London Book Fair 2015 Indiana University Press

LBF 2015

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Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures HISTORY 1

Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China HISTORY 2

Reality Check POPULAR SCIENCE 3

Looking Behind the Label BUSINESS / SOCIAL SCIENCE 4

My Life as a Silent Movie - a Novel FICTION 5

Terrarium - a Novel FICTION 6

Bastards of Utopia ETHNOGRAPHY 7

Egypt in the Future Tense ETHNOGRAPHY 8

Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria POLITICAL SCIENCE 9

European Muslim Antisemitism ANTHROPOLOGY 10

AGENTS BY COUNTRY 11



HISTORY…?

Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures AUTHOR: Jeremy Black DESCRIPTION: 252 pages DATE: June 2015

• Imaginative approach to history • Written for the general reader and scholar alike • Astutely argued, accessible perspective • Engaging introduction to an unusual subject

"A wide-ranging and lively commentary on the utility (and limits) of examining what did not happen in the past as a way to make sense of what did." —John Brobst, author of The Future of the Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India’s Independence, and the Defense of Asia "A concise, comprehensive analysis of an approach to history that is far more complex than either its supporters or its critics understand. . . . The question 'why?', basic to history, cannot be adequately addressed without at least evaluating untaken roads." —Dennis Showalter, author of Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk, the Turning Point of World War II

What if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or “known knowns” can be fascinating and, indeed, “What if?” books are very popular. However, this speculative approach, known as counterfactualism, has had limited impact in academic histories, historiography, and the teaching of historical methods. In this book, Jeremy Black offers a short guide to the subject, one that is designed to argue its value as a tool for public and academe alike. Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history, and the salutary critique the approach offers to determinist accounts of past, present, and future. Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books including War and Technology (2013), Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871 (2011), and War and the Cultural Turn. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008.


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Military History

Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 AUTHOR: Harold M. Tanner DESCRIPTION: 336 pages, 10 black & white illustrations,

10 maps DATE: June 2015

• The story of a campaign and battles with far-reaching cultural and political consequences for Asia

• Pivotal battle explicated in depth. • Extensive use of primary and secondary Chinese sources

"Not just a military history of the campaign, but a consideration of its broad diplomatic significance and its place in historical memory. Will add significantly to our existing knowledge of the Chinese Civil War." —Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong "Tanner's scholarship is formidable. He has amassed and skillfully used a vast array of Chinese sources, both primary and secondary, and judiciously refers to Western sources to fill out his account. No other Western scholar has exploited Chinese military sources as well as he has." —Steven Levine, co-author of The Arc of Empire: America's War in Eastern Asia, 1899-1973

The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China was “lost.” Despite their significance, there have been few studies in English of the war's major campaigns. The Liao-Shen Campaign was the final act in the struggle for control of China’s northeast. After the Soviet defeat of Japan in Manchuria, Communist Chinese and then Nationalist troops moved into this strategically important area. China’s largest industrial base and a major source of coal, Manchuria had extensive railways and key ports (both still under Soviet control). When American mediation over control of Manchuria failed, full-scale civil war broke out. By spring of 1946, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist armies had occupied most of the southern, economically developed part of Manchuria, pushing Communist forces north of the Songhua (Sungari) River. But over the next two years, the tide would turn. The Communists isolated the Nationalist armies and mounted a major campaign aimed at destroying the Kuomintang forces. This is the story of that campaign and its outcome, which were to have such far-reaching consequences. Harold Tanner is Professor of History and Fellow of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas. A specialist in twentieth-century and contemporary China and Chinese military history, he is the author of The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946 (IUP, 2012) and China: A History.


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Popular Science

Reality Check How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future AUTHOR: Donald R. Prothero DESCRIPTION: 392 pages, 39 black & white illustrations DATE: July 2013

• Entertaining, popular style • A scientist’s address of popular arguments • Enlightened and insightful complaints of the hazards of

anti-scientific rhetoric

"The shabby tactics of science denialists sparked this astute exposition of what we lose when science is sidelined. . . . Ultimately, Prothero argues, by claiming that clear findings on climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation are false, deniers inch us closer to catastrophic planetary tipping points." —Nature "Reality Check is an entertaining, thought-provoking, and informative read." —Reports of the National Center for Science Education "Prothero's treatise will give the science-minded something to cheer about, a brief summary of the real data that supports so many critical aspects of modern life." —Publishers Weekly

Many people and institutions have exerted enormous efforts to misrepresent or flatly deny demonstrable scientific reality to protect their nonscientific ideology, their power, or their bottom line. To shed light on this darkness, Donald R. Prothero delivers a skeptic's argument that science deniers pose a serious threat to society as attempts to subvert the truth have resulted in widespread scientific ignorance, increased risk of global catastrophes, and deaths due to the spread of diseases that could have been prevented. Donald R. Prothero is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He has published 32 books, including Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of Indricotheres (2013) and Earth: Portrait of a Planet; The Evolution of Earth; Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters; Catastrophes!; and After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (2006).

Recipient of the 2013 James Shea Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers for outstanding writing and editing in the geosciences.

Chinese (simplified) rights to: Publishing House of Electronics Industry


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Business / Social Science

Looking behind the Label Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer AUTHOR: Tim Bartley et al. DESCRIPTION: 296 pages, 6 black & white illustrations DATE: June 2015

• Delivers case studies from several continents • Critiques assumptions of consumer impact and policy • Examines a topic prominent in discussions of multinational

corporations’ actions in developing countries: fair-trade

What does it mean when consumers “shop with a conscience” and choose products labeled as fair-trade or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries?

Looking behind the Label examines the interplay between global production and ethical consumption, tracing the links between consumers' choices and the practices of multinational producers and retailers. Contemporary case studies of several types of universal products—wood and paper, food, apparel and footwear, and electronics—are used to reveal what lies behind voluntary rules and to critique predominant assumptions about ethical consumption as a form of political expression. Tim Bartley is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University and is co-editor of Regulation & Governance, an interdisciplinary, international journal focused on industry regulation and the changing character of governance within and across countries. Sebastian Koos is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Mannheim. Gustavo Setrini is Assistant Professor of Food Studies at New York University. Hiram Samel is Associate Professor of International Business at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Published with support from the Mellon Foundation


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Fiction

My Life as a Silent Movie A Novel AUTHOR: Jesse Lee Kercheval DESCRIPTION: 220 pages DATE: August 2013

• Crafted with a poet’s rhythm and filmmaker’s vision • Universal themes of mystery, longing, art, and identity • Multi-national sweeping narrative

Audio sample (3 minutes) = a must listen! "Fans of literary fiction will devour this tale of heartbreak, family, and politics. This is a story not to be missed." —Library Journal “I was totally overwhelmed (happily!) by the plot, the unraveling of it, the characters who I found myself rooting for. Giggling at times, wanting him to be @%^&$ alive! Woah, a gamut of emotions, all in one book.” —Reviewing Shelf

"Kercheval delves deeply into the rawest of emotions and the most wrenching of choices, richly detailing each twist and turn with grace." —Kirkus Reviews

A narrative rich with intrigue, unforgettable images, and sharply-drawn characters begins with news: Emma’s 8-year-old daughter and husband have died in a car accident. Emma is destroyed. In the flow of family that follows, as she’s casting about numb in the conversations and connections that remain, Emma is struck with more news; the parents she knew weren’t her blood. She had been adopted. Her adult life torn apart and now her childhood upended, Emma sets out for New York to track down a childhood nanny for answers. The nanny is still alive, but she only has more mysteries to share: Emma’s birth parents were in fact a notorious French Stalinist named Sophie Anne and a famous White Russian film star of the 1920s, none other than Ivan Mosjoukine. Not possible, to Emma’s mind, as Mosjoukine was thought to have died a decade before she was born, but the evidence is mounting and the visual intrigues compelling. Emma shares the same piercing blue eyes with Mosjoukine. The intrigues draw her deeper into the search, carrying her to Europe, where she drifts back and forth through film and imagery between the vividly rendered worlds of modern and post WWII Paris, past more and more memorable characters, and increasingly intricate plots, as she finds herself in the visual artifacts of real lives she never knew. My Life as a Silent Movie raises provocative questions about the shaping function of art. Jesse Lee Kercheval is author of 12 books including Brazil, winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Award; the poetry collection Cinema Muto, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award; and The Alice Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin.


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Fiction

Terrarium A Novel AUTHOR: Scott Russell Sanders DESCRIPTION: 288 pages DATE: (1996, reissue)

• Post-apocalyptic eco-dystopia • Environmentally-minded science fiction • Anticipates many US popular film and TV themes • Global-impact of human action and inaction writ large

"A keen eye, a sensuous and exact imagination, and a buoyant spirit."

—Ursula K. Le Guin

With round-the-clock drugs, games, and eros parlors to entertain them and virtual weather to sustain them, humans live inside a global network of domed cities known collectively as “the Enclosure.” Having poisoned the biosphere, we’ve had to close ourselves off from the Earth. The cities of the Enclosure are scattered around the globe on the land and sea, and are connected by a web of travel tubes, so no one needs to risk exposure. Health Patrollers police the boundaries of the Enclosure to keep the mutants and pollution out. Phoenix Marshall decodes satellite images for a living. He has spent all 30 years of his life in Oregon City, afloat on the Pacific Ocean. He busies himself with work and various forms of recreation to keep boredom at bay. One morning he opens his door to find Teeg Passio. Teeg is the same age as Phoenix, but she’s different; she’s menacingly and enticingly wild. She grew up on the outside. Her mother oversaw the recycling of the old cities, and her father helped design the Enclosure. Teeg works maintenance, which allows her to travel outside the walls. When she introduces Phoenix to her crew, he is drawn into a high-tech conspiracy that may threaten everything he understands. Are humans really better off within the Enclosure? Is the Earth? Are Health Patrollers keeping us safe or just keeping us in? Teeg seduces Phoenix out of his orderly life, enlisting him in a secret, political and sexual rebellion. Teeg and her co-conspirators, part mystics, part tech-wizards, dream of a life embedded in nature. Then one day, during a closely monitored repair mission on the outside, a typhoon offers the rebels a chance to escape the Enclosure and test their utopian dreams in the wilds. An award-winning author of essays and fiction with an ecological focus, Scott Russell Sanders’ work has been compared to that of Emerson and Thoreau, as well as to that of Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard. In “Terrarium,” he infuses his ecological vision into a timely and beautifully wrought science fiction novel.


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Ethnography

Bastards of Utopia Living Radical Politics after Socialism AUTHOR: Maple Razsa DESCRIPTION: 312 pages, 20 black & white illustrations DATE: March 2015

• In-depth companion to the popular film • Moving, human accounts of players in youth revolts in the

former Yugoslavia • An engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-

imagine leftist politics and the power of a country's youth

"Dramatic proof that the struggle for liberty is irrepressible." —Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, on the companion film "[T]akes the reader deep into the world of radical politics in a globalized postsocialist context." —Marianne Maeckelberg, author of The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy

Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Razsa follows individual activists from the transnational protests against globalization of the early 2000s through the Occupy encampments. His portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching—an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country's youth. More information on the film can be found at www.der.org/films/bastards-of-utopia.html. Maple Razsa is Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at Colby College. His documentary films include Bastards of Utopia (2010) and Occupation: A Film about the Harvard Living Wage Sit-In (2002; both with Pacho Velez).

Published with support from the Mellon Foundation


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Ethnography

Egypt in the Future Tense Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011 AUTHOR: Samuli Schielke DESCRIPTION: 280 pages, 24 black & white illustrations DATE: February 2015

• Real life stories from long before the excitement in the media—longitudinal study

• Human, moving accounts of complex modern dynamics of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in daily lives

"This is a much anticipated and urgently important work, a landmark contribution alike to several fields of inquiry: to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the 'Arab Spring,' to the description and interpretation of contemporary reformist and political Islam, and to the developing field of anthropological theory of everyday ethical life. A major, multifaceted, and sophisticated study." —James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge "Egypt in the Future Tense is a remarkable ethnography that is eloquently written and theoretically sophisticated. The book will make a long-lasting contribution to debates within and beyond anthropology concerning the understanding of the ethical and moral universes of Egyptian Muslims." —Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex

Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of the existential anxieties and stalled expectations that inevitably accompany such hopes. Drawing on many years of study in Egypt and the life stories of rural, lower-middle-class men before and after the revolution, Schielke views recent events in ways that are both historically deep and personal. Schielke challenges prevailing views of Muslim piety, showing that religious lives are part of a much more complex lived experience. Samuli Schielke is a research fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and an external lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. He is author of The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt, and editor (with Knut Graw) of The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East and (with Liza Debevec) of Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion.


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Political Science

Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria

AUTHOR: Samuli Schielke DESCRIPTION: 316 pages, 6 black & white illustrations,

5 maps DATE: July 2015

• Heavily debated subject in global discussions of developingeconomies

• Explication of the dynamics of extraction economics and itseffects on a developing nation

• Complex interplay between governments, NGOs andhuman players examined in depth

"Provides a much needed ethnographic perspective on the complex dimensions of the long-running social and political conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta." —Daniel Jordan Smith, author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria

"Reveals the complex interrelationships and ambiguous borders between key groups of actors: NGOs, militants, youth groups, elders, the army, corporations, and the state, and looks specifically and uniquely at the centrality of oil in the production of social identity." —Kristin D. Phillips, Emory University

Omolade Adunbi investigates the myths behind competing claims to oil wealth in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Looking at ownership of natural resources, oil extraction practices, government control over oil resources, and discourse about oil, Adunbi shows how symbolic claims have created an “oil citizenship.” He explores the ways NGOs, militant groups, and community organizers invoke an ancestral promise to defend land disputes, justify disruptive actions, or organize against oil corporations. Policies to control the abundant resources have increased contestations over wealth, transformed the relationship of people to their environment, and produced unique forms of power, governance, and belonging.

Omolade Adunbi is Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Faculty Associate for Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan.


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Anthropology

European Muslim Antisemitism Why Young Urban Males Say They Don’t Like Jews AUTHOR: Günther Jikeli DESCRIPTION: 360 pages, 7 black & white illustrations DATE: February 2015

• Disturbing, alarming findings of careful investigation • Unpacks the normalization of anti-Jewish hostility in the

West-European Muslim milieu • Ample interviews, organized by themes

"Gunter Jikeli's nuanced study, based on in-depth interviews conducted with young Muslims in France, Germany, and Britain, is an important contribution to our understanding of the pervasiveness of contemporary European Muslim antisemitism." —Robert S. Wistrich, Director, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Jikeli's new book, based on about 120 wide and deep scope interviews with young urban Moslem males, as the author defines them, most of whom 'don't like Jews,' is a courageous, non-politically correct first class research." —Dina Porat, Head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, Tel Aviv University

Antisemitism from Muslims has become a serious issue in Western Europe, although not often acknowledged as such. Looking for insights into the views and rationales of young Muslims toward Jews, Günther Jikeli and his colleagues interviewed 117 ordinary Muslim men in London (chiefly of South Asian background), Paris (chiefly North African), and Berlin (chiefly Turkish). The researchers sought information about stereotypes of Jews, arguments used to support hostility toward Jews, the role played by the Middle East conflict and Islamist ideology in perceptions of Jews, the possible sources of antisemitic views, and, by contrast, what would motivate Muslims to actively oppose antisemitism. They also learned how the men perceive discrimination and exclusion as well as their own national identification. This study is rich in qualitative data that will mark a significant step along the path toward a better understanding of contemporary antisemitism in Europe. Günther Jikeli is a research fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam University and at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (GSRL/CNRS), Paris.


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