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List of Books by Discipline and Genre

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Asian Studies

McManus, Stuart M. Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The “Inua Indica” of Ignazio Arcamone SJ.

Arcamone, Ignazio: celebration of Portugal, 11–13; early life and education, 4, 5, 6; Indo-humanist approach, 20–24; intellectual breadth, 7–10, 11; Konkani sermons, 9–10; language ability, 6, 7–8, 9, 15; list of surviving works, 17–18; missionary zeal, 4–5; preaching career, 5, 9–11, 14–15; prose Latin works, 13–14; teaching career, 6, 14–15; travels and diplomatic missions in India, 15–17; Conciones per annum concannice compositae, 9–10, 17; De Salcetana peninsula commentarius, 13–14, 17, 28792, 292–98; Ianua Indica, generally, 6, 7, 18–20, 26–27; Lusias Leonina, 11–13, 18, 298–300, 300–302; Purgatorii comentarium, 10–11, 17

Walker, Brett L. Yukikaze’s War: An Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyer and World War II on the Pacific. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Yukikaze (destroyer), generally. see also Dan Yang (destroyer)

            child born aboard, 331
            first launch, 13–15
            influence of Washington Naval Treaty, 59
            known as Japan’s ‘unsinkable destroyer’, 14
            logic of sacrifice and, 250
            lucky captain, 212–13
            as ‘lucky warship’, 18, 19, 144, 204
            name and symbolism, 12, 13, 22, 24
            need to make marine environment legible, 102
            official history erased, 320, 329
            overview of World War II career, 15–16
            reputation as unsinkable, 161, 181
            seeking nobility, 289
            ‘snowy wind’, 13
            source of her luck, 204–5, 208
            tethered to history, 332
            ‘tip of the brush’, 86
            tool of empire, 62

Yin, Qingfei. State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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Sino-Vietnamese border. see also border priorities; border securitization; border societies; coastal societies; collectivization campaigns; cooperative movement (WPV); First Indochina War; Guangxi-Vietnam border; local state administration; maritime border; state building; trade; transportation systems; Vietnam War; Zhennan Guan
            overview, 22–24
            Chinese invasion of Vietnam, 411–15
            collectivizing border economy, 240
            communications centralized, 118
            COVID-19, 17–20
            cross-border connections politicized, 130
            crucial to Sino-Vietnamese partnership, 94, 196, 207–16
            currency and exchange, 244, 257
            Guangxi-Northeast Vietnam vs Northwest Vietnam-Yunnan borderlands, 46–48
            institutionalization of border administration, 81, 116
            as internationally coordinated project, 184–94
            inter-provincial border conference, 184–86
            ISC members constraining cross-border activities, 143–44
            joint state invasion process, overview, 24–28, 133, 415–16
            lens on Cold War Asia, 22–25, 29–30, 32–34, 421–23
            limits of state central authority, 197
            local opportunities driving pressure on, 92
            pan-global understanding of, 422
            rear base for war efforts, 383
            site of selective coercion, 74
            soft boundary to hard boundary, 417–18
            space of opportunity and danger, 73, 84–87
            symbolic meanings bestowed on, 95, 98–100, 342–44

Biography

Curtin, Mary Ellen. She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

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Jordan, Barbara: childhood, 27–28, 29, 31–32, 33–34, 36–37, 46–48; death, 345; feeling like an outsider, 37; as the good child, 199, 200; personal and political life, overview, 12; relationship with father, 46–48, 49–50, 79, 80, 197–202; relationship with Grandpa Jordan, 36; relationship with Grandpa Patten, 36–38, 43–45; relationship with mother, 30–32, 50. See also ambition; Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait (autobiography); Democratic Party; education; emotion; health; homophobia; Jordan-Graves race; law career; legacy, memory, and representations; marriage; policy positions; press coverage; private life; public speaking; public work after Congress; religion; reputation; sexual orientation and identity; teaching career; Texas Senate career; US House career

Biology

Charbonneau, Mathieu, ed. The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation. MIT Press, 2024.

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Techniques. See also actions; animal culture; cognition; cultural evolution; dressage; evolution, human; flexibility; innovation; learning processes; potters and pottery; rigidity; stability; technical traditions; technology; tools; transmission

    causal understanding, 4
    chimpanzee techniques, 244–248
    cladistic analysis of, 59, 60–61
    classes of factors of attraction, 244–248
    cultural attraction theory and, 244–248
    cultural schemas and, 186
    cumulative technological culture, 196, 207
    defined, xi, 56, 244
    as flexible interactive processes, xiii–xv
    herbal medical techniques, 181–184
    methods versus, 56, 57
    parameters of, 56
    technical behaviors defined beyond, 56
    technical choices, 3, 30f
    technical evolution defined, 59
    technical knowledge, 107
    to technical tradition from, 57
    technological evolution, xi, xii, xiii
    technological niches, 17–18, 20, 21–22, 142, 149–150, 151

Chemistry

De La Cruz, Damon and Robert Thaddeus Holmes, Turning Art into Science: Applying Chemistry to Funeral Service, 2nd ed. Tuesday Evening Publications, 2023.

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decomposition. See also embalming; pH shift; rigor mortis
    about, 260
    aerobic degradation, 296, 296f
    age, 276
    aldehydes, 165, 166–168
    amines, 149
    amino acids, 292, 292f
    ammonia, 151, 292
    anaerobic degradation, 296, 296f
    auto-destruct mechanism of cells, 291
    bacterial infestation, 289
    bacterial translocation, 289
    body mass, 276
    bone (diagenesis), 297
    as chemical change, 18, 19
    as entropy, 288
    environmental factors, 289, 290, 291, 291f
    heme and hemoglobin, 294, 294f
    hierarchy of, 289–291, 290f
    hydrolysis and, 19, 168, 169f, 290, 291–292
    indole, 153, 153f, 154
    lipids, 295, 295f
    methylene bridges, 167–168, 302–306, 302f, 303f, 304f, 305f
    moisture, 289
    nitrogen-based compounds, 143–144, 148
    nucleic acids and, 295, 295f
    postmortem caloricity, 9–10, 19, 254–255, 259
    Primary Dilution Factor, 275
    protein breakdown, 197, 289, 290–291
    ptomaines, 149, 152
    putrefaction, 168, 197, 289, 291–292, 295–296, 295f, 296f
    signs of, 260
    sulfur compounds, 143–144, 292–293

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Davis, Tracy C. and Paul Rae, eds. The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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mixed-methods approach. see also interdisciplinarity, methods, research, theory
            benefits of, 93, 261
            as creative survival technique, 439
            embodied exploration of identity, 499
            examples of bringing in other disciplines, 213, 214, 216, 252
            film studies and body-camera footage, 197–99
            flexibility within fieldwork, 324
            and interdisciplinarity, 27, 81
            manifesting differences in knowledge, 175
            methods don’t have to mix well, 379
            mixing methods and non-methods, 478, 481
            mixing methods vs mixed-methods research, 166–67
            multiplicity of perspectives, 241
            and multi-scalar complexity, 505–6
            performance studies’ affinity for, 202–3
            triangulation, 200, 253–57

Williams, Deanne. Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy. Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury, 2023.

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girl culture and girlhood
            aspirational condition, 42
            associated with Christ, 35
            associated with John the Apostle, 35
            beginning of girl culture, 17
            childhood providing space for accomplishment, 3
            collaborative nature of, 209
            definitions, 107
            encapsulated by the syllabub, 213
            ephemerality of girlhood, 148–9
            expendable daughters and flawed daughterhood, 112, 114–6
            figuring flawed humanity, 38
            friendship and female bonds, 69, 75, 79, 88, 144
            full of ‘firsts,’ 1–3
            ‘girl’ (term), 5
            girlhood time of learning and creativity, 106
            girlish virtues, 26, 33, 207
            girls’ bodies, 24–6, 41–2, 43
            insults for schoolgirls, 173–5
            marital status and, 107
            men included within, 33, 35
            metaphoric liminality of, 187
            New World encounters, 190
            performance reinforces, 4
            privilege as constitutive feature, 12–3
            protracted girlhood, 107, 152, 191–2
            spirituality and religion, 26, 33, 35, 36, 58, 103
            terms for, 37–8, 99, 129, 160, 173–5, 202, 207
            theory and tradition of, 8–9
            See also educating girls; models of girlhood; performance

Economics

Costa-Font, Joan, Alberto Batinti, and Gilberto Turati, eds., Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

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health systems

            cabinet-member ideology and 149–150, 151–154
            consolidation 256–257
            formal vs informal payments 48
            industry links 30
            legitimized through political processes 371
            single-payer 59–60, 61–63, 64–65, 67, 257
            tax-financed systems 57–58, 59–60, 67, 68
            types of 371–372
            under-contracting 64
            see also cabinet and parliamentary composition; centralization; corruption; Covid-19; decentralization; democracies; efficiency; federalism; insurance; lobbying; providers; reform; right to health; trade policies; individual countries

Environment Studies

Hampton, Alexander J.B. and Douglas Hendley, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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environment. see also environmental crisis, see also environmental ethics, see also environmentalism, see also environmental activism, see also environmental movement

            defined, 23
            environmental aesthetics, 323
            environmental degradation, 127, 128
            environmental humanities, 21
            environmental philosophy, 301
            environmental policy, 19
            environmental responsibility, 129
            the Fall, 20
            and nature, 132, 180
            and participation, 181
            personified, 210
            in Plato, 182–83, 185
            and religion, 180, 439
            respect for, 197
            restoration, 256
            term coined, 272

Horowitz, Gabriel. Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America. Bucknell University Press, 2024.

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nature: as ahistorical, 20, 21, 25, 27, 38–39, 42; American nature as artificial, 26; in Aristotle, 79; as benevolent destroyer, 28–29; and the commons, 121–122; as Creole utopia, 54; cultural renewal and autonomy, 21, 27, 57–58; defined, 24, 127n1; desire for, 5–6, 119–120, 122; divinity of, 40–41, 42, 80, 81–82, 125n3; enclosure of, 1, 43, 44, 89–90, 92–93, 96–97, 99, 104–105; erasing history, 11, 27, 31, 39, 42, 50, 93, 120; fantasy of, 42, 67–68, 82, 119, 120–121; giving right to rule, 70; human stakes of, 120; independence and, 18, 19, 20, 27; Indigenous culture and, 25, 26, 27; inhuman and dehumanization, 22, 75–76, 87, 100; land and, 26–27, 29, 50, 128n9; made law, 99–100; modern interpretation of, 17; modernity and, 2, 5, 18, 32–33, 81, 119; as myth, 2–3, 130n25; “natural” as term, 53–54; nature ideology, 1, 2, 4, 10, 23, 42, 43; Niagara Falls, 31–32, 33, 34–35, 38–39, 40–41; political space, 79; redemptive promise of, 18, 21, 22, 29, 31; repetition and misreading reinforced, 41; as a resource, 38; in Roman Empire, 79; Romanticism vs. Darwinism, 50; science and, 24, 25–26, 49, 99–100, 101; secularism, 80, 81; site of renewal, 31, 38–39; structure of belief and thought, 81, 118–119; survival and, 82, 98, 99–100; as tabula rasa, 5, 19, 27; territorialization of, 2–6, 24; timeless and innocent, 27; totalitarianism and, 99–101; truth and, 99–100, 116; wilderness, 19. See also biopolitical state; camps; colonialism; decolonization; gardens; history; Latin America; nation-state; return to nature; rupture, tradition of; yerbales

Rand, Honey. In the Public Interest: People, Politics, and Power in Tampa Bay’s Water Wars. Ethics Press, 2023.

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environmental impacts. see also pumping causing environmental issues; wellfields

            blamed on lack of rainfall, 28, 45, 62, 98–100, 144
            Cross Bar wellfield, 77
            Cypress Creek wellfield, 56, 57–58
            overuse linked to damage, 80
            recovery program, 318
            significant harm threshold, 38
            from water withdrawals, 38–39, 73

Finance

Audretsch, David B., et al., eds. Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance and Technology. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

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entrepreneurship see also academic and scientific entrepreneurs; gender; Germany; management theories; Russia; serial entrepreneurship

            corporate entrepreneurship 40, 42, 46–47, 55
            decision-making modes 45, 86–87
            digitalization xviii–xx
            entrepreneurial leadership 3, 4, 6–9, 10–11, 13, 16–17
            financing for xvii–xviii (see also crowdfunding; financing and funding)
            flexibility 68, 87, 136
            intermittent entrepreneurship 40, 42, 46
            management team completeness 250
            policies 131–32
            portfolio entrepreneurship 40, 42, 46
            role of teams 249–50
            second-chance entrepreneurship 40, 42, 46
            social capital 159–60
            surrogate entrepreneurs 258–59
            in traditional vs secular-rational cultures 186
            and uncertainty 86, 87

Funerary Services

De La Cruz, Damon and Robert Thaddeus Holmes, Turning Art into Science: Applying Chemistry to Funeral Service, 2nd ed. Tuesday Evening Publications, 2023.

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decomposition. See also embalming; pH shift; rigor mortis
    about, 260
    aerobic degradation, 296, 296f
    age, 276
    aldehydes, 165, 166–168
    amines, 149
    amino acids, 292, 292f
    ammonia, 151, 292
    anaerobic degradation, 296, 296f
    auto-destruct mechanism of cells, 291
    bacterial infestation, 289
    bacterial translocation, 289
    body mass, 276
    bone (diagenesis), 297
    as chemical change, 18, 19
    as entropy, 288
    environmental factors, 289, 290, 291, 291f
    heme and hemoglobin, 294, 294f
    hierarchy of, 289–291, 290f
    hydrolysis and, 19, 168, 169f, 290, 291–292
    indole, 153, 153f, 154
    lipids, 295, 295f
    methylene bridges, 167–168, 302–306, 302f, 303f, 304f, 305f
    moisture, 289
    nitrogen-based compounds, 143–144, 148
    nucleic acids and, 295, 295f
    postmortem caloricity, 9–10, 19, 254–255, 259
    Primary Dilution Factor, 275
    protein breakdown, 197, 289, 290–291
    ptomaines, 149, 152
    putrefaction, 168, 197, 289, 291–292, 295–296, 295f, 296f
    signs of, 260
    sulfur compounds, 143–144, 292–293

Schmidt, Benjamin, Sean Sweetman, and Briana Garcia. Creating Natural Form: Restorative Art Theory and Application. Tuesday Evening Publications, 2022.

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restorative art, 2–3, 4, 6, 7–9, 10–15. See also casketing; cosmetics; embalming; natural re-creation; presentation; restorations; setting the features; tissue building

History

Becker, Ann M. Smallpox in Washington’s Army: Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War. Lexington Books, 2023.

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smallpox, generally:

            class and social status, 23;
            contagiousness, 20
            discrete vs confluent smallpox, 43n45;
            disruptions to daily life, 23, 29;
            as enemy to American cause, 77;
            in Europe, 3–4, 12n7, 25, 211, 228;
            fear of, 21, 88–89;
            in the historiography, 6–10;
            immunity, 25;
            lethality change, 25;
            long-term consequences, 20, 34, 37, 46n76;
            medical understanding, colonial, 20–21;
            mortality rate, 20, 22, 28–29, 31–32;
            outbreaks in North America, pre-war, 3, 20–21, 23;
            overview of attitudes toward, 21, 24–25;
            pathogenesis of virus, 101;
            public reactions to, 20, 21, 22, 24;
            symptoms, 19.
            See also hospitals; inoculation, generally

Brown, Jason Aaron. St. Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

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Summa (Antoninus): Antoninus’s view of, 28; apograph volumes, 85-6, 93-4, 243-4, 246; audience for, 37, 161, 235-9; authorities for, overview, 103-9, 110-12; binding and copying, 85-6, 90-1, 95, 99; Chronicles a continuation of, 16-17, 35, 51-2, 54; composition of, overview, 63-5; composition order, 85, 88, 89-90, 91, 101; composition process, incorporating previous works, 95-101; composition process, new material, 91-5; dating of, 87-91; formica allusion, 53-4, 55-6; legacy, 48; as manual of moral theology, 56-7; manuscript tradition, 65-6, 86, 243-4; oral culture of Renaissance Florence, 57n30; as preaching aid, 56-7; purpose of, 55-6, 97, 102, 126, 230-2, 237-9; as Recollectorium, 50, 53, 54-5, 102; as relic, 35; structure of, overview, 58-62, 60n42, 62-3, 85-6, 88-9, 97; tabula capitulorum, 68, 81, 84, 85-6; title of work, 52-5; Tractatus de censuris, 88-9, 98-9

———autographs. See also Giuliano Lapaccini; palaeography: apograph deviations, 93-4; codicological description of manuscript M1, 244, 248, 251-4; codicological description of manuscript M2, 244, 248, 254-8; codicological description of manuscript M3, 244-5, 248, 258-9; codicological description of manuscript M4, 244-5, 248, 259-61; codicological description of manuscript N, 244, 245, 247, 247-51; hand A, 69, 701, 72, 789, 84; hand A compared to Antoninus’s hand, 77, 789, 80-1; hand G, 81-4, 82; proof of autographic status, 66-7, 77, 789, 801, 84; understanding Antoninus on interest, 216-18; use in autograph transcription by author, 261

———editorial principles of author, 261-4

———translation by author, note on, 264-7

———2.1.16 on fraud, 182-95, 271-325. See also fraud; just price doctrine; merchants; monopolies and cartels; profit; trade; wages; worldly trade; individual authorities; authorities for, critical discussion, 186, 187-8, 189, 190, 193, 194; casuistic method, 232-3; pastoral notes, 236; scholastic or speculative method of moral theology, 235; sermon form, 182, 183, 233, 235-6; structure of chapter, 183-4, 233, 271; thema, 185, 273

Clark, Joseph M. H. Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Veracruz. see also Veracruz harbor, see also Ulúacan Coast, see also Veracruz, accounts of, see also defenses, see also Antigua Veracruz, see also Nueva Veracruz, see also Africans and Afro-descended people, see also San Juan de Ulúa, see also trade, see also Mexican-Caribbean

            Caribbean archipelago, 55
            in Caribbean frame, 1, 6–9, 14–16, 303–7
            ciudad de tablas, 75
            colonial priorities of settlement location, 53–54
            early Spanish settlement history, 36–41
            founded as distinct from Caribbean, 37–38
            historical overview, 1–3
            historiography of, 3–6
            Indigenous population decline, 45
            location dispute, 26, 50–51, 68
            metal wealth distributor, 59
            relocations, 38–41, 42–43, 46–47, 49, 52
            as spiritual borderland, 224, 254–61
            La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, 37
            figure: Veracruz and its Harbor, 60, 216

Dees, Robert, The Power of Peasants: Economics & Politics of Farming in Medieval Germany. Commons Press, 2023.

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farmers (peasants). See also agriculture; barbarian tribes; class struggle; commons; debt; farms; feudal mode of production; Forest Charter; forests; inheritance rights; labor service; Medieval Agricultural Revolution; peasants; rebellions and uprisings; rents; serfdom; sexuality; taxes; village life; wage labor; workers: adapting to weather variations, 1430–1431, 1440, 1443; agricultural stagnation blamed on, 1454–1455; annoying their betters, 418–419; apparently bad at math, 1351; bad customs imposed on, 181–182; bathhouses, 908; benefits of Viking invasions, 1217–1218; cash payment of rents, 238, 644; cities abandoning, 534–535; class divisions within, 207–208, 470, 572; communal farming decisions, 207; concessions to, from lords, 413; condition in 1500s, 477; contempt for, 318–319, 402–403, 422; control by rural knights lessening, 514; cottagers, 208, 572; creative capacity of, 90–91, 150, 449–450; currency devaluation as wage theft, 359–360; dependency beyond serfdom, 473; desire to be their own lords (the horror!), 492; ensnared by marriage, 881–882; essential role in historical progress, 27, 54, 150, 1454–1455, 1456; eviction from farms, 350, 864–865; expropriation and subjection, 177–179; forced backward by lords’ greed, 289–290; forced labor services, grievances against, 532, 609, 614; Forest Charter and rights of, 1223, 1240–1245, 1249–1251, 1252; freedom curtailed, 182, 250–251, 353, 429–430, 435, 1208, 1399–1400; freedom increasing, 250; freedoms defended with arms, 430; free farmers increase production, 45, 71, 119–120, 129, 133–134, 149–151, 175, 233–236, 239, 243, 255, 268, 392, 413, 1223, 1232, 1241, 1259–1262, 1266–1267, 1281–1285; free farmers mean free cities, 568; free farmers nearing slave status, 122; going armed, 176, 464–465; historians’ contempt for, 1359–1360, 1392, 1402, 1506; impact of higher rents, 360; incapable of innovation, per capitalists, 1453–1454; under jurisdiction of multiple lords, 466, 467–469, 879–883, 961–962, 964; labor migration, 402, 435; landholding categories, 572; land improvements pointless and unrealizable, 733–734, 736; liberation, 174–176; loss of control of land use, 664; loss of freedom reduces production, 74–75, 112, 129, 133–134, 155, 170, 352–354, 438–439, 448, 471, 475, 484, 547–551, 568, 1257–1258; Magna Carta and rights of, 1221, 1240–1242, 1245–1251; medieval commercial revolution, 239–240; migration restricted, 886; mysticism’s pernicious effect on, 1023–1024; no joking allowed, 926–927; not, in fact, leaves, 1430–1431; outburger status (Ausbürger, Pfahlbürger), 396–397, 407–408, 410; pauperism and beggary, 1138–1139, 1227–1228, 1319; peasants vs farmers, 29; permission to purchase property, 865–866; proletarization of, 251; property rights, 615–616; prosperity increasing, 418–419; reciprocal relationship with towns, 240–241; refusing oath of allegiance, 517; resistance to forced labor, 351; restrictions on, increasing, 996–997; Roman farmer-militiamen, 45, 46–47, 56, 114, 138; under Roman Republic, 45, 47, 52–53; rural flight, 402; scientific method, 422, 1067, 1075; sharecropping, 376; standard of living improvements, 239, 242; “thickheaded peasant,” 698, 939, 1221, 1354, 1455, 1500; trading surpluses, 152; underling (Untertan) status, 899–900; women highly regarded, 1025; yeoman farmers, 1268–1269, 1272, 1275–1276

Jones, Claire Taylor. Fixing the Liturgy: Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256–1516. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

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liturgy: affective changes, 43–45; as anachronistic term, 26–27; definitions of, 27–28; vs devotion, 7, 347n14; devotional change impacting, 196; encompassing practice organizing life, 7; evolution of Dominican, 86–89; expertise necessary for, 67, 268, 269; legislative issues, 71; liturgical reform, motivations for, 86–87; as multimedia performance, 8; papal politics performed through, 113. See also directoria; Dominican order; Great Western Schism; local piety and practices; music; Nuremberg correctura; officia; ordinaria; ritual; singing

Korycki, Kate. Weaponizing the Past: Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First-Century Poland. Berghahn, 2023.

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memory. See also collective memory; mnemonic capital; mnemonic procedures; narratives; the past: constituting identities and collectivities, 17; constricting Polish democracy, 55; history and historiography vs, 17–8; memorializing as means of understanding, 12; as political strategy, 79–85; politicized memory framework, 4–5, 159, 166; remembering a dialogic process, 17; right-wing populists and, 3; socially constructed, 17; terminology preferences, 18

Kreindler, Simon. The Sephardi Jews of Barbados (1627 to 1934). Self-published, 2022.

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Barbados, 21. See also Bridgetown, Barbados; Sephardim on Barbados; slavery; slave trade; sugarcane cultivation; individual Sephardim of Bridgetown (SBt); individual Sephardim of Speightstown (SSt)

            Anglican Church in, 20
            and Brazil, 37
            building style, 24–25, 25
            cotton cultivation, 16
            European settlement history, 14–16, 37, 74
            food dependency, 16–17, 97
            government of, 19–20, 97, 147
            Holetown Monument, 14
            House of Assembly, 15, 19–20
            indentured servants on, 17–19, 26, 32, 40
            independence, 147
            Indian Bridge as capital, 15
            Indigenous peoples on, 14
            Plantocracy, 74
            quality of life, 34–35
            as slave society, 28–34
            Speightstown, 40, 42, 74–76
            sugar revolution, 19
            and Suriname, 58
            sustained by Sephardi merchants, 16
            tobacco cultivation, 16

Muhareb, Mahmoud. The Jewish Agency and Syria during the Arab Revolt: Secret Meetings and Negotiations. I.B. Tauris, 2023.

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Jewish Agency (ja). See also Arab-Jewish agreement; Arab Revolt; espionage, generally; Palestine; Palestinian question; Syria; Zionism and Zionist movement

            acquisition of Palestinian land, 37
            Arab Bureau, 14, 15–16
            Arab Division, 21–22, 23, 122–27, 148, 159
            Arab question, 13, 14, 16
            belief in its global influence and power, 26, 37
            concerns over Syrian independence, 27
            establishment, 16
            Mapai (Labor) party, 40, 63, 136
            Political Department, 2, 40–41
            primary purpose and goals, 1–2, 3, 8, 21, 32–33, 159, 162
            al-Sharq connection, 41, 42

Rand, Honey. In the Public Interest: People, Politics, and Power in Tampa Bay’s Water Wars. Ethics Press, 2023.

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environmental impacts. see also pumping causing environmental issues; wellfields

            blamed on lack of rainfall, 28, 45, 62, 98–100, 144
            Cross Bar wellfield, 77
            Cypress Creek wellfield, 56, 57–58
            overuse linked to damage, 80
            recovery program, 318
            significant harm threshold, 38
            from water withdrawals, 38–39, 73

Shelford, April. A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Caribbean Enlightenment. see also agricultural Enlightenment, books and publications, Enlightenment, natural history, periodicals, public sphere

            Black population excluded from, 27–32, 142–43, 242–47, 469–71, see also friendship
            Caribbean knowledge culture, 469
            central components, 27–28, 252
            comparison between colonies, 474–75
            creating White colonial identity, 29–33, 49, 92, 473
            “doing” Enlightenment, 473
            as politics of culture, 30–33, 473, 475

Walker, Brett L. Yukikaze’s War: An Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyer and World War II on the Pacific. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Yukikaze (destroyer), generally. see also Dan Yang (destroyer)

            child born aboard, 331
            first launch, 13–15
            influence of Washington Naval Treaty, 59
            known as Japan’s ‘unsinkable destroyer’, 14
            logic of sacrifice and, 250
            lucky captain, 212–13
            as ‘lucky warship’, 18, 19, 144, 204
            name and symbolism, 12, 13, 22, 24
            need to make marine environment legible, 102
            official history erased, 320, 329
            overview of World War II career, 15–16
            reputation as unsinkable, 161, 181
            seeking nobility, 289
            ‘snowy wind’, 13
            source of her luck, 204–5, 208
            tethered to history, 332
            ‘tip of the brush’, 86
            tool of empire, 62

Yin, Qingfei. State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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Sino-Vietnamese border. see also border priorities; border securitization; border societies; coastal societies; collectivization campaigns; cooperative movement (WPV); First Indochina War; Guangxi-Vietnam border; local state administration; maritime border; state building; trade; transportation systems; Vietnam War; Zhennan Guan
            overview, 22–24
            Chinese invasion of Vietnam, 411–15
            collectivizing border economy, 240
            communications centralized, 118
            COVID-19, 17–20
            cross-border connections politicized, 130
            crucial to Sino-Vietnamese partnership, 94, 196, 207–16
            currency and exchange, 244, 257
            Guangxi-Northeast Vietnam vs Northwest Vietnam-Yunnan borderlands, 46–48
            institutionalization of border administration, 81, 116
            as internationally coordinated project, 184–94
            inter-provincial border conference, 184–86
            ISC members constraining cross-border activities, 143–44
            joint state invasion process, overview, 24–28, 133, 415–16
            lens on Cold War Asia, 22–25, 29–30, 32–34, 421–23
            limits of state central authority, 197
            local opportunities driving pressure on, 92
            pan-global understanding of, 422
            rear base for war efforts, 383
            site of selective coercion, 74
            soft boundary to hard boundary, 417–18
            space of opportunity and danger, 73, 84–87
            symbolic meanings bestowed on, 95, 98–100, 342–44

Indexing

Ullstrom, Stephen. Book Indexing. Anthimus Press, 2023.

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metatopic
            aboutness and, 29, 31
            autobiographical index example, 6
            definition, 6, 29, 31, 39
            editing and, 109
            hierarchy of information and, 29
            house metaphor and, 38
            identifying, 32, 39
            indexability of, 32
            index structure, 42, 49–52, 52–54, 58
            supermain discussions and, 33, 39
            term selection for, 33
            Try This exercises, 39–40, 40, 61, 62

Latin American Studies

Clark, Joseph M. H. Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Veracruz. see also Veracruz harbor, see also Ulúacan Coast, see also Veracruz, accounts of, see also defenses, see also Antigua Veracruz, see also Nueva Veracruz, see also Africans and Afro-descended people, see also San Juan de Ulúa, see also trade, see also Mexican-Caribbean

            Caribbean archipelago, 55
            in Caribbean frame, 1, 6–9, 14–16, 303–7
            ciudad de tablas, 75
            colonial priorities of settlement location, 53–54
            early Spanish settlement history, 36–41
            founded as distinct from Caribbean, 37–38
            historical overview, 1–3
            historiography of, 3–6
            Indigenous population decline, 45
            location dispute, 26, 50–51, 68
            metal wealth distributor, 59
            relocations, 38–41, 42–43, 46–47, 49, 52
            as spiritual borderland, 224, 254–61
            La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, 37
            figure: Veracruz and its Harbor, 60, 216

Horowitz, Gabriel. Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America. Bucknell University Press, 2024.

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nature: as ahistorical, 20, 21, 25, 27, 38–39, 42; American nature as artificial, 26; in Aristotle, 79; as benevolent destroyer, 28–29; and the commons, 121–122; as Creole utopia, 54; cultural renewal and autonomy, 21, 27, 57–58; defined, 24, 127n1; desire for, 5–6, 119–120, 122; divinity of, 40–41, 42, 80, 81–82, 125n3; enclosure of, 1, 43, 44, 89–90, 92–93, 96–97, 99, 104–105; erasing history, 11, 27, 31, 39, 42, 50, 93, 120; fantasy of, 42, 67–68, 82, 119, 120–121; giving right to rule, 70; human stakes of, 120; independence and, 18, 19, 20, 27; Indigenous culture and, 25, 26, 27; inhuman and dehumanization, 22, 75–76, 87, 100; land and, 26–27, 29, 50, 128n9; made law, 99–100; modern interpretation of, 17; modernity and, 2, 5, 18, 32–33, 81, 119; as myth, 2–3, 130n25; “natural” as term, 53–54; nature ideology, 1, 2, 4, 10, 23, 42, 43; Niagara Falls, 31–32, 33, 34–35, 38–39, 40–41; political space, 79; redemptive promise of, 18, 21, 22, 29, 31; repetition and misreading reinforced, 41; as a resource, 38; in Roman Empire, 79; Romanticism vs. Darwinism, 50; science and, 24, 25–26, 49, 99–100, 101; secularism, 80, 81; site of renewal, 31, 38–39; structure of belief and thought, 81, 118–119; survival and, 82, 98, 99–100; as tabula rasa, 5, 19, 27; territorialization of, 2–6, 24; timeless and innocent, 27; totalitarianism and, 99–101; truth and, 99–100, 116; wilderness, 19. See also biopolitical state; camps; colonialism; decolonization; gardens; history; Latin America; nation-state; return to nature; rupture, tradition of; yerbales

Law and Legal Studies

Brown, Jason Aaron. St. Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

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Summa (Antoninus): Antoninus’s view of, 28; apograph volumes, 85-6, 93-4, 243-4, 246; audience for, 37, 161, 235-9; authorities for, overview, 103-9, 110-12; binding and copying, 85-6, 90-1, 95, 99; Chronicles a continuation of, 16-17, 35, 51-2, 54; composition of, overview, 63-5; composition order, 85, 88, 89-90, 91, 101; composition process, incorporating previous works, 95-101; composition process, new material, 91-5; dating of, 87-91; formica allusion, 53-4, 55-6; legacy, 48; as manual of moral theology, 56-7; manuscript tradition, 65-6, 86, 243-4; oral culture of Renaissance Florence, 57n30; as preaching aid, 56-7; purpose of, 55-6, 97, 102, 126, 230-2, 237-9; as Recollectorium, 50, 53, 54-5, 102; as relic, 35; structure of, overview, 58-62, 60n42, 62-3, 85-6, 88-9, 97; tabula capitulorum, 68, 81, 84, 85-6; title of work, 52-5; Tractatus de censuris, 88-9, 98-9

———autographs. See also Giuliano Lapaccini; palaeography: apograph deviations, 93-4; codicological description of manuscript M1, 244, 248, 251-4; codicological description of manuscript M2, 244, 248, 254-8; codicological description of manuscript M3, 244-5, 248, 258-9; codicological description of manuscript M4, 244-5, 248, 259-61; codicological description of manuscript N, 244, 245, 247, 247-51; hand A, 69, 701, 72, 789, 84; hand A compared to Antoninus’s hand, 77, 789, 80-1; hand G, 81-4, 82; proof of autographic status, 66-7, 77, 789, 801, 84; understanding Antoninus on interest, 216-18; use in autograph transcription by author, 261

———editorial principles of author, 261-4

———translation by author, note on, 264-7

———2.1.16 on fraud, 182-95, 271-325. See also fraud; just price doctrine; merchants; monopolies and cartels; profit; trade; wages; worldly trade; individual authorities; authorities for, critical discussion, 186, 187-8, 189, 190, 193, 194; casuistic method, 232-3; pastoral notes, 236; scholastic or speculative method of moral theology, 235; sermon form, 182, 183, 233, 235-6; structure of chapter, 183-4, 233, 271; thema, 185, 273

Cook, Rebecca J., ed. Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. [Table of Cases and Table of Legislation Index Only]

Corley, Pamela C., Amy Steigerwalt, and Artemus Ward. When Dissents Matter: Judicial Dialogue through US Supreme Court Opinions. University of Virginia Press, 2023.

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dissent: cited by current majority, 84, 85, 85, 110; cited by future majorities, 16, 22–23, 24, 110; Court’s legitimacy and, 10, 12, 129, 133, 135; defined, 8; democracy and, 37–38; depreciation over time, 114; external effects, 136–37; goals and motivations in, 9, 11–16, 78, 79; impact in statutory cases, 26; impact of, overview, 128–29; in-house impact, 10; integral to judicial process, 133; intensifiers and response rates, 22; intra-court dialogue’s importance, 86; as last resort, 11–12; legal analysis and response to, 18–19, 22; legal and policy dialogue contributions, 11, 27, 36, 107–8, 110, 111, 125, 128–29; legitimated through majority opinion discussion, 84; lower court arguments and, 129; majority opinions influenced by, 13–14, 133; majority opinions undermined, 9, 129; model of, 42–46; noncompliance, 129; non-court actors influenced by, 15–16, 18, 19–20, 21–22, 90–91, 93; number of dissenters, 95–96, 104–5, 105, 107; on-going legal battles and, 10–11, 13, 14–15; precedent citation and responses to, 18, 19, 22, 23; short-term impact, 11, 17–22, 130; strengthening majority opinion, 10–11; suppression of, 9; as useless, 133; value of, 36–37. See also dissent coalitions; dissent negotiations; dissents as threats; dissent style; factors in dissents; history of dissents; ideology; legal certainty; opinions; Supreme Court; writing process, dissents

Linguistics

McManus, Stuart M. Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The “Inua Indica” of Ignazio Arcamone SJ.

Arcamone, Ignazio: celebration of Portugal, 11–13; early life and education, 4, 5, 6; Indo-humanist approach, 20–24; intellectual breadth, 7–10, 11; Konkani sermons, 9–10; language ability, 6, 7–8, 9, 15; list of surviving works, 17–18; missionary zeal, 4–5; preaching career, 5, 9–11, 14–15; prose Latin works, 13–14; teaching career, 6, 14–15; travels and diplomatic missions in India, 15–17; Conciones per annum concannice compositae, 9–10, 17; De Salcetana peninsula commentarius, 13–14, 17, 28792, 292–98; Ianua Indica, generally, 6, 7, 18–20, 26–27; Lusias Leonina, 11–13, 18, 298–300, 300–302; Purgatorii comentarium, 10–11, 17

Literature and Literary Studies

J. Andrew Deman, The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men. University of Texas Press, 2023.

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gender. See also femininity; feminism; intersectionality; male gaze; masculinity, hegemonic; sexuality; women and X-Women; individual characters: body and gender essentialism, 95; classic roles of love and duty, 79–80; codes of conformity in performance, 12; geek culture and, 133; gender-neutral code names and identities, 27; male/female Imaginary, 13; male gender roles as artifice, 135; power as masculine, 31; power fantasies and, 23; science fiction stereotypes, 24; in superhero comics, generally, 1, 7, 13–15; transgressive gender politics, 53–54; victimization and, 55, 56, 62–63

Gillingham, Lauren. Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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fashion. see also silver-fork novels, see also celebrity culture, see also identity, see also modernity, see also contemporaneity, see also temporality

            accessibility of, 181, 213
            centrality of, 5
            citational practice of, 130, 199
            criticism of, 18
            vs custom, 25–28, 138, 195
            dual temporality, 21–28, 71, 365
            ephemerality, 6, 94
            Eurocentrism in fashion theory, 63
            fashion system, 6, 34
            fashion time, 24, 109, 361–65
            idiom of change, 28, 355
            inauthenticity, 364, 372
            innovation, 79–81, 181
            language of slavery, 61
            as locus for satire, 30
            materializes the spirit of the age, 82
            and modernity, 6, 80
            novelty and obsolescence, 6, 16, 23, 79, 130, 142, 181, 368, 413
            openness of, 159, 237, 369
            as an organizing technology, 182
            politics, 82
            principle of currency, 354
            and public consciousness, 38, 139
            revolution in consumption, 6
            scholarly denunciation of, 412
            sense of community, 10, 13
            signifier of the present, 17, 23, 365
            tension between materiality and immateriality, 15
            as transforming the novel, 28–32
            unconscious collective fantasies, 90, 233–34
            vacuity of fashionable society, 92–94

Horowitz, Gabriel. Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America. Bucknell University Press, 2024.

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nature: as ahistorical, 20, 21, 25, 27, 38–39, 42; American nature as artificial, 26; in Aristotle, 79; as benevolent destroyer, 28–29; and the commons, 121–122; as Creole utopia, 54; cultural renewal and autonomy, 21, 27, 57–58; defined, 24, 127n1; desire for, 5–6, 119–120, 122; divinity of, 40–41, 42, 80, 81–82, 125n3; enclosure of, 1, 43, 44, 89–90, 92–93, 96–97, 99, 104–105; erasing history, 11, 27, 31, 39, 42, 50, 93, 120; fantasy of, 42, 67–68, 82, 119, 120–121; giving right to rule, 70; human stakes of, 120; independence and, 18, 19, 20, 27; Indigenous culture and, 25, 26, 27; inhuman and dehumanization, 22, 75–76, 87, 100; land and, 26–27, 29, 50, 128n9; made law, 99–100; modern interpretation of, 17; modernity and, 2, 5, 18, 32–33, 81, 119; as myth, 2–3, 130n25; “natural” as term, 53–54; nature ideology, 1, 2, 4, 10, 23, 42, 43; Niagara Falls, 31–32, 33, 34–35, 38–39, 40–41; political space, 79; redemptive promise of, 18, 21, 22, 29, 31; repetition and misreading reinforced, 41; as a resource, 38; in Roman Empire, 79; Romanticism vs. Darwinism, 50; science and, 24, 25–26, 49, 99–100, 101; secularism, 80, 81; site of renewal, 31, 38–39; structure of belief and thought, 81, 118–119; survival and, 82, 98, 99–100; as tabula rasa, 5, 19, 27; territorialization of, 2–6, 24; timeless and innocent, 27; totalitarianism and, 99–101; truth and, 99–100, 116; wilderness, 19. See also biopolitical state; camps; colonialism; decolonization; gardens; history; Latin America; nation-state; return to nature; rupture, tradition of; yerbales

Kerkering, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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empire and imperialism. see also Du Bois, W.E.B., see also nation-states, see also territory and territoriality, see also sovereignty, see also settler colonialism, see also Emerson, Ralph Waldo, see also Whitman, Walt

            anti-imperialism through racial-continental segregation, 117
            assimilationism and, 117–21
            imperialism pushed to periphery of Indigenous center, 354–56
            imperialist ambition of US national character, 106–7
            Insular Cases and, 278
            missionary activities, 269, 272–73
            survivance challenging, 355–58
            territorialization and regionalization, 339–40
            Transcendentalism opposing, 126
            US as imperial power, 99, 100
            US history inextricable from, 172
            US nature of, 279, 338

Krueger, Roberta L., ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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romances. see also narrative form, prose romances, verse romances

            ancestor to the novel, 313
            authority and autonomy, 88
            boundary with epics, 72
            categories of, 131
            earliest romances (1150–60), 26
            as fictional narratives, 26, 30
            focus of, 24, 27, 30, 38, 206
            as genre, 6, 22, 24, 27, 87, 229
            genre characteristics, 1, 3, 94, 210
            genre defined, 24
            genre origins, 22, 24, 27, 139
            geographic and temporal scope, 1
            hero as moral example, 258, 275
            history and, 18, 300, 336
            interiority in, 27, 33, 38
            intertextuality and cyclification, 51
            origin of term, 24
            Renaissance to Enlightenment, 319–24
            as set of tropes, 229
            social and political purpose, 32, 41, 275, 292
            style diversity, 1
            survival as fragments, 50

Medieval Studies

Brown, Jason Aaron. St. Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

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Summa (Antoninus): Antoninus’s view of, 28; apograph volumes, 85-6, 93-4, 243-4, 246; audience for, 37, 161, 235-9; authorities for, overview, 103-9, 110-12; binding and copying, 85-6, 90-1, 95, 99; Chronicles a continuation of, 16-17, 35, 51-2, 54; composition of, overview, 63-5; composition order, 85, 88, 89-90, 91, 101; composition process, incorporating previous works, 95-101; composition process, new material, 91-5; dating of, 87-91; formica allusion, 53-4, 55-6; legacy, 48; as manual of moral theology, 56-7; manuscript tradition, 65-6, 86, 243-4; oral culture of Renaissance Florence, 57n30; as preaching aid, 56-7; purpose of, 55-6, 97, 102, 126, 230-2, 237-9; as Recollectorium, 50, 53, 54-5, 102; as relic, 35; structure of, overview, 58-62, 60n42, 62-3, 85-6, 88-9, 97; tabula capitulorum, 68, 81, 84, 85-6; title of work, 52-5; Tractatus de censuris, 88-9, 98-9

———autographs. See also Giuliano Lapaccini; palaeography: apograph deviations, 93-4; codicological description of manuscript M1, 244, 248, 251-4; codicological description of manuscript M2, 244, 248, 254-8; codicological description of manuscript M3, 244-5, 248, 258-9; codicological description of manuscript M4, 244-5, 248, 259-61; codicological description of manuscript N, 244, 245, 247, 247-51; hand A, 69, 701, 72, 789, 84; hand A compared to Antoninus’s hand, 77, 789, 80-1; hand G, 81-4, 82; proof of autographic status, 66-7, 77, 789, 801, 84; understanding Antoninus on interest, 216-18; use in autograph transcription by author, 261

———editorial principles of author, 261-4

———translation by author, note on, 264-7

———2.1.16 on fraud, 182-95, 271-325. See also fraud; just price doctrine; merchants; monopolies and cartels; profit; trade; wages; worldly trade; individual authorities; authorities for, critical discussion, 186, 187-8, 189, 190, 193, 194; casuistic method, 232-3; pastoral notes, 236; scholastic or speculative method of moral theology, 235; sermon form, 182, 183, 233, 235-6; structure of chapter, 183-4, 233, 271; thema, 185, 273

Dees, Robert, The Power of Peasants: Economics & Politics of Farming in Medieval Germany. Commons Press, 2023.

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farmers (peasants). See also agriculture; barbarian tribes; class struggle; commons; debt; farms; feudal mode of production; Forest Charter; forests; inheritance rights; labor service; Medieval Agricultural Revolution; peasants; rebellions and uprisings; rents; serfdom; sexuality; taxes; village life; wage labor; workers: adapting to weather variations, 1430–1431, 1440, 1443; agricultural stagnation blamed on, 1454–1455; annoying their betters, 418–419; apparently bad at math, 1351; bad customs imposed on, 181–182; bathhouses, 908; benefits of Viking invasions, 1217–1218; cash payment of rents, 238, 644; cities abandoning, 534–535; class divisions within, 207–208, 470, 572; communal farming decisions, 207; concessions to, from lords, 413; condition in 1500s, 477; contempt for, 318–319, 402–403, 422; control by rural knights lessening, 514; cottagers, 208, 572; creative capacity of, 90–91, 150, 449–450; currency devaluation as wage theft, 359–360; dependency beyond serfdom, 473; desire to be their own lords (the horror!), 492; ensnared by marriage, 881–882; essential role in historical progress, 27, 54, 150, 1454–1455, 1456; eviction from farms, 350, 864–865; expropriation and subjection, 177–179; forced backward by lords’ greed, 289–290; forced labor services, grievances against, 532, 609, 614; Forest Charter and rights of, 1223, 1240–1245, 1249–1251, 1252; freedom curtailed, 182, 250–251, 353, 429–430, 435, 1208, 1399–1400; freedom increasing, 250; freedoms defended with arms, 430; free farmers increase production, 45, 71, 119–120, 129, 133–134, 149–151, 175, 233–236, 239, 243, 255, 268, 392, 413, 1223, 1232, 1241, 1259–1262, 1266–1267, 1281–1285; free farmers mean free cities, 568; free farmers nearing slave status, 122; going armed, 176, 464–465; historians’ contempt for, 1359–1360, 1392, 1402, 1506; impact of higher rents, 360; incapable of innovation, per capitalists, 1453–1454; under jurisdiction of multiple lords, 466, 467–469, 879–883, 961–962, 964; labor migration, 402, 435; landholding categories, 572; land improvements pointless and unrealizable, 733–734, 736; liberation, 174–176; loss of control of land use, 664; loss of freedom reduces production, 74–75, 112, 129, 133–134, 155, 170, 352–354, 438–439, 448, 471, 475, 484, 547–551, 568, 1257–1258; Magna Carta and rights of, 1221, 1240–1242, 1245–1251; medieval commercial revolution, 239–240; migration restricted, 886; mysticism’s pernicious effect on, 1023–1024; no joking allowed, 926–927; not, in fact, leaves, 1430–1431; outburger status (Ausbürger, Pfahlbürger), 396–397, 407–408, 410; pauperism and beggary, 1138–1139, 1227–1228, 1319; peasants vs farmers, 29; permission to purchase property, 865–866; proletarization of, 251; property rights, 615–616; prosperity increasing, 418–419; reciprocal relationship with towns, 240–241; refusing oath of allegiance, 517; resistance to forced labor, 351; restrictions on, increasing, 996–997; Roman farmer-militiamen, 45, 46–47, 56, 114, 138; under Roman Republic, 45, 47, 52–53; rural flight, 402; scientific method, 422, 1067, 1075; sharecropping, 376; standard of living improvements, 239, 242; “thickheaded peasant,” 698, 939, 1221, 1354, 1455, 1500; trading surpluses, 152; underling (Untertan) status, 899–900; women highly regarded, 1025; yeoman farmers, 1268–1269, 1272, 1275–1276

Jones, Claire Taylor. Fixing the Liturgy: Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256–1516. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

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liturgy: affective changes, 43–45; as anachronistic term, 26–27; definitions of, 27–28; vs devotion, 7, 347n14; devotional change impacting, 196; encompassing practice organizing life, 7; evolution of Dominican, 86–89; expertise necessary for, 67, 268, 269; legislative issues, 71; liturgical reform, motivations for, 86–87; as multimedia performance, 8; papal politics performed through, 113. See also directoria; Dominican order; Great Western Schism; local piety and practices; music; Nuremberg correctura; officia; ordinaria; ritual; singing

Krueger, Roberta L., ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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romances. see also narrative form, prose romances, verse romances

            ancestor to the novel, 313
            authority and autonomy, 88
            boundary with epics, 72
            categories of, 131
            earliest romances (1150–60), 26
            as fictional narratives, 26, 30
            focus of, 24, 27, 30, 38, 206
            as genre, 6, 22, 24, 27, 87, 229
            genre characteristics, 1, 3, 94, 210
            genre defined, 24
            genre origins, 22, 24, 27, 139
            geographic and temporal scope, 1
            hero as moral example, 258, 275
            history and, 18, 300, 336
            interiority in, 27, 33, 38
            intertextuality and cyclification, 51
            origin of term, 24
            Renaissance to Enlightenment, 319–24
            as set of tropes, 229
            social and political purpose, 32, 41, 275, 292
            style diversity, 1
            survival as fragments, 50

Williams, Deanne. Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy. Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury, 2023.

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girl culture and girlhood
            aspirational condition, 42
            associated with Christ, 35
            associated with John the Apostle, 35
            beginning of girl culture, 17
            childhood providing space for accomplishment, 3
            collaborative nature of, 209
            definitions, 107
            encapsulated by the syllabub, 213
            ephemerality of girlhood, 148–9
            expendable daughters and flawed daughterhood, 112, 114–6
            figuring flawed humanity, 38
            friendship and female bonds, 69, 75, 79, 88, 144
            full of ‘firsts,’ 1–3
            ‘girl’ (term), 5
            girlhood time of learning and creativity, 106
            girlish virtues, 26, 33, 207
            girls’ bodies, 24–6, 41–2, 43
            insults for schoolgirls, 173–5
            marital status and, 107
            men included within, 33, 35
            metaphoric liminality of, 187
            New World encounters, 190
            performance reinforces, 4
            privilege as constitutive feature, 12–3
            protracted girlhood, 107, 152, 191–2
            spirituality and religion, 26, 33, 35, 36, 58, 103
            terms for, 37–8, 99, 129, 160, 173–5, 202, 207
            theory and tradition of, 8–9
            See also educating girls; models of girlhood; performance

Military Studies

Crosbie, Thomas. Military Politics: New Perspectives. Berghahn Books, 2023.

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civil-military relations. See also budget, US military; civilians; contrarianism, military; dissent, military; Feaver, Peter D.; Huntington, Samuel P.; Israel; military politics; multinational operations; normal theory; officer corps; US National Guard; war: 6 January 2021 failures, 2–4; civilian authority accepted, 73–74, 76, 85, 133, 139, 189; civil-military dialogue, 36–37, 230, 231, 240; civil-military spheres of influence, 118, 136, 167, 180, 223–24, 238–39; defined, 22, 30; EVLN model of dissent, 36–37, 38, 38t; exchange relations, 86–87; federalism in US military, 118–19, 121; horizontal alignment, 22, 30, 248; hybrid political threats, 7; interchangeability with military politics, 2, 30–32; legal accountability, 201–2; legitimation via military, 74–77, 80; military expertise and responsibility, 25, 26–27, 29; military-political activity, 29, 38t; military restraint, 76–77, 82; military’s dependence on civilians, 75–76, 77; military structure impacts advice and leadership, 95–98; public attitudes toward military, 168; recruiting, 168, 171; resource mobilization, 74, 75, 78–79; Sarkesian’s theory of equilibrium, 35–36; small powers and, 239–40 (see also Norway); United States and, 2–5, 23; vertical alignment, 22, 23, 30, 248; Vietnam War, 121

Walker, Brett L. Yukikaze’s War: An Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyer and World War II on the Pacific. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Yukikaze (destroyer), generally. see also Dan Yang (destroyer)

            child born aboard, 331
            first launch, 13–15
            influence of Washington Naval Treaty, 59
            known as Japan’s ‘unsinkable destroyer’, 14
            logic of sacrifice and, 250
            lucky captain, 212–13
            as ‘lucky warship’, 18, 19, 144, 204
            name and symbolism, 12, 13, 22, 24
            need to make marine environment legible, 102
            official history erased, 320, 329
            overview of World War II career, 15–16
            reputation as unsinkable, 161, 181
            seeking nobility, 289
            ‘snowy wind’, 13
            source of her luck, 204–5, 208
            tethered to history, 332
            ‘tip of the brush’, 86
            tool of empire, 62

Political Science

Curtin, Mary Ellen. She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

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Jordan, Barbara: childhood, 27–28, 29, 31–32, 33–34, 36–37, 46–48; death, 345; feeling like an outsider, 37; as the good child, 199, 200; personal and political life, overview, 12; relationship with father, 46–48, 49–50, 79, 80, 197–202; relationship with Grandpa Jordan, 36; relationship with Grandpa Patten, 36–38, 43–45; relationship with mother, 30–32, 50. See also ambition; Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait (autobiography); Democratic Party; education; emotion; health; homophobia; Jordan-Graves race; law career; legacy, memory, and representations; marriage; policy positions; press coverage; private life; public speaking; public work after Congress; religion; reputation; sexual orientation and identity; teaching career; Texas Senate career; US House career

McManus, Stuart M. Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The “Inua Indica” of Ignazio Arcamone SJ.

Arcamone, Ignazio: celebration of Portugal, 11–13; early life and education, 4, 5, 6; Indo-humanist approach, 20–24; intellectual breadth, 7–10, 11; Konkani sermons, 9–10; language ability, 6, 7–8, 9, 15; list of surviving works, 17–18; missionary zeal, 4–5; preaching career, 5, 9–11, 14–15; prose Latin works, 13–14; teaching career, 6, 14–15; travels and diplomatic missions in India, 15–17; Conciones per annum concannice compositae, 9–10, 17; De Salcetana peninsula commentarius, 13–14, 17, 28792, 292–98; Ianua Indica, generally, 6, 7, 18–20, 26–27; Lusias Leonina, 11–13, 18, 298–300, 300–302; Purgatorii comentarium, 10–11, 17

Philosophy

Brown, Jason Aaron. St. Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

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Summa (Antoninus): Antoninus’s view of, 28; apograph volumes, 85-6, 93-4, 243-4, 246; audience for, 37, 161, 235-9; authorities for, overview, 103-9, 110-12; binding and copying, 85-6, 90-1, 95, 99; Chronicles a continuation of, 16-17, 35, 51-2, 54; composition of, overview, 63-5; composition order, 85, 88, 89-90, 91, 101; composition process, incorporating previous works, 95-101; composition process, new material, 91-5; dating of, 87-91; formica allusion, 53-4, 55-6; legacy, 48; as manual of moral theology, 56-7; manuscript tradition, 65-6, 86, 243-4; oral culture of Renaissance Florence, 57n30; as preaching aid, 56-7; purpose of, 55-6, 97, 102, 126, 230-2, 237-9; as Recollectorium, 50, 53, 54-5, 102; as relic, 35; structure of, overview, 58-62, 60n42, 62-3, 85-6, 88-9, 97; tabula capitulorum, 68, 81, 84, 85-6; title of work, 52-5; Tractatus de censuris, 88-9, 98-9

———autographs. See also Giuliano Lapaccini; palaeography: apograph deviations, 93-4; codicological description of manuscript M1, 244, 248, 251-4; codicological description of manuscript M2, 244, 248, 254-8; codicological description of manuscript M3, 244-5, 248, 258-9; codicological description of manuscript M4, 244-5, 248, 259-61; codicological description of manuscript N, 244, 245, 247, 247-51; hand A, 69, 701, 72, 789, 84; hand A compared to Antoninus’s hand, 77, 789, 80-1; hand G, 81-4, 82; proof of autographic status, 66-7, 77, 789, 801, 84; understanding Antoninus on interest, 216-18; use in autograph transcription by author, 261

———editorial principles of author, 261-4

———translation by author, note on, 264-7

———2.1.16 on fraud, 182-95, 271-325. See also fraud; just price doctrine; merchants; monopolies and cartels; profit; trade; wages; worldly trade; individual authorities; authorities for, critical discussion, 186, 187-8, 189, 190, 193, 194; casuistic method, 232-3; pastoral notes, 236; scholastic or speculative method of moral theology, 235; sermon form, 182, 183, 233, 235-6; structure of chapter, 183-4, 233, 271; thema, 185, 273

Cohen, Shlomo. The Concept and Ethics of Manipulation. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

manipulation. see also agency; autonomy; bypassing or subverting rationality; cluster concept of manipulation; coercion; deception; influence; intention; metaphor; moral status of manipulation; non-argumentative influence (NAI); political manipulation; positive manipulation; pressure; rational persuasion (RP)
            Baron’s definition of, 10
            baselines for, 73–75
            consensual manipulation, 178
            cultural relativity, 106, 129, 148
            defined, 5–6
            defining, doubts about ability to, 44–45, 144–45
            descriptive, non-moralized concept of, 50–51
            direct manipulation, 28, 84
            disorientation of reasoning, 127
            diversity of forms, 6
            enhancing rational decision making, 174
            as failing to track reasons, 15, 17, 21, 24, 137
            genuineness and, 132, 145, 230
            Gorin’s definition, 15–24
            Handelman’s definition, 45
            indirect manipulation, 28, 84, 141
            intuitive insight determinative for identifying, 23
            as irrational, 10
            as leading victims astray, 24–25, 27–28, 31, 34, 86, 109, 141–42
            means of undermining resistance, 43
            Noggle’s concept of, constraints and problems, 26–34, 37
            Noggle’s definition, 24–26
            Noggle’s unity theory of, 46–50
            as non-rational, 10
            nonrational persuasion, 25
            not necessarily zero-sum, 28
            playful character of, 237–41
            Rudinow’s negative characterization, 8
            self-manipulation, 133
            Stern’s definition, 10–15
            Sunstein’s definition, 33
            wisdom and, 71, 181, 243, 246

Hampton, Alexander J.B. and Douglas Hendley, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

environment. see also environmental crisis, see also environmental ethics, see also environmentalism, see also environmental activism, see also environmental movement

            defined, 23
            environmental aesthetics, 323
            environmental degradation, 127, 128
            environmental humanities, 21
            environmental philosophy, 301
            environmental policy, 19
            environmental responsibility, 129
            the Fall, 20
            and nature, 132, 180
            and participation, 181
            personified, 210
            in Plato, 182–83, 185
            and religion, 180, 439
            respect for, 197
            restoration, 256
            term coined, 272

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Hampton, Alexander J.B., ed. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment: Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

faith. see also belief

            abstraction’s subversion of, 22
            in Allwill, 436
            in Aristée, 238
            certainty and belief, 96, 119
            in David Hume, 114, 378, 386
            in the external world, 385–87
            fatalism and mechanism vs, 111–14
            Fichte on, 378
            first principles based on, 381, 385
            freedom and, 110, 112–14
            Hamann and, 269, 271, 276–79, 296
            Hemsterhuis on, 238–39
            Jacobi vs Schlegel, 420
            Jacobi-Fichte relationship and, 365–70, 378, 382–84, 386–87, 389
            Jacobi’s definition of, 212, 215, 378–80, 383, 433
           Jacobi’s not-unphilosophical faith in God, 191, 203–10
            Kant on, 128–32
            Kierkegaard on, 329
            knowledge and, 380, 420
            moral faith, 131
            reason and, 120–23, 137, 217, 223, 277
            salto mortale, 112
            sense experience and, 113
            in Spinoza Letters, 96, 238, 378–80, 385, 387
            tastes and sees, 296

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Weiss, Roslyn. Justice in Plato’s ‘Republic’: The Lessons of Book I. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

justice. see also dikaiosunē (justice), harm and harming, help and helping, injustice, interlocutors, the just (to dikaion), just man, living well, l-justice (lay-justice), moderation, profitability, t-justice (technē justice)

            advantage of the stronger, 153
            as advantageous, 218
            as art (technē), 69–70, 74, 104, 105
            bestowed from above, 49
            as characterized in Book 4, 1, 237–42
            craft-analogy, 6
            degraded when selfishly motivated, 52
            derided, 157, 158
            easier for the rich, 41
            effectiveness of entities increased, 221
            exercising discretion and, 45, 46–47, 52
            as external, 1, 24, 212, 222
            friends and enemies as part of equation, 63–66, 69
            giving each what is fitting, 63–64
            giving each what is owed, 44, 46, 60
            harmony resulting from, 221
            helping friends, harming enemies, 22–23, 71, 74, 75, 78, 104–5
            as internal, 24, 239–40
            internal harmony and, 24, 212, 222, 239
            internal justice in Book 4, 24, 237–42
            vs the just, 68
            as knowledge, 103
            life-enhancing, 231
            manner of ruling according to nature, 234
            minding one’s own business, 240–41
            as moral force, 46
            noble and ennobling and so self-justifying, 243
            not doing unjust deeds, 40
            other-regarding, 229, 230, 237
            as paying debts, 21, 44
            perfect justice vs perfect injustice, 186–88
            positive theory of, 7
            as a power, 103
            in receiving vs disposing of deposited goods, 44, 46, 74
            regard for others and what belongs to them, 230
            rules of, 45–46, 46, 52, 120–21
            self-mastery, 235
            soul, located in, 213
            soul, virtue and excellence of, 2, 215
            soul’s optimal state, 233–34
            as a stealing art, 76–80, 105
            stronger to care for weaker, 47, 52
            superiority of injustice vs, 10
            as truth, 44, 46
            usefulness of, 71, 74, 75, 229–30
            uselessness of, 70
            as virtue and wisdom, 89, 186, 187
            as wisdom, rejected by Thrasymachus, 205
            what is fitting becoming objective criterion, 81, 84, 86–87
            what is owed becoming what is fitting, 64–66, 68
            whether necessary for making one stronger than another, 204, 206–8
            who benefits from, 20, 153
            who benefits in violations of, 47

Religious Studies

Brown, Jason Aaron. St. Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Summa (Antoninus): Antoninus’s view of, 28; apograph volumes, 85-6, 93-4, 243-4, 246; audience for, 37, 161, 235-9; authorities for, overview, 103-9, 110-12; binding and copying, 85-6, 90-1, 95, 99; Chronicles a continuation of, 16-17, 35, 51-2, 54; composition of, overview, 63-5; composition order, 85, 88, 89-90, 91, 101; composition process, incorporating previous works, 95-101; composition process, new material, 91-5; dating of, 87-91; formica allusion, 53-4, 55-6; legacy, 48; as manual of moral theology, 56-7; manuscript tradition, 65-6, 86, 243-4; oral culture of Renaissance Florence, 57n30; as preaching aid, 56-7; purpose of, 55-6, 97, 102, 126, 230-2, 237-9; as Recollectorium, 50, 53, 54-5, 102; as relic, 35; structure of, overview, 58-62, 60n42, 62-3, 85-6, 88-9, 97; tabula capitulorum, 68, 81, 84, 85-6; title of work, 52-5; Tractatus de censuris, 88-9, 98-9

———autographs. See also Giuliano Lapaccini; palaeography: apograph deviations, 93-4; codicological description of manuscript M1, 244, 248, 251-4; codicological description of manuscript M2, 244, 248, 254-8; codicological description of manuscript M3, 244-5, 248, 258-9; codicological description of manuscript M4, 244-5, 248, 259-61; codicological description of manuscript N, 244, 245, 247, 247-51; hand A, 69, 701, 72, 789, 84; hand A compared to Antoninus’s hand, 77, 789, 80-1; hand G, 81-4, 82; proof of autographic status, 66-7, 77, 789, 801, 84; understanding Antoninus on interest, 216-18; use in autograph transcription by author, 261

———editorial principles of author, 261-4

———translation by author, note on, 264-7

———2.1.16 on fraud, 182-95, 271-325. See also fraud; just price doctrine; merchants; monopolies and cartels; profit; trade; wages; worldly trade; individual authorities; authorities for, critical discussion, 186, 187-8, 189, 190, 193, 194; casuistic method, 232-3; pastoral notes, 236; scholastic or speculative method of moral theology, 235; sermon form, 182, 183, 233, 235-6; structure of chapter, 183-4, 233, 271; thema, 185, 273

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Hampton, Alexander J.B. and Douglas Hendley, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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environment. see also environmental crisis, see also environmental ethics, see also environmentalism, see also environmental activism, see also environmental movement

            defined, 23
            environmental aesthetics, 323
            environmental degradation, 127, 128
            environmental humanities, 21
            environmental philosophy, 301
            environmental policy, 19
            environmental responsibility, 129
            the Fall, 20
            and nature, 132, 180
            and participation, 181
            personified, 210
            in Plato, 182–83, 185
            and religion, 180, 439
            respect for, 197
            restoration, 256
            term coined, 272

Hampton, Alexander J.B., ed. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment: Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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faith. see also belief

            abstraction’s subversion of, 22
            in Allwill, 436
            in Aristée, 238
            certainty and belief, 96, 119
            in David Hume, 114, 378, 386
            in the external world, 385–87
            fatalism and mechanism vs, 111–14
            Fichte on, 378
            first principles based on, 381, 385
            freedom and, 110, 112–14
            Hamann and, 269, 271, 276–79, 296
            Hemsterhuis on, 238–39
            Jacobi vs Schlegel, 420
            Jacobi-Fichte relationship and, 365–70, 378, 382–84, 386–87, 389
            Jacobi’s definition of, 212, 215, 378–80, 383, 433
           Jacobi’s not-unphilosophical faith in God, 191, 203–10
            Kant on, 128–32
            Kierkegaard on, 329
            knowledge and, 380, 420
            moral faith, 131
            reason and, 120–23, 137, 217, 223, 277
            salto mortale, 112
            sense experience and, 113
            in Spinoza Letters, 96, 238, 378–80, 385, 387
            tastes and sees, 296

Jones, Claire Taylor. Fixing the Liturgy: Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256–1516. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

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liturgy: affective changes, 43–45; as anachronistic term, 26–27; definitions of, 27–28; vs devotion, 7, 347n14; devotional change impacting, 196; encompassing practice organizing life, 7; evolution of Dominican, 86–89; expertise necessary for, 67, 268, 269; legislative issues, 71; liturgical reform, motivations for, 86–87; as multimedia performance, 8; papal politics performed through, 113. See also directoria; Dominican order; Great Western Schism; local piety and practices; music; Nuremberg correctura; officia; ordinaria; ritual; singing

McManus, Stuart M. Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The “Inua Indica” of Ignazio Arcamone SJ.

Arcamone, Ignazio: celebration of Portugal, 11–13; early life and education, 4, 5, 6; Indo-humanist approach, 20–24; intellectual breadth, 7–10, 11; Konkani sermons, 9–10; language ability, 6, 7–8, 9, 15; list of surviving works, 17–18; missionary zeal, 4–5; preaching career, 5, 9–11, 14–15; prose Latin works, 13–14; teaching career, 6, 14–15; travels and diplomatic missions in India, 15–17; Conciones per annum concannice compositae, 9–10, 17; De Salcetana peninsula commentarius, 13–14, 17, 28792, 292–98; Ianua Indica, generally, 6, 7, 18–20, 26–27; Lusias Leonina, 11–13, 18, 298–300, 300–302; Purgatorii comentarium, 10–11, 17

Sociology

Crosbie, Thomas. Military Politics: New Perspectives. Berghahn Books, 2023.

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civil-military relations. See also budget, US military; civilians; contrarianism, military; dissent, military; Feaver, Peter D.; Huntington, Samuel P.; Israel; military politics; multinational operations; normal theory; officer corps; US National Guard; war: 6 January 2021 failures, 2–4; civilian authority accepted, 73–74, 76, 85, 133, 139, 189; civil-military dialogue, 36–37, 230, 231, 240; civil-military spheres of influence, 118, 136, 167, 180, 223–24, 238–39; defined, 22, 30; EVLN model of dissent, 36–37, 38, 38t; exchange relations, 86–87; federalism in US military, 118–19, 121; horizontal alignment, 22, 30, 248; hybrid political threats, 7; interchangeability with military politics, 2, 30–32; legal accountability, 201–2; legitimation via military, 74–77, 80; military expertise and responsibility, 25, 26–27, 29; military-political activity, 29, 38t; military restraint, 76–77, 82; military’s dependence on civilians, 75–76, 77; military structure impacts advice and leadership, 95–98; public attitudes toward military, 168; recruiting, 168, 171; resource mobilization, 74, 75, 78–79; Sarkesian’s theory of equilibrium, 35–36; small powers and, 239–40 (see also Norway); United States and, 2–5, 23; vertical alignment, 22, 23, 30, 248; Vietnam War, 121

Woolley, Samuel. Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity. Yale University Press, 2023.

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propaganda. See also computational propaganda; manufactured consensus: Bernays’s engineering of consent, 44, 45; broadcast media, 21–22, 38–39; computational tools, 8; debunking, 9–10; defined, 4–6, 38–41; democratized, 6–7, 28, 30, 56–57, 82–85, 94; digital propaganda, 6–7; filters of, 48–55, 58–60; flak, 51–52; geo-propaganda, 173–74; global trends in, 171; Herman and Chomsky propaganda model, 45–47, 48–54, 161–62; Lippmann’s manufacture of consent, 43–44, 45; networked propaganda, 114; and social media, 8–9, 129; sociocultural context, 17; sociological phenomenon, 40; spread through trusted sources, 34–35, 88, 171; studies on, 36–37, 46; tied to technology, 40, 43, 45, 46–47; traditional models’ short-comings, 156; updated for digital age, 21–23, 48–54

Sports Studies

Sanderson, Jimmy and Melinda R. Weathers, eds. Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities. Lexington Books, 2022.

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health:

            athlete welfare, 172;
            Black Women’s Health Imperative (bwhi), 53;
            body shaming and, 130;
            bulimia’s effects on, 131;
            cancer, 16;
            children’s health and csr, 49;
            csr health promotion campaigns, 47–57;
            defined, 156;
            determinants of well-being, 156;
            environmental factors in, 95–96, 98, 105;
            health equity, 95, 98, 99, 104;
            health policymaking, 108–18;
            health-related fitness and school achievement, 101;
            performance-enhancing drugs, 16–17;
            public health, 15–18, 19, 23;
            social media and online communities and, 157–58, 195–96;
            sport and abuse, 125–26;
            sport’s negative and positive effects on, 125, 126, 127, 128, 156–57;
            wearable technology and, 191–92, 193, 196;
            weight surveillance, 127–28;
            youth sport and, 50, 63–74, 100–105, 139.
            See also COVID-19; eating disorders and disordered eating; mental health

Sanderson, Jimmy. Corruption and Scandal in American Sports: Causes and Consequences. ABC-CLIO, 2023.

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cheating. See also academic fraud; ethics; fixing games; pay-to-play; point-shaving; sign-stealing; individual scandals; individual sports: ancient history of, 10; and baseball Hall of Fame, 9, 114, 115, 119, 195, 196, 252, 265; coach interference in play, 321–324; culture and acceptance of, 10–11, 12, 34, 323–324, 366, 377–378; false income tax returns, 114; integrity of sport threatened, 209, 262, 366; pressure on children, 11; by referees, 289–292; safeguards against, 101, 102; science and technology and, 10–11, 102, 333–337, 347–349, 357–360, 363–366, 375–378

Sustainability

Rand, Honey. In the Public Interest: People, Politics, and Power in Tampa Bay’s Water Wars. Ethics Press, 2023.

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environmental impacts. see also pumping causing environmental issues; wellfields

            blamed on lack of rainfall, 28, 45, 62, 98–100, 144
            Cross Bar wellfield, 77
            Cypress Creek wellfield, 56, 57–58
            overuse linked to damage, 80
            recovery program, 318
            significant harm threshold, 38
            from water withdrawals, 38–39, 73

Theology

Hampton, Alexander J.B. and Douglas Hendley, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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environment. see also environmental crisis, see also environmental ethics, see also environmentalism, see also environmental activism, see also environmental movement

            defined, 23
            environmental aesthetics, 323
            environmental degradation, 127, 128
            environmental humanities, 21
            environmental philosophy, 301
            environmental policy, 19
            environmental responsibility, 129
            the Fall, 20
            and nature, 132, 180
            and participation, 181
            personified, 210
            in Plato, 182–83, 185
            and religion, 180, 439
            respect for, 197
            restoration, 256
            term coined, 272


Copyediting

The list below does not include copyediting of academic reports, cvs, and application materials.

America Votes and Vote Rev. Standards and Best Practices for Electorally Focused Relational Turnout Programs. February 2024.

The Bulletin. Indexing Society of Canada.

Carlat, David. “Nightscapes during War-time. From Night Bombings to the City of Spectacle.” Architectural Histories

Clark, Joseph M.H. “‘Born in this Abominable Sin’: Contraband Trade in Colonial Spanish America”

Dees, Robert, The Power of Peasants: Economics & Politics of Farming in Medieval Germany. Commons Press, 2023.

Gonzalez, Francisco J. Human Life in Motion: Heidegger’s Unpublished Seminars on Aristotle as Preserved by Helene Weiss. Indiana University Press, 2024.

H-France Reviews

Hnilica, Sonja. “Experiments with Megastructures and Building Systems: University Building in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.” Architectural Histories.

Horn, Mark E. T., and Peter Proudfoot “Cultural Institutions as Formative Elements in the Work of Behrens, Utzon, and Kahn.” Architectural Histories.

Journal of the Midwest Modern Languages Association (full journal)

Kandjii, Jennifer. Dissertation.

Massicotte, Charles. “Leo Strauss: From Socrates to Aristophanes.”

Massicotte, Charles. “Time in Plato’s Parmenides.”

McManus, Stuart M. Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The “Inua Indica” of Ignazio Arcamone SJ.

Meister, Anna-Maria. “‘Housewives and Architects’: Marie-Elisabeth Lüders’ Management of the New Architecture from Pot Lid to Siedlung.” Architectural Histories.

Mejia Moreno, Catalina. “Photographs of Silos: On the Contingency of a Modern Photo Canon.” Architectural Histories.

Ocobock, Abigail. Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships. University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Tesla Seed. Choice of Games.

Wang, Y.L. Lucy. “From Garrisoned District to Chinese Town: Land and Boundaries at the Kowloon Walled City, 1898-1912.” Architectural Histories.


Proofreading

The Bulletin. Indexing Society of Canada.

Dees, Robert, The Power of Peasants: Economics & Politics of Farming in Medieval Germany. Commons Press, 2023.

Gosseye, Janina, and Donald Watson. “From IB74 to US Patent 4438616: The (Re)Making of a Profession.” Architectural Histories.

Horn, Mark E.T., and Peter Proudfoot. “Cultural Institutions as Formative Elements in the Work of Behrens, Utzon, and Kahn.” Architectural Histories.

Kale, Gul. “Harmonious Relationships: Sounds and Stones in Ottoman Architecture in the Making.” Architectural Histories.

Key Words. American Society for Indexing.

Klein, Lidia. “Between Propaganda and Dissent: Postmodern Architecture in Pinochet’s Chile.” Architectural Histories.

Kreindler, Simon. The Sephardi Jews of Barbados (1627 to 1934). Self-published, 2022.

Kuletskaya, Dasha, and Alicja William. “Warsaw and Its Land: Property Rights on Urban Land in Transition.” Architectural Histories.

Oommen, Thomas. “The Glazed Eyes of Architectural History: Reflections on the (Dis)Contents of Global History Survey Courses.” Architectural Histories.

Peyerl, Shari. Alberta’s Cornerstone. Archaeological Adventures in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. Heritage House Publishing, 2022.

Popescu, Carmen. “A Genealogy of Architectural History’s Flattening. A Perspective from Post-History.” Architectural Histories.

Ridler, Morgan. “Color and Architecture: Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop in Collaboration, 1922 to 1926.” Architectural Histories.

Zoetic Press.


Publications

Only publications relevant to my work as an indexer, copyeditor, and proofreader are provided here. For a list of my academic publications, please see my cv.

“Editor’s Corner: Titles for Tales.” Bulletin 46.1 (Spring 2024)

“William Lost-His-Pants and More Fun with Indexing Medieval Names.” The Indexer 42.1 (2024): 19-31. https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.54.

“Editor’s Corner: Deadnaming.” Bulletin 45.1 (Spring 2023): 12.

“Editor’s Corner: Wheelchair Users.” Bulletin 45.2 (Summer 2023): 22.

“Editor’s Corner: Canadian English Dictionary.” Bulletin 45.3 (Winter 2023): 14.

“The First Indexes? Eusebius’s Canon Tables.” The Indexer 41.4 (2023): 395-402. https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.46.

“Letter to the Editor.” The Indexer 41.2 (2023): 199-201. https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.23.

“The Index of Forbidden Books: Is It an Index?” The Indexer 41.2 (2023): 191-198. https://doi.org/10.3828/index.2023.22.

“‘Continental Connections’: International Index Conference — Conference Report.” Bulletin 44.3 (Winter 2022): 13-14.


Conference Talks and Presentations

Only talks and presentations relevant to my work as an indexer, copyeditor, and proofreader are provided here. For a list of my academic presentations, please see my cv.

“Indexing.” Presentation given to CIEP: Canada. February 6, 2024.

“Indexing.” Presentation given to Editor’s Canada: KWG Twig. January 24, 2024.

“William Lost-His-Pants and More Fun with Medieval Names.” ISC/SCI Conference 2023: See also Newfoundland. St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. June 9-10, 2023.