’sup? – April 2014

Hot off the press this month, we’ve got books that tackle austerity and national security, our latest Stanford Brief on navigating negotiations, and an exquisite compendium of 19th-century photographs of the American West taken by master photographer, Carleton Watkins. 

Out this month

Carleton Watkins:
The Stanford Albums | Edited by the Cantor Arts Center

“[These photos] capture what [Carleton Watkins] and other nineteenth-century photographers and painters repeatedly inscribed as the American sublime. This is the nature that dwarfs and obliterates us." —Richard White, author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

The publication of Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums dovetails with an exhibit of Watkins' highest photographic achievements at The Cantor Arts Center. The exhibit begins April 23 and runs through mid-August. A selection of photographs featured in this book will also travel to The Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall. 

“Aaron Major's argument is global in scope and draws on a wide range of archival documents to come to a fascinating conclusion: that the main actors in the rise of austerity are central banks, and that neoliberalism in monetary policy actually began not in the 1970s, but
in the 1950s and 1960s”

—“Monica Prasad, Northwestern University

“Shirli Kopelman develops a playful action-oriented framework to communicate deep and practical insights about the nature of cooperation and competition in negotiations."

—Jeanne Brett,
Northwestern University

"The political economy of national security in the twenty-first century presents a challenging blend of complexity, urgency and austerity. With thirteen case studies and a wealth of critical and constructive analysis, Providing for National Security is essential reading for students, scholars, policy-makers and all who seek to address that challenge."

—Paul Cornish,
University of Exeter