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Poetry.........................................1
american literature .................2–3
Memoir ......................................4
Self-help .....................................5
Textile arts ..................................6
Contemporary arts......................7
Polish studies ..............................8
History........................................9
Outside the Ordinary
Victorian studies .......................10
literary studies....................11–12
Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection
History......................................13
edited by Amy Miller Dehan
Southeast asian studies ...... 14–15
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Ecology and history............. 16–17
african history .................... 18–19
Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter
Philena’s Friendship Quilt
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
A Quaker Farewell to Ohio
by Neal Pease
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by Lynda Salter Chenoweth
african studies.................... 20–23
Recent releases ................24–25
Bestsellers...............................26
Index ....................................... 27
Sales Information................... 28
Cover: Chimu Diver, 2001, by william Morris Blown glass with shells and steel
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the swallow anthology of new american Poets
Edited by David Yezzi
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he Swallow anthology of new american PoetS gathers the work of thirty-five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology identifies a group of poets who have recently begun to make an important mark on contemporary poetry, and their accomplishment and influence will only grow with time. the poets of The Swallow Anthology do not constitute a school or movement; rather they are a group of unique artists working at the top of their craft. as editor David yezzi writes in his introduction, “here is a group of poets who have, perhaps for the first time since the modernist revolution, returned to a happy détente between warring camps. this is a new kind of poet, who, dissatisfied with the climate of extremes, has found a balance between innovation and received form, the terror beneath the classical and the order underpinning the romantic. this new unified sensibility is no watered-down admixture, no easy compromise, but, rather, the vital spirit behind the most accomplished poetry being writ ten by america’s new poets.”
Poets include: Craig arnold, David Barber, rick Barot, Priscilla Becker, Geoffrey Brock, Dan Brown, Peter Campion, Bill Coyle, Morri Creech, erica Dawson, Ben Downing, andrew Feld, John Foy, Jason Gray, George Green, Joseph harrison, ernest hilbert, adam Kirsch, Joanie Mackowski, eric Mchenry, Molly McQuade, Joshua Mehigan, wilmer Mills, Joe Osterhaus, J. allyn rosser, a. e. stallings, Pimone triplett, Catherine tufariello, Deborah warren, rachel wetzsteon, Greg wil liamson, Christian wiman, Mark wunderlich, David yezzi, and C. Dale young. David Yezzi ’s books of poetry are Azores, Sad Is
Eros, and The Hidden Model. his libretto for a cham
ber 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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Aubade On a dead street in a high wall a wooden gate I don’t recall ever seeing open is today and I who happen to pass this way in passing glimpse a garden lit by dark lamps at the heart of it. —Bill Coyle
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the Collected novels of Paul laurence Dunbar Edited by Herbert Woodward Martin, Ronald Primeau, and Gene Andrew Jarrett
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t long lAst, critics, scholArs, And lovers of fiction
can experi ence the full range and imaginative powers of the collected novels of Paul laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). in these four novels, readers can explore the characters, landscape, atmosphere, and visionary sensibilities of this preeminent african american writer.
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Of Related Interest In His Own Voice: The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar Edited by Herbert Woodward Martin and Ronald Primeau Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
in the prime of his literary career, between 1898 and 1902, Dunbar pub lished The Uncalled, The Love of Landry, The Fanatics, and The Sport of the Gods. Despite widespread critical interest, the novels have been largely subordinated to his short stories and poetry. The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar redresses this imbalance by showing that the novels are also reflections of his exceptional literary talent. while cor recting and standardizing the texts, the editors describe the major forms and themes of the novels, putting them in the proper contexts of Dun bar’s creativity, his professional career, and his place in american literary history. each novel explores, in varying degrees, the issues of race, class, politics, region, morality, and spirituality and challenges the assumption that black novelists should cast only blacks as main characters and as messengers of racial-political unity. The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar presents all four novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century african american writers who followed him into the american canon. The Collected Nov els of Paul Laurence Dunbar will interest students, teachers, scholars, and general readers for generations to come. Herbert Woodward Martin is a professor emeritus of english at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. he is the editor of two previous volumes of Dunbar’s work and is the author of eight volumes of poetry.
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Ronald Primeau is a professor of english and director of the Ma in humanities Program at Central Michigan University. he is the author of books on Paul laurence Dunbar, herbert woodward Martin, edgar lee Masters, and the literature of the american highway. Gene Andrew Jarrett is an associate professor of english and african american studies at Boston University. he is the author of Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature and editor or coeditor of The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938; African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader, and The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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the Complete stories of Paul laurence Dunbar Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett and Thomas Lewis Morgan Foreword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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he son of former slaves, Paul laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in american literature at the turn of the twentieth century. thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, as well as numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world.
in the century following his death, Dunbar slipped into relative ob scurity, remembered mainly for his dialect poetry or as a footnote to other more canonical figures of the period. The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar showcases his gifts as a writer of short fiction and provides key insights into the tensions and themes of Dunbar’s literary achievement. the 103 stories Dunbar wrote between 1890 and 1905 reveal his attempts to maintain his artistic integrity while struggling with america’s racist stereotypes. Making Dunbar’s short fiction available for the first time in one convenient paperback, The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar illustrates the complex ity of his literary life and legacy.
“a Herculean task of scholarship.” —Ohioana Quarterly
“One hundred years after the death of Dunbar, he is most remembered for his poem ‘we wear the Mask,’ evoking the balance required of blacks to survive and prosper in nineteenth-century america. This collection of 103 of Dunbar’s short stories written between 1890 and 1905, including wellknown pieces and many that have gone out of print, allows readers to see how the first african american writer to enjoy huge success evolved as a writer. This is a valuable collection for readers interested in Dunbar and his place in african american and american literature.” —Booklist, starred review Thomas Lewis Morgan is an assistant professor of english at the University of Dayton. his research and teaching interests focus on criti cal race theory in late-nineteenth-century american and african ameri can literature, specifically as it applies to the politics of narrative form. Gene Andrew Jarrett is an associate professor of english and african american studies at Boston University. he is the author of Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature and editor or coeditor of The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892–1938; African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader, and The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar. w w w. o h i o s w a l l o w. c o m
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Power in the Blood A Family Narrative
Linda Tate
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Blood: A FAmily nArrAtive traces linda tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. in her search for the truth of her own past, tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, tennessee, alabama, illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. as she began to locate distant relatives— fifth, sixth, seventh cousins, all descended from her great-great grandmother louisiana—they gathered in kitchens and living rooms, held family reunions, and swapped stories. a past that had long been buried slowly came to light as family members shared the pieces of the family’s tale that had been passed along to them. ower in the
“I think Power in the Blood is a remarkable memoir, honestly and beautifully written despite the painful nature of some of the material. This is a big, human, and entirely revelatory book: it shows us all just how these things can happen, and how they can continue to happen down through generations. Linda Tate doesn’t really lay blame or make judgments; she shows real wisdom and compassion throughout.”
SerieS in race, ethnicity, and Gender in appalachia
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—lee Smith
Power in the Blood is a dramatic family history that reads like a novel, as tate’s compelling narrative reveals one mystery after another. innovative and groundbreaking in its approach to research and storytelling, Power in the Blood shows that exploring a family story can enhance understanding of history, life, and culture and that honest examination of the past can lead to healing and liberation in the present.
Linda Tate is a faculty member in the University of Denver’s writing Program. she is the author of A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South and the editor of Conversations with Lee Smith. she taught at shep herd University in west virginia for fifteen years and now lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Series editors: Lynda Ann Ewen and Marie Tedesco appalachian studies 256 pages, illus., 6 x 9 978-0-8214-1871-0 hc $46.95s 978-0-8214-1872-7 pb $22.95t aPRIl
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Of Related Interest Sarah’s Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek by Lenore McComas Coberly
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searching for soul A Survivor’s Guide Bobbe Tyler
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o dive deeP into your inner life.
to explore what matters most: wisdom, happiness, the pain of loss, self-accountability, aging, and more. Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide is a breathtakingly honest case study: a self-examination resulting in the discovery of a meaningful life. Bobbe tyler blends her story with in-depth commentary, framing each chapter as a response to one of a set of questions, appended to the book, entitled The Harvesting Wisdom Interview. in her search for fulfillment, tyler asks and answers the most difficult questions about the trauma of mental illness, divorce, financial and emotional despair. the rewards of this hard-won wisdom belong not to her alone but by way of her unflinching examination of life’s many paths, dead ends, and circuitous routes—to anyone who has faced a life-choice gone wrong—or known the indescribable recovery from addiction or abuse, or longed for the peace that seems just out of reach. this searing self-appraisal provides hope and fellowship for those who seek to know themselves better.
“Bobbe Tyler has taken a deeply considered, thoroughly honest look into her own cul-de-sacs—painful transitions that finally released the reality of her soul. Her readers will find themselves asking questions about their own life patterns. . . . A compelling journey written in depth with intelligence and infinite love.”
“Though our lives and hearts are often fraught, each page of Bobbe Tyler’s book offers some new invitation to grow our appreciation and gratitude for the ungraspable, nitty-gritty miracle of being a human being. The insights she shares with us about relationships, regrets, losses, the joys of finding oneself—all the stuff that life is made of— ring true in the convincing language of an individual who has won her authenticity and learned that life, just as it is, is so much more than she—or we—can ever imagine.”
—Marion woodman, Jungian analyst, author of Bone: Dying into Life
Bobbe Tyler is a nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator who worked for several corporations including lucasfilm, ltd. and the times Mirror Company. she lives in Cambria, California.
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—James Finley, clinical psychologist and author of Merton’s Palace of Nowhere and The Contemplative Heart
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Philena’s Friendship Quilt A Quaker Farewell to Ohio
Lynda Salter Chenoweth
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Other books in the series Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve by Ricky Clark Uncommon Threads: Ohio’s Art Quilt Revolution by Gayle A. Pritchard Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley by Sue C. Cummings
OhiO Quilt SerieS Series editors: Ricky Clark, Ellice Ronsheim, and Donna Sue Groves textile art
n PhilenA’s FriendshiP Quilt: A Quaker Farewell to Ohio, lynda salter Chenoweth discovers the story behind a Quaker signature quilt made in Ohio, in 1853. Chenoweth practices what she calls “fabric archaeology” to reveal not only the identity of the quilt recipient and details of her life and community but also a striking feature of the quilt itself—a hidden design element created by the deliberate placement of names on the quilt’s surface. Chenoweth also describes nineteenth-century signature quilts and their appeal to Quaker quiltmakers.
signature quilts, also known as friendship quilts, were often given as mementos to mark important community events. Chenoweth shares the methodology used to determine that Philena’s quilt was made for Philena Cooper hambleton, a resident of Butler township in Colum biana County before she left Ohio to begin a new life in iowa with her husband and two daughters. Chenoweth devotes the final chapter to the story of Philena’s life and that of her immediate family. it follows her from her birth as Philena evaline Cooper in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, in 1822, until her death in tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1915. the details uncovered from information inscribed on the face of this quilt illustrate the value of quilts as important documents from which history can be recreated and past lives understood. Philena’s Friendship Quilt is the fourth book in the highly popular Ohio Quilt series. the series tells the stories behind the social and historical circumstances that have influenced this unique and enduring american craft. Lynda Salter Chenoweth is a quilter who has lived in sonoma, Californiasince retiring from the University of California at Berkeley. her quilt research focuses on nineteenthcentury signature quilts.
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Outside the Ordinary Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection Edited by Amy Miller Dehan With an essay by Matthew Kangas
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ne of the Premier PrivAte collections of contemporary craft, the nancy and David wolf Collection features outstanding creations by the foremost artists working in craft media today, including howard Ben tré, Dale Chihuly, william Morris, wendell Castle, David ellsworth,virginia Dotson, Michael lucero, Michelle holzapfel, theman statom, Ginny ruffner, akio takamori, and Betty woodman.
Outside the Ordinary focuses on the role, development, and perspec tive of the private collector within the context of the ever-evolving contemporary craft movement. with more than sixty-seven color plates of artwork from the highly regarded wolf Collection, it makes a significant and stunning addition to any library.
Amy Miller Dehan, associate curator of Decorative arts and Design at the Cincinnati art Museum, is the curator of the exhibition that accompanies the publication of this catalogue. she has contributed to a number of publications, including Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors.
Of Related Interest Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors edited by Jennifer L. Howe
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Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ce ramics from the Wolf Collection introduces audiences to sixty-seven masterworks selected from this vast collection, carefully documented and photographed in full color. at the heart of this seminal publica tion are an in-depth interview with collectors nancy and David wolf conducted by amy Miller Dehan and a scholarly essay by contempo rary craft authority and critic Matthew Kangas. Dehan’s interview reveals the collectors’ impetus and strategies for assembling this im portant collection, and Kangas’s essay addresses the history, growth, and future of the contemporary craft movement—with a particular focus on glass, wood, and ceramics. Untitled by David Sengel
exhibit dates: Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary art in glass, wood, and Ceramics from the wolf Collection July to September 2009 Published in association with the Cincinnati art Museum
contemporary arts 176 pages, 67 full-color plates, 8 1/2 x 11 978-0-8214-1860-4 hc $50.00s 978-0-8214-1861-1 pb $30.00s MaY
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rome’s Most Faithful Daughter The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
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PolanD reaPPeareD on The maP of europe after world war i, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as “rome’s Most Faithful Daughter.” all the same, the relations of the second Polish republic with the Church—both its representatives inside the country and the holy see itself—proved far more difficult than expected. hen an inDePenDenT
Based on original research in the libraries and depositories of four countries, including recently opened collections in the vatican secret archives, Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939 presents the first scholarly his tory of the close but complex political relationship of Poland with the Catholic Church during the interwar period. neal Pease addresses, for example, the centrality of Poland in the vatican’s plans to convert the soviet Union to Catholicism and the curious reluctance of each succes sive Polish government to play the role assigned to it. he also reveals the complicated story of the relations of Polish Catholicism with Jews, Freemasons, and other minorities within the country and what the response of Pope Pius Xii to the nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939 can tell us about his controversial policies during world war ii. Both authoritative and lively, Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter shows that the tensions generated by the interplay of church and state in Pol ish public life exerted great influence not only on the history of Poland but also on the wider Catholic world in the era between the wars.
pOliSh and pOliSh-american StudieS SerieS Series editor: John J. Bukowczyk
Of Related Interest
polish studies 312 pages, illus., 6 x 9 978-0-8214-1855-0 hc $49.95s 978-0-8214-1856-7 pb $26.95s MaY
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Neal Pease is an associate professor of history at the University of wisconsin–Milwaukee. he is the author of Poland, the United States, and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919–1933.
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The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926–1935 by Eva Plach
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Children in slavery through the ages Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller
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has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concen trates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among the enslaved across a significant range of earlier times and other places; its companion volume will examine the children enslaved in recent american contexts and in the contemporary/modern world. he vAst literAture on slAvery
in this first collection to focus on children in slavery, leading scholars bring our thinking about slaving and slavery to new levels of compre hensiveness and complexity. they further provide substantial historical depth to the abuse of children for sexual and labor purposes that has become a significant humanitarian concern of governments and private organizations around the world. the collected essays in Children in Slavery through the Ages funda mentally reconstruct our understanding of enslavement by exploring the role of children in slavery and rejecting the tendency to narrowly equate slavery with the forced labor of adult males. the volume’s historical angle highlights many implications of child slavery by examining the variety of children’s roles—among them, manual laborers, domestic servants, court entertainers, and eunuchs—and the worldwide regions in which the child slave trade existed. Gwyn Campbell, Canada research Chair in indian Ocean world history at McGill University, is the author and editor of many works, including Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar. Suzanne Miers is professor emerita of history at Ohio University. she is the author of Slavery in the Twentieth Century and coeditor of The End of Slavery and other books. Joseph C. Miller is the t. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of history at the University of virginia. he is the author of Kings and Kinsmen, Way of Death, and works on the world history of slavery.
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“This anthology epitomizes the strengths of the new history of slavery: a world-wide perspective that cuts across time and space . . . and emphasizes the actual experience of enslavement and on enslaved peoples as active agents with their own distinct voices.” —Steven Mintz, author of Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood
Of related interest Women and Slavery, Volume One: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic Women and Slavery, Volume Two: The Modern Atlantic Edited by gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller
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Making a Man Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Gwen Hyman
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ruel And truffles, wine And gin,
opium and cocaine. Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel addresses consumption of food, drink, and drugs in the conspicuously consuming nineteenth century in order to explore the question of what, in fact, makes a man in novels of the period. Gwen hyman analyzes the rituals of dining room, drawing room, opium den, and cocaine lab and the ways in which these alimentary behaviors make, unmake, and remake the gentlemanly body. the gentleman, Making a Man argues, is a dangerous alimental force. threatened with placelessness, he seeks to locate and mark himself through his feasting and fasting. But in doing so, he inevitably threat ens to starve, to subsume, to swallow the community around him. the gentleman is at once fundamental and fundamentally threatening to the health of the nation: his alimental monstrousness constitutes the night mare of the period’s striving, anxious, alimentally fraught middle class. Making a Man makes use of food history and theory, literary criti cism, anthropology, gender theory, economics, and social criticism to read gentlemanly consumers from Mr. woodhouse, the gruel-eater in Jane austen’s Emma, through the vampire and the men who hunt him in Bram stoker’s Dracula. hyman argues that appetite is a crucial means of casting light on the elusive identity of the gentleman, a figure who is the embodiment of power and yet is hardly embodied in victorian literature. Gwen Hyman is an assistant professor of humani ties at the Cooper Union in new york City, where she also directs the Center for writing and lan guage arts. her work on food, literature, and culture has been published in Gastronomica and Victorian Literature and Culture, and she is the coauthor, with andrew Carmellini, of Urban Italian: True Stories and Simple Recipes from a Life in Food.
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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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Victorian Physiological Poetics
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of its formal effects, linking the rhythms of the human body to the natural pulsation of the universe. in Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics Jason r. rudy connects formal poetic innova tions to developments in the electrical and physiological sciences, arguing that the electrical sciences and bodily poetics cannot be separated, and that they came together with special force in the years between the 1830s, which witnessed the invention of the electric telegraph, and the 1870s, when James Clerk Maxwell’s electric field theory transformed the study of electrodynamics. ictoriAn Poetry shocks with the PhysicAlity
Combining formal poetic analysis with cultural history, rudy traces the development of victorian physiological poetics from the romantic poetess tradition through to the works of alfred tennyson, the “spas modic” poets, elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley hopkins, and algernon swinburne, among others. he demonstrates how poetic rhythm came increasingly to be understood throughout the nineteenth century as a physiological mechanism, as poets across class, sex, and national boundaries engaged intensely and in a variety of ways with the human body’s subtle response to rhythmic patterns. whether that opportunity for transcendence was interpersonal or spiritual in nature, nineteenth-century poets looked to electricity as a model for overcom ing boundaries, for communicating across the gaps between sound and sense, between emotion and thought, and—perhaps—between individuals in the modern world.
“Rudy’s study opens our eyes to an undeniably significant development in English poetry that critics have largely ignored. This is a great achievement.” —Joseph Bristow, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
Electric Meters will appeal to those interested in poetry of any period and particularly those interested in nineteenth-century culture and history. Jason R. Rudy is an assistant professor of english at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Making words Matter The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature Ambreen Hai
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hy should sAlmAn rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure “haram” flesh from which the blood has not been drained? why should rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child-agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? why should e. M. Forster evoke through the indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? in Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, ambreen hai argues that these writers focus self-reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored, and that this central concern with literary agency is embedded in, indeed definitive of, colonial and postcolonial literature.
Making Words Matter contends that the figure of the human body is central to the self-imagining of the text in the world because the body uniquely concretizes three dimensions of agency: it is at once the site of autonomy, instrumentality, and subjection. hai’s work exemplifies a new trend in postcolonial studies: to combine aesthetics and politics and to offer a historically and theoretically informed mode of interpretation that is sophisticated, lucid, and accessible. this is the first study to identify and examine the rich convergence of issues and to chart their dynamic. hai opens up the field of postcolonial literary studies to fresh questions, engaging knowledgeably with earlier scholarship and drawing on interdisciplinary theory to read both wellknown and lesser-known texts in a new light. it should be of interest internationally to students and scholars in a variety of fields including British, victorian, modernist, colonial, or postcolonial literary studies, queer or cultural studies, south asian studies, history, and anthropology.
Ambreen Hai is an associate professor of english literature and language at smith College, where she teaches literary theory and anglophone postcolonial and British literature. her previous publications include articles on Kipling, Forster, rushdie, sidwa, suleri, and Dangarembga.
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incidental architect William Thornton and the Cultural Life of early Washington, D.C., 1794–1828 Gordon S. Brown
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hile the mAjority of scholArshiP on early washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon s. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the late 1700s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city’s own.
when william and anna Maria thornton arrived in washington, D.C., in 1794, the new nation’s capital was little more than a raw vil lage. the edinburgh-educated thornton and his accomplished wife brought with them the values of the scottish enlightenment, an en thusiasm for the arts, and a polished urbanity that was lacking in the little city emerging from the swamps along the Potomac. thornton’s talents were manifold: he is perhaps best known as the original archi tect of the Capitol building, but he also served as a city commissioner and as director of the Patent Office, where his own experimentation in steam navigation embroiled him in a long-running dispute with inventor robert Fulton. in spite of their general preoccupation with politics and real estate development, washington’s citizens gradually created a network of cultural institutions—theaters, libraries and booksellers, music venues, churches, schools, and even colleges and intellectual associa tions—that began to satisfy their aspirations. Incidental Architect is a fascinating account of how the city’s cultural and social institutions were shaped by its earliest citizens.
perSpectiveS On the art and architectural hiStOry Of the united StateS capitOl Series editor: Donald R. Kennon
retired diplomat Gordon S. Brown is the author of The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily and Toussaint’s Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution.
Published in association with the U.S. Capitol Historical Society
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sino-Malay trade and Diplomacy from the tenth through the Fourteenth Century Derek Heng
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in the international economy for two thousand years and has historically exerted enormous influence over the development and nature of politi cal and economic affairs in the regions beyond its borders, especially its neighbors. hina has been an imPorTanT Player
Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century examines how changes in foreign policy and economic perspectives of the Chinese court affected diplomatic intercourse as well as the fundamental nature of economic interaction between China and the Malay region, a subregion of southeast asia centered on the strait of Malacca. this study’s uniqueness and value lie in its integration of archaeo logical, epigraphic, and textual data from both China and southeast asia to provide a rich, multilayered picture of sino-southeast asian relations in the premodern era. Derek heng approaches the topic from both the southeast asian and Chinese perspectives, affording a dual narrative otherwise unavailable in the current body of southeast asian and China studies literature.
Derek Heng is an assistant professor of history at the Ohio state University at Marion. he is the editor of New Perspectives and Sources on the History of Singapore: A Multi-disciplinary Approach.
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BitterSweet: The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century by Stuart Pearson
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wartime in Burma A Diary, January to June 1942 Theippan Maung Wa Edited and translated by L. E. Bagshawe and Anna Allott
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his diAry, begun After the jAPAnese AttAck on Pearl har bor and covering the invasion of Burma up to June 1942, is a moving night-by-night account of the dilemmas faced by the well-loved and prolific Burmese author, theippan Maung wa (a pseudonym of U sein tin) and his family. at the time of the Japanese invasion, U sein tin was deputy secretary in the Ministry of Defense. an Oxford-trained member of the indian Civil service, working for the British administration on the eve of the invasion, he was living with his wife and three small children in rangoon; he felt threatened and extremely fearful of the breakdown of law and order that would follow the invasion.
Wartime in Burma is a stirring memoir that presents a personal ac count of theippan’s feelings about the war, his anxiety for the safety of his family, the bombing of rangoon, and what happened to them during the next six chaotic months of the British retreat. eventually the author and his family left rangoon to live in a remote forest in Upper Burma with several other Burmese civil servants, their staff, and valuable possessions—rich pickings for robbers. his diary ends abruptly on June 5, his forty-second birthday, when he was murdered by a gang of Burmese bandits. the diary pages, scattered on the floor of the house, were rescued by his wife and eventually published in Burma in 1966. what survives is a unique account that shines new light on the mili tary retreat from Burma. L. e. Bagshawe is an independent scholar and historian. he has translated several important historical works from Burmese includ ing The Maniyadanabon of Shin Sandalinka and The Kinwun Min-gyi’s London Diary. Anna Allott holds the title senior research associate in Burmese at the school of Oriental and african studies, University of london. she has published in the Journal of Burma Studies.
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wielding the ax State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000 Thaddeus Sunseri
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orests hAve been At the fAult lines of contact between african peasant communities in the tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. early on, conflicts developed between the needs of traditional subsistence users and the needs of co lonial extractive industries. in recent decades, a global call for biodiver sity preservation has been the main challenge to tanzanians and their forests.
thaddeus sunseri uses the lens of forest history to explore some of the profound social, political, and economic transformations in tanzania from the nineteenth century to the present. he explores anticolonial rebellions, the world wars, the depression, the Cold war, oil shocks, and nationalism through their intersections with and impacts on tanza nia’s coastal forests and woodlands. in Wielding the Ax, forest history becomes a reflection of the origins, nature, and demise of colonial rule in east africa and of the first fitful decades of independence. Wielding the Ax is a story of shifting constellations of power over forests, beginning with african chiefs and forest spirits—both known as “ax-wielders”—and ending with international conservation experts who wield scientific knowledge as a means of controlling forest access. the modern international concern with tropical deforestation cannot be understood without an awareness of the long history of these forest struggles.
Thaddeus Sunseri is a professor of african history at Colorado
SerieS in ecOlOGy and hiStOry
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James L. A. Webb, Jr.
environmental history 304 pages, illus., 6 x 9 978-0-8214-1864-2 hc $55.00s 978-0-8214-1865-9 pb $26.95s MaRCH
state University in Fort Collins. he is the author of Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania.
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the Game of Conservation International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals Mark Cioc
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he game of conServation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world. twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often origi nated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than attempts to protect animal habitat. some were prompted by major break throughs in firearm techniques, such as the invention of the elephant gun and grenade harpoons, but agricultural development was at least as important as hunting regulations in determining the fate of many migratory species. the treaties had many defects, but they also served the goal of conservation to good effect, often saving key species from complete extermination and sometimes keeping population numbers at viable levels. it is because of these treaties that africa is dotted with large national parks, that north america has an extensive network of bird refuges, and that there are any whales left in the oceans. all of these treaties are still in effect today, and all continue to influence nature-protection efforts around the globe.
Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Mark Cioc shows that a handful of treaties—all designed to protect the world’s most commercially important migratory species—have largely shaped the contours of global nature conservation over the past cen tury. the scope of the book ranges from the african savannahs and the skies of north america to the frigid waters of the antarctic.
Mark Cioc is a professor of history at the University of California, santa Cruz and the author of The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000. he is a coeditor of How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich.
“an impressive and fresh approach to studying the environment in the twenty-first century.” —Michael lewis, Salisbury University
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recasting the Past History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa Edited by Derek R. Peterson and Giacomo Macola
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AfricA is in its infancy. we know very little about what africa’s thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view. the book takes its place alongside a small but growing literature that highlights how, in autobiographies, historical writing, fiction, and other literary genres, african writers intervened creatively in their political world. he study of intellectuAl history in
african brokers—pastors, journalists, kingmakers, religious dissidents, politicians, entrepreneurs all—have been doing research, conducting interviews, reading archives, and presenting their results to critical au diences. their scholarly work makes it impossible to think of african history as an inert entity awaiting the attention of professional histo rians. Professionals take their place in a broader field of interpretation, where africans are already reifying, editing, and representing the past. the essays collected in Recasting the Past study the warp and weft of africa’s homespun historical work. Contributors trace the strands of discourse from which historical entrepreneurs drew, highlighting the sources of inspiration and reference that enlivened their work. illuminating the conventions of the past, africa’s history writers set their contemporary constituents on a path toward a particular future. history writing was a means by which entrepreneurs conjured up constituencies, claimed legitimate authority, and mobilized people around a cause. By examining the spheres of debate in which africa’s own scholars participated, Recasting the Past repositions the practice of modern history.
new african hiStOrieS Series editors: Jean Allman and Allen Isaacman african history 280 pages, illus., 6 x 9 978-0-8214-1878-9 hc $49.95s 978-0-8214-1879-6 pb $26.95s aUgUST
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Derek R. Peterson is a senior lecturer in african history and director of the Centre of african studies at the University of Cambridge. he is the author of Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya and editor of The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History. Giacomo Macola is a lecturer in african history at the University of Kent at Canterbury. he is the author of The Kingdom of Kazembe: History and Politics in North-Eastern Zambia and Katanga to 1950 and one of the editors of One Zambia, Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-colonial Zambia.
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race, revolution, and the struggle for human rights in Zanzibar The Memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad G. Thomas Burgess
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AnZibAr hAs hAd the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United republic of tanzania, yet few sources have emerged that explain the reasons why. the current political impasse in the islands is a contest primarily over the question of whether to accept and sustain the Zanzibari revolution of 1964. Defenders of the revolution speak the language of african national ism and aspire to unify the majority of Zanzibaris through the politics of race. their opponents claim that the revolution undermined the islands’ cosmopolitan cultural heritage and espouse the language of human rights.
ali sultan issa was an early Zanzibari nationalist. as a minister in the first revolutionary government he became one of Zanzibar’s most con troversial figures, responsible for some of the government’s most radi cal policies. later imprisoned, he has reemerged as one of Zanzibar’s successful property developers. seif sharif hamad came of age during the revolution, becoming disenchanted with its broken promises and excesses. having served in tanzania’s ruling party, he is now a leading figure in Zanzibar’s opposition. together these memoirs trace Zanzi bar’s postindependence trajectory and reveal how Zanzibaris continue to dispute their revolutionary heritage and remain divided over issues of ethnic identity. these memoirs, compiled with an introduction by G. thomas Burgess, will provide scholars and teachers with highly readable first-person narratives in which two african postindependence leaders describe their public and personal achievements, conflicts, failures, and trag edies. they will give students and scholars unique access to the life, culture, and politics of Zanzibar. G. Thomas Burgess is an assistant professor at the United states naval academy in annapolis.
Of Related Interest In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority & Dissidence in Tanzania edited by James l. giblin and gregory H. Maddox
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new south african Keywords Edited by Nick Shepherd and Steven Robins
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South african KeywordS sets out to do two things. the first is to provide a guide to the key words and key concepts that have come to shape public and political thought and debate in south africa since 1994. the second purpose is to provide a compendium of cutting-edge thinking on the new society. in this respect some of the most exciting thinkers and commentators on south africa have tried to capture the complexity of current debates. the result is a concise and insightful guide to postapartheid south africa, which should be useful to students, citizens, tourists, business managers, decision makers—in fact, to anyone wanting to make sense of south african society today. ew
“New South African Keywords is not just an invaluable handbook that will be mined by commentators, scholars, policy analysts and thinkers of all kinds probing the complex ity of important contemporary terms. The essays and the thoughtful editors’ introduction combine to provide a muchneeded overview of contemporary public discourse and its critique.” —Professor Carolyn Hamilton, University of Witwatersrand
Nick Shepherd is a senior lecturer in the Centre for african studies at the University of Cape town. Steven Robins is an associate professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology at the University of stellenbosch.
Copublished with Jacana
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Unconquerable spirit George Stow’s History Paintings of the San
Pippa Skotnes
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eorge stow wAs A victoriAn mAn of many parts— poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. a geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the caves and shelters of the south african interior. enchanted and absorbed by them, stow set out to create a record of this creative work by the people who had tracked and marked the south african landscape decades and centuries before him.
Unconquerable Spirit reveals the scope and the beauty of his labors. stow’s paintings are more than just copies of what he found on the rocks. they are interpretations of the art of the san, informed by his own understanding of a particularly turbulent time in south african history and his sense of the tragic demise of the san way of life. this book celebrates his pioneering achievement and reminds us, too, of the richness of the imaginative universe of the san.
Pippa Skotnes is a professor of fine art and the director of the Centre for Curating the archive at the Michaelis school of Fine art at the University of Cape town. she is the author and editor of a number of books, including Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen, Heaven’s Things, and Claim to the Country: The Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek.
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the land beyond the Mists essays on Identity and Authority in Precolonial Congo and Rwanda
David Newbury Foreword by Jan Vansina
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he horrific trAgedies of centrAl AfricA in the 1990s riveted the attention of the world. But these crises did not occur in a historical vacuum. By peering through the mists of the past, David newbury presents case studies illustrating the significant advances in our understanding of the precolonial histories of rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Congo that have taken place since decolonization.
Based on both oral and written sources, the essays compiled in The Land beyond the Mists are important both for their methods—view ing history from the perspective of local actors—and for their conclu sions, which seriously challenge colonial myths about the area. “This collection is a fitting survey of a career dedicated to under standing the history of a place that came to dominate the world’s attention for a short period and then drifted back under the radar. . . . ºNewbury seeks to debunk both the racial myths and the focus of folk migrations that have passed for history in the region. In do ing so he undermines colonial fantasies about invading ‘Hamites,’ almost historical ‘honorary whites,’ civilizing primitive ‘Bantu’ and creating the kingdoms of Rwanda and Burundi with their systems of hierarchy based on Tutsi domination of Hutu and Twa. In essay after essay he uses oral sources to deconstruct these mythologies and demonstrate the ways in which such social hierarchies were created in history.” —gregory Maddox
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David Newbury is the Gwendolen Carter Professor of african studies at smith College. his books include Kings and Clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780 –1840 and African Historiographies: What History for Which Africa?
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landmarked Land Claims and Restitution in South Africa Cherryl Walker
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2008 is the deAdline set by former President mbeki for the finalization of all land claims by people who were dispossessed under apartheid and the previous white governments. although most experts agree this is an impossible deadline to meet, it does provide a significant political moment for reflection on the anC government’s program of land restitution since the end of apartheid. he yeAr
land reform remains a highly charged issue in south africa, one that deserves more in-depth analysis. Drawing on her experience as rural land Claims Commissioner in KwaZulu-natal from 1995 to 2000, Cherryl walker provides a multilayered account of land reform in south africa, one that covers general critical commentary, detailed case material, and personal narrative. she explores the master narrative of loss and restora tion, which has been fundamental in shaping the restitution program; offers a critical overview of the achievements of the program as a whole; and discusses what she calls the “non-programmatic limits to land reform,” including urbanization, environmental constraints, and the impact of hiv/ aiDs. Cherryl Walker is a professor and the head of the Department of soci ology and social anthropology at the University of stellenbosch. she is the author of Women and Resistance in South Africa.
“Landmarked is a wonderful book because it reflects so well and so strongly all these aspects of Walker’s life and work in South Af rica. Her practical experience of the problems about which she writes is unrivalled. Her analysis is incisive and extremely well informed. Her writing style is humanely engaged in the best possible sense.” —Colin Murray Copublished with Jacana
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land, Power, and Custom Controversies Generated by South Africa’s Communal Land Rights Act
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in south africa, as in africa more widely. Land, Power, and Custom explores the implications of the controversial 2004 Communal land rights act, criticized for re inforcing the apartheid power structure and ignoring the interests of the common people. this compilation of essays and case studies written by experts navigates through competing viewpoints to discuss the tensions between the new democratic government and traditional tribal leaders, the land rights of affected yet isolated or marginalized groups, and con cerns about the constitutionality of the Clra itself. And tenure rights Are A burning issue
a DvD accompanying the book contains the affidavits of four communi ties challenging the act, pleadings, hearings, and submissions, as well as the entire body of south african legislation involved in this challenge, dating back to the late nineteenth century. Aninka Claassens is a land rights activist and researcher and writer on land rights and customary tenure. Ben Cousins holds a chair in development management at the University of the western Cape and is director of the Programme for land and agrarian studies (Plaas). w w w. o h i o s w a l l o w. c o m
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Album Quilts of Ohio’s
Miami Valley, 24
All Flesh Is Grass, 26
All the Fun’s in How
You Say a Thing, 26
andrzejewski, Jerzy, 26
Barker, Charles
Ferguson, 26
Beers, Diane l., 26
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19
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Making a Man, 10
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24
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24
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Philena’s Friendship
Quilt, 6
Photographing Eden,
24
Power in the Blood, 4
Primeau, Ronald, 2
Pritchard, william H.,
24
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Revolution, Race, and
the Struggle for
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