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“Impeccably researched and brilliantly written, At Home reintroduces us to old characters with new ideas when we least expect them.” —Peter Benes, author of For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America
Bright Leaf, an imprint of the University of Massachusetts Press, publishes insightful and entertaining books about New England. Written for a popular audience, Bright Leaf explores a myriad of subjects that highlight the history, culture, diversity, and envi ronment of the region.
Concrete Changes Architecture, Politics, and the Design of the Boston City Hall Brian M. Sirman $22.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-357-4
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Bricklayer Bill The Untold Story of the Workingman’s Boston Marathon Patrick L. Kennedy & Lawrence W. Kennedy Foreword by Bill Rodgers $24.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-306-2
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COVER ART Front cover image: Watercolor © Danica Novgorodoff.“I must find out about the unity of nature.”–von Humboldt, courtesy of the artist. From Strange Attractors, p. 10. Interior cover image: detail of photograph of Orchard House (ca. 1865) with Alcott family members in the foreground. Used by permission of Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.
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At Home Historic Houses of Eastern Massachusetts BETH LUEY With its abundant history of prominent families, Massachusetts boasts some of the most historically rich residences in the country. In the eastern half of the Commonwealth, these include Presidents John and John Quincy Adams’s home in Quincy, Bronson and Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House in Concord, the Charles Bulfinch–designed Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston, and Edward Gorey’s Elephant House in Yarmouth Port. In At Home: Historic Houses of Eastern Massachusetts, Beth Luey uses architectural and genealogical texts, wills, correspondences, and diaries to craft delightful narratives of these notable abodes and the people who variously built, acquired, or renovated them. Filled with vivid details and fresh perspectives that will surprise even the most knowledgeable aficionados, each chapter is short enough to serve as an introduction for a visit to its house. All the homes are open to the public.
The Fairbanks House, Dedham Adams National Historical Park, Quincy The Otis House, Boston County Street, New Bedford The Alcott Houses, Concord and Harvard The Mary Baker Eddy House, Chestnut Hill Beauport, Gloucester The Edward Gorey House, Yarmouth Port
BETH LUEY is author of House Stories: The Meanings of Home in a New England Town.
Also of Interest New England History and Culture 224 pp., 24 illus. $19.95 bt paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-419-9 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-418-2 Also available as an e-book April 2019
House Stories The Meanings of Home in a New England Town Beth Luey $22.95 bt paper 978-1-62534-311-6
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Boston’s Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance Cultural Change on Two Wheels LORENZ J. FINISON
“Finison demonstrates a remarkable eye for historical detail, making good use of local sources to offer new stories about old bicycling in an approachable, journalistic style. This local history of Boston adds well-researched detail to our understanding of twentieth-century cycling.” —James Longhurst, author of Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road
At the end of the nineteenth century, cycling’s popularity surged in the Boston area, but by 1900, the trend faded. Within the next few decades, automobiles became commonplace and roads were refashioned to serve them. Lorenz J. Finison argues that bicycling witnessed a renaissance in the 1970s as concerns over physical and environmental health coalesced. Whether cyclists hit the roads on their way to work or to work out, went off-road in the mountains or to race via cyclocross and BMX, or took part in charity rides, biking was back in a major way. Finison traces the city’s cycling history, chronicling the activities of environmental and social justice activists, stories of women breaking into male-dominated professions by becoming bike messengers and mechanics, and challenges faced by African American cyclists. Making use of newspaper archives, newly discovered records of local biking organizations, and interviews with Boston-area bicyclists and bike builders, Boston’s Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance brings these voices and battles back to life. “This book is a compendium of stories about people who participated in New England’s cycling community as bike builders, racers, advocates, workers, and hobbyists. Admirably, Finison examines issues of race and ethnicity that have been ignored by many previous bicycle historians.” —Margaret Guroff, author of The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
LORENZ J. FINISON is a founding member of Cycling Through History and author of Boston’s Cycling Craze, 1880–1900: A Story of Race, Sport, and Society.
Also of Interest Massachusetts Treasures A Guide to Marvelous, Must-See Museums Chuck D’Imperio
New England History and Culture / Sports and Recreation 280 pp., 10 illus., 4 maps $19.95 bt paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-411-3 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-410-6 Also available as an e-book March 2019
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Went to the Devil A Yankee Whaler in the Slave Trade ANTHONY J. CONNORS Edward Davoll was a respected New Bedford whaling captain in an industry at its peak in the 1850s. But mid- career, disillusioned with whaling, desperately lonely at sea, and experiencing financial problems, he turned to the slave trade, with disastrous results. Why would a man of good reputation, in a city known for its racial tolerance and Quaker-inspired abolitionism, risk engagement with this morally repugnant industry? In this riveting biography, Anthony J. Connors explores this question by detailing not only the troubled, adventurous life of this man but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Set in an era of social and political fragmentation and impending civil war, when changes in maritime law and the economics of whaling emboldened slaving agents to target captains and their vessels for the illicit trade, Davoll’s story reveals the deadly combination of greed and racial antipathy that encouraged otherwise principled Americans to participate in the African slave trade. “If you think you know all about whaling in America, you don’t. Davoll’s fascinating life exposes the disturbing and tragic truth that a small, but significant, number of American whalemen were accessories to the slave trade and, as such, were guilty of crimes against humanity.” —Eric Jay Dolin, author of Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
“Meticulously researched and effectively written, Went to the Devil will appeal to anyone— scholars and casual readers alike—interested in American maritime history, whaling, and slavery.” —Timothy Walker, professor of history at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and program director for “Sailing to Freedom: New Bedford and the Underground Railroad”
ANTHONY J. CONNORS holds a PhD in American history from Clark University. An independent scholar, he lives in Westport, Massachusetts. New England History and Culture / Biography and Autobiography / History: Nineteenth Century American and Civil War 208 pp., 15 illus., 1 map $22.95 bt paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 05-2 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 04-5 Also available as an e-book April 2019
Also of Interest Williamstown and Williams College Explorations in Local History Dustin Griffin $23.95 bt paper 978-1-62534-379-6
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
The Sacking of Fallujah A People’s History ROSS CAPUTI, RICHARD HIL, AND DONNA MULHEARN
“This groundbreaking work cuts through thick veils of propaganda to reveal the experiences of the victims, with depth of research and a sensitivity that is uniquely perceptive—and with powerful lessons for solidarity work and the struggle for ‘peace with justice,’ not only in the tortured land of Iraq.” —Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair at the University of Arizona
The Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicenter of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly waged war in residential neighborhoods with staggering humanitarian consequences. The Sacking of Fallujah is the first comprehensive study of the three recent sieges of this city, including those by the United States in 2004 and the Iraqi-led operation to defeat ISIS in 2016. Unlike dominant military accounts that focus on American soldiers and U.S. leaders and perpetuate the myth that the United States “liberated” the city, this book argues that Fallujah was destroyed by coalition forces, leaving public health crises, political destabilization, and mass civilian casualties in their wake. This meticulously researched account cuts through the propaganda to uncover the lived experiences of Fallujans under siege and occupation, and contextualizes these events within a broader history of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Relying on testimony from Iraqi civilians, the work of independent journalists, and documentation from human rights organizations, Ross Caputi, Richard Hil, and Donna Mulhearn place the experiences of Fallujah’s residents at the center of this city’s recent history. ROSS CAPUTI is a PhD student in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. RICHARD HIL is an honorary associate at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and adjunct associate professor in the School of Human Services and Social Work at Griffith University.
Also of Interest Making the Desert Modern Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933–1973 Chad H. Parker $24.95 paper 978-1-62534-157-0
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DONNA MULHEARN is an activist, writer, journalist, and eyewitness to the 2004 attack on Fallujah. Military History, Cold War, and Veterans Studies / History: World and Area Studies / General Interest and Current Affairs 208 pp., 12 illus. $27.95 at paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 38-0 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 37-3 Also available as an e-book April 2019 spring / summer 2019 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
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The Conspiracy of Capital Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly MICHAEL MARK COHEN Between the 1880s and 1920s, a broad coalition of American dissidents, which included rabble-rousing cartoonists, civil liberties lawyers, socialist detectives, union organizers, and revolutionary martyrs, forged a culture of popular radicalism that directly challenged an emergent corporate capitalism. Monopoly capitalists and their allies in govern ment responded by expanding conspiracy laws and promoting conspiracy theories in an effort to destroy this anti-capitalist movement. The result was an escalating class conflict in which each side came to view the other as a criminal conspiracy. In this detailed cultural history, Michael Mark Cohen argues that a legal, ideological, and representational politics of conspiracy contributed to the formation of a genuinely revolutionary mass culture in the United States, starting with the 1886 Haymarket bombing. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern business corporation and national security state through a comprehensive reassessment of the role of conspiracy laws and conspiracy theories in American social movements.
“Cohen draws upon a strong archival base and an impressively wide range of texts to provide an illuminating analysis of how the politics of conspiracy was central to this era’s culture of popular radicalism.” —Shelley Streeby, author of Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture
MICHAEL MARK COHEN is associate teaching professor in American studies and African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Capitalism, Labor, and Class / Cultural History 320 pp., 30 illus. $32.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 01-4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 00-7 Also available as an e-book July 2019
Also of Interest Bad News Travels Fast The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era Patrick C. File $26.95 paper 978-1-62534-374-1
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JUNIPER LITERARY PRIZE The Juniper Literary Prize takes its name from Fort Juniper, the house that poet Robert Francis (1901–1987) built by hand in the woods of western Massachusetts. As one of the first university presses to publish contemporary literature, University of Massachusetts Press remains dedicated to bringing distinct, fresh voices to a wide audience and has partnered with the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to present annually two awards for poetry, two awards for fiction, and a new creative nonfiction prize.
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You Are the Phenomenology
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Chelsea Jennings $16.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-339-0
Timothy O’Keefe $16.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-351-2
Elizabeth Metzger $19.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-263-8
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My Old Faithful
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Yang Huang $19.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-336-9
Malinda McCollum $19.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-348-2
Joan Frank $19.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-262-1
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Too Numerous KENT SHAW What does it really mean when people are viewed as bytes of data? And is there beauty or an imaginative potential to information culture and the databases cataloging it? As Too Numerous reveals, the raw material of bytes and data points can be reshaped and repurposed for ridiculous, melancholic, and even aesthetic purposes. Grappling with an information culture that is both intimidating and daunting, Kent Shaw considers the impersonality represented by the continuing accumulation of personal information and the felicities—and barriers— that result: “The us that was inside us was magnificent structures. And they weren’t going to grow any larger.”
I’m sorry if the rain was always making your life more confusing One problem with forests is they don’t care where you are. They can grow and grow and move around the country. Maybe they’ll find you. I found the forest here. We found each other here. Beneath the rain. What a talker, that forest. We kept our engines running like refined petroleum for about three months. What would “anxious” mean if you couldn’t include the definitions of “engine” and “forest”? My engine is a sensitive construction. A system of allen wrenches. Tied up to make squares. Allen wrenches aren’t supposed to make squares. The rain is a forest. Left-handed forest, actually. The clumsy one that exists on certain acreages, where it limped in and then fell asleep. Rain falling asleep is not as peaceful as you might think. There is a forest growing where it just rained.
“The universe inside Shaw’s capacious poems is always expanding and adjusting. Room is made for everything that fits and for everything that doesn’t, like a box that defies its squareness. Plain elemental nouns are bent toward abstraction. What might be impersonal, even generic, is made personal and elusive. His poems are limber and lucid and loose-limbed, and endlessly, comically speculative. I love getting lost in them.” —James Haug, author of Riverain
KENT SHAW is assistant professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and author of Calenture, winner of the 2007 Tampa Review Prize. His poems have appeared in The Believer, Ploughshares, Boston Review, and Witness.
Poetry 88 pp. $16.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 30-4 Also available as an e-book April 2019
Also of Interest The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising) Mark Wagenaar $19.95 td paper 978-1-62534-220-1
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Termination Shocks JANICE MARGOLIS
“Each of the stories in Janice Margolis’s Termination Shocks presents a vision of reality fractured into strangeness, yet eerily familiar. This is a singular collection from a truly skilled new voice in fiction.”
In astronomy, the termination shock is the boundary that marks the outer limits of the sun’s influence—the ripple outward of our solar wind and its collision with the interstellar medium. This debut collection of stories evokes those moments when lives are unpredictably shaken and reset by forces beyond their grasp. Making use of a diverse array of narrative modes, settings, and voices, these stories traverse space and time, moving from Egypt during the Second World War to modern-day Liberia and an unfamiliar Los Angeles. The title story, “Termination Shock,” offers a lyrical exploration of two traumatic moments in a woman’s life that occur decades apart and continue to reverberate in humorous and poignant ways. Janice Margolis shows us characters on the precipice of change—including a narrator in fevered quarantine following the death of her mother from Ebola, a cross-cultural love in a swiftly transforming Syria, and the desolation of the Berlin Wall, which from its various sectors and coordinates, confesses its crimes and mourns its destruction.
—Sabina Murray, author of Valiant Gentlemen: A Novel
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JANICE MARGOLIS is a Los Angeles–based writer, choreographer, and filmmaker. The recipient of Massachusetts Artists Foundation and Irish Film Board grants, her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Dance Magazine, and the Boston Globe, and presented by Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum and Boston University. Fiction
The Other One Stories Hasanthika Sirisena
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Choke Box a Fem-Noir CHRISTINA MILLETTI When Edward Tamlin disappears while writing his memoir, Jane Tamlin (his wife and the mother of his young children) begins to write a secret, corrective “counter- memoir” of her own. Calling the book Choke Box, she reveals intimate, often irreverent, details about her family and marriage, rejecting—and occasionally celebrating—her suspected role in her husband’s disappearance. Choke Box isn’t Jane’s first book. From her room in the Buffalo Psychiatric Institute, she slowly reveals a hidden history of the ghost authorship that has sabotaged her family and driven her to madness. Her latest work, finally written under her own name, is designed to reclaim her dark and troubled story. Yet even as Jane portrays her life as a wife, mother, and slighted artist with sardonic candor, her every word is underscored by one belief above all others: the complete truth is always a secret. But the stories we tell may help us survive—if they don’t kill us first.
“Christina Milletti’s Choke Box is a razor-sharp page- turner that, as it hurtles to its conclusion, explores motherhood, guilt, marriage, and so much else while toying with the reliability of memory and narrative itself. This is an unforgettable, original, and satisfying read.” —Sabina Murray, author of Valiant Gentlemen: A Novel
CHRISTINA MILLETTI is associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo and author of the short story collection The Religious & Other Fictions. Her work has appeared in the Iowa Review, Best New American Voices, the Masters Review, Denver Quarterly, the Cincinnati Review, and the Brooklyn Rail, among other outlets.
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Fiction 160 pp. $19.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 25-0 Also available as an e-book
My Escapee
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Stories Corinna Vallianatos
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Strange Attractors Lives Changed by Chance EDITED BY EDIE MEIDAV AND EMMALIE DROPKIN
“A wonderful book, unique in all ways, truly and deeply full of wonder. What a stunning constellation of seekers, believers, wanderers, questioners. A collective spiritual autobiography like nothing I’ve read before.” —Elisa Albert, author of After Birth
“Strange Attractors reminds us that even chaos has a pattern, and now more than ever, we are grateful for it. Attraction is evidence of the sublime. The very idea sparks revelation.” —Annie Liontas, author of Let Me Explain You
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Has a stunning surprise or lucky encounter ever propelled you in an unanticipated direction? Are you doing what you always thought you would be doing with your life or has some unseen magnetism changed your course? And has that redirection come to seem inevitable? Edie Meidav and Emmalie Dropkin asked leading contemporary writers to consider these questions, which they characterize through the metaphor of “the strange attractor,” a scientific theory describing an inevitable occurrence that arises out of chaos. Meidav’s introduction and the thirty-five pieces collected here offer imaginative, arresting, and memorable replies to this query, including guidance from a yellow fish, a typewriter repairman, a cat, a moose, a bicycle, and a stranger on a train. Absorbing and provocative, this is nonfiction to be read in batches and bursts and returned to again and again. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Rebecca Bell-Gurwitz, Kris Brandenburger, Laynie Browne, Ana Castillo, Carolyn Cooke, Rachel Cole Dalamangas, Debbie DeFord-Minerva, Rikki Ducornet, Sonia Feigelson, Donna Ford, Thaisa Frank, Bonnie Friedman, Indira Ganesan, Judy Grahn, Sharon Guskin, Noy Holland, Debra Jo Immergut, Sheila Kohler, Dale Kushner, R. O. Kwon, Clarinda Mac Low, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Melinda Misuraca, Danica Novgorodoff, Hilary Plum, Jenni Quilter, Elizabeth Rosner, Liesl Schillinger, Andrea Scrima, Sejal Shah, Heather Sheehan, Terese Svoboda, Pamela Thompson, Quintan Ana Wikswo, and Rebecca Wolff.
EDIE MEIDAV is the author of three novels, most recently Lola, California. She is associate professor in the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. EMMALIE DROPKIN’s short story, “A Lamentation of Swans,” was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
A Manner of Being Writers on Their Mentors Edited by Annie Liontas and Jeff Parker $22.95 td paper 978-1-62534-182-2
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Creative Nonfiction 272 pp., 11 illus. $22.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 24-3 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 23-6 Also available as an e-book March 2019 spring / summer 2019 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
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Rediscovering the Maine Woods Thoreau’s Legacy in an Unsettled Land EDITED BY JOHN J. KUCICH The Maine Woods, vast and largely unsettled, are often described as unchanged since Henry David Thoreau’s 1847 journey across the backcountry, in spite of the realities of Indian dispossession and the visible signs of logging, settlement, tourism, and real estate development. In the summer of 2014 scholars, indigenous peoples, activists, and other individuals retraced Thoreau’s route. Inspired partly by this expedition, the accessible and engaging essays here offer valuable new perspectives on conservation, the cultural ties that connect Native communities to the land, and the profound influence the geography of the Maine Woods had on Thoreau and writers and activists who followed in his wake. Together, these essays offer a rich and multifaceted look at this special place and the ways in which Thoreau’s Maine experiences continue to shape understandings of the environment a century and a half later. Contributors include the volume editor, Kathryn Dolan, James S. Finley, James Francis, Richard W. Judd, Dale Potts, Melissa Sexton, Chris Sockalexis, Stan Tag, Robert M. Thorson, and Laura Dassow Walls. “No comparable collection—multidisciplinary, multivocal, inclusive of tribal as well as settler perspectives, academic and nonacademic perspectives—exists. In this respect as well as through its in-depth focus on The Maine Woods, a work almost never considered in its entirety, this collection opens a new dimension to the study of Thoreau’s writings.” —William Rossi, editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
“This volume illuminates the interweaving of landscape and human history, of cultural change and nature’s alteration, and of literature, philosophy, and the physical world. Like Thoreau’s writings, these essays invite a deeper consideration of the interrelated meanings of words, histories, and place.” —Rochelle L. Johnson, author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation
JOHN J. KUCICH is professor of English and coordinator for the Center for Sustainability at Bridgewater State University. He is author of Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Also of Interest Finding Thoreau
Literary Studies and Print Culture / New England History and Culture 248 pp., 4 illus., 1 map $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-417-5 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-416-8 Also available as an e-book June 2019
The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an Environmental Icon Richard W. Judd $27.95 paper 978-1-62534-389-5
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Environmental History of the Northeast
The Aquatic Frontier Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era SAMUEL P. HANES
“Hanes builds upon the foundational scholarship of several relevant fields, including environmental history, in interesting ways while also effectively drawing upon unused or under-utilized archival resources.” —Christine Keiner, author of The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880
Although few remember their former significance, oysters were one of the largest U.S. fisheries at their peak in the late nineteenth century. As the fishery industrialized on- and offshore, oyster farms and canning factories spread along the Eastern Seaboard, with overharvesting becoming increasingly common. During the Progressive Era, state governments founded new agencies to cope with this problem and control this expanding economy. Regulators faced a choice: keep elaborate conservation systems based on common property rights or develop new ones with private, hatchery-stocked aquaculture farms. The tradition- preserving solution won, laying the groundwork for modern oyster management. The Aquatic Frontier explores the forms this debate took between 1870 and 1920 in law enforcement, legislative advising, natural science, and oyster cartography. Samuel P. Hanes argues that the effort to centralize and privatize the industry failed due to a lack of understanding of the complex social-ecological systems in place—a common dilemma for environmental managers in this time period and for fisheries management confronting dangers from dwindling populations today. “Hanes’s gift for summary and analysis means this book is portable. People from fields beyond history—anthropology, political science, geography, hopefully even fisheries managers—will find this version of history easy to digest.” —Matthew Morse Booker, author of Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History between the Tides
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SAMUEL P. HANES is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine.
Breaking the Banks
Environmental History and Ecology
Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866–1966 Matthew McKenzie
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands JEFFREY P. SHEPHERD The Guadalupe Mountains stand nearly 9,000 feet tall, spanning the far western fringe of Texas, the border of New Mexico, and the meeting point of the Southern Plains and Chihuahuan Desert. Long an iconic landmark of the Trans-Pecos region, the Guadalupe Mountains have played a critical role for the people in this beautiful corner of the Southwest borderlands. In the late 1960s, the area was finally designated a national park. Drawing upon published sources, oral histories, and previously unused archival documents, Jeffrey P. Shepherd situates the Guadalupe Mountains and the national park in the context of epic tales of Spanish exploration, westward expansion, Native survival, immigrant settlement, the conservation movement, early tourism, and regional economic development. As Americans cope with climate change, polarized political rhetoric, and suburban sprawl, public spaces such as Guadalupe Mountains National Park remind us about our ties to nature and our historical relationships with the environment. “Guadalupe Mountains National Park will find a welcome readership with the general public and in academic circles. Shepherd makes important inroads in the fields of environmental history of the American West, conservation history, historical geography of western America, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.”
“Jeffrey P. Shepherd narrates a colorful history of one of the most unlikely national parks in the country. Examining the park in conversation with scholarship on the history of the American West, environmental history, and borderlands history is a significant contribution.” —Flannery Burke, author of A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century
—Sterling Evans, author of Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950
JEFFREY P. SHEPHERD is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. National Parks, National Monuments, and Public Lands / Environmental History and Ecology 280 pp., 9 illus., 2 maps $29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 34-2 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 33-5 Also available as an e-book May 2019
Also of Interest Open Spaces, Open Rebellions The War over America’s Public Lands Michael J. Makley $25.95 paper 978-1-62534-314-7
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Public History in Historical Perspective
Taking Possession The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House HEIDI ARONSON KOLK
“With a wide range of sources and well-crafted narratives, Kolk makes a significant contribution to public history by establishing the individual house museum as a rich and substantial primary source.” —Patricia West, curator of Martin Van Buren National Historic Site and author of Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America’s Historic House Museums
Also of Interest From Storefront to Monument Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement Andrea A. Burns $25.95 paper 978-1-62534-035-1
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West of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to the monumental architecture, trendy condominiums, and sports stadia of its surroundings. Originally the residence of a fur-trade tycoon and now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work for some 130 years. In Taking Possession, Heidi Aronson Kolk explores the complex and sometimes contradictory motivations for safeguarding the house as a site of public memory. Crafting narratives about the past that comforted business elites and white middle-class patrons, museum promoters assuaged concerns about the city’s most pressing problems, including racial and economic inequality, segregation and privatization, and the legacies of violence for which St. Louis has been known since Ferguson. Kolk’s case study illuminates the processes by which civic pride and cultural solidarity have been manufactured in a fragmented and turbulent city, showing how closely linked are acts of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and shame. “Kolk’s prose is sharp and often elegant; her work provides scholars and museum professionals with a model for probing the connection between artifacts and public memory.” —Andrew Hurley, author of Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
HEIDI ARONSON KOLK is associate director of American culture studies and assistant vice provost of academic assessment at Washington University in St. Louis. Public History / Cultural History / Urban Studies 248 pp., 23 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-415-1 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-414-4 Also available as an e-book May 2019 spring / summer 2019 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
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In Sullivan’s Shadow The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle AIMEE EDMONDSON For many years, the far right has sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, weaponizing libel law in an effort to stifle free speech and silence African American dissent. In Sullivan’s Shadow demonstrates that this strategy was pursued throughout the civil rights era and beyond, as southern officials continued to bring lawsuits in their attempts to intimidate journalists who published accounts of police brutality against protestors. Taking the Supreme Court’s famous 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan as her starting point, Aimee Edmondson illuminates a series of fascinating and often astounding cases that preceded and followed this historic ruling. Drawing on archival research and scholarship in journalism, legal history, and African American studies, Edmondson offers a new narrative of brave activists, bold journalists and publishers, and hard-headed southern officials. These little-known courtroom dramas at the intersection of race, libel, and journalism go beyond the activism of the 1960s and span much of the country’s history, beginning with lawsuits filed against abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and concluding with a suit spawned by the 1988 film Mississippi Burning. “In Sullivan’s Shadow balances scholarly research with readable stories of little-known publishers, civil rights activists, and citizens who found themselves on the wrong side of the legal power structure in the South and faced a broad range of legal risks through the abuse of the law of defamation.”
“Edmondson’s painstaking archival research and keen eye for detail bring overlooked legal dramas to life. By doing so, she honors the brave work of black journalists and activists who suffered grievously in their battle to protect free speech for all of us.” —Sid Bedingfield, author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935–1965
—Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University
AIMEE EDMONDSON is associate professor at the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.
Journalism and Media / Law and Legal Studies 312 pp., 6 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 09-0 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 08-3 Also available as an e-book August 2019
Also of Interest Not Free, Not for All Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow Cheryl Knott $28.95 paper 978-1-62534-178-5
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Our Suffering Brethren Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States DAVID J. DZUREC III
“Our Suffering Brethren deserves to be read by early Americanists and their students. Dzurec makes a compelling case for the development of American identity through foreign captivity and how Americans crafted their relationship with and understanding of their government.” —Ricardo A. Herrera, author of For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775–1861
Also of Interest The Fires of New England A Story of Protest and Rebellion in Antebellum America Eric J. Morser $27.95 paper 978-1-62534-281-2
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In October 1785, American statesman John Jay acknowledged that the more his countrymen “are treated ill abroad, the more we shall unite and consolidate at home.” Behind this simple statement lies a complicated history. From the British impressment of patriots during the Revolution to the capture of American sailors by Algerian corsairs and Barbary pirates at the dawn of the nineteenth century, stories of Americans imprisoned abroad helped jumpstart democratic debate as citizens acted on their newly unified identity to demand that their government strengthen efforts to free their fellow Americans. Deliberations about the country’s vulnerabilities in the Atlantic world reveal America’s commitment to protecting the legacy of the Revolution as well as growing political divisions. Drawing on newspaper accounts, prisoner narratives, and government records, David J. Dzurec III explores how stories of American captivity in North America, Europe, and Africa played a critical role in the development of American political culture, adding a new layer to our understanding of foreign relations and domestic politics in the early American republic. “The scholarship in this book is very sound and up-to-date, and the author is clearly aware of, and conversant with, several different bodies of scholarship that bear on this topic.” —Todd Estes, author of The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture
DAVID J. DZUREC III is associate professor of history at the University of Scranton. History: Colonial, Revolutionary Era, and Early American / Military History, Cold War, and Veterans Studies 256 pp. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 07-6 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 06-9 Also available as an e-book July 2019 spring / summer 2019 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
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Stripped and Script Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution KACY DOWD TILLMAN Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectively silenced—unable to officially align themselves with either side or avoid being persecuted for their family ties. In this book, Kacy Dowd Tillman argues that women’s letters and journals are the key to recovering these voices, as these private writings were used as vehicles for public engagement. Through a literary analysis of extensive correspondence by statesmen’s wives, Quakers, merchants, and spies, Stripped and Script offers a new definition of loyalism that accounts for disaffection, pacifism, neutralism, and loyalism-by- association. Taking up the rhetoric of violation and rape, this archive repeatedly references the real threats rebels posed to female bodies, property, friendships, and families. Through writing, these women defended themselves against violation, in part, by writing about their personal experiences while knowing that the documents themselves may be confiscated, used against them, and circulated. “Stripped and Script breaks new ground by introducing a framework for interpreting a collection of worthwhile authors and texts that demonstrate the variety and vitality of manuscript writing in the eighteenth century.” —Desirée Henderson, author of Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790–1870
“Stripped and Script makes a significant contribution to the fields of early American literature, personal writings, women’s history, and Revolutionary War history. Tillman closely examines a trove of archival material, giving it coherence by looking at it through the lens of rhetorical performance in the context of the Revolutionary War.” —Karen A. Weyler, author of Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America
KACY DOWD TILLMAN is associate professor of English at the University of Tampa. Gender and Women’s Studies / History: Colonial, Revolutionary Era, and Early American 224 pp., 12 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 32-8 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 31-1 Also available as an e-book August 2019
Also of Interest Lydia Sigourney Critical Essays and Cultural Views Edited by Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth Petrino $29.95 paper 978-1-62534-345-1
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Food for Dissent Natural Foods and the Consumer Counterculture since the 1960s MARIA MCGRATH
“Well researched and intellectually rich, Food for Dissent joins an emerging literature that rethinks the counter culture in American life, especially how it intersected with capitalism in the 1970s and reimagined whole sectors of the economy over the last fifty years.” —David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s
In the 1960s and early 1970s, countercultural rebels decided that, rather than confront the system, they would create the world they wanted. The natural foods movement grew out of this contrarian spirit. Through a politics of principled shopping, eating, and entrepreneurship, food revolutionaries dissented from corporate capitalism and mainstream America. In Food for Dissent, Maria McGrath traces the growth of the natural foods movement from its countercultural fringe beginning to its twenty-first-century “food revolution” ascendance, focusing on popular natural foods touchstones—vegetarian cookbooks, food co-ops, and health advocates. Guided by an ideology of ethical consumption, these institutions and actors spread the movement’s oppositionality and transformed America’s foodscape, at least for some. Yet this strategy proved an uncertain instrument for the advancement of social justice, environmental defense, and anti-corporatism. The case studies explored in Food for Dissent indicate the limits of using conscientious eating, shopping, and selling as tools for civic activism. “Food for Dissent is clearly written, engaging, and enjoyable to read. McGrath astutely explores the goals and contradictions inherent in alternative approaches to food production and consumption.” —Amy Bentley, author of Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet
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Cultivating Environmental Justice A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing Robert S. Emmett $25.95 paper 978-1-62534-205-8
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MARIA MCGRATH is professor of humanities and history at Bucks County Community College. History: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American / Food Studies and Foodways / Cultural History / American Studies 256 pp., 8 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 22-9 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 21-2 Also available as an e-book July 2019 spring / summer 2019 · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
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Getting Out Youth Gangs, Violence, and Positive Change KEITH MORTON For eight years Keith Morton codirected a safe-space program for youth involved in gang or street violence in Providence, Rhode Island. Getting Out is a result of the innovative perspectives he developed as he worked alongside staff from a local nonviolence institute to help these young people make life-affirming choices. Rather than view their violence as pathological, Morton explains that gang members are victims of violence, and the trauma they have experienced leads them to choose violence as the most meaningful option available. To support young people as they “unlearned” violence and pursued nonviolent alternatives, he offered what he calls a “Youth Positive” approach that prioritizes healing over punishment and recognizes them as full human beings. Informed by deep personal connections with these youth, Morton contends that to help them, we need to change our question from “What is wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” “Morton develops innovative theories and practices based on his years of interactions with urban youth. Getting Out will appeal to a wide and varied audience that includes practitioners and academics in many fields, policymakers, and social service and youth workers.” —Myrna Margulies Breitbart, editor of Creative Economies in Post- Industrial Cities: Manufacturing a (Different) Scene
“Morton’s ‘Youth Positive’ approach is unique in the scholarship, but it is similar to what I hear street outreach workers frequently say when working with gang-involved youth. Getting Out thus feels more authentic and hopeful than much of the literature.” —Laurie Ross, coauthor of Dilemmas in Youth Work and Youth Development Practice
KEITH MORTON is professor of public and community service studies at Providence College.
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Listen to the Poet
232 pp. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 27-4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 26-7 Also available as an e-book
Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry Wendy R. Williams
August 2019
$27.95 paper 978-1-62534-397-0
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
Guns in Law EDITED BY AUSTIN SARAT, LAWRENCE DOUGLAS, AND MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY
“This collection of new research from leading scholars in the fields of history, sociology, public policy, and law offers no easy solutions but recognizes that the future of gun regulation in America will be as fraught as its past.” —Nathan Kozuskanich, coeditor of The Second Amendment on Trial: Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller
Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries. Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of political power and wrote that tyrants “mistrust the people and deprive them of their arms.” Today ownership of weapons—whether handguns or military-grade assault weapons—poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, the editors’ introduction traces the history of gun control in the United States, arguing that until the 1980s courts upheld reasonable gun control measures. The contributors confront urgent questions, among them the usefulness of history as a guide in ongoing struggles over gun regulation, the changing meaning of the Second Amendment, the perspective of law enforcement on guns and gun control law, and individual and relational perspectives on gun rights. The contributors include the editors, Carl T. Bogus, Jennifer Carlson, Saul Cornell, Darrell A.H. Miller, Laura Beth Nielsen, and Katherine Shaw. “This edited volume makes a significant contribution to at least a couple of different scholarly literatures [including] recent originalist assumptions informing Second Amendment jurisprudence.” —William D. Rose, professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Albion College
AUSTIN SARAT is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and associate dean of faculty at Amherst College. LAWRENCE DOUGLAS is James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.
Also of Interest Criminals and Enemies Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey $27.95 paper 978-1-62534-393-2
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MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government and director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College.
Law and Legal Studies 240 pp., 8 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 29-8 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 28-1 Also available as an e-book June 2019
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WELCOMING TAGUS PRESS Tagus Press is the publishing arm of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, a multidisciplinary international studies and outreach unit dedicated to the study of the language, literatures, and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Tagus Press’s groundbreaking translations, scholarly monographs, and peer-reviewed journal address critical issues in a variety of fields related to Portuguese and Lusophone cultures in the United States and across the globe. It currently publishes six acclaimed book series, including the Adamastor Book Series, the Portuguese in the Americas Series, the Brazilian Literature in Translation Series, the Bellis Azorica Book Series, Classic Histories from the Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation, and the Portuguese Language Textbook Series. Tagus Press’s scholarly journal Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies publishes original research encompassing a broad range of academic, critical, and theoretical approaches. All Tagus Press titles are now available for purchase through University of Massachusetts Press. Order direct from our website or through our distributor, Hopkins Fulfillment Services, at 1-800-537-5487.
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The Art of Being a Tiger
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Ana Luísa Amaral Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Foreword by Anna M. Klobucka
Abel Coelho Translated by Elizabeth Lowe
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Eden-Brazil
Stormy Isles
MOACYR SCLIAR
An Azorean Tale
Translated by Malcolm K. McNee
VITORINO NEMÉSIO
Eden-Brazil is an ecotourism destination and nature reserve in a stunning swath of beach-lined, coastal rainforest. Inspired by the paradisiacal setting and the idea of providing visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, the snake, the apple, the works. However, re-creating an earthly paradise as something beyond a roadside attraction is no “Scliar’s voice is easy feat. In this charming, a fresh one, his tragicomic tale of comproartistic roots as mised environmentalism, firmly fixed in Jewish tradition Moacyr Scliar employs his and mythology as signature humor and talent they are in Brazil’s for crisp storytelling while literary history.” weaving together a playfully —Washington Post serious parable of environmentalist ideals that clash with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature.
MOACYR SCLIAR (1937–2011) was one of Latin America’s most important contemporary writers, and his novels and stories were awarded numerous prestigious literary prizes and published in over twenty countries. MALCOLM K. MCNEE is associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Smith College. Fiction 128 pp. $14.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-933227-91-7 August 2019 Brazilian Literature in Translation Series Distributed for Tagus Press
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Edited and translated by Francisco Cota Fagundes
Stormy Isles, originally published in Portuguese in 1944 and set in the Azores between 1917 and 1919, focuses on the vivacious and sharp Margarida, who, at twenty years of age, is a model of feminist aspirations and the paragon of her generation. A member of the elite, she foregoes some of the entitlements of her class and struggles with the morals of the bourgeois society in which her life unfolds. Narrated in realist and poetic language as a series of interconnected tales within a larger story, this completely revised translation of Stormy Isles provides a rich, vivid portrait of the Azores in the early twentieth century. VITORINO NEMÉSIO (1901–1978) was a novelist, short story writer, poet, intellectual, journalist, and radio and television personality. Known as a conversationalist, he is considered one of the most significant Portuguese writers of the twentieth century. FRANCISCO COTA FAGUNDES is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fiction 296 pp. $19.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-933227-87-0 April 2019 Bellis Azorica Book Series Distributed for Tagus Press Co-publication with Gávea-Brown Publications in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University
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Chiquinho
Behind the Stars, More Stars
A Novel of Cabo Verde
The Tagus/Disquiet Collection of New Luso-American Writing
BALTAZAR LOPES Translated by Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues and Carlos A. Almeida with Anna M. Klobucka Introduction by Ellen W. Sapega
EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER LARKOSH AND OONA PATRICK
Originally published in Portuguese in 1947, Baltazar Lopes’s Chiquinho offers a rich and compelling exploration of Cabo Verde’s unique identity. Tracing the arc of its young protagonist’s life as he approaches adulthood, the novel follows Chiquinho as he leaves his village, journeys to São Vicente Island to further his education, returns home as drought and famine strike the archipelago, and makes the difficult decision to join his father in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Reflecting the challenges faced by the Creole intellectuals of the so-called Claridade generation, this long-overdue English translation of Chiquinho is sure to appeal to academic audiences as well as the general reader.
Presenting experimental and boundary-breaking prose from women, people of color, and LGBTQ writers, Behind the Stars, More Stars imagines a more diverse and inclusive Luso-American and Portuguese-American literary scene, which has traditionally been dominated by male voices. Since its first “Writing the Luso Experience” workshops were held in 2011, Dzanc Books’s Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon has aimed to break silences within today’s Luso-American communities. Disquiet faculty Katherine Vaz and Frank X. Gaspar appear alongside up-and- coming writers from the workshops, such as Traci Brimhall, Megan Fernandes, Hugo Dos Santos, and previously unpublished women writers.
CHRISTOPHER LARKOSH is associate professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
BALTAZAR LOPES (1907–1989) was a poet, novelist, short story writer, and linguist who helped shape modern Cabo Verdean fiction.
OONA PATRICK, a writer of Portuguese descent from Provincetown, Massachusetts, has served as the Luso-American liaison for the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon since its inception.
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News on the American Dream A History of the Portuguese Press in the United States ALBERTO PENA RODRÍGUEZ Translated by Serena Rivera
News on the American Dream traces the development of the Portuguese-American press from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present, taking readers from the East Coast to Hawaii, with strategic stops in places with large Portuguese communities, including New Bedford, Massachusetts; Oakland, California; and Newark, New Jersey. Alberto Pena Rodríguez’s nuanced analysis of the political, economic, social, and cultural roles played by these publications proves how important they were for the Portuguese- American community and the history of the ethnic press in the United States. Fascinating narratives about the founders, editors, and owners of these publications—and their challenges, squabbles, and successes—round out this engaging study. ALBERTO PENA RODRÍGUEZ is professor of propaganda history at the University of Vigo in Spain. SERENA RIVERA is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World PEDRO DA SILVEIRA Translated by George Monteiro Introduction by Vamberto Freitas
Born on the island of Flores, between Europe and the United States, Pedro da Silveira captures the islander’s longing for migratory movement, leading to departure and an inevitable return. These fresh and original poems, now available in this masterful translation, express a deep connection to place, particularly, the insular world of the mid- Atlantic islands of the Azores. In Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World, we find yearning, hope, and loss in equal measure. In plain and direct language, we experience the emotions of dreaming and diminution as well as the discovery of illusions. Behind the poet’s searing irony, we recognize a capacious and adventurous spirit. PEDRO DA SILVEIRA (1922–2003) was a poet, scholar, and translator who worked for decades at the National Library of Portugal. GEORGE MONTEIRO is Professor Emeritus of English and adjunct professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University. VAMBERTO FREITAS is lecturer of English at the University of the Azores.
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Unremembering Me
Lisbon
LUIZ RUFFATO
A Biography
Translated by Marguerite Itamar Harrison
MAGDA PINHEIRO
Inspired by his own family’s struggles as well as the broader sociopolitical and economic forces that shaped Brazil in the 1970s, Luiz Ruffato’s epistolary novel, Unremembering Me, traces the story of the narrator’s older brother. Leaving behind his parents and younger siblings to assume financial responsibility for his family, Célio, a young factory hand from Cataguases, Minas Gerais, goes to work in industrial São Paulo. His letters home convey details about his work, living situation, adjustments to urban life, and fierce homesickness, even as they point to growing political unrest under the military dictatorship and Célio’s increasing participation as a union organizer.
LUIZ RUFFATO is an acclaimed Brazilian novelist, journalist, and poet. His 2001 novel, There Were Many Horses, was the recipient of the Brazilian National Library’s Machado de Assis Award and the APCA Award for best novel. De mim já nem se lembra (Unremembering Me) was first published in Brazil in 2007. MARGUERITE ITAMAR HARRISON is associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Smith College.
Translated by Mario Pereira
WINNER OF THE MÁXIMA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (2012) Throughout the pages of this highly original book, we follow the rich and fascinating history of Lisbon from its legendary founding by Ulysses to the present day. Magda Pinheiro covers the city’s most remarkable moments, such as the conquest of Lisbon, the Age of Discovery, the great earthquake of 1755, the departure of the royal court for Brazil, the Liberal revolts, the Estado Novo, the Carnation Revolution, and Expo ’98. Abounding with episodes that shaped the history of this vibrant port city, accounts of everyday life, and tales about the innumerable streets where we can still uncover traces of the past, Lisbon makes this seductively enchanting city come to life. MAGDA PINHEIRO is a senior researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) and retired full professor at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). MARIO PEREIRA is executive editor of Tagus Press in the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Portuguese Studies / Portuguese History
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PORTUGUESE LITERARY & CULTURAL STUDIES Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (PLCS) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research related to the literatures and cultures of the diverse communities of the Portuguese-speaking world from a broad range of academic, critical, and theoretical approaches.
Transnational Africas Visual, Material, and Sonic Cultures of Lusophone Africa EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER LARKOSH, MARIO PEREIRA, AND MEMORY HOLLOWAY Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 30/31
This issue of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies focuses on the visual, material, and sonic cultures of Lusophone Africa from the pre-colonial period to the contemporary moment and seeks to complicate current understandings of Lusophone Africa that are based on colonial and postindependence national borders. $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-933227-82-5 Available now
Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today
Ocean Crossings EDITED BY ANDRÉ NÓVOA
EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER LARKOSH
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The theme of the seas has long been a central topic in scholarship on the Lusophone world, but more recent research has invested ocean crossings with new relevance and urgency. This special issue brings together a diversity of approaches, paying close attention to sea mobilities, what they entailed, and how they were practiced, and what meanings have been associated with them. Scholars also consider the performance or practice of movement in itself, from the efforts of ocean crossing to the subtleties of moving and the complexities of (maritime) kinetic life and the fabrication of migrant lives.
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This issue of PLCS takes a transnational approach to contemporary Luso-American literatures and cultures from across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, incorporating perspectives from both within and beyond the current set of canonical reference points. This issue also features literary contributions from urban centers such as Toronto, San Francisco, and Vancouver as well as authors whose work can be said to be “in transit” between North America and disparate points in the Lusophone Atlantic. $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-933227-8 8-7 Available now
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A Passion for American Art Selections from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Collection EDITED BY DEAN LAHIKAINEN With contributions from Dean Lahikainen, Jeanne Schinto, Austen Barron Bailly, Sarah N. Chasse, Daniel Finamore, Karen Kramer, and Lan Morgan
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Peabody Essex Museum May 11, 2019, through Fall 2019
A Passion for American Art celebrates the outstanding examples of American painting, furniture and decorative arts, and Native American art from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch collection. Peter Lynch, described in the popular press as a “financial wizard” and “stock-picker extraordinaire,” is more soundly characterized as a beloved family man, devout Catholic, effective philanthropist, and passionate collector. This luxuriously illustrated book traces the couple’s growth as collectors, their cultural and aesthetic affinities, and their relationships with artists and fellow collectors. Writer Jeanne Schinto offers a profile of the Lynches and a view into how the collection expresses the couple’s distinctly American sensibility. Curator Dean Lahikainen shares an introduction to the collection and a series of short essays exploring how the Lynches combined diverse works in the living spaces of their homes. The catalog honors the couple’s credo: a reverence for humanity, a love of history, and an appreciation for the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
DEAN LAHIKAINEN is the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. JEANNE SCHINTO is a writer for Maine Antique Digest and the author of Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City and Children of Men. American Art / American History / Decorative Arts 224 pp., 145 illus. $40.00 jacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-440-3 May 2019 Distributed for the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
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Amherst Rotary Goes to War Amherst Rotary in World War II EDITED BY MASON LOWANCE JR. Between 1941 and 1945, over sixteen million men and women served in the U.S. armed forces. In an effort to deepen our understanding of the Second World War and capture individual voices for posterity, this book collects twenty personal accounts from members of the Amherst Rotary who served. In these narratives, veterans share their stories, many for the first time. Edited by University of Massachusetts Profes-
sor Emeritus Mason Lowance Jr., the stories here are dedicated to those comrades who did not come home. MASON LOWANCE JR. is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author or editor of seven scholarly books, including A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776–1865. American History 175 pp., 100 illus. $12.00 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-4 02-1 Available now Distribution
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People before Highways
Making a Monster
Gerry Studds
Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making
Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston
America’s First Openly Gay Congressman
Dawn Keetley
Mark Robert Schneider
A Story of Race, Sport, and Society
Karilyn Crockett
$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-273-7
$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-285-0
Lorenz J. Finison
$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-297-3
Boston’s Cycling Craze, 1880–1900
$24.95 paper, 978-1-62534-074-0
Levi Strauss
United Tastes
All Eyes Are Upon Us
The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
The Making of the First American Cookbook
Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Lynn Downey
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald
Jason Sokol
$26.95 paper, 978-1-62534-320-8
$28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-286-7
Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth
$26.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-299-7
$32.95 paper, 978-1-62534-322-2
American Tomboys, 1850–1915 Renée M. Sentilles
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Emancipation without Equality
People in a Magazine
Soldiers of the Pen
Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line
The Writers’ War Board in World War II
Thomas E. Smith
The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and His Editors at The New Yorker
$27.95 paper, 978-1-62534-395-6
Edited by Joseph Goodrich
$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-387-1
African American Intellectual History
$24.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-399-4
Made Under Pressure
The Honky Tonk on the Left
Veterans Crisis Hotline
Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960–1991
Progressive Thought in Country Music
Jon Chopan
Edited by Mark Allan Jackson
$24.95 td jacketed cloth, 978-1-62534-368-0
Natalia Kamovnikova
$32.95 paper, 978-1-62534-338-3
Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-341-3
American Popular Music
Thomas Howell
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Books for Idle Hours
Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt
Clearer Than Truth
Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman’s Rights Advocate
The Polygraph and the American Cold War
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Myra C. Glenn
John Philipp Baesler
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$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-376-5
$30.95 paper, 978-1-62534-325-3
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
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The Slave Master of Trinidad
The Souls of Black Folk
Law and Performance
William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Essays and Sketches W. E. B. Du Bois
Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
$15.95 paper, 978-1-62534-333-8
$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-355-0 The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
$32.95 paper, 978-1-62534-370-3
Clio’s Foot Soldiers
Lydia Sigourney
Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory
Critical Essays and Cultural Views
Lara Leigh Kelland
Edited by Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth Petrino
$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-343-7
$29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-345-1
Irish Writers in the Irish American Press, 1882–1964 Stephen G. Butler $28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-367-3
Public History in Historical Perspective
Veteran Americans
Optimism at All Costs
Battles of the North Country
Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction
Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama’s America
Benjamin Cooper
Lessie B. Branch
Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920–1980
$27.95 paper, 978-1-62534-331-4
$24.95 paper, 978-1-62534-327-7
Jonathan D. Anzalone
Veterans
$32.95 paper, 978-1-62534-364-2 Environmental History of the Northeast
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AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC
Edited by Christopher Cameron (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), this series publishes works that offer a global and interdisciplinary approach to the study of black intellectual traditions and illuminate patterns of black thought across historical periods, geographical regions, and communities.
CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHEAST
Edited by Scott Laderman (University of Minnesota, Duluth) and Edwin A. Martini (Western Michigan University), this highly regarded series has produced a wide range of books that reexamine the Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing on the relationship between culture and politics.
THE AMHERST SERIES IN LAW, JURISPRUDENCE, AND SOCIAL THOUGHT
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This series explores the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, from different critical perspectives. Series editors are Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern University) and Richard W. Judd (University of Maine).
CHILDHOODS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey (Amherst College), books in the series consider themes crucial to the understanding of law as it confronts intellectual currents in the humanities and social sciences, and examine contemporary challenges to law and legal scholarship.
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Edited by Jeffrey Melnick (University of Massachusetts Boston), this series includes concise, well-written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to general readers.
Edited by Karen Sánchez- Eppler (Amherst College), Rachel Conrad (Hampshire College), Alice Hearst (Smith College), and Laura L. Lovett (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this series pursues critical thinking about the nature of childhood and the diverse experiences of children as well as the social and political forces that shape them.
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LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE HISTORY
Edited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical and scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England.
PUBLIC HISTORY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Edited by Colin G. Calloway (Dartmouth College), Jean M. O’Brien (University of Minnesota), and Lisa T. Brooks (Amherst College), this series examines the diverse cultures and histories of the indigenous peoples of New England, the Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the Great Lakes region.
STUDIES IN PRINT CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A substantial list on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and publishing. The series editorial board includes Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University), Robert A. Gross (University of Connecticut), Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester), and Michael Winship (University of Texas at Austin).
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MASSACHUSETTS STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE
In addition to the series Designing the American Park, edited by Ethan Carr (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the Press publishes a range of titles in association with LAHL, an Amherst-based nonprofit that develops books and exhibitions about North American landscapes and the people who created them.
NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE NORTHEAST
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Edited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this series explores how representations of the past have been mobilized to serve a variety of political, cultural, and social ends.
VETERANS Edited by Brian Matthew Jordan (Sam Houston State University) and J. Ross Dancy (U.S. Naval War College), this series explores the lived experiences of military veterans with interdisciplinary scholarship and elucidates the many ways that veterans have interacted with postwar cultures, politics, and societies throughout history.
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Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
The Riot Report and the News How the Kerner Commission Changed Media Coverage of Black America
Thomas J. Hrach $25.95 paper, 978-1-62534-211-9
2018 CHET KEVITT AWARD FROM THE WEYMOUTH HISTORICAL COMMISSION The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts James Richards and His Daybook, 1692–1711
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