UGA Press Fall 2015 Catalog by University of Georgia Press

u n i v e r s i t y o f g eo r g i a p r e s s books for fall | winter 2015

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the vegan studies project | Wright, Laura

landscapes for the people | Davis, Ren and Helen

preserving family recipes | Frey, Valerie J.

without regard to sex, race, or color | Feiler, Andrew

the outcast majority | Sommers, Marc

selling the serengeti | Gardner, Benjamin

let us now praise famous gullies | Sutter, Paul S.

a boy from georgia | Jordan, Hamilton

after montaigne | Lazar, David, and Patrick Madden, eds.

The greatest landscape photographer

mot | Einsten, Sarah

youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never heard of in Landscapes

my unsentimental education | Monroe, Debra

for the People

on the outskirts of normal | Monroe, Debra

invisible sisters | Handler, Jessica

beyond katrina | Trethewey, Natasha

A moving, photographic account of

the suicide club | Graham, Toni

a historically black college in

better than war | Vossoughi, Siamak

Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color

monograph | Berry, Simeon

southern tufts | Callahan, Ashley

memories of the mansion | Deal, Sandra D., Jennifer W. Dickey, and Catherine M. Lewis

snakes of the southeast | Gibbons, Whit, and Mike Dorcas

minerals of georgia | Cook, Robert B., and Julian C. Gray

weaving alliances with other women | Usner, Daniel H.

privateers of the americas | Head, David

the mulatta concubine | Ze Winters, Lisa

finding charityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s folk | Millward, Jessica

gender and the jubilee | Romeo, Sharon

international cooperation on wmd nonproliferation | Knopf, Jeffrey, ed.

precarious worlds | Meehan, Katie, and Kendra Strauss, eds.

territories of poverty | Roy, Ananya, and Emma Shaw Crane, eds.

spaces of danger | Merrill, Heather, and Lisa M. Hoffman, eds.

pain, pride, and politics | Amarasingam, Amarnath

mapping region in early american writing | Watts, Edward, Keri Holt, and John Funchion

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High fashion origins from the Deep South in Southern Tufts

Explore Georgia through its native gems and jewels in Minerals of Georgia

Cover image: Vegetarian Vampires, Remedios Varo Uranga, from the private collection of Ms. Anna Alexander Gruen

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The foundational text for the nascent field of vegan studies

the vegan studies project

Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror Laura Wright Foreword by Carol J. Adams

“Combining personal narratives and gender studies with ecofeminism and pop culture, The Vegan Studies Project offers a brilliant analysis of the impact of vegans and veganism on America’s cultural landscape. Laura Wright’s argument for a new field of vegan studies rings true, and this book will be the foundational text.”—Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight about Animals “Studies like Wright’s—more than anything else— show how the vegan and vegetarian label and identity are a millstone and a barrier that hinders wider society’s willingness to engage seriously with the rights and wrongs of producing, killing, and eating so many animals. If our strategy is to lessen the harm wreaked on the animals with which humans share this planet, perhaps the strongest lesson we can draw from this work is to step aside from the vegan and vegetarian identity.” —Tristram Stuart, author of The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times.

october 6 x 9 | 232 pp. 17 b&w images paper, $28.95t/$37.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4856-8 hardback, $74.95y/$100 cad | 978-0-8203-4855-1 ebook available

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This inescapably controversial study envisions, defines, and theorizes an area that Laura Wright calls vegan studies. We have an abundance of texts on vegans and veganism including works of advocacy, literary and popular fiction, film and television, and cookbooks, yet until now, there has been no study that examines the social and cultural discourses shaping our perceptions of veganism as an identity category and social practice. Ranging widely across contemporary American society and culture, Wright unpacks the loaded category of vegan identity. She examines the mainstream discourse surrounding and connecting animal rights to (or omitting animal rights from) veganism. Her specific focus is on the construction and depiction of the vegan body—both male and female—as a contested site manifest in contemporary works of literature, popular cultural representations, advertising, and new media. At the same time, Wright looks at critical animal studies, human-animal studies, posthumanism, and ecofeminism as theoretical frameworks that inform vegan studies (even as they differ from it). The vegan body, says Wright, threatens the status quo in terms of what we eat, wear, and purchase—and also in how vegans choose not to participate in many aspects of the mechanisms undergirding mainstream culture. These threats are acutely felt in light of post-9/11 anxieties over American strength and virility. A discourse has emerged that seeks, among other things, to bully veganism out of existence as it is poised to alter the dominant cultural mindset or, conversely, to constitute the vegan body as an idealized paragon of health, beauty, and strength. What better serves veganism is exemplified by Wright’s study: openness, debate, inquiry, and analysis.

laura wright is head of the English Department at Western Carolina University. Her books include Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment (Georgia).

Photo by Ashley T. Evans

also of interest animals and why they matter Mary Midgley paper, $20.95s 978-0-8203-2041-0

nature and madness Paul Shepard Foreword by C. L. Rawlins paper, $25.95s 978-0-8203-1980-3 ebook available

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Rediscovering a master of photography who documented our nation’s natural treasures

landscapes for the people

George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service Ren and Helen Davis Foreword by Timothy Davis

“The national park idea owes a tremendous debt to the photographers who captured the beauty of America’s most special places, ultimately inspiring people to push for their protection. William Henry Jackson, Carleton Watkins, and Ansel Adams are the best known, but now Ren and Helen Davis finally give George Grant the attention he so richly deserves. Millions of people have seen his work without knowing his name or his story. The centennial of the National Park Service serves as good reason to rectify that.”—Dayton Duncan, producer of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea “For more than two decades, George A. Grant traveled throughout this land, producing superb images of America’s most iconic scenery and historic sites, including those of the ancient past. Although little known to the public, Grant belongs in the pantheon of this country’s great landscape photographers, such as William Henry Jackson and Ansel Adams. This is Grant’s first full biography, with a gallery of his photographs—for enjoyment by your fireside or in the classroom.” —Richard West Sellars, author of Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History

George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and others, millions of people viewed Grant’s photographs; unlike those contemporaries, few even knew Grant’s name. Landscapes for the People shares his story through his remarkable images and a compelling biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve. A Pennsylvania native, Grant was introduced to the parks during the summer of 1922 and resolved to make parks work and photography his life. Seven years later, he received his dream job and spent the next quarter century visiting the four corners of the country to produce images in more than one hundred national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, and other locations. He was there to visually document the dramatic expansion of the National Park Service during the New Deal, including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Grant’s images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in their finest light are comparable to those of his more widely known contemporaries. Nearly fifty years after his death, and in concert with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, it is fitting that George Grant’s photography be introduced to a new generation of Americans.

ren davis’s travel writing and photography have appeared in such places as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Magazine, and Atlanta Magazine.

Photo by Nelson Davis

helen davis taught for nearly thirty years in public and private schools. The Davises are coauthors of several books including Georgia Walks and Atlanta Walks. They live in Atlanta.

also of interest september 10 x 9 | 280 pp. 207 duotones hardback, $39.95t/$51.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4841-4

A Friends Fund Publication

atlanta’s oakland cemetery An Illustrated History and Guide Ren and Helen Davis With an introduction by Timothy J. Crimmins paper, $24.95t 978-0-8203-4313-6

mound sites of the ancient south A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms Eric E. Bowne Foreword by Charles M. Hudson paper, $29.95t 978-0-8203-4498-0 ebook available

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A step-by-step guide for the family food genealogist

preserving family recipes

How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions Valerie J. Frey

“The history of families, of communities, of cultures has a lot to do with what they eat. Rarely do we document the repast, but Valerie J. Frey is aiming to patch that loss with Preserving Family Recipes. She is teaching us to preserve the recipes of our ancestors. It is an important read for the future and past of our food.”—Hugh Acheson, author of A New Turn in the South: Southern Flavors Reinvented for Your Kitchen “If you have ever been overwhelmed by the task of researching, analyzing, organizing, and preserving family recipes, you probably have longed for a trained archivist to take charge! Well, one finally has in this exhaustive and delightful work by educator/archivist Valerie J. Frey, who expertly guides readers step-by-step to create family cookbooks, heirloom recipe collections, and food-related oral histories and, most important, shows how to protect historic family recipes, recollections, papers, and artifacts for future generations to enjoy and savor.”—Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and provide vivid ways to learn about our families’ past, yet they can be problematic. Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately, recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma’s handwritten cards on the countertop next to a steaming pot or a spattering mixer, shortening their lives. This book is a guide for gathering, adjusting, supplementing, and safely preserving family recipes and for interviewing relatives, collecting oral histories, and conducting kitchen visits to document family food traditions from the everyday to special occasions. It blends commonsense tips with sound archival principles, helping you achieve effective results while avoiding unnecessary pitfalls. Chapters are also dedicated to unfamiliar regional or ethnic cooking challenges, as well as to working with recipes that are “orphans,” surrogates, or terribly outdated. Whether you simply want to save a few accurate recipes, help yesterday’s foodways evolve so they are relevant for today’s table, or create an extensive family cookbook, this guidebook will help you to savor your memories.

valerie j. frey is a writer, archivist, and an educational consultant. She lives in Athens, Georgia.

Photo by Amberlee Fletcher, Lilac Lens Photography

also of interest november 8 x 9 | 320 pp. 150 b&w images paper, $26.95t/$35.50 cad | 978-0-8203-3063-1

A Friends Fund Publication

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the southern foodways alliance community cookbook Edited by Sara Roahen and John T. Edge Foreword by Alton Brown paper, $24.95t 978-0-8203-4858-2

nathalie dupree’s southern memories Recipes and Reminiscences Nathalie Dupree Photographs by Tom Eckerle paper, $25.95t 978-0-8203-2601-6

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A photographic meditation on an embattled historically black college

without regard to sex, race, or color

The Past, Present, and Future of One Historically Black College Photographs by Andrew Feiler

With Essays by Robert E. James, Pellom McDaniels III, Amalia K. Amaki, and Loretta Parham

“Andrew Feiler’s photographs of the stilled campus of Morris Brown College conjure a haunting story that invites important dialogue on race, progress, and opportunity in America.”—Brett Abbott, Keough Family Curator of Photography and head of collections, High Museum of Art “Andrew Feiler’s photographs put into perspective Morris Brown College’s great legacy and history; they give a glimpse of what once was and, more importantly, offer a vision of what can be. The photographs convey a sense of rough edges, of incompleteness, reminding me of an unpolished stone. They inspire me to want to make a difference, and I hope they will motivate others to be a part of our transformation.” —Stanley Pritchett, eighteenth president of Morris Brown College

This gathering of sixty images, along with the essays that frame them, gives us a new way to think about the too often troubled status of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The bell in the clock tower at Atlanta’s Morris Brown College bears an inscription about the ideal of educational access, that it be “without regard to sex, race, or color.” Yet most of the Morris Brown campus has lain silent for more than a decade. Established in 1881, it was all but shut down in 2002 after years of fiscal hardship were capped by a mismanagement scandal. Pride still runs high among its alumni, however, and its current leadership vows to revive the school. Meanwhile, as Andrew Feiler’s stirring photos show, Morris Brown is literally falling apart. In the spirit of those photographers who have documented the physical decline of our valued institutions—from small family farms to entire cities—Feiler points his lens at one embattled place and dares us to look away. Aiming to “open minds, trigger emotion, stimulate discussion, and, perhaps, prompt action,” his images project a new layer of meaning onto the Morris Brown story. We see classrooms, dorms, gym facilities, and other spaces no longer alive with students, faculty, and staff but rather mired in a state of uncertainty where hopes of normality’s return mutely battle a host of unwelcome alternate futures. We see how time passes without regard for academic years, regular maintenance cycles, or the other comings and goings that would ordinarily call attention to the leaks, invading animals, acts of vandalism, and other forces working to peel the paint from Morris Brown’s walls, buckle its floors, and molder its furnishings. We see garbage piling up alongside sports trophies, scientific equipment, and other vestiges of the prouder past we would rather remember.

andrew feiler, a fifth-generation Georgian, is an award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in museums, galleries, and magazines and is in a number of private collections. His photography is focused on the contemporary complexities of the American South. More of his photography can be seen at andrewfeiler.com. robert e. james is a Morris Brown College alumnus, a former member of the Morris Brown board of trustees, and president of Carver State Bank in Savannah, Georgia.

october 10 x 10 | 112 pp. 60 color and 10 b&w photos hardback, $32.95t/$42.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4867-4

A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council

pellom mcdaniels iii is faculty curator of African American Collections at Emory University’s Woodruff Library and an assistant professor of African American studies. He is the author of The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy. amalia k. amaki is an artist, writer, curator, and critic who has served as professor of art history and visual studies at Spelman College, University of North Georgia, University of Delaware, and University of Alabama. She is the author of (with Andrea Barnwell Brownlee) Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy. loretta parham is CEO of Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff Library.

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Youth exclusion and development in war-affected Africa

the outcast majority

War, Development, and Youth in Africa Marc Sommers The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues—war, development, and youth—in new ways. The starting point is the following irony: while African youth are demographically dominant, many act as if they are members of an outcast minority. The irony directly informs young people’s lives in war-affected Africa, where differences separating the priorities of youth and those of international agencies are especially prominent. Drawing on interviews with development experts and young people, Marc Sommers shines a light on this gap and offers guidance on how to close it. He begins with a comprehensive consideration of forces that shape and propel the lives of African youth today, particularly those experiencing or emerging from war. They are contrasted with forces that influence and constrain the international development aid enterprise. The book concludes with a framework for making development policies and practices significantly more relevant and effective for youth in areas affected by African wars and other places where vast and vibrant youth populations reside.

marc sommers is an internationally recognized youth expert with

Photo by Luke Kelly

december 6 x 9 | 256 pp. 11 b&w photos, 2 diagrams, 2 tables, 1 map paper, $26.95s usd/$35.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4885-8 hardback, $74.95y/$100.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4884-1 ebook available

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research experience in over twenty war-affected countries. He has provided analysis and technical advice to policy institutes, donor and United Nations agencies, and NGOs. He also is the author of seven previous books, including Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood (Georgia), which received an Honorable Mention for the African Studies Association’s Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize, Islands of Education: Schooling, Civil War, and the Southern Sudanese (1983–2004), and Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania, which received the Margaret Mead Award.

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stuck Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood Marc Sommers paper, $22.95s 978-0-8203-3891-0

the lost boys of sudan An American Story of the Refugee Experience Mark Bixler paper, $20.95t 978-0-8203-2883-6

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Safari tourism and the struggle over markets, land rights, and culture in northern Tanzania

selling the serengeti

The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism Benjamin Gardner Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and biggame-hunting companies. It looks at two major discourses and policies surrounding biodiversity conservation, the championing of community-based conservation and the neoliberal focus on private investment in tourism, and their profound effect on Maasai culture and livelihoods. This ethnographic study explores how these changing social and economic relationships and forces remake the terms through which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. The book highlights how these new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the process remake cultural belonging and citizenship. Benjamin Gardnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences in Tanzania began during a study abroad trip in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and neoliberal development around the Serengeti.

benjamin gardner is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, where he teaches global studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies. He is also the chair of the African Studies Program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Photo courtesy of the author

february 6 x 9 | 256 pp. 12 b&w photos, 6 maps paper, $25.95s/$33.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4508-6 hardback, $79.95y/$105.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4507-9 ebook available

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

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also in the series silent violence

rethinking the south african crisis Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony Gillian Hart paper, $24.95s 978-0-8203-4717-2 ebook available

Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria Michael J. Watts paper, $39.95s 978-0-8203-4445-4

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The ‘Little Grand Canyon’ and its lessons for environmental history

let us now praise famous gullies

Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South Paul S. Sutter

“Paul Sutter finds in these thousand acres of backwoods Georgia a powerful and complicated story of humans on the land. He is a wonderful storyteller, but more, he digs deeply into the past to explain how and why this place became both a ‘park’ and a ‘horrible example’ of soil erosion. This is one of the finest local environmental histories we have, and it offers important insights for all of us today.”—Donald Worster, author of A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.

paul s. sutter is an associate professor of history at University of “In this sweeping and powerful environmental study, Paul Sutter uses Georgia’s Providence Canyon both as a cautionary tale of erosion and the opportunity to explore soil science, geology, southern farming practices, misguided experts, and boosters’ fantasies of marketing the mammoth gulley as a lesser Grand Canyon.” —Pete Daniel, author of Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South

december 6 x 9 | 280 pp. 38 b&w photos, 7 maps hardback, $34.95t/$45.95 cad | 978-0-8203-3401-1 ebook available

Environmental History and the American South A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book

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Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement.

Photo by Kelli Guinn

also of interest drifting into darien A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River Janisse Ray paper, $18.95t 978-0-8203-4532-1

marsh mud and mummichogs An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia Evelyn B. Sherr hardback, $26.95t 978-0-8203-4767-7

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A coming-of-age memoir by of one of our great political strategists

a boy from georgia

Coming of Age in the Segregated South Hamilton Jordan Edited by Kathleen Jordan Foreword by President Jimmy Carter

“Hamilton Jordan was a whip-smart advisor, a great writer, and someone with whom I shared a warm and candid friendship. He witnessed the formation of the civil rights agenda in real time and made it a personal mission to break down racial barriers in hiring staff in the governor’s office and the White House. Hamilton’s reflections on his southern heritage are honest, witty, and as important now as ever before.”—Dr. Andrew Young, former Georgia congressman and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations “This is a delightful and inspiring coming-of-age story brimming with funny anecdotes, family mysteries, and political intrigue, but it is much more than one raconteur’s personal report of how the scales fell from his eyes. Through Hamilton’s stories of his maturation, it is possible, finally, to trace the evolution of a species—the white, southern male—from the muck of Jim Crowism to the embrace of the progressive spirit that is the South’s salvation.”—Hank Klibanoff, coauthor of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

october 6 x 9 | 232 pp. 36 b&w photos hardback, $32.95t/$42.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4889-6 ebook available

A Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies Publication

When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade. Jordan’s daughter, Kathleen—with the help of her brothers and mother—took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia—the result of this posthumous father-daughter collaboration—chronicles Hamilton Jordan’s childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and intellectual development as he gradually discovers the complicated legacies of racism, religious intolerance, and southern politics, and affords his readers an intimate view of the state’s wheelers and dealers. Jordan’s middle-class childhood was bucolic in some ways and traumatizing in others. As Georgia politicians battled civil rights leaders, a young Hamilton straddled the uncomfortable line between the southern establishment to which he belonged and the movement in which he believed. Fortunate enough to grow up in a family that had considerable political clout within Georgia, Jordan went into politics to put his ideals to work. Eventually he became a key aide to Jimmy Carter and was the architect of Carter’s stunning victory in the presidential campaign of 1976; Jordan later served as Carter’s chief of staff. Clear eyed about the triumphs and tragedies of Jordan’s beloved home state and region, A Boy from Georgia tells the story of a remarkable life in a voice that is witty, vivid, and honest.

hamilton jordan (1944–2008) was chief of staff under President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1980. He was key advisor and strategist for Carter’s successful presidential campaign in 1976, and—at the age of twenty-six—Jordan designed and spearheaded Carter’s successful gubernatorial campaign in 1970. kathleen jordan is Hamilton Jordan’s daughter and a television producer and writer living in Los Angeles.

also of interest dixie lullaby A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South Mark Kemp paper, $23.95t 978-0-8203-2872-0

white girl A Story of School Desegregation Clara Silverstein paper, $18.95t 978-0-8203-4509-3 ebook available

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A tribute to the master of the essay

after montaigne

Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays Edited by David Lazar and Patrick Madden

“With the originality of its approach, its impressive assortment of contributors, and the editors’ experience and knowledge of the form, After Montaigne is a significant contribution to the study, teaching, and writing of the contemporary essay.”—Michael Steinberg, founding editor, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction “Imagine the dinner party: not just Montaigne but many Montaignes resurrected in these brilliant essays by twenty-eight of today’s most inventive writers. The table is crowded, enlivened by the paradoxical warmth of Montaigne’s detachment and by the parry and thrust of ideas, often tantamount to a kind of quiet eros. It’s a dinner full of random appetites, the kind of party we leave knowing ourselves a little less, which might mean a little better. What a feast this collection is. It satisfies a hunger—intellect meeting empathy—that enlarges us.”—Barbara Hurd, author of Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute— aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear. Though it’s been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays, Montaigne’s writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of selfexploration in the world around him reads as innovative—even by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigne’s 107 essays and has written his/her own essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne’s essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigne’s themes in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writer’s prose, ideas, and forms. Featuring a who’s who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne offers a startling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the way to the genre’s potential new directions.

david lazar is a professor in the Nonfiction

Program at Columbia College Chicago and the editor of the journal Hotel Amerika. His books include Occasional Desire, The Body of Brooklyn, and Truth in Nonfiction.

patrick madden is an associate professor of Photo courtesy of the editor

Photo courtesy of the editor

English at Brigham Young University and author of Quotidiana and Sublime Physick. His work has appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, and the Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies.

contributors

september 6 x 9 | 272 pp. 1 b&w photo hardback, $32.95t/$42.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4815-5 ebook available

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Marcia Aldrich Chris Arthur Robert Atwan Barrie Jean Borich Mary Cappello Steven Church Judith Ortiz Cofer Danielle Cadena Deulen Brian Doyle Lina M. Ferreira C. V.

Vivian Gornick Robin Hemley Wayne Koestenbaum Shannon Lakanen David Lazar E. J. Levy Phillip Lopate Bret Lott Patrick Madden Desirae Matherly

Maggie Nelson José Orduña Elena Passarello Lia Purpura Kristen Radtke Amy Lee Scott Jerald Walker Nicole Walker

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A memoir of sharing vulnerability, unlikely friendships, and letting go

mot

A Memoir Sarah Einstein Winner of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Selected by John Philip Santos

“Sarah Einstein is a natural storyteller, and her careful portrait of her mentally ill, homeless friend Mot is unflinching. Mot: A Memoir is heartbreaking yet at times gently funny and always delivered with immense, startling compassion. An entirely captivating work of literary nonfiction.” —Dinty W. Moore, author of Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy “Struggling in her marriage and as director of a drop-in center for adults with mental illness, the author meets a delusional, sixty-five-year-old homeless man. A moving, fully human portrait of the surprising companionship that grows between them, Mot shows us that to save others is to save ourselves.”—Marcia Aldrich, author of Companion to an Untold Story

september 5.5 x 8.5 | 168 pp. hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4820-9 ebook available

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not tough enough for her job managing a local drop-in center for adults with mental illness and that her new marriage is already faltering. Just as she reaches her breaking point, she meets Mot, a homeless veteran who lives a life dictated by frightening delusion. She is drawn to the brilliant ways he has found to lead his own difficult life; traveling to Romania to get his teeth fixed because the United States doesn’t offer dental care to the indigent, teaching himself to use computers in public libraries, and even taking university classes while living out of doors. Mot: A Memoir is the story of their unlikely friendship and explores what we can, and cannot, do for a person we love. In unsparing prose and with a sharp eye for detail, Einstein brings the reader into the world of Mot’s delusions and illuminates a life that would otherwise be hidden from us.

sarah einstein is a doctoral candidate in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Sun, Ninth Letter, PANK, and Fringe and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the prose editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection and a special topics editor for Brevity.

also in the series study in perfect Sarah Gorham hardback, $24.95t 978-0-8203-4712-7

surrendered child A Birth Mother’s Journey Karen Salyer McElmurray paper, $20.95t 978-0-8203-2823-2 ebook available

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crux

The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction

Named for intersections and for the heart of the matter, this series will publish literary nonfiction by diverse writers working in a variety of modes, including personal and lyric essay, memoir, cultural meditation, and literary journalism. Books are intended for general readers, including writers, teachers of writing, and students, and will be both intelligent and accessible. Engagement with the world, dedication to craft, precision, and playfulness with form and language are valued. As the series develops it will include non-American writers and experiences.

“I’m gratified to be part of this new publishing opportunity. The series will build on UGA Press’s success and reputation publishing the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Creative Nonfiction contest winners since 1986, as well as nonfiction anthologies and craft books. Georgia combines the intellectual reputation of a major university press with savvy promotion in the digital age, and we intend to reach smart readers who like to be entertained, in the widest sense.”—John Griswold, series editor

series editor john griswold is assistant professor in the MFA program at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is the author of A Democracy of Ghosts; Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City; and Pirates You Don’t Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life: Collected Essays (Georgia). He has written extensively at Inside Higher Ed and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency as Oronte Churm.

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series advisory board Dan Gunn Pam Houston Phillip Lopate Dinty W. Moore Lia Purpura Patricia Smith Ned Stuckey-French

For more information, contact John Griswold at crux.series@gmail.com or visit the Crux series page at our website, www.ugapress.org.

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A smart and lyrical take on the isolation that occurs when people switch social classes quickly

my unsentimental education

A Memoir by Debra Monroe

“This picaresque memoir of a woman with brains and desires (not always operating in unison) is a joy. It tracks a runaway life with consummate control and aphoristic wit.”—Phillip Lopate “Debra Monroe is a terrifically acute observer of the two worlds of women: her mother’s generation corseted in sexual and familial constraints; her own, in which lovers and addresses shift with the wind. She is able, in other words, to make just as many mistakes, only different ones. My Unsentimental Education . . . raises a dozen potent questions about what has changed for a generation of women not so much disillusioned as unillusioned about what it means to ‘live like a man.’”—Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart

A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she’s still blue collar. Negotiating the world of dating, Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a woman ambivalent about her newfound status as “liberated.” Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us “to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,” Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn’t. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working-class girl ends up far from where she began.

debra monroe teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University. She is the author of several books, including The Source of Trouble (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award) and most recently On the Outskirts of Normal.

Photo by Suzanne Reiss

“Through a series of near pratfalls and sheer acrobatic strength, Debra Monroe integrates the schisms of ‘taught’ identity—a bumpy, if not bumptious, education shared by many, a charismatic story at once wildly entertaining, buoyant, and wise.”—Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino

also of interest october 5.5 x 8.5 | 256 pp. hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4874-2 ebook available

Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction

ghostbread Sonja Livingston paper, $18.95t 978-0-8203-3687-9 ebook available

devotion A Memoir Miriam Levine paper, $22.95t 978-0-8203-3986-3

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A white single mother, a black daughter, and a small Texas town

on the outskirts of normal

november 5.5 x 8.5 | 224 pp. 2 b&w photos paper, $18.95t/$24.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4911-4 ebook available

A Memoir by Debra Monroe

“Monroe doesn’t waste time justifying her family to others—her care and cleareyed focus on her daughter make their own argument. It’s absolutely clear this is the life she chose.”—Amy Benfer, Barnes & Noble Review

After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that her dream is coming true, Monroe faces trials that befall her not just as a single mother but as a white mother of a black child. In On the Outskirts of Normal, two-time National Book Award nominee Monroe’s heart creaks “like china with hairline cracks” each time a racist comment rolls their way or stares linger a little too long in their direction. Though she and her daughter face serious undiagnosed illnesses leading to innumerable, painful doctor visits, Monroe remains steadfast in her dedication to Marie and their small but tight family. Reading On the Outskirts of Normal at times feels like driving through an unwieldy thunderstorm at night on the unlit country roads that snake their way to Monroe’s house in the woods; readers will feel her exhaustion but will be buoyed by her ever-present faith and fiery love. Pulitzer Prize winner Madeleine Blais writes that On the Outskirts of Normal is the “real deal: both a literary triumph and a triumph of the heart.”

debra monroe teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University. She is the author of several books, including The Source of Trouble (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award).

new in paperback

One daughter’s moving account of illness, death, and the dissolution of her family

september 6 x 9 | 272 pp. 8 b&w images paper, $20.95t/$27.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4892-6 ebook available

invisible sisters

A Memoir Jessica Handler

“[T]his clear-eyed, candid work portrays the immense emotional toll that two daughters’ illnesses take on a family living in Atlanta.” —Publishers Weekly

When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter, Sarah, had been born with a rare, fatal blood disorder, it was an unimaginable verdict. Struck by the unlikelihood of siblings sick with diametrically opposed illnesses, the medical community labeled the Handlers’ situation a bizarre coincidence. To their mother, the girls’ unlikely diagnoses constituted a reverse miracle—the sort no one wishes for. By the time she was nine years old, Jessica had begun to introduce herself as the “well sibling.” Deeply moving and exquisitely written, Invisible Sisters is an extraordinary story of coming of age as the odd one out—as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to the South to participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as the healthy sister among sick, and eventually, as the only sister left standing. In a book that is as hard to forget as it is to put down, Handler captures the devastating effects of illness and death on a family and the triumphant account of one woman’s enduring journey to step out of the shadow of loss to find herself anew.

jessica handler teaches creative writing in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing about Grief and Loss. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity.com, More Magazine, Chattahoochee Review, Tin House, and Ars Medica.

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Updated with a new epilogue, the former U.S. Poet Laureate’s portrait of the Mississippi Gulf Coast region

beyond katrina

A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Natasha Trethewey Tenth Anniversary Edition

“Within this book’s quiet thoughts lies a powerful story of things long gone that will never come back. What is lost can only be captured by memory. And Trethewey’s prose captures memory with poetic precision.”—W. Ralph Eubanks, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered “By looking at the vast devastation with sober and poetic eyes, Trethewey has written a hauntingly beautiful book.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.

natasha trethewey was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 2012–14. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Thrall, Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Native Guard, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. Photo by Nancy Crampton

“Heartfelt, righteous, humane, Beyond Katrina richly deserves to become one of the indispensible Katrina books.”—Mobile Press-Register “Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is more about the storm’s sociological and psychological results for the Coast and its people, North Gulfport in particular, than its physical damage. But it’s seldom about generalizations. . . . This is a powerful, sometimes painful, book that gets underneath comfortable memories— wherever the reader lives.” —Biloxi and South Mississippi SunHerald

also of interest august 5.5 x 8.5 | 160 pp. 12 b&w photos paper, $19.95t/$25.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4902-2

A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication

the cruel country Judith Ortiz Cofer hardback, $24.95t 978-0-8203-4763-9 ebook available

the riots Danielle Cadena Deulen paper, $18.95t 978-0-8203-4438-6 ebook available

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Stories about lives taken and lives left behind

the suicide club Stories by Toni Graham

Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

“These are sad, smart, and wickedly witty stories. Graham’s lost souls, uneasy in their skin and in their circumstances, linked by grief, demonstrate the way the tectonic shift of a loved one’s suicide sends out aftershocks for years. Get to know the members of the Suicide Club; they feel real to the core.”—Kim Addonizio, author of The Palace of Illusions “Graham’s people seek solace in ways grim, odd, desperate, and even hilarious; they are at all times the wretched ghosts of the ones they’ve lost yet cannot escape. And somehow we love them, grieve with them, as Graham does not allow us to escape this, either. She is a writer of extraordinary, incisive courage, sparing her characters and her readers nothing. No mercy, but all heart.” —Brad Watson, author of Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives

The people in these eight interlaced stories are “bound together by the worst sort of grief,” the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. Wednesday evenings in Hope Springs, Oklahoma, offer the usual middleAmerican options: TV, rec league sports, eating out, and church. For Slater, Holly, and SueAnn, it is the night their suicide survivors group meets. They once felt little else in common, aside from a curiosity about Jane, the group facilitator, but now they understand how deeply they need each other. SueAnn mourns for her son, who hanged himself. Slater is left impotent by the loss of his father, who deliberately overdosed on pills and alcohol. Holly can’t let go of her boyfriend, who shot himself. But if suicide has stolen their capacity to laugh, it has honed their sense of absurdity. Even in the darkest undertones of what her characters think and say, Toni Graham reveals a piercingly funny cast, short on patience with themselves and the incongruous pieties of daily life in the Heartland. If they weren’t already Hope Springs outsiders, suicide has made sure of it. Failing to fit in, they try to change, if only for themselves: Holly joins an online dating service; SueAnn works on her vocabulary; Slater gets liposuction. They keep moving forward and backward and, when their paths cross outside of their regular Wednesday meetings, sometimes a little sideways.

toni graham, a native of San Francisco, teaches creative writing at Oklahoma State University, where she serves as editor in chief and fiction editor for the Cimarron Review. She is the author of two short story collections: Waiting for Elvis, winner of the John Gardner Book Award, and The Daiquiri Girls, winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Photo by Anthony Hart

also in the series september 5.5 x 8.5 | 152 pp. hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4850-6 ebook available

Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

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bright shards of someplace else Stories by Monica McFawn hardback, $24.95t 978-0-8203-4687-8 ebook available

faulty predictions Stories by Karin Lin-Greenberg hardback, $24.95t 978-0-8203-4686-1 ebook available

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Stories about Iranian Americans and their effort to never give up in their search for peace

better than war

Stories by Siamak Vossoughi

Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

“Siamak Vossoughi’s quiet but powerful stories capture the intricacy and profundity of the Iranian American experience. His characters are people just like us, struggling to make sense of an often confusing world. Their inherent decency, delicacy of feeling, and desire for understanding are what define them and what make this big-hearted collection so special. Better Than War marks the debut of a thoughtful and important new literary voice.”—Anita Amirrezvani, author of The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun “Siamak Vossoughi’s stories reveal an unjaded sense of wonder, which I have not witnessed in any writer since William Saroyan. The characters here act to better our ethical impulses and open our eyes to the possible goodnesses in the world. Vossoughi’s compassionately realized appeal is to make vulnerable our communities—Iranian, American, and others: ‘all of whom deserve every moment of life before them, knowing somewhere that each of them is better than war, and not needing any vision of war to remind them.’” —Benjamin Hollander, author of In the House Un-American

The stories in Better Than War encompass narratives from a diverse set of Iranian immigrants, many searching for a balance between memories of their homeland and their new American culture. The everyday life of each character subtly reflects viewpoints that are simultaneously Iranian and American, of all ages and circumstances. These stories deal with family, friends, relationships, urban life, prison, school, and adolescence. They also contain powerful messages about what people want, need, and deserve as citizens and human beings. For instance, in the story “Better Than War” a young Iranian boy must overcome the fear of asking an American girl on a date. His friend tells him there is no shame in pouring your heart out to someone you like. The boy must realize that expressing emotion and sorrow is worth the embarrassment because it shows loved ones that you are better than hatred—and especially better than war. All Iranian immigrants, young or old, carry with them a vivid past in their contemporary life. These histories help provide perspective, thankfulness, and virtue to their families and friends. Vossoughi’s Better Than War is about growing up, coming of age, and raising children in America while still remembering the importance of retaining Iranian pride.

siamak vossoughi was born in Tehran and grew up in London,

Photo by Walter Kitundu

Orange County, and Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington and has lived in San Francisco since then. Along with writing, he works as a tutor and substitute teacher. Some of his writing has appeared in Faultline, Fourteen Hills, Prick of the Spindle, The Rumpus, Missouri Review, and Washington Square. He is also the recipient of the 2013 Very Short Fiction Award from Glimmer Train. He is currently writing a novel.

also in the series september 5.5 x 8.5 | 148 pp. hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4853-7 ebook available

Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

the invisibles

love, in theory

Stories by Hugh Sheehy paper, $19.95t 978-0-8203-4828-5 ebook available

Ten Stories E. J. Levy paper, $19.95t 978-0-8203-4827-8 ebook available

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One poet’s primary research on all things love—the erotic, the domestic, its glory, and its accompanying rage

monograph

Poems by Simeon Berry Selected by Denise Duhamel Written in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to the explosive as it dissects the Gordian knot of a marriage’s intellectual, sexual, and domestic lives. Invoking Raymond Chandler, Pythagoras, Joan Didion, and Virginia Woolf as presiding spirits, Simeon Berry curates the negative space of each wry tableau, destabilizing the high seriousness of every lyric aside and slipping quantum uncertainty into the stark lineaments of loss. “If you enjoyed Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and Eula Biss’s The Balloonists, you will love Berry’s Monograph— obsessive, prismed, wise, shameless—a whole treatise of desire formatted into tiny succulent prose poems or lyrical fictions or bites or bits or installments or glances or confessions: a collage of lovely and disturbing threads. I simply could not put it down.”—Maureen Seaton, author of Fibonacci Batman: New and Selected Poems, 1991–2011

simeon berry has been an associate editor for Ploughshares and

won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters. His first book, Ampersand Revisited, was selected for the 2013 National Poetry Series. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Photo by Fritz Ward

“With Monograph, Simeon Berry has found a new and compelling way of doing what presents, rather slyly, as autobiography. By turns acerbic, self-mocking, and gently witty, this book is made of lucid, startling sequences of squibs, or tabs, of narrative fragments about sex, love, family, books, and writing. Mostly what I wanted to do in this blurb was quote my favorite bits—look at this, look at this—but there are too many of them. Smart detail, sudden skids, Big Questions, casual idiomatic precision: Monograph has all of these, but I think it’s the quality of Berry’s attention that is most arresting of all. A book of wit and heart.”—Daisy Fried, author of My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again

also in the series september 5.5 x 8.5 | 96 pp. paper, $16.95t/$22.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4845-2 ebook available

The National Poetry Series

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what ridiculous things we could ask of each other Poems by Jeffrey Schultz Selected by Kevin Young paper, $16.95t 978-0-8203-4721-9

the cloud that contained the lightning Poems by Cynthia Lowen Selected by Nikky Finney paper, $16.95t 978-0-8203-4564-2

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Peacock kimonos, shrimp capes, and Roy Rogers robes—southern tufted garments on the national fashion scene

southern tufts

The Regional Origins and National Craze for Chenille Fashion Ashley Callahan Foreword by Madelyn Shaw

“Callahan has brought us an engaging, little-known part of American textile history. This profusely illustrated book will have us all longing again for the comfort of a chenille robe.”—Philis Alvic, author of Weavers of the Southern Highlands “Southern Tufts is appealing on many levels. Callahan blends the folksy topic of chenille and roadside America with the Colonial Revival to create a real contribution to textile history.” —Pamela A. Parmal, curator of textile and fashion arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston “Callahan’s handling of this material is masterful. She braids the different threads of gender, race, class, business, and regional culture into one integrated narrative and, in the process, thoroughly contextualizes the objects and their origin and production. Southern Tufts emerges as the definitive study on this genre.”—Dale Couch, curator of decorative arts, Georgia Museum of Art

december 7 x 9 | 256 pp. 171 color and b&w images, 1 diagram, 2 maps hardback, $39.95t/$51.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4516-1

This project was made possible, in part, by the generosity of the Brown-Whitworth Foundation; the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Inc.; the Harry and Helen Saul Foundation; Norville Industries; and Shaw Industries

Southern Tufts is the first book to highlight the garments produced by northwestern Georgia’s tufted textile industry. Though best known now for its production of carpet, in the early twentieth century the region was revered for its handtufted candlewick bedspreads, products that grew out of the Southern Appalachian Craft Revival and appealed to the vogue for Colonial Revival–style household goods. Soon after the bedspreads became popular, enterprising women began creating hand-tufted garments, including candlewick kimonos in the 1920s and candlewick dresses in the early 1930s. By the late 1930s, large companies offered machine-produced chenille beach capes, jackets, and robes. In the 1940s and 1950s, chenille robes became an American fashion staple. At the end of the century, interest in chenille fashion revived, fueled by nostalgia and an interest in recycling vintage materials. Chenille bedspreads, bathrobes, and accessories hung for sale both in roadside souvenir shops, especially along the Dixie Highway, and in department stores all over the nation. Callahan tells the story of chenille fashion and its connections to stylistic trends, automobile tourism, industrial developments, and U.S. history. The well-researched and heavily illustrated text presents a broad history of tufted textiles, as well as sections highlighting individual craftspeople and manufacturers involved with the production of chenille fashion.

Photo by Annelies Mondi

ashley callahan has an MA in the history of American decorative arts from Parsons School of Design and the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution, and a BA in art history from the University of the South. Callahan, an independent scholar and former curator of decorative arts at the Georgia Museum of Art, is the author of Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas, Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz, and Enchanting Modern: Ilonka Karasz.

also of interest red, white, and black make blue Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life Andrea Feeser paper, $24.95t 978-0-8203-4553-6 ebook available

faith in bikinis Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South since the Civil War Anthony J. Stanonis paper, $24.95s 978-0-8203-4733-2 ebook available

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All homes have a story to tell, and the Georgia Governor’s Mansion is no exception

memories of the mansion

The Story of Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion Sandra D. Deal, Jennifer W. Dickey, and Catherine M. Lewis

“In this meticulously researched history of Georgia’s executive mansion, the authors wonderfully illuminate the intertwining stories of its caretakers, the state’s first families, and the people of Georgia. Surely, it will become a model of its kind.”—Jamil Zainaldin, President, Georgia Humanities Council

Designed by Atlanta architect A. Thomas Bradbury and opened in 1968, the mansion has been home to eight first families and houses a distinguished collection of American art and antiques. Often called “the people’s house,” the mansion is always on display, always serving the public. Memories of the Mansion tells the story of the Georgia Governor’s Mansion—what preceded it and how it came to be as well as the stories of the people who have lived and worked here since its opening in 1968. The authors worked closely with the former first families (Maddox, Carter, Busbee, Harris, Miller, Barnes, Perdue, and Deal) to capture behind-the-scenes anecdotes of what life was like in the state’s most public house. This richly illustrated book not only documents this extraordinary place and the people who have lived and worked here, but it will also help ensure the preservation of this historic resource so that it may continue to serve the state and its people.

sandra d. deal is the first lady of Georgia. jennifer w. dickey is the coordinator of public history and

associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University.

catherine m. lewis is the assistant vice president of Museums, Archives and Rare Books and a professor of history at Kennesaw State University.

“This book engages readers in a way that helps them experience fifty years of Georgia political personalities as they promoted our state on the magnificent set that is our Governor’s Mansion. More than that, despite the first families’ disparate backgrounds, politics, and personalities, this book highlights the connection of common awe and responsibility they all have felt while performing their roles in the fishbowl of the Governor’s Mansion.”—Sheffield Hale, President and CEO, Atlanta History Center

Opposite page: photo by Christopher Oquendo

also of interest october 9 x 12 | 240 pp. 247 color and b&w photos hardback, $39.95t/$51.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4859-9

Published in cooperation with the University of Georgia Libraries and Kennesaw State University

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democracy restored

courthouses of georgia

A History of the Georgia State Capitol Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee Featuring photographs by Diane Kirkland hardback, $41.95t 978-0-8203-2911-6

Association County Commissioners of Georgia paper, $34.95t 978-0-8203-4688-5

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More than 25,000 copies sold

snakes of the southeast

Revised Edition Whit Gibbons and Mike Dorcas

“Makes an eloquent case for the environmental importance of these slithery denizens of field, forest, swamp and backyard . . . The poisonous snakes evoke the most interest, of course, and the authors do a good job of debunking the many lurid myths that enshroud these vipers.” —Mobile Register

Fifty-three kinds of snakes can be found in the Southeast, almost half of all species native to North America. Filled with more than 300 color photographs and written by two renowned herpetologists, this new edition is the most comprehensive authoritative guide to the snakes of the region. At the heart of the book are its heavily illustrated, fact-filled descriptions of each snake species. Also included is a wealth of general information about the importance of snake conservation and the biology, diversity, habitats, and ecology of snakes. Find useful information about the interactions of humans and snakes: species that are likely to be found near houses, snakes as pets, what to do in case of a snakebite, and more. The revised edition of Snakes of the Southeast includes new photos, the latest research findings, new species discoveries, and the most current geographic range maps. Clearly written, cleanly designed, and fun to use, this guide promotes a better understanding of the conservation of this fascinating but often maligned group of animals.

features: “A treasure to anyone having an interest in becoming a herpetologist . . . The photographs will attract every herpetologist, as they are fit in perfect context, and mostly never seen in publications before. Certainly the price will make it highly affordable for both the novice and professional herpetologist.”—Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society

• Conservation-oriented approach • Over 300 color photographs, including many new images for this edition • New distribution maps for 53 species of snakes • New accounts of invasive snakes of the Southeast • Clear descriptions of each species, including differences in the appearance of young and mature snakes • Size charts, key identifiers (scales, body shape, patterns, and color), descriptions of habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation

whit gibbons is a professor of ecology at the Uni-

versity of Georgia and the head of the Environmental Outreach and Education Program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He is the coauthor, with Kurt Buhlmann and Tracey Tuberville, of Turtles of the Southeast (Georgia).

Photo courtesy of the authors

mike dorcas, a biologist at Davidson College, is author of A Guide to the Snakes of North Carolina and coauthor of The Frogs and Toads of North Carolina.

also of interest october 7.5 x 10 | 280 pp. 335 color photos, 1 table, 178 maps paper, $28.95t/$37.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4901-5

A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book

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frogs and toads of the southeast

invasive pythons in the united states

Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons paper, $27.95t 978-0-8203-2922-2

Ecology of an Introduced Predator Mike Dorcas and John D. Willson Foreword by Whit Gibbons paper, $25.95t 978-0-8203-3835-4

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The definitive guide to Georgia mineralogy

minerals of georgia

Their Properties and Occurrences Robert B. Cook and Julian C. Gray Edited by Jose Santamaria Minerals of Georgia presents an illustrated, alphabetized record of every mineral (or mineral group) identified in the state. Under each entry is a county-by-county listing of every occurrence known, including both widespread species and obscure ones. In addition to economically important mineral deposits, this volume covers various mineral localities within the state that are well known among professional mineralogists, mineral collectors, and rockhounds as the source of outstanding study, display, and lapidary material. Illustrated with over 150 color photographs this guide provides the most current listings and descriptions of mineral occurrences and mining activities documented in Georgia over the past 150 years. Minerals of Georgia will be invaluable to the mineralogist, collector, and researcher with its definitive and updated listings of the distribution and specific localities of a mineral, the mineralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s association and geologic setting, and the varied mineralogy of a particular county or mineral district. Even the casual reader will gain a better appreciation of Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diverse mineral treasures.

robert b. cook is a professor emeritus of the Department of Geology and Geography at Auburn University. julian c. gray is executive director of the Rice

Northwestern Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Julian C. Gray and Jose Santamaria Photos by Steven Anthony Smith

jose santamaria is executive director of the

Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.

also of interest february 6 x 9 | 360 pp. 167 color photos, 3 tables, 1 map paper, $32.95s/$42.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4558-1

A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book

georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing coast Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas David Bryant and George Davidson Illustrated by Charlotte Ingram paper, $17.95t 978-0-8203-2533-0

field guide to the rare plants of georgia Linda G. Chafin Featuring photographs by Hugh and Carol Nourse Illustrations by Jean C. Putnam Hancock paper, $34.95t 978-0-9779621-0-5

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Friendships that broke down barriers between Native American and Anglo American women

weaving alliances with other women

Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South Daniel H. Usner River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874–1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point into the lives of American Indians in the segregated South. Mary Bradford (1869–1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888–1971) were not only friends of Christine Paul; they were also patrons who helped connect Paul and other Chitimacha weavers with buyers for their work. Daniel H. Usner uses Paul’s letters to Bradford and Dormon to reveal how Indian women, as mediators between their own communities and surrounding outsiders, often drew on accumulated authority and experience in multicultural negotiation to forge new relationships with non-Indian women. Bradford’s initial interest in Paul was philanthropic, while Dormon’s was anthropological. Both certainly admired the artistry of Chitimacha baskets. For her part, Paul saw in Bradford and Dormon opportunities to promote her basketry tradition and expand a network of outsiders sympathetic to her tribe’s vulnerability on many fronts. As Usner explores these friendships, he touches on a range of factors that may have shaped them, including class differences, racial attitudes, and shared ideals of womanhood. The result is an engaging story of American Indian livelihood, identity, and self-determination.

daniel h. usner is the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History at

Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History; Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783; and American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories.

Photo by Rhonda S. Usner

october 6 x 9 | 136 pp. 7 b&w photos paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4849-0 hardback, $69.95y/$95.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4848-3 ebook available

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Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures

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a late encounter with the civil war Michael Kreyling paper, $19.95s 978-0-8203-4657-1 ebook available

becoming confederates Paths to a New National Loyalty Gary W. Gallagher paper, $19.95s 978-0-8203-4540-6 ebook available

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The lucrative, extralegal business of privateering as a window into the Atlantic World

privateers of the americas Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic David Head

Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, there is no comparable work. Because privateering further complicated international dealings during the already tumultuous Age of Revolution, the book also offers a new perspective on the diplomatic and Atlantic history of the early American republic. Seafarers living in the United States secured commissions from Spanish American nations, attacked Spanish vessels, and returned to sell their captured cargoes (which sometimes included slaves) from bases in Baltimore, New Orleans, and Galveston and on Amelia Island. Privateers sold millions of dollars of goods to untold numbers of ordinary Americans. Their collective enterprise involved more than a hundred vessels and thousands of people—not only ships’ crews but investors, merchants, suppliers, and others. They angered foreign diplomats, worried American officials, and muddied U.S. foreign relations. David Head looks at how Spanish American privateering worked and who engaged in it; how the U.S. government responded; how privateers and their supporters evaded or exploited laws and international relations; what motivated men to choose this line of work; and ultimately, what it meant to them to sail for the new republics of Spanish America. His findings broaden our understanding of the experience of being an American in a wider world.

david head is an assistant professor of history at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.

october 6 x 9 | 224 pp. 8 b&w photos, 3 tables, 2 maps paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4864-3 hardback, $64.95y/$85.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4400-3 ebook available

Early American Places

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also in the series natchez country Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana George Edward Milne paper, $26.95s 978-0-8203-4750-9 ebook available

slavery, childhood, and abolition in jamaica, 1788–1838 Colleen A. Vasconcellos paper, $24.95s 978-0-8203-4805-6 ebook available

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Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade

the mulatta concubine

Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic Lisa Ze Winters Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure’s centrality to the practices and production of diaspora. Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers’ narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities.

lisa ze winters is an associate professor of English and Africana studies at Wayne State University.

Photo by M.J. Murwaka

january 6 x 9 | 248 pp. 8 b&w photos hardback, $59.95s/$80.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4896-4 ebook available

Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History

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also in the series almost free

to live an antislavery life

A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia Eva Sheppard Wolf paper, $19.95s 978-0-8203-3230-7 ebook available

Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class Erica L. Ball paper, $22.95s 978-0-8203-4350-1 ebook available

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How slavery, freedom, and liberation were intertwined in the experiences of African American women

finding charity’s folk

Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland Jessica Millward

“Digging deeply into the county court records of Maryland, the author presents a remarkable picture of how some enslaved women, including Charity Folks, acquired their freedom. In doing so, she broadens our perspective on female slaves, African American family relationships, and free blacks. Thoroughly versed in a broad literature, she authoritatively discusses a wide range of related topics, including interracial sex, violence, rape, and the relationship between enslaved women’s bodies, freedom suits, and manumission laws.”—Loren Schweninger, Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.

jessica millward is an assistant professor of history at the University of

California, Irvine.

“Bold and daring in both chronology and content. With incredible new sources, Jessica Millward recovers the lives of African American women in rural Maryland, courageously tackling the complexities of emancipation in early America. Finding Charity’s Folk makes an essential contribution to African American women’s history and to the narrative of American freedom.” —Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware december 6 x 9 | 152 pp. 5 b&w photos, 2 diagrams, 1 table paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4878-0 hardback, $49.95y/$64.95 cad | 978-0-8203-3108-9 ebook available

Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History

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also in the series diplomacy in black and white John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance Ronald Angelo Johnson paper, $24.95s 978-0-8203-4769-1 ebook available

eighty-eight years The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 Patrick Rael paper, $32.95s 978-0-8203-4839-1 ebook available

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How the civil rights activism of African American women shaped the story of the wartime collapse of slavery

gender and the jubilee

Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri Sharon Romeo

“This is a landmark book. Rather than simply resulting from the work of lawmakers who ratified the Fourteenth Amendment during Reconstruction, the concept of ‘citizenship’ emerged out of the innumerable actions carried out by African Americans in the slaveholding states during the Civil War. Romeo shows that in war-torn Missouri, black women petitioned Union officers for their freedom, filed lawsuits against their former owners in military courts, and claimed widows’ pensions after the deaths of their veteran husbands. By documenting black women’s activism in a state where the Emancipation Proclamation did not even apply, Romeo forces us to reexamine precisely how and why constitutional and legal change occurred during this period.” —Timothy Huebner, Irma O. Sternberg Professor of History, Rhodes College

Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship. During the turbulent years of the Civil War crisis, African American women asserted their vision of freedom through a multitude of strategies. They took concerns ordinarily under the jurisdiction of civil courts, such as assault and child custody, and transformed them into military matters. African American women petitioned military police for “free papers”; testified against former owners; fled to contraband camps; and “joined the army” with their male relatives, serving as cooks, laundresses, and nurses. Freedwomen, and even enslaved women, used military courts to lodge complaints against employers and former masters, sought legal recognition of their marriages, and claimed pensions as the widows of war veterans. Through military venues, African American women in a state where the institution of slavery remained unmolested by the Emancipation Proclamation, demonstrated a claim on citizenship rights well before they would be guaranteed through the establishment of the Fourteenth Amendment. The litigating slave women of antebellum St. Louis, and the female activists of the Civil War period, left a rich legal heritage to those who would continue the struggle for civil rights in the postbellum era.

sharon romeo is an assistant professor of history and classics at the University

of Alberta.

also in the series january 6 x 9 | 256 pp. 17 b&w images, 2 diagrams, 2 tables hardback, $59.95y/$80.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4801-8 ebook available

Studies in the Legal History of the South

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james mchenry, forgotten federalist Karen E. Robbins hardback, $34.95s 978-0-8203-4563-5 ebook available

the long, lingering shadow Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere Robert J. Cottrol paper, $24.95s 978-0-8203-4431-7 ebook available

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Traces how countries are building new forms of cooperation to address dangers posed by weapons proliferation

international cooperation on wmd nonproliferation Edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;including nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various worldwide export-control regimes and nuclear security summit meetings initiated by U.S. president Barack Obama. Many of these additional nonproliferation arrangements are less formal and have fewer members than the global treaties. International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation calls attention to the emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together. Collectively, the essayists show that states have added new forms of international cooperation to combat WMD proliferation for multiple reasons, including the need to address new problems and the entrepreneurial activities of key state leaders. Despite the complications created by the existence of so many different cooperative arrangements, this collection shows the world is witnessing a process of building cooperation that is leading to greater levels of activity in support of norms against WMD and terrorism.

jeffrey w. knopf is a professor and program chair of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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contributors february 6 x 9 | 344 pp. 4 diagrams, 6 tables hardback, $64.95s/$85.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4527-7 ebook available

Studies in Security and International Affairs

Emma Belcher Wyn Q. Bowen Gavin Cameron Francesca Giovannini Michael Hamel-Green Alan Heyes Scott A. Jones

Togzhan Kassenova Jeffrey W. Knopf Alan J. Kuperman Sara Z. Kutchesfahani Tanya Ogilvie-White David Santoro Elizabeth Turpen

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A rigorous, gendered perspective on how inequality is perpetuated

precarious worlds

Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction Edited by Katie Meehan and Kendra Strauss This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, nonhuman materialities, and diverse economies. Reflecting and expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, with additional cross-disciplinary contributions from sociologists and political scientists, Precarious Worlds explores the productive possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical lens, and an analytical framework for what Geraldine Pratt has called “a vigorous, materialist transnational feminism.”

katie meehan is assistant professor of geography at the University of Oregon. kendra strauss is assistant professor in the Labour Studies Program at Simon Fraser University and an associate member of the Department of Geography. Photo courtesy of the author

Photo by Simon Fraser University Photo Services

contributors november 6 x 9 | 200 pp. 5 tables paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4882-7 hardback, $69.95y/$95.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4881-0 ebook available

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Kate Bezanson Susan Braedley Jessie H. Clark Kelly Dombroski Rosalind Fredericks Andrew Gorman-Murray

Cindi Katz Meg Luxton Brian Marks Sallie A. Marston Katie Meehan Katharyne Mitchell

Oona Morrow Brenda Parker Barbara Ellen Smith Kendra Strauss Jamie Winders

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Toward a new, transnational agenda of poverty scholarship

territories of poverty

Rethinking North and South Edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.

ananya roy is professor of city and regional planning

and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.

emma shaw crane is a doctoral student in Ameri-

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can studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She was previously a research fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley.

contributors november 6 x 9 | 336 pp. 8 b&w photos, 2 tables paper, $29.95s/$38.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4843-8 hardback, $85.95y/$120.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4842-1 ebook available

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

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Somaya Abdelgany Vincanne Adams Hiba Bou Akar Teddy Cruz Luis Flores Alyosha Goldstein Christina Gossmann

Akhil Gupta Ju Hui Judy Han Michael B. Katz Erica Kohl-Arenas Anh-Thi Le Bill Maurer Jamie Peck

Rebecca Peters Ananya Roy Stuart Schrader Emma Shaw Crane Nik Theodore Stephanie Ullrich Loïc Wacquant

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Understanding the forms of power shaping our lives

spaces of danger

Culture and Power in the Everyday Edited by Heather Merrill and Lisa M. Hoffman Foreword by Paul Rabinow

“This impressive and rich collection of essays explores the legacies and potentials of Allan Pred’s unique critical cultural geography, resulting in very innovative approaches to the analysis of space, time, and power. The book is transdisciplinary in the best sense of the word, moving between a wide range of contemporary conflicts, from militant Muslim groups in Nigeria and the Shanghai World Expo to European racisms and the cultural and political logics of drone attacks.”—Orvar Lofgren, coeditor of Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies

These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin’s idea of “moments of danger.” The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activist Anders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor Party youth gathering and bombed a government building, killing and injuring many. Breivik had publicly and forthrightly declared war against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that painted Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away from analysis of the resurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms in which he was immersed. The Breivik case is merely one of the most visible recent examples, say editors Heather Merrill and Lisa Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting—for example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in Germany, an art gallery exhibit in South Africa—this volume peels back layers of “situated practices and their associated meaning and power relations.” Spaces of Danger offers analytical and conceptual tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the taken-for-granted and make visible and legible that which is silenced.

heather merrill is a human geographer and associate professor of Africana studies at Hamilton College.

lisa m. hoffman is a cultural anthropologist and

associate professor of urban studies at the University of Washington Tacoma.

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Photo by Cody Char

contributors december 6 x 9 | 320 pp. 29 b&w photos, 2 diagrams paper, $29.95s/$38.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4877-3 hardback, $84.95y/$120.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4876-6 ebook available

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Derek Gregory Gillian Hart Lisa M. Hoffman Cindi Katz Shiloh Krupar Heather Merrill Katharyne Mitchell

Gunnar Olsson Damani J. Partridge Nancy Postero Paul Rabinow Richard Walker Michael J. Watts

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How Tamils in Canada responded to armed conflict back home in Sri Lanka

pain, pride, and politics

Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada Amarnath Amarasingam

“Amarasingam’s impressive, clearly written study provides, at once, a fascinating account of the complex politics of the Sri Lankan Tamil community in Canada and a significant reappraisal of diaspora theory.” —Mark P. Whitaker, author of Learning Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka “Written from the perspective of a critical insider, this engaging book helps us to make sense of the fractious complexity of Tamil diaspora politics since the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. Its innovative angle on diaspora as a social movement points to ways of understanding how and why diasporas have become such important players on the global scene.” —Nicholas Van Hear, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford

Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil movement was being crushed by the Sri Lankan armed forces and revises currently accepted analytical frameworks relating to diasporic communities. This book adds to our understanding of a particular diasporic group, while contributing to the theoretical literature in the area. Throughout, Amarasingam argues that transnational diasporic mobilization is at times determined and driven as much by internal organizational and communal developments as by events in their countries of origin, a phenomenon that has received relatively little attention in the scholarly literature. His work provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which a separatist sociopolitical movement beginning in Sri Lanka is carried forward, altered, and adapted by the diaspora and the struggles that are involved in this process.

amarnath amarasingam is the Social Science and Humanities

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Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University, professor of religion at Wilfrid Laurier University, and lecturer at the University of Waterloo. He is the editor of The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News and Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal.

also in the series september 6 x 9 | 248 pp. 1 diagram, 8 tables paper, $27.95s/$36.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4813-1 hardback, $79.95y/$105.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4812-4 ebook available

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geographical diversions Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions Tina Harris paper, $24.95s 978-0-8203-4512-3 ebook available

roppongi crossing The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City Roman Adrian Cybriwsky paper, $24.95s 978-0-8203-3832-3 ebook available

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Drawing attention to the geographical and literary diversity of American writers before the Civil War

mapping region in early american writing

Edited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;imagined politically, economically, racially, and figurativelyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying the American landscape. Focusing on place-specific, local writing published before 1860, Mapping Region in Early American Writing examines a period often overlooked in studies of regional literature in America. More than simply offering a prehistory of regionalist writing, these essays offer new ways of theorizing and studying regional spaces in the United States as it grew from a union of disparate colonies along the eastern seaboard into an industrialized nation on the verge of overseas empire building. They also seek to amplify lost voices of diverse narratives from minority, frontier, and outsider groups alongside their more well-known counterparts in a time when Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landscapes and communities were constantly evolving.

edward watts is professor of English at Michigan State University.

keri holt is associate professor of English at Utah State University.

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john funchion is assistant professor of English and American Studies at the University of Miami.

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Harry Brown Andy Doolen Duncan Faherty John Funchion Keri Holt William V. Lombardi

Janet Neary Hollis Robbins Jennifer Schell Martha Schoolman Steven W. Thomas Edward Watts

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university press of north georgia

turn back before baghdad Laurence Jolidon

laurence jolidon passed away in August 2002,

yet his legacy as an outstanding war reporter continues to influence the world of journalism. He served as a war correspondent on the ground during the Persian Gulf Wars. Before his death, he was the spokesperson for the NATO Peace Stabilization Force. He is also known for his book Last Seen Alive: The Search for Missing POWs from the Korean War, first published under his imprint Ink-Slinger Press in 1995.

august 6 x 9 | 520 pp. paper, $24.95t/$30.95 cad 978-1-940771-19-9

In the early morning hours of January 12, 1991, telephones rang in the rooms of a dozen or so newspaper and wire service reporters at the Dhahran International, the Meridian, and other hotels in Eastern Saudi Arabia. War with the regime of Saddam Hussein over the oil province of Kuwait had become inevitable. The calls, telling the reporters to grab their gear and meet military public affairs officers in hotel lobbies, triggered the first media pools dispatched to cover Operation Desert Storm. For both the military and journalists, the pool system was viewed with misgivings. It was seen by many on both sides as the best of several bad options for reporting the coming war to the American people and the world. Historians and casual readers will find here vivid texture of that unique time, the atmospherics of an era already fading from the American consciousness of MREs and yellow ribbons and all the attendant color and drama of American and British expeditionary troops in the hundreds of thousands transported to the exotic wastes of Arabia. Jolidon’s work captures an important moment that will be studied by historians who examine the role of the media in wartime and relations between the military and civilian reporters. Whatever history’s final judgment on the utility of the pool system, it is undeniable that the relationship between the Pentagon and the press has not been the same since.

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secrets of the forest The Magic and Mystery of Plants and the Art of Survival Mark Warren

mark warren provides survival training at Medicine Bow, a wilderness school in the north Georgia mountains. As a premed student who majored in chemistry, he was introduced to the chemicals assembled in and extracted from plants. Later, as a naturalist, he has shared his knowledge with thousands of students, from preschoolers to octogenarians. This unique book includes the survival knowledge, tips, and activities that Warren has collected over half a century of survivalist teaching.

september 6 x 9 | 320 pp. paper, $24.95t 978-1-940771-20-5

As a survival book and guide, Secrets of the Forest shows you how to explore “the real world” and to come to know it as your home. That “real world”—whether it be forest, field, swamp, prairie, or desert—is waiting for you to return to your primordial roots. In entering this “real world,” you will encounter the same kinds of wild places as the ancients who invented and practiced these skills of survival. True, the environment might now be modified by human encroachment or by alien plants that have made their way into your area, but—with some exceptions— it generally comprises the same biodiversity of flora and fauna as found in ancient times. And surviving in this “real world” will pluck the atavistic string deep inside your marrow.

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Previously announced

bombay in the age of disco City, Community, Life Tinaz Pavri

tinaz pavri was born in Mumbai, India, and came to the United States to pursue her graduate studies. She is a professor of political science at Spelman College, where she also directs the Asian Studies Program. Her areas of expertise include global security, conflict resolution, and international political economy. She lives in Atlanta with her family.

new publication date : february 2015 6 x 9 | 108 pp. paper, $24.95t/$30.95 cad 978-1-940771-17-5 ebook available

By the early nineties, India’s economy had taken its first faltering steps toward liberalization, and globalization’s reach had found and touched significant swathes of its society. The decades-long postindependence era of Nehru and Gandhi was finally and firmly over, and Bombay had become Mumbai. Bombay in the Age of Disco is a personal and historically powerful memoir that weaves together the experiences and aspirations of a young girl and a city on the cusp of this transformation. Tinaz Pavri captures Bombay’s preglobal guise as the city moves inexorably toward the dizzying sea change that comes after she leaves its shores. This book is a moving, lovingly etched remembrance of a city and its people that molded the author into the person she became, nurtured her dreams, taught her its wisdom, and held in its arms her friends, family, and community. It gives us an insight into the life of Bombay’s Parsis, Persian-descended refugees who became wound through centuries into the fabric of the city’s life. Pavri’s memoir is a keenly observed, affecting, and often humorous account of India’s changing social structure, economy, and politics over the last several decades, giving voice to the last of its preglobal generation. Readers will be as enthralled by Pavri’s family, friends, and community as they will be by the city’s momentous challenges and regenerating charm.

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traveler’s rest and the tugaloo crossroads Robert Eldridge Bouwman

robert eldridge bouwman was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1948. He attended Florida Presbyterian College and completed his graduate studies in history at Emory University, where he received his PhD in 1975. Bouwman worked as a freelance historian, during which time he researched and wrote Traveler’s Rest and the Tugaloo Crossroads. He has taught at Piedmont College, Gainesville State College, Kennesaw State University, and the University of North Georgia, where he teaches today.

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On Georgia Highway 123, amid the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, stands Traveler’s Rest Historic Site. The house stands within two miles of the site of Old Tugaloo Town, an important Cherokee village. It is situated on a crossroads at the southern end of the Great Wagon Road, down which a wave of EuropeanAmerican migration poured to fill the land east of the Appalachians in the mideighteenth century. Its history encompasses the Cherokees, migration, frontier war, and gold rush; it includes the development of Traveler’s Rest as a stagecoach inn/tavern into its long years as a plantation center; through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the gradual decline of land and family is taken to the present century, where Traveler’s Rest becomes the physical embodiment of history transfigured into legend. The history of Traveler’s Rest is the history of a people and a heritage, reflected in the structure that developed with the years.

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