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The University of Nebraska Press extends the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service by promoting, publishing, and disseminating works of intellectual and cultural significance and enduring value.

The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is the largest university press between Chicago and California. It publishes scholarly and general-interest books (with more than 5,000 titles in print and an additional 150 new titles released each year) and journals (with more than 30 different journals published each year) in topics ranging from anthropology and literary criticism to history and sports. In addition to the Nebraska imprint, the Press also publishes books under Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books imprints and publishes the books of The Jewish Publication Society. The Journals division produces the publications of Nebraska Extension, a division of the University of Nebraska’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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January 2023

330 pages, 19 photographs, 10 illustrations, 4 maps, 8 tables Indigenous Studies Rights: World

Everywhen

Australia and the Language of Deep History Edited by ANN MCGRATH, LAURA RADEMAKER, and JAKELIN TROY

Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. Everywhen brings Indigenous knowledges to bear on the study and meaning of the past and of history itself. It seeks to draw attention to every when, arguing that Native time concepts and practices are vital to understanding Native histories and, further, that they may offer a new framework for history as practiced in the Western academy.

Ann McGrath is the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and a Distinguished Professor at Australian National University. She is coeditor of Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History. Laura Rademaker is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She is the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission. Jakelin Troy is the director of Indigenous research at the University of Sydney. She is editor in chief of ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures.

Stories

KARIN LIN-GREENBERG

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers Uinto her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past. Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.

Karin Lin-Greenberg is the author of the story collection Faulty Predictions, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have appeared in publications including the Antioch Review, the Southern Review, Story, and the Chicago Tribune. She is the author of the forthcoming novel, You Are Here.

Henry James Framed

Material Representations of the Master

MICHAEL ANESKO

At a time when having a photographic carte de visite was an expected social commonplace, James detested the necessity of replenishing his supply or of distributing his autographed image to well-wishing friends or imploring readers. Yet for a man who set the highest premium on personal privacy, James seems to have had few reservations about serving as a model for artists in other media and sat for his portrait a remarkable number of twenty-four times. Surprisingly few James scholars have brought into primary focus those occasions when the author was not writing about art but instead became art himself, through the creative expression of another’s talent. To better understand the twenty-four occasions he sat for others to represent him, Michael Anesko reconstructs the specific contexts for these works’ coming into being, assesses James’s relationships with his artists and patrons, documents his judgments concerning the objects produced, and, insofar as possible, traces the later provenance of each of them.

Michael Anesko is a professor of English and American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Henry James and Queer Filiation: Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era and Generous Mistakes: Incidents of Error in Henry James, among others.

September 2022

202 pages Fiction Rights: World

October 2022

288 pages, 31 color illustrations Literary / Visual Studies Rights: World

December 2022

320 pages, 26 photographs, 3 maps Cycling / Outdoors Rights: World

December 2022

346 pages History / Spain Rights: World Stories of Cycling in Alaska Edited by JESSICA CHERRY and FRANK SOOS

Wheels on Ice reveals Alaska’s key role in bicycling as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature. Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos’s diverse group of stories covers cycling both past and present. From riders commuting in every kind of weather to those seeking long-distance adventure in remote regions, these stories will inspire cyclists to ride into their own stories in Alaska and beyond. Cycling in Alaska has never been more popular than it is now. Today, mountain bikers, fat bikers, bmx, and plain old road bikers are traveling around Alaska with their own tales to tell.

Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, aerial photographer, and commercial airplane pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. Frank Soos, a native of Virginia, is the author of Unified Field Theory, which won the 1997 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. A touring cyclist since the 1970s, Soos liked nothing more than loading up his panniers and heading out on the road. Tragically, Soos died in a cycling accident in 2021.

Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family 1400–1600

GRACE E. COOLIDGE

Grace E. Coolidge looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were able to challenge traditional honor codes, repair damaged reputations, and manipulate ideals of marriage and sexuality in order to encompass extramarital sexuality and the nearly constant presence of illegitimate children.

Grace E. Coolidge is a professor of history at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain and editor of The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain.

ELIZABETH COOPERMAN

When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists—particularly twentieth-century women artists—who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, Cooperman grapples with her own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood, considering her decade-long struggle to finish writing her own book and realizing that she has failed to perform one of the most fundamental creative acts; bearing a child. Woman Pissing is composed of roughly one hundred short prose “paintings” that converge around questions of creativity and fecundity. As the book unfolds it builds a larger metaphor about creativity, and the concerns of artistry and motherhood begin to entwine. The author comes to terms with self-doubt, inefficiency, frustration, and a nonlinear, circuitous process and proposes that these methods might be antidotes to the aggressive bravura and Picassian overconfidence of ego-driven art.

Elizabeth Cooperman is co-editor (with David Shields) of the anthology Life Is Short—Art is Shorter. September 2022

192 pages, 9 illustrations Art / History / General Rights: World

Aquaman and the War against Oceans

Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene

RYAN POLL

The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination. Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.

Ryan Poll is an associate professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization.

November 2022

268 pages, 20 illustrations Comics / Environment Rights: World

December 2022

272 pages, 9 photographs, 3 illustrations History / France Rights: World

June 2023

History / United States / 20th Century Rights: World A Transnational History of France

TYLER STOVALL

Noted historian Tyler Stovall considers how the history of France interacts with both the broader history of the world and the local histories of French communities, examining the impacts of Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Gauguin, and Josephine Baker alongside the rise of haute couture and the contemporary role of hip hop. Taking this transnational approach to the history of modern France, Stovall shows how the theme of universalism, so central to modern French culture, has manifested itself in different ways over the last few centuries. Moreover, it emphasizes the importance of narrative to French history, that historians tell the story of a nation and a people by bringing together a multitude of stories and tales that often go well beyond its boundaries. In telling these stories From Near and Far gives the reader a vision of France both global and local at the same time.

Tyler Stovall (1954–2021) was the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. He was the author or editor of a number of books, including White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea and coeditor of The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony.

The First Atomic Bomb

The Trinity Site in New Mexico

JANET FARRELL BRODIE

On July 16, 1945 the US detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon, a plutonium-based device, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Trinity, as the test was known, was successful. Three weeks later, a second successful detonation took place—over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Janet Farrell Brodie explores the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed—the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test—as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation.

Janet Farrell Brodie is a professor emerita of history at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America.

Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Post-Colonial Futures

RAINER F. BUSCHMANN

Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of artifacts that continue to be witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethnographic museums. Narratives focusing entirely on stolen loot or salvaging global heritage ignore the diverse uses and abuses of indigenous artifacts in colonial settings and encounters. Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea (one of the most ethnographically collected geographical entities) over fifty years (ca. 1870–1920). He examines the historical contexts that yielded this massive ethnographic trove by reversing the typical trajectories that place ethnographic museums at the center of the analysis and concluding that museum interests in material culture alone cannot account for the large quantities of extracted artifacts. Buschmann sensibly employs oral traditions, reads colonial sources along and against the grain, and incorporates the careful study of artifacts collected during colonial times. Thus, the work closely examines what these artifacts meant for colonial residents—colonial officials, merchants, missionaries, and ship personnel—and the impact on the indigenous populations producing the desired objects. By centering on an area of collection rather than an institution, Buschmann opens new areas of investigation that include non-professional ethnographic collectors and a sustained rather than superficial analysis of indigenous peoples as producers behind the material culture. Hoarding New Guinea answers the call for a more significant historical focus on colonial ethnographic collections in European museums.

Rainer F. Buschmann is a professor of history at California State University Channel Islands. He is the author of several books including Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea (1870–1935) and Defending the Spanish Lake: Iberian Visions and the Exploration of the Pacific Ocean.

Bad Subjects

Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619–1814

JENNIFER J. DAVIS

Bad Subjects examines the social and cultural milieu of the early modern French empire through an analysis of the quasi-criminal category of libertinage in the French Atlantic. Generally translated as “debauchery” or “licentiousness” in English, libertinage was a polysemous term in early modern Europe and the Atlantic World. Jennifer J. Davis investigates hundreds of cases of libertinage drawn from the police and judicial archives of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France and its Atlantic colonies, alongside the literature obliquely associated with or directly inspired by these proceedings. Davis argues that elite libertine literature had important and surprising consequences for the many people who found themselves accused of libertinage. The accused, whether rich, middling or poor, exhibited a dizzying array of religious, sexual, or lifestyle preferences, and these cases demonstrate infinitely more diversity than the practices detailed in elitist libertine literature.

Jennifer J. Davis is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650–1830.

May 2023

Social Science / Anthropology / Indigenous

Studies Rights: World

May 2023

History/Criminal Justice/Social Science Rights: World

April 2023

Literary Criticism / Africa / Poetry Rights: World

May 2023

432 pages, 4 photographs, 3 illustrations, 1 table History / Political Science / Media Studies Rights: World Sudanese Bedouin Poetry, Evolution and Impact

ADIL BABIKIR

The Beauty Hunters offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poetry, its evolution, aesthetics, and impact. Through an in-depth profile of al-Hārdallo, the doyen of this art form, � Adil Babikir explores the attributes that established him as a poet of international stature. Al-Hārdallo life was a series of journeys in pursuit of beauty. From wandering across the � Butāna wilderness to his adventures with women, he documented the ups and downs of his � life using superb verse. Apart from its aesthetic value, al-Hārdallo poetry offers rich material � for Sudanese studies as it carries glimpses of the sociopolitical developments in Sudan during his lifetime, having lived through three distinct eras: the Turco-Egyptian rule (1820–85), the Mahdist rule (1885–98), and part of the Anglo-Egyptian era (1898–1956). By reading Bedouin poetry in a hybrid context, The Beauty Hunters makes an invaluable addition to the far from settled discourse on Sudan’s cultural identity.

Adil Babikir is a translator and an Arabic content manager at Mubadala Investment Company in Abu Dhabi. He has translated and edited several works, including Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology.

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by BEDROSS DER MATOSSIAN

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from across various disciplines to add to the body of genocide scholarship that is increasingly challenged by denialist literature. By concentrating on factors like the role of communications and news media, global and national social networks, the weaponization of information by authoritarian regimes and political parties, court cases in the US and Europe, freedom of speech, and Post-modernist thought, this volume aims to discuss how genocide denial is increasingly a fact of twenty-first century daily life.

Bedross Der Matossian is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century and Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire.

Contested Memories of an Unended Conflict

MICHAEL J. DEVINE

Michael J. Devine centers on the memories of war held in the United States and other nations whose leadership expended blood and resources in the violent Korean conflict of 1950–1953. While over sixty nations were involved in the Korean War in some manner, the two Koreas, China, and the United States paid the highest price and maintain the most vivid public memories. These states have each advanced radically differing public histories of the ongoing conflict and its results, and each has employed the memories of the war to advance social and political agendas. In addition, because the war remains unfinished business, public memories of the warfare and its aftermath will continue to evolve to align with changing international realities.

Michael J. Devine is currently an adjunct professor of history at the University of Wyoming. Previously, Devine was a professor of history at Wyoming and director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library before his retirement in 2014. He is the author of John W. Foster: Politics and Diplomacy in the Imperial Era, 1873–1917.

Recovering Women's Past

New Epistemologies, New Ventures Edited by SÉVERINE GENIEYS-KIRK

Recovering Women's Past is a collection of essays that focus on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Scrutinizing the reception of the works of these politically-minded women—such as Virginia Woolf, Catherine de Medici, Helen Maria Williams, and Queen Isabella of Castile—the volume’s contributors reflect on how our “histories” of women (in philosophy, literature, history, the visual and performative arts) have been shaped by the discourses of their representation, and on how these discourses have been challenged, and the need for reassessment both within and beyond the confines of academia.

Séverine Genieys-Kirk is a lecturer of French and Francophone studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture, edited by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, and Mary Hays's 'Female Biography': Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism, as well as the journal Women's Writing.

August 2023

346 pages, 14 photographs History / Asia / Military History Rights: World

June 2023

394 pages, 7 illustrations Early Modern Studies / Women, Gender, and

Sexuality / Literary Criticism Rights: World

May 2023

372 pages, 1 chart Geography / Cultural Criticsm and

Theory / Europe Rights: World

March 2023

200 pages Memoir Rights: World Sweden's Social Responses to the Roma Destitute

ERIK HANSSON

Foreword by DON MITCHELL

Between 2014 and 2016, the “begging question” peaked in Sweden. Poor people without shelter were forced to use public spaces as their private space, disturbing aesthetic and normative orders, which created anxiety and provoked aggression among Swedish subjects, resulting in hate crimes and everyday racism. In The Swedish Begging Question, Erik Hansson argues that the material configurations of capitalism and class society are not only racialized, but also unconsciously invested with collective anxieties and desires. By focusing upon Swedish society’s response to the begging and homeless individuals’ presence and social practices, Hansson aims to provide further empirical and theoretical insights into the dialectics of racism.

Erik Hansson is a postdoctoral researcher of geography at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His work has been published in Social & Cultural Geography and European Journal of Homelessness.

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

CHACHI D. HAUSER

Chachi D. Hauser didn’t have a stereotypical childhood. She grew up Disney, literally Disney. Her great-grandfather, Roy Disney, was cofounder of the Walt Disney Company. Because of this family legacy, Hauser came of age questioning not only the way she views gender identity, but also artistic vision, love and relationships, and American history and inequity. It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know combines cultural criticism, memoir, and poetic modes to examine gender identity and the author's relationship to Walt Disney and the Disney company.

Chachi D. Hauser is a filmmaker and writer. Her essays have appeared in Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, Crazyhorse, The Writer’s Chronicle, among others. Chachi’s writing and filmmaking explore topics of gender, environment, identity, family, and the imagination (personal and collective) with a passion for exploring the wild // fluid // in-between places.

PAMELA CARTER JOERN

Toby Jenkins, a widowed grandmother and oldest surviving family member, has opened a summer resort in the Nebraska Sandhills on the Bluestem Ranch for the wounded and broken, misfits and dreamers. Besides her guests—a minister on sabbatical who collects crosses and a woman recovering from a cancer treatment—Toby is joined by Anita and Luís, her hired help; Anita’s brother Gabe; and one other Toby least expected, her adopted daughter Nola Jean. Nola Jean arrives at the ranch to tell Toby she's been searching for (and found) her birth mother while Toby reckons with the ramifications of old age. Meanwhile, the woman Nola Jean believes to be her birth mother struggles with long-kept secrets and a thorny relationship with her own mother. Mother-daughter conflicts, age-old prejudices and mistrust, and generational divides challenge the members of this temporary community as they bump up against each other seeking identity, acceptance, and healing. This disparate cast of characters sets up parallel conflicts against the backdrop of a changing rural landscape, where history clashes with evolving mores and family-owned land is no longer practical.

Pamela Carter Joern is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, playwright, and teacher of writing. She is the author of In Reach, The Plain Sense of Things, and The Floor of the Sky.

Histories of French Sexuality

From the Enlightenment to the Present Edited by NINA KUSHNER and ANDREW ISRAEL ROSS

Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship has shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender identity, marriage, and sexual citizenship. These studies have broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone has caught on, especially in French history. Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in Histories of French Sexuality show how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, or otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history. This volume makes a set of historical arguments about the nature of the past, and a larger historiographical claim about the value and place of the field of the history of sexuality within the broader discipline of history. The topics range from early empire building, religion, the Enlightenment, feminism, socialism, formation of the modern self, medicine, urbanization, decolonization, the social world of post-war France, and the rise of modern and social media.

Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history and chair of the history department at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, and co-editor, with Daryl Hafter, of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France, and co-editor, with Andrew Ross, of Histories of French Sexuality: From the Enlightenment to the Present. Andrew Israel Ross is an assistant professor of history and Nina Bell Suggs Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology,the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and French Historical Studies.

March 2023

252 pages Fiction Rights: World

May 2023

352 pages, 4 illustrations History Rights: World

June 2023

362 pages, 4 maps, 7 tables History / Latin America Rights: World

May 2023

History / Latin America Rights: World The Making and Unmaking of Arab-Ottomans in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1940

JOSÉ D. NAJAR

José D. Najar analyzes how national and transnational processes of migration and return, community conflicts, and social adaption shaped the gendered, racial, and ethnic identity politics surrounding Ottoman subjects and their descendants in Brazil. Upon arrival to the Brazilian Empire, Ottoman subjects were referred to as turcos, producing an all-encompassing ethnic identity among the Arab speaking Brazilian mahjar, who renegotiated their identities in order to secure the possibility of upward mobility and national belonging. By exploring the relationship between race and gender in negotiating international politics and law, national identity, and religion, Najar advances understanding of the local and global forces shaping the lives of Ottoman/Middle Eastern immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, and their reciprocity to state structure.

José D. Najar is an assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His work has been published in Al-Raida, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, and Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies.

The Road to the Land of the Mother of God

A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru STEPHEN G. PERZ and JORGE LUIS CASTILLO HURTADO

The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people: an emblematic project in a period of world history focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the profound fragility of state institutions and the cause of political corruption, and a major driver of ecological and cultural devastation. This highway links the Andean highlands with the Amazonian lowlands in southern Peru, offering an outlet for Brazil’s emergent economy to major markets in the Asian Pacific rim. On the other hand, it became a key focus of the Lava Jato corruption scandal as it spread from Brazil to Peru and beyond, making it a major controversy, and it is associated with the end of isolation in Madre de Dios and other parts of the southwestern Amazon, the efflorescence of all manner of criminal business in the region. But the Interoceanic Highway has a much deeper history, and that history needs to be appreciated in order to fully understand why it was built and why it bears the impacts it has generated. In The Road to the Land of the Mother of God, Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado explore over five hundred years of the history of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru, showing how roads that link regions change over time, how the purposes and portrayals and importance of roads change fundamentally among historical periods, and thus why roads bring many more changes than generally anticipated by both their advocates and their critics. By taking a deeper historical look and atypical approach to regional history, Perz and Castillo Hurtado view infrastructure as an integrative optic for understanding local livelihoods, regional culture, and social conflicts in Latin America.

Stephen Perz is a professor of sociology at the University of Florida. He is the editor of Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science: Experiences Around the World and author of Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon. Jorge Castillo Hurtado is a professor at Madre de Dios National University in Peru.

UHURU PORTIA PHALAFALA

Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala and her family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Mine Mine Mine follows the death of Phalafala's grandfather during a historic juncture in 2018 when a silicosis class action lawsuit against the mining industry in South Africa was settled in favor of the miners. Gold mining in Johannesburg—which had a catastrophic effect on the miners and the environment—is pivotal to understanding the role of South Africa’s calamitous modernity and its ties to a global market economy in the destruction of Black lives, the institution of the Black family, and Black sociality. The epic poem uses these developments to address racial capitalism—where the history of capitalism is essentially the history of racism—which brings together histories of the trans-Atlantic and trans-Indian slave trades, of plantation economies, and of mining and prison industrial complexes. Phalafala places the mining industry squarely in the same political framework as slavery, underpinned by Black captivity and enclosure, and enforced productivity. As inheritor of the migrant labor lineage, she uses her experience to explore how Black women carry intergenerational trauma of racial capitalism in their bodies and intersects the personal and national, continental and diasporic narration of this history within a critical race framework.

Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. She is the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement and coeditor of Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018. Her work has appeared in English Studies in Africa, Scrutiny2, Safundi, Journal of African Literature Association, Research in African Literature, and Interventions.

A Different "Trek"

Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine

DAVID K. SEITZ

David K. Seitz offers readers the first full-length treatment of Star Trek’s rich ethical and political worldbuilding in A Different "Trek." His work builds on previous studies of race and geopolitics in Star Trek but argues forcefully against the tidy bracketing of “domestic” struggles for racial justice and colonial suppression of indigenous resistance in “international” conflicts. A Different "Trek" argues for the series’ prescience in reflecting back to Americans their own contradictions on contemporary political matters, and thus the book principally contributes to geography’s rich and proliferating engagement with critical ethnic studies and robust countertopographies that link “domestic” and “international” struggles against racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and American empire.

David K. Seitz is an assistant professor of cultural geography at Harvey Mudd College. He is the author of A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church among a number of peerreviewed articles.

March 2023

74 pages Poetry Rights: World

July 2023

Science Fiction / Media Studies / Geography Rights: World

March 2023

288 pages, 7 photographs, 1 chart Cultural Criticism and Theory / Political

Science / Women, Gender, and Sexuality Rights: World

May 2023

232 pages Memoir / Native Studies Rights: World

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975

GIUSI RUSSO

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 examines the organization’s gendered politics of colonialism and decolonization from its foundation until the mid-1970s to explore how the category of empire, with its multiple variations, was central to the UN’s advocacy for women’s rights. Giusi Russo focuses on the UN Commission on the Status of Women (csw) and its interactions with other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, and states. The csw defined and redefined discrimination against women through transnational dialogues and a close observation of the status of women in both de-facto colonies and territories under trusteeship administration. Russo shows how “empire” meant many things within the UN setting and how with the legal separation of the colonial world into Trust Territories and non-self-governing territories came a sanitation of colonial language in narratives. Because of the promotion of international provisions for money in the colonial world, however, a hybrid dynamic emerged wherein “empire” was simultaneously condoned and condemned. Through the history of the tensions, alliances, and conceptual variations of the gendered politics of empire at the UN, Russo outlines a complex scenario of women’s activism, one that flourished despite Cold War rivalries, decolonization, and the politics of development. Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 argues that in the early stages of identifying discriminating agents in women’s lives, commissioners overlooked the nation-state and went through a process of fighting discrimination without identifying the discriminator. Focusing on empire, however, reveals how gender constructs were instrumental to state politics and the exclusion of women. Commissioners’ emphasis on colonial practice also generated attention toward politics of the body and radically changed the commission’s politics from a scope on formal equality to a gender-based equilibrium of rights that prioritized practice rather than laws.

Giusi Russo is an assistant professor of history at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania. Her work has been published in Gender & History and The International History Review.

We Who Walk the Seven Ways

A Memoir

TERRA TREVOR

We Who Walk the Seven Ways is Terra Trevor’s memoir about seeking healing and finding belonging. After a difficult loss, a circle of Native women elders embraced and guided Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) through the seven cycles of life in the indigenous ways. Over three decades, these women lifted her from grief, instructed her in living, and showed her how to age from youth into beauty. With tender honesty, Trevor explores how the end is always a beginning. Her reflections on the deep power of female friendship, on losing a child, reconciling complicated roots, and finding richness in living every stage of life shows that being

Terra Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, German) is a professional writer with 40 years of experience. She is a contributor to 15 books and numerous essays and articles. Her first memoir was Pushing Up the Sky: A Mother's Story.

The Shinnery

A Novel

KATE ANGER

Seventeen-year-old Jessa Campbell thrives on the Shinnery, her family’s homestead in 1890s Texas, bordered by acres of shin oaks on the rolling plains. Without explanation her father sends her away to settle a family debt. A better judge of cattle than of men, Jessa becomes entangled with a bad one. Everything unravels after she puts her trust in Will Keyes. When Jessa returns home to the Shinnery, pregnant and alone, her father goes on a mission of frontier justice, with devastating consequences. In the aftermath Jessa fights for her claim to the family farm and for a life of independence for herself and her sisters. A story of coming-ofage, betrayal, and revenge, The Shinnery is inspired by the author’s family history and a trial that shook the region.

Kate Anger is a playwright and lecturer at the University of California–Riverside.

Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood

GARY C. ANDERSON

Edited by MARK C. CARNES, with a new afterword by the author

In this newly revised biography, Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Horn and its aftermath, and details the events and life experiences that ultimately led Sitting Bull into battle. Incorporating the latest scholarship, Anderson profiles this military and spiritual leader of the Lakota people, a man who remained a staunch defender of his nation and way of life until his untimely death. In particular Anderson explores the complexities and evolution of Lakota society and political culture within Sitting Bull’s lifetime as they endured wave after wave of massive military and civilian intrusion into their lands. For a people not accustomed to living under a centralized authority, the Lakota found themselves needing a centralized authority to galvanize resistance against a relentless and rapidly expanding nation. Despite tactical success on a number of battlefields, Sitting Bull and the Lakota lacked the military and political might to form an unyielding consensus on how to deal with the United States’ aggressive land seizures and military attacks. Ultimately, in the blood-soaked ground at Wound Knee, amid the slaughter of non-combatants and aging warriors, the Lakota would see their independence broken and the end to Sitting Bull’s vision of a Lakota nation free of US influence.

Gary C. Anderson is a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History, Gabriel Renville: From the Dakota War to the Creation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation, 1825–1892, and many others. Mark Carnes is a professor of History at Barnard College of Columbia University and specializes in American history and pedagogy. He is Executive Director of Reacting Consortium, which directs the Reacting to the Past pedagogical initiative. His the author of Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College and general co-editor (with John Garraty) of the 24-volume American National Biography.

September 2022

268 pages, 1 map Fiction Rights: World

March 2023

224 pages, 1 map Social Sciences / Ethnic Studies / Native

American Studies Rights: World

June 2023

Fiction Rights: World

March 2023

240 pages, 28 photographs, 1 map Natural History / Environment Rights: World A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre

VENETIA HOBSON LEWIS

In this historical novel set in Arizona Territory in 1871, Valeria Obregón, along with her ambitious husband, Raúl, arrives in Tucson hoping to find prosperity in this raw, frontier town. In the mountains, Nest Feather, a small Aravaipa Apache girl, is welcomed into womanhood by Changing Woman, an Apache spirit that represents the natural order of the world and its cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The Apaches, having been pushed from their lands, carry out raids against Mexican and Anglo settlers, who, angered by the failure of the US government and the military to protect them, conduct a murderous raid on an Apache encampment under the protection of the US military at Camp Grant. While Valeria finds fulfillment in her work as a seamstress, Raúl struggles to hide his role in the bloody attack from her. Even though Raúl is not among those indicted for the crime, his guilty behavior and her suspicions challenge the very foundation of their marriage. Nest Feather, kidnapped along with other small Apache children and adopted by a Mexican couple in Tucson, struggles to hold on to her Apache heritage in a culture that rejects her very being. Against the backdrop of the trial, Valeria and Nest Feather’s lives intersect in the church, where Valeria is seeking spiritual guidance for the decision she must make and where Nest Feather’s Christian baptism is about to take place. Here, Nest Feather’s spirit animal, a common brown mouse, provides the sign Valeria needs while Nest Feather takes a different path.

Venetia Hobson Lewis worked at several stock brokerages and attended a semester of law school at SMU before moving to Los Angeles, where her stage play, The Poet of Woburn Place, was produced at one of LA’s little theatres. She also worked for nearly eighteen years as Corporate Paralegal, Director of Legal Affairs, for a major motion picture studio. She also sang for two years with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, which is associated with the LA Philharmonic. She is a member of Women Writing the West and the Historical Novel Society.

Watch the Bear

A Half Century with the Brown Bears of Alaska

DEREK STONOROV

Derek Stonorov has spent the better part of fifty years watching bears, as a research scientist and guide, in some of Alaska’s most beautiful wild places. A dyslexic kid who was more interested in hunting and cars than in academics, he managed to collect objective data as well as make observations and insights about what he learned to call “the community of bears.” The book takes the reader from the 1960s, when salmon were plentiful, his hair was long, and he could spend an entire summer watching hundreds of bears without seeing another human, to today, when bear guiding companies are ubiquitous and solitude in bear country is a whole lot harder to find. Through good science made accessible with stories, the reader takes an engaging and breath-taking journey into the world of a legendary but often misunderstood species.

Derek Stonorov is the owner of Alaska Bear Quest, a wildlife viewing and education company. He has over fifty years' experience observing Alaska's brown bears and educating hundreds of photographers, filmmakers, scientists, and tourists, as well as teaching brown bear biology and conservation at the University of Alaska. He has written articles for Natural History magazine; produced booklets for Alaska Fish and Game, the Nature Conservancy, Alaska Audubon, the National Park Service and others; and written and directed several films, including the award-winning Way of the Bear. Stonorov is still involved with filming bears for television with companies such as bbc and pbs.

Intimate Strangers

A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome

FREDRIC BRANDFON

Telling engaging stories illuminating the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome—the oldest Jewish community in Europe, with the longest continuous history— Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual and paradoxical relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed uninterruptedly, from 139 bce to the present, in the Eternal City. Innovatively, Fredric Brandfon frames these relations through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of “family” has shaped both Roman Jews’ and Catholics’ self-understanding. The familial relations are lopsided, the powerful family member often persecuting the weaker one, yet respect and support abide as well.

Fredric Brandfon was chairmanof the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey and founded the Religion Department atthe College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has published multiple articles on Roman and Italian Jewish history.

Biblical Women Speak

Hearing Their Voices through New and Ancient Midrash

RABBI MARLA J. FELDMAN

Biblical Women Speak employs midrash (interpretative techniques) to discover ten biblical women’s stories from a female point of view and provide insights beyond how ancient male scholars viewed them. Each chapter brings alive a different biblical woman, including non-Israelite characters and others who are neglected in classical rabbinic texts, such as Keturah (Abraham’s last wife), Bat Shuah (Judah’s wife), Shelomith (the infamous blasphemer’s mother), and Noah (one of Zelophehad’s brave daughters who demanded inheritance rights). After each featured text we hear a creative retelling of the woman’s story in her own voice, followed by traditional midrash and medieval commentaries, and then the author’s reflections on how these tales and interpretations are relevant for today.

Marla J. Feldman is the Executive Director of Women of Reform Judaism. She is the author of the social action manuals Speak Truth to Power, K’hilat Tzedek: Creating Communities of Justice, and From Tzedek to Tzedakah: Social and Economic Issues of Concern for Women and Children.

May 2023

384 pages, 9 photographs, 3 illustrations, 1 map History / Jewish, Religion / Judaism / History Rights: World

July 2023

Jewish History and Culture / Women, Gender, and Sexuality Rights: World

July 2023

 Jewish, History and Culture Rights: World A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics

RABBI BARRY L. SCHWARTZ

Open Judaism is at once an invitation to the spiritually seeking Jew, a clarion call for a pluralistic and inclusive Judaism, and a dynamic exploration and comparison of the remarkably wide array of thought within Judaism today. The author presents traditional, secular-humanistic, and liberal Jewish views on nine major topics—God, soul, Torah, halakhah, Jewish identity, inclusion, Israel, ethics, and prayer—while filtering them through a unique tri-partite lens of how Jewish believers, atheists, and agnostics understand these issues, embellished by teachings from many of Judaism’s greatest thinkers.

Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz is director and editor-in-chief emeritus of The Jewish Publication Society and the spiritual leader of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, New Jersey. He is the author of books for adults, teens and children, including Path of the Prophets: The Ethics-Driven Life, Judaism's Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl, and Jewish Heroes, Jewish Values: Living Mitzvot in Today's World.

From Chernobyl with Love

Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union

KATYA CENGEL

With a new chapter, preface, and afterword

In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprecedented hope for democracy and freedom in Eastern Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union left in its wake a number of independent countries where the Scorpions’ 1990 pop ballad “Wind of Change” became a rallying cry. Communist propaganda was finally being displaced by Western ideals of a free press. Less than two decades ago, young writers, journalists, and adventurers such as Katya Cengel flocked from the West eastward to cities like Prague and Budapest, seeking out terra nova. Despite the region’s appeal, neither Kyiv in the Ukraine nor Riga in Latvia was the type of place you would expect to find a twenty-two-year-old Californian just out of college. Kyiv was too close to Moscow. Riga was too small to matter—and too cold. But Cengel ended up living and working in both. This book is her remarkable story. Cengel first took a job at the Baltic Times just seven years after Latvia regained its independence. The idea of a free press in the Eastern Bloc was still so promising that she ultimately moved to the Ukraine. From there Cengel made several trips to Chernobyl, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. It was at Chernobyl that she met her fiancé, but as she fell in love, the Ukraine collapsed into what would become the Orange Revolution, bringing it to the brink of political disintegration and civil war. Ultimately, this fall of idealism in the East underscores Cengel’s own loss of innocence. From Chernobyl with Love is an indelible portrait of this historical epoch and a memoir of the highest order.

Katya Cengel is a freelance writer and author based in California. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post among other publications.

Truman and the Bomb

The Untold Story

D. M. GIANGRECO

Many myths have grown up around President Truman and his decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. Myth: Truman didn't know of the atom bomb's development before he became president. Fact: Truman's knowledge of the bomb is revealed in his own carefully worded letters to a Senate colleague. Myth: Dropping the atom bombs was racially motivated and there was never any intention of using them against the Germans. Fact: Propagated by a misreading of the Manhattan project documents and a lack of understanding about the development of the war and the bomb, this myth is actually opposite of the truth. D. M. Giangreco sets out to bust these myths and many more using never before published material

D. M. Giangreco is a retired Military Review editor at the US Army Command and General Staff College in fort Leavenworth, KS. Giangreco has lectured widely on national security matters and is an award-winning author of 14 books on military and sociopolitical subjects. He is the author of Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945–1947, United States Army: The Definitive Illustrated History, and The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman, among others.

June 2023

304 pages, 16 photographs, 1 map Biography & Autobiography / Personal

Memoirs / History / Russia & the Former

Soviet Union Rights: World

July 2023

Military History Rights: World

July 2023

Military History Rights: World One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines NORMAN POLMAR and LEE J. MATHERS

Foreword by THOMAS A. BROOKS

Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines concentrates on the efforts of the Soviet Union/Russia and the U.S. Several other navies and “government agencies” have operated intelligence collection ships, generally in “ones” and “twos” except for China and Norway. China has become a major maritime power in the 21st Century, with special interests in the South China Sea, and with increasing hostility toward the United States. Norway, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has occupied a critical location on the Soviet Union’s western maritime border. Thus, both China and Norway have operated noteworthy intelligence ship programs that are addressed herein.

Norman Polmar is an analyst, consultant, and author, specializing in naval, aviation, and technology subjects. He has been a consultant or advisor on naval issues to three Senators, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and three Secretaries of the Navy as well as to the director of the Los Alamos national laboratory, and to the leadership of the U.S., Australian, Chinese, and Israeli Navies. He is the author of numerous books. Lee J. Mathers was on active duty with the Navy from 1967 to 1978, during which time he served two tours in Vietnam. He later was a researcher for the documentary film Azorian: The Raising of the K-129, and the book Project Azorian. He is coauthor with Mr. Polmar of The Deepest Pioneer: The Bathyscaph Trieste and the Deep Ocean. Thomas A. Brooks retired from the U.S. Navy as a Rear Admiral. Brooks was a career intelligence officer, serving in assignments afloat and ashore, including in Vietnam. He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from 1988 to 1991.