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Congratulations to Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. French novelist Patrick Modiano was awarded the prize “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies.” The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of Modiano’s novel Out of the Dark, translated by Jordan Stump, a professor of French at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The University of Nebraska Press is also the publisher of J. M. G. Le Clézio, the 2008 winner, and Herta Müller, the 2009 winner, of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Press has in print nearly two hundred translated books from five different languages. See pages 32–35 for more works in translation.

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B iogr ap h y / A n t h r o p o lo g y / Wo men ’s St udi es

Cora Du Bois Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent susan c. seymour the remarkable story of harvard’s fir st tenured female professor Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change. Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and Robert Lowie. During World War II, she served as a high-ranking officer for the Office of Strategic Services as the only woman to head one of the oss branches of intelligence, Research and Analysis in Southeast Asia. After the war she joined the State Department as chief of the Southeast Asia Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. She was also the first female full professor, with tenure, appointed at Harvard University and became president of the American Anthropological Association. Du Bois worked to keep her public and private lives separate, especially “This biography is a page-turner, with writing that is lively

while facing the fbi’s harassment as an opponent of U.S. engagements

and vivid, and Cora’s own correspondence, journal entries,

in Vietnam and as a “liberal” lesbian during the McCarthy era. Susan

and poetry give the book a very ‘first-person’ feel. There’s

C. Seymour’s biography Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent

a lot to learn here.”—Louise Lamphere, Distinguished

weaves together Du Bois’s personal and professional lives to illustrate this

Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Univer-

exceptional “first woman” and the complexities of the twentieth century

sity of New Mexico, and past president of the American

that she both experienced and influenced.

Anthropological Association

Susan C. Seymour is the Jean M. Pitzer Professor Emerita of Anthropology

“Susan Seymour has written a captivating, extremely well-

at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. She is the author of several books,

written narrative that has much to offer multiple audiences

including Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition.

that include anthropologists and students of the history of ideas and social science, but also more general readers interested in the biography of a brilliant, independent

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology series Regna Darnell and Stephen O. Murray, series editors

gay women who forged an important career in an era when social obstacles made such accomplishments very rare.”—David H. Pr ice, author of Weaponizing Anthro-

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Top: Cora Du Bois at her desk, oss headquarters, Ceylon, ca. 1944. Cora Alice Du Bois Papers, Tozzer Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University. Bottom: Cora Du Bois with Lord Mountbatten (left), oss headquarters, Ceylon, ca. 1944. Cora Alice Du Bois Papers, Tozzer Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University.

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N ative s t u di e s / Am e r i c an Hi s t o ry / Mi d wes t

City Indian Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck Amer ican Indian leader ship dur ing Chicago’s Golden Age In City Indian, Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair, American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political, social, educational, and racial issues. City Indian focuses on the privileged members of the American Indian community in Chicago who were doctors, nurses, businessmen, teachers, and entertainers. During the Progressive Era, more than at any other time in the city’s history, they could be found in the “City Indian makes a substantial contribution to emerging scholarship on Native Americans and cities by providing fresh insight that helps us understand the motivations, strategies, tensions, controversies, and triumphs that have characterized the work and lives of local and national Indian leaders.”—Nicolas G. Rosenthal, author of Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in TwentiethCentury Los Angeles “City Indian covers a very important and timely topic. This history of Indians in urban settings is currently under considerable and probing reconsideration. With this book, Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck have shown how Native peoples in Chicago have determined their destinies.”—Br ian Hosmer, H. G. Barnard Chair

company of politicians and society leaders, at Chicago’s major cultural venues and events, and in the press, speaking out. When Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson declared that Chicago public schools teach “America First,” American Indian leaders publicly challenged him to include the true story of “First Americans.” As they struggled to reshape nostalgic perceptions of American Indians, these men and women developed new associations and organizations to help each other and to ultimately create a new place to call home in a modern American city. Rosalyn R. LaPier is an assistant professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana. David R. M. Beck is a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana. He is the author of several books, including Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siulaw Indians, 1855–1984 (Nebraska, 2009) and The Struggle for Self-Determination: Menominee Indian History since 1854 (Nebraska, 2005).

of Western American History and coeditor of Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in the History of American Indian Nation Building

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N ative s t u di e s / C u lt u r e St udi es

So, How Long Have You Been Native? Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide Alexis C. Bunten An anthropologist’s view into cultur al tour ism So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s narrative takes readers through the summer tour season as she is hired and trained and eventually becomes a guide. A multibillion-dollar worldwide industry, cultural tourism provides one of the most ubiquitous face-to-face interactions between peoples of different cultures and is arguably one of the primary means by which knowledge about other cultures is disseminated. Bunten goes beyond debates about who owns Native culture and has the right “With tremendous empathy, warm humor, and trained insight, Native scholar and ethnographer Alexis Bunten embedded herself for a summer season in her own [Alaska Native] people’s cultural tourism industry. After working as a tourist guide, she produced this absolutely original, insider’s journal on the difficult choices and behind-the-scenes debates over how to enlighten outsiders with limited attention spans while protecting the vulnerable, deep-seated beliefs

to “sell” it to tourists. Through a series of anecdotes, she examines issues such as how and why Natives choose to sell their culture, the cutthroat politics of business in a small town, how the cruise industry maintains its bottom line, the impact of colonization on contemporary Native peoples, the ways that traditional cultural values play a role in everyday life for contemporary Alaska Natives, and how Indigenous peoples are engaging in global enterprises on their own terms. Bunten’s bottom-up approach provides a fascinating and informative look at the cultural tourism industry in Alaska.

and ritual practices and ever-evolving lifestyles of the

Alexis C. Bunten is a project ethnographer at Simon Fraser Uni-

local indigenous community. A case study of what

versity and a senior researcher at the FrameWorks Institute. Her ar-

small-scale, traditional societies are experiencing

ticles have appeared in American Indian Quarterly, Journal of Museum

all around the world, this is a groundbreaking work

Education, and American Ethnologist.

and a riveting read.”—Peter Nabokov, author of Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places

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N ative s t u di e s / A n t h r o po l o g y / Et hn i c St udi es / Arc h a eology

Hunting Caribou Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest Henry S. Sharp and Karyn Sharp A father and daughter study DenesulinÉ hunting in the Boreal Forest Denesuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist specializing in First Nations Studies and is Denesuliné, also observed countless hunts. Over the years the father and daughter realized that not only their personal backgrounds but also their disciplinary specializations significantly affected how each perceived and understood their experiences with the Denesuliné. In Hunting Caribou, Henry and Karyn Sharp attempt to understand and interpret their decades-long observations of Denesuliné hunts through the “Few books discussing subsistence hunting in history, archaeology, or anthropology are grounded in such rich and deep personal experience and understanding of the subject matter from a practical, participatory, long-term, and hands-on approach. This is mandatory reading for anyone discussing hunting and game management in a historical or anthropological context.”—Roland Bohr, author of Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670–1870 “This outstanding book covers a range of critical issues: hunter/gatherer transitions within a colonial context; knowledge and expertise in terms of living with nonhumans; indigenous knowledge; but most intriguing and fundamentally exciting is the blend of voices between father and daughter, elder/younger, anthropologist/archaeologist, and on it goes. This is a book that I read cover to cover without pausing and imagine that I will not be alone!”—Charles R. Menzies, editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management

multiple disciplinary lenses of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology. Although questions and methodologies differ between disciplines, the Sharps’ ethnography, by connecting these components, provides unique insights into the ecology and motivations of hunting societies. Themes of gender, women’s labor, insects, wolf and caribou behavior, scale, mobility and transportation, and land use are linked through the authors’ personal voices and experiences. This participant ethnography makes an important contribution to multiple fields in academe while simultaneously revealing broad implications for research, public policy, and First Nations politics. Henry S. Sharp has been a professor at the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University in Canada and a former scholar-in-residence at the University of Virginia and is now semi-retired. He is the author of Loon: Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community (Nebraska, 2001), winner of the Victor Turner Prize. Karyn Sharp is an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia and is a partner in Dancing Raven, a consulting company based in Prince George, British Columbia. Her articles have appeared in The Answer Is Still No: Voices of Resistance 2014, WIREs: Climate Change 2012, and The Midden.

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N atur al H i st o r y / Am e r ic a n Wes t

Grizzly West A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West Michael J. Dax Battle for the gr izzly pits the Old West against the New West Environmentalists and the timber industry do not often collaborate, but in the years immediately following gray wolf reintroduction in the interior American West, a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana brought these odd bedfellows together. The partnership won praise from diverse interests across the country and in 2000 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a plan for reintroduction. When the Bush Administration took office, however, it promptly shelved the project. In Grizzly West Michael J. Dax explores the political, cultural, and social forces at work in the West and around the country that gave rise to this innovative plan but also contributed to its downfall. Observers at the time blamed the project’s collapse on simple partisan politics, but “Michael Dax expertly probes the economic, cultural, and political divides spawned by recent efforts to reintroduce grizzly bears into the Bitterroot Range. . . . This is a first-rate environmental history that will enlighten environmentalists, legislators, natural resource users, and others engaged in deciding the fate of public lands in the modern American West.”—Mark Harvey, author of Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act

Dax reveals how the American West’s changing culture and economy over the second half of the twentieth century dramatically affected this bold vision. He examines the growth of the New West’s political potency, while at the same time revealing the ways in which the Old West still holds a significant grip over the region’s politics. Grizzly West explores the great divide between the Old and the New, one that has lasting consequences for the modern West and for our country’s relationship with its wildlife. Michael J. Dax lives and writes in Montana.

“Michael Dax delivers a nuanced and compelling study of the interconnectedness of politics and the environment in the West. He ably tells a story that far too few know, and he does so with grace and clarity and skillfully avoids green-washing this topic.”—Sar a Dant, professor of history at Weber State University and coauthor of the Encyclopedia of American National Parks

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T rue C r i m e / M i d w e st / Nebr a s ka

In Cold Storage Sex and Murder on the Plains James W. Hewitt Murder in McCook In 1973 the small, southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened. After pieces of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt’s dismembered bodies were found floating on the surface of a nearby lake, authorities charged McCook resident Harold Nokes and his wife, Ena, with murder. Harold pleaded guilty to murder and Ena pleaded guilty to two counts of wrongful disposal of a dead body, but the full story of why and how he murdered the Hoyts has never been told. Hewitt interviews law enforcement officers, members of the victims’ family, weapons experts, and forensic psychiatrists, and delves into newspaper reports and court documents from the time. Most significant, Harold granted Hewitt his first and only interview, in which the convicted murderer changed several parts of his 1974 confession. In “In the best tradition of Capote’s iconic In Cold Blood, James Hewitt presents a gruesome, bizarre, and tragic tale of sex, murder, and small-town intrigue, told with the objective insight of an accomplished legal histo-

Cold Storage takes readers through the evidence, including salacious details of sex and intrigue between the Hoyts and the Nokeses, and draws new conclusions about what really happened between the two families on that fateful September night.

rian and the gripping narrative style of a novelist. . . .

James W. Hewitt is president of the Friends of the Center for Great

This is a book you should be prepared to complete in

Plains Studies and was an adjunct professor of history at Nebraska

one sitting. It’s that compelling.”—Mark Scherer,

Wesleyan University and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is

author of Rights in the Balance “The curious, tangled, and often sensational step-by-

the author of Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2007).

step recounting will, by necessity, leave the reader

Law in the American West series

wondering how such a crime could have been com-

John R. Wunder, series editor

mitted and may have you double-checking to make sure your back door is really locked.”—Jim McKee, historian and writer

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Mem o ir / T r av e l / G r e at Pl a i n s / Nat ur a l Hi s t o ry / Li t er ary Nonfiction

Canoeing the Great Plains A Missouri River Summer Patr ick Dobson Salvation via the Big Muddy Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Missouri, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. After two and a half months, 1,450 miles, and numerous encounters with the people of the heartland, Dobson arrived in Helena, Montana. He then set a canoe on the Missouri and asked the river to carry him safely back to Kansas City, hoping this enigmatic watercourse would help reconnect him with his life. In Canoeing the Great Plains, Dobson recounts his journey on the Missouri, the country’s longest river. Dobson, a novice canoeist when he begins his trip, faces the Missouri at a time of dangerous flooding and must learn to trust himself to the powerful flows of the river and its stark and serenely beautiful countryside. He meets a cast of “Part travelogue, part social commentary, Dobson narrates a gritty and multidimensional tale, even as his descriptions of the landscape and the river are as warm as the summer sun. It was a journey I didn’t want to end.”—Sandr a Mor an, anthropologist and award-winning author of Letters Never Sent and Nudge “This is a work of strength and beauty, of care and courage. Patrick Dobson’s voyage down the length of the Missouri River is not simply one of self-discovery, but a journey that allows the reader to look inward as well. . . . We are fortunate to be able to share in

characters along the river who assist him both with the mundane tasks of canoeing—portaging around dams and reservoirs and finding campsites—and with his own personal transformation. Mishaps, mistakes, and misadventures plague his trip, but over time the river shifts from being a frightening adversary to a welcome companion. As the miles float by and the distinctions blur between himself and what he formerly called nature, Dobson comes to grips with his past, his fears, and his life beyond the river. Patr ick Dobson is a writer, historian, and ironworker with a PhD in history. He is the author of Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains (Nebraska, 2009).

his odyssey of exuberance and discovery.”—Alan Boye, author of Just Walking the Hills of Vermont and Sustainable Compromises

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excerpt from the reluctant pilgrim We no longer burn or drown witches, stone wizards, or commit to asylums those who think Something Is Going On around us other than officially sanctioned supernatural experiences, but we still make it damned uncomfortable for people who talk about things magical, mystic, unexplained, spooky, or even “crazy.” And curiously, it is precisely those who insist there are supernatural experiences, the hypersanctimonious, who insist that only approved, official people can have them and can have them only through official channels sanctioned by them and their authorized social mechanisms. (More about that later . . . in fact, a lot more about that later!)

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N ative s t u di e s / R e li g i o n / s pi r i t ua l i t y

The Reluctant Pilgrim A Skeptic’s Journey into Native Mysteries Roger Welsch Roger Welsch on things mystical and unexplained Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, “like the sun and moon.” According to Tatonkaohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. “I make my request of the stones and they are my intercessors,” Brave Buffalo explained. Moments later, another friend appeared at Welsch’s door bearing yet another unusual gift: a perfectly round white stone found on top of a mesa in Colorado. So began Welsch’s lesson from stones, gifts that always presented themselves unexpectedly: during a walk, set aside in an antique store, and in the mail from complete strangers. The Reluctant Pilgrim shares a skeptic’s spiritual journey from his Lutheran upbringing to the Native sensibilities of his adoptive families in both the Omaha and Pawnee tribes. Beginning with those round “Roger Welsch let himself be engulfed by the world Native people know and was swallowed whole in the waters of its deep and ageless sea. The Reluctant Pilgrim tells the stories of some of the things that have happened as a result. And it shows that the Spirits chose wisely when they tagged Roger Welsch

stones, increasing encounters during his life prompted Welsch to confront a new way of learning and teaching as he was drawn inexorably into another world. Confronting mainstream contemporary culture’s tendency to dismiss the magical, mystical, and unexplained, Welsch shares his personal experiences and celebrates the fact that even in our scientific world, “Something Is Going On,” just beyond our ken.

as their own.”—Dawn Hill Adams, member of

Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the Univer-

the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and co-president,

sity of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a former essayist for cbs News Sunday

senior scientist, and founder of Tapestry Institute

Morning and the author of more than forty books, including Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe, available from Bison Books.

May

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B iogr ap h y / N at u r a l H i st o ry / Art / Juv en i l e No n fi c t i o n

This Strange Wilderness The Life and Art of John James Audubon Nancy Plain The story of Amer ica’s greatest natur alist Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America, depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image—lifelike and life size—rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter. Through talent and dogged determination, he rose from backwoods obscurity to international fame. In This Strange Wilderness, award-winning author Nancy Plain brings together the amazing story of this American icon’s career and the “This Strange Wilderness is like walking through a

beautiful images that are his legacy. Before Audubon, no naturalist

secret door into early nineteenth-century America.

or artist had seen, drawn, or written so much about the animals of

Nancy Plain’s stellar prose and meticulous research,

this largely uncharted young country. Aware that the wilderness and

combined with the glorious paintings of John

its wildlife were changing even as he watched, Audubon remained

James Audubon, will delight readers of all ages.”

committed almost to the end of his life “to search out the things which

—Candace Simar, author of the Spur Award–win-

have been hidden since the creation of this wondrous world.” This

ning Abercrombie Trail series

Strange Wilderness details his art and writing, transporting the reader back to the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America.

“Nancy Plain captures the essence of Audubon in words as beautiful and informative as his paintings.”

Nancy Plain is the author of numerous children’s books, including

—Rod Miller, author of John Muir: Magnificent

Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s

Tramp

Pioneer Days (available in a Bison Books edition), winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction, the Nebraska Book Award for Youth Nonfiction, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award.

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Spring 1865 The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War Perry D. Jamieson The final months When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union successes had nearly extinguished the Confederacy’s hope for an outright victory, the South still believed it could force the Union to grant a negotiated peace that would salvage some of its war aims. As evidence of the Confederacy’s determination, two major Union campaigns, along with a number of smaller engagements, were required to quell the continued organized Confederate military resistance. In Spring 1865, Perry D. Jamieson juxtaposes for the first time the major campaign against Lee that ended at Appomattox and Gen. William T. Sherman’s march north through the Carolinas, which culminated “In vigorous prose Perry Jamieson narrates the military

in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s surrender at Bennett Place. Jamieson

campaigns of the Civil War’s final months on the two

also addresses the efforts required to put down armed resistance in

principal fronts in the Carolinas and Virginia. This

the Deep South and the Trans-Mississippi. As both sides fought for

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political goals following Lee’s surrender, these campaigns had signifi-

tion, coupled with interpretive insights, enable the

cant consequences for the political-military context that shaped the

reader to grasp both the details and the larger picture

end of the war as well as Reconstruction.

of the war’s end.”—James M. McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Battle Cry of Freedom “The last spring of the Civil War witnessed a series of compelling episodes that assured Union triumph after four tumultuous years that reshaped the republic. Perry D. Jamieson does full justice to the unfolding drama in a narrative rich in biographical detail,

Perry D. Jamieson is senior historian emeritus of the U.S. Air Force. He is the coauthor of Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage and the author of Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865–1899. Great Campaigns of the Civil War series Anne J. Bailey and Brooks D. Simpson, series editors

perceptive analysis, and scrupulous attention to the geographical sweep of the story.”—Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of The Union War

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The Ordinary Spaceman From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut Clayton C. Ander son Foreword by Nevada Barr

A grounded view of zero gr avity What’s it like to travel at more than 850 mph, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts “take out the trash” on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space? The Ordinary Spaceman puts you in the flight suit of U.S. astronaut Clayton C. Anderson and takes you on the journey of this small-town boy from Nebraska who spent 167 days living and working on the International Space Station, including more than forty hours of space walks. Having applied to nasa fifteen times over fifteen years to become an astronaut before his ultimate selection, Anderson offers a unique perspective on his life as a veteran space flier, one characterized by humility and perseverance. “Learn about the excitement, the awe, the thrills, the

From the application process to launch aboard the space shuttle

suspense, and the experiences unique to the astro-

Atlantis, from serving as a family escort for the ill-fated Columbia

nauts in the shuttle program. Clay blends his personal

crew in 2003 to his own daily struggles—family separation, competi-

stories with his professional challenges. I am especially

tive battles to win coveted flight assignments, the stress of a highly

impressed with his persistence in applying for the

visible job, and the ever-present risk of having to make the ultimate

astronaut program: Clay’s experience will be motiva-

sacrifice—Anderson shares the full range of his experiences. With

tion for anyone to never give up!”—Eileen Collins,

a mix of levity and gravitas, Anderson gives an authentic view of the

retired nasa astronaut and usaf colonel and the first

highs and the lows, the triumphs and the tragedies of life as a nasa

female pilot and commander of a space shuttle

astronaut.

“Clay’s great example shows that a small-town kid can

Clayton C. Ander son retired in 2013 after a thirty-year career

achieve big dreams. I can’t think of anything bigger

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than being an astronaut. This book leaves nothing

currently lives in Houston with his wife and two children. Nevada

out of Clay’s journey to becoming one of the lucky and

B arr is an award-winning novelist and best-selling author of the

blessed few who get to experience God’s handiwork

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from the darkness of space. It’s funny, entertaining, and well worth the read.”—Dan Whitney (Larry the Cable Guy), stand-up comedian and actor

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Gil Hodges A Hall of Fame Life Mort Zachter The Bronze Star, Gold Gloves, and World Ser ies In descriptions of athletes, the word “hero” is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be of utmost importance throughout his life—on the diamond, as a marine in World War II, and in his personal and civic life. A New York City icon and, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the finest first basemen of all time, Gil Hodges (1924–72) managed the Washington Senators and later the New York Mets, leading the 1969 “Miracle Mets” to a World Series championship. A beloved baseball star, Hodges was also an ethical figure whose sturdy values both on and off the field once prompted a Brooklyn priest to tell his congregation to “go home, and say a prayer for Gil Hodges” in order to snap him out of the worst batting slump of his career. “Whether focusing on Hodges the Hoosier, the marine on Okinawa, the home run–hitting slugger, or the Brooklynite on Bedford Avenue, Mort Zachter has given us Gil, right down to the nub of his Marlboro. His mincing steps to the mound are remembered with the candles lit in church and the day Brooklyn’s heart skipped a beat with his. This one spikes high into your heart; the Hodges epic is a lesson in humanity for all seasons.”—Bob McGee, author of The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers “Zachter brings the same grace and precision to the page that Hodges brought to first base at Ebbets Field and with methodical research, insight, and pure affection

Mort Zachter examines Hodges’s playing and managing days, but perhaps more important, he unearths his true heroism by emphasizing the impact that Hodges’s humanity had on those around him on a daily basis. Hodges was a witty man with a dry sense of humor, and his dignity and humble sacrifice sometimes masked a temper that made Joe Torre refer to him as the “Quiet Inferno.” The honesty and integrity that made him so popular to so many remained his defining elements. Firsthand interviews of the many soldiers, friends, family, former teammates, players, and managers who knew and respected Hodges bring the totality of his life into full view, providing a rounded appreciation for this great man and ballplayer. Mort Zachter is a former tax attorney and adjunct tax professor at New York University. His first book, Dough: A Memoir, won the 2006 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Prize for nonfiction.

gives life to the man behind the astounding stats, proving once and for all that Hodges truly belongs in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Kudos to Mort Zachter for giving a beloved Brooklyn legend his due.”—Marty Markowitz, former Brooklyn Borough president

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The Colonel and Hug The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz Foreword by Marty Appel

The Yankees’ r ise from Second–Class Team to the Fir st Baseball Dynasty From their inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering team that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap “Til” Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely partnership of two figures began, one that set into motion the Yankees’ run as the dominant baseball franchise of the 1920s and the rest of the twentieth century, capturing six American League pennants with Huggins at the helm and four more during Ruppert’s lifetime. The Yankees’ success was driven by Ruppert’s executive style and enduring financial commitment, combined with Huggins’s philosophy of “Miller Huggins and Jacob Ruppert are two of baseball’s

continual improvement and personnel development. Though small of

all-time great characters, and they finally get the treatment

stature, the two men were nonetheless giants of the game with unassail-

they deserve in this highly entertaining, meticulously

able mutual trust and loyalty. The Colonel and Hug tells the story of how

researched book. You don’t have to be a Yankees fan

these two men transformed the Yankees. It also tells the larger story about

to enjoy this wonderful story from baseball’s golden

baseball primarily in the tumultuous period from 1918 to 1929—with the

age.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times best-selling

end of the Deadball Era and rise of the Lively Ball Era, a gambling scandal,

author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

and the collapse of baseball’s governing structure—and the significant role

“We now finally have the definitive story of Yankees owner Colonel Jacob Ruppert and his diminutive giant of a manager, Miller Huggins. . . . A ‘must–read’ for any fan of the

the Yankees played in it all. While Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig won many games for New York with their hitting, Ruppert and Huggins institutionalized winning for the Yankees.

history of this great game.”—Vince Gennaro, presi-

Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz are coauthors of 1921: The Yankees, the

dent of the Society for Baseball Research and professor

Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010),

of sports business management at Columbia University

winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal. Marty Appel is the former director of public relations for the New York Yankees and author of Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from before the Babe to after the Boss.

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Mashi The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer Robert K. Fitts Before Ichiro, There was Mashi In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan’s Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve his skills. To nearly everyone’s surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate for a left-handed reliever, Masanori was called up to join the big league club, becoming the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues. Featuring pinpoint control, a devastating curveball, and a friendly smile, Mashi became the Giants’ top lefty reliever and one of the team’s most popular players—as well as a national hero in Japan. Not surprisingly, the Giants offered him a contract for the 1965 season. Murakami signed, announcing that he would be thrilled to stay in San “Mashi Murakami’s impact can still be felt in baseball stadiums on both sides of the Pacific. He is a pioneer in every sense of the word—a true ambassador for the game of baseball.”—Allan H. “Bud” Selig “Rob Fitts has fabulously transported us back to Mashi’s family roots, childhood passion for the grand

Francisco. There was just one problem: the Nankai Hawks still owned his contract. The dispute over Murakami’s contract would ignite an international incident that ultimately prevented other Japanese players from joining the Majors for forty years. Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer is the story of an unlikely hero who gets caught up in an American and Japanese baseball dispute and is forced to choose between his dreams

game, and his trajectory to become the first Major

in the United States or his duty in Japan.

Leaguer from Japan. It is a discovery and rediscovery

Robert K. Fitts is the author of Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espio-

of culture, baseball dynamics/politics, and the man who transcended the sport as a gigantic touchstone ‘pioneer’ for future players from Asia.”—Kerry Yo Nakagawa, author of Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball

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nage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan (Nebraska, 2012), winner of the Society of American Baseball Research’s 2013 Seymour Medal for the best baseball book, and Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Baseball (Nebraska, 2008).

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In Pursuit of Pennants Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt Winning ways of baseball bosses The ’36 Yankees, the ’63 Dodgers, the ’75 Reds, the 2010 Giants—why do some baseball teams win while others don’t? General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. In Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past hundred-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams. Whether through scouting, integration, instruction, expansion, free agency, or modernizing their management structure, each winning team and each era had its own version of Moneyball, where front office decisions “A rare combination of a must-have reference book and

often made the difference. Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt show how

engaging storytelling by distinguished baseball historians

these teams succeeded and how they relied on talent both on the field and

Armour and Levitt.”—Vince Gennaro, president of

in the front office. While there is no recipe for guaranteed success in a

the Society for American Baseball Research and author

competitive, ever-changing environment, these teams demonstrate how

of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball

creatively thinking about one’s circumstances can often lead to a competi-

“This is an interesting, well–written, and well–researched examination of a behind-the-scenes look at how cer-

tive advantage. Mark L. Armour is the author of Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball, the edi-

tain winning clubs have been constructed by notable

tor of The Great Eight: The 1975 Cincinnati Reds, and a coeditor of Pitching,

baseball executives and the philosophies employed.”

Defense, and Three-Run Homers: The 1970 Baltimore Orioles, all available

—Tal Smith, longtime baseball executive “A great source of well–researched front office stories. . . . Armour and Levitt give an insider’s look at the teams’ efforts to innovate in this highly competitive industry.”—Sig Mejdal, director of Decision Sciences for the

from the University of Nebraska Press. Daniel R. Levitt is the author of Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty (Nebraska, 2008) and The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball: The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy. He is the coauthor (with Mark L. Armour) of Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way.

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Crack of the Bat A History of Baseball on the Radio James R. Walker Foreword by Pat Hughes

The singular relationship between baseball and r adio The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The medium gave fans around the country aural access to the first All–Star Game, Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech, and Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World.” Red Barber, Vin Scully, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Bob Uecker, and dozens of other beloved announcers helped cement the love affair between radio and the national pastime. Crack of the Bat takes readers from the 1920s to the present, examining the role of baseball in the development of the radio industry “Once upon a time you had to go to a ballpark to expe-

and the complex coevolution of their relationship. James R. Walker

rience a ball game. Today most of us enjoy baseball

provides a balanced, nuanced, and carefully documented look at radio

across several media, and almost always alone. A

and baseball over the past one hundred years, focusing on the interac-

game on radio—or via television or Internet or news

tion between team owners, local and national media, and government

account—is not as good as being part of the crowd

and business interests, with extensive coverage of the television and

at the ballpark, but what is? This book. James Walker

Internet ages, when baseball on the radio had to make critical adjust-

traces the history of baseball on the radio with un-

ments to stay viable.

matched love and erudition.” —John Thorn, official

Despite cable television’s ubiquity, live video streaming, and social

historian of Major League Baseball “A uniquely comprehensive and valuable account of baseball’s radio history, Crack of the Bat also reminds

media, radio remains an important medium through which fans engage with their teams. Amid these changes, the familiar sounds of the ball hitting the glove and the satisfying crack of the bat stay the same.

us just how compelling baseball broadcasts can be

James R. Walker is a professor emeritus and former chair of the

in the hands of its skilled announcers. Video may

Department of Communication at Saint Xavier University. He is the

have killed other radio celebrities, but today’s fans of

coauthor of Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television (Ne-

the national pastime can listen to more ‘radio stars’

braska, 2008) and The Broadcast Television Industry. Pat Hughes

than ever before.”—Pat Hughes, radio voice of

has been the radio voice of the Chicago Cubs since 1996.

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A Game of Their Own Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball Jennifer R ing Defying “No girls allowed” in Amer ica’s national pastime In 2010 twenty American women were selected to represent Team USA in the fourth Women’s Baseball World Cup in Caracas, Venezuela; most Americans, however, had no idea such a team even existed. A Game of Their Own chronicles the largely invisible history of women in baseball and offers an account of the 2010 Women’s World Cup tournament. Jennifer Ring includes oral histories of eleven members of the U.S. Women’s National Team, from the moment each player picked up a bat and ball as a young girl to her selection for Team USA. Each story is unique but they share common themes that will resonate with young female players and fans alike: facing skepticism and taunts from players and parents when taking the batter’s box or the pitcher’s mound, self-doubt, the unceasing pressure to switch to softball, and eventual acceptance by their baseball teammates as they prove themselves as ballplayers. These racially, culturally, and economically diverse players from across the country “A Game of Their Own reveals a thrilling and too-long-hid-

have ignored the message that their love of the national pastime is “wrong.”

den part of our collective sports history. We owe Jennifer

Their stories come alive as they recount their battles and most memorable

Ring a debt of gratitude for assembling this terrific text.

moments playing baseball—the joys of exceeding expectations and the

We owe a similar debt to the women in these pages who

pleasure of honing baseball skills and talent despite the lack of support.

fiercely and rebelliously love a sport that for too long has

With exclusive interviews with players, coaches, and administrators,

refused to return their affections. I don’t think a person

A Game of Their Own celebrates the U.S. Women’s National Team and

can say they have a comprehensive sports history library

the excellence of its remarkable players. In response to the jeer “No girls

without the inclusion of A Game of Their Own.”—Dave

allowed!” these are powerful stories of optimism, feistiness, and staying

Zir in, sports editor of The Nation

true to oneself.

“Jennifer Ring has written a book that fills a painful gap

Jennifer R ing is a professor of political science at the University of

in baseball history. It is so much more than the story

Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t

of the playing careers of a group of ballplayers. It is an

Play Baseball.

examination, through the words of the players themselves, of their trials and struggles to be accepted as ballplayers.”—Leslie Heaphy, associate professor of history at Kent State University at Stark and coeditor of Encyclopedia of Women in Baseball

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Unrivaled UConn, Tennessee, and the Twelve Years that Transcended Women’s Basketball Jeff Goldberg Foreword by Rebecca Lobo Afterword by Alysa Auriemma

A fierce r ivalry on and off the court For twelve years the women’s basketball rivalry between UConn and Tennessee was the most iconic matchup in women’s sports. Even now, twenty years since the annual series started, the competition between these two storied programs still provokes heated argument and bitter resentment. Led by Hall of Fame coaches Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt, UConn and Tennessee combined for nine national championships, with the UConn Huskies winning five—including four against the Tennessee Lady Vols. In all, UConn won thirteen of twenty-two matchups during the rivalry, and along the way, the two coaches—with “There were many memorable moments in the UConn– Tennessee rivalry. The author captures them all in exquisite detail plus many more. This is a must read for any women’s basketball fan, let alone those who follow the Huskies and Lady Vols.”—Mel Greenberg, Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (2007), former women’s basketball writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and creator of the weekly Associated Press women’s basketball poll

distinctive and brash personalities and a shared determination to rule their sport—clashed privately and publicly, generating enough heat to make women’s basketball relevant as never before in the national sports landscape. Now, eight years after the last game, Unrivaled reveals the on-court and behind-the-scenes story of this intensely personal rivalry between coaches, players, and the two most passionate fan bases women’s sports has ever known. Jeff Goldberg was the UConn women’s basketball writer for the Hartford Courant from 2001 to 2006 and is the author of Bird at the Buzzer: UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women’s Basketball Classic (Nebraska, 2011). Rebecca Lobo played for coach Auriemma at UConn and on three teams in the wnba. She is now a television basketball analyst for espn. Alysa Aur iemma is the daughter of Geno Auriemma.

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Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain Jonathan Fineberg Foreword by James B. Milliken

Where art and neuroscience meet Human beings have made images continuously for more than thirty thousand years. The oldest known cave paintings are six times older than the first forms of written language. Images help us organize our thoughts and represent them in our memory. We make images, Jonathan Fineberg argues, because we need them to aid not only in structuring our social and psychological self-conceptions but also in developing the circuitry of our brains. Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain is a broad investigation by one of the foremost scholars of modern art on the relationship between modern art and the structure of the mind and brain. Based on Fineberg’s Presidential Lectures at the University of Nebraska, his “It’s hard not to love Fineberg’s book, informed by fifty years of writing about art and intelligently engaging neuroscience and psychoanalysis to make a case for the fundamental importance of art. With elegant and concise prose the author crafts a particularly eloquent argument for the power of abstract art as an articulation of thought in form.”—Dorothy Kosinski,

book examines the relationship between artistic production, neuroscience, and the way we make meaning in form. Drawing on the art of Robert Motherwell, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Christo, Jean Dubuffet, and others, Fineberg helps us understand the visual unconscious, the limits of language, and the political impact of art. Throughout he works from the conviction that looking is a form of thinking that has a profound impact on the structure of the mind.

director of the Phillips Collection of modern art in

Jonathan Fineberg is Visiting Distinguished Professor at the

Washington dc

University of California, Irvine, and Edward William and Jane Marr

“Don’t be deceived by the brevity of this book. In it Jonathan Fineberg gives a thrilling and inspiring account of the fundamental problem in abstract art: the representation of visual forms. It should be must–reading

Gutgsell Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. He is a trustee emeritus of the Phillips Collection in Washington, where he was founding director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art. He is the author of several books, including Art since 1940: Strategies of Being.

for all who are interested in neuroesthetics and the elusive problem of form representation.”—Semir Zeki, professor of neuroesthetics at University College London, Fellow of the Royal Society, and author of Splendors and Miseries of the Brain

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A World Made for Money Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today Bret Wallach From the Taj Mahal to Freedom Tower A spirited and incisive survey of economic geography, A World Made for Money begins with the author stopped at a red light in Norman, Oklahoma. Observing the landscape of drugstores and banks, and for that matter the stoplight and roads themselves, Bret Wallach observes, “Everything I see has been built to make money” or, at the very least, to facilitate making money. This, he argues, is a global phenomenon that nonetheless has occurred only within the past hundred years or so. Although guidebooks and culture brokers often disparage these landscapes of commerce, Wallach—recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant”—argues that we would do well to pay them close attention. A World Made for Money provides a compelling, condensed tour of our world. From Silicon Valley to Sri Lanka, from post-Soviet Russia to post-apartheid South Africa, Wallach looks at how human beings “A compelling book, written by one of geography’s most

are buying, manufacturing, working, growing and shipping food, and

gifted writers.”—Kent Mathewson, professor of

accessing the natural resources to fuel it all. These essential facets

geography and anthropology at Louisiana State Uni-

of daily life, propelled by the profit motive, represent a transnational

versity and coeditor of Re-reading Cultural Geography

force shaping our surroundings and environment in ways that may

“In this lively and energetic book Bret Wallach uncovers the forces that are changing the face of the earth— from Guangdong Province to Youngstown, Ohio—in their restless search for money.”—David Wishart, author of The Last Days of the Rainbelt

not always be beautiful (or even healthy) but that are fundamental to understanding how the world works in the twenty-first century. Wallach examines the relationship between acquisitiveness and landscape, reveals surprising contradictions and nuances, and provides fresh perspective on politically charged topics such as sprawl, deindustrialization, and agribusiness. Bret Wallach is a professor of geography at the University of Oklahoma. A MacArthur Fellow, he is the author of several books, including Understanding the Cultural Landscape, Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development, and At Odds With Progress: Americans and Conservation.

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Mem o ir / W o m e n ’s S t u di es

Queen of the Fall A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses Sonja Livingston a girl comes of age in 1980s Amer ica Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston’s Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the legacies of those she has crossed paths with in life and in the larger culture, Livingston weaves together strands of memory with richly imagined vignettes to explore becoming a woman in late 1980s and early 1990s America. Along the way, the award-winning memoirist brings us face-toface with herself as an inner-city girl—trying to imagine a horizon beyond poverty, fearful of her fertility and the limiting arc of teenage pregnancy. Livingston looks at the lives of those she’s known: friends who’ve gotten themselves into “trouble” and disappeared never to be heard from again, girls who tell their school counselor small lies out of necessity and pain, and a mother whose fruitfulness seems, “Livingston writes with a fierce strength and intelligence that not only makes for compelling reading but an absolutely unforgettable voice.”—Kr isten Iver sen, author of Full Body Burden “This is a book that sheds light.”—Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota and The Cloister Walk “Queen of the Fall harvests the rich fruits of memory to explore the virtues and vulnerabilities of childhood, of the feminine body, and of lives filled with longing and aspiration. In this simply beautiful collection, Sonja

at times, biblical. Livingston interacts with figures such as Susan B. Anthony, the Virgin Mary, and Ally McBeal to mine the terrain of her own femininity, fertility, and longing. Queen of the Fall is a dazzling meditation on loss, possibility, and, ultimately, what it means to be human. Sonja Livingston is an assistant professor in the MFA Program at the University of Memphis. Her first book, Ghostbread, won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Prize for nonfiction. American Lives series Tobias Wolff, series editor

Livingston serves up gorgeous prose and unswerving honesty to map the awakening of an essayist’s heart.”—Dinty Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

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Get Me Through Tomorrow A Sister’s Memoir of Brain Injury and Revival Mojie Cr igler My brother’s keeper On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-yearold guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the bleed. But a string of complications—meningitis, seizures, coma—left him immobile and unresponsive, with his doctors saying nothing more could be done. Meanwhile, Jason’s medical insurance quickly hit its lifetime cap, meaning that his policy would no longer pay for his care. Despite such overwhelming circumstances, however, Jason’s parents, sister, and pregnant wife were sure that he was still there, trapped inside his incapacitated body but able to fight his way back. They mounted an intense course of rehabilitation for him even “A profoundly moving story about the unbreakable bond between siblings, and a beautifully written testament to the tremendous healing power of love.”—Mir a Bartók, author of The Memory Palace

as they fought a healthcare system that was geared toward defeat. In intimate and unflinching prose, Mojie Crigler chronicles her brother’s harrowing decline and miraculous recovery. But Get Me Through Tomorrow is much more than the story of a medical victory amid a broken healthcare system. It is about a sister’s metamorphosis

“With candor and a sister’s love, Mojie Crigler has

from fearful naïf to assertive caregiver. It is about families bridging

written a lyrical account of her brother’s brain injury

heartache and divorce to find hope. It is about the deep and enduring

and their family’s heroic efforts to find a path to re-

relationship between siblings—and the love that transforms them.

covery. Get Me Through Tomorrow should be read by all who aspire to make the care of these patients more humane and effective.” —Joseph J. Fins, md, macp, Weill Cornell Medical College, and author of Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness

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F ictio n / f r e n c h / h a i t i

Winner of the French Voices Award

Savage Seasons Kettly Mar s Translated by Jeanine Herman Afterword by Madison Smartt Bell

Histor ical fiction about daily life under Haitian dictator ship Port-au-Prince, the 1960s: Duvalier and his militia are systematically eliminating opponents to the regime. Daniel Leroy, editor in chief of the opposition newspaper, has just been arrested. To find out what has become of him, his wife, Nirvah, visits Raoul Vincent, secretary of state at the Office of Defense and Public Safety. This fearsome head of the secret police is instantly smitten, and to ensure her husband’s survival and protect her family, Nirvah submits to the official’s desires. Becoming the mistress of a strongman in the regime is not without its benefits. Still, she has to endure her neighbors’ inquisitive looks and the silent questions of her own children. Kettly Mars’s Savage Seasons describes a pivotal and painful period Pr aise for the or iginal French edition: “The principal merit of Kettly Mars’s novel Savage Seasons is in making us feel a dictatorship’s intimate grip on its subjects. . . . Savage Seasons is a novel about the widespread abandonment of freedom by a society that has become macoute, where dictatorship leads to collective, accepted madness.”—Christian Tortel, Le Monde

in Haitian history by weaving together two stories: the personal story of Nirvah and her family and the universal story of Duvalier’s dictatorial regime and its abuses. Kettly Mar s was born in 1958 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she resides today. She is the author of three novels and two story collections. Jeanine Herman is a translator for Artforum magazine and has translated the works of numerous authors, most recently Julia Kristeva’s Hatred and Forgiveness, and Eric Laurrent’s Do Not Touch. Herman is a chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters.

“A fine feminist and political novel that plunges into a

Madison Smartt Bell is a professor of English at Goucher College

country where ‘nobody dies a natural death.’ As she

and is known for his trilogy of novels about the Haitian Revolution.

reveals the mechanisms of this totalitarian regime, Kettly Mars confirms the energy of Haitian literature, which includes, besides Dany Laferrière or Lyonel Trouillot, remarkable women as well.”—Le Nouvel Observateur

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Winner of the French Voices Award

Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor Luc Lang Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Devilish stor ies from a pr ize-winning contempor ary French wr iter In sixteen ferocious short stories, French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence. Lang’s curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life with a swift, unflinching hand and examines it with a sharp, analytic eye. Skinning quotidian moments to bare, raw impulses, confusions, and the agonies underneath, the stories in Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor show the mundane grind of the everyday forces that are fueled by cruel calculation and amoral happenstance and shot through with bizarre surprise. The results are at once coldly comic and powerfully Pr aise for the or iginal French edition: “An extraordinary fabulist of subterranean aggression.”—Chr istine Ferniot, Télérama “Like Francis Bacon, Luc Lang sets out ‘to paint not the horror but the scream.’”—Jean-Claude Lebrun, L’Humanité

tragic. Interpreting human interactions as a series of precise jabs and desperate flailings, Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor tells truths about the darker sides of our potential and our well-meaning urges dimmed by chance. Luc Lang is an award-winning French author of many works, including Voyage sur la ligne d’horizon; Furies; and Les Indiens. He has also published the startling autobiographical work 11 septembre mon amour.

“[Luc Lang] works with enormous talent on ellipsis and

He teaches aesthetics at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts

on the unsaid. . . . His electrifying writing presents

de Paris et Cergy. Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated noir

events in all the banality of their ugliness or sadness:

or noirish fiction by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Thierry Jonquet, and,

the firing of a good worker injured on the job, the foiled

with Alyson Waters, Yasmina Khadra’s Cousin K (Nebraska, 2013). Born

attempts of a superior to wrest sexual favors from a

in Manchester, England, he is a longtime resident of New York City.

subordinate, the failing memory of an old man. . . . Lang shows the cruelty of the world without ever pronouncing the word ‘cruelty.’”—Les Inrockuptibles

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F ictio n / S c i e n c e F i c t i o n / a d v en t ure / fren c h

Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars Gustave Le Rouge Translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson Introduction by William Ambler

Unabr idged, unedited, undead Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet while trying to return to his fiancée on earth. Through his travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly creatures that might be closer to earthly humans than we would care to believe. Originally published in French as two separate volumes, translated “The best novel of one of the most important SF writers in France at the dawn of the twentieth century. Gustave Le Rouge was one of the first to portray the overlap between scientific technology and psychic phenom-

as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.

ena to explore a host of new cognitive, aesthetic, and

Gustave Le Rouge (1867–1938) was a French writer of early science

speculative frontiers. In so doing, he helped to launch

fiction. His masterpiece vampire novels charted an innovative course

a new literary genre.”—Arthur Evans, author of

for early science fiction. David Beus is an assistant professor of

Jules Verne Rediscovered and managing editor of Sci-

international cultural studies at Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i.

ence Fiction Studies

He translated, with Brian Evenson, Christian Gailly’s novel Red Haze (Nebraska, 2005). Br ian Evenson is the Royce Professor of Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University. He is the author of more than a dozen novels and translations, including Immobility, Windeye, and Altmann’s Tongue (Nebraska, 2002). william ambler lives and writes in Rhode Island. His work can be found at the Huffington Post and Word and Film. Bison Frontiers of Imagination series

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The Self-Propelled Island Jules Verne Translated by Marie-Thérèse Noiset Introduction by Volker Dehs

Jules Verne’s satire of a mater ialist par adise The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne’s original story featuring a famous French string quartet that is abducted by an American businessman and taken to Standard Island to perform for its millionaire inhabitants. The quartet soon discovers that Standard Island is not an island at all, but an immense, futuristic ship possessing all the features of an idyllic haven. Equipped with the most opulent amenities, Standard Island travels the Pacific Ocean, traversing the south archipelagos and stopping at many “sister” islands for the pleasure of its well-heeled inhabitants. These inhabitants soon meet with the danger, in its various forms, that is inherent in ocean travel. Meanwhile, the French quartet is witness to the rivalry that exists between the two most powerful families “We’re in the midst of a marvelous Verne renaissance. . . . The Self-Propelled Island is a novel of great appeal, especially to Americans: by sending northern and southern aristocrats to sea in literally the same boat, it not only features one of Verne’s fabulous futuristic vehicles but also unfolds one of his shrewdest, witti-

onboard, a rivalry that keeps the future of the island balancing on the edge of a knife. First published in English in 1896, the novel was originally censored in translation. Dozens of pages were cut from the story because English translators felt they were too critical of Americans as well as the British. Here, for the first time, readers have the pleasure of reading

est political satires.”—Freder ick Paul Walter,

The Self-Propelled Island as Verne intended it.

Verne translator and former vice president of the North

Jules Verne (1828–1905), the world’s most translated author, wrote

American Jules Verne Society

numerous classics of adventure and science fiction, including The Meteor Hunt, Light at the End of the World, The Golden Volcano, and Magellania, which are all available from the University of Nebraska Press. Mar ie-Thérèse Noiset is a professor emerita of French and translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has also translated Caught in the Storm by Seydou Badian. Volker Dehs is a German literary critic and leading Jules Verne specialist and biographer. Bison Frontiers of Imagination series

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Poe try / Af r i c a / W o m e n’s St udi es

The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony Ladan Osman Foreword by Kwame Dawes

women navigating gender roles Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The KitchenDweller’s Testimony is based on a Somali insult: jiko muufo. Translated literally as “kitchen flatbread,” the insult criticizes those women who love domestic work so much that they happily watch bread rise. This collection of poems examines the varied ways women navigate gender roles, while examining praise for success within roles where imagination about female ability is limited. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another. Ladan Osman’s work has appeared in American Life in Poetry, Artful Dodge, Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, rhino, and Vinyl Poetry. Her chapbook, Ordinary Heaven, appears in Seven New Generation “I have rarely encountered a young poet whose work was so completely its own thing, was so little influenced by what trend might be elbowing itself forward on the writing campuses. Osman is a worldly and

African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set. She lives in Chicago. African Poetry Book series Kwame Dawes, series editor

acutely sensitive writer who knows how to reach right through the sequined veil of fashion and put her hand squarely on the reader’s heart, with frank and candid expression, with unaffected wonder.”—from Ted Kooser’s preface to Ladan Osman’s chapbook, Ordinary Heaven “[Ladan Osman] writes out of a passion for language, out of a compelling pleasure and challenge in the

Excerpt from Ladan Osman’s title poem: If I’m lying may a chaos carry me into an unknown land without rain or tree to shelter me from desertion. May my mouth move westwards and never return. May I die and find myself living in a meek woman’s mouth: my territory: tip of tongue

potential of the voice to humanize us, or perhaps

to fleshy palate, from inner cheek to inner cheek.

even better, to affirm our humanity. Osman is a war-

I’ll know her humming, how it strains her throat

rior poet.”—from the foreword by Kwame Dawes

because she refuses to sing even a quiet note, even alone. How will I ever communicate my feeling to her?

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B ib l e S t u di e s / Je w i s h S t udi es

The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of Songs The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New jps Translation Commentary by Michael Fishbane New addition to the lauded JPS Bible Commentary ser ies Song of Songs is a wondrous collection of love lyrics nestled in the heart of the Hebrew Bible—songs of passion and praise between a young maiden and her beloved. It is religious lyric par excellence. But what is its true meaning? Is it an expression of human love and passion, pure and simple? A celebration of the covenant between God and Israel? Or something else? “Michael Fishbane, one of the most penetrating Bible

The latest volume in the Jewish Publication Society’s highly acclaimed

scholars of our time, has surpassed himself in this mag-

Bible Commentary series, Song of Songs provides a line-by-line commentary

nificent study of The Song of Songs, combining scholarly

of the original Hebrew Bible text, complete with vocalization and cantillation

erudition, poetic sensibility, theological depth, and an

marks, alongside the JPS English translation. Unique to this volume are four

unmatched mastery of the history of interpretation of this

layers of commentary: the traditional PaRDeS: peshat (literal meaning), derash

most difficult yet lyrical testimony of love. A masterpiece

(midrashic and religious-traditional sense), remez (allegorical level), and sod

of scholarship!”—R a bbi Lord Jonathan Sacks,

(mystical and spiritual intimations). Michael Fishbane skillfully draws from

emeritus chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congrega-

them all to reveal the extraordinary range of interpretations and ideas perceived

tions of the British Commonwealth

in this extraordinary biblical book. A comprehensive introduction, extensive

“Fishbane’s commentary on ‘the great songbook of the Jewish soul’ is a tour de force. There is nothing like it for opening up the inner depths of the biblical dialogue of love.”—Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor emeritus, Divinity School, University of Chicago

endnotes, a full bibliography (traditional and modern), and additional explanatory materials are included to enhance the reader’s appreciation of the work. This original, comprehensive commentary on the Song of Songs interprets historical, critical, and traditional sources drawn from the ancient Near East, the entire spectrum of Jewish sources and commentaries, and modern critical studies. Michael Fishb ane is the Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot (2002); the National Jewish Book Award–winning Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel; and The Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism. Fishbane received a Lifetime Achievement Award for scholarship from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture and is a fellow of the American

JPS Bible Commentary series

Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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The Commentators’ Bible: Deuteronomy The Rubin jps Miqra’ot Gedolot Edited, tr anslated, and annotated by Michael Car asik Fourth book in the acclaimed Miqr a’ot Gedolot ser ies First published five hundred years ago as the “Rabbinic Bible,” the biblical commentaries known as Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this fourth volume of the acclaimed English edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers. “Anyone who is unfamiliar with medieval commentary, or who is unable to study the commentators in the original Hebrew, will find The Commentators’ Bible a worthy addition to their book shelves. Carasik has done a real service making this material available.” —The Reporter

Each page of this volume contains several verses from the book of Deuteronomy, surrounded by both the 1917 and the 1985 JPS translations and by new contemporary English translations of the major commentators. This edition also includes introductory material, a glossary of terms, a list of names used in the text, notes on source texts, essays on special topics, and resources for further study. Michael Car asik teaches biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania and presents the weekly Torah Talk podcast. He is the compiler and translator of the Rubin jps Miqra’ot Gedolot Commentators’ Bible series, and author of Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel and The Bible’s Many Voices (The Jewish Publication Society, 2014).

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J e w is h S t u di e s / S c i e n c e / Bi o et h i c s

Jews and Genes The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought Edited by Elliot N. Dorff and Laur ie Zoloth Foreword by Mark S. Frankel

Science and ethics of the new genetics Well aware of Jews having once been the victims of Nazi eugenics policies, many Jews today have an ambivalent attitude toward new genetics and are understandably wary of genetic forms of identity and intervention. At the same time, the Jewish tradition is strongly committed to medical research designed to prevent or cure diseases. Jews and Genes explores this tension against the backdrop of various important developments in genetics and bioethics—new advances in stem cell research; genetic mapping, identity, testing, and intervention; and the role of religion and ethics in shaping public policy. Jews and Genes brings together leaders in their fields, from all walks “Dorff and Zoloth have assembled contributions that shed light on Jews, biology, and genes that are engagingly revelatory for Jew and non-Jew alike.”—Arthur

of Judaism, to explore these most timely and intriguing topics—the intricacies of the genetic code and the wonders of life, along with cutting-edge science and the ethical issues it raises.

L. Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty

Elliot N. Dorff is rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished

Professor of Bioethics and director of the Division

Service Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University in

of Medical Ethics at nyu Langone Medical Center

Los Angeles and past chair of the Society of Jewish Ethics. He is the

“A brilliant combination of science and philosophy that deepens one’s awe for the genetics of life and demonstrates how insights from Jewish thought can help address the vexing questions that arise because of scientists’ new capabilities to test for genes and alter them in the effort to prevent or cure disease.”—Neil S. Wenger, director of the ucla Health Ethics Center

author or editor of numerous award-winning books, including Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics (The Jewish Publication Society, 1998). Laur ie Zoloth is a professor of religious studies and on the Jewish studies faculty at Weinberg College and is a professor of medical humanities and on the bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, both at Northwestern University. She is the author or editor of six books, including The Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice. Mark S. Fr ankel is director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics Elliot N. Dorff $30.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0774-3

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R el igio n / Je w i sh S t u di es

The Heart of the Matter Studies in Jewish Mysticism and Theology Arthur Green Seeking the Jewish spir it Judaism, like all the great religions, has a strand within it that sees inward devotion, the opening of the human heart to God’s presence, to be the purpose of its entire edifice of praxis, liturgy, and way of life. This voice is not always easy to hear in a tradition where so much attention is devoted to the how rather than the why of religious living. The devotional claim, certainly a key part of Judaism’s biblical heritage, has reasserted itself in the teachings of individual mystics and in the emergence of religious movements over the long course of Jewish history. This volume represents Arthur Green’s own quest for such a Judaism—as a rabbi, as a scholar, and as a contemporary seeker. This collection of essays brings together Green’s scholarly writings, centered on the history of early Hasidism, and his highly personal approach to a rebirth of Jewish spirituality in our own day. In choosing to present them in this way he asserts a claim that they are all of “Rabbi Green has been the foremost scholar of Ha-

a piece. They represent one man’s attempt to wade through history

sidism in the world and one of the great leaders of

and text, language and symbol, and an array of voices both past and

spiritual renewal in Jewish life for more than four

present, while always focusing on the essential question: “What does

decades. In The Heart of the Matter he displays the

it mean to be a religious human being, and what does Judaism teach

brilliance and dazzling breadth of his scholarship

us about it?” This he considers to be the heart of the matter.

and lays bare the depths of his heart and soul as they have animated him throughout his lifetime. Both his exceptional knowledge and his fiery passions as revealed in these essays provide great scholarly and personal insights for the reader. This is a book to savor!”—R abbi David Ellenson, chancellor of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion

Arthur Green is Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion and rector of the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College. Recognized as one of the world’s preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality, he is also a prolific author. His most recent books are Radical Judaism; Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid’s Table; and Judaism’s Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers.

“Arthur Green never loses sight of the essence, the heart that beats within. . . . This work is a river of living waters connecting heart, mind, and spirit, flowing through past, present, and future.”—Melila Hellner-Eshed, professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem JPS Scholar of Distinction Book series

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The Language of Truth: The Torah Commentary of the Sefat Emet Judah A. Alter Translated by Arthur Green $34.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-0946-4

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R el igio n / Je w i sh S t u di es / Ph i l o s o ph y

Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism Secrets of "The Guide for the Perplexed" Micah Goodman Unpacking the most fundamental questions about life and God A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published in Israel on the preeminent medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides. The works of Maimonides, particularly The Guide for the Perplexed, are reckoned among the fundamental texts that influenced all subsequent Jewish philosophy and yet also proved to be highly influential in Christian and Islamic thought. Spanning subjects ranging from God, prophecy, miracles, revela“Micah Goodman’s inspiring book is an important and

tion, and evil to politics, messianism, reason in religion, and the

profound contribution to the comprehension of the

therapeutic role of doubt, Maimonides and the Book That Changed

greatest, most complex work in the history of Jewish

Judaism elucidates the complex ideas of the Guide in remarkably clear

philosophy.”—Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor

and engaging prose.

of Law at New York University and John and Golda

Drawing on his own experience as a central figure in the current

Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Hebrew

Israeli renaissance of Jewish culture and spirituality, Micah Goodman

University of Jerusalem

brings Maimonides’s masterwork into dialogue with the intellectual

“Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism presents an exciting and relevant possibility: freeing the mind from the habits of religious discourse and returning the concept of God to the intellectual’s thoughts.”—Ruth Calderon, author of A Bride for One Night, member of the Israeli Knesset, and founder of Alma: Home for Hebrew Culture

and spiritual worlds of twenty-first-century readers. Goodman contends that in Maimonides’s view, the Torah’s purpose is not to bring clarity about God but rather to make us realize that we do not understand God at all; not to resolve inscrutable religious issues but to give us insight into the true nature and purpose of our lives. Micah Goodman is a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and the director of the Israeli Midrasha Ein Prat. A prominent public intellectual, he is the author of two Israeli best sellers in Hebrew on canonical Jewish texts.

May

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A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales Ruth Calderon Translated by Ilana Kurshan $21.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-1209-9

The Gods Are Broken!: The Hidden Legacy of Abraham R abbi Jeffrey K. Salkin $19.95 paperback • 978-0-8276-0931-0

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The Bible on Location Off the Beaten Path in Ancient and Modern Israel Julie Baretz A Biblical tr avel guide to Isr ael In this innovative guidebook, Julie Baretz takes readers to twentyone off-the-beaten-path locations in Israel where Bible stories are said to have happened. At each site, she sets the scene by relating the historical context of the event, then follows with the biblical text itself and her own lively commentary. Captivating and complex Bible characters bring the locations to life as they face social, ethical, and spiritual dilemmas not unlike our own today. Baretz’s narratives draw on history, archaeology, academic scholarship, and rabbinic literature for interpretations that enhance the meaning of the biblical events. Each story is told in the voice of Baretz as the tour guide: knowledgeable yet informal and friendly. Together these chapters and locations trace the chronology and narrative arc of the historical books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Ezra, and Nehemiah, beginning with the Israelites’ arrival in the land of Israel (following the exodus from Egypt “Julie Baretz’s impressive knowledge of history and

and the forty years of wandering) and continuing over more than six

Bible combined with her awesome aesthetic perspec-

hundred years, until the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon to

tive and credible imagination transform our travels

their homeland.

into what feels like a magic carpet ride.”—R a bbi

Baretz’s descriptions are accompanied by colorful maps and pho-

Norman M. Cohen “I have had the privilege of having Julie Baretz as our guide in Israel numerous times. She is an expert storyteller, opening up imaginations and making the

tographs that put actual and armchair visitors in the middle of the action. Each location reveals a new episode in the biblical narrative and provides inspiration and commentary that will enhance visits to the various sites.

listener believe he or she is part of the history of each

Julie Baretz received her license from the Israel Government Tour

site.”—Pastor R andy Myer s

Guides training program in 1987. Since then, she has guided thousands of Jewish and Christian visitors to sites all around the country.

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Bottom: Tel Megiddo. Courtesy of Julie Baretz.

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Exiles in Sepharad The Jewish Millennium in Spain Jeffrey Gor sky The glory and the terror of Spanish Jewry The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion. Twenty percent of Jews today are descended from Sephardic Jews, who created significant works in religion, literature, science, and philosophy. They flourished under both Muslim and Christian rule, enjoying prosperity and power unsurpassed in Europe. Their cultural contributions include important poets, the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides, and Moses de Leon, author of the Zohar, the core text of the Kabbalah. But these Jews also endured considerable hardships. Fundamentalist Islamic tribes drove them from Muslim to Christian Spain. In 1391 “A personal and accessible narrative that tells a remark-

thousands were killed and more than a third were forced to convert by

able story yet is grounded in solid scholarship.”—

anti-Jewish rioters. A century later the Spanish Inquisition began, ac-

R abbi Daniel Bouskila, Sephardic Educational

cusing thousands of these converts of heresy. By the end of the fifteenth

Center

century, Jews had been expelled from Spain and forcibly converted

“With a broad scope that will appeal to a wide readership, this work will be useful as a comprehensive resource on the history of the Spanish Jews.”—Gregory B.

community in Europe ceased to exist in the Iberian Peninsula.

Kaplan, author of Marginal Voices: Studies in Converso

Jeffrey Gor sky is a lawyer and diplomat at the U.S. Department

Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain

of State. He is a nationally recognized expert in immigration law, a

“A lucid, readable summary . . . that brings the key personalities to life and explores the intricate relationship between religious hatred, politics, and economics.”—R abbi Hayyim Angel, National Scholar at the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals and professor of Bible at Yeshiva University

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J e w is h S t u di e s / W o r ld Wa r II / Ho l o c a us t

J ewish Stud ies / Women’s Stud ies

How Was It Possible?

Jewish Voices in Feminism

A Holocaust Reader

Transnational Perspectives

Edited by Peter Hayes

Nelly Las

Foreword by Harvey Schulweis

Translated by Ruth Morris

As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holo-

Feminist theories maintain that gender issues are a ubiquitous component of our lives, intersecting with every

caust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students with a comprehensive resource about the Nazi persecution of Jews. Deliberately resisting the reflexive urge to dismiss the topic as too horrible to be understood intellectually or emotionally, the anthology sets out to provide answers to questions that may otherwise defy comprehension. Prepared in cooperation with the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, this anthology includes contributions from such luminaries as Jean Ancel, Saul Friedlander, Tony Judt, Alan Kraut, Primo Levi, Robert Proctor, Richard Rhodes, Timothy Snyder, and Susan Zuccotti. Taken together, the selections of this anthology make the ineffable fathomable and demystify the barbarism underlying the tragedy, inviting readers to learn precisely how the Holocaust was, in fact, possible. Peter Hayes is a professor of history and Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich and Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era. Harvey Schulweis is chairman of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.

aspect of the society in which we live and interact. Because the feminist debate has included questions important to Jewish discourse, including religion, antisemitism, Zionism, and the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, it is not surprising that such matters should also be of concern to Jewish women, many of whom have played an active role in feminist movements. In Jewish Voices in Feminism, Nelly Las navigates primarily among three cultures (French, Anglo-American, and Israeli) to present a philosophical and historical analysis of the intersection between contemporary Jewish dilemmas and feminism and its impact on Jewish thinking. She also explains the ambivalent attitude of feminist activists regarding current developments in the Jewish world. This book, based on extensive documentation that includes written and oral testimonies, provides a wide variety of gender-centered approaches to ethics, solidarity, identity, and memory. Nelly Las is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Helen Gartner Hammer Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her interests include comparative Jewish Diasporas in cross-cultural and gender perspectives. She is the author of Jewish Women in a Changing World: A History of the International Council of Jewish Women, originally published in French and available in English. Ruth Morr is is a freelance translator and researcher.

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A m er ica n H i st o r y / L at i n Amer i c a / Mexi c o / Afr i c a n Amer ican Stud ies

The Southern Exodus to Mexico Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War Todd W. Wahlstrom After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders with former slaves providing the bulk of the labor force. By developing these new centers of agricultural production and commercial exchange, the Mexican government hoped to open up new markets and, by extending the few already-existing railroads in the region, also spur further development. The Southern Exodus to Mexico considers the experiences of both white southern elites and common white and black southern farmers and laborers who moved to Mexico during this period. Todd W. “The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an intervention in borderlands history, in black-white-Indian history, in migration history, in economic history, and in the history of national, class, and racial identities. It is also that rare and wonderful kind of historical writing: a tale of roads not taken, of dreams not quite fulfilled. Even though most of the migrants did not achieve all that they had hoped, there is much for us to learn from their ventures. Wahlstrom shows us a dynamic borderland and the peoples who traversed it.”—Paul

Wahlstrom examines in particular how the endemic warfare, raids, and violence along the borderlands of Texas and Coahuila affected the colonization effort. Ultimately, Native groups such as the Comanches, Kiowas, Apaches, and Kickapoos, along with local Mexicans, prevented southern colonies from taking hold in the region, where local tradition and careful balances of power negotiated over centuries held more sway than large nationalistic or economic forces. This study of the transcultural tensions and conflicts in this region provides new perspectives for the historical assessment of this period of Mexican and American history.

Spickard, author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration,

Todd W. Wahlstrom is a visiting assistant professor of history in

Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

Seaver College at Pepperdine University. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies series Paul Spickard and Pekka Hämäläinen, series editors

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The Heart in the Glass Jar Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico William E. French The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man’s literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters—as both symbols and material objects—of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s. William E. French’s innovative study of courtship practice and family formation examines love letters of everyday folk within the framework of literacy studies and explores how love letters functioned culturally and legally. French begins by situating love letters in the context of the legal system, which protected the moral order of families and communities and also perpetuated the gender order—the foundation of power structures in Mexican society. He then examines reading and writing practices in the communities that the letters came from: mining camps, villages, small towns, and the “passionate public sphere” that served as the wider social context for the love letters and crimes “Surprising, intriguing, and sophisticated. . . . This is masterful scholarship with an undercurrent of playfulness.”—William H. Beezley, coeditor of The Oxford History of Mexico “This is a deeply learned book, the mature work of a widely read, accomplished, and innovative historian.”—Ann S. Blum, author of Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884–1943

of passion. Finally, French considers “sentimental anatomy,” the eyes, hearts, souls, and wills of novios (men and women in courting relationships), that the letters gave voice to and helped bring into being. In the tradition of Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis’s The Return of Martin Guerre, French connects intimate lives to the broader cultural moment, providing a rich and complex cultural history from the intersection of love and law. William E. French is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico and the coeditor of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence. The Mexican Experience series William H. Beezley, series editor

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L atin A m e r i c a n H i st o r y / Mexi c o / Mus i c

The Inevitable Bandstand The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound Charles V. Heath In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, bme), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state. In The Inevitable Bandstand, Charles V. Heath examines the BME’s role as a part of popular political culture that the state of Oaxaca has deployed in an attempt to bring unity and order to its domain. The BME has always served multiple functions: it arose from musical groups that accompanied military forces as they trained and fought; today it performs at village patron saint days and at Mexico’s patriotic celebrations, propagating religions both sacred and civic; it offers education in the ways of liberal democracy to its population, once largely illiterate; and finally, it provides respite from the burdens of life by performing at strictly diversionary functions such as serenades and Sunday matinees. “An important contribution to historical studies, complementing an important body of work on our understanding of Oaxaca, and adding a crucial piece to the puzzle.”—Mark Br ill, assistant professor of musicology and world music at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of Music of Latin America and the Caribbean

In each of these government-sanctioned roles, the BME serves to unify, educate, and entertain the diverse and fragmented elements within the state of Oaxaca, thereby mirroring the historical trajectory of the state of Oaxaca and the nation of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic and Spanish colonial eras to the nascent Mexican republic, from a militarized and fractured young nation to a consolidated postrevolutionary socialist state, and from a predominantly Catholic entity to an ostensibly secular one. Charles V. Heath is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. The Mexican Experience series William H. Beezley, series editor

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L atin A m e r i c a n H i s t o r y / Mexi c o / Rel i g i o n

The Lawyer of the Church Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma

Latin Amer ican History / Mexico / Culture Stud ies

Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Debor ah Toner

Pablo Mijangos y González

Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels,

Mexico’s Reforma, the midnineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy’s response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía (1810–68), one of the most influential yet least-known figures of the period. By analyzing how Munguía responded to changing political and intellectual scenarios in defense of the clergy’s legal prerogatives and social role, Pablo Mijangos y González argues that the Catholic Church opposed the liberal revolution not because of its supposed attachment to a bygone past but rather because of its efforts to supersede colonial tradition and refashion itself within a liberal yet confessional state. With an eye on the international influences and dimensions of the Mexican church-state conflict, The Lawyer of the Church also explores how Mexican bishops gradually tightened their relationship with the Holy See and simultaneously managed to incorporate the papacy into their local affairs, thus paving the way for the eventual “Romanization” of Mexican Catholicism during the later decades of the century. Pablo Mijangos y González is an assistant professor of history at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (cide) in Mexico City. He is the author of a book on Mexico’s contemporary legal historiography, published in Spain, and is coeditor of a volume on the origins and transformations of the Spanish American constitutional tradition, published in Mexico. The Mexican Experience series William H. Beezley, series editor June 400 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 illustrations, 1 table $45.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-5486-2 $56.50 Canadian/£28.99 UK ebook available

newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910. Examining the historical importance of drinking as both an important feature of Mexican social life and a persistent source of concern for Mexican intellectuals and politicians, Deborah Toner’s Alcohol and Nationhood in NineteenthCentury Mexico offers surprising insights into how the nation was constructed and deconstructed in the nineteenth century. Although Mexican intellectuals did indeed condemn the physically and morally debilitating aspects of excessive alcohol consumption and worried that particularly Mexican drinks and drinking places were preventing Mexico’s progress as a nation, they also identified more culturally valuable aspects of Mexican drinking cultures that ought to be celebrated as part of an “authentic” Mexican national culture. The intertwined literary and historical analysis in this study illustrates how wide-ranging the connections were between ideas about drinking, poverty, crime, insanity, citizenship, patriotism, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in the nineteenth century, and the book makes timely and important contributions to the fields of Latin American literature, alcohol studies, and the social and cultural history of nation-building. Debor ah Toner is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Leicester and a leading convener of the Warwick Drinking Studies Network. The Mexican Experience series William H. Beezley, series editor June 408 pp. • 6 x 9 $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-7432-7 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK $70.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-6974-3 $87.50 Canadian/£46.00 UK ebook available Univer sity of Nebr aska Press 800-848-6224

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Gendering Radicalism Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California Beth Slutsky In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris Alexander, a mixed-race woman, enlisted with the Los Angeles branch of the Communist Party, determined to promote class equality. In Gendering Radicalism, Beth Slutsky examines how American leftist radicalism was experienced through the lives of these three women who led the California branches of the Communist Party from its founding in 1919 to its near dissolution in 1992. Separately, each woman represents a generation of the membership and activism of the party. Collectively, Slutsky argues, their individual histories tell “The three remarkable women in this book wrestled

the story of one of the most infamous organizations this country has

with some of the most compelling questions in the

ever known and in a broader sense represent the story of all women

history of American reform movements. What was

who have devoted their lives to radicalism in America. Slutsky con-

the best way to achieve social justice? Was economic

siders how gender politics, California’s political climate, coalitions

inequality more important than sexism or racism?

with other activist groups and local communities, and generational

Slutsky’s original, nuanced book explains how these

dynamics created a grassroots Communist movement distinct from

women discovered uniquely American answers to

the Communist parties in the Soviet Union and Europe. An ambitious

these questions.”—Kathy Olmsted, author of

comparative study, Gendering Radicalism demonstrates the continuity

Real Enemies, Red Spy Queen, and Challenging the

and changes of the party both within and among three generations

Secret Government

of its female leaders’ lives.

“[Gendering Radicalism] combines the study of twenti-

Beth Slutsky is an associate instructor of history at the University

eth-century women, California, and ‘radical’ politics

of California, Davis, and a program coordinator for the California

in a way that has not been done before. Very well writ-

History–Social Science Project.

ten and informative.”—Kathleen Cairns, author of Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America

Women in the West series Sarah J. Deutsch, Margaret D. Jacobs, Charlene L. Porsild, Vicki L. Ruiz, and Elliott West, series editors

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Mil itary H i s t o r y / C i v i l Wa r

Military History / Civil War / Ed ucation

Civil War Washington

A Scientific Way of War

History, Place, and Digital Scholarship

Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought

Edited by Susan C. Lawrence

Ian C. Hope While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington dc of the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the nation’s capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years. Among the many topics covered in the volume is the federal government’s experiment in compensated emancipation, which went into effect when all of the capital’s slaves were freed in April 1862. Another essay explores the city’s place as a major center of military hospitals, patients, and medical administration. Other contributors reflect on literature and the war, particularly on the poetry published in hospital newspapers and Walt Whitman’s formative experiences with the city and its wounded. The digital project associated with this book offers a virtual examination of the nation’s capital from multiple perspectives. Through a collection of datasets, visual works, texts, and maps, the digital project offers a case study of the social, political, cultural, and scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War. The book also provides insights into the complex and ever-shifting nature of ongoing digital projects, while encouraging others to develop their own interpretations and participate in the larger endeavor of digital history. Susan C. Lawrence is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. She is the author of Charitable Knowledge: Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London. April 240 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-6286-7 $68.95 Canadian/£36.00 UK ebook available

While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science. Officers of the regular army, instructors at the military academy, and their political superiors believed strongly in the possibility of acquiring a perfect knowledge of war through the proper curriculum. A Scientific Way of War analyzes how the doctrine of military science evolved from teaching specific Napoleonic applications to embracing subjects useful for war in North America. Drawing from a wide array of materials, Ian C. Hope refutes earlier charges of a lack of professionalization in the antebellum American army and an overreliance on the teachings of Swiss military theorist Antoine de Jomini. Instead, Hope shows that inculcation in West Point’s American military curriculum eventually came to provide the army with an officer corps that shared a common doctrine and common skill in military problem solving. The proliferation of military science ensured that on the eve of the Civil War there existed a distinctly American, and scientific, way of war. Ian C. Hope is a senior officer in the Canadian Army and an associate professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of Dancing with the Dushman: Command Imperatives for the Counter-Insurgency Fight in Afghanistan. Studies in War, Society, and the Military series Peter Maslowski, David Graff, & Reina Pennington, series editors August 400 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 illustrations, 11 maps, 4 tables, 7 charts, 3 appendixes $55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-7685-7 $68.95 Canadian/£36.00 UK ebook available

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War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation Arni Brownstone During much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians’ equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narratives—appearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, “Brownstone’s meticulous study makes available a unique set of little-known hide paintings and offers valuable insights into one of the less studied indigenous societies of the Great Plains. A must for every library on Native North American art and culture.” —Janet Cather ine Berlo, professor of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester and author of Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk’s Vision of a Lakota World

and tipi covers—were maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition. War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T’ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T’ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T’ina artifacts, with particular emphasis on five key works. Brownstone’s study furthers our understanding of Tsuu T’ina pictographic war paintings in relation to the social, historical, and artistic forces that influenced them and provides a broader understanding of pictographic painting, one of the richest and most important Native American artistic and literary genres. Arni Brownstone is the assistant curator of world cultures at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. He is the author of War Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Buffalo Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum. Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians series Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, series editors

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Illustration of the Burke Museum robe, painted on a buffalo hide measuring 211 cm x 211 cm. The rectangular allotments are assigned to the deeds of Bull Head, Big Plume, Eagle Carrier, Eagle Rib, Crow Chief, Big Crow, Grasshopper, and Medicine. Based on a tracing of the original. Cat. No. 2-2595, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington. Univer sity of Nebr aska Press 800-848-6224

N ative s t u di e s / L i t e r a r y Co l l ec t i o n s

The Complete Seymour

The Newspaper Warrior

Colville Storyteller

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864–1891

Peter J. Seymour Compiled and edited by Anthony Mattina Translated by Madeline DeSautel and Anthony Mattina

Peter J. Seymour was a Salish storyteller. He carried forward earlier tales of elders along with his own experiences as fewer and fewer native speakers were sharing the Colville-Okanagan language and oral literature. To thwart the demise of this language, over the course of a decade he passed along Salish stories not only to his family but also to linguist Anthony Mattina. The Complete Seymour: Colville Storyteller includes Seymour’s tales collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s before his death. It documents Seymour’s rich storytelling and includes detailed morphological analyses and translations of this endangered language. This collection is an important addition to the canon of Native American narratives and literature and an essential volume for anyone studying Salish languages and linguistics. Peter J. Seymour was a farmer, family man, hunter, jockey, and storyteller. Anthony Mattina is a professor of linguistics, emeritus, at the University of Montana–Missoula. He is the author of Colville-Okanagan Dictionary and the editor and co-translator (with Madeline DeSautel) of The Golden Woman: the Colville Narrative of Peter J. Seymour. Madeline DeSautel (1888–1979) was a native speaker of Colville-Okanagan. She and Anthony Mattina have co-translated two publications. Native Literatures of the Americas series Brian Swann, series editor June 816 pp. • 7 x 10 • 1 map, 1 image, 63 tables $55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-7705-2 $68.95 Canadian/£36.00 UK ebook available

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Sar ah Winnemucca Hopkins Edited by Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized as an important nineteenthcentury American Indian activist and writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that grew out of those tours, have been largely ignored and forgotten. The Newspaper Warrior presents new material that enhances public memory as the first volume to collect hundreds of newspaper articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and editorial comments by and about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. This anthology gathers together her literary production for newspapers and magazines from her 1864 performances in San Francisco to her untimely death in 1891, focusing on the years 1879 to 1887, when Winnemucca Hopkins gave hundreds of lectures in the eastern and western United States; published her book, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883); and established a bilingual school for Native American children. Editors Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio masterfully assemble these exceptional and long-forgotten articles in a call for a deeper assessment and appreciation of Winnemucca Hopkins’s stature as a Native American author, while also raising important questions about the nature of Native American literature and authorship. Car i M. Carpenter is an associate professor of English at West Virginia University. She is the author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians. Carolyn Sor isio is a professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833–1879. June 344 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 images, 1 table $75.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4368-2 $95.00 Canadian/£49.00 UK ebook available

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Hopi Katsina Songs

Sharing Our Knowledge

Emory Sekaquaptewa, Kenneth C. Hill, and Dorothy K. Washburn

The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors

Emory Sekaquaptewa dedicated most of his life to promoting Hopi literacy and creating written materials to strengthen the language and lifeway of his people. He understood how intimately cultural ideas are embedded in language, and by transcribing and translating early recordings of katsina songs he helped strengthen the continuity of Hopi religious thought and cultural practices. Sekaquaptewa believed that the advice contained in the katsina songs, some of which were recorded over a century ago, could be used by future generations as guideposts for navigating contemporary life. Hopi Katsina Songs contains Hopi transcriptions, English translations, and detailed commentaries of 150 katsina songs, recorded throughout the twentieth century from all three Hopi mesas, as well as twenty-five recorded by Sekaquaptewa himself. To further continue the creative process of the Hopi legacy, Sekaquaptewa included song fragments with the hope that readers would remember the songs and complete them. These features make his collection an invaluable resource for preserving and teaching Hopi language and culture. Emory Sekaquaptewa (1928–2007) was a Hopi educator, Hopi Court judge, artist, and research anthropologist at the University of Arizona, as well as the first American Indian to attend West Point. Kenneth C. Hill, now retired, is a former research associate at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and is the coauthor of Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi-English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect. Dorothy K. Washburn is a consulting scholar for the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the coauthor of Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis. March 440 pp. • 6 x 9 $65.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-6288-1 $82.50 Canadian/£42.00 UK ebook available

Edited by Sergei Kan, With Steve Henr ikson Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia. This volume focuses on the preservation and dissemination of Tlingit language, traditional cultural knowledge, and history from an activist Tlingit perspective. Sharing Our Knowledge also highlights a variety of collaborations between Native groups and individuals and non-Native researchers, emphasizing a long history of respectful, cooperative, and productive working relations aimed at recording and transmitting cultural knowledge for tribal use and promoting Native agency in preserving heritage. By focusing on these collaborations, the contributors demonstrate how such alliances have benefited the Tlingits and neighboring groups in preserving and protecting their heritage while advancing scholarship at the same time. Sergei Kan is a professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. He is the editor and author of several books, including Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska and Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. Steve Henr ikson is a curator of collections at the Alaska State Museum and Adjunct Instructor at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. He specializes in Tlingit material culture and art. March 584 pp. • 6 x 9 • 135 images, 6 maps, 4 tables $65.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4056-8 $82.50 Canadian/£42.00 UK ebook available

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Travels with Frances Densmore Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies Edited by Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick Patter son Over the first half of the twentieth century, scientist and scholar Frances Densmore (1867–1957) visited thirty-five Native American tribes, recorded more than twenty-five hundred songs, amassed hundreds of artifacts and Native-crafted objects, and transcribed information about Native cultures. Her visits to indigenous groups included meetings with the Ojibwes, Lakotas, Dakotas, Northern Utes, Hochunks, Seminoles, and Makahs. A “New Woman” and a self-trained anthropologist, she not only influenced government attitudes toward indigenous cultures but also helped mold the field of anthropology. Densmore remains an intriguing historical figure. Although researchers use her vast collections at the Smithsonian and Minnesota “Frances Densmore’s archive of Native American music, photographs, and material culture is indispensable to scholars. Yet she remains an elusive figure. Travels with Frances Densmore takes us into her world. It is a moving, engrossing record of a woman’s self-professionalization and devotion to science at the turn of the twentieth century.”—Sally Cole, professor of anthropology at Concordia University and author of Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology

Historical Society, as well as her many publications, some scholars critique her methods of “salvage anthropology” and concepts of the “vanishing” Native American. Travels with Frances Densmore is the first detailed study of her life and work. Through narrative descriptions of her life paired with critical essays about her work, this book is an essential guide for understanding how Densmore formed her collections and the lasting importance they have had for researchers in a variety of fields. Joan M. Jensen is a professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University. She is the author of several books, including Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850–1925. Michelle Wick Patter son is an assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary’s University. She is the author of Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music (Nebraska, 2010).

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Announcing a new series: The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition; Regna Darnell, general editor of the series An introduced and fully annotated, 25-volume documentary edition of the Franz Boas Professional Papers and Correspondence from the American Philosophical Society that is essential to scholars across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities disciplines

Franz Boas as Public Intellectual, Volume 1 Theory, Ethnography, Activism Edited by Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L.A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith This inaugural volume of the Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition series presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858–1942). Few of Boas’s intellectual progeny span the range of his disciplinary and public engagements. In his later career, Boas moved beyond Native American studies to become a public intellectual and advocate for social justice particularly with reference to racism against African Americans and Jews and discrimination against women in science. He was a passionate defender of academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, and anthropology as a humane calling. Franz Boas as Public Intellectual examines Boas’s stature as public intellectual in three crucial dimensions: theory, ethnography, and activism. The “This pathbreaking book transforms our understanding of Franz Boas as both scientist and citizen, going far beyond commonly accepted views of this influential figure of American cultural life. Presented from a firmly contemporary perspective, these important and well-

volume’s contributors move across many of the disciplines within which Boas himself worked, bringing to bear their expertise in Native studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, folklore, ethnomusicology, museum studies, comparative literature, English, film studies, philosophy, and journalism. Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology

researched essays will surely be the foundation of much

at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Invisible Genealo-

future study.”—Ir a Jacknis, research anthropologist

gies: A History of Americanist Anthropology (Nebraska, 2001). Michelle

at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Uni-

Hamilton is an associate professor and director of public history at the

versity of California, Berkeley

University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario. Robert L.A. Hancock is the LE,NONET Academic Coordinator in the Office of Indigenous Affairs and adjunct assistant professor in anthropology and environmental studies at the University of Victoria. Joshua Smith is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario.

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ANTHROP OLOGY / ETHNOLOGY / HISTORY

Before Boas The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment Han F. Vermeulen The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology’s academic origins to present a far-reaching study that reveals how ethnology and ethnography originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to the rise of anthropology, or the “natural history of man.” Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how “ethnography” began as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as “ethnology” by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted “This important book introduces the scholarship that underlies the development of modern ethnography and ethnology, especially that of Franz Boas. With exhaustive research Han Vermeulen demonstrates the significance of the German Enlightenment, the ethno-linguistics of Leibniz, and the ethnography of those inspired by Leibniz who undertook scientific

by researchers in other countries. Before Boas argues that anthropology and ethnology were separate sciences during the Age of Reason, one racial and the other ethnic diversity. Ethnology and ethnography focused not on “other” cultures but on all peoples of all eras. Following Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, researchers in these fields characterized peoples primarily according to their languages. Franz Boas professionalized the holistic study of

descriptions of the peoples of Siberia.”—Herbert S.

anthropology from the 1880s into the twentieth century.

Lewis, author of In Defense of Anthropology: An Inves-

Han F. Vermeulen is a research associate at the Max Planck Institute

tigation of the Critique of Anthropology.

for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. critical studies in the history of anthropology Regan Darnell and Stephen O. Murray, series editors

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Fiction / Liter ary Cr iticism

Cather Studies, Volume 10

Lucy Gayheart

Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century

Willa Cather

Edited by Anne L. Kaufman and R ichard H. Millington

Historical essay by David Porter Explanatory notes by Kari A. Ronning and David Porter Textual essay and editing by Frederick M. Link and Kari A. Ronning

Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century—the cultures that shaped Willa Cather’s childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held values—are addressed in her fiction. In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cather’s life or writing the particular cultural formations, emotions, and conflicts of value she absorbed from the atmosphere of her distinct historical moment; their ten colleagues offer a compelling set of case studies that articulate the manifold ways that Cather learned from, built upon, or resisted models provided by particular nineteenth-century writers, works, or artistic genres. Taken together with its Cather Studies predecessor, Willa Cather and Modern Cultures, this volume reveals Cather as explorer and interpreter, sufferer and master of the transition from a Victorian to a Modernist America. Anne L. Kaufman teaches mathematics at Milton Academy and is a visiting lecturer in English at Bridgewater State University. Her work has appeared in Western American Literature, Canadian Literature, Western Historical Quarterly, and elsewhere. R ichard H. Millington is Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English at Smith College. He is the author of essays on Cather’s modernism and of Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne’s Fiction and he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Cather Studies series Guy Reynolds, series editor August 440 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 5 photographs $40.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-7659-8 $49.95 Canadian/£25.99 UK ebook available

Willa Cather’s 1935 novel drew on her lifelong interest in music, which plays a transformative role in the lives of her characters. Cather’s last novel set in the Great Plains tells the story of young Lucy Gayheart, who escapes life in small-town Haverford, Nebraska, in 1902 to pursue a career in music. In Chicago she falls in love with an older singer, Clement Sebastian, who finds renewed inspiration in her. However, tragic chance destroys their ensuing love affair. The novel has evoked divergent responses among critics and readers ever since its publication. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition includes a historical essay providing fresh insight into the novel, the role of music, and Cather’s writing process. It also features photographs, maps, and explanatory notes with a full range of biographical, historical, and cultural information. The textual editing draws on corrected typescripts and proofs and presents a clean, authoritative text of the first edition. David Porter, a professor of classics, English, and music from 1962 to 2013, is the author of On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather (Nebraska, 2008) and coauthor of Seeking Life Whole: Willa Cather and the Brewsters. Kar i A. Ronning is a research associate professor of English and textual editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Editions, most recently The Song of the Lark (Nebraska, 2012). Freder ick M. Link is the textual editor of Cather’s Obscure Destinies (Nebraska, 1998), The Professor’s House (Nebraska, 2002), and Shadows on the Rock (Nebraska, 2006). Willa Cather Scholarly Edition series Guy J. Reynolds, general editor August 560 pp. • 6 x 9 • 33 illustrations $90.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-7687-1 No sales in British Commonwealth, South Africa, Ireland, Burma, Iraq, and Jordan Univer sity of Nebr aska Press 800-848-6224

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Married or Single? Cathar ine Mar ia Sedgwick Edited and with an introduction by Deborah Gussman Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America’s first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women’s right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives. Sedgwick’s touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must negotiate the marriage market and also learn to develop her own character and take control of her own destiny. The story merges a wide range of popular American literary forms—including the seduction novel, the conversion narrative, the novel of education, and social reform fiction—and provides a window on many of the cultural and political anxieties of the 1850s beyond marriage, including immigration, slavery, and urban poverty. Sedgwick’s lifelong concern with women’s duties to the nation as citizens is demonstrated through her depiction of exemplary “A modern edition of Sedgwick’s final novel is long

women of various backgrounds and circumstances who illustrate the

overdue, and Deborah Gussman is its ideal editor.

idea that becoming a worthy human being is more important than

Gussman’s introduction will reflect and forward cur-

becoming a wife, especially in a democratic society.

rent scholarly concerns.”—Mary Kelley, author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Her career spanned more than fifty years, six major novels, and more than one hundred short stories. Debor ah Guss-

“This is a very teachable and useful book and should

man is an associate professor of literature at the Richard Stockton

appeal to scholars, libraries, graduate students, and

College of New Jersey. She is a founding and executive board member

advanced undergraduates.”—Martha Cutter, au-

of the Catherine Maria Sedgwick Society.

thor of Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930

Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers series Theresa Strouth Gaul, series editor

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L iter ary C r i t i c i s m / F r a n c e / Af r i c a

Remembering French Algeria

Liter ary Cr iticism / Afr ica / Spain

The Storyworld Accord Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives

Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile

Er in James

Amy L. Hubbell Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally “black-feet”) were former French citizens of Algeria who suffered a traumatic departure from their homes and discrimination upon arrival in France. In response, the once heterogeneous group unified as a community as it struggled to maintain an identity and keep the memory of colonial Algeria alive. Remembering French Algeria examines the written and visual re-creation of Algeria by the former French citizens of Algeria from 1962 to the present. By detailing the preservation and transmission of memory prompted by this traumatic experience, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates how colonial identity is encountered, reworked, and sustained in Pied-Noir literature and film, with the device of repetition functioning in these literary and visual texts to create a unified and nostalgic version of the past. At the same time, however, the Pieds-Noirs’ compulsion to return compromises these efforts. Taking Albert Camus’s Le Mythe de Sisyphe and his subsequent essays on ruins as a metaphor for Pied-Noir identity, this book studies autobiographical accounts by Marie Cardinal, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, and Leïla Sebbar, as well as lesser-known Algerian-born French citizens, to analyze movement as a destabilizing and productive approach to the past. Amy L. Hubbell is a lecturer in French at the University of Queensland. She is the coeditor of Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography (Nebraska, 2011). June 336 pp. • 6 x 9 $55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-6490-8 $68.95 Canadian/£36.00 UK ebook available

“Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the organization of both space and time, by recognizing reading as a process that encourages readers to compare the world of a text to other possible worlds, and by highlighting the power of narrative to immerse readers in new and unfamiliar environments. Focusing on the work of writers from Trinidad and Nigeria, such as Sam Selvon and Ben Okri, The Storyworld Accord investigates and compares the storyworlds of nonrealist and postmodern postcolonial texts to show how such narratives grapple with the often-collapsed concerns of subjectivity, representation, and environment, bringing together these narratological and ecocritical concerns via a mode that Erin James calls econarratology. James suggests that readings of storyworlds in postcolonial texts helps narrative theorists and ecocritics better consider the ways in which culture, ideologies, and social and environmental issues are articulated in narrative forms and structures, while also helping postcolonial scholars more fully consider the environment alongside issues of political subjectivity and sovereignty. Er in James is an assistant professor of English at the University of Idaho and has published essays in the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, Journal of Narrative Theory, The Bioregional Imagination, and Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies. Frontiers of Narrative series Jesse E. Matz, series editor July 320 pp. • 6 x 9 $60.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4398-9 $75.00 Canadian/£39.00 UK ebook available

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Playing with the Big Boys Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines Lou Antolihao Basketball has a lock on the Filipino soul. From big arenas in Manila to makeshift hoops in small villages, basketball is played by Filipinos of all walks of life and is used to mark everything from summer breaks for students to religious festivals and many other occasions. Playing with the Big Boys traces the social history of basketball in the Philippines from an educational and “civilizing” tool in the early twentieth century to its status as national pastime since the country gained independence after World War II. While the phrase “playing with the big boys” describes the challenge of playing basketball against outsized opponents, it also describes the struggle for recognition that the Philippines, as a subaltern society, has had to contend with in its larger transnational relationships as a former U.S. colony. Lou Antolihao goes beyond the empire-colony dichotomy by covering Filipino basketball in a wider range of com“Lou Antolihao is attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this

parisons, such as that involving the growing influence of Asia in its region, particularly China and Japan. In this context, Antolihao shows how Philippines basketball has moved from a vehicle for Americanization to a force for globalization in which the United States, while still a key player, is challenged by other basketball-playing countries.

work.”—Andrew D. Morris, California Polytechnic

Lou Antolihao is a sociologist who specializes in leisure studies

State University, San Luis Obispo

and comparative-historical analysis. He has held research and teaching appointments in the Philippines, Singapore, and Japan, most recently the jsps Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.

May

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The Golden Game The Story of California Baseball Kevin Nelson Foreword by Hank Greenwald The Golden Game presents in words and pictures 150 years of baseball history, from sandlot ball in the 1850s and the Pacific Coast League to the western arrival of the Dodgers, Giants, Angels, Athletics, and Padres. Here is a stirring, colorfully written narrative about the state that has been the birthplace and proving ground for more Major Leaguers than any other, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson. Blending U.S. and California history as a backdrop to a narrative rich with anecdotes, The Golden Game reveals the significant impact that California has had on baseball history. Written not just for Californians but for all baseball fans, The Golden Game goes beyond its geographic boundaries to tell the fascinating saga of California baseball and how it has indelibly shaped the national pastime. “[Nelson’s] wholly charming and endearing book allows us to see baseball as a kind of benchmark for the birth and growth of California over the last century and a half. . . . Nelson shows us that baseball was always much more than a form of recreation or

Kevin Nelson is the award-winning author of nineteen books. He spent three years researching and writing The Golden Game, traveling around California to uncover the state’s storied baseball past. Hank Greenwald is a former Major League Baseball announcer who was for many years the voice of the San Francisco Giants.

entertainment—it was a means of self-definition.”— Jonathan Kir sch, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[This is] the rare baseball book that transcends its regional emphasis to earn a place on the shelf of anyone who loves the game. It reads like a core sample of a polar ice cap, with layer upon informative layer the deeper you go.”—David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle “[An] excellent history. . . . You don’t have to be a Californian to enjoy these important chapters in the game’s history.”—Ron Fimr ite, Sports Illustrated

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Sp o rts / B a se b a ll / B i o g r a ph y

2014 Seymour Medal Winner

Smoky Joe Wood The Biography of a Baseball Legend Ger ald C. Wood Though his pitching career lasted only a few seasons, Howard Ellsworth “Smoky Joe” Wood was one of the most dominating figures in baseball history—a man many consider the best baseball player who is not in the Hall of Fame. About his fastball, Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson once said: “Listen, mister, no man alive can throw harder than Smoky Joe Wood.” Smoky Joe Wood chronicles the singular life befitting such a baseball legend. Wood got his start impersonating a female on the National Bloomer Girls team. A natural athlete, he pitched for the Boston Red Sox at eighteen, won twenty-one games and threw a no-hitter at twentyone, and had a 34-5 record plus three wins in the 1912 World Series, for a 1.91 era, when he was just twenty-two. Then in 1913 Wood suffered devastating injuries to his right hand and shoulder that forced him to pitch in pain for two more years. After sitting out the 1916 “Wood was a great ballplayer and an even more fascinating man. Excellent reading.”—Wes Lukowsky, Booklist “Impeccably researched. . . . This book may be the best case for a reexamination of Wood’s Hall of Fame credentials.”—Zachary Ingle, Journal of Sports History “If I could have been one twentieth-century sports figure, I would like to have been Smoky Joe Wood

season, he came back as a converted outfielder and played another five years for the Cleveland Indians before retiring to coach the Yale University baseball team. With details culled from interviews and family archives, this biography, the first of this rugged player of the Deadball Era, brings to life one of the genuine characters of baseball history. Ger ald C. Wood is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Carson-Newman University and coeditor of Northsiders: Essays on the History and Culture of the Chicago Cubs.

in 1912. All that talent and all that common sense combined in one package.”—Bob Ryan, author of When Boston Won the World Series

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B aseb all / J ewish Stud ies / Amer ican History

Mover and Shaker

Named the #1 baseball book of 2013 by Sports Collectors Digest

Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball’s Westward Expansion Andy McCue

American Jews and America’s Game Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball

One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for having moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, he presented a selfconstructed family background and history of his early life designed to enhance his image. Later, his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters who hated him for moving the Dodgers. In Mover and Shaker, Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O’Malley’s life. He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of O’Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game. Andy McCue is the author of Baseball by the Books: The Complete History and Bibliography of Baseball Fiction and is a former president of the Society for American Baseball Research. April 488 pp. • 6 x 9 • 1 figure, 3 tables $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7842-4 $30.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK ebook available

Larry Ruttman Foreword by Bud Selig Introduction by Martin Abramowitz

Many fans don’t know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In fact, that presence extends to the baseball commissioner Bud Selig; labor leaders Marvin Miller and Don Fehr; owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Stuart Sternberg; officials Theo Epstein and Mark Shapiro; sportswriters Murray Chass, Ross Newhan, Ira Berkow, and Roger Kahn; and even famous Jewish baseball fans like Alan Dershowitz and Barney Frank. The life stories of these and many others, on and off the field, have been compiled from nearly fifty in-depth interviews and arranged by decade in this edifying and entertaining work of oral and cultural history. In American Jews and America’s Game each person talks about growing up Jewish and dealing with Jewish identity, assimilation, intermarriage, future viability, religious observance, anti-Semitism, and Israel. Their stories tell the history, as never before, of the larger-than-life role of Jews in America’s pastime. Larry Ruttman, a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is the author of Voices of Brookline. He has practiced law in Boston for more than fifty years and produces and hosts a television interview show in his hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts. “A large, ambitious, and deeply personal work, this book attempts to define the Jewish-American experience through the prism of baseball.”—Journal of Sport History March 544 pp. • 7 x 10 • 75 photographs, 3 illustrations $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5343-8 $30.95 Canadian/£15.99 UK ebook available

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L atin A m e r i c a n H i st o r y / Nat i v e s t udi es / Mexi c o

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2013 David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize Winner

Creeks and Southerners

Chiricahua and Janos

Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier

Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680–1880

Andrew K. Fr ank

Lance R. Blyth Borderlands violence, so explosive in our own time, has deep roots in history. Lance R. Blyth’s study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands 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. For more than two centuries, violence was at the center of the relationships by which Janos and Chiricahua formed their communities. Violence created families by turning boys into men through campaigns and raids, which ultimately led to marriage and also determined the provisioning and security of these families; acts of revenge and retaliation similarly governed their attempts to secure themselves even as trade and exchange continued sporadically. This revisionist work reveals how during the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras, elements of both conflict and accommodation constituted these two communities, which previous historians have often treated as separate and antagonistic. By showing not only the negative aspects of violence but also its potentially positive outcomes, Chiricahua and Janos helps us to understand violence not only in the southwestern borderlands but in borderland regions generally around the world. Lance R. Blyth is the command historian at U.S. Northern Command and a research associate in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies series Paul Spickard and Pekka Hämäläinen, series editors June 296 pp. • 6 x 9 • 17 maps $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-7431-0 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

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Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in the southeastern United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These intermarried white men moved into their wives’ villages in what is now Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, where they acquired new homes, familial obligations, occupations, and identities. At the same time, however, they maintained many of their ties to white American society and as a result entered the historical record in large numbers. Creeks and Southerners studies the ways in which many of the children of these relationships lived both as Creek Indians and as white southerners, finding ways to bridge what seemed to be an unbridgeable divide. Many became prominent Creek political leaders and warriors, played central roles in the lucrative deerskin trade, built inns and taverns to cater to the needs of European American travelers, moved frequently between colonial American and Native communities, and served both European American and Creek officials as interpreters, assistants, and travel escorts. The fortunes of these bicultural children reflect the changing nature of Creek-white relations, which became less flexible and increasingly contentious throughout the nineteenth century as both Creeks and Americans accepted a more rigid biological concept of race, forcing their bicultural children to choose between identities. Andrew K. Fr ank is the Allen Morris Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American South. Indians of the Southeast series Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, series editors May 216 pp. • 6 x 9 $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-6841-8 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

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Indian Slavery in Colonial America Edited and with an introduction by Alan Gallay European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many needs, huge numbers of America’s indigenous peoples continued to be captured and forced to work as slaves. Although central to the process of colony building in what became the United States, this phenomena has received scant attention from historians. Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, examines the complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement. How and why Indians became both slaves of the Europeans and suppliers of slavery’s victims is the subject of this book. The essays in this collection use Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups. Alan Gallay is a professor of history at Texas Christian University. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670–1717, winner of the 2003 Bancroft Prize, and Voices of the Old South: Eyewitness Accounts, 1528–1861. “Unlike Hernando de Soto’s slaving and stealing expedition in the mid-sixteenth-century Southeast, this collection leaves us with a wealth of pearls.”—Tiya Miles, Journal of American History July 448 pp. • 6 x 9 • 4 maps $30.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-6849-4 $37.50 Canadian/£19.99 UK ebook available

Murder State California’s Native American Genocide, 1846–1873 Brendan C. Lindsay In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native people were legitimized by notions of democracy—in this case mob rule—through a discreetly organized and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every level of California government. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Native Americans as shaped by the popular press and by immigrants’ experiences on the Overland Trail to California were used to further justify the elimination of Native people in the newcomers’ quest for land. The allegedly “violent nature” of Native people was often merely their reaction to the atrocities committed against them as they were driven from their ancestral lands and alienated from their traditional resources. In this narrative history employing numerous primary sources and the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on genocide, Brendan C. Lindsay examines the darker side of California history, one rarely studied in detail, and the motives of both Native Americans and Euro-Americans at the time. Murder State calls attention to the misuse of democracy to justify and commit genocide. Brendan C. Lindsay is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. March 456 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 tables $35.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-6966-8 $43.95 Canadian/£22.99 UK ebook available

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Wom en’s S t u di e s / F r a n c e / Hi s t o ry

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Colonial Metropolis

Selling the Congo

The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris

A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism

Jennifer Anne Boittin

Matthew G. Stanard

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of

Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo,

Paris. After the war they were his personal property, to expected to return without the state in 1908. For the protest to their homes— next half century, Belgium either overseas or metropolinot only ruled an African tan. Neither group, however, empire but also, through was willing to be discarded. widespread, enduring, and Between the world wars, eagerly embraced propaganthe mesmerizing capital of da, produced an imperialistFrance’s colonial empire atminded citizenry. tracted denizens from Africa, Selling the Congo is a the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely study of European pro-empire propaganda in Belgium, with their home but also a site for political engagement. Colonial particular emphasis on the period 1908–60. Matthew G. StaMetropolis tells the story of the interactions and connections of nard examines the nature of Belgian imperialism in the Congo these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, and considers its case in light of literature on the French, the cultural, and political world of interwar Paris. It explores why British, and other European overseas empires. Comparing and how both were denied certain rights, such as the vote, how Belgium to other imperial powers, the book finds that prothey suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, empire propaganda was a basic part of European overseas and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpretexpansion and administration during the modern period. ed as politically subversive. Arguing against the long-held belief that Belgians were merely Jennifer Anne Boittin is an associate professor of “reluctant imperialists,” Stanard demonstrates that in fact many French, francophone studies, and history at Pennsylvania Belgians readily embraced imperialistic propaganda. State University. Selling the Congo contributes to our understanding of the effectiveness of twentieth-century propaganda by revealing its France Overseas: Studies in Empire successes and failures in the Belgian case. Many readers faand Decolonization series miliar with more-popular histories of Belgian imperialism will Philip Boucher, A. J. B. Johnston, James D. Le find in this book a deeper examination of European involveSueur, and Tyler Stovall, series editors ment in central Africa during the colonial era. Matthew G. Stanard is an associate professor of history July at Berry College. His articles have appeared in publications 352 pp. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 3 photographs, such as the Journal of Contemporary History, French Colonial 3 illustrations, 4 tables $22.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-7706-9 History, and European History Quarterly. $27.50 Canadian/£13.99 UK ebook available

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Research for Indigenous Survival Indigenous Research Methodologies in the Behavioral Sciences Lor i Lambert Lori Lambert (Mi’kmaq/Abenaki) examines the problems that researchers encounter when adjusting research methodologies in the behavioral sciences to Native values and tribal community life. In addition to surveying the literature with an emphasis on Native authors, she has also interviewed a sampling of indigenous people in Australia, northern Canada, and Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation. Members of four indigenous communities speak about what they expect from researchers who come into their communities. Their voices and stories provide a conceptual framework for non-indigenous researchers who anticipate doing research with indigenous peoples in the social, behavioral, or environmental sciences. This conceptual framework created by indigenous stories similarly provides a framework for hope and empowerment as indigenous communities endeavor to pass on their values and stories to future generations. Indigenous research methodologies developed from stories told by elders help researchers to both respect the unique character of Native communities and contribute to their healing and empowerment. Indigenous research as such, however, is not a new phenomenon. Indigenous story keepers have always, through careful observation, articulated in their stories how their world works, thereby also preserving knowledge of their community’s past. Lor i Lambert, phd, is a member of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe of Vermont and a descendant of the Mi’kmaq/Huron Wendot. For the last twenty years she has taught at Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana. Lambert is the founder of the American Indigenous Research Association.

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This limited edition book documents the creation of four music albums in the Nomad Series. The 144-page full-color, hardcover book, wrapped in linen with a cd inset designed to hold the four volumes of the series, was designed and produced by Enrique Martínez Celaya. The book includes work drafts and photos relating to the creation of the Nomad Series as well as lyrics, essays, and original art work by Celaya. Michael Timmins is the songwriter and guitarist for the Canadian rock band Cowboy Junkies. R ick Wallach lectured on literature, the history of jazz, and other comparative cultural studies at the University of Miami until retiring in 2007 to devote himself to writing and editing. He is currently writing a book-length study of the Cowboy Junkies. Enr ique Martínez Celaya was trained as an artist as well as a physicist and currently works in painting, sculpture, photography, and writing. He is the founder of Whale & Star Press who also published Cowboy Junkies XX. now available 136 pp. • 11 ¾ x 11 ¾ • 28 color photographs 17 black & white photographs • 10 images $100.00 hardcover • 978-0-9799752-6-4 $125.00 Canadian/£65.00 UK

Joy Goswami is probably the most highly regarded Bengali poet today, a worthy successor, in a land of poets, to Rabindranath Tagore and Jibanananda Das. Although his life has never been easy, his vocation as a poet has never been in doubt. The quality of Goswami’s prolific output has been widely acknowledged in West Bengal and India. Goswami’s poems are fierce—in their expression, in the impact of their juxtaposed images, and in the effect that the images have one on another. The poems possess immediacy, drawing readers pell-mell into the essential tensions and delighting in the magic of metamorphoses. Although readers might easily allow themselves to float on Goswami’s crisscrossing images, savor them on second reading, and linger with his crisp and penetrant words, they are quickly brought up short by meaning, for Goswami’s words are not just words but penetrating markers of sense. His métier is to cut through to the center of our emotional universe. Goswami has written more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose; this is the first American publication of his poems. Joy Goswami has earned West Bengal’s highest literary prizes, and the all-India Sahitya Academy Award. Roald Hoffmann is a poet and playwright and a Nobel Prize–winning chemist. now available 136 pp. • 8 ½ x 5 ½ $22.95 paperback • 978-0-9799752-7-1 $28.95 Canadian/£14.99 UK

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Great Plains Quarterly publishes articles for scholars and interested laypeople on history, literature, culture, and social issues relevant to the Great Plains. The journal, which is published for the Center for Great Plains

ted to publishing work that contributes to the development of American Indian studies as a field and to the sovereignty and continuance of American Indian nations and cultures.

ia and Raymond La Charité, the journal is produced by the French section of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

Studies, is edited by a faculty member from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and includes a distinguished international board of advisory editors.

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Established in 1989, Gettysburg Magazine publishes accessible and engaging works of original scholarship concerning the battle and campaign of Gettysburg. Serving a community comprised of both professional academics and independent scholars alike, the magazine showcases a broad array of historical, field, and personal essays, as well as features considering primary documents and first-hand accounts from battle participants, art, and photography of and from the site.

Collaborative Anthropologies is a forum for dialogue with a special focus on the collaboration that takes place between and among researchers and communities of informants, consultants, and collaborators. It features essays that are descriptive as well as analytical from all subfields of anthropology and closely related disciplines, together presenting a diversity of perspectives on collaborative research.

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Journal of Sports Media Mary Lou Sheffer, Editor The Journal of Sports Media reflects the undeniable influence of sports media on contemporary culture and the growing interest in the field as an area of study and research. The journal features scholarly articles, emphasizing research with practical applications; essays; book reviews; and reports on major conferences and seminars. It also includes articles from industry leaders and sports media figures on topics appealing to a nonacademic audience.

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Legacy is the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers and is the only journal to focus specifically on American women’s writings from the seventeenth through the midtwentieth century. Each issue covers a wide range of topics, including examinations of the works of individual authors; genre studies; analysis of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexualities in women’s literature; and cultural issues pertinent to women’s lives and literary works.

Middle West Review Paul Mokrzycki, Editor The Middle West Review is an interdisciplinary journal about the American Midwest and the only publication dedicated exclusively to the study of the Midwest as a region. It provides a forum for scholars and nonscholars alike to explore the contested meanings of Midwestern identity, history, geography, society, culture, and politics.

Native South Greg O’Brien, Melanie Benson Taylor, and Robbie Ethridge, Editors Native South focuses on the investigation of Southern Indian history with the goals of encouraging further study and exposing the influences of Indian people on the wider South. The journal does not limit itself to the study of the geographic area that was once encompassed by the Confederacy, but expands its view to the areas occupied by the pre- and post-contact descendants

nine studies all historical aspects of baseball, centering on the societal and cultural implications of the game wherever in the world it is played. The journal features articles, essays, book reviews, biographies, oral history, and short fiction pieces.

Nineteenth-Century French Studies Seth Whidden, Editor Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field of nineteenthcentury French literature and culture.

Nouvelles Études Francophones Valérie Magdelaine–Andrianjafitrimo, Editor Nouvelles Études Francophones (nef) is the official refereed journal of the International Council of Francophone Studies/ Conseil International d’Études Francophones (ciéf). nef publishes scholarly research in the language, arts, literatures, cultures, and civilizations of Francophone countries and regions throughout the world.

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Each issue of Prairie Schooner contains an exceptional selection of poetry, fiction, translations, essays, and book reviews, and selections are often anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Essays, and Pushcart Prize collections. Orders and requests for Prairie Schooner should not be combined with orders for University of Nebraska Press journal titles but should be sent directly to: Prairie Schooner 201 Andrews Hall P.O. Box 880334 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln ne 68588-0334 402-472-0911 (phone)

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symplokeˉ A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Editor symploke¯ is a comparative theory and literature journal, committed to interdisciplinary studies, intellectual pluralism, and open discussion. The journal takes its name from the Greek word “symploke,” which can mean interweaving, interlacing, connection, and struggle. Focusing on the interrelationship of philosophy, literature, cultural criticism, and intellectual history, symploke¯ is a forum for scholars from a variety of disciplines to exchange ideas in innovative ways.

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Deconstruction—the analysis and transformation of metaphysics—intersects with psychoanalysis. Both are engaged with thinking beyond consciousness. This new journal is a forum for those working at the borders of these two disciplines. Its name, The Undecidable Unconscious, refers to the broadest aspect of psychoanalysis—the theory of unconscious processes—and to the irreducible oscillation and chance of nonmetaphysical processes.

Women in German Yearbook is a refereed publication presenting a wide range of feminist approaches to all aspects of German literature, culture, and language, including pedagogy. Reflecting the interdisciplinary perspectives that inform feminist German studies, each issue contains critical inquiries employing gender and other analytical categories to examine the work, history, life, literature, and arts of the Germanspeaking world.

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Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 49 American Jews and America’s Game 65 Anderson, Clayton C. 15 Antolihao, Lou 62 Armour, Mark L. 22

Evenson, Brian 34 Exiles in Sepharad 44

In Cold Storage 8 Indian Slavery in Colonial America 67 The Inevitable Bandstand 48 In Pursuit of Pennants 22

B Baretz, Julie 43 Beck, David R. M. 4 Before Boas 58 Beus, David 34 The Bible on Location 43 Blyth, Lance R. 66 Boittin, Jennifer Anne 68 Brownstone, Arni 53 Bunten, Alexis C. 5

C Canoeing the Great Plains 9 Carasik, Michael 38 Cather Studies, Volume 10 59 Cather, Willa 59 Chiricahua and Janos 66 City Indian 4 Civil War Washington 51 The Colonel and Hug 19 Colonial Metropolis 68 The Commentators’ Bible Deuteronomy 38 The Complete Seymour 54 Cora Du Bois 3 Cowboy Junkies 70 Crack of the Bat 23 Creeks and Southerners 66 Crigler, Mojie 31 Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor 33

D Darnell, Regna 57 Dax, Michael J. 7 DeSautel, Madeline 54 Dobson, Patrick 9 Dorff, Elliot N. 39

F Fineberg, Jonathan 28 Fishbane, Michael 37 Fitts, Robert K. 21 Forsberg, Michael 71 Frank, Andrew K. 66 Franz Boas as Public Intellectual, Volume 1 57 French, William E. 47

G Gallay, Alan 67 A Game of Their Own 25 Gendering Radicalism 50 Get Me Through Tomorrow 31 Gil Hodges 17 Goldberg, Jeff 27 The Golden Game 63 Goodman, Micah 41 Gorsky, Jeffrey 44 Goswami, Joy 70 Green, Arthur 40 Grizzly West 7 Gussman, Deborah 60

H Hamilton, Michelle 57 Hancock, Robert L. A. 57 Have You Seen Mary? 71 Hayes, Peter 45 The Heart in the Glass Jar 47 The Heart of the Matter 40 Heath, Charles V. 48 Henrikson, Steve 55 Herman, Jeanine 32 Hewitt, James W. 8 Hill, Kenneth C. 55 Hope, Ian C. 51 Hopi Katsina Songs 55 How Was It Possible? 45 Hubbell, Amy L. 61 Hunting Caribou 6

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J James, Erin 61 Jamieson, Perry D. 14 Jenson, Joan M. 56 The Jewish Publication Society 37–44 Jewish Voices in Feminism 45 Jews and Genes 39 Joy Goswami 70 The jps Bible Commentary: Song of Songs 37

K Kan, Sergei 55 Kaufman, Anne L. 59 The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony 36 Kurrus, Jeff 71

L Lambert, Lori 69 Lang, Luc 33 LaPier, Rosalyn R. 4 Las, Nelly 45 Lawrence, Susan C. 51 The Lawyer of the Church 49 Le Rouge, Gustave 34 Levitt, Daniel R. 22 Lindsay, Brendan C. 67 Link, Frederick M. 59 Livingston, Sonja 30 Lucy Gayheart 59

M Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism 41 Married or Single? 60 Mars, Kettly 32 Martínez Celaya, Enrique 70 Mashi 21 Mattina, Anthony 54 McCue, Andy 65

Michael Forsberg Photography 71 Mijangos y González, Pablo 49 Millington, Richard H. 59 Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain 28 Morris, Ruth 45 Mover and Shaker 65 Murder State 67

N Nelson, Kevin 63 The Newspaper Warrior 54 Nicholson-Smith, Donald 33 Noiset, Marie-Thérèse 35

O The Ordinary Spaceman 15 Osman, Ladan 36

P Palmer, Rob 71 Patterson, Michelle Wick 56 Plain, Nancy 13 Playing with the Big Boys 62 Porter, David 59 Prisoner of the Vampires of Mars 34

Seymour, Peter J. 54 Seymour, Susan C. 3 Sharing Our Knowledge 55 Sharp, Henry S. 6 Sharp, Karyn 6 Slutsky, Beth 50 Smith, Joshua 57 Smoky Joe Wood 64 So, How Long Have You Been Native? 5 The Southern Exodus to Mexico 46 Spatz, Lyle 19 Spring 1865 14 Stanard, Matthew G. 68 Steinberg, Steve 19 The Storyworld Accord 61

T The Tale of Jacob Swift 71 This Strange Wilderness 13 Timmins, Michael 70 Toner, Deborah 49 Travels with Frances Densmore 56

U Unrivaled 27

V Queen of the Fall 30

Vermeulen, Han F. 58 Verne, Jules 35

The Reluctant Pilgrim 11 Remembering French Algeria 61 Research for Indigenous Survival 69 Ring, Jennifer 25 Ronning, Kari A. 59 Ruttman, Larry 65

S Salish Kootenai College Press 69 Savage Seasons 32 A Scientific Way of War 51 Sedgwick, Catharine Maria 60 Sekaquaptewa, Emory 55 The Self-Propelled Island 35 Selling the Congo 68

Wahlstrom, Todd W. 46 Walker, James R. 23 Wallach, Bret 29 Wallach, Rick 70 War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation 53 Washburn, Dorothy K. 55 Welsch, Roger 11 Whale & Star 70 Winnemucca Hopkins, Sarah 54 Wood, Gerald C. 64 A World Made for Money 29

Z Zachter, Mort 17 Zoloth, Laurie 39

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