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A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865
Union Combined Operations in the Civil War Edited by Craig L. Symonds
Contributors: Francis J. Du Coin, John Fisher, Chris E. Fonvielle Jr., Howard J. Fuller, David E. Long, Robert Sheridan, David C. Skaggs, Mark A. Snell, Craig L. Symonds, Edward H. Wiser.
“A compelling collection of essays that clearly illustrate the importance of combined operation during the Civil War. Focusing on Union operations along the rebel coast that helped determine the outcome of the war, the authors reveal that success depended not only on technology, arms, and operational plans, but also on the personalities and the people involved.”—Gene Allen Smith, author of Thomas ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny 240 Pages, 6 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-3287-1 Paper, $25.00, £18.99
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This Distracted and Anarchical People
New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War–Era North Edited by Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith Contributors: Michael J. Bennett, Barbara A. Gannon, Michael F. Holt, Harold Holzer, Matthew Isham, Christian B. Keller, Timothy J. Orr, Robert M. Sandow, Andrew L. Slap, Michael T. Smith, Matthew Warshauer, Matthew Warshauer, Karen Fisher Younger
“This compelling set of essays underscores the vibrancy of the field of Civil War studies. Wide-ranging in their approach to political, social, and military aspects of the conflict, they challenge a number of prevailing interpretive conventions and suggest numerous avenues for further investigation. I have no doubt that they will inspire some readers and upset others—a sure indication that they have achieved a major success.”—Gary Gallagher, author of The Union War 296 Pages 978-0-8232-4569-7 Paper, $30.00, £22.99
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Lincoln and Leadership
Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making Edited by Randall M. Miller Afterword by Allen C. Guelzo Contributors: Allen C. Guelzo, Randall M. Miller, Matthew Pinsker, Harry S. Stout, Gregory J. W. Urwin
“Lincoln and Leadership brings readers closer to our 16th president. . . . Brimming with insight and lucidly argued, the essays collected here, along with Randall Miller’s shrewd assessment of Lincoln literature, will help readers become more familiar with this Lincoln.”—Michael Birkner, Gettysburg College 164 Pages, 29 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-4345-7 Paper, $18.00, £13.99
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George Washington Williams Introduction by John David Smith The new edition of this important text includes an introductory essay by the award-winning historian John David Smith. In his essay, Smith narrates and evaluates the book’s contents, analyzes its reception by contemporary critics, and evaluates Williams’s work within the context of its day and its place in current historiography. 294 Pages 978-0-8232-3385-4 Paper, $28.00, £20.99 eBook available
Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration Emanuel Rota “Rota’s biography of Angelo Tasca—a critically-important figure in 20thcentury Italian political history—is clear, balanced, and engaging. Rota traces Tasca’s tormented trajectory from communism to Vichy with judicious restraint and empathy . . . insightful and provocative.”—Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University 232 Pages 978-0-8232-4564-2 Cloth, $45.00, £34.00 eBook available
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The Diary of Prisoner 17326
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Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War
Edited by Paul D. Moreno and Johnathan O’Neill Contributors: Herman Belz, Michael Les Benedict, Christian Esh, Joseph R. Fornieri, Paul Moreno, Jeffry H. Morrison, Johnathan O’Neill, Ronald J. Pestritto, Jonathan W. White
“This important book doesn’t consider the Civil War in isolation but links up the war with the great constitutional questions of the Revolution and the Progressive Era. It is a valuable and original contribution to the field of legal history and American history more broadly.”—Daniel W. Hamilton, University of Illinois College of Law 256 Pages, 9 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-5194-0 Cloth, $40.00, £29.99 July 2013
New Bedford’s Civil War
Earl F. Mulderink, III “Imaginative and exhaustive research grounds New Bedford’s story in the rich details of people’s lives, whether these involve day-to-day business in New Bedford or life and death on the battlefield . . . the book illuminates a city whose history speaks usefully to the Civil War in general and to the Civil War in the North more specifically.”—Michael Frisch, University at Buffalo, SUNY 318 Pages 978-0-8232-4334-1 Cloth, $55.00, £41.00
On the Edge of Freedom:
The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870 David G. Smith “The most nuanced, detailed and sophisticated study of the Underground Railroad in rural Pennsylvania that I have ever read. Based on a wide variety of primary sources, this study offers a series of fresh insights about how the fugitive crisis along the Mason-Dixon Line directly impacted the wider national struggle over slavery and union.”—Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College 344 Pages 978-0-8232-4032-6 Cloth, $70.00, £53.00 hi sto ry
A Pact with Vichy
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A Boy’s Life in a Japanese Labor Camp John K. Stutterheim Foreword by Mark Parillo “The brutal, racist Japanese treatment of Dutch civilians in World War II is told here through the eyes of a young boy who somehow survived captivity, but found he couldn’t go home again. . . . Required reading for anyone who studies the Pacific War.”—Linda Goetz Holmes, author of 4000 Bowls of Rice and Unjust Enrichment 228 Pages, 20 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-3151-5 Paper, $25.00, £18.99 eBook available
Süssen Is Now Free of Jews: World
War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism Gilya Gerda Schmidt “A close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from this region, their long family histories, their engagements in commerce, industry and civic life before 1933, their fate under the Nazis, and their scattered stories after the Holocaust.”—Laura Levitt, Temple University 236 Pages, 40 b/w illustrations 978-0-8232-4329-7 Cloth, $70.00, £53.00
Inte r nati o nal H i sto ry Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions
Heterotopias of the Seminar Miglena Nikolchina “Each chapter is beautifully written, thoughtful, ironic, trenchant, and simply interesting.”—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley 184 Pages 978-0-8232-4300-6 Paper, $22.00, £16.99
Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968
Wendy Pojmann “Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968 identifies a real gap in scholarship on international women’s movements on the period between World War Two and the Second Wave feminist movement of the 1970s This book address that gap offering an engaging and well documented account of two Italian women’s associations, the Unione Donne Italiane (UDI) and the Catholic Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF). Pojmann offers both new and original material, and develops critical understanding of an important and generally overlooked stage in women’s organizations.”—Helen LaVille, University of Birmingham 248 Pages 978-0-8232-4560-4 Cloth, $35.00, £25.99
In the Name of Italy
Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court Maura Hametz Examines justice, nationalism, gender, and patriotism in Fascist Italy through the lens of a 1931 Administrative Court case related to surname italianization in Italy’s Adriatic borderlands. 288 Pages 978-0-8232-4339-6 Cloth, $45.00, £34.00
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The United States and the Second World War New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front Edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash
Contributors: Reiko Asai, Scott H. Bennett, J. Garry Clifford, Justin Hart, Nicholas Molnar, Sidney Pash, Anne Pfau, G. Kurt Piehler, Mark Snell, Barbara Tomblin, and Yutaka Sasaki.
“This volume . . . provides a good balance between the coming of war, the waging of war, and the conflict’s aftermath. Little-known sources and original vantage points ensure that anyone interested in this seismic conflict will find something new to ponder.”—Peter Schrijvers, author of Liberators: The Allies and Belgian Society 356 Pages 978-0-8232-5203-9 Paper, $26.00, £19.99 April 2013 www.fo rd ha mp ress .co m
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Chagas Disease
History of a Continent’s Scourge François Delaporte Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Foreword by Todd Meyers “Delaporte’s brilliant historical exploration of Chagas’ disease covers the decisive period of 1909-1935. The strength of the study is the exhaustive discussion of the scientific literature, the subtle examination of fundamental shifts in conceptual frameworks, and the unrelenting interrogation of the crucial role that chance and error play in scientific research. What Delaporte has written is a comédie humaine of post-colonial science.”—Carlo Caduff, King’s College, London 208 Pages 978-0-8232-4250-4 Paper, $26.00, £19.99 Forms of Living hi sto ry
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