We are pleased to announce these five books debuting in May.
May 11
Primed for Violence
Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland
Paul Brykczynski
The assassination that changed a nation
“The interwar period was an often violent time in which the demons of the twentieth century increasingly had their way. Brykczynski places the assassination of President Gabriel Narutowicz in the context of growing antisemitism and the emerging challenge to democracy in the recently independent Polish nation. An important story, thoroughly researched and compellingly told.”
—John Merriman, Yale University
May 11
The Athenian Adonia in Context
The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice
Laurialan Reitzammer
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Rediscovers the influence of women’s rituals on Lysistrata, Plato, and diverse Athenian works
“Persuasively reinterprets the Adonia as a ritual that brought Athenian women’s dissenting voices into the public arena to critique male social institutions and values. This innovative work draws on an immense range of ancient sources—literary, documentary, artistic, and material.”
—Laura McClure, series editor
May 11
Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance
Edited by Yutian Wong
Studies in Dance History
An essential guide and model for current studies of Asian American dance
“A methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production.”
—Priya Srinivasan, author of Sweating Saris
May 25
The Invisible Jewish Budapest
Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Mary Gluck
A groundbreaking, brilliant urban history of a Central European metropolis in the decades before World War I
“A magnificently consequential book. Gluck examines the vibrant modernist culture created largely by secular Jews in Budapest, in counterpoint to a backward-looking, nationalistic Hungarian establishment and a conservative Jewish religious elite.”—Scott Spector, author of Violent Sensations
Available now
Worse than the Devil
Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
Revised Edition
Dean A. Strang
An unjust trial, as patriotism, nativism, and fear swept the nation
“A riveting account of a miscarriage of justice relevant to our times, when fear of radicals of a different stripe may infect our system of justice.”—Booklist