Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives edited by James Murton, Dean Bavington, and Carly Dokis (McGill-Queen’s University Press 391 pages US$110 hardcover, US$37.95 paperback).
Compares four cases of IMF policy reforms regarding low-income developing countries between 19. Poor States, Power and the Politics of IMF Reform: Drivers of Change in the Post- Washington Consensus by Mark Hibben (Palgrave Macmillan 185 pages $129). Examines the significance of books written by Varro and others in the final two centuries BC that made Roman religion legible in a way akin to Judaism and Christianity without being scripture. Legible Religion: Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture by Duncan MacRae (Harvard University Press 272 pages $49.95). A study of the religious magistrates who maintained sacred treasuries.
Bubelis (University of Michigan Press 288 pages $75). Hallowed Stewards: Solon and the Sacred Treasurers of Ancient Athens by William S. A study of the French avant-garde artist (1887-1968) and his engagement with astronomy, geography, and aviation. Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp by James Housefield (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England 312 pages $85 hardcover, $40 paperback). Argues that the most significant archaeological and paleontological resources remain undiscovered in the Americas remain undiscovered in the karst river basins of Florida.
Dunbar (University Press of Florida 324 pages $84.95). Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast by James S. Focuses on performance, village life, souvenir shopping, and photography in a study of the encounter between tourists and locals in a group of Pacific islands famous in anthropology.
Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands by Michelle MacCarthy (University of Hawai’i Press 304 pages $68). Explores class in modern India through a study of an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, an English teacher, and a domestic worker in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu. Living Class in Urban India by Sara Dickey (Rutgers University Press 288 pages $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Bower, Muriel Newhall, and other writers in a study of how women shaped the emerging genre of the western. Westerns: A Women’s History by Victoria Lamont (University of Nebraska Press 194 pages $55).
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