We are pleased to announce these four books debuting in June.
June 21
Women Lovers, or The Third Woman
Three sensual women in dangerous liaisons.
“A first-ever translation that shines new light on Natalie Barney, the invincible ‘Amazon,’ sexual rebel, and arch-seducer of women who in the 1920s aspired to make Paris ‘the Sapphic Centre of the Western World.’ Chelsea Ray shows us another side to her: vulnerable, jealous, and volatile in love.”
—Diana Souhami, author of Natalie and Romaine: The Love Life of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
June 28
Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling
Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina
In the aftermath of state terror, silence carries its own deep meanings.
“Opens our ears to silences and their meanings. Gates-Madsen persuasively shows how the unsaid shapes memories of the traumatic past. An outstanding contribution to the study of human rights memory.”
—Rebecca J. Atencio, author of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning Dictatorship in Brazil
June 30
John Bascom and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea
An intellectual history of the public service mission of universities.
“Comprehensive and insightful. Hoeveler shows that John Bascom played a pivotal role in the foundation of the American public university as a radically new institution of higher learning, dedicated to producing better citizens and serving as a resource for government of the commonwealth.”
—John D. Buenker, author of The Progressive Era, 1893–1914
June 30
Hamka’s Great Story
A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
Fully modern, fully Muslim, fully Indonesian.
“Few Muslim intellectuals and activists loom larger in modern Indonesian history than Hamka. In this richly detailed and elegantly written book, James Rush has provided a moving, definitive account of this complex man. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Indonesia and Indonesian Islam.”
—Robert W. Hefner, Boston University