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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky By Karl Raitz A nuanced discussion of bourbon’s evolution in Kentucky.
While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Kentucky’s unique geography shaped the whiskeys its settlers produced, and for more than two centuries, distilling bourbon fundamentally altered every aspect of Kentucky’s landscape and culture. This book illuminates how the specific geography, culture, and ecology of the Bluegrass converged and gave birth to Kentucky’s favourite barrel-aged whiskey.
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University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178752 • Hardback • 25 b/w illus., 33 maps • 254 x 178mm • 656 pages • February 2020 • £45.00
Confederate Citadel
Richmond and Its People at War By Mary A. DeCredico Series: New Directions in Southern History
Examines the human elements of the economic rise and fall of Richmond, Virginia.
Richmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Unlike other Southern cities, Richmond boasted a vibrant, urban industrial complex capable of producing crucial ammunition and military supplies. This book offers a detailed portrait of life’s daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War.
University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179254 • Hardback maps • 229 x 152mm • 224 pages • April 2020 • £37.50 9 b/w illus., 3
Paved Roads & Public Money
Connecticut Transportation in the Age of Internal Combustion By Richard DeLuca Series: Driftless Connecticut
A well-illustrated examination of how land, law and technology have shaped Connecticut.
Drawing on a wide array of primary material, this bok examines how land, law, and technology have shaped Connecticut and its transportation systems, including aviation, roads, bridges, ferries, steamboats, canals, railroads, electric trolleys, and water ports. It focuses on key events in the development of transportation technology and legislation. It is arranged chronologically, highlighting themes from each period, showing the implications of state’s transportation history on the ongoing debates around infrastructure and funding.
By Stuart W. Sanders The dark story of a grisly 1856 murder on the Mississippi River.
In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River with its arms and legs tied to a chair. The body was that of a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, the son of a southern planter. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Murder on the Ohio Belle uncovers the mysterious circumstances behind the bloodshed, uncovering a story of double murders, secret identities, and hasty getaways.
University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178714 • Hardback • 23 b/w illus. 216 x 140mm • 160 pages • January 2020 • £19.00
Liberty Brought Us Here
The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia By Susan E. Lindsey The story of the black Americans who migrated to start new lives in Liberia, Africa.
Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years’ worth of surviving letters, author Susan E. Lindsey illuminates the trials and triumphs of building a new life in Liberia, where settlers were free, but struggled to acclimate in an unfamiliar land, coexist with indigenous groups, and overcome disease and other dangers. The book explores the motives and attitudes of colonisation supporters and those who lived in the colony, offering perspectives beyond the standard narrative that colonisation was solely about racism or forced exile.
University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179339 • Hardback • 21 b/w illus., 3 maps, 3 charts • 229 x 152mm • 238 pages • June 2020 • £34.00
Faith in Black Power
Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois By Kerry Pimblott Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
A vital reassessment of the impact of religion on the black power movement.
In 1969, nineteen-year-old Robert Hunt was found dead in the Cairo, Illinois, police station. Though the death was ruled a suicide, the African American community believed he had been murdered, and rebellions and protests sparked across the city. Based on extensive primary research, this ground-breaking examination contributes to and complicates the history of the black freedom struggle in America.
Georges Florovsky and the Patristic Doctrine of Atonement Edited by Matthew Baker, Seraphim Danckaert and Nicholas Marinides Offers incisive and informed neo-patristic voices to any contemporary discussion of atonement.
Atonement is a contested but inescapable term in contemporary Englishlanguage theological discussion. The doctrine of atonement has received little attention in Orthodox Christian circles since the work of Fr Georges Florovsky. This book comprises a collection of papers on atonement by contemporary scholars from a patristic symposium in honor of Florovsky, and a collection of writings on atonement by Florovsky himself, including previously unpublished manuscripts and other works otherwise hard to access.
Holy Trinity Seminary Press • 9781942699286 • Paperback 1 b/w illus. 229 x 153m • 166 pages • January 2020 • £16.99
Islam
Context and Complexity By Paul Stenhouse Explores the background to tragic events linked to Islam.
Islam is not homogeneous. Its complexity, however, is bewildering for nonMuslims, most of whom know little or nothing of Islam, and generally – like Pope Francis – see it as a peace-loving religion. Others find this claim difficult to accept in the light of the violence and cruelty perpetrated in the name of Allah by Muslim fighters. This book offers some light on the background to these tragic events unfolding across the world.
Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801897 • Paperback 196 pages • January • 2020 • £30.00
The Pope in Poland
The Pilgrimages of John Paul II, 1979-1991 By James Felak Series: Russian and East European Studies
Examines Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland in the late Communist and immediate post-Communist period.
This ground-breaking book examines the Pope John Paul II’s first four visits to his homeland in the late Communist and immediate post-Communist period. Careful analysis of speeches, press coverage, and documents from the Communist Party, government, and police show how the Pope and the Communist authorities engaged one another. It recreates and explicates the dramatic visits that played a major role in the collapse of Communism in Poland as well as laid out a papal vision for Poland’s post-Communist future.
2021 Holy Trinity Orthodox Russian Calendar (Russian-language)
Троицкий Православный Русский Календарь на 2021 г. By Holy Trinity Monastery A Russian-language Orthodox Russian Calendar with details of feasts and Lenten days.
This liturgical guide offers detailed rubrics for every Sunday and major feast of the year, as well as certain lesser feasts and lenten days. The calendar also provides a list of commemorated saints and appointed scripture readings for each day of the year. Text in Russian.
Printshop of St Job of Pochaev • 9780884654445 • Spiralbound 229 x 153mm • 448 pages • January 2020 • £23.00
Living According to God’s Will
By Philaret (Voznesensky) A thoughtful treatise for both private reading and group study.
In this short but incisive treatise the reader is guided on a spiritual journey that begins with the awakening of conscience and the realisation of the presence of both sin and virtue in the world, culminating in a union with God: that is “a living, personal relationship with the one we love.” In following the path of this ascent, the author delineates many of its markers and stresses that these have both personal and societal aspects.
Printshop of St Job of Pochaev • 9780884654438 • Paperback 178 x 127mm • 160 pages • October 2020 • £12.99
The Order of the Moleben and the Panikhida
By Holy Trinity Monastery Contains the order of the General Moleben (or Service of Intercession).
This booklet contains the order of the General Moleben (or Service of Intercession), which may be served in any occasion to invoke the aid of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Mother of God, or the saints; as well as the unique order of the Paschal Moleben, served during Bright Week. Also presented is the order of the Pannikhida (or Memorial Service) in which Orthodox Christians pray for the blessed repose and salvation of the departed.
Learning Networks in Philadelphia and Arkansas By David A. Joliffe and David A. Goldblatt Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
This book tells stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighbourhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behaviour: the ability to engage in a conversation carried on, framed by, or enriched through written symbols.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946243 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 208 pages • August 2020 • £38.00
Wendell Berry and Higher Education
Cultivating Virtues of Place By Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro and Wendell Berry Series: Culture of the Land
An examination of Wendell Berry’s commentary on education.
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Drawing on Berry's essays, fiction, and poetry, this book illuminates the influential thinker's vision for higher education in this ground-breaking study. Each chapter begins with an examination of one of Berry's fictional narratives and then goes on to consider how the passage inspires new ways of thinking about the university's mission.
University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179148 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 268 pages • January 2020 • £22.50
Autodidactic
Self-Taught By James W. Parkinson and V. Manuel Perez Encourages learning in order to change people’s lives for the better.
The idea that America is a literate country is a misconception. There are more than thirty million adults in the United States today who cannot read, and spectator mentality and an obsession with instant gratification prevent many from retaining a true commitment to literacy. Here, Parkinson shares his personal discoveries about how to take charge of one's own learning, weaving together practical wisdom and historical statements issued by some of the world's most remarkable leaders.
Chicago's Environmental History Edited by William C. Barnett, Ann Durkin Keating and Kathleen Brosnan Series: History of the Urban Environment A compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history of Chicago.
Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet - City of Lake and Prairie - with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Drawing on its contributors’ interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of colour, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946311 • Hardback • 36 b/w and colour illus. 229 x 152mm • 360 pages • August 2020 • £38.00
Coastal Metropolis
Environmental Histories of Modern New York City Edited by Carl A. Zimring and Steven H. Corey Series: History of the Urban Environment New insight into how New York transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, this book offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946526 • Hardback 32 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 264 pages • August 2020 • £35.00
A Monastery for the Ibex
Conservation, State, and the Conflict of the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949 By Wilko Graf von Hardenberg A multifaceted narrative about Italy's oldest National Park.
Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg merges the history of conservation with the area’s social history and Italy’s larger political history to produce a multifaceted narrative about the park as an institution, the conflicts it triggered, and practices adopted to manage the ibex despite hurdles placed by the fascist regime.
The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000 Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim Series: History of the Urban Environment
Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equalled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mideighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. This book investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946106 • Hardback 10 maps • 229 x 152mm • 480 pages • March 2020 • £40.00
Gone to Ground
A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam By Emily Brownell Series: Intersections
The story of Dar es Salaam's environment and infrastructure.
An investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the centre of this shift. It is built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports.
University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946113 • Hardback 32 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • March 2020 • £35.00
Krakow
An Ecobiography By Adam Izdebski
Series: Russian and East European Studies Demonstrates a valuable environmental perspective to Poland's history.
Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. It has functioned as a cultural centre, an industrial centre, and a centre of learning. Behind all of this lies the city's environment: its fauna and plant life, the Vistula River, the surrounding countryside rich with resources, and manmade change that has allowed the city to flourish. In Krakow: An Ecobiography, the contributors use the city as a lens to focus these social and natural intricacies to shed new light on one of Europe's urban treasures.
