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A Good Place to Do Business
A Nation of Veterans War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America Olivier Burtin
The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945 Roger Biles and Mark H. Rose
October 2022 304pp 12 illus. 9781512823141 £47.00/ $55.00 HB
Urban Life, Landscape and Policy October 2022 362pp 3 halftones, 1 duotone, 6 maps 9781439920824 £34.00/ $39.95 PB 9781439920817 £100.00/ $125.50 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits. In examining how the veterans’ movement inscribed martial citizenship onto American law, politics, and culture, A Nation of Veterans offers a new history of the U.S. welfare state that highlights its longstanding connection with warfare.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book examines the politics of post World War II government-funded redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and policymakers) often dictated the level of success. Excludes Asia Pacific
Abraham Lincoln's Wilderness Years
Are All Politics Nationalized?
Collected Works of J. Edward Murr J. Edward Murr, Edited by Joshua Claybourn
Evidence from the 2020 Campaigns in Pennsylvania Edited by Stephen K. Medvic, Matthew M. Schousen and Berwood A. Yost
January 2023 298pp 9780253062680 £17.99/ $22.00 PB 9780253062673 £52.00/ $60.00 HB
December 2022 257pp 30 tables, 6 figs., 5 haltones 9781439922545 £64.00/ $74.50 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collects and annotates significant scholarship from J. Edward Murr, one of the only writers to cover this lost period of Lincoln's life—from 1816 to 1830, ages 7 to 21. None of Lincoln's biographers knew his boyhood associates and Indiana environment as well as Murr, whose complete Lincoln research has never been published—until now.
Examine the 2020 elections in six Pennsylvania districts to explore the level of nationalization in campaigns for Congress and state legislature. This book looks at the behavior of candidates and the factors that influence voters’ electoral choices. Excludes Asia Pacific
Between Home and the Front
Black Gun, Silver Star
The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves Art T. Burton
Civil War Letters of the Walters Family Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Edited by Lynn Heidelbaugh and Thomas Paone
Race and Ethnicity in the American West September 2022 416pp 32 photos, 2 maps, index 9781496233424 £18.99/ $22.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
September 2022 230pp 27 b&w illus., 3 maps, 2 charts 9780253062970 £16.99/ $20.00 PB 9780253062963 £52.00/ $60.00 HB
In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, a former slave who served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves’s presence in contemporary national media and in popular modern media.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a unique first-person account from those that experienced the Civil War and annotations to provide historical context for the events, people, and material culture described in the letters. 1
Black Lives in Alaska
Broken
A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest Ian C. Hartman and David Reamer, Foreword by Calvin E. Williams
The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Evelyn Alsultany November 2022 320pp 18 b&w illus. 9781479823963 £24.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2022 pp 22 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295750934 £20.99/ $24.95 PB 9780295750927 £85.00/ $99.00 HB
How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims. In the realm of corporations, Alsultany critically examines the firing of high-profile individuals for anti-Muslim speech—a remedy that rebrands corporations as anti-racist while institutional racism remains intact. This book finds an institutional pattern that defangs the promise of Muslim inclusion, deferring systemic change until and through the next “crisis.”
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
How Alaska’s Black population has had an outsized impact on the culture and civic life of the region. Alaska’s history of race relations and civil rights reminds us that the currents of discrimination and its responses, are American stories that might be explored in the unlikeliest of places.
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Captives of Liberty
Conservatism in a Divided America
Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution T. Cole Jones
The Right and Identity Politics George Hawley November 2022 368pp 9780268203740 £39.00/ $45.00 HB
Early American Studies July 2022 336pp 11 illus. 9781512823684 £21.99/ $26.50 PB
PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Hawley strives to deal with the very nature of identity politics in the United States: how conservatives view and understand it, how they embrace their own versions of identity, and how liberal and conservative intellectuals and politicians navigate this equally dangerous and potentially explosive landscape.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of the Revolution. Jones contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound impact on the character and consequences of the American Revolution.
Continent in Crisis
Corrosive Solace
The U.S. Civil War in North America Edited by Brian Schoen, Jewel L. Spangler and Frank Towers
Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 Daniel O'Quinn October 2022 416pp 40 b&w halftones 9781512823110 £64.00/ $74.95 HB
Reconstructing America December 2022 272pp 3 b&w illus. 9781531501297 £28.99/ $35.00 PB 9781531501280 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O’Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its performative repertoire.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Written by leading historians of the mid-nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. 2
Cultivating Empire
Dangerous Intercourse
Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country Lori J. Daggar
Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946 Tessa Winkelmann
Early American Studies November 2022 264pp 10 illus. 9781512823295 £39.00/ $45.00 HB
The United States in the World January 2023 300pp 19 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501767074 £47.00/ $54.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the lateeighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It presents American empire-building as a negotiated phenomenon that was built upon the foundations of earlier Atlantic empires.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth century via a wide range of relationships—from the casual and economic to the formal and long term.
Designing PanAmerica
Diversifying the Courts Race, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy Nancy Scherer
U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere Robert Alexander González, Introduction by Robert Rydell
February 2023 240pp 40 b&w illus. 9781479818723 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479818709 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Roger Fullington Series in Architecture September 2022 280pp 204 photos, 1 map, 6 tables 9781477326671 £39.00/ $45.00 PB
Addresses why presidents choose—or don’t choose—to diversify the federal courts by race, ethnicity, and gender. She explores how and why the issue became a bitter partisan fight in the first place, tracking the controversial history—and politics—of court diversification. Drawing on polls, political experiments, surveys and one-on-one interviews, Scherer illuminates the complicated relationship between diversity and court legitimacy. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Presents the first examination of the architectural expressions of Pan-Americanism. González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary PanAmerica to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.
Faith in Exposure
Fear in Our Hearts
Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States Justine S. Murison
What Islamophobia Tells Us about America Caleb Iyer Elfenbein North American Religions September 2022 248pp 9781479820528 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP
Early American Studies December 2022 320pp 15 illus. 9781512823516 £47.00/ $55.00 HB
PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing claims on public life. They are united, though, by the fact that both are rooted in our culture’s understanding of privacy. This book shows how, over the course of the nineteenth century, privacy came to encompass such contradictions.
Examines Islamophobia in the United States, positing that rather than simply being an outcome of the 9/11 attacks, anti-Muslim activity grows out of a fear of difference that has always characterized US public life. Elfenbein pinpoints trends, draws connections to the broader histories of immigration, identity, belonging, and citizenship in the US, and examines how Muslim communities have responded. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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For the Common Good
Fraying Fabric
American Institutions and Society December 2022 324pp 11 b&w photos 9781501768231 £20.99/ $24.95 PB
Working Class in American History November 2022 304pp 20 b&w photos 9780252086724 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9780252044656 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
A New History of Higher Education in America Charles Dorn
How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America James C. Benton
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. This book demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities, and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. Compelling and comprehensive, Fraying Fabric explains what happened to textile and apparel manufacturing and how it played a role in today's politics of anger Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Freedom on the Offensive
Friendly Enemies
Soldier Fraternization throughout the American Civil War Lauren K. Thompson
Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War William Michael Schmidli
Studies in War, Society, and the Military January 2023 240pp 4 photos, 8 illus., index 9781496233394 £24.99/ $30.00 NIP
The United States in the World September 2022 324pp 9781501765148 £40.00/ $46.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Friendly Enemies analyzes the relations and fraternization of American soldiers on opposing sides of the Civil War, a representation of the common soldiers’ efforts to fight the war on their own terms. This study reveals that despite different commanders, terrain, and outcomes on the battlefield, a common thread emerges: soldiers constructed a space to lessen hostilities and make their daily lives more manageable.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. This book explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda.
From Occupation to Occupy
Gendered Places
The Landscape of Local Gender Norms across the United States William J. Scarborough
Antisemitism and the Contemporary American Left Sina Arnold, Translated by Jacob Blumenfeld
February 2023 252pp 8 tables, 48 figures 9781439922040 £28.99/ $34.95 PB 9781439922033 £90.00/ $104.50 HB
Studies in Antisemitism November 2022 306pp 1 figure 9780253063137 £36.00/ $42.00 PB 9780253063120 £73.00/ $85.00 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines metropolitan commuting zones to see how each region’s local culture reflects gender roles and gender equity. He uses surveys and social media data to measure multiple dimensions of gender norms, including expectations toward women in leadership, attitudes toward working mothers, as well as the division of household labor.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that antisemitism can also be found as an "invisible prejudice" on the left. This book offers potential remedies for this situation and suggests that a progressive political movement that takes antisemitism seriously can be a powerful force for change in the United States.
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Harvesting History
Imperial Zions
McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery Daniel P. Ott
Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
January 2023 300pp 10 illus., index 9781496206985 £52.00/ $60.00 HB
Studies in Pacific Worlds October 2022 276pp 8 photos, index 9781496233462 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781496214607 £85.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Focuses on the example of Cyrus McCormick’s invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831 to reveal connections between the historical profession and economic power in the competitive harvesting machine industry of the late nineteenth century. As a parallel story to the McCormicks’ manipulation of the past, Harvesting History also provides a glimpse of the nascent discipline of history during the Progressive Era.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.
Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality
It Can Happen Here
White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US Alexander Laban Hinton
Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation Michelle R. Jacobs
October 2022 272pp 9781479808052 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP
January 2023 304pp 2 b&w illus. 9781479849123 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479837588 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
An essential new assessment of the dangers of contemporary white power extremism in the United States. While revealing the threat of genocide and atrocity crimes that loom over the country, Hinton offers actions we can take to prevent it from happening, illuminating a hopeful path forward for a nation in crisis.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Taken together, the interconnected stories of relocators and reclaimers expose the struggles of Indigenous and Indigenous-identified participants in urban pan-Indian communities. This book offers a complicated portrait of who can rightfully claim and enact American Indian identities and what that tells us about how race is “made” today. Excludes Taiwan,
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Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War
Keeping the March Alive
The Union Army Adam D. Mendelsohn
How Grassroots Activism Survived Trump's America Catherine Corrigall-Brown
November 2022 320pp 60 color illus. 9781479812233 £28.99/ $35.00 HB
November 2022 224pp 22 b&w illus. 9781479815074 £22.99/ $28.00 PB 9781479815050 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers an engaging account of the experiences of Jewish soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. The volume examines when and why they decided to enlist, explores their encounters with fellow soldiers, and describes their efforts to create community within the ranks. This monumental undertaking rewrites much of what we think we know about Jewish soldiers during the Civil War.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Follows thirty-five progressive groups founded after the Women’s March across ten cities to tell the whole story of how some social movement organizations survive and thrive while others falter. This book is instrumental in understanding how activism and activist groups can be sustained over time and how larger protest movements can last.
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Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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Knowing Him by Heart
Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution
African Americans on Abraham Lincoln Edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman, Introduction by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman
Austin Sarat
June 2022 194pp 9781503633537 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book tells the story of lethal injection's earliest iterations in the United States, starting with New York state's rejection of that execution method almost a century and half ago. Sarat recounts lethal injection's return in the late 1970s, and offers novel and insightful scrutiny of the new drug protocols that went into effect between 2010 and 2020.
November 2022 576pp 9780252044687 £34.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
A comprehensive and valuable reader, this book examines Lincoln’s still-evolving place in Black American thought. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
LGBT Inclusion in American Life
Meaningless Citizenship
Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights Susan Burgess
Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State Sally Wesley Bonet
LGBTQ Politics February 2023 208pp 9781479819751 £22.99/ $28.00 PB 9781479819720 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
November 2022 256pp 1 table 9781517911126 £21.99/ $27.00 PB 9781517911119 £93.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces the costs of America’s long-term military involvement around the world by following the forced displacement of Iraqi families, unveiling how Iraqis are doubly displaced: first by the machinery of American imperialism in their native countries and then through a more pernicious war occurring on U.S. soil—the dismantling of the welfare state.
Using civil rights narratives, pop culture, and critical theory, this book tells the story of how exclusion was transformed into inclusion in US politics and society, as pop culture changed mainstream Americans thinking about “non-gay” issues, namely privacy, sex and gender norms, and family.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Musical Landscapes in Color
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Conversations with Black American Composers William C. Banfield
A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900–1959 Nannie Helen Burroughs, Edited by Kelisha B. Graves
Music in American Life November 2022 400pp 20 color photos, 95 b&w photos 9780252086915 £24.99/ $29.95 NIP 9780252044823 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
African American Intellectual Heritage July 2022 270pp 10 b&w illus. 9780268105549 £28.99/ $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores a range of areas.
This collection of works by Nannie Helen Burroughs illuminates her views on religion, society, black womanhood, and social justice and restores the spotlight to an integral African American theologian, philosopher, activist, and intellectual.
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Nature's Mountain Mansion
Never Caught Twice Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850–1890 Matthew S. Luckett
Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite Edited by Gary Noy
December 2022 390pp 18 photos, 4 illus., 5 maps, 5 graphs, index 9781496233400 £28.99/ $35.00 NIP
November 2022 416pp 45 photos, 3 tables 9781496232519 £24.99/ $29.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Never Caught Twice offers a comprehensive cross-cultural study of horse theft as a crime, a transactional activity, and an intercultural phenomenon on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. Luckett clarifies a widely misunderstood crime in Western mythology and shows that horse stealing transformed plains culture and settlement in fundamental and surprising ways.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Focuses on the the critical century when Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the nation’s most visited national parks. Includes selections from a range of documents that demonstrate the glory, the brutality, and the controversies surrounding this extraordinary and much-loved landscape.
Nez Perce Summer, 1877
Out Here on Our Own An Oral History of an American Boomtown J. J. Anselmi
The U.S. Army and the Nee-MePoo Crisis Jerome A. Greene, Foreword by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.
October 2022 192pp 18 photos 9781496232328 £17.99/ $21.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
September 2022 578pp 26 photos, 16 maps, 2 appendixes, index 9781496232663 £25.99/ $31.95 PB
Tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high percapita suicide rate—yet a place that has proven remarkably resilient. Anselmi stitches together an array of original interviews with people who’ve seen those things firsthand, tracing the boom-bust trajectory of a town known for its corruption, vice, and violence.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people’s epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. This definitive treatment of the Nez Perce War is the first to incorporate research from all known accounts of Nez Perce and U.S. military participants.
Paternalism to Partnership
Policing Unrest
On the Front Lines of the Ferguson Protests Tammy Rinehart Kochel
The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021 David H. Dejong
November 2022 256pp 9781479807369 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479807352 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
October 2022 542pp 8 tables, index 9781496230584 £60.00/ $70.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Presents the frontline experiences of police officers during the intense three weeks of protest, vigils, looting, violence, and large civil demonstrations in and around Ferguson, Missouri, following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer. An up-close account of policing during the Ferguson protests, providing insights from both police officers and members of the community.
Paternalism to Partnership examines the administration of Indian affairs from 1786, when the first federal administrator was appointed, through 2021. David H. DeJong examines each administrator through a biographical sketch and excerpts of policy statements defining the administrator’s political philosophy, drawn from official reports or the administrator’s own writings.
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Portraits of Earth Justice
Queering the Midwest Forging LGBTQ Community Clare Forstie
Americans Who Tell the Truth Robert Shetterly
October 2022 240pp 8 b&w illus. 9781479801879 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479801862 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
September 2022 128pp 51 color illus. 9781613321874 £28.99/ $34.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this compelling examination of LGBTQ communities in seemingly “unfriendly” places, this book highlights the ambivalence of LGBTQ lives in the rural Midwest, where LGBTQ organizations and events occur occasionally but are generally not grounded in long-standing LGBTQ institutions. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Forstie offers the story of a community that does not fit neatly into a narrative of progress or decline.
Features Robert Shetterly's magnificent color portraits and profiles of fifty environmental and climate activists—people who diagnose the truth of the greatest crisis humanity has ever confronted and take action. The book also features five original essays by revered environmentalists, whose words illuminate the plight and its causes, and point a way forward. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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Reading Pleasures
Reforming Philadelphia, 1682–2022
Everyday Black Living in Early America Tara A. Bynum
Richardson Dilworth
New Black Studies Series January 2023 184pp 9780252086830 £20.99/ $25.00 PB 9780252044731 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities December 2022 128pp 3 tables, 2 figures, 15 halftones 9781439920077 £16.99/ $19.95 PB 9781439920060 £55.00/ $64.50 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Tells the compelling stories of four early American writers who expressed feeling good despite living while enslaved or only nominally free. A daring assertion of Black people’s humanity, Reading Pleasures reveals how four Black writers experienced positive feelings and analyzes the ways these emotions served creative, political, and racialized ends.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the cyclical efforts of insurgents to change the city’s government over nearly 350 years and provides a new framework for understanding the evolving relationship between national politics and local, city politics. Dilworth tracks reformers as they create a new purpose for the city or reshape the government to reflect new ideas. Excludes Asia Pacific
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Russian Colonization of Alaska
Seward's Law
Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery Peter Charles Hoffer
From Heyday to Sale, 1818–1867 Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv, Translated by Richard L. Bland
January 2023 204pp 1 map 9781501767333 £34.00/ $39.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2022 442pp 7 photos, 3 illus., 4 maps, 1 glossary, 2 appendixes, index 9781496222176 £60.00/ $70.00 HB
Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights—a theory that demonstrated how the country could end slavery and establish a practical form of justice. Hoffer's leading assumption in Seward's Law is that a lifetime spent as a lawyer influences how a person responds to the challenges of everyday life.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This third volume of Russian Colonization of Alaska examines the final period in Russian America’s history, from naval officers’ coming to power in the colonies (1818) to the sale of Alaska to the United States (1867). Grinëv’s definitive volume explores how certain economic successes could not prevent the growth of crisis phenomena. 8
Smitten
Snitching
December 2022 222pp 15 b&w halftones 9781501766473 £28.99/ $34.95 HB
November 2022 288pp 9781479807703 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479807697 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening Rodney Hessinger
Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, Second Edition Alexandra Natapoff
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted gender norms across a breadth of denominations. The displacement and internal migration of Americans created ripe conditions for religious competition in the North. Opening their own hearts to new religious impulses, some religious visionaries offered up radical new dispensations.
Although it is nearly invisible to the public, the massive informant market shapes the American legal system in risky and sometimes shocking ways. Natapoff provides a comprehensive analysis of this powerful and problematic practice. Snitching reveals deep and often disturbing truths about the way American justice really works. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom
Stuck
Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder Margaret M. Chin
The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans Lawrence A. Dwyer and Introduction by Judi M. gaiashkibos
February 2023 256pp 7 t, 2 figs 9781479842766 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2022 232pp 26 photos, 2 maps, index 9781496232465 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
Shows that there is a “bamboo ceiling” in the workplace, describing a corporate world where racial and ethnic inequalities prevent upward mobility. Drawing on interviews with second-generation Asian Americans, Chin examines why they fail to advance as fast or as high as their colleagues over the course of their careers.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Dwyer has written the story of Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation, who was willing to face arrest for leaving the government’s reservation without permission because of his love for his son and his people, and a desire to be free, resulting in the First Civil Rights victory for Native Americans.
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Taking the Field
The Bosses' Union
Many Wests January 2023 400pp 33 photos, 3 maps, index 9781496233769 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781496215215 £56.00/ $65.00 HB
Working Class in American History January 2023 360pp 2 b&w photos, 11 charts, 3 tables 9780252086922 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9780252044830 £100.00/ $125.00 HB
Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers Amy Kohout
How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal Vilja Hulden
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to examine interconnected ideas about nature and empire during the Progressive Era. Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.
At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Vilja Hulden reveals how this tension provided the opening for probusiness organizations to shift public attention from concerns about inequality and dangerous working conditions to a belief that unions trampled on an individual's right to work. 9
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The Camp Fire Girls
The Columbian Orator
Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980 Jennifer Helgren
Edited by David W. Blight February 1998 296pp 9780814713235 £21.99/ $27.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality December 2022 380pp 17 photos, 3 illus., index 9781496233080 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9780803286863 £85.00/ $99.00 HB
An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century. As America experiences a resurgence of interest in the art of debating and oratory, this book whether as historical artifact or contemporary guidebook--is one of those rare books to be valued for what it meant in its own time, and for how its ideas have endured.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Through the lens of America’s first and most popular girls’ organization, Helgren traces the role and changing meaning of American girls’ citizenship across critical intersections of gender, race, class, and disability in the twentieth-century United States.
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The Dakota Way of Life
The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam
Ella Cara Deloria, Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Thierry Veyrié
Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau Erika Marie Bsumek
Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians December 2022 454pp 1 diagram, 1 table, index 9781496233592 £31.00/ $36.95 HB
February 2023 336pp 9781477303818 £39.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Reorients the story of the Glen Canyon Dam to reveal a pattern of Indigenous erasure by weaving together the stories of religious settlers and Indigenous peoples, engineers and biologists, and politicians and spiritual leaders. This book is a provocative and essential piece of modern history, particularly as water in the West becomes increasingly scarce and fights over access to it unfold.
Ella Cara Deloria was the most prolific Native scholar of the greater Sioux Nation, and the results of her lifelong work comprise an essential source for the study of the greater Sioux Nation culture and language. This book is the result of the long history of her ethnographic descriptions of traditional Dakota culture and social life.
The Future of Decline
The Garden Politic
Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits Jed Esty
Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in NineteenthCentury America Mary Kuhn
May 2022 164pp 9781503633315 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
America and the Long 19th Century February 2023 288pp 4 b&w illus. 9781479820153 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479820122 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
As the US becomes a secondplace nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? Drawing on the example of post-WWII Britain and looking ahead at 2020s America, Jed Esty suggests that becoming a second-place nation is neither disastrous, as alarmists claim, nor avoidable, as optimists insist.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
How worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society. Drawing on ecocriticism, New Materialism, environmental history, and the history of science, this book shows how new ideas about cultivation and plant life could be mobilized to divergent political and social ends. 10
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The Glory and the Burden
The Great Power of Small Nations
The American Presidency from the New Deal to the Present, Expanded Edition Robert Schmuhl
Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South Elizabeth N. Ellis Early American Studies October 2022 376pp 9781512823097 £34.00/ $39.95 HB
October 2022 240pp 9780268203771 £17.99/ $22.00 PB 9780268205096 £86.00/ $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Tells the stories of the many smaller Native American nations that shaped the development of the Gulf South. Ellis’s narrative chronicles how diverse Indigenous peoples—including Biloxis, Choctaws, Chitimachas, Chickasaws, Houmas, Mobilians, and Tunicas—influenced and often challenged the growth of colonial Louisiana.
A timely examination of the state of the American presidency and the forces that have shaped it since 1933, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes that have taken place within the institution and to the individuals occupying the Oval Office.
The Grizzly in the Driveway
The Jews of Summer Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Sandra Fox
The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West Robert Chaney
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture February 2023 280pp 9781503633889 £22.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503632936 £77.00/ $90.00 HB
May 2022 288pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780295750972 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Mixing fast-paced storytelling with rich details about the hidden lives of grizzly bears, this book chronicles the resurgence of this charismatic species against the backdrop of the country’s long history with the bear. Chaney captures the clash between groups with radically different visions: ranchers frustrated at losing livestock, environmental advocates, hunters, and more.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence threatened the future of Jewish life. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish youth. This book demonstrates how a cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage that remains a significant influence in American Jewish life.
The Military and the Market
The North American West in the TwentyFirst Century
Edited by Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson
Edited by Brenden W. Rensink
American Business, Politics, and Society November 2022 256pp 15 b&w 9781512823233 £47.00/ $55.00 HB
PRESS
November 2022 448pp 12 photos, 2 illus., 12 maps, 3 graphs, 2 tables, index 9781496233028 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781496230430 £85.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Covers two centuries of history of the U.S. military’s vast and varied economic operations, including its relationships with capitalist markets. This book features new research on subjects ranging from Civil War soldier-entrepreneurs, to the business of the construction of housing and overseas bases for the Cold War, to the U.S. military’s troubled relationships with markets for sex.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
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Takes stories from the “modern West” of the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them toward the present—explicitly tracing continuity with and unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s. These essays straddle multiple modern frontiers, not least of which is the temporal frontier between our unsettled past and uncertain future.
The Northern Home Front during the Civil War
The Old Iron Road
An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West David Haward Bain
Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller
September 2022 470pp 39 photos, 1 map, index 9781496230485 £24.99/ $29.95 NIP
The North's Civil War February 2023 262pp 19 b&w illus. 9781531501938 £24.99/ $30.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
A combination of travelogue, history, and storytelling, this is the story of David Haward Bain’s family’s travels from their home in Vermont to the West in search of America’s past. Bain conjures up a marvelous sense of coming unstuck in time as he lingers in the ghost towns and battlegrounds, prairies and river ports, trainyards, museums, deserts, and diners that line his cruise west to California.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first full narrative history and analysis of the northern home front in almost a quarter century.
The Plea of Innocence
The Politics of Trash
Restoring Truth to the American Justice System Tim Bakken
How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929 Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan
October 2022 256pp 9781479817122 £24.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2023 234pp 20 b&w halftones 9781501766985 £33.00/ $37.95 HB
Proposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison: plausibly innocent people may now plead innocent and require the government to search for exonerating facts; in return, they will be required to waive their right to remain silent, speak to government agents, and participate in a search for truth.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using non-governmental and, often, unseemly means. This consideration of municipal garbage collection offered in this book reveals how political development relies on undemocratic means with long-term implications for further inequality. The resources that cleaned American cities also show the tenuous connection between political development and modernization.
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The Presidents and the Constitution, Volume Two
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law
From World War I to the Trump Era Edited by Ken Gormley
Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s Masumi Izumi
September 2022 368pp 18 b&w illus. 9781479819973 £17.99/ $22.00 PB 9781479820092 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
Asian American History & Cultu October 2022 270pp 3 halftones 9781439917251 £24.99/ $29.95 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A revealing look at the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from Woodrow Wilson through Donald J. Trump. The last one hundred years reveals the awesome powers of the American presidency in domestic and foreign affairs, illustrating how they have stood up to modern and novel legal challenges.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book is a timely study in this age of insecurity where issues of immigration, race, and exclusion persist. Excludes Asia Pacific
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The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn
The Settler Sea
California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism Traci Brynne Voyles
An American Story Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler
Many Wests September 2022 384pp 16 photos, 5 illus., 5 maps, 2 charts, 2 graphs, index 9781496233387 £24.99/ $30.00 NIP
September 2022 296pp 53 b&w halftones, 4 maps 9781501765513 £25.99/ $31.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
An environmental history of Southern California’s Salton Sea, the state’s largest inland body of water, and the complex politics of environmental and human health in the West. Examinging how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the natural world, this book asks how settler colonialism entraps nature to do settlers’ work for them.
In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn's domination by upper- and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England. This lively history describes the unraveling of the control they wielded as more ethnically diverse groups moved into the "City of Churches" during the twentieth century.
The Virginia Venture
The Women’s Mosque of America
American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660 Misha Ewen
Authority and Community in US Islam Tazeen M. Ali
The Early Modern Americas September 2022 240pp 5 b&w, 3 tables 9781512822991 £43.00/ $49.95 HB
November 2022 288pp 4 b&w illus. 9781479811304 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479811298 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of the first permanent English colony in America: Jamestown, Virginia. It provides a fresh perspective on how capital and labor were mobilized to help build the colony.
Analyzes how American Muslim women assert themselves as religious actors in the US and beyond, using the Qur’an as a tool for social justice and community building in The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies
Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations Lauren Frances Turek
History, Community, and Memory Edited by Linda Ho Peché, Alex-Thai Dinh Vo and Tuong Vu
The United States in the World November 2022 312pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501768194 £26.99/ $32.95 PB
February 2023 382pp 5 tables, 5 line drawings 9781439922897 £39.00/ $44.95 PB 9781439922880 £111.00/ $139.50 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the US beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how the same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that stifled evangelism.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A comprehensive examination of the complexities of the Vietnamese American experience. This book seeks to better understand the rapidly changing landscape of Vietnamese American diaspora. 13
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Troublemakers
Undermining Racial Justice
Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s Kathryn Schumaker
How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality Matthew Johnson
January 2023 272pp 5 b&w illus. 9781479820498 £20.99/ $25.00 PB
Histories of American Education September 2022 336pp 9781501768170 £23.99/ $28.95 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A powerful history of student protests and student rights during the desegregation era. Offering a fresh interpretation of this pivotal era, Troublemakers shows that when black and Chicano teenagers challenged racial discrimination in American public schools, they helped remake American constitutional law and establish protections of free speech, due process, equal protection, and privacy for students.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide.
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Vernacular Religion
Violent America
Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano Edited by Deborah Dash Moore, Foreword by Judith Weisenfeld
The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia February 2023 280pp 1 chart 9781501767562 £24.99/ $29.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
North American Religions December 2022 336pp 16 color illus. 9781479818679 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479818662 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
Combining a historical analysis spanning the centuries with an examination of contemporary problems, Violent America considers how and why ethno-racial groups can be both perpetrators and victims of violence, why minority groups react differently to violence in comparable situations, and what the consequences are today for politics in both America and Europe.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A comprehensive collection of the pioneering work of Leonard Norman Primiano. This book brings together key studies in vernacular religion that explore its expression among such varied groups as Catholics, LGBTQ Christians, and the followers of Father Divine. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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