Books Received

Belich, James. The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. ix, 622p., index, $39.95. The Black Death doubled per capita wealth, which drove the expansion of Eurasian empires in the early modern period.

Browning, Andrew H. Schools For Statesmen: The Divergent Educations of the Constitution's Framers. Lawrence: U of Kansas P, 2022. xiv, 353p., index, $49.95. The kinds of schools attended and the curricula studied determined the ideological positions of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn. Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021. 341p., ill., index. Seurat, Klimt, and Nijinsky introduced a new formalism in posing the human figure (strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal) that destabilized previous visual codes that used torsion to signify the inner life of the subject.

Concannon, Cavan W. Profaning Paul. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021. 167p., index. New Testament scatology of excrement, refuse, and waste and the evils justified by readings of the Pauline epistles.

Cypress, Rebecca. Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2022. xxii, 365p., bibl., ill., index. Enlightenment enacted through collaborative practices of composition, performance, and improvisation.

DiIulio, John Peter. Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xiii, 305p., bibl., index, $35. Reconciling collective happiness with individual liberty.

Eich, Stefan. The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xvii, 320p., ill., index, $35. Six episodes addressing coinage, paper, and the social contract in Locke, Fichte, Marx, and Bretton Woods.

Foucault, Michel. Speaking the Truth About Oneself. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021. xxvii, 272., index. Reconstruction of five lectures and a seminar as a genealogy of the modern subject from Victoria University, Toronto, in 1982.

Gillman, Susan. American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2022. xvi, 183p., ill., index. The Gulf-Caribbean and California-Pacific endowed with meaning by reference to the Mediterranean, 1890s to 1940s.

Guentzel, Ralph P. The Quest for a Feasible Utopia: Historical Variants of Democratic Socialism and Their Contemporary Implications. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2022. 230p., bibl., index, €52. Four variants of democratic socialism, early industrial cooperativism, mature industrial collectivism, 1968 neocollectivism, and participatory Leftism in the neoliberal era.

Harris, Randy Allen. The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle Over Deep Structure. Second edition. New York: Oxford UP, 2021. xvi, 547p., bibl., index. Theories and personalities in US linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century, updated to explain twenty-first-century developments.

Harrison, Henrietta. The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2021. xiv, 431p., bibl., ill., index, $29.95. Cultural mediation in 1793.

Kang, Taran. Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2022. x, 208p., bibl., index, $60. Literary devices that depict the evil genius, the salacious, and the moral status of the spectator from Sade to modern horror-crime.

König, Jason. The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xxx, 444p., bibl., ill., index, $45. Environmental humanities in Greek literature from Homer to late antique hagiography.

Kovacs, Eszter Krasznai, ed. Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Open Book, 2021. xii, 325p., ill., index. Twelve essays on activism, political ecology, and political anthropology in Hungary, Czechia, Poland, Romania, and Serbia.

Link, Fabian. Demokratisierung nach Auschwitz: Eine Geschichte der westdeutschen Sozialwissenschaften in der Nachkriegszeit. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022. 698p, bibl., index, €66. A new German-American style of thinking and the building of research institutes and sociological seminars, 1945–late 1960s, with Max Horkheimer representing returning exiles and Helmut Schelsky representing pre-1945 continuity.

Margel, Serge and Jean-Pierre Schneider, eds. Anges et démons: Dans les traditions théologiques et métaphysiques. Geneva: Droz, 2021. 243p, index. Twelve essays on the powers and functions of higher beings in Augustine, Avicenna, Maimonides, the Babylonian Talmud, and western medieval philosophy.

Masur, Kate. Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction. New York: Norton, 2021. xxv, 456p., bibl., ill., index. Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Mackey, Jacob L. Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xxi, 468p., bibl., index, $45. Prayers, children's education, blood sacrifices, and religious practices reveal what belief meant in pre-Christian Rome.

Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare. Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness: Matter and Mind. New York: Routledge, 2022. viii, 328p., index. Consciousness, personal identity, freedom, and intentionality in Descartes, Lock and Leibniz, Shaftesbury and Hume, Kant, and Franz Brentano.

Ney, David. The Quest to Save the Old Testament: Mathematics, Hieroglyphics, and Providence in Enlightenment England. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2022. xii, 324p., bibl., index. Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, John Hutchinson, George Watson, George Horne, and William Jones of Nayland.

Nirenberg, David and Ricardo L. Nirenberg. Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021. 420p., bibl., ill., index, $30. A long quest for stable laws and the predictive knowledge of determinism.

Reitter, Paul and Chad Wellmon. Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021. 326p., index. It wasn't any better in the nineteenth century—Diesterweg, Nietzsche, Helmholz, Dilthey, Windelband, Weber.

Richlin, Johanna Bard. In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. x, 261p., bibl., index, $26.95. Ethnographic study of Brazilians in the Washington, DC, area.

Santos, Milton. For a New Geography. Trans. Archie Davies. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2021. xxxv, 225p., bibl., index, $28. Methodological program for understanding the socioeconomic formation of space and the nation-state as a unit of study. Originally Portuguese.

Sellars, John. The Pocket Epicurean. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021. 126p., $12.50. A twenty-first-century version of Lucretius.

Seneca. Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic. Trans. Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021. xxxi, 307p., index, $16. Moral philosophy for undergraduates.

Sluga, Glenda. The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe After Napoleon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2021. xvi, 362p., bibl., ill., index, $35. The role of Germaine de Staël, Wilhelmine von Sagan, Dorothea Lieven, and other women in building the multilateralism that underlies the modern discipline of international relations.

Snyder, Jack. Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xiii, 310p., index, $30. Rights succeed when they are allied with power.

Strauss, Leo. On Plato's Protagoras. Ed. and intro. Robert C. Bartlett. Vol. 4 of The Leo Strauss Transcript Series. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2022. xii, 476p., index. Transcription of audio recordings from a 1965 seminar course addressing myth, hedonism, and whether virtue is teachable.

Tagliacozzo, Eric. In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xix, 489p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Environmental history of the Indian Ocean.

Tamarkin, Elisa. Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2022. xi, 432p., ill., index, $35. The search for meaning and significance in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and visual art.

Verburgt, Lukas M., ed. A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817–1859. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2022. xxvii, 446p., bibl., ill., index. Seven chapters of biography and mathematical topics, plus manuscripts, diaries, and letters.

Wilson, Matthew. Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. xv, 357p., bibl., index. British follower of Auguste Comte used the new positivist sociology for trenchant critiques of nineteenth-century imperialism.

Yoder, Douglas. Tanakh Epistemology: Knowledge and Power, Religious and Secular. New York: Cambridge UP, 2020. xvi, 407p., bibl., index. God's knowledge in Daniel and Ecclesiastes, interpretations by Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, and postmodern criticism.