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMonstrous Society\u003c\/span\u003e problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus, attempt to discipline the social body, to make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persists, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. Such a response is writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/span\u003e and Mary Shelley's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/span\u003e, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and the Charter. By interpreting the formation of modern English culture through the early modern practice of reciprocity, David Collings constructs a 'nonmodern' mode of analysis, one that sees modernity not as a break from the past but as the result of attempts to transform traditions that, however distorted, nevertheless remain broadly in force.\u003cbr\u003e -From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:44-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":6150,"price_min":6150,"price_max":6150,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6150,"compare_at_price_min":6150,"compare_at_price_max":6150,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77640962,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF150-Collings","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Monstrous Society — Collings","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":6150,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6150,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780838757208","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Monstrous Society by David Collings","id":20239817474137,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy David Collings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/d\/dcolling\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMonstrous Society\u003c\/span\u003e problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus, attempt to discipline the social body, to make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persists, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. Such a response is writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/span\u003e and Mary Shelley's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/span\u003e, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and the Charter. By interpreting the formation of modern English culture through the early modern practice of reciprocity, David Collings constructs a 'nonmodern' mode of analysis, one that sees modernity not as a break from the past but as the result of attempts to transform traditions that, however distorted, nevertheless remain broadly in force.\u003cbr\u003e -From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}

{"id":32898562,"title":"The Deceivers — Briefel","handle":"the-deceivers-art-forgery-identity-in-the-nineteenth-century","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e By Aviva Briefel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/abriefel\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English and Cinema Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions, they were fascinated by its power to shape the human and object worlds and adoped a language of art forgery to articulate a link between the making of fakes and the making of selves. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e explores the intersections among artistic crime, literary narrative, and the definition of identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Literary texts joined more specialized artistic discourses in describing the various identities associated with art forgery: the forger, the copyist, the art expert, the dealer, the restorer. Built into new characters were assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and nationality that themselves would come to be presented in a language of artistic authenticity. Aviva Briefel places special emphasis on the gendered distinction between male forgers and female copyists. \"Copying,\" a benign occupation when undertaken by a woman, became \"forgery,\" laden with criminal intent, when performed by men. Those who could successfully produce, handle, or detect spurious things and selves were distinguished from others who were incapable of distinguishing the authentic from the artistic and human forgeries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through close reading of literary narratives such as \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTrilby\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Marble Faun\u003c\/span\u003e as well as newspaper accounts of forgery scandals, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e reveals the identities -- both authentic and fake -- that emerged from the Victorian culture of forgery.\u003cbr\u003e - From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:32:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:32:30-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":4195,"price_min":4195,"price_max":4195,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3995,"compare_at_price_min":3995,"compare_at_price_max":3995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77640402,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF141","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Deceivers — Briefel","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":4195,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780801444609","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Deceivers by Aviva Briefel","id":7516078014553,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf141-briefel-deceivers.jpg?v=1614030628","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e By Aviva Briefel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/abriefel\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English and Cinema Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of national museums and by a rapidly growing bourgeois interest in collecting objects from the past. This rise had profound repercussions on notions of selfhood and national identity within and outside the realm of art. Although art critics denounced forgery for its affront to artistic traditions, they were fascinated by its power to shape the human and object worlds and adoped a language of art forgery to articulate a link between the making of fakes and the making of selves. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e explores the intersections among artistic crime, literary narrative, and the definition of identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Literary texts joined more specialized artistic discourses in describing the various identities associated with art forgery: the forger, the copyist, the art expert, the dealer, the restorer. Built into new characters were assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and nationality that themselves would come to be presented in a language of artistic authenticity. Aviva Briefel places special emphasis on the gendered distinction between male forgers and female copyists. \"Copying,\" a benign occupation when undertaken by a woman, became \"forgery,\" laden with criminal intent, when performed by men. Those who could successfully produce, handle, or detect spurious things and selves were distinguished from others who were incapable of distinguishing the authentic from the artistic and human forgeries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through close reading of literary narratives such as \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eTrilby\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Marble Faun\u003c\/span\u003e as well as newspaper accounts of forgery scandals, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Deceivers\u003c\/span\u003e reveals the identities -- both authentic and fake -- that emerged from the Victorian culture of forgery.\u003cbr\u003e - From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}