2012-13 History Catalog

history New titles 2012–2013 university of nebraska press

Western History The Last Days of the Rainbelt David J. Wishart

A sobering tale of the rapid rise and decline of the settlement of the western Great Plains, history finds its voice in interviews with elderly residents of the region by Civil Works Administration employees in 1933 and 1934. Evidence similarly emerges from land records, climate reports, census records, and diaries, as David J. Wishart deftly tracks the expansion of westward settlement across the central plains and into the Rainbelt.

“David Wishart has discovered a rich lode of pioneer settler interviews from eastern Colorado, which form the heart of the book. . . .

[He] skillfully retells the story of environmental misunderstanding through the eyes of the settlers who lived it.”—John C. Hudson, professor of geography at Northwestern University and author of Across this Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada November 2013 • 240 pp. • 16 illustrations, 19 maps, 10 graphs $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4618-8

River in Ruin

The Story of the Carmel River Ray A. March

River in Ruin is a precise weaving of water history —local and larger—and a natural, social, and environmental narrative of the Carmel River, one of the top ten endangered rivers in North America. Ray A. March traces the river’s misuse from 1879 onward, providing a cautionary tale about squandering precious water resources.

“Saturated with facts, March’s account of this threatened river forces readers to reconsider water as a commodity that requires protection.”

—Kirkus Reviews “In sharing its struggle so effectively, River in Ruin joins a stream of other exquisitely researched and vividly written books about collapsing western watersheds, works we ignore at our peril.”—Booklist 2012 • 208 pp. • 14 illustrations, 1 map $24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3834-3 Cover: From Jon Lewis. See page 4.

Winner of the 2012 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize

Finding Oil

The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859–1920 Brian Frehner

“As oil became more difficult, more expensive, and riskier to find, investments in the training and employment of professional geologists made economic sense to practical oil men bent on creating global scientific knowledge of the best places to explore. Finding Oil is an excellent introduction to this fascinating history.”

—Journal of American History “Deserves a secure place on the bookshelves of oil history scholars and buffs. But it should also appeal to anyone interested in the history of the natural sciences, the relationship between nature and culture, and the intersections between business, technology, and the environment.”—Annals of Wyoming 2011 • 248 pp. • 34 illustrations $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3486-4 forthcoming in spring 2014

Range Wars

The Environmental Contest for the White Sands Missile Range Ryan H. Edgington

An environmental history of the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, America’s largest overland military reserve. “[Range Wars] will be highly significant to the fields of western history, environmental history, military history, and political and economic history. It will have far-reaching influence on similar studies underway in other regions of the country.”—Durwood Ball, editor of New Mexico Historical Review and author of Army Regulars on the Western Frontier July 2014 • 296 pp. • 13 images, 3 maps $70.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3844-2 $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-5535-7

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Western History announcing a new series

Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Paul Spickard and Pekka Hämäläinen, series editors A series focused on the study of comparative borderlands, multiple identities (borderlands of race, culture, and identity), race in the American West, human migrations, and colonial encounters.

Chiricahua and Janos

Transnational Crossroads

Lance R. Blyth

Edited by Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.

Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880 Lance R. Blyth’s study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderland reveals how no single entity had a monopoly on coercion and how violence became the primary means by which relations were established, maintained, or altered, both within and between communities.

“Blyth’s argument, as well as his narrative and use of traditional and nontraditional sources, is impressive and provides a framework for understanding the permeating role of violence in two borderland communities.”

—Southwestern American Literature “Chiricahua and Janos represents a valuable addition to the growing literature examining violence in zones of intercultural contact, both in the Americas and around the globe.”

—Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2012 • 296 pp. • 17 maps, 1 glossary $60.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3766-7

Remapping the Americas and the Pacific

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific, due to technology, migration, and globalization.

Transnational Crossroads explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together earlier by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.

“Transnational Crossroads is impressive in scope and purpose, weaving together discourses and narratives of empire, globalization, resistance, and cultural politics of converging Asian, Latina, and Pacific Islander communities. Its focus is most welcome and so exciting for engagement in these issues.”—Rona Halualani, author of In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics 2012 • 496 pp. • 1 illustration $45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3795-7

Cultural Construction of Empire

The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico Janne Lahti

From 1866 through 1886 the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military conquest.

By differentiating themselves from these “less civilized” groups, white military settlers engaged various cultural processes and practices to accrue and exercise power over colonized peoples and places for the sake of creating a more “civilized” environment for other settlers.

2012 • 360 pp. • 9 photographs, 1 map $55.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3252-5

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Western History

History of the American West series

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize, 2010 Athearn Western History Association Prize, and 2010 Armitage-Jameson Prize

Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize

Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940

Empires, Nations, and Families

A History of the North American West, 1800–1860 Anne F. Hyde

Empires, Nations, and Families documents the role of family and trade networks in shaping the American West in the nineteenth century.

“Hyde has produced a substantial and highly original interpretation of the period. . . . An excellent work and a major contribution to the historiography of the North American West.”

—South Dakota History “Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.”—Journal of American History 2011 • 648 pp. • 43 illustrations, 12 maps $45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2405-6 Winner of the oah’s Ray Allen Billington Prize, Western History Association’s John C. Ewers Award, Caughey Western History Association Prize, Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Western Writers of America Spur Award, and Co-Winner of the oah’s Merle Curti Award

One Vast Winter Count

The Native American West before Lewis and Clark Colin G. Calloway

“This clearly written, monumental history of Native Americans and of white-Indian interaction in the trans-Appalachian West up to the beginning of the nineteenth century synthesizes a vast body of archaeological, ethnographic, and historical scholarship. It will long remain the authoritative treatment of its subject.”

—Atlantic Monthly “[A] masterful synthesis of an extensive literature.”—Western Historical Quarterly “A splendid overview of the Native American West to the end of the eighteenth century.”

—New York Review of Books 2006 • 631 pp. • Illustrations, maps $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6465-6

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White Mother to a Dark Race

Margaret D. Jacobs

This groundbreaking study examines the role of white women in Australia’s and the United States’ policies of indigenous child removal and education.

“An excellent model [that] should encourage further comparisons between federal Indian policy and other maternalist projects within the United States as well as intimate strategies in other colonial regimes.” —Western Historical Quarterly “This book deserves wide readership in U.S. western history, women’s history, Indian history, and comparative ethnic studies.”

—Montana: The Magazine of Western History 2011 • 592 pp. • 24 photographs, 2 maps $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3516-8

Men in Eden

William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade William Benemann

William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman, found in American culture of the 1830s and 1840s a cultural milieu of openness in which men could pursue same-sex relationships. Through Stewart’s letters and novels, Benemann provides a tantalizing new perspective on the Rocky Mountain fur trade and the role of homosexuality in shaping the American West. “[An] engrossing, eminently readable study of one of the most intriguing figures in the history of the Old West.”—Booklist starred review “An informative biography and an entertaining story that provides a rather novel view of gender and sexuality in the early West.”

—Journal of American History 2012 • 384 pp. • 10 photographs, 20 illustrations $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3778-0

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2011 Booklist Editor’s Choice, Reference category

Atlas of the Great Plains

Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer Foreword by David J. Wishart Introduction by John C. Hudson

“This distinctive and handsomely produced atlas is highly recommended as an invaluable reference resource for public and academic libraries, and it will enthrall all those with a special interest in North America’s heartland.” —Library Journal “[This] may well be one of the best scholarly atlases of a United States region ever produced.

While the volume makes a much-needed scholarly contribution to research on the region, its layout, topics, map design, and text make the geographical diversity and geographical patterns of the Great Plains easily accessible to anyone who has an interest in this oftenoverlooked region of North America.”—South Dakota History 2011 • 352 pp. • 8 illustrations, 312 maps, 11 graphs $39.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1536-8

Frémont’s First Impressions

The Original Report of His Exploring Expeditions of 1842–1844 John C. Frémont Introduction by Anne F. Hyde

Still a fascinating page-turner today, John C. Frémont’s report of his first two expeditions documents the opening of the West even as it offers a firsthand look at the making of the American myth. Bancroft prize-winner Anne F. Hyde provides an introduction to this signature American story that contextualizes the report, outlines Frémont’s rise and fall, and shows how, for better or worse, this explorer exemplifies the nineteenth-century American spirit.

2012 • 392 pp. • 1 photograph, 11 tables $28.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7135-7

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Sight Unseen

How Frémont’s First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

Andrew Menard

“Sight Unseen is a rigorously researched, exceptionally astute, and well-reasoned interdisciplinary study of a report that defined America’s emerging ideology of progress. It is a splendid contribution to the historiography of both Frémont and nineteenth-century America.”

—Nebraska History “A well-written work revealing an essential part of the history of the North American continent.”—Choice 2012 • 288 pp. • 1 photograph, 23 illustrations, 4 maps $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3807-7

Yellowstone, Land of Wonders

Promenade in North America’s National Park

Jules Leclercq Translated and edited by Janet Chapple and Suzanne Cane Foreword by Lee H. Whittlesey

The account of a nineteenth-century Belgian writer’s travels through Yellowstone National Park in its early days. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.

“A very welcome addition to Yellowstone’s historical literature, this book presents a late-Victorian European visitor’s lively impressions of the park, its science, its lore, and its literature.”—Paul Schullery, author of Searching for Yellowstone May 2013 • 288 pp. • 44 illustrations, 3 maps $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4477-1

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Western History Jon Lewis

Photographs of the California Grape Strike Richard Steven Street

In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marine Jon Lewis visited Delano, California, the center of the California grape strike. He stayed for two years, becoming the United Farm Workers Union’s semiofficial photographer and a close confidant of farmworker leader César Chávez.

Surviving on a picket’s wage of five dollars a week, Lewis photographed twenty-four hours a day and created an insider’s view of the historic and sometimes violent confrontations, mass marches, fasts, picket lines, and boycotts that forced the table-grape industry to sign the first contracts with a farm workers union.

“Jon Lewis’s magnificent photographs of the farmworker revolution in California evoke comparisons with the work of Dorothea Lange.

They bend time past all forgetting to an era of struggle that stands on a par with Selma and the Freedom Summer—the bitter fight to dignify Mexican and Filipino labor in the fields.”

—Richard A. Walker, author of The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California Agribusiness October 2013 • 464 pp. • 203 photographs $49.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3048-4

Curious Unions

Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961 Frank P. Barajas

This social, cultural, and economic history of the Mexican and Mexican American community in agricultural California focuses on the community of Oxnard. Frank P. Barajas examines how the Oxnard ethnic Mexican population exercised its agency in alliance with other groups and organizations to meet their needs before large-scale protests and labor unions were engaged. Curious Unions charts how the cultural negotiations that took place among the ethnic Mexican community of Oxnard helped shape and empower farm labor organizing.

2012 • 376 pp. • 30 photographs, 1 map, 1 table $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3791-9 race and ethnicity in the american west series From Jon Lewis. Summer 1966.

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Women in the West series 2009 Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick 2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist

The Blue Tattoo

The Life of Olive Oatman

Margot Mifflin With a new postscript by the author

Orphaned when her Mormon pioneer family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Olive Oatman (1837–1903) lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society. Based on historical records, including letters and diaries of Oatman’s friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her complete life.

“Well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction. . . . Mifflin weaves together Olive’s story with the history of American westward expansion, the Mohave, tattooing in America, and captivity literature in the 1800s.” —Bust “[Mifflin’s] book adds nuance to Oatman’s story and also humanizes the Mohave who adopted her.”—Library Journal 2011 • 288 pp. • 32 illustrations, 1 map $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3517-5

Upton Sinclair

California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual Lauren Coodley

This biography of Upton Sinclair focuses on his social activism in the women’s rights, temperance, and socialist movements, as well as his political involvement in California.

“What a difference a feminist perspective can make! . . . This is the first biography by a historian familiar with the new scholarship on twentieth-century women’s rights activists who is able to contextualize Sinclair as their contemporary.”—Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 “Thoroughly engaging.”—Kirkus Reviews “Lauren Coodley adroitly surveys Sinclair’s astounding achievements, but she also shows how his responses to two key social movements—temperance and women’s suffrage— distinguished him from most of his male peers.

An important story, well told, about an immensely influential yet consistently underrated American hero.”—Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb in Every Issue September 2013 • 256 pp. • 27 illustrations, 1 map $28.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4382-8

Black Print with a White Carnation

Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938–1989 Amy Helene Forss

Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longestrunning black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. During Brown’s fifty-one-year tenure, she and her newspaper led successful challenges to racial discrimination, unfair employment practices, restrictive housing covenants, and a segregated public school system, placing the woman with the white carnation at the center of America’s changing racial landscape.

Amy Helene Forss draws on more than 150 oral histories, numerous black newspapers, and government documents to illuminate African American history during the political and social upheaval of the twentieth century.

January 2014 • 304 pp. • 19 photographs, 1 table $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4690-4

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Western History Proof of Guilt

The Important Things of Life

Kathleen A. Cairns

Dee Garceau

Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America Cairns explores the impact of Barbara Graham’s story, the third woman executed in California, on the state’s politics and media.

“Kathleen Cairns’s meticulous and moving reprise of the notorious 1950s case of Barbara Graham is a sobering, insightful, and welcome study of why the swift and awful justice of execution is neither swift, nor just, but merely awful.”—Dennis McDougal, author of Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty May 2013 • 238 pp. • 10 photographs $29.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3009-5

From Society Page to Front Page

Nebraska Women in Journalism Eileen M. Wirth

“This is a must-read story of Nebraska women journalists’ efforts to gain respect and credibility in a field that was dominated by men. Wirth uses her firsthand experiences to help tell the stories of the little-known Nebraska trailblazers who preceded her. Placing the stories in the context of their eras, Wirth makes observations that will entertain and enlighten both male and female readers as she documents the progress.”—Ruth E. Brown, president of Nebraska Press Women, 2008–12 “Inspiring and real-life stories of remarkable groundbreaking women journalists. . . . This book should resonate with women everywhere who seek to use the full range of their abilities and still lead fulfilling personal lives. And it is not just for women!”—Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Senator from Nebraska May 2013 • 220 pp. • 13 photographs $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3293-8

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Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880–1929

“An important contribution to the history of women and families in the West and . . . to the larger history of women in America and to the history of immigration.”—Elliott West, author of Growing Up in America in the Twentieth Century: A History and Reference Guide “A compelling portrait of the changing informal networks that women of many ethnicities and different class backgrounds used in town and on the range.”—Karen R. Merrill, Princeton University January 2013 • 224 pp. • illustrations, maps $20.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4348-4 Winner of the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards’ Gold Medal, Nonfiction West-Mountain Region

Goodbye Wifes and Daughters Susan Kushner Resnick

Here is the story of the 1943 mining disaster in Bearcreek, Montana, and the women who survived the tragedy.

“Resnick does an admirable job of breathing life into the story of a small town’s demise and its questioning of whether the disaster could have been avoided.” —Washington Post “Few accounts have ever done justice to the women, families, and communities of coal towns or depicted their character with such clarity as this book does. The heartrending and yet, in the end, inspiring portraits of actual people willing to battle against a callous industry are skillfully rendered.”—Charleston (wv) Gazette 264 pp. • 16 photographs, 1 appendix $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3610-3

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Dakota

forthcoming in spring 2014

Norman K. Risjord

The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II

The Story of the Northern Plains Despite the shared topography and the rivers that course through both North and South Dakota, the diverse reactions of the two states to the challenges of the twentieth century provide opportunities for arresting comparisons. This captivating look at the Dakotas’ geography, ecology, politics, and culture is essential reading for Dakotans and those interested in the rich history of this region.

January 2013 • 288 pp. • 19 photographs, 9 maps $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6929-3

Llewellyn Castle

A Worker’s Cooperative on the Great Plains Gary R. Entz

In 1869 six London families arrived in Nemaha County, Kansas, as the first colonists of the Workingmen’s Cooperative Colony, later fancifully renamed Llewellyn Castle by a local writer.

This fascinating history highlights the connections between British and American reform movements and their contexts.

“Gary Entz’s discussion of the Populists’ subtreasury plan . . . represents an original and path-breaking analysis and [is] a real contribution to the historiography of American populism.”—Jim Bisset, author of Agrarian Socialism in America “Llewellyn Castle will be quite important to specialists in regional history, British history, and communal studies. . . . [This is] scholarship at its finest.”—Timothy Miller, author of The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, 1900–1960 December 2013 • 288 pp. • 3 maps $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4539-6

Prairie Forge James J. Kimble

Prairie Forge tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942—a campaign that would sweep the nation, collecting five million tons of scrap metal and literally salvaging the war effort.

May 2014 • 256 pp. • 17 photographs, 4 drawings, 1 appendix $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4878-6

River City Empire

Tom Dennison’s Omaha

Orville D. Menard Foreword by Laurie Smith Camp With a new introduction by the author

An exploration of political bossism and machine politics of the early twentieth century focused on Omaha, Nebraska, and Thomas Dennison.

“Menard’s fine and provocative book raises interesting questions about not only the goals but the nature and methods of operation of political bosses with a western background.”

—Nebraska History “A meticulously researched book. . . . Urban historians and political scientists should find much value in both the factual materials Menard presents and in his interpretations of them.”—Great Plains Quarterly November 2013 • 368 pp. • 6 photographs, 1 appendix $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4833-5

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Western History

Voices of the American West, 2 vols.

Eli S. Ricker Edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen

As the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular consciousness, Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker (1843–1926) began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand.

“Ricker proves himself a patient and meticulous oral interviewer, giving voice to people mostly ignored by historians of his day.

His subjects document the Ghost Dance as a genuine religious movement, not as a ‘craze’ as described in white accounts.” —Kansas History “A magnificent achievement to the oralhistory sources available on the American West. . . . The strength of the volumes is in the stories told by the interviewees, with their perspectives on key historical events from the Old West, which is equally suited to the student and the academic scholar.”—American Studies “Amazing personal accounts [are] in these volumes. . . . Here is western history at its finest—vivid oral narratives that very well may become the stuff of prize-winning stories, novels, and films.”—Bloomsbury Review “The interviews are a gold mine of information.”—Great Plains Quarterly

Volume 1 The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919

2012 • 544 pp. • 16 illustrations, 1 map, 2 appendixes $34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3996-8

Volume 2 The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919

2012 • 498 pp. • 10 illustrations, 1 map, 1 appendix $34.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3997-5

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Law in the American West series Called to Justice

The Life of a Federal Trial Judge Warren K. Urbom Foreword by William Jay Riley

Called to Justice is the memoir of a Nebraska district federal judge, Warren K. Urbom, who also served as the federal judge on the Wounded Knee trials in 1974.

“In describing the extraordinary professional challenges and life-altering personal tragedies he has encountered, Judge Urbom shows why he is one of the truly great judges of our time—modeling for the legal profession, litigants, and all of humankind the highest standards of professionalism and personal conduct, which he has symbolized throughout his career.”

—Deanell Reece Tacha, dean of Pepperdine University School of Law, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit (retired) “Judge Warren Urbom is a hero to the Sioux and many other Native Americans who witnessed his fairness, respect, and commitment to justice in the Wounded Knee trials over which he presided. That section of his brilliant and wonderfully written memoir is breathtaking, as are his accounts of other cases in his career as a federal judge.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America 2012 • 384 pp. • 45 photographs, 1 appendix $36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3983-8

Women Who Kill Men

California Courts, Gender, and the Press

Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington

The period of 1870 to 1958 was revolutionary in the lives of women and society’s shifting perceptions of women and their role were apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men analyzes eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder in this period to identify the intersections of media, law, and gender in California.

“Will appeal to social historians, behaviorists, students of women’s issues, and the [history] buff trade.”—Western Historical Quarterly May 2013 • 296 pp. • 11 photographs $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4544-0

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The Papers of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody series Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace

John M. Burke Edited and with an introduction by Chris Dixon

Advance man, press agent, and publicist extraordinaire, John M. Burke (1842–1917) was instrumental in turning William F. Cody into the iconic persona of Buffalo Bill. And with this biography, published in 1893, Burke put the finishing touches on the legend that persists to this day. This new, definitive edition includes the full text and all the photographs and line drawings of Burke’s original, while providing critical background on the literary sources, historical characters, and events that figure in the work.

2012 • 400 pp. • 15 photographs, 58 illustrations $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4072-8 $75.00 leather edition • 978-0-8032-4389-7

The Wild West in England

William F. Cody Edited and with an introduction by Frank Christianson

This is the critical edition of The Wild West in England, excerpted from The Story of the Wild West, published by William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody in 1888. This stand-alone annotated edition includes all the illustrations from the original text along with photographs of Cody and promotional materials.

“Not only does it make Cody’s account readily available but, under Christianson’s expert oversight, [The Wild West in England] . . . provides a useful introduction, placing Cody and his exhibition in historical and cultural context.”—Choice “A useful and enjoyable addition to American West collections.”—Booklist 2012 • 256 pp. • 24 photographs, 46 illustrations $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4054-4 $75.00 leather edition • 978-0-8032-4388-0

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The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill William F. Cody Edited and with an introduction by Frank Christianson

Based on the original 1879 edition, this newly annotated and introduced edition of the autobiography of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846–1917) provides a new introduction, historical materials, and twenty-six additional images.

Written when Cody was thirty-three years old, this life story captures both the hard reality of frontier life and the sensational image to which a boy of the time might aspire: the Indian fights, buffalo hunting, and Pony Express escapades that popular history contributed to the mythmaking of Buffalo Bill. It is this movement between the personal and the mythic, William F. Cody and Buffalo Bill, that gives this autobiography its fascination and its power.

2011 • 584 pp. • 114 illustrations, 3 appendixes $27.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3291-4 $75.00 leather edition • 978-0-8032-3619-6

Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill

Charles Eldridge Griffin Edited and with an introduction by Chris Dixon This is a memoir written by a performer and manager of Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West tour in Europe, Charles Eldridge Griffin (1859– 1914), with an introduction and annotations for historical context. Griffin’s story of traveling with Buffalo Bill in Europe from 1903 to 1906 presents a fascinating picture of a quintessentially American character. At the same time it offers a vision of the nation on the verge of nationalism, imperialism, and an emerging global mass culture.

“Although Griffin was an amazing man in his own right, his book is most important because he explores the European culture that eagerly sought Buffalo Bill’s presentation of the story of America’s Wild West and lets the reader experience the European setting in which the performances played out.”—Nebraska History 2010 • 200 pp. • 34 illustrations, 1 appendix $12.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3465-9 $40.00 leather edition • 978-0-8032-3423-9

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Western History Recognizing Heritage

The Politics of Multiculturalism in New Mexico Thomas H. Guthrie

An American Epic of Discovery

In 2006 Congress established the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area to recognize the four-hundred-year “coexistence” of Spanish and Indian peoples in New Mexico and their place in the United States. National heritage areas enable local communities to partner with the federal government to promote historic preservation, cultural conservation, and economic development. Recognizing Heritage explores the social, political, and historical context of this and other public efforts to interpret and preserve Native American and Hispanic heritage in northern New Mexico.

“Recognizing Heritage confronts both the damning details and liberating potential of multiculturalism in New Mexico and the United States. . . . This ethnography challenges anthropologists, policy makers, cultural producers, museum professionals, and the public to question the assumptions that drive our global culture industry.”—Michael L. Trujillo, author of The Land of Disenchantment: Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico “Anyone interested in the history, cultures, and contemporary challenges of the Southwest, in the spatialization of historic and anthropological studies, or in historic preservation and heritage tourism will want to read and absorb Guthrie’s fresh, illuminating perspective.”

—Christopher Montgo Wilson, author of The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition December 2013 • 336 pp. • 26 photographs, 2 drawings, 1 map, 1 appendix $35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4979-0 $70.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4610-2

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The Lewis and Clark Journals (Abridged Edition) Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Members of the Corps of Discovery Edited by Gary E. Moulton

In this riveting account, editor Gary E. Moulton blends the narrative highlights of the Lewis and Clark journals so that the voices of the enlisted men and of Native peoples are heard alongside the words of the captains.

“Masterfully edited and annotated by Gary E. Moulton.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “What makes this single volume of journal selections more powerful than its contemporaries is the use of other corps members’ diaries to provide further details about the journey.”—Library Journal.

2004 • 497 pp. • 6 illustrations, 13 maps $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8039-7

George Norris, Going Home

Reflections of a Progressive Statesman Gene A. Budig and Don Walton Preface by George W. Norris

This biography of George William Norris (1861–1944) carries readers back through his career as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska and his accomplishments: the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Act as well as the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution and the shaping of Nebraska’s unique unicameral legislature. The result is a contemporary perspective on a man who fiercely defended the public interest and followed his convictions to the lasting benefit of his state and his country.

November 2013 • 144 pp. • 11 photographs $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7187-6

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Justice and Social Inquiry series Black Mayors, White Majorities

The Balancing Act of Racial Politics Ravi K. Perry

Ravi K. Perry explores the conditions in which black mayors of majority-white cities are able to represent black interests and whether blacks’ historically high expectations for black mayors are being realized. Drawing on a wealth of research, Perry uses Toledo and Dayton, Ohio, as case studies. Black Mayors, White Majorities encourages readers to think beyond the blackwhite dyad and instead to envision policies that can serve constituencies with the greatest needs as well as the general public.

January 2014 • 360 pp. • 12 photographs, 8 figures, 14 tables, 2 appendixes $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4536-5

American History Peace Be Still

Modern Black America from World War II to Barack Obama Matthew C. Whitaker

“Eloquent yet concise, Matthew Whitaker’s thoughtful survey of contemporary African American history offers a rich narrative that expertly situates the victories and hardships of the last half century within the context of a long Black Freedom struggle, the ebbs and flows of which continue to this day. Peace Be Still should be required reading for all serious students of U.S. and African American history.”—Yohuru Williams, author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven “A strong contribution to the field and historiography of African American history.

Written in clear and concise language and filled with brilliant insights.”—Peniel Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama January 2014 • 424 pp. • 37 photographs, 10 appendixes $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4964-6

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The Struggle in Black and Brown

African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era Edited and with an introduction by Brian D. Behnken

A collection of essays exploring the multifaceted nature of African Americans and Mexican Americans relations in civil rights struggles. “This book is a groundbreaking step in the evolution of the exciting subfield of black-brown relations.

Each of the essays contains valuable lessons, and the book should be required reading for scholars of the civil rights movements and of American racial formations.”—Journal of American History “A fascinating and important contribution to the field.”—Journal of Southern History 2012 • 312 pp. $35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6271-3

Opposing Jim Crow

African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928–1937 Meredith L. Roman

Meredith L. Roman’s Opposing Jim Crow examines the period between 1928 and 1937, when the promotion of antiracism by party and trade union officials in Moscow became a priority policy. Soviet leaders stood to gain considerable propagandistic value at home and abroad by drawing attention to U.S. racism, their actions simultaneously directed attention to the routine violation of human rights that African Americans suffered as citizens of the United States.

“A rich addition to the literature on RussianAmerican relations.”—Choice 2012 • 320 pp. • 7 illustrations $55.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1552-8

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Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight series

The x-15 Rocket Plane

Flying the First Wings into Space Michelle Evans Foreword by Joe H. Engle

Wheels Stop

The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011 Rick Houston Foreword by Jerry Ross

“With the Space Shuttle program now at an end, documenting the amazing thirty-year career of these iconic orbiters holds an untold amount of historical importance. Spaceflight isn’t easy people pay in blood and sweat to make it happen. Author Rick Houston lends a voice to some of the key people involved in what is not only an American treasure but a global superstar.”

—Chris Bergin, managing editor, nasaSpaceflight.com “When we talk about the Space Shuttle, we talk about the people. Author Rick Houston’s work here takes it a step further. He reaches to the heart and soul of the people.”—Milt Heflin, former lead Space Shuttle flight director December 2013 • 480 pp. • 34 photographs $36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3534-2

“Long before the space shuttle, the United States was flying astronauts with the courage of lions into space aboard wings of steel. This is the story of the astonishing x-15, America’s first space plane, which broke records nearly every time it flew. It is a magnificent tale, well told in this meticulously researched book. Everyone with an interest in aviation, space, or highflying adventure should read it.”—Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys “In this gripping book Michelle Evans brings to life the x-15 and the aerospace pioneers who made it a success. For those already aware of the program, this will bring back fond memories and renew an appreciation for the remarkable people who conceived, operated, and supported this incredible craft. For those who aren’t, prepare for an incredible journey of discovery.”—Richard P. Hallion, former historian of the usaf (1991–2002) and the Air Force Flight Test Center (1982–86) June 2013 • 480 pp. • 45 photographs, 1 glossary $36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2840-5

Ambassadors from Earth

Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft Jay Gallentine

Ambassadors from Earth is a people-oriented history of the first two decades of the unmanned space probes and planetary explorers program.

“Written in an accessible and engaging style, introducing readers to behind-the-scenes players most of us have never heard of.”—npr “Utilizing original interviews with key players, bolstered by never-before-seen photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, [Jay] Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the Americans and Soviets who conceived, built, and guided those unmanned missions to the planets and beyond.”—Spaceflight magazine 2009 • 520 pp. • 49 photographs, 1 illustration $34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2220-5

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American History 2013 United States Air Force Chief of Staff Professional Reading List Selection

Realizing Tomorrow

The Path to Private Spaceflight

Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom Foreword by Charles D. Walker

Realizing Tomorrow traces the lives of the individuals who shared the dream that private individuals and private enterprise belong in space. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the visionaries, the crackpots, the financial schemes, the legal wrangling, the turf battles, and—underpinning the entire drama—the overwhelming desire of ordinary people to visit outer space.

“Tighten your seat belt for a wonderful ride of a read that tells the incredible tale of the dedicated people who helped push the throttle forward to make private space travel reality.”

—Coalition for Space Exploration “This far-reaching, well-illustrated history oriented toward the future of spaceflight should catch many an eye.”—Booklist September 2013 • 344 pp. • 40 photographs $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6667-4

To a Distant Day

The Rocket Pioneers

Chris Gainor Foreword by Alfred Worden

“As much a story of cultural ambition and personal destiny as of scientific progress and technological history, To a Distant Day offers a thoroughly compelling account of humankind’s determined efforts—sometimes poignant, sometimes amazing, sometimes mad—to leave Earth behind.”—Quest “Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read.”—Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada July 2013 • 264 pp. • 29 photographs, 1 illustration $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4521-1

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Footprints in the Dust

The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975 Edited by Colin Burgess Foreword by Richard F. Gordon

This book begins with the mission that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin to the moon, then follows American spaceflight through the harrowing rescue of Apollo 13 before moving on to the successful joint ApolloSoyuz mission in 1975. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with key figures in the space program, the authors convey the human drama and chart the technological marvels that went into the Apollo missions.

“A compelling and enjoyable page-turner. It captures magnificently the remarkable spirit of those involved in the Apollo story.”—Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16 astronaut and moonwalker 2010 • 520 pp. • 55 illustrations, 1 appendix $34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2665-4 2007 Emme Award for Astronautical Literature Finalist 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

In the Shadow of the Moon

A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965–1969

Francis French and Colin Burgess With a foreword by Walter Cunningham

“French and Burgess present a first-rate, detailed, and very personal account of the space race to the moon. . . . Strongly recommended both as a study of the social interactions among this unique group of people and as a gripping series of anecdotes that describe the exciting, dangerous steps behind the successful moon landing.”—Choice “The writers have gone beyond old Soviet propaganda to tell the untold stories of heroic cosmonauts through new and recent interviews.

This volume captures the anxiety and haste shown by both nations at the height of the space race.”—Space Times 2010 • 464 pp. • 25 illustrations $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2979-2

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Shrink

2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Lawrence R. Samuel

Jonathan R. Dull

A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America “[A] fascinating history of the growth of Freud’s brainchild. . . . This compelling study will appeal both to proponents and detractors.”

—Publishers Weekly “Samuel delivers a powerful narrative of the discipline’s ups and downs, packed with lively quotes, anecdotes, and fascinating historical tidbits.”—Foreword Reviews “The distinctiveness of Shrink lies in its focus on popular culture . . . the retelling of horror and wonder stories that made news in the 1950s–1970s; the review of the popular terms that emerged to capture the psychoanalytic moment—from getting ‘psyched’ in the 1920s to ‘hitting the couch’ in mid-century; the discussion of films dealing with psychoanalysis; the treatment of the topic in women’s magazines, etc.”—New York Journal of Books April 2013 • 288 pp. $34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4476-4 forthcoming in spring 2014

A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History

Tim Grove

A behind-the-scenes chronicle of a public historian’s experiences researching and presenting history to millions of museum visitors every year.

May 2014 • 256 pp. • 17 illustrations $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4972-1

Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution

“[Dull’s] beautifully written masterpiece is the kind of book that readers will take in at one sitting or savor in pieces, digesting a part of each of the six chapters slowly.”—Choice “A rich history of Franklin’s conduct in the Revolution. Having the various strands of Franklin’s life in the revolutionary period woven together is of great value. Both laymen and scholars will find it useful and interesting.”

—Robert L. Middlekauff, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley “Provides insight into one of our most enthralling founding fathers.”—Military Heritage 2010 • 184 pp. $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3033-0

Affection and Trust

The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953–1971 Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson Introduction by David McCullough

“Scholars and historians will be mining this trove for years to come.”—Henry Kissinger “The depth of [Truman and Acheson’s] friendship is revealed in a remarkable exchange of correspondence after they left office. . . . The resultant book is a major contribution to the history of the era, given that both men wrote with candor, knowing that their opinions were for each other’s eyes only.”—Washington Times March 2013 • 364 pp. • 12 photographs $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4526-6

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World History The Mexican Experience series The Plan de San Diego

Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue

Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler

The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution.

This book, based on newly available archival documents, is a revisionist interpretation focusing on both south Texas and Mexico. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler argue convincingly that the insurrection in Texas was made possible by support from Mexico when it suited the regime of President Venustiano Carranza, who co-opted and manipulated the plan and its supporters for his own political and diplomatic purposes in support of the Mexican Revolution.

July 2013 • 416 pp. • 23 photographs, 3 maps $45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6477-9

Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution

The Coffee Culture of Córdoba, Veracruz Heather Fowler-Salamini

Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution analyzes the interrelationships between the region’s immigrant entrepreneurs, workforce, labor movement, gender relations, and culture on the one hand, and social revolution, modernization, and the Atlantic community on the other, between the 1890s and the 1960s. Using extensive archival research and oral-history interviews, Heather Fowler-Salamini illustrates the ways in which the immigrant and women’s work cultures transformed Córdoba’s regional coffee economy and in turn influenced the development of the nation’s coffee agro-export industry and labor force.

July 2013 • 440 pp. • 13 photographs, 2 maps, 13 tables $45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4371-2

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Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico

Gender, Class, and Memory

Robert F. Alegre Foreword by Elena Poniatowska

Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico is an in-depth study of a pivotal moment in post–World War II Mexican history. Robert F. Alegre argues that the railroad strikes of the 1950s constituted the first and boldest challenge to the ruling Institutionalized Revolutionary Party and marked the beginning of mass dissatisfaction with the ruling party.

“Alegre’s study fills a significant void. . . . An in-depth study of labor activism in the context of Mexico’s Cold War experience is long overdue in the scholarly literature.”—Susan Gauss, associate professor at suny, Albany, and author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s January 2014 • 344 pp. • 6 photographs, 1 map $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4484-9

The Civilizing Machine

A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876–1910 Michael Matthews

In this cultural history of Mexican railroads during the Porfiriato, Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people’s understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the thirty-fiveyear dictatorship of General Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network represented order and progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world.

“The first cultural study of railroads in Mexico. Matthews’s study is timely . . . with lively accounts and interesting analysis.”—James A. Garza, associate professor of history and ethnic studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln January 2014 • 392 pp. • 25 illustrations. 2 tables $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4380-4

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Celebrating Insurrection

The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento

Mexico, Television, and the Cold War

Edited and with an introduction by Will Fowler

Celeste González de Bustamante Foreword by Richard Cole

This collection of essays addresses the complicated legacy of pronunciamientos, formal lists of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico. The essays explore the sacralization and legitimization of these revolts and of their leaders in the nation’s history and consider why these celebrations proved ultimately ineffective in consecrating the pronunciamiento as a force for good, rather than one motivated by desires for power, promotion, and plunder.

“A solid addition to the study of postindependence Mexico.”—Choice January 2013 • 360 pp. • 1 chronology $45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2541-1

By the end of the twentieth century, Mexican multimedia conglomerate Televisa stood as one of the most powerful media companies in the world. “Muy buenas noches” is a fascinating study of the relationship between television journalism and Mexico’s Partido Revolucionario Institucional (pri) during the cold war. In one of the first books on Mexican television to be published in English, Celeste González de Bustamante argues that despite the cozy relationship between media moguls and the pri, these connections should not be viewed as static and without friction.

January 2013 • 314 pp. • 13 illustrations, 4 tables $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4010-0

Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados

Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856

The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Edited and with an introduction by Will Fowler

This collections of essays examines case studies of individual and collective pronunciados in regions across nineteenth-century Mexico. Top scholars examine the motivations of individual pronunciados and the reasons they succeeded or failed; why garrisons, town councils, and communities adopted the pronunciamiento as a political tool and form of representation and used it to address local and national grievances; and whether institutions upheld corporate aims in endorsing, supporting, or launching pronunciamientos. These essays provide a better understanding of the rebel leaders behind these public acts of defiance and reveal how an insurrectionary repertoire became part of a national political culture.

2012 • 352 pp. • 3 maps, 3 tables, 1 chronology $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2542-8

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“Muy buenas noches”

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera’s study explores the relationships between Mexicans, their environment, and one another, as well as their negotiation of the cultural values of everyday life. By examining the value systems that governed Mexican thinking of the period, Lipsett-Rivera examines the ephemeral daily experiences and interactions of the people and illuminates how gender and honor systems governed these quotidian events. Bodies and the built environment were inscribed with cultural values, and the relationship of Mexicans to and between space and bodies determined the way ordinary people acted out their culture.

2012 • 336 pp. • 11 illustrations, 1 map $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3833-6

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World History

France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization series The French Colonial Mind

Edited and with an introduction by Martin Thomas

The first of two linked volumes, volume one brings together fifteen leading scholars of French colonial history to investigate the origins and outcomes of imperialist ideas among France’s most influential “empire makers.”

Volume two brings together prominent scholars of French colonial history to explore the many ways in which brutality and killing became central to the French experience and management of empire.

“A well-conceived and well-executed edited collection. It is undoubtedly a significant work, being of interest to both scholars of French Colonial history and those looking to improve their understanding of the ways in which imperial thinking shaped the modern world.”

—European Review of History “A welcome addition to the field. For those who teach the French empire to Anglophone students, the collection will prove highly valuable as a point of access to a wealth of different topics and territories.”—French History

Volume 1 Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters

2012 • 424 pp. $45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2093-5

Volume 2 Violence, Military Encounters, and Colonialism

Screening Integration

Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France

Edited and with an introduction by Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy

The first collected volume analyzing MaghrebiFrench cinema and the relationship of North African immigrants and their descendants to French culture, Screening Integration offers a sustained critical analysis of this cinema. In particular, contributors evaluate how Maghrebi films have come to participate in, promote, and, at the same time critique France’s integration. In the process, these essays reflect on the conditions that allowed for the burgeoning of this cinema in the first place, as well as on the social changes the films delineate.

2012 • 282 pp. • 21 illustrations, 2 tables $35.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2825-2

Selling the Congo

A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism Matthew G. Stanard

Selling the Congo is a study of European pro-empire propaganda in Belgium, with particular emphasis on the period 1908–60. Matthew G. Stanard questions the nature of Belgian imperialism in the Congo and considers the Belgian case in light of literature on the French, British, and other European overseas empires. “[A] fascinating history of Belgium’s twentiethcentury colonial culture.”—Wall Street Journal “An excellent contribution to the growing literature on the European advocacy of colonialism in the twentieth century.”—Choice 2012 • 408 pp. • 10 illustrations, 1 chart $65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3777-3

2012 • 440 pp. • 1 graph, 1 table $45.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-2094-2

forthcoming in spring 2014

2-volume set

Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands

$75.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-3815-2

Scars of Partition William F. S. Miles

Based on over twenty-five years of globe-spanning fieldwork, this is the first empirically grounded, comparative study of the legacies of British and French colonialism.

2014 • 352 pp. • maps

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Comprehensive History of the Holocaust series copublished with yad vashem

Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award, Writing Based on Archival Material category

The History of the Holocaust in Romania

Jean Ancel Translated by Yaffah Murciano Edited by Leon Volovici With the assistance of Miriam Caloianu Based on an unparalleled and exhaustive collection of original Jewish accounts and sources not available until the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s, Jean Ancel provides a detailed analysis of the path of antisemitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in Romania.

“This monumental work is a scholarly witnessing to be admired.”—Jewish Book World “Professional historians as well as casual readers should take note of this book and make it a starting point in their quest to delve further into the mystery of the Holocaust in Romania.”—H-Net “A must for any Judaica library with a Holocaust collection, whether a basic collection or a rich, academically focused one.”—Association of Jewish Libraries 2012 • 720 pp. • 1 map, 28 tables, 4 charts $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2064-5

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Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award, Writing Based on Archival Material category Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

Yitzhak Arad Translated by Ora Cummings

This is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941–45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of Jews.

Arad’s examination of the differences between the Holocaust in the Soviet Union compared to other European nations reveals how Nazi ideological attacks on the Soviet Union, which included war on “Judeo-Bolshevism,” led to harsher treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union than in most other occupied territories.

July 2013 • 720 pp. • 1 map, 7 tables $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4519-8 2006 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia Facing the Holocaust Livia Rothkirchen

This book by one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust.

“Inspiring for all readers with an interest in the history of the Jewish presence in the Czech lands. It has a highly detailed system of footnotes and a wide bibliography, allowing readers to find other publications and studies for the individual periods under description.”—Shofar “An extensive bibliography and list of footnotes are included. Vivid and sobering, this book covers much ground. An essential addition to academic libraries with Holocaust collections.”—Association of Jewish Libraries 2012 • 464 pp. $40.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4007-0

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World History Bringing the Dark Past to Light

The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe

Edited and with an introduction by John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic

This volume of original essays explores the memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in postcommunist Eastern Europe.

“An excellent collection that addresses a very timely topic and fills a real gap in our knowledge. It will be of interest not only to specialists on the Holocaust but also to anyone—specialist and nonspecialist alike—interested in the issues and problems of postcommunist Europe.”

—Samuel Kassow, author of Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto “An extraordinary volume and a feat of editorial ingenuity. . . . No matter what you know or think about contemporary Europe and the politics of Holocaust memory, you will be enlightened and surprised by this remarkable book.”—Doris L. Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto July 2013 • 792 pp. • 6 photographs $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2544-2

Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism

Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871–1932 Alan T. Levenson With a new afterword by the author

An assessment of the non-Jewish defense of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness through the fiction, private correspondence, and published works that spoke in defense of Jews and Judaism in early twentieth-century Germany.

“Levenson presents a balanced picture that is neither apologetic of the German intellectual tradition nor indulges in the simplistic construction of an antisemitic German ‘national character.’ . . . The book is very interesting throughout, carefully argued and documented, and well-written. It should be widely read.”

—German Studies Review “Levenson’s analysis is penetrating and his conclusions . . . are well worth considering.”

—Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter July 2013 • 230 pp. • 1 appendix $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-4576-1

The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933–1939 A Documentary History

Edited and with an introduction by Christian Goeschel and Nikolaus Wachsmann Original German documents translated by Ewald Osers

This collection brings together revealing primary documents on the crucial origins of the Nazi concentration camp system in the prewar years between 1933 and 1939, which have been overlooked thus far. Many of the documents are unpublished and have been translated into English for the first time. These documents provide insight into the camps from multiple perspectives, including those of prisoners, Nazi officials, and foreign observers, and shed light on the complex relationship between terror, state, and society in the Third Reich.

2012 • 448 pp. • 1 map, 1 chronology, 2 appendixes $65.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2782-8

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Military History Birch Coulie

The Epic Battle of the Dakota War

Death Zones and Darling Spies

John Christgau

John Christgau recounts the dramatic events surrounding the Battle of Birch Coulie, the most decisive battle in the Dakota War of 1862.

Christgau’s account of the war between white settlers and the Dakota Indians in Minnesota examines two communities torn by internal dissent and external threat, equally traumatized by the short and violent war. This is a uniquely balanced and accurate chronicle of this littleunderstood conflict, one of the most important to roil the American West.

“Essential reading on the 150th anniversary of the largely forgotten, under-taught war that he describes as ‘a brutal collision of two worlds and cultures.’”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “A dramatic narrative that students of frontier and Minnesota history will wish to read closely.”—Booklist 2012 • 152 pp. $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3636-3

How We Fight

Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War Dominic Tierney

How We Fight explores the extraordinary doublemindedness with which Americans approach war and articulates the opposing perspectives that have governed our responses throughout history: the “crusade” tradition, or our love of grand quests to defend democratic values and overthrow tyrants; and the “quagmire” tradition, or our resistance to the work of nation-building and its inevitable cost in dollars and American lives.

“Lucid and entertaining. . . . A provocative analysis of why Americans love some wars and hate others.”—Kirkus Reviews “Highly recommended.”—Choice 2012 • 352 pp. • 7 photographs, 8 illustrations $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4396-5

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Studies in War, Society, and the Military series Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting Beverly Deepe Keever

In this memoir of a female war correspondent, the longest-serving Western reporter of the Vietnam War, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation’s bloodiest and bitterest wars.

“In this powerfully plainspoken account, one of the leading female journalists of the Vietnam War relays her personal experience of the bloody conflict that divided America and changed the global political landscape. . . .

Keever provides a ground-level look—by turns shrewd, lucid, and humane—of the war in Vietnam.”—Publishers Weekly “Few correspondents engaged in the protracted, ugly war in Laos and Vietnam were as diligent and perceptive as Beverly Deepe. . . .

Her account of that experience is authoritative, credible, lucid, vivid, and above all readable.”

—Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history May 2013 • 360 pp. • 30 photographs, 1 map, 2 appendixes $26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2261-8

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Military History 2013 Distinguished Book Award for Reference from the Society for Military History 2011 ahf Distinguished Writing Award for Reference

Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done

A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader With a foreword by Edward M. Coffman

This first comprehensive study of the Regular Army in the Civil War focuses primarily on the organizational history of the Regular Army and how it changed as an institution during the war, to emerge afterward as a reorganized and permanently expanded force.

“Will become the definitive study of an important, but too often overlooked, subject.”

—Civil War Times “A significant and useful work that should have a place in the library of every Civil War researcher.”—Army History “The literature’s best one-stop resource for the Regular Army in the Civil War.”—Civil War Books and Authors 2011 • 424 pp. • 30 illustrations, 1 map, 44 tables, 3 charts, 1 appendix $75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1910-6

Beneficial Bombing

The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917–1945 Mark Clodfelter

Mark Clodfelter examines the progressive idealism that led to the creation of the U.S. Air Force and its use of precision bombing to end wars more quickly. Clodfelter presents the most complete analysis to date of the doctrinal development underpinning current U.S. Air Force notions about strategic bombing.

“This is military, intellectual history at its best.”—Journal of American History “Based almost entirely on new research in a wide array of primary sources, it illuminates the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings of America’s air power.”—Journal of Military History “A solid and impressive study that will enlighten those interested in the formation of bombing theory (Douhet through Warden) and especially its practice in World War II.”—Air Power History December 2013 • 392 pp. • 34 photographs $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7180-7

American Naval History, 1607–1865 Overcoming the Colonial Legacy Jonathan R. Dull

Jonathan R. Dull offers a concise history of the remarkable transformation of the U.S. Navy between 1861 and 1865, offering a new perspective on both American naval history and the history of the developing republic.

“An excellent summary of how the U.S. Navy grew from next to nothing at the end of the American Revolution into a force without which the Union could not have defeated the Confederacy, and became a world-class power in the twentieth century. . . . Dull has pulled personalities, diplomacy, technology, and politics into a nicely executed summary. This is a superior reference for someone who wants a different look at our early history.”—Booklist 2012 • 216 pp. • 1 map $27.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4052-0

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Defending Whose Country?

Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War Noah Riseman

Disaster in the Mid-Atlantic

Defending Whose Country? is a comparative study of the military participation of Papua New Guineans, Yolngu, and Navajos in the Pacific War. In examining the decisions of state and military leaders to bring indigenous peoples into military service, as well as the decisions of indigenous individuals to serve in the armed forces, Noah Riseman reconsiders the impact of the largely forgotten contributions of indigenous soldiers in the Second World War. 2012 • 336 pp. • 24 photographs, 3 maps $50.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3793-3

Southwest Passage

The Yanks in the Pacific

James P. Duffy

Packed with rich detail and analysis of what often transpired when merchant ships were sunk by U-Boats, this dramatic book highlights the hazards of World War II at sea. At its center, James P. Duffy relates the story of the sinking of the British liner Laconia by the German U-Boat U-156 in World War II. The rescue operation

by German ships and the subsequent bombing raid by Allied aircraft are both compelling stories and events that had major repercussions for the conduct of the war.

April 2013 • 152 pp. • 15 photographs $18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4540-2

Abundance of Valor

John Lardner Introduction by Alex Belth

Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944–45

Noted journalist and author John Lardner describes his experiences as a war correspondent in Australia during World War II. Lardner’s tone, style, and selected topics give more than just entertaining anecdotes about the military in the Pacific; they are a view into the culture and society of midcentury America.

“John Lardner, inheriting his father’s large gift for narrative as well as his sense of humor, has vividly related his impressions of Australia from the point of view of an American war correspondent. . . . Will enlighten and amuse readers who want details about the troops fighting ‘down under.’”—Pacific Affairs “Mr. Lardner has the happy faculty of taking the war seriously without taking himself seriously.”—New York Times June 2013 • 314 pp. • 1 map, 1 glossary $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4098-8

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The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War

Will Irwin

The operation known as “Market-Garden”— made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far—was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time. Abundance of Valor is a reassessment of “Market-Garden” using new firsthand testimony and declassified documents “All the elements of good, readable history are here: triumph and tragedy, heroes and villains, the few against the many.”—America in World War II Magazine “A thoroughly enthralling book for serious students of World War II, this is the labor of love of a Special Forces veteran with a rare talent for writing and research.”—Booklist 2012 • 432 pp. • 83 illustrations, 4 maps, 1 appendix $22.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4068-1

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Military History Incident at the Otterville Station

A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue John Christgau

While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended to ship his slaves by train to Kentucky, where they would be sold at auction.

John Christgau relates the true story of the rescue of Walker’s slaves by soldiers of the Ninth Minnesota Regiment and the soldiers’ subsequent arrest for mutiny.

“An amazing story of a state divided over the issue of slavery and a group of Minnesota soldiers who performed their duties not only as soldiers but as men with high morals. Christgau enlightens the world to a little-known story that was one of many during the Civil War.”—Dustin B. Heckman, executive director of the Mower County (mn) Historical Society December 2013 • 168 pp. $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4644-7

Standing Firmly by the Flag

Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861–1867 James E. Potter

James E. Potter explores Nebraska’s involvement in the Civil War and its evolution from territory to thirty-seventh state on March 1, 1867.

“This is easily the most complete and satisfying study of a critical but relatively neglected period in Nebraska’s territorial history. . . . Standing Firmly by the Flag offers a multifaceted portrait—military, political, economic, and social—of a frontier territory more affected by the tumult of civil war than its location . . . would suggest.”—Edward G. Longacre, author of The Cavalry at Gettysburg “A masterful narrative of wartime passions, played out on the battlefields, in the newspapers, and in the territorial legislature.”—Eli Paul, editor of The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865–1877 January 2013 • 400 pp. • 20 photographs, 6 illustrations, 3 maps $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4090-2

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Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg Warren C. Robinson

“A fascinating re-consideration of the longdebated question of why Jeb Stuart and his Confederate cavalry were not present at the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg and what the result of their absence might have been. . . .

[Robinson’s] examination of Stuart’s controversial role in the campaign is well researched, carefully reasoned, and engagingly written.”

—Journal of Military History “Will quickly become a seminal work on the battle of Gettysburg. Robinson’s analysis and separation of fact and myth in the events contributing to the absence of Confederate cavalry during the first two days of the battle makes this a must-read book for military historians and enthusiasts alike.”—Southern Historian September 2013 • 216 pp. • 12 photographs, 8 illustrations, 4 maps $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4856-4

Men of Color to Arms!

Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality Elizabeth D. Leonard

Drawing on eye-opening firsthand accounts, Elizabeth D. Leonard restores black soldiers to their place in the arc of American history, from the Civil War to the dawn of the twentieth century.

“An indispensable addition to African-American historical literature. Those unfamiliar with this overlooked and long-neglected story will find illumination in Leonard’s highly recommended book.”—Civil War News “The richness of [Leonard’s] stories shines through, and first-person accounts of hardships suffered on the plains are especially gripping.”—Publishers Weekly 2012 • 344 pp. • 46 illustrations $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4071-1

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Military History The Approaching Fury

General Jo Shelby’s March

Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861

Stephen B. Oates

Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama.

“This book powerfully re-creates some of the momentous events that produced the catastrophe of 1861. Oates succeeds in bringing his characters alive . . . [and] in getting inside each of them. . . . He presents their arguments with great force and conviction.”—New York Times Book Review “Oates’s method of presenting the material makes this book extremely valuable as a summary of views and as a means of understanding the tumultuous years before the Civil War. This novel approach to the telling of history is highly readable.”—Military Review 2012 • 514 pp. $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6931-6

Gen. Jo Shelby, a daring and ruthless cavalry commander renowned and notorious for his slashing forays behind Union lines, declared after Appomattox that he would never surrender.

With three hundred men, some from his fighting “Iron Brigade” regiment, other adventurers, fortune hunters, and deserters, he headed for Mexico.

“Arthur draws us in as we see Shelby progress from rebellion to defeat to adventure and to reconciliation with the country he once loved.

Recommended to anyone who enjoys biographically based Civil War or American history.”

—Library Journal 2012 • 296 pp. • 17 illustrations, 1 map $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4077-3

The Whirlwind of War

Counter-Thrust

Stephen B. Oates

Benjamin Franklin Cooling

Writing in the first person, assuming the viewpoints of several of the principle figures, Stephen B. Oates’s riveting narrative brings to life the complex and destructive war that is the central event in American history.

“A sweeping, fast-moving story, smoothly readable, broader in scope than many onevolume histories of the war.”—New York Times Book Review “Oates’s intensive research has brought new light to some of the more complex issues of the time.”—Washington Post Book World “Oates takes us to the center of the action while breathing life into historical figures. . . .

Riveting reading.”—Library Journal 2012 • 864 pp. $28.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6930-9

Counter-Thrust tells the story of Antietam from Robert E. Lee’s rout of his antagonist George B. McClellan’s springtime drive to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, to the long-dreamt-of offensive to redeem central and northern Virginia before crossing the Potomac.

“Exceptionally well written, but also it offers a highly critical account of what many scholars argue are the most significant campaigns of the Civil War.”—Journal of Southern History “Has few peers as an introductory volume to one of the most dramatic campaign summers in military history.”—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society December 2013 • 384 pp. • 8 photographs, 1 illustration, 13 maps $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7172-2 great campaigns of the civil war series

Anthony Arthur

From the Peninsula to the Antietam

Voices of the Storm, 1861–1865

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The Extraordinary Odyssey of Shelby’s Confederate “Iron Brigade,” Who Refused to Surrender and Fought Their Way into Mexico for a New Life

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Selected Backlist Outwitting the Gestapo

Lucie Aubrac Translated by Konrad Bieber with the assistance of Betsy Wing

1994 • 241 pp. • Photographs $15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5923-2

Dakota Cowboy My Life in the Old Days Ike Blasingame forthcoming in spring 2014

1964 • 322 pp. • Illus., map. $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5015-4

Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community During Winter Quarters, Virginia

The Warriors Reflections on Men in Battle

Music along the Rapidan

James A. Davis

An examination of the role of music in defining the socio-military community that emerged during the Union’s Army of the Potomac and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia’s six-month encampment in the Piedmont region of central Virginia.

July 2014 • 360 pp. • 23 photographs, 9 drawings $45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4509-9 forthcoming in spring 2014

Busy in the Cause

Iowa, the Free State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War Lowell J. Soike

Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest, including Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, in shaping national politics concerning slavery in antebellum America.

June 2014 • 336 pp. • 22 illustrations, 1 map, 1 appendix $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7189-0

J. Glenn Gray

1998 • 242 pp.

$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7076-3

Letters of a Civil War Nurse Cornelia Hancock, 1863–1865

Cornelia Hancock Edited by Henrietta Stratton Jaquette

1998 • 179 pp. • Illus. $15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7312-2

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West Dale L. Morgan

1964 • 468 pp. • Illus., map $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5138-0

Brave Men Ernie Pyle

2001 • 513 pp.

$21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8768-6

Journal of a Trapper

Osborne Russell Edited by Aubrey L. Haines

1965 • 241 pp. • Illus., maps $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5166-3

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart 1990 • 282 pp.

$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5193-9

Battle The Story of the Bulge John Toland

1999 • 400 pp. • Illus., maps $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9437-0

Jim Bridger Mountain Man Stanley Vestal

1970 • 333 pp. • Illus., maps $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5720-7

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Books for the Classroom The Question

Henri Alleg With a new afterword by the author Translated from the French by John Calder

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee David Crockett

2006 • 74 pp.

1987 • 211 pp. • Illus. $13.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6325-3

Toward the Flame A Memoir of World War I

Baya Gacemi Translated by Paul Côté and Constantina Mitchell

$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5960-7

I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist

Hervey Allen

2006 • 160 pp.

2003 • 282 pp. • Illus. $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5947-8

$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7124-1

World History of Warfare

Ann Marie Low

Christon I. Archer, John R. Ferris, Holger H. Herwig, and Timothy H. E. Travers

2008 • 640 pp. • 25 illustrations, 16 maps $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1941-0

Dust Bowl Diary

1984 • 188 pp. • Illus. $18.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-7913-1

The Blue Tattoo The Life of Olive Oatman

Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, Second Edition

2011 • 288 pp. • 32 illustrations, 1 map $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3517-5

2004 • 189 pp. • Illus. $15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6217-1

James P. Ronda

William H. Beezley

A True Picture of Emigration

Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend Edited by Milo Milton Quaife

1987 • 167 pp. • Illus., maps $16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6083-2

The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz

2003 • 204 pp. • Illus., maps $19.00 paperback • 978-0-8032-6416-8

One Vast Winter Count The Native American West before Lewis and Clark

Margot Mifflin

Lewis and Clark among the Indians

2002 • 310 pp. • Illus., maps $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8990-1

The Legacy of the Civil War Robert Penn Warren Introduced by Howard Jones

1998 • 109 pp.

$13.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9801-9

The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig Newly translated by Anthea Bell

2013 • 472 pp. • 1 photograph $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2661-6

Colin G. Calloway

2006 • 631 pp. • Illus., maps $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6465-6

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Index Abundance of Valor 22 Acheson, Dean 14 Adorno, Rolena 25 Affection and Trust 14 Alegre, Robert F. 15 Ambassadors from Earth 12 American Indian Quarterly 27 American Naval History, 1607–1865 21 Ancel, Jean 18 The Approaching Fury 24 Arad, Yitzhak 18 Archer, J. Clark 3 Arthur, Anthony 24 Atlas of the Great Plains 3 Bakken, Gordon Morris 8 Barajas, Frank P. 4

Behnken, Brian D. 11 Belth, Alex 22 Beneficial Bombing 21 Benemann, William 2 Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution 14 Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism 19 Birch Coulie 20 Black Mayors, White Majorities 11 Black Print with a White Carnation 6 The Blue Tattoo 5 Blyth, Lance R. 1 Braithwaite, Charles A. 27 Bringing the Dark Past to Light 19 Budig, Gene A. 10

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Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace 9 Burgess, Colin 13 Burke, John M. 9 Busy in the Cause 25 Cairns, Kathleen A. 6 Calder, John 25 Called to Justice 8 Calloway, Colin G. 2 Caloianu, Miriam 18 Camp, Laurie Smith 7 Cane, Suzanne 3 Celebrating Insurrection 16 Chapple, Janet 3 Chiricahua and Janos 1 Christgau, John 20, 23

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Index Christianson, Frank 9 The Civilizing Machine 15 Clark, William 10 Clodfelter, Mark 21 Cobb-Greetham, Amanda J. 27 Cody, William F. 9 Coffman, Edward M. 21 Cole, Richard 16 Coodley, Lauren 5 Cooling, Benjamin Franklin 24 Côté, Paul 25 Counter-Thrust 24 Cultural Construction of Empire 1 Cummings, Ora 18 Curious Unions 4 Dakota 7 Davis, James A. 25 Death Zones and Darling Spies 20 Defending Whose Country? 22 Dixon, Chris 9 Dubbs, Chris 13 Duffy, James P. 22 Dull, Jonathan R. 14, 21 Durmelat, Sylvie 17 Edgington, Ryan H. inside cover Empires, Nations, and Families 2 Entz, Gary R. 7 Ethridge, Robbie 27 Evans, Michelle 12 Farrington, Brenda 8 Finding Oil inside cover Fojas, Camilla 1 Footprints in the Dust 13 Forss, Amy Helene 6 Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill 9 Fowler-Salamini, Heather 15 Fowler, Will 16 Frémont, John C. 3 Frehner, Brian inside cover Frémont’s First Impressions 3 French, Francis 14 The French Colonial Mind 17 From Society Page to Front Page 6 Frontiers 27 Gainor, Chris 13 Gallentine, Jay 12 Garceau, Dee 6 Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856 16 General Jo Shelby’s March 24 George Norris, Going Home 10 Goeschel, Christian 19 González de Bustamante, Celeste 16 Goodbye Wifes and Daughters 6 Great Plains Quarterly 27 Griffin, Charles Eldridge 9 A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History 14 Grove, Tim 14 Guevarra, Rudy P., Jr. 1 Guthrie, Thomas H. 10 Harris, Charles H., III 15 Himka, John-Paul 19 The History of the Holocaust in Romania 18 The Holocaust in the Soviet Union 18 Houston, Rick 12 How We Fight 20 Hudson, John C. 3 Hyde, Anne F. 2, 3

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The Important Things of Life 6 Incident at the Otterville Station 23 In the Shadow of the Moon 13 Irwin, Will 22 Jacobs, Margaret D. 2 Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg 23 Jensen, Richard E. 8 The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia 18 Jon Lewis 4 Keever, Beverly Deepe 20 Kimble, James J. 7 Lahti, Janne 1 Lardner, John 22 The Last Days of the Rainbelt inside cover Latorre, Guisela 27 Lavin, Stephen J. 3 Leonard, Elizabeth D. 23 Levenson, Alan T. 19 The Lewis and Clark Journals (Abridged Edition) 10 Lewis, Meriwether 10 The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill 9 Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya 16 Llewellyn Castle 7 Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados 16 March, Ray A. inside cover Matthews, Michael 15 McCullough, David 12 Members of the Corps of Discovery 10 Menard, Andrew 3 Menard, Orville D. 7 Men in Eden 2 Men of Color to Arms! 23 Michlic, Joanna Beata 19 Mifflin, Margot 5 Miles, William F. S. 17 Mitchell, Constantina 25 Moulton, Gary E. 10 Murciano, Yaffah 18 Music along the Rapidan 25 “Muy buenas noches” 16 Native South 27 The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933–1939 19 Newell, Clayton R. 21 Norris, George W. 10 Oates, Stephen B. 24 O’Brien, Greg 27 Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done 21 One Vast Winter Count 2 Opposing Jim Crow 11 Osers, Ewald 19 Paat-Dahlstrom, Emeline 14 Pautz, Patrick Charles 25 Peace Be Still 11 Perry, Ravi K. 11 The Plan de San Diego 15 Poniatowska, Elena 15 Postcolonial Legacies 17 Potter, James E. 23 Prairie Forge 7 Proof of Guilt 6

Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico 15 Range Wars inside cover Realizing Tomorrow 13 Recognizing Heritage 10 Resnick, Susan Kushner 6 Ricker, Eli S. 8 Riley, William Jay 8 Riseman, Noah 22 Risjord, Norman K. 7 River City Empire 7 River in Ruin inside cover Robinson, Warren C. 23 Roman, Meredith L. 11 Ross, Jerry 13 Rothkirchen, Livia 18 Sadler, Louis R. 15 Samuel, Lawrence R. 12 Screening Integration 17 Selling the Congo 17 Shelley, Fred M. 3 Shrader, Charles R. 21 Shrink 14 Sight Unseen 3 The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War 22 Soike, Lowell J. 25 Southwest Passage 22 Stanard, Matthew G. 17 Standing Firmly by the Flag 23 Stephen J. Lavin 3 Street, Richard Steven 4 The Struggle in Black and Brown 11 Swamy, Vinay 17 Taylor, Melanie Benson 27 Thomas, Martin 17 Tierney, Dominic 20 To a Distant Day 14 Transnational Crossroads 1 Truman, Harry S. 14 Upton Sinclair 5 Urbom, Warren K. 8 Voices of the American West 8 Volovici, Leon 18 Wachsmann, Nikolaus 19 Walker, Charles D. 13 Walton, Don 10 Wheels Stop 12 The Whirlwind of War 24 Whitaker, Matthew C. 11 White Mother to a Dark Race 2 Whittlesey, Lee H. 3 The Wild West in England 9 Wirth, Eileen M. 6 Wishart, David J. 3, inside cover Women Who Kill Men 8 Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution 15 Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun 27 The x-15 Rocket Plane 12 Yellowstone, Land of Wonders 3

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