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Afary, Janet. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009. xix, 423p., bibl., ill., index, $32.99. From slave concubinage and harem wives to a westernized model of monogamous heterosexual marriage and a yet-incomplete sexual revolution.
Ameriks, Karl, and Otfried Höffe, eds. Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy. Trans. Nicholas Walker. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009. xviii, bibl., index. German-language scholarship, 1989-2002, for English readers.
Ames, Eric. Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2009. ix, 336p., bibl., ill., index, $35. An animal dealer and ethnographic showman in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Badiou, Alain. Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II. Trans. Alberto Toscano. New York: Continuum, 2009. xvii, 617p., bibl., ill., index, $29.95. Subject, object, bodies, change, the transcendental, and life.
Banner, James M., Jr., and John R. Gillis, eds. Becoming Historians. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009. xvi, 288p., $25. Eleven memoirs from the Post-War generation that invented the New Histories.
Bowler, Peter J., and John V. Pickstone, eds. Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 6: The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009. xxvi, 662p., bibl., ill., index, $160. Thirty-three essays on science workers, disciplinary methods, the construction of new narratives, and cultural impacts since 1800.
Brandolini, Aurelio Lippo. Republics and Kingdoms Compared. Ed. and trans. James Hankins. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2009. xxv, 297p., index, $29.95. Socratic dialogue between Matthias Corvinus and a Florentine merchant as critique of Florentine civic humanism; critical edition with facing Latin-English translation.
Browers, Michaelle L. Political Ideology in the Arab World: Accommodation and Transformation. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009. viii, 198p., bibl., index, $32.99. Nationalism, socialism, Islamism, and a retreat from secularism.
Burnham, John C. Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits in the Machine Age. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009. viii, 328p., bibl., ill., index, $40. Insurers and psychologists perceive a tendency toward injury in some individuals, while physicians reject whether such a tendency constitutes a disease and engineers design things to be foolproof.
Clewis, Robert R. The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009. xiii, 258p., bibl., index, $99. Aesthetic enthusiasm in the second and third Critiques.
Collins, Anthony. Discours sur la liberté de penser. Ed. Pascal Taranto and Jean-Michel Vienne. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2009. 219p., bibl., index, [End Page 681] 40. New French translation of the 1713 text, as vol. 33 of a series on Libre pensée et littérature clandestine.
Collins, David J., S. J. Reforming Saints: Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. xv, 227p., bibl., ill, index, $65. Humanist rhetoric in forty hagiographies.
Conley, John J., S. J. Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal. Notre Dame, Ind.: U of Notre Dame P, 2009. xiv, 317p., bibl., index, $50. Modern Jesuit reads radically Augustinian letters on divine otherness, the bondage of the will, and dependency on grace from seventeenth-century Jansenist convent.
Cooper, William J., Jr., and John M. McCardell, Jr., eds. In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals. Baton Rouge: U of Louisiana P, 2009. viii, 195p., index, $27.95. Nine essays presenting the Civil War as "the central event in American history."
Craiutu, Aurelian, and Jeremy Jennings, eds. and trans. Tocqueville on America After 1840: Letters and Other Writings. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009. xv, 560p., bibl., index, $32.99. Shift in emphasis reveals a growing disenchantment with America after 1852.
Dolan, Neal. Emerson's Liberalism. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2009. xi, 341p., index, $29.95. Progress, reason, property, commerce, liberty, rights, and limited government.
Dolgopolski, Sergey. What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement. New York: Fordham UP, 2009. xii, 333p., bibl., index, $60. Talmud as a discipline, not a text, in which competing interpretations imply underlying consensus.
Elster, Jon. Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009. x, 202p., bibl., index, $22.99. Rehabilitating Tocqueville's arguments as modern and relevant.
Evans, C. Stephen. Kierkegaard: An Introduction. New York: Cambridge UP, 2009 xvi, 206p., bibl., index...

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