Spring 2012 Books
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Debates in the Digital Humanities
Matthew K. Gold, Editor
2012 Spring
- Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
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Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery
Larry Millett
2012 Spring
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come to Minnesota, on the trail of the famous Kensington Rune Stone
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance
Larry Millett
2012 Spring
- Shadwell Rafferty crosses the river to Minneapolis to investigate murder and corruption with the help of Holmes and Watson
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Everyday Environmentalism
Creating an Urban Political Ecology
Alex Loftus
2012 Spring
- A bold rethinking of urban political ecology
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Sergio Leone
Something to Do with Death
Christopher Frayling
2012 Spring
- The landmark biography of one of the twentieth century’s most recognizable directors—now back in print
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Diane Arbus’s 1960s
Auguries of Experience
Frederick Gross
2012 Spring
- Looking past the myth of Diane Arbus to the depth of her achievement within the artistic, intellectual, and social currents of the 1960s
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Saint Genet
Actor and Martyr
Jean-Paul Sartre
2012 Spring
- The remarkable and controversial study of the mind, life, and legend of Jean Genet
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Island of the Doomed
Stig Dagerman
2012 Spring
- A haunting masterpiece of Scandinavian literature—now published for the first time in the United States
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The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes
Larry Millett
2012 Spring
- Nonstop suspense unfolds as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel from London to New York to Chicago in pursuit of a vicious and cunning killer
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Afterimage of Empire
Photography in Nineteenth-Century India
Zahid R. Chaudhary
2012 Spring
- How the colonial photograph revolutionized the very nature of perception
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A Chosen People, a Promised Land
Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
Hokulani K. Aikau
2012 Spring
- How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
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The Sports Show
Athletics as Image and Spectacle
David E. Little
2012 Spring
- Documenting the role of photographers and filmmakers in transforming sports from leisure activities to modern-day spectacle
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Speculative Security
The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies
Marieke de Goede
2012 Spring
- Does following the money create security or undermine it?
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White Gypsies
Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals
Eva Woods Peiró
2012 Spring
- Reveals how Spanish film musicals, long dismissed as unworthy of critical scrutiny, illuminate Spain’s relationship to modernity
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Families Apart
Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love
Geraldine Pratt
2012 Spring
- How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited
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Gay Rights at the Ballot Box
Amy Stone
2012 Spring
- From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measures
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Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados
Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism
Megan C. Thomas
2012 Spring
- A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology
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A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle
The Life of Harry Haywood
Harry Haywood
2012 Spring
- An extraordinary life story that encompasses the fight for African American freedom throughout the twentieth century
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Denise Green
An Artist’s Odyssey
Denise Green
2012 Spring
- Reflecting on an internationally recognized Australian American artist and writer
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Wilderness Days
Sigurd F. Olson
2012 Spring
- A selection of Sigurd F. Olson’s finest writing on the splendor of the great outdoors, hand-picked by the master himself