The Scholarly Press:
New Books from
University Presses

By Edward A. "Ted" Riedinger, PhD

For further information regarding the following titles, see the Internet site of the Association of American University Presses: http://aaup.press.uchicago.edu

(From the March 2000 Issue)

Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil
By James N. Green, University of Chicago Press

"For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (or boy) from Ipanema moving sensually over the white sands of Rio's beaches. Among these tropical fantasies is that of the uninhibited and licentious Brazilian homosexual, who expresses uncontrolled sexuality during wild Carnival festivities and is welcomed by a society that accepts fluid sexual identity. However, in Beyond Carnival, the first sweeping cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil, James Green shatters these exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals."

A Colored Man Round the World
By David F. Dorr, ed. by Malini Johar Schueller, Louisiana State Univ. Press

This book recounts the travels to major cities of the world in mid-19th century by a Louisiana slave accompanying his master. Reprinted for the first time since the original publication. Dorr eventually obtained freedom by escaping to Ohio.

Sambia Sexual Culture:
Essays from the Field
By Gilbert Herdt, University of Chicago Press

"Few cultures have received as much attention in the study of erotic desire, sexuality, and gender as the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. Here, for the first time, is a collection of groundbreaking essays and a new introduction on the Sambia's sexual culture by the renowned anthropologist Gilbert Herdt. Over the course of 20 years, Herdt made 13 field trips to live with the Sambia in order to understand sexuality and ritual in the context of warfare and gender segregation."

The Smoking Book
By Lesley Stern, University of Chicago Press

Asking how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean, this study presents "an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air. Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history."

"Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August":
African Americans in New-port and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930
By Myra B. Young Armstead, University of Illinois Press

"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, northern resort towns were in their heyday as celebrated retreats for America's wealthy. Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August documents the experiences of African-Americans in Sara-toga Springs, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island &endash; towns that provided a recurring season of expanded employment opportunities, enhanced social life, cosmopolitan experience, and, in a good year, enough money to last through the winter."

God, Country, Notre Dame:
The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh
By Theodore M. Hesburgh and Jerry Reedy, University of Notre Dame Press

Chronicles the life of one of the more noted American university presidents of the 20th century and his transformation of Notre Dame into a respected academic institution.

"Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region:
Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabar, Minas Gerais
By Kathleen J. Higgins, Pennsylvania State University Press

To studies of Brazilian slavery this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared with slaves who worked in sugar-cane and coffee-growing areas.

Social Security: The Phony Crisis
By Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, University of Chicago Press

"In Social Security: The Phony Crisis, economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot argue that there is no economic, demographic, or actuarial basis for the widespread belief that the program needs to be fixed. They also maintain that privatization would help save Social Security, that America has a pressing need to increase its national savings, and that future generations will suffer from the costs &endash; especially for health care &endash; of sup-porting a growing elderly population."

Ted Riedinger heads the Latin American Library Collection at OSU
and is a professor of Brazilian studies there and at Ohio University-Athens.

Copyright © Edward Anthony Riedinger 2000

THE ARCADES PROJECT
By Walter Benjamin, Harvard Univ. Press

"Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupa-tion in 1940, The Arcades Project is Benjamin's efforts to represent and to criticize the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history."

DANCING CLASS:
Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920
By Linda J. Tomko, Indiana University Press

"Adds important new dimensions to the study of women, social reform, class relations, Americanization efforts, and cultural production."

THE DISCOVERY OF TIME
By Stephen Toulman and June Good-field, University of Chicago Press

An analysis of the idea of time from the ancient Greeks to the present.

DISPOSABLE PEOPLE:
New Slavery in the Global Economy
By Kevin Bates, Univ. of California Press

This work documents the continuation of slavery (forced labor) in Brazil, India, Mauretania, Pakistan, and India.

MAKING SENSE OF TASTE:
Food and Philosophy, By Carolyn Korsmeyer, Cornell Univ. Press

Examines how the sense of taste operates biologically and the varying ideas and cultural perspective that give gustatory and aesthetic value to food and drink.

NEW YORK, CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES: AMERICA'S GLOBAL CITIES
By Janet L. Abu-Lughod, University of Minnesota Press

Studies the effects of globalization on three US metropolitan areas, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as they are being shaped by the dominance of business services, a dichotomized class structure, and the internationalization of commerce.

NOTHING in ITSELF:
Complexion of Fashion
By Herbert Blau, Indiana Univ. Press

"Within the field of 'fashion theory'...[this book is not only] about fashion but modernism, postmodernity, the arts and popular culture, design and technology, biology and culturalism...."

The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
By Robert Kaplan, Oxford University Press

A product of increased interest in the phenomenon of zero due to the appearance of the year 2000, this book traces the development of the concept and written expression for the absence of a quantity.

Oxford Companion to the Year
By Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford Univ. Press

A compendium of how humankind measures and has measured time, with a survey of calendars used by different cultures over time.

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934
By Thomas Doherty, Columbia Univ. Press

Amply illustrated with photographs, this work focuses on morality in Hollywood films immediately previous to enactment of a code of standards.

Sound and Fury:
The Making of the Punditocracy
By Eric Alterman. Cornell Univ. Press

This is a revised edition of the work that examines the pitfalls and foibles of the news pundits in Washington who form the media's insider culture as opinion-meisters and spin doctors.

20th Century Words
Ed. by John Ayto, Oxford Univ. Press

Examines, decade by decade, develop-ments in the English language during the twentieth century, about 5,000 words and their usage being covered.

Copyright © 2000, By Edward Anthony Riedinger
(Ted Riedinger heads the Latin American Library Collection at OSU and is a professor of Brazilian studies there and at Ohio University-Athens.)

(From the January 2000 issue)

ALPHA AND OMEGA: Visions of the Millennium
By J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Trust Publications

With quotations from the Revelation of St. John the Divine, this book presents a collection of paintings of the Apocalypse by artists such as Hieronymous Bosch, Michelangelo, and William Blake.

THE ANTIDEPRESSANT ERA
By David Healy, Harvard Univ. Press

Reviews the major lines of clinical and laboratory research that have focused on the diseases of depression and anxiety, and produced modern psychiatric pharma-cotherapy.

THE BIGGEST CITY IN AMERICA: A Fifties Boyhood in Ohio
By Richard B. Schwartz, University of Akron Press

The author recalls the experience of adolescence and growing up (sports, rock and roll, first jobs, parties, etc.) in Cincinnati during the 1950's with nostalgia and bittersweet reflection.

A CONCISE HISTORY OF BRAZIL
By Boris Fausto, Cambridge Univ. Press

The year 2000 marks the five hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese. This book digests that history so that one can better understand this most important country of Latin America, the second largest in size and population in the Western Hemisphere.

THE GREAT ARIZONA ORPHAN ABDUCTION
By Linda Gordon, Harvard Univ. Press

Penetrating a tangle of early twentieth-century racial and family values in Arizona, this work relates the history of 40 Irish orphans who, having been adopted by Mexican families, were abducted in 1904 by Anglo vigilantes. The abduction was subsequently supported by the courts.

HAREM YEARS: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist
By Huda Shaarawi. Translated by Margot Badran, American University in Cairo Press

These memoirs show "how a gifted and sensitive woman, brought up in seclusion but with a knowledge of French that opened a window onto European culture, gradually became aware of [the] predica-ment ... of her sex and society" (Albert Hourani), thereby becoming a leader of the Egyptian feminist movement, one of the most influential in the Islamic world.

EINSTEIN'S GERMAN WORLD
By Fritz Stern, Princeton Univ. Press

Studies the cultural, social, and political environment of Germany during the years (1914-1933) in which Einstein directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in Berlin.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE IRISH IN AMERICA
Ed. by Michael Glazier, University of Notre Dame Press

This work includes articles on almost 1,000 themes and over 500 biographies regarding Irish Americans. In addition, there are essays on Irish Americans in each state and most major cities.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE INTERNET
By Patricia Wallace, Cambridge Univ.

Examines the premise that on the Internet people act differently from their regular lives, and reviews how features of the Internet influence behavior.

A CLEVELAND LEGACY: The Architecture of Walker and Weeks
By Eric Johannesen, Kent State Univ. Press

Recounts the work of Walker and Weeks, the foremost architectural firm of Cleve-land, responsible during the twenties and thirties for some of the city's landmark buildings: the main public library, Municipal Stadium, Severance Hall, and the central post office. The company successfully combined collaboration between artists and artisans with emerg-ing principles of modern management and marketing.

CONVERSATIONS WITH CUBA
By C. Peter Ripley, University of Georgia Press

An insightful narrative of daily life in a socialist country in crisis, vividly enhanced through numerous sensitive and insightful interviews with Cubans.

THE SANCTIONS PARADOX: Economic Statecraft and International Relations
By Daniel W. Drezner, Cambridge Univ.

Reviews the debate regarding the effec-tiveness of sanctions, concluding that such restrictions, while more likely to be applied against adversaries than allies, are really more effective when applied against the latter since they have more to lose.

Ted Riedinger heads the Latin American Library Collection and is on the faculty at The Ohio State University.

(From the December 1999 issue)

RADIO FREE DIXIE: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
By Timothy B. Tyson, University of North Carolina Press

Recounts the life of a Southern black leader who in the post-World War II period advocated "armed self-reliance" by blacks against racism, challenging not only white supremacists but also the black pacifist civil rights leadership.

A DESIRED PAST: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America
By Leila Rupp, Univ. of Chicago Press

A highly readable account of gay and lesbian relationships in America from colonial times to the present that are vividly brought to life through quotations from primary resources.

GAY MEN'S FRIENDSHIPS: Invincible Communities
By Peter M. Nardi, University of Chicago Press

Based on surveys and interviews with over 200 gay men, this work argues that friendship is the main organizing element in the lives of contemporary gay urban males.

NOBLE ABSTRACTIONS: American Liberal Intellectuals and WW II
By Frank A. Warren, OSU Press

Describes the view of liberal intellectuals that World War II was an international civil war between fascism and democracy and the dilemmas of these individuals when the war was conducted in conflict with this understanding.

LIZARDS ON THE MANTEL, BURROS AT THE DOOR:
A Big Bend Memoir
By Etta Koch with June Cooper Price, University of Texas Press

A woman from Ohio recounts the story of her and her husband moving in the forties to settle in the wilds of Big Bend, AZ.

AT PLAY IN THE TAVERN: Signs, Coins, and Bodies in the Middle Ages
By Andrew Cowell, University of Michigan Press

Focusing on the tavern, inn, and brothel in medieval France, this study examines them as a counterbalance to orthodox institutions of the time.

FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF AYN RAND
Ed. by Mimi Gladstein and Chris Sciabarra, Penn State University Press

This anthology gathers critiques of the philosophy of Ayn Rand from the perspective of contemporary feminism.

INSIDERS' FRENCH: Beyond the Dictionary
By Eleanor and Michel Levieux, University of Chicago Press

Examines the exceptional changes that have occurred in the language of France in the past generation, offering a guide and dictionary for usage in the 90s.

JOKES: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters
By Ted Cohen, Univ. of Chicago Press

In this philosophical book of and about jokes, the author explores the cultural premises by which jokes work, especially those with religious/ethnic assumptions.

THEORIES OF CINEMA, 1945-1990
By Francesco Casetti, University of Texas Press

Translated from the Italian, this book offers a comprehensive overview of film theory and criticism in Europe and the US since 1945.

Ted Riedinger is on the faculty and is the head of the Latin American Library Collection at OSU.

(From the November 1999 issue)

For further information regarding the following titles, consult the internet site of the American Association of University Presses: http://aaup.uchicago.edu

THE ACOUSTIC WORLD OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: Attending to the O-Factor
By Bruce R. Smith, University of Chicago Press

Studies the sound atmosphere of Shakespeare's time and the meaning it would have had for the period's largely oral culture.

THE AMERICAN MAYOR: The Best and Worst Big-City Leaders
By Melvin G. Holli, Pennsylvania State University Press

Describes the qualities for success and/or failure of modern American urban leadership.

CHILDREN'S DREAMING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
By David Foulkes, Harvard Univ. Press

The author's research finds that true dreaming by children only begins to occur between the ages of seven and nine and is related to the development of waking reflective self-awareness.

DETECTIVE DUOS
Ed. by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, Oxford University Press

A collection of 25 mystery short stories involving paired sleuths.

DOMESTICATING HISTORY: The Political Origins of America's House Museums
By Patricia West, Smithsonian Institution Press

Studies the political pressures that prompted the transformation of the houses of George Washington (Mt. Vernon), Thomas Jefferson (Monticello), Louisa May Alcott (Orchard House), and Booker T. Washington (national monument) into museums and national monuments.

FOR THE LOVE OF IT: Amateuring and Its Rivals
By Wayne C. Booth, University of Chicago Press

Celebrates the pursuit of artistic and scholarly activities for the pleasure they provide, as opposed to some monetary gain.

GAY LIVES: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette
By Paul A. Robinson, University of Chicago Press

Examines modern Western narratives for "coming out," that is, publicly revealing and/or reflecting on one's homosexuality.

HEAVENLY SERBIA: From Myth to Genocide
By Branimir Anzulovic, New York University Press

Examines the intellectual and emotional origins of the ideology of a manifest destiny for a "Greater Serbia" in the Balkans.

HOLLYWOOD CARTOONS: American Animation in its Golden Age
By Michael Barrier, Oxford Univ. Press

Both a serious and entertaining study, it could be the definitive work on the accomplishments of classic American animation.

KISS AND TELL: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century
By Julia A. Eriksen and Sally A. Steffen, Harvard University Press

Chronicles the history of sex surveys in the U.S. during the twentieth century, showing that not only the answers but also the types of questions asked are equally revealing of attitudes.

NEW YORK MODERN: The Arts and the City
By William B. Scott and Peter M. Rukoff, The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press

Examines in detail the unique role the arts in New York City have had in determining the nature of "modern" culture in America.

THE PRIDE OF HAVANA: The History of Cuban Baseball
By Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Oxford University Press

Recounts the colorful details and singular place of baseball within Cuban Culture.

LE TUMULTE NOIR: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-1930
By Jody Blake, Pennsylvania State Univ. Press

Narrates the interface between black American musical culture in Paris during the first decades of this century and the development of modernism.

VICTORIAN SAPPHO
By Yopie Prins, Princeton Univ. Press

This work argues that the passionate lesbian poetess known as Sappho is essentially a construct of Victorian poetics.

Ted Riedinger is on the faculty and heads the Latin American Library Collection at The Ohio State University.

From the June 1999 issue)

BRAVE NEW FAMILIES: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth-Century America
By Judith Stacey, Univ. of Calif. Press. Profiles through case studies the new frontier of the
American family life.

DISPOSABLE PEOPLE: New Slavery in the Global Economy
By Kevin Bales, Univ. of Calif. Press. A gripping account of the forms, condi-tions, and extent
of slavery as it continues to exist in the modern world and global economy.

ELVIS CULTURE: Fans, Faith, and Image
By Erika Doss, Univ. Press of Kansas.
Describes the various images of Elvis as young rebel, hometown boy, patriotic GI, Hollywood
superstar, and blue collar hero; and how his ultimately sanitized image nonetheless challenged
sexual, racial, and cultural mores.

GIRL TALK: Adolescent Magazines and Their Readers
By Dawn H. Currie, University of Toronto Press.
Focusing on young readers of women's magazines, this work shows how girls interpret the
messages of these publications.

JUILLIARD: A History By Andrea Olmstead, University of Illinois Press.
Examines the history of the most famous school of performing arts in the world,
including its defects.

KING JAMES AND LETTERS OF HOMOEROTIC DESIRE
By David M. Bergeron, University of Nebraska Press. Reviews the correspondence of King James I
(commissioner of the bible trans-lation that bears his name) with three of his favorite courtiers,
focusing on its homoerotic and sexual content.

MUSCLETOWN USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York BarbellBy John D. Fair,
Penn State Univ. Press. Extensively illustrated, this work examines the modern American concept
of "manliness" as reflected through body development and weight lifting.

THE PARADOX OF SLEEP: The Story of Dreaming By Michel Jouvet, The MIT Press.
A noted dream researcher examines from a scientific and sociological perspective the history of
research on sleeping and dreaming.

RED-HOT AND RIGHTEOUS: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army
By Diane Winston, Harvard Univ. Press. The Salvation Army is an English evangelical movement
that has been in the US for slightly over a century, popularizing itself through use of controversial
methods such as mass entertainment and commercial marketing (methods which have continued in the
Billy Graham movement and contempo-rary televangelists).

ROMANIAN MODERNISM: The Architecture of Bucharest, 1920-1940
By Luminita Machedon and Ernie Schoffham, The MIT Press. With extensive illustrations, this book
reviews the exceptional breadth and character of modernist architecture in Bucharest during the first
half of this century and suggests how that accom-plishment can form the basis for a renewed urban
dynamic there.

SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL: The Inside Story of Israel Rule in East Jerusalem
By Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman, and Avi Melamed, Harvard University Press. Three residents of Jerusalem review Israeli policy for minimizing Arab presence in the city and ensuring a Jewish character in its entirety.

TCHAIKOVSKY THROUGH OTHERS' EYES. Ed. by Alexander Poznansky, Indiana University Press.
Reviews the public and private life of the famous Russian composer through letters, diary entries,
interviews, and memoirs of his contemporaries.

(From the March 1999 issue)

CRACK IN AMERICA: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
Ed. by Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine, University of California Press.
This collection of papers examines the failure of American drug policy and prohibition and argues for reform based not upon repression but upon reducing harm to society.

FIGURING AGE: Women, Bodies, Generations
Ed. by Kathleen Woodward, Indiana University Press.
This collection focuses on how various western cultures estimate the age and role of older women in their societies.

A HISTORY OF GAY LITERA-TURE: The Male Tradition
Yale University Press.
Suggests a canon of texts and a theoreti-cal framework for evaluating them and their authors. Focuses on western, mainly English and American, literature on or by male homosexuals.

OF FLIES, MICE, AND MEN
By François Jacob, Harvard University Press
A popular explanation by an authoritative scientist on genetics and recent develop-ments in biology.

A ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS: High School Reunions in Middle America
By Keiko Ikeda, Stanford Univ. Press.
Based on personal narratives of those who recently participated in high school reunions, this work examines how the reunion experience can contribute to self-definition and development.

STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS; Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
By Catherine A. Brekus, European Univ. Press.
Demonstrates how female religious leadership was developed over several generations by both white and black women during the transition of the United States from colony to independent republic.

ON THE PILL: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970
Johns Hopkins University Press.
Examines the consequences in terms of society, such as reproduction, sexual practices, feminism, etc., during the first generation of use of oral contraceptives.

SEX SEEN: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America
By Sharon R. Ullman, University of California Press.
Traces sexual habits and practices in northern California at the turn of the century, anticipating the emergence of modern standards.

THINK TANKS ACROSS NATIONS: A Comparative Approach
Manchester University Press.
Examines how think tanks operate in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, and the United States. It shows how these contemporary research entities operate in each country depending on the national research and institutional history and socio-political agendas.

WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE
By Rita McWilliams Tullberg, Cam-bridge University Press
Studies the "long, involved, and deplor-able story" of women trying to study, research, and teach at Cambridge.

WORK AND WELFARE
By Robert M. Solow, Princeton Univ. Press.
Argues that while society's poorest mem-bers should not be guaranteed welfare, they should be guaranteed a job that comprises a living wage. The federal government has a role in carrying out this guarantee.

Ted Riedinger is head of the Latin American Library Collection and a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University. He is a specialist in Brazilian history and culture.

AT HOME WITH PORNOGRAPHY: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life
By Jane Juffer, New York University Press.
This study debunks the idea that pornography endangers the home and family, and demonstrates through analy-sis of advertisements, mail order catalogs, popular fiction, and health manuals that they contain subtexts delimiting a realm of sexual fantasy and satisfaction for women within a domestic sphere.

FROCK ROCK
By Mavis Bayton, Oxford Univ. Press.
Based on over 100 interviews with women who played in British bands from the late 70s to the mid-90s, this book examines the lives of these female performers and the character of their work.

THE AESTHETICS OF THE JAPANESE LUNCHBOX
By Kenji Ekuan, MIT Press.
In examining the structure of the Japanese lunchbox and analyzing the type and arrangement of its contents, the author attempts to decipher the nature of Japa-nese culture and aesthetics.

A COMPANION TO
CALIFORNIA WINE
By Charles L. Sullivan, University of California Press.
Covering the period from the Spanish colonial era to the present, this work contains encyclopedic coverage of Cali-fornia wines and winemaking.

THE CONQUEST OF COOL
By Thomas Frank, Univ. of Chicago Press.
Examines the rise of hip consumerism in the play between business culture and counterculture.

THE CULTURE OF SPONTANEITY
By Daniel Belgrad, Univ. of Chicago Press.
Traces the development of improvisation in the arts in postwar America.

GEISHA
By Liza Dalby, University of California Press.
Authoritative study of the history, customs, attitudes, and role of the geisha in Japanese society.

HARPS AND HARPISTS
By Roslyn Rensch, Indiana Univ. Press.
Extensively illustrated, this history traces the development of the harp and its instrumentalists from ancient times to the present.

THE LORD'S FIRST NIGHT
By Alain Boureau University of Chicago Press.
Translated from the French, this work is a classic in the debunking of credulous scholarship. It exposes as myth the wide-ly held belief that medieval lords had first rights in deflowering brides on their wedding night (droit de cuissage).

PUPPET THEATRE IN EUROPE,
1800 - 1914
By John McCormick and Bennie Pretasik, Cambridge University Press.
Profiles the growth and extent, due to the rise of urban leisure, of marionette theater in Europe during the last century. This form of live theater was the type most likely to be seen by people in that period.

THE RISE AND FALL OF ENGLISH
By Robert Scholes, Yale Univ. Press.
In the growing environment of multi- cultural diversity, this study considers whether the discipline of English should no longer focus on a received canon but rather concentrate on the method for producing literary works, especially the trivium of grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric. The author describes English professors as "a clergy without dogma, teaching sacred texts without a God."

WHO ELECTED THE BANKERS?
By Louis W. Pauly, Cornell Univ. Press.
This study of surveillance and control in the world economy traces developments in globalization over the past half century in relation to the IMF, the G-7, and major central banks.

Ted Riedinger is head of the Latin American Library Collection and an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University. He is the author of A Brief View of American Literature (1976), Como se faz un presidente (1988), Where in the World to Learn (1995), Turned-on Advising (1995), and in preparation: Renaissance in the Tropics: The Achievement of Modern Brazilian Culture, 1922-1960, Amazon Lyric: A History of Brazilian Culture.