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Ohio University Press & Swallow Press
Separate from the World
Spring/Summer 2008
by P. L. Gaus
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New Books Mystery.......................................1 American History.....................2–5
Wanted— Correspondence
Poetry..........................................6 Victorian Studies......................7–9
edited by Nancy L. Rhoades and Lucy E. Bailey
Art History.................................10
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Contemporary Arts....................11 Archaeology............................. 12
Now in Paperback...................13 New in Series..........................13 Bestsellers..........................14–15 Recent Bestselling Paperbacks............................16
Bessie Potter Vonnoh by Julie Aronson
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Bead International 2008 & Beyond Basketry edited by Andrea R. Lewis
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Photo: Sam Girton, Gary Kirksey, Lawrence Hamel-Lambert
Sociology................................... 17 American History....................... 18 Latin American History............... 19 World History............................ 20 African Studies.................... 21–25 Southeast Asian Studies............. 26
Index........................................ 27 Above: If You’re Going to San Francisco by Joan Grossman. Cover image: Beast by Betsy Youngquist, Back cover image: Vessel 58 by Michael F. Rohde Photos: Sam Girton, Gary Kirksey, Lawrence Hamel-Lambert
Sales Information................... 28 Order Form........Inside back cover
Separate from the World An Ohio Amish Mystery P. L. Gaus
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draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty years of teaching. Sitting in his office on a warm spring day, he receives an unexpected visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, has been murdered. Their discussion of the odd details of the case is interrupted by a commotion on campus, which turns out to be the apparent suicide of a young woman, who, it seems, has leapt to her death from the college bell tower. s another college year
The investigations of these two deaths become intertwined as Professor Branden again teams up with his colleagues Pastor Cal Troyer and Sheriff Bruce Robertson to seek explanations for these bizarre events. Separate from the World is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that rejects any outside influence. Once more, P. L. Gaus takes us inside a separate culture and, in a manner both gentle and grim, highlights the complex relationship of the Amish and the “English” as they live inside or outside each other’s orbits.
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“The charm of Gaus’s first novel lies in its gently penetrating portrait of conflicts within the deceptively quiet contemporary Amish community.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Gaus is a sensitive storyteller who matches his cadences to the measured pace of Amish life, catching the tensions among the village’s religious factions.” —New York Times Book Review
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Broken English
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“Gaus weaves his extensive knowledge of Amish ways into this fascinating, suspenseful tale.”—Ohioana Quarterly
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A Prayer for the Night “Gaus’s absorbing fifth entry in this powerful series.”—Publishers Weekly
P. L. Gaus teaches chemistry and alternative cultures at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
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In the Balance of Power Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States Omar H. Ali
Foreword by Eric Foner
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ith the presidential election looming,
the “black vote” has been deemed a crucial but unsecured portion of the electorate. Historically, most black voters have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties—the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal; and, since the New Deal, and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement, the Democratic Party.
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However, as In the Balance of Power convincingly demonstrates, African Americans have long been part of independent political movements and have used third parties to advance some of the most important changes in the United States, notably the abolition of slavery, the extension of voting rights, and the advancement of civil rights. Since the early nineteenth century, there has been an undercurrent of political independence among African Americans. They helped develop the Liberty Party in the 1840s, and have continued to work with third parties to challenge the policies of the two major parties. But despite the legal gains of the modern civil rights movement, elements of Jim Crow remain deeply embedded in our electoral process. In the Balance of Power presents a history and analysis of African American third-party movements that can help us better understand the growing diversity among black voters today.
Omar H. Ali is an assistant professor of history at Towson University in Maryland. A Fulbright Scholar, he has received research grants from Harvard University and the University of Michigan. An honors graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his PhD from Columbia University and has served as an editor for Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.
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Dead Last The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy Phillip G. Payne
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f George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the twenty-ninth president, Warren G. Harding, is our sinner. Prior to the Nixon administration, the Harding scandals were the most infamous of the twentieth century. Harding is consistently judged a failure, ranking dead last among his peers. By examining the public memory of Harding, Phillip G. Payne offers the first significant reinterpretation of his presidency in a generation. Rather than repeating the old stories, Payne examines the contexts and continued meaning of the Harding scandals for various constituencies. Payne explores such topics as Harding’s importance as a midwestern small-town booster, his rumored black ancestry, the role of various biographers in shaping his early image, the tension between public memory and academic history, and, finally, his status as an icon of presidential failure in contemporary political debates. Harding was a popular president and was widely mourned when he died in office in 1923; but with his death began the construction of his public memory and his fall from political grace. In Dead Last, Payne explores how Harding’s name became synonymous with corruption, cronyism, and incompetence and how it is used to this day as an example of what a president should not be.
Phillip G. Payne is an associate professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in western New York, where he teaches courses in United States and public history. He worked for the Ohio Historical Society at the Warren G. Harding Home.
“Phillip Payne’s Dead Last accomplishes a task for which historians of political thought will be very grateful: his assessment of Harding’s ideology of ‘civic boosterism’ in the 1920s is truly insightful and original.” —Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., editor, The Papers of Robert A. Taft
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Wanted—Correspondence Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier Edited by Nancy L. Rhoades and Lucy E. Bailey
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150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women’s lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. The letters reveal fascinating details of the lives of mostly young, single women—friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier’s advertisement for correspondents. Almost all of the women who responded to Lieutenant Edwin Lewis Lybarger’s lonely-hearts newspaper advertisement lived in Ohio and supported the Union. Lybarger carried the collection of letters throughout three years of military service, preserved them through his life, and left them to be discovered in an attic trunk more than a century after Lee’s surrender. his unique collection of more than
Women’s letter writing functioned as a form of “war work” that bolstered the spirits of enlisted men and “kinship work” that helped forge romantic relationships and sustain community bonds across the miles. While men’s letters and diaries abound in Civil War history, less readily available are comprehensive collections of letters from middle-class and rural women that survived the weathering of marches, camp life, and battles to emerge unscathed from men’s knapsacks at war’s end.
About my ‘Photo.’ You wish me to send it, do you? Now don’t you know how very sensitive we Ladies are about sending our shadows to gentlemen? To be candid with you I don’t think a gentleman would have a very exalted opinion of a Lady who would send a picture to a stranger.
The collection is accompanied by a detailed editorial introduction that highlights significant themes in the letters. Together, they contribute to the still-unfolding historical knowledge concerning Northern women’s lives and experiences during this significant period in American history. Nancy L. Rhoades, the granddaughter of Lieutenant Lybarger, was director of cataloging at the College of Wooster and is the author of Croquet, a history of the game. She died in April 2007.
—As ever I am Jennie A MER I C A N H I STORY
Lucy E. Bailey is an assistant professor of social foundations and qualitative research at Oklahoma State University and serves as core faculty in the Women’s Studies program.
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Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson Edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon
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1815 the United States was a proud and confident nation. Its second war with England had come to a successful conclusion, and Americans seemed united as never before. The collapse of the Federalists left the Jeffersonian Republicans in control of virtually all important governmental offices. This period of harmony—what historians once called the Era of Good Feeling—was not illusory, but it was far from stable. Oneparty government could not persist for long in a vibrant democracy full of ambitious politicians, and sectional harmony was possible only as long as no one addressed the hard issues: slavery, race, western expansion, and economic development. n
Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson inaugurates a new series for the United States Capitol Historical Society, one that will focus on issues that led to the secession crisis and the Civil War. This first volume examines controversies surrounding sectionalism and the rise of Jacksonian Democracy, placing these sources of conflict in the context of congressional action in the 1820s and 1830s. The essays in this volume consider the plight of American Indians, sectional strife over banking and commerce, emerging issues involving slavery, and the very nature of American democracy. Paul Finkelman is President William McKinley Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at the Albany Law School. He is the author or editor of many articles and books, including Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, and The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. Donald R. Kennon is chief historian of the United States Capitol Historical Society. He is coeditor of the Ohio University Press series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789–1801 and editor of the series Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol.
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Contributors Michael Les Benedict Daniel Feller Robert P. Forbes William W. Freehling Tim Alan Garrison Jan Lewis Peter S. Onuf Jenny B. Wahl
Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877 Series editor: Donald R. Kennon A MER I C A N H I STORY 312 pages, illus., 6 x 9 978-0-8214-1783-6, hc $46.95t MAY
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Azores Poems David Yezzi
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Portuguese islands of the title, the poems in Azores arrive at their striking and hard-won destinations over the often-treacherous waters of experience—a man mourns the fact that he cannot not mourn, a father warns his daughter about harsh contingency, an unnamed visitor violently disrupts a quiet domestic scene. The ever-present and uncomfortable realities of envy, lust, and mortality haunt the book from poem to poem. Yezzi does not shy away from frank assessments of desire and human failing, the persistent difficulties of which are relieved periodically by a cautious optimism and even joy. Whether the poem’s backdrop is volcanic islands in the Mid-Atlantic or Manhattan Island at sunset, Yezzi examines the forces of change in the natural world, as well as the forces that shape and color our social interactions, whether mundane or startlingly intimate. By turns plainspoken, caustic, evocative, and wry, these poems are, in matters of form, well-wrought and musical and, in matters of the heart, clear-eyed and always richly human. ike a voyage to the
“[Yezzi’s] elements are water and earth— locality, gravity and mortality—and with them he has made some durable poems.”
“David Yezzi’s finely-tuned meters make the sound of New York now: a generous, disabused intelligence holding its nerve as nonsense and brutality build at the line’s edge, and the consolations of the personal burn brighter as darkness grows. A terrific book.” —Glyn Maxwell “At first, the book’s title seems a bit of happy, misleading mischief. Most of the opening poems place us neither at sea nor at temporary landfall, but in the heart of the city. Yet the poet’s urban eye is always on the lookout for some watery waver, instants when the workaday world sways to a tidal pull. And we reach our islands eventually, in an inspired interplay of wind and sun. David Yezzi’s Azores is an A-to-Z of life recorded with nimbleness, humor, and longing.” —Brad Leithauser
—Stephen Burt, New York Times Book Review
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David Yezzi’s books of poetry are Sad Is Eros and The Hidden Model. His libretto for a chamber opera by David Conte, Firebird Motel, received its world premiere in 2003 and was released on CD by Arsis in 2007. His poems and criticism have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2006, and elsewhere. He is executive editor of the New Criterion.
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Heretical Hellenism Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination Shanyn Fiske
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Victorians’ relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination challenges that theory and argues that while the information women received from popular sources was fragmentary and often fostered intellectual insecurities, it was precisely the ineffability of the Greek world refracted through popular sources and reconceived through new fields of study that appealed to women writers’ imaginations. he prevailing assumption regarding the
Examining underconsidered sources such as theater history and popular journals, Shanyn Fiske uncovers the many ways that women acquired knowledge of Greek literature, history, and philosophy without formal classical training. Through discussions of women writers such as Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Jane Harrison, Heretical Hellenism demonstrates that women established the foundations of a heretical challenge to traditional humanist assumptions about the uniformity of classical knowledge and about women’s place in literary history. Heretical Hellenism provides a historical rationale for a more expansive definition of classical knowledge and offers an interdisciplinary method for understanding the place of classics both in the nineteenth century and in our own time. Shanyn Fiske is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University at Camden. She is the author of articles on Charlotte Brontë, Jane Harrison, Charles Dickens, and Alicia Little.
Of Related Interest Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London by Michelle Allen
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Come Buy, Come Buy Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing Krista Lysack
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1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. rom the
Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women’s writing and demonstrates how women’s shopping practices are materialized as forms of narrative, poetic, and cultural inscription, showing how women writers emphasize consumerism as productive of pleasure rather than the condition of seduction or loss. Krista Lysack examines works by Christina Rossetti, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Michael Field, as well as the suffragist newspaper Votes for Women, in order to challenge the dominant construction of Victorian femininity as characterized by self-renunciation and the regulation of appetite.
“Krista Lysack’s Come Buy, Come Buy provides an origi nal, revisionary approach to the study of British women’s writing, and its explication of the relationships among consumer culture, identity and citizenship makes an important contribution to nineteenthcentury scholarship.”
Come Buy, Come Buy considers not only literary works, but also a variety of archival sources (shopping guides, women’s fashion magazines, household management guides, newspapers, and advertisements) and cultural practices (department store shopping, shoplifting and kleptomania, domestic economy, and suffragette shopkeeping). This wealth of sources reveals unexpected relationships between consumption, identity, and citizenship, as Lysack traces a genealogy of the woman shopper from dissident domestic spender to aesthetic connoisseur, from curious shop-gazer to political radical.
Krista Lysack teaches in the department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and SEL.
—Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, author of Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History
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Of Related Interest The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860–1914 by Brent Shannon
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The Demon and the Damozel Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti Suzanne M. Waldman
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Victorian culture as the breeding ground for early theories of the unconscious and the divided psyche, The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti offers a new reading of these eminent Victorian siblings’ literature and visual arts. eveloping a perspective on
Suzanne M. Waldman views well-known poems and artworks such as Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel and Venus Verticordia in new ways that expose their authors’ savvy anticipation of concepts that would come to be known as narcissism, fetishism, and the symbolic and imaginary orders, among many others. Waldman makes a strong case for the particular psychoanalytic importance of the Rossettis by looking at how the two Rossetti siblings’ own psyches were divided by conflicts between the period’s religious scruples and its taste for gothic sensationalism. The Demon and the Damozel is a close and contextualized reading of their writings and artwork that displays, for the first time, continuity between the medieval cosmologies these Pre-Raphaelites drew upon and the psychoanalytic theories they looked ahead to—and locates the intricate patterns of proto-psychoanalytic understanding in the rich tapestry of Pre-Raphaelite aestheticism.
Suzanne M. Waldman teaches in the English department at Carleton University, Ottawa.
“ The Demon and the Damozel provides a model of what a psychoanalytic criticism of poetry can be. The readings Waldman offers are astute, nuanced, and beautifully grounded in the details of the poems, which shimmer with meaning in her deft handling of them.” —Beth Newman, author of Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity V I C TOR I A N ST U D I ES
Of Related Interest Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
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Bessie Potter Vonnoh Sculptor of Women Julie Aronson Essay by Janis Conner
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Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monu ments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955) made significant contributions to small bronze sculpture and garden statuary designed for the embellishment of the home. Her work commanded admiration for her fluid and suggestive modeling, graceful lines, and sculptural form. In 1904 Bessie Potter Vonnoh won the gold medal for sculpture at the St. Louis World’s Fair for bronzes of contemporary American women and children that delighted all who saw them. n the
Although Vonnoh’s work is represented today in museums throughout the United States, Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women provides for the first time an intimate and engaging encounter with one of the most widely respected sculptors of her day. Julie Aronson explores how, by concentrating on sculpture for domestic settings that expertly combined naturalism with elegance, Vonnoh negotiated a male-dominated field to create a pathway to professional success and made high-quality sculpture accessible to a wider audience. In an essay that examines Vonnoh’s relationship with her foundries and scrutinizes bronze castings, Janis Conner demystifies baffling issues of authenticity and quality in turn-of-the-century bronzes. This copiously illustrated book, indispensable for all sculpture enthusiasts, accompanies the first exhibition since 1930 dedicated to the art of Bessie Potter Vonnoh. Julie Aronson is Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She is cocurator of the exhibition Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures at the Cincinnati Art Museum and coauthor of its accompanying publication. She was also one of the curatorial team that created the permanent collection display The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City and the editor of its companion volume.
Published in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum art history
Tour schedule October 11, 2008–January 11, 2009 Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut February 7, 2009–May 1, 2009 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama June 6, 2009–September 6, 2009 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Bead International 2008 & Beyond Basketry Edited by Andrea R. Lewis
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his unique book combines two catalogs in one.
Bead International 2008 & Beyond Basketry represents the best of two juried exhibitions held at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio. Beads have long been worn as jewelry, but in Bead International 2008 contemporary bead artists are shaking things up. From fine jewelry to loom weaving to sculpture, the sixty-eight pieces by fifty-one artists in this collection represent some of the most innovative and wellexecuted art in the modern beading world. Considering any pierced object to be a bead, pieces range in style from the traditional to the whimsical as they incorporate a variety of colors and materials. This vibrant collection will spark the reader’s creativity and broaden his or her perspective.
Beast by Betsy Youngquist
When the age-old art form of basketry is combined with contemporary visions and techniques, the result is the striking Beyond Basketry, a collection of sixty-five artworks created by forty-two artists from across the United States. The artworks represented in these beautiful color photographs will challenge the reader’s ideas of what constitutes a basket. All artworks are vessels made of woven materials, but the pieces explore a variety of sizes, colors, shapes, and techniques. Lichtenstein Teapot / Oh Alright by Kate Anderson
Andrea R. Lewis is the executive director of the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio.
Published in association with the Dairy Barn Arts Center Constructivist Basket by Lanny Bergner
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Bead International 2008 and Beyond Basketry joint exhibition dates: May 23–September 1, 2008 The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio www.dairybarn.org.
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Transitions Archaic and Early Woodland Research in the Ohio Country Edited by Martha P. Otto and Brian G. Redmond
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lived in the Ohio region between 5,000 and 2,000 years ago. This was a time of transition, when hunters and gatherers began to grow native seed crops, establish more permanent settlements, and develop complex forms of ritual and ceremonialism, sometimes involving burial mound construction. he late archaic and early woodland peoples
Edited by
The focused archaeological studies described in Transitions: Archaic and Early Woodland Research in the Ohio Country shed light on this important episode in human cultural development. The authors describe important archaeological sites such as the rich Late Archaic settlements of southwestern Ohio and the early Adena Dominion Land Company enclosure in Franklin County. They present detailed accounts of Native American behavior, such as the use of smoking pipes by Adena societies and a reconstruction of mound use and ritual. Transitions is the result of a comprehensive, long-term study focusing on particular areas of Ohio with the most up-to-date and detailed treatment of Ohio’s native cultures during this important time of change. This book will be of great value to students and other readers who wish to go beyond the general and often dated treatments of Ohio archaeology currently available.
Martha P. Otto is Curator of Archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus. She is the author of Ohio’s Prehistoric Peoples. Brian G. Redmond is John Otis Hower Chair and Curator of Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Published in association with the Ohio Archaeological Council Of Related Interest
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The Emergence of the Moundbuilders Edited by Elliot M. Abrams and AnnCorinne Freter
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The Rescue of Joshua Glover A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War
H. Robert Baker “An exemplary case study of the events leading up to the undeservedly obscure Supreme Court decision in Ableman v. Booth (1859) . . . Baker lays out the complex legal proceedings with admirable clarity.”—Mark V. Tushnet, Harvard Law School “The Rescue of Joshua Glover is an important new examination of how American constitutional law and popular culture intersected in the antebellum era. . . . A valuable case study of the ways in which the Constitution was reshaped outside of the courts as well as inside of them.”—Daniel W. Hamilton, author of The Limits of Sovereignty
272 pages, illus. pb 978-0-8214-1813-0 $24.95s
Also in the Series The Black Laws by Stephen Middleton The Fairer Death by Victor L. Streib Frontiers of Freedom by Nikki M. Taylor The History of Indiana Law Edited by David J. Bodenhamer & Hon. Randall T. Shepard The History of Michigan Law Edited by Paul Finkelman & Martin J. Hershock
The History of Nebraska Law Edited by Alan G. Gless The History of Ohio Law Edited by Michael Les Benedict & John F. Winkler A Place of Recourse by Roberta Sue Alexander
Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest Series editors: Paul Finkelman and L. Diane Barnes
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Missouri’s War The Civil War in Documents
Edited by Silvana R. Siddali The documents collected in Missouri’s War reveal what factors motivated Missourians to remain loyal to the Union or to fight for the Confederacy, how they coped with their internal divisions and conflicts, and how they experienced the end of slavery in the state. Private letters, diary entries, song lyrics, official Union and Confederate army reports, newspaper editorials, and sermons illuminate the war within and across Missouri’s borders.
256 pages, illus. pb 978-0-8214-1732-4 $16.95t
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Missouri’s War also highlights the experience of free and enslaved African Americans before the war, as enlisted Union soldiers, and in their effort to gain rights after the war.
The Civil War in the Great Interior Series editors: Martin J. Hershock and Christine Dee
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Contours of White Ethnicity Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America Yiorgos Anagnostou
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Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates how a generalized view of American white ethnics misses the specific identity issues of particular groups as well as their internal differences. n
Interdisciplinary in scope, Contours of White Ethnicity uses the example of Greek America to illustrate how the immigrant past can be used to combat racism and be used to bring about solidarity between white ethnics and racial minorities. Illuminating the importance of the past in the construction of ethnic identities today, Anagnostou presents the politics of evoking the past to create community, affirm identity, and nourish reconnection with ancestral roots, then identifies the struggles to neutralize oppressive pasts. Although it draws from the scholarship on a specific ethnic group, Contours of White Ethnicity exhibits a sophisticated, interdisciplinary methodology, which makes it of particular interest to scholars researching ethnicity and race in the United States and for those charting the directions of future research for white ethnicities.
Yiorgos Anagnostou is an associate professor of modern Greek and American ethnic studies at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on ethnicity and immigration in various scholarly disciplines, including ethnography, folklore, sociology, and diaspora and cultural studies .
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2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the eve of the post–World War II civil rights movement. n july
Charles Lumpkins shows that black residents of East St. Louis had engaged in formal politics since the 1870s, exerting influence through the ballot and through patronage in a city dominated by powerful real estate interests even as many African Americans elsewhere experienced setbacks in exercising their political and economic rights. While Lumpkins asserts that the race riots were a pogrom—an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group—orchestrated by certain businessmen intent on preventing black residents from attaining political power and on turning the city into a “sundown” town permanently cleared of African Americans, he also demonstrates how the African American community survived. He situates the activities of the black citizens of East St. Louis in the context of the larger story of the African American quest for freedom, citizenship, and equality.
Charles Lumpkins teaches history and African American studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Madness in Buenos Aires Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1890–1983 Jonathan Ablard
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Buenos Aires examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state’s relationship to modernity and social change during the twentieth century, while also examining the often contentious place of psychiatry in modern Argentina. adness in
Drawing on a number of previously untapped archival sources, author Jonathan Ablard uses the experience of psychiatric patients as a case study of how the Argentine state developed and functioned over the last century and of how Argentines interacted with it. Ablard argues that the capacity of the state to provide social services and professional opportunities and to control the populace was often constrained to an extent not previously recognized in scholarly literature. These limitations, including a shortage of hospitals, insufficient budgets, and political and economic instability, shaped the experiences of patients, their families, and doctors and also influenced medical and lay ideas about the nature and significance of mental illness. Furthermore, these experiences, and the institutional framework in which they were imbedded, had a profound impact on how Argentine psychiatrists discussed not only mental illness but also a host of related themes including immigration, poverty, and the role of the state in mitigating social problems.
“Ablard . . . shows something that many scholars have suspected but no one has been able to prove: that despite discourses and intentions, the Argentine state has been historically weak and therefore its ability for exercising social control has been very limited. I hope that Ablard’s book will encourage other scholars to take a fresh look at other dimensions of social control in Argentina.” —Mariano Ben Plotkin, author of Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present
Jonathan Ablard is an assistant professor at Ithaca College, where he teaches Latin American history.
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Cast Out Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective Edited by A. L. Beier and Paul Ocobock
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he connections among vagabondage and human labor,
mobility, status, and behavior have placed vagrancy at the crossroads of a multitude of political, social, and economic processes. Vagrancy and homelessness have been used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to societal and governmental responses to poverty through charity, welfare, and prosecution. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied. Cast Out attempts to bridge some of the divides that have discouraged a world history of vagrancy and homelessness. This ambitious collection spans seven centuries, five continents, and several academic disciplines.
“This impressive collection of essays on vagrancy, homelessness, and poverty has truly global historical dimensions. It covers seven centuries and five continents, has a superb introductory overview, and is comparative social history at its best. It deserves to have a wide readership.”
The essays include discussions of the lives of the underclass, strategies for surviving and escaping poverty, the criminalization of poverty by the state, the rise of welfare and development programs, the relationship between imperial powers and colonized peoples, and the struggle to achieve independence after colonial rule. By juxtaposing these histories, the authors explore vagrancy as a common response to poverty, labor dislocation, and changing social norms, as well as how this strategy changed over time and adapted to regional peculiarities.
—Robert Tignor, author of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present
A. L. Beier is a professor of history and department chair at Illinois State University. His books include Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560 –1640; as coeditor, London, 1500 –1700: The Making of the Metropolis; again as coeditor, The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone.
Paul Ocobock is currently a doctoral student in the history department at
Research in International Studies Global and Comparative Studies Series No. 8
Princeton University.
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manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world’s major regions, is now increasingly engaged in the production of this crop for the global market, and debates about the pros and cons of this trend have intensified. he textile industry was one of the first
Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa illuminates the connections between Africa and the global economy. The editors offer a compelling set of linked studies that detail one aspect of the globalization process in Africa, the cotton commodity chain. From global policy debates, to impacts on the natural environment, to the economic and social implications of this process, Hanging by a Thread explores cotton production in the postcolonial period from different disciplinary perspectives and in a range of national contexts. This approach makes the globalization process palpable by detailing how changes at the macroeconomic level play out on the ground in the world’s poorest region. Hanging by a Thread offers new insights on the region in a global context and provides a critical perspective on current and future development policy for Africa.
William G. Moseley is an associate professor of geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of two editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues; and coeditor of The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings and African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities.
Research in International Studies Global and Comparative Studies Series No. 9
Leslie C. Gray is an associate professor of environ mental studies at Santa Clara University. She has published articles on environment and development in journals such as World Development, Africa, African Studies Review, Development and Change, Geoforum, and Geographical Journal.
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Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS Marc Epprecht
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Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht’s previous book, Hungochani (which focuses expli citly on same-sex desire in southern Africa) to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed—by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is an eloquently written, accessible book, based on a rich and diverse range of sources, that will find enthusiastic audiences in classrooms and in the general public. eterosexual
Epprecht argues that Africans, just like people all over the world, have always had a range of sexualities and sexual identities. Over the course of the last two centuries, however, African societies south of the Sahara have come to be viewed as singularly heterosexual. Epprecht carefully traces the many routes by which this singularity, this heteronormativity, became a dominant culture. A fascinating story that will surely generate lively debate Epprecht makes his project speak to a range of literatures—queer theory, the new imperial history, African social history, queer and women’s studies, and biomedical literature on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He does this with a light enough hand that his story is not bogged down by endless references to particular debates.
“Marc Epprecht boldly challenges a whole series of boundaries and blind spots in the history of African scholarship. This book should make for valuable controversy—both intellectually and politically— in contemporary Africa.” —T. Dunbar Moodie, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Heterosexual Africa? aims to understand an enduring stereotype about Africa and Africans. It asks how Africa came to be defined as a “homosexual-free zone” during the colonial era, and how this idea not only survived the transition to independence but flourished under conditions of globalization and early panicky responses to HIV/AIDS.
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Series editors: Jean Allman and Allen Isaacman
Copublished with the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, South Africa
Marc Epprecht is associate professor in the departments of history and global development studies at Queen’s University. He is the 2006 winner of the Canadian Association of African Studies Joel Gregory Prize for his book Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa.
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Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa Edited by Henri Médard and Shane Doyle
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Great Lakes Region of East Africa looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history. The authors show that there was no single form of slavery in this region, and the line between enslaved and nonslave labor was fine. This book also challenges the assertion that domestic slavery increased in Africa as the result of the international trade. lavery in the
Contents: Introduction by Henri Médard • Language Evidence of Slavery to the Eighteenth Century by David Schoenbrun • The Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi 1860–1900 by Jan-Georg Deutsch • Slavery & Forced Labour in the Eastern Congo 1850–1910 by David Northrup • Legacies of Slavery in North West Uganda ‘The One-Elevens’ by Mark Leopold • Human Booty in Buganda: The Seizure of People in War, c.1700–c.1900 by Richard Reid • Stolen People & Autonomous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Buganda by Holly Hanson • Women’s Experiences of Slavery in Late Nineteenth- & Early Twentieth-Century Uganda by Michael W. Tuck • Slavery & Social Oppression in Ankole 1890–1940 by Edward I. Steinhart • The Slave Trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the Beginning of German Colonisation 1890–1906 by Jean-Pierre Chretien • Bunyoro & the Demography of Slavery Debate by Shane Doyle
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Henri Médard is at M.A.L.D. in Montreuil.
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War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa The Patterns and Meanings of State-Level Conflict in the Nineteenth Century Richard Reid
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Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa examines the nature and objectives of violence in the region in the nineteenth century. It is particularly concerned with highland Ethiopia and the Great Lakes. It will be of use to those interested in military history and to anyone involved in modern development and conflict resolution seeking to understand the deeper historical roots of African warfare. ar in
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Contents: I THEORY & CONTEXT • African War in Historical & Theoretical Perspective • Antiquity & Inheritance • Restorative Violence & the Weight of History • II ARMIES Tools & Tactics • Organisation & Function • III PROCESS, IMPACT & CULTURE Cost & Profit • War & Economic Change • Violence & Society • The Resolution & Avoidance of Conflict • The Culture of Conflict • Conclusions: War & the Making of State & Society
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on Africa’s societies, polities, and economies. This book presents African scholars’ views of why conflicts start in their continent. The causes of conflict are too often examined by scholars from the countries that run the proxy wars and sell the arms to fuel them. This volume offers theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded, and compelling analyses of the roots of African conflicts. iolent conflicts have exacted a heavy toll
“Africa is no more prone to violent conflicts than other regions. Indeed, Africa’s share of the more than 180 million people who died from conflicts and atrocities in the twentieth century is relatively modest. . . . This is not to underestimate the immense impact of violent conflicts on Africa; it is merely to emphasize the need for more balanced debate and commentary.”
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—From the introduction by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Alfred Nhema is the executive secretary of OSSREA, Addis Ababa. He is the author of Democracy in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Liberalization.
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The Resolution of African Conflicts The Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Edited by Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
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African conflicts and demonstrates that peace is too important to be left to outsiders. his book offers analyses of a range of
“These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies. They offer sober and serious analyses, eschewing the sensationalism of the western media and the sophistry of some of the scholars in the global North for whom African conflicts are at worst a distraction and at best a confirmation of their pet racist and petty universalist theories.”
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Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South African War in 1899. For slaves and slave owners alike, incorporation into the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century brought fruits that were bittersweet. The gentry had initially done well by accepting British rule, but were ultimately faced with the legislated ending of servile labor. To slaves and Khoisan servants, British rule brought freedom, but a freedom that remained limited. The gentry accomplished this feat only with great difficulty. Increasingly, their dominance of the countryside was threatened by English-speaking merchants and money-lenders, a challenge that stimulated early Afrikaner nationalism. The alliances that ensured nineteenth-century colonial stability all but fell apart as the descendants of slaves and Khoisan turned on their erstwhile masters during the South African War of 1899–1902.
“This is a major work of South African history, putting economics and exploitation back where they belong, in the centre of the country’s historiography.”
Wayne Dooling is a lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
—Robert Ross, Leiden University
Research in International Studies Africa Series No. 87 Copublished with the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, South Africa
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BitterSweet The Memoir of a Chinese-Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century Stuart Pearson
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Chinese have left the mainland over the last two centuries in search of new beginnings. The majority went to Southeast Asia, and the single largest destination was the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. Wherever the Chinese landed they prospered, but in Indonesia, even though some families made fortunes, they never felt they quite belonged. BitterSweet is the account of one Chinese-Indonesian family whose story stretches over the generations as their fortunes waxed and waned through revolution, riots, war, depression, occupation, and finally emigration to yet another country—Australia. illions of
Research in International Studies S outheast A sia S eries No. 117 Copublished with NUS Press
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BitterSweet offers a unique insight into a world rarely seen before. An Sudibjo’s memoir, written from a woman’s perspective, is a valuable resource for anyone studying Indonesian history or the Chinese Diaspora.
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Being “Dutch” in the Indies A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920 Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben Translated by Wendie Shaffer
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“Dutch” in the Indies portrays Dutch colonial territories in Asia not as mere societies under foreign occupation but rather as a “Creole empire.” In telling the story of the Creole empire, the authors draw on government archives, newspapers, and literary works as well as genealogical studies that follow the fortunes of individual families over several generations. They also critically analyze theories relating to culturally and racially mixed communities. The picture of the Indies they develop shatters conventional understandings of colonial rule in Asia. eing
Research in International Studies S outheast A sia S eries No. 116 Copublished with NUS Press
Ulbe Bosma is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
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The Demon and the Damozel, 9 Dooling, Wayne, 25 Doyle, Shane, 23
Bailey, Lucy E., 4 Baker, H. Robert, 13 Bead International 2008 & Beyond Basketry, 11 Beers, Diane L., 15 Beier, A. L., 20 Being Dutch in the West Indies, 26 Bessie Potter Vonnoh, 10 Bittersweet, 26 Blood of the Prodigal, 1 Broken English, 1 Bosma, Ulbe, 26 Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement, 16
Gaus, P. L., 1 Good Roots, 16 Gray, Leslie C., 21
Epprecht, Marc, 22 Evidence of My Existence, 16
The Fields, 14 Finkelman, Paul, 5 Fiske, Shanyn, 7 For the Prevention of Cruelty, 15
Haigh, Jane G., 16 Hanging by a Thread, 21 Heretical Hellenism, 7 Heterosexual Africa?, 22 Holy Week, 16 House of Incest, 14
In the Balance of Power, 2
Lewis, Janet, 14 Logsdon, Gene, 15 Lo Scalzo, Jim, 16 Lumpkins, Charles, 18 Lysack, Krista, 8
Madness in Buenos Aires, 19 The Man Who Killed the Deer, 15 Masked Gods, 15 Mayer, Melanie J., 15 Médard, Henri, 23 The Memoir and the Memoirist, 16 Missouri’s War, 13 Moseley, William G., 21 The Mound Builders, 15
Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-first Century, 14 The Town, 14 Transitions, 12 The Trees, 14
Nhema, Alfred, 24 Nin, Anaïs, 14
Ocobock, Paul R., 20 Otto, Martha P., 12 Out of the Woods, 16 Parker, Ron, 15 Payne, Phillip G., 3 Pearson, Stuart L., 26 A Prayer for the Night, 1
Jordt, Ingrid, 16 Cast a Blue Shadow, 1 Cast Out, 20 Clouds without Rain, 1 Come Buy, Come Buy, 8 Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism, 5 The Contours of White Ethnicity, 17 Davis, James E., 14 Dead Last, 3
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 14 Kennon, Donald R., 5 Klondike Women, 15
Raben, Remco, 26 Redmond, Brian G., 12 Reid, Richard, 23 The Rescue of Joshua Glover, 13
Ladders to Fire, 14 Larson, Thomas, 16 Legacy, 14 Lewis, Andrea R., 11
The Resolution of African Conflicts, 24 Rhoades, Nancy L., 4 Richter, Conrad, 14 The Roots of African Conflicts, 24
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