AMERICAN Spring 2020
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African Kings and Black Slaves
Against Sustainability
Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis Michelle Neely
Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Herman L. Bennett
June 2020 224pp 9780823288205 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288229 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Early Modern Americas March 2020 240pp 9780812224627 £18.99/$22.50 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Responds to twenty-first century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Pairs antebellum and contemporary writers.
Mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. Unearths the ways in which Africa’s kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals.
Alaska
America’s Last Great Newspaper War
An American Colony Stephen W. Haycox
The Death of Print in a TwoTabloid Town Mike Jaccarino
March 2020 424pp 39 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 chart 9780295746852 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780295746869 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
March 2020 336pp 9780823287383 £23.99/$29.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Surveys Alaska’s cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context. Tracing Alaska’s transformation from the early postcontact period through the modern era. Explores relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions.
Recounts the story of America’s last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post. A from-thetrenches view of each newspaper’s runners and photographers who would stop at nothing to break the story and squash their arch rivals.
American Political Development and the Trump Presidency
American Unemployment
Past, Present, and Future Frank Stricker
Edited by Zachary Callen & Philip Rocco
June 2020 296pp 9780252085024 £15.99/$19.95 PB 9780252043154 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law April 2020 288pp 4 illus. 9780812252088 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Aims to set the record straight on misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths about the history of unemployment that remain a mystery Assessing Trump’s potential impact on democratic to many Americans. Written for non-economists, institutions requires an analysis of how these American Unemployment is a history and primer institutions—including and especially the on vital economic topics that also provides a executive branch—have developed over time. roadmap to better jobs and economic security.
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An Archive of Taste
Art Wars
Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein
The Politics of NineteenthCentury New York Rachel N. Klein
May 2020 232pp 21 b&w photos 9781517905095 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9781517905088 £86.00/$100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
America in the Nineteenth Century June 2020 312pp 40 illus. 9780812251944 £47.00 /$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Examines the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature. Shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the US. Reframes the philosophical work of food and its meaning. Excludes Japan & ANZ
From the Antebellum Era through the Gilded Age, New York City’s leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. In the decades before the Civil War, art promoters believed that aesthetic taste could foster national unity and assuage urban conflicts; bythe 1880s such hopes had faded.
Bank Notes and Shinplasters
Beckoning Frontiers
The Memoir of a Wyoming Entrepreneur George W. T. Beck, Lynn Houze & Jeremy M. Johnston
The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic Joshua R. Greenberg
American Business, Politics, and Society June 2020 264pp 28 illus. 9780812252248 £28.99/$34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Papers of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody June 2020 448pp 19 photos, 2 illus. 9781496220455 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9780803288461 £65.00/$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The shift from state regulated banks and private shinplaster producers to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era led to the erasure of the skill, knowledge, and experience.
Definitive edition of Beck’s memoir offers a rare perspective of how communities cooperated.
Beyond the Politics of the Closet
Border Policing
A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America Edited by Holly M. Karibo & George T. Díaz
Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970s Edited by Jonathan Bell
January 2020 280pp 9780812251852 £43.00/$49.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Features essays by historians whose work on LGBT history delves into the decades between the mid-1970s and the millennium, a period in which the relationship between activist networks, the state, capitalism, and political parties became infinitely more complicated.
April 2020 336pp 9781477320679 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Examines how North American nations have tried (and often failed) to police their borders, presents diverse scholarly perspectives on attempts to regulate people and goods at borders, as well as on the ways that individuals and communities navigated, contested, and evaded regulation.
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Communists and Community
Contingent Citizens
Shifting Perceptions of Latterday Saints in American Political Culture Edited by Spencer W.McBride, Brent M. Rogers & Keith A. Erekson
Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941-1956 Ryan S. Pettengill
May 2020 282pp 9781439919057 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439919040 £91.00/$110.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 298pp 2 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings 9781501749544 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781501716737 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seeks to reframe the traditional chronology of the Communist Party in the US as a means to better understand the change that occurred in activism in the mid-twentieth century. Excludes Asia Pacific
Changes American perception of the Latter-day Saints since 1830s. Excludes ANZ
Crossing Empires
Friendly Enemies
Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain Edited by Kristin L. Hoganson & Jay Sexton
Soldier Fraternization throughout the American Civil War Lauren K. Thompson
Studies in War, Society, and the Military August 2020 228pp 4 photos, 8 illus., 9781496202451 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
American Encounters/Global Interactions January 2020 360pp 9 illus. 9781478006947 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478006039 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Analyzes the relations and fraternization of soldiers on opposing sides of the Civil War and argues that these relations represented common soldiers’ efforts to fight the war on their own terms.
Weaves U.S. history into the fabric of world history, de-exceptionalizes the US empire.
From Manassas to Appomattox
Haiku History
The American Saga Three Lines at a Time H. W. Brands
Memoirs of the Civil War in America James Longstreet Foreword by Christian Keller
May 2020 148pp 9781477320327 £17.99/$21.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States in the form of haikus. A history book like no other, Haiku History injects both fun and poetry into the story of America—three lines at a time.
March 2020 774pp 20 b&w illus. 9780253047069 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9780253047052 £65.00/$75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Firsthand account of life during the Civil War, From Manassas to Appomattox, the memior of Confederate Lt General James
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Haiti’s Paper War
Historic Real Estate
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 Chelsea Stieber
Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States Whitney Martinko
America and the Long 19th Century August 2020 368pp 11 hts 9781479802159 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479802135 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Early American Studies May 2020 328pp 11 color, 31 b&w
illus. 9780812252095 £34.00/$39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between monarchy and republic, a war of swords and of pens, waged in the press. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Shows how Americans in the fledgling US pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic sites as permanent features of the new nation’s landscape.
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940Thomas C.
In the Mean Time
Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition Erin Murrah-Mandril
Hubka
Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture July 2020 320pp 148 b&w photos 9780816693016 £34.00/$40.00 PB 9780816693009 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Postwestern Horizons April 2020 204pp 9781496211828 £43.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. Explores the how US colonization altered time inborderlands.
The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes with the acquisition of new technology. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Intimacy across the Fencelines
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society
Sex, Marriage, and the U.S. Military in Okinawa Rebecca Forgash
Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825 Aviva Ben-Ur
August 2020 240pp 8 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 2 maps 9781501750403 £47.00/$54.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Early Modern Americas May 2020 392pp 21 illus. 9780812252118 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Examines intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family—that involve US service members and local residents. Analyzes the stories of US service members. Excludes ANZ
Explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname. Home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas, most of Iberian origin, they enjoyed religious liberty, owned plantations and slaves.
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Lessons from Walden
Migrant Citizenship
Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy Bob Pepperman Taylor
Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program Veronica Martinez-Matsuda
March 2020 240pp 9780268107338 £21.99/$29.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Politics and Culture in Modern America June 2020 376pp 21 illus. 9780812252293 £34.00/$39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Thoreau’s thought in Walden and Civil Disobedience. A central American text for addressing two of the central crises of our time: the increasingly alarming threats we now face to democratic norms, practices, and political institutions, and environmental dangers confronting us.
Discourse on farmworkers’ rights, dominated by the view that migrant workers are not entitled to protections. Between 1935–1946, however, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) intervened dramatically on behalf of migrant families.
Neoliberal Cities
News Parade
The Remaking of Postwar Urban America Edited by Andrew J. Diamond & Thomas J. Sugrue
The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle Joseph Clark
May 2020 280pp 21 b&w photos 9781517903688 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517903671 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis August 2020 240pp 9781479832378 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479828821 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at the conflicted US relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel. Focuses on the sound newsreel of the 1930s and Urban historians and sociologists trace the role 1940s, arguing that it represents a crucial that public policies have played in reshaping cities moment in the development of societ - media and community control. representations became integrated in culture. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ Excludes Japan & ANZ
None of the Above
Playing Politics with Natural Disaster
Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada Joel Thiessen & Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA Timothy W. Kneeland
Secular Studies April 2020 272pp 14 tab / 30 figs 9781479860807 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479817399 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 256pp 24 b&w halftones 9781501748530 £31.00/$36.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explains how the political decisions by local, state, and federal officials shaped state and national disaster policy and continues to hamper preparedness and response to this day. Excludes ANZ
Asserts that a growing divide between religious and nonreligious populations could engender a greater distance in moral and political values and behaviors. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Pleasure in the News
Progressivism
African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press Kim Gallon
The Strange History of a Radical Idea Bradley C. S. Watson Foreword by Charles R. Kesler
New Black Studies Series May 2020 216pp 9780252085093 £20.99/$26.00 PB 9780252043222 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
February 2020 260pp 9780268106973 £35.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
How sex and sensation fueled the power of the black press. Discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. African American history and advancement.
American progressivism as it formed in the twentieth century. Synthesizes the history of this idea and presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophicalpolitical phenomenon.
Remaking North American Sovereignty
Remaking the Republic
Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship Christopher James Bonner
State Transformation in the 1860s Edited by Jewel L. Spangler & Frank Towers
America in the Nineteenth Century March 2020 272pp 11 illus. 9780812252064 £28.99/$34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Reconstructing America April 2020 288pp 9780823288441 £27.99/$35.00 PB
Chronicles the various ways African Americans from a wide range of social positions throughout the North attempted to give meaning to American citizenship over the course of the nineteenth century. Examines newpsapers, state and national conventions, public protest meetings, legal cases, and fugitive slave rescues.
9780823288458 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Brings together distinguished experts on the histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United States from the 1860s.
Risking Immeasurable Harm
Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse
Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932 Benjamin C. Montoya
Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization Robert F. Zeidel
April 2020 360pp 9 tables, 1 graph 9781496201294 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
April 2020 306pp 9781501748318 £43.00/$49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Demonstrates the correlation of immigration restriction and diplomacy, the ways racism can affect diplomatic relations, and how domestic immigration policy can have international consequences.
Explores the connection between robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who comprised their workforces. Excludes ANZ
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Rude Democracy
Selling Antislavery
Civility and Incivility in American Politics Susan Herbst
Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America Teresa A. Goddu
April 2020 220pp 9781439903360 £11.99/$14.95 PB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Material Texts April 2020 344pp 78 illus. 9780812251999 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In a new preface for this 2020 edition, explores the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as we do, and how we can create a more civil national culture. Examines how young people come to form their own attitudes about civility and political argument. Excludes Asia Pacific
Featuring more than 75 illustrations, Selling Antislavery offers a thorough case study of the role of reform movements in the rise of mass media and argues for abolition’s central importance to the shaping of antebellum middle class culture.
Shelter from the Machine
Struggle for Justice
Four Decades of Civil Rights Photography Don Carleton
Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism Jason G. Strange
April 2020 148pp 9781477321140 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
March 2020 304pp 9780252084898 £17.99/$22.95 PB 9780252043031 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Bringing together the Briscoe Center for American History’s exhibitions pieces in book form, Struggle for Justice honors the Shows where homesteaders fit, and don’t fit, photographers who were willing to put their within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and privilege on the line to document the bohemian work parties to find people engaged in discrimination of others and by doing so, help to galvanize public support for the civil rights .a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment. movement.
Stuck
Teaching Western American Literature
Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder Margaret M. Chin
August 2020 224pp 7 tables, 2 figs 9781479816811 £22.99/$28.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Illuminates the corporate world where racial and ethnic inequalities prevent upward mobility. In nterviews with second-generation Asian Americans, examines why they fail to advance as fast or as high as their colleagues. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Edited by Brady Harrison & Randi Lynn Tanglen Postwestern Horizons June 2020 348pp 4 tables, 9781496220387 £24.99/$30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Teaching Western American Literature reflects the cutting edge of western American literary study, featuring diverse approaches allied with women’s, gender, queer, environmental, disability, and indigenous studies and providing instructors with entrée into classrooms of leading scholars in the field.
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The American Passport in Turkey
The Content of Our Caricature
National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism Ozlem Alton-Olcay & Evren Balta
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging Rebecca Wanzo
Postmillennial Pop April 2020 256pp 69 hts / 6 page color
Democracy, Citizenship, and
insert 9781479889587 £23.99/$29.00 PB 9781479840083 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Consitutionalism May 2020 240pp 9780812252156 £52.00 /$59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Explores the meanings and values that people attribute to U.S. citizenship, specifically those who reside in Turkey.
The Employee
The Great Migration and the Democratic Party
A Political History Jean-Christian Vinel
Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century Keneshia N. Grant
Politics and Culture in Modern America April 2020 304pp 9780812224689 £20.99/$24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
February 2020 202pp 9781439917466 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9781439917459 £62.00/$74.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Employee examines how American businesses dominated and influenced labor law as they pushed for an ever-narrower definition of “employee” and maneuvered to exclude workers from the right to organize. Sheds historical light on contemporary struggles for economic democracy and political power in the workplace.
Frames Great Migration as an important economic,social event that also had serious political consequences.. Excludes Asia Pacific
The Greek Orthodox Church in America
The Hypocritical Hegemon
A Modern History Alexander Kitroeff
How the United States Shapes Global Rules against Tax Evasion and Avoidance Lukas Hakelberg
NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies June 2020 324pp 9781501749919 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781501749438 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cornell Studies in Money March 2020 210pp 2 charts 9781501748011 £18.99/$22.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in USA has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of Greek immigrants and their descendants. Excludes ANZ
How US domestic politics affects and determines the course of global tax policy. Examines recent international efforts to crack down on tax havens. Excludes ANZ
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The Imperial Church
The Picky Eagle
Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire Katherine D. Moran
How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion Richard W. Maass
The United States in the World May 2020 320pp 11 b&w halftones
May 2020 308pp 1 map, 2 charts 9781501748752 £34.00/$39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
9781501748813 £42.00/$48.95 HB
Explains why the US stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation’s domestic consequences, both political and normative. The US rejection of further annexations, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. Excludes ANZ
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Religion’s role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism in North America. Excludes ANZ
The Sex Obsession
The United States of India
Perversity and Possibility in American Politics Janet R. Jakobsen
Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction Manan Desai
Sexual Cultures August 2020 304pp 9781479846085 £24.99/$30.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asian American History & Culture March 2020 284pp 9781439918906 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9781439918890 £82.00/$99.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows that sexual politics can contribute to building justice from the ground up. Gender and sexual relations are practices through which values emerge and communities are made. Sex and desire, gender and embodiment emerge as bases of ethical possibility. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Indian and American writers’ in the US key role in the development of anticolonial thought in the years during and immediately following WWI. Excludes Asia Pacific
The Vanishing Tradition
The World That Fear Made
Perspectives on American Conservatism Edited by Paul Gottfried
Slave Revolts ande Conspiracy Scares in Early America Jason T. Sharples
July 2020 240pp 9781501749858 £18.99/$22.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Early American Studies June 2020 365pp 27 illus. 9780812252194 £39.00 /$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This anthology provides a timely critical overview of the American conservative movement. The contributors take on subjects that other commentators have either not noticed or have been fearful to discuss. Excludes ANZ
Orients the mirror to those in power and contends that British colonial officials in North America and the Caribbean cultivated the fear of slave rebellions to maintain their grip on slave society.
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Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena
To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Edited by Char Miller & Clay S. Jenkinson
March 2020 258pp 31 photos, 5 illus., 9781496213143 £20.99/$24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Roosevelt’s scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life. Drawing on an array of approaches—biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political— analyzes the different elements of Roosevelt’s manifold encounters with the great outdoors.
Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations Lauren Frances Turek
The United States in the World May 2020 306pp 12 b&w halftones 9781501748912 £41.00/$47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Excludes ANZ
Uniquely Okinawan
Walker Evans
Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation Courtney A. Short
No Politics Stephanie Schwartz
June 2020 288pp 9781477320624 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension March 2020 272pp 9780823287727 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288380 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Walker Evans: No Politics, Stephanie Schwartz challenges us to engage with what it might mean, in the 1930s and at the height of the Great Depression, Explores how American soldiers, sailors, and to refuse to work politically. Historicizing Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in documentary, this book reimagines Evans and his the planning and execution of the wartime legacy—the complexities of claiming “No Politics.” occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.
We Who Work the West Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature Kiara Kharpertian, Carlo Rotella & Christopher P. Wilson
Postwestern Horizons June 2020 288pp 9781496208842 £52.00/$60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Provides a panoramic look at literary renderings of central institutions of the West.
Weird Westerns
Race, Gender, Genre Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush & Sara L. Spurgeon
Postwestern Horizons August 2020 462pp 9781496221780 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781496221162 £60.00/$70.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
An exploration of the hybrid genre that blends Western themes with other genres such as science fiction and fantasy.
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