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“Kadetsky’s The Memory Eaters functions as love letters to single mothers, to New York City of the ’70s and ’80s, to
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CREATIVE NONFICTION Launched in cooperation with the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019, the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction recognizes fresh and innovative projects in literary journalism, memoir, biography, and essay. Moving forward, judges will select one winning manuscript per year, which will be published by University of Massachusetts Press. In addition to the new creative nonfiction prize, we are pleased to annually present two awards for poetry and two awards for fiction.
the fashion industry, to graffiti artists, and to her own mother, of course. And, like all the best love letters, it’s simultaneously wistful and romantic and cutting and sublime. The lyric approach she employs effects a dizzying parallel to the destabilizing experience of dealing with a loved one’s Alzheimer’s. She, to use her own words, describes a taxonomy of the unknown.” –Jeff Parker, Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction judge and author of Where Bears Roam the Streets
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COVER ART: Classroom of a Native American School, 1786, by James Peachey. Courtesy of Bridgeman Images. From “For the Good of Their Souls,” p. 14.
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The Memory Eaters ELIZABETH KADETSKY On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer’s patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain. The tissue grows porous. It is a sieve through which the past slips. As her mother loses her grasp on their shared history, Elizabeth Kadetsky sifts through boxes of the snapshots, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and notebooks that remain, hoping to uncover the memories that her mother is actively losing as her dementia progresses. These remnants offer the false yet beguiling suggestion that the past is easy to reconstruct—easy to hold. At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family’s cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secretkeeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City. Moving from her parents’ divorce to her mother’s career as a Seventh Avenue fashion model and from her sister’s addiction and homelessness to her own experiences with therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, Kadetsky takes readers on a spiraling trip through memory, consciousness fractured by addiction and dementia, and a compulsion for the past salved by nostalgia.
ELIZABETH KADETSKY is author of the memoir First There Is a Mountain, the short story collection The Poison that Purifies You, and the novella On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World. A professor of creative writing at Penn State and nonfiction editor at the New England Review, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell Colony, and Vermont Studio Center.
“In The Memory Eaters, Elizabeth Kadetsky carries us down ‘the river of forgetfulness,’ a journey that proves both brilliant and beautiful. The author’s precise eye for detail, the lushness of her prose, her relentless and unflinching determination to comprehend a family’s incalculable mysteries, shape a vividly unforgettable memoir of longing and discovery. This one will haunt me for some time.” —Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
Also of Interest Strange Attractors Lives Changed by Chance Edited by Edie Meidav and Emmalie Dropkin
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That Place Where You Opened Your Hands SUSAN LESLIE MOORE Celebrating the tension between what we imagine and what we know the world to be, Susan Leslie Moore’s debut collection moves between certainty and doubt, dead seriousness and determined playfulness. Exploring identity and the exterior and interior selves we create through the natural world, language, and relationships, the poems of That Place Where You Opened Your Hands bring the ordinary rhythms of life and motherhood into coexistence with wilder truths. As Moore writes, “If I can’t be singular / in purpose, let me be quietly adrift,” but these are not quiet poems. June 10th “Moore is unafraid of rhyme’s song, of poetry’s brazen scales, of wanting to leave her life in order to see more, more widely. She wants to hover above; she practices a deadpan forthrightness and a prayerlike incantation. This is a wondrous book that leaves us understanding we must continue where it begins.” —Dara Wier, Juniper Prize for Poetry judge and author of You Good Thing
By the time I got back from the market the walls were singing. The children had been put to bed their cheeks sullen their limbs ecstatic and I was alone with the hare, so used to itself so safe in its body and me with my hands in flames. (From “Diary from the Red House”) “From its beginning, I was compelled by That Place Where You Opened Your Hands’s intriguing intersections, its unpretentious surrealism, lonely wit, plainspoken musicality, and improvisational formalism. I was charmed by this speaker, this ‘animal inside a ghost of those who came before me,’ who takes us with her as she reaches over the threshold of the self’s interiority into a numinous natural world.” —Diane Seuss, author of Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems
SUSAN LESLIE MOORE is a Portland-based poet and the director of programs for writers at Literary Arts. Moore’s work has appeared in such outlets as Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, New York Quarterly, and Quick Fiction, and she is coeditor of Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest.
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Too Numerous Kent Shaw $16.95 td paper 978-1-62534-430-4
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Fiction and Poetry 72 pp. $16.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-510-3 Also available as an e- book April 2020 spring / summer 2020
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Stardust Media CHRISTINA PUGH Christina Pugh’s fifth book of poems explores the technologies both ancient and new that inhabit our contemporary cultural moment. Mapping an uncanny journey through the clusters of media we encounter daily but seldom stop to contemplate, Pugh’s focused descriptions, contrasting linguistic textures, and acute poetic music become multifarious sources of beauty, disruption, humor, and hurt. Here, Netflix and YouTube share space with eighteenth-century paintings, Italian graffiti, ballet, Kurt Cobain’s recordings, and even a collection of rocks. Whether technology is a vessel for joy or grief in these poems, it is always an expression of our continuing desire to invent and to mediate. At once personal archive and cultural barometer, Stardust Media traces the moving constellations of life in the distant twenty-first century, “a kaleidoscope / . . . half-filled with sky-blue glass-cut blossoming, / then labored to crystallize.” “Pugh wants to gather up and sift through all she can manage just a little ways into the twenty-first century. It’s a mammoth job and she knows it, she treats it with delicate respect and a whole lot of thoughtful arrangement. Nothing is only one thing, anything can be everything. Stardust Media makes for a wild ride and a good one.” —Dara Wier, Juniper Prize for Poetry judge and author of You Good Thing
CHRISTINA PUGH is professor of English in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and consulting editor for Poetry. Her fourth book, Perception, was named one of the top poetry books of 2017 by the Chicago Review of Books, and she has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in poetry and the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award for her work. Pugh’s poems have appeared widely in such outlets as the Atlantic, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and Colorado Review. Fiction and Poetry
—Tom Sleigh, author of House of Fact, House of Ruin: Poems
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The Spirit Papers
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“Christina Pugh’s Stardust Media goes right to the heart of how we live now: What particular human qualities does our technological civilization enliven or deaden inside us? What really astonishes and fortifies the reader are the endlessly inventive ways the poet has found to figure and refigure her own restless vision. Quiet virtuosity, complexly registered thinking-as-feeling—these are her signature qualities as a poet, as original as she is intelligent.”
Elizabeth Metzger $19.95 td paper 978-1-62534-263-8
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Senseless Women SARAH HARRIS WALLMAN Exploring the darker side of optimism, Sarah Harris Wallman’s debut collection shows women attempting to build durable havens from reality, struggling to keep relationships intact, and reinventing themselves. A lonely music teacher at a Nashville Christian academy awaits the miracle of love; a Jane Doe recalls the affair that sustained, and ended, her; a new mother brings life into the world during a bleak election party; young girls are exploited by a nightclub owner in death, as in life. Alone or in weird sisterhood, some of these women are senseless because they refuse to feel, others because they’ve been deprived of stimuli and attention. As these twelve stories prove, there’s no sensible way to fall in love, raise children, or escape. This is Senseless Women.
“The dead commingle with the living in these stories, the animate with the inanimate, the mythic with the literal, the comedic with the grave. Vibrant, wounded, bewildered people somehow find their way through the carnival of twenty-first century America—land of DinoGolf and Slip ‘N Slide and vending machines and Zoinks. Senseless Women is a marvel.” —Noy Holland, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like
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SARAH HARRIS WALLMAN’s stories have been published in such venues as Hobart and the Masters Review, and have won awards from Prada and the Tucson Festival of Books. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her two children and teaches at Albertus Magnus College, where she is codirector of the MFA program in writing.
Fiction and Poetry 208 pp. $19.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-518-9 Also available as an e- book March 2020 spring / summer 2020
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A Wolf by the Ears WAYNE KARLIN We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. —Thomas Jefferson
During the War of 1812, thousands of enslaved people from plantations across the Tidewater rallied to the British side, turning against an American republic that had barred them from the promises of freedom and democracy. Set against the backdrop of rebellion and war, Wayne Karlin’s A Wolf by the Ears follows the interconnected stories of Towerhill and Sarai, two African slaves, and their master, Jacob Hallam. Educated side-by-side and inseparable as children, the three come of age as they are forced to grapple with—and break free of—the fraught linkage of black and white Americans and how differently each defines what it means to fight for freedom. Sarai and Jacob are caught in the tension between the dream of equality, the reality of slavery, and their own hearts, while Towerhill sits at the head of a company of black marines that is part of the force that takes Washington and watches the White House burn. “This is a novel that vividly examines the struggle of enslaved people to find their freedom, dignity, and selfworth as our country struggled—as it still does—to define those values in the face of a reality that created a dependency on chattel slavery and continued with a legacy of institutionalized racism.”
“This is a novel of tremendous emotional complexity, of cruelty ‘grown from the need to see oneself as kind.’ The language is lush, and the wound deep and abiding.” —Noy Holland, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like
—Michael Glaser, former poet laureate of Maryland
WAYNE KARLIN is the author of seven novels, including Marble Mountain, The Wished-for Country, and Prisoners. The recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paterson Prize for Fiction, and the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award, he makes his home in Saint Mary’s County, Maryland.
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Choke Box a Fem-Noir Christina Milletti
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AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Brick City Vanguard Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity JAMES SMETHURST
“Once again, with Brick City Vanguard, James Smethurst proves that he is one of the leading scholars of the Black Arts Movement, of New Left literary studies, and of one of its emblematic writers, Amiri Baraka.” —Jean-Philippe Marcoux, cofounder of the Amiri Baraka Society and author of Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem
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Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka’s political and aesthetic stances changed considerably over the course of his career, Brick City Vanguard demonstrates the continuity in his thinking about the meaning of black music in the material, psychic, and ideological development of black people. Drawing on primary texts, paratexts (including album liner notes), audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst takes a new look at how Baraka’s writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation, that resonates to this day. This vision also provides a way of understanding the encounter of black people with what has been called “the urban crisis” and a projection of a liberated black future beyond that crisis. “James Smethurst has read everything on Baraka and produced an original and important book. Brick City Vanguard is a major contribution to the field.” —William J. Harris, author of The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic
JAMES SMETHURST is professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. African American History / Intellectual History / Music, Film, and Popular Culture 216 pp. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-515- 8 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534-514-1 Also available as an e- book May 2020 spring / summer 2020
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Exporting Jim Crow Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond CHINUA THELWELL Following the pathways of imperial commerce, blackface minstrel troupes began to cross the globe in the midnineteenth century, popularizing American racial ideologies as they traveled from Britain to its colonies in the Pacific, Asia, and Oceania, finally landing in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s. The first popular culture export of the United States, minstrel shows frequently portrayed black characters as noncitizens who were unfit for democratic participation and contributed to the construction of a global color line. Chinua Thelwell brings blackface minstrelsy and performance culture into the discussion of apartheid’s nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing a broad archive of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts. Exporting Jim Crow highlights blackface minstrelsy’s cultural and social impact as it became a dominant form of entertainment, moving from its initial appearances on music hall stages to its troubling twentieth-century resurgence on movie screens and at public events. This carefully researched and highly original study demonstrates that the performance of race in South Africa was inherently political, contributing to racism and shoring up white racial identity.
“Thelwell’s scholarship is impressive. This is essential reading for those interested in the transnational reach of blackface minstrelsy.” —Sandra Jean Graham, author of Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
“Historical in nature and based on archival research and an extensive reading of historiography about blackface minstrelsy and racial and labor relations in South Africa, Exporting Jim Crow charts the importance of minstrelsy in forging a distinctive white settler identity in South Africa.” —Kevin K. Gaines, author of African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
CHINUA THELWELL is assistant professor of history and Africana studies at William & Mary. Transnational Studies / African American History / American Studies 280 pp., 12 illus., 1 table $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-517-2 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534-516-5 Also available as an e- book April 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Also of Interest African American Travel Narratives from Abroad Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow Gary Totten $26.95 paper 978-1-62534-161-7
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STUDIES IN PRINT CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK This well-established series offers a substantial collection of books that examine the history of print culture, including studies of authorship, reading, writing, printing, and publishing. The editors are especially interested in interdisciplinary work and invite submissions from scholars in history, literary studies, bibliography, and related fields who are working in this area.
SERIES EDITORS Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin
R EC E N T TIT L E S I N T H E S E R I E S The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Books for Idle Hours
Jonathan Senchyne
Donna Harrington-Lueker
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Made Under Pressure
Taking Books to the World
Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960–1991 Natalia Kamovnikova
American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War
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Amanda Laugesen $28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-309-3
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STUDIES IN PRINT CULTURE AND THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
Libraries amid Protest Books, Organizing, and Global Activism SHERRIN FRANCES In September 2011, Occupy Wall Street activists took over New York’s Zuccotti Park. Within a matter of weeks, the encampment had become a tiny model of a robust city, with its own kitchen, first aid station, childcare services— and a library of several thousand physical books. Since that time, social movements around the world, from Nuit Debout in Paris to Gezi Park in Istanbul, have built temporary libraries alongside their protests. While these libraries typically last only a few weeks at a time and all have ultimately been dismantled or destroyed, each has managed to collect, catalog, and circulate books, serving a need not being met elsewhere. Libraries amid Protest unpacks how these protest libraries—labor-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces—continue to arise. In telling the stories of these surprising and inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries. She argues that protest libraries function as the spaces of opportunity and resistance promised, but not delivered, by American public libraries. “Libraries amid Protest tells an important story about the physical, intellectual, and emotional heft of the collections of books that sprang into existence at sites of resistance during the 2010s. It presents a new perspective on the multilayered activities that make up protest movements and asks us to broaden our understanding of the symbolic and material significance of libraries.”
“I know of no other study that provides such a crucial historical chronicle about book culture within Occupy Wall Street and the movement of the squares. It’s almost as if the author pried open a previously inaccessible archive of dissident knowledge and invited us inside.” —Gregory Sholette, author of Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
—Cheryl Knott, author of Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
SHERRIN FRANCES is associate professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University.
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Not Free, Not for All Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow Cheryl Knott
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Placing Papers The American Literary Archives Market AMY HILDRETH CHEN
“Chen’s research is impressive, drawing from a multifarious range of documents, everything from journals on trends in library science to correspondence with literary market professionals to journalism on trends in publishing.” —Eric Bennett, author of Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War
The sale of authors’ papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy. The market for contemporary authors’ archives began when research libraries needed to cheaply provide primary sources for the swelling number of students and faculty following World War II. Demand soon grew, and while writers and their families found new opportunities to make money, so too did book dealers and literary agents with the foresight to pivot their businesses to serve living authors. Public interest surrounding celebrity writers had exploded by the late twentieth century, and as Placing Papers illustrates, even the best-funded institutions were forced to contend with the facts that acquiring contemporary literary archives had become cost prohibitive and increasingly competitive. “The author’s prose offers sheer grace and cleverness, shrugging off the burdens of the empirical/institutional nature of the project to produce a nascent work of valuable cultural criticism alongside its more purely informational dimension.” —Mark McGurl, author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
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Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly Cathryn Halverson $27.95 paper 978-1-62534-455-7
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AMY HILDRETH CHEN is English and communications librarian at the University of Iowa.
Literary Studies and Print Culture 192 pp., 1 illus., 10 tables $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 485- 4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 484-7 Also available as an e- book June 2020 spring / summer 2020
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Writing across the Color Line U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877–1920 LUCAS A. DIETRICH The turn of the twentieth century was a period of experimental possibility for U.S. ethnic literature as a number of writers of color began to collaborate with the predominantly white publishing trade to make their work commercially available. In this new book, Lucas A. Dietrich analyzes publishers’ and writers’ archives to show how authors—including María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Charles W. Chesnutt, Finley Peter Dunne, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sui Sin Far—drew readers into their texts by subverting existing stereotypes and adapting styles of literary regionalism and dialect writing. Writing across the Color Line details how this body of literature was selected for publication, edited, manufactured, advertised, and distributed, even as it faced hostile criticism and frequent misinterpretation by white readers. Shedding light on the transformative potential of multiethnic literature and the tenacity of racist attitudes that dominated the literary marketplace, Dietrich proves that Native American, African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Irish American writers of the period relied on self-caricature, tricksterism, and the careful control of authorial personae to influence white audiences.
“Dietrich adds to our understanding of some now-canonical authors in the field of multiethnic literature at the turn of the century, as well as our understanding of lesser-known authors, by bringing to bear extensive archival work.” —Eric Aronoff, author of Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
“Writing across the Color Line makes a significant contribution to the fields of American literature (especially American literary realism, but also modernism), print culture, and multiethnic literature. The fact that Dietrich uses examples from different ethnic literary traditions is a real strength of this book.” —Lori Harrison-Kahan, author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
LUCAS A. DIETRICH is adjunct professor of humanities at Lesley University.
Literary Studies and Print Culture / Cultural History 184 pp., 12 illus. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 487- 8 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 486-1 Also available as an e- book June 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Also of Interest The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader Shawn Anthony Christian $25.95 paper 978-1-62534-201-0
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CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND
Every Home a Fortress Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter THOMAS BISHOP
“Bishop does yeoman’s work in bringing nuclear Cold War scholarship into the realm of masculinity and makes a key contribution.” —Robert A. Jacobs, author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age
In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity—the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear ephemera, Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957 to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international relations but were also a transitional moment in the social histories of the white middle class and American fatherhood. During this era, public concerns surrounding civil defense shaped private family conversations, and the fallout shelter emerged as a site at which ideas of nationhood, national security, and masculinity collided with the complex reality of trying to raise and protect a family in the nuclear age. “Moving beyond the customary view of Cold War civil defense as a monumental failure to mobilize the public, Bishop provides an insightful, fascinating examination of fathers who took action to protect their families from the expected horror of nuclear war.” —David F. Krugler, author of This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War
THOMAS BISHOP is senior lecturer in American history and program leader in American studies at the University of Lincoln.
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Clearer Than Truth The Polygraph and the American Cold War John Philipp Baesler $30.95 paper 978-1-62534-325-3
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History: Twentieth- and Twenty- First- Century American / Military History, Cold War, and Veterans Studies / Gender and Women’s Studies 192 pp., 10 illus. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 483- 0 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 482-3 Also available as an e- book May 2020 spring / summer 2020
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PUBLIC HISTORY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Shaker Fever America’s Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect WILLIAM D. MOORE Americans were enthralled by the Shakers in the years between 1925 and 1965. They bought Shaker furniture, saw Shaker worship services enacted on Broadway, sang Shaker songs, dressed in Shaker-inspired garb, collected Shaker artifacts, and restored Shaker villages. William D. Moore analyzes the activities of scholars, composers, collectors, folklorists, photographers, writers, choreographers, and museum staff who drove the national interest in this dwindling regional religious group. This interdisciplinary study places the activities of individuals—including Doris Humphrey, Charles Sheeler, Laura Bragg, Juliana Force, and Edward Deming Andrews—within the larger cultural and historical contexts of nationalism, modernism, and cultural resource management. Taking up previously unexamined primary sources and cultural productions that include the first scholarly studies of the faith, material culture and visual arts, stage performances, and museum exhibitions, Shaker Fever compels a reconsideration of this religious group and its place within American memory. It is sure to delight enthusiasts, public historians, museum professionals, furniture collectors, and anyone interested in the dynamics of cultural appropriation and stewardship.
“Moore’s comprehensive exploration of the various enthusiasms inspired by the Shakers is unparalleled. Shaker Fever will appeal to those interested in issues of cultural representation as well as those who are fascinated by this religious group.” —Michael Ann Williams, author of Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott
“An original, timely work of first-rate scholarship, impressive in scope, which examines one by one the principal manifestations of the twentieth-century interest in the Shakers, which have never before been explicated in this depth and with such rigorous interpretation.” —Robert P. Emlen, author of Shaker Village Views: Illustrated Maps and Landscape Drawings by Shaker Artists of the Nineteenth Century
WILLIAM D. MOORE is director of the American & New England Studies Program and associate professor of material culture at Boston University. Public History / History: Twentieth- and Twenty- First- Century American / Memory Studies
Shaker Vision Seeing Beauty in Early America Joseph Manca
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NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE NORTHEAST
“For the Good of Their Souls” Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country WILLIAM B. HART
“Not only is ‘For the Good of Their Souls’ easily the best treatment of Mohawk Christianity, and the Mohawks in general, during the eighteenth century, but it advances our understanding of Indian Christianity considerably. Additionally, it is at once theoretically sophisticated, clearly written, and accessible.” —David J. Silverman, author of Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
Also of Interest Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot Drew Lopenzina $29.95 paper 978-1-62534-259-1
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In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened its mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about one-fifth of the Mohawks in the area began attending services. They even adapted versions of the service for use in private spaces, which potentially opened a door to an imagined faith community with the Protestants. Using the lens of performance theory to explain the ways in which the Mohawks considered converting and participating in Christian rituals, historian William B. Hart contends that Mohawks who prayed, sang hymns, submitted to baptism, took communion, and acquired literacy did so to protect their nation’s sovereignty, fulfill their responsibility of reciprocity, serve their communities, and reinvent themselves. Performing Christianity was a means of “survivance,” a strategy for sustaining Mohawk life and culture on their terms in a changing world. “This book is thoroughly researched and thoughtfully argued. It makes a significant contribution as a case study in the development of indigenous Christianity, as a history of the Mohawk people during tumultuous times through the lens of their adoption of Christianity, and as an exploration of the multiple meanings of conversion.” —Colin G. Calloway, author of The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
WILLIAM B. HART is professor of history at Middlebury College.
Native American and Indigenous Studies / History: Colonial, Revolutionary Era, and Early American 288 pp., 5 illus. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 495-3 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 494- 6 Also available as an e- book July 2020 spring / summer 2020
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Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature TIMOTHY HELWIG Historians have long claimed that the antebellum white working class viewed blacks, both free and enslaved, not as allies but enemies. While it is true that racial and ethnic strife among northern workers prevented an effective labor movement from materializing in America prior to the Civil War, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature demonstrates that a considerable subset of white and black writers were able to imagine cross-racial solidarity in the sensation novels and serial fiction, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, and newspaper editorials that they penned. Timothy Helwig analyzes the shared strategies of class protest in popular and canonical texts from a range of antebellum white and black American authors, including George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Harry Hazel, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb. This pathbreaking study offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors’ strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War.
“Helwig makes the case for the significance of a number of forgotten, ignored sensational novels, delivering an entirely fresh reading of the racial politics of antebellum sensationalism. Moreover, Helwig’s new book enriches our understanding of black-authored abolitionist writing: it makes visible another way in which this writing was enmeshed in the literary culture of its moment.” —Joe Shapiro, author of The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel
TIMOTHY HELWIG is professor of English at Western Illinois University.
Literary Studies and Print Culture / Capitalism, Labor, and Class 208 pp., 4 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 497-7 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 496- 0 Also available as an e- book April 2020
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Also of Interest Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic Adam Gordon $26.95 paper 978-1-62534-453-3
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Transcendental Heresies Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief DAVID FAFLIK
“Faflik has read widely, and intelligently, in both manuscripts and littleknown periodicals to establish a wider interpretation of transcendentalism. This is a major advance in the field.” —David M. Robinson, author of Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul Barry M. Andrews $26.95 td paper 978-1-62534-293-5
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At a moment when the requirements of belief and unbelief were being negotiated in unexpected ways, transcendentalism allowed for a more creative approach to spiritual questions. Interrogating the movement’s alleged atheistic underpinnings, David Faflik contends that transcendentalism reconstituted the religious sensibilities of 1830s and 1840s New England, producing a dynamic and complex array of beliefs and behaviors that cannot be categorized as either religious or nonreligious. Rather than “the latest form of infidelity,” as one contemporary described it, adherents viewed their unconventional and distinct spiritual practices as a modern religion. Transcendental Heresies draws on an expansive antebellum archive of period commentary and writings by transcendentalism’s practitioners, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller, and the women of transcendentalism’s second and third waves. From Boston to Concord to the heady environs of Harvard, the species of unbelief they practiced multiplied the religious possibilities of the era, expressing misgivings about traditional notions of divinity, flouting religion’s customary forms, and ultimately encouraging spiritual questioning.
DAVID FAFLIK is professor of English at the University of Rhode Island and author of Melville and the Question of Meaning.
Literary Studies and Print Culture / Religion / New England History and Culture 264 pp., 12 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 489-2 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 488-5 Also available as an e- book May 2020 spring / summer 2020
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The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts EMILY C. K. ROMEO Dismantling the image of the peaceful and serene colonial goodwife and countering the assumption that New England was inherently less violent than other regions of colonial America, Emily C. K. Romeo offers a revealing look at acts of violence by Anglo-American women in colonial Massachusetts, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Using Essex County as a case study, Romeo deftly utilizes seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to demonstrate that Puritan women, both “virtuous” and otherwise, learned to negotiate the shifting boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable violence in their daily lives and communities. The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts shows that more dramatic violence by women—including infanticide, the scalping of captors during the Indian Wars, and even witchcraft accusations— was not necessarily intended to challenge the structures of authority but often sprung from women’s desire to protect property, safety, and standing for themselves and their families. The situations in which women chose to flout powerful social conventions and resort to overt violence expose the underlying, often unspoken, priorities and gendered expectations that shaped this society.
“Romeo’s centering of women’s violence has the potential to change how readers understand colonial New England. Her clear style will appeal both to university instructors and general readers beyond academia.” —Erika Gasser, author of Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England
EMILY C. K. ROMEO is visiting assistant professor of history at DePaul University.
History: Colonial, Revolutionary Era, and Early American / Gender and Women’s Studies / New England History and Culture 216 pp. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-513- 4 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534-512-7 Also available as an e- book August 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Also of Interest Stripped and Script Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution Kacy Dowd Tillman $28.95 paper 978-1-62534-432-8
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Diseased States Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States CHARLES ALLAN MCCOY
“A sophisticated comparative analysis of the differing responses to infectious diseases in Britain and the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, Diseased States is a significant contribution to the literature.” —Magdalena Szaflarski, associate professor of sociology and scientist in the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, MERS, and pandemic influenza are brutal reminders of the dangers of infectious disease. Comparing the development of disease control in Britain and the United States, from the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia to the H1N1 panics of more recent times, Diseased States provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century. To understand why these two nations have handled contemporary disease threats in such different ways, Charles Allan McCoy examines when and how disease control measures were adopted in each country from the nineteenth century onward, which medical theory of disease was dominant at the time, and where disease control was located within the state apparatus. Particular starting conditions put Britain and the United States on distinct trajectories of institutionalization that led to their respective systems of disease control. As McCoy shows, even the seemingly objective matter of contagion is deeply enmeshed in social and political realities, and by developing unique systems of biopower to control the spread of disease, Britain and the United States have established different approaches of exerting political control over citizens’ lives and bodies. “Diseased States is insightful, original, and a great reminder of how the pursuit of public health is not as beneficent as it might seem and not immune to the vices of the public itself.” —Kenneth Kirkwood, associate professor of health studies at Western University
Also of Interest Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman’s Rights Advocate Myra C. Glenn $29.95 paper 978-1-62534-376-5
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CHARLES ALLAN MCCOY is assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York Plattsburgh.
Health and Medicine / Transnational Studies 224 pp., 1 illus., 2 tables $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-507-3 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534-506- 6 Also available as an e- book July 2020
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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHEAST
From the Mountains to the Sea Protecting Nature in Postwar New Hampshire KIMBERLY A. JARVIS In the face of increasing pressures from business and government in the decades following World War II, New Hampshire residents banded together to preserve their most prized natural areas and defining geological features. From the Mountains to the Sea explores how history, memory, and tradition created a strong sense of place in the state that led citizen activists to protect Franconia Notch, Sandwich Notch, and the town of Durham on New Hampshire’s seacoast from development in the last half of the twentieth century. These efforts led to the construction of a parkway instead of an interstate highway, prevented the building of an oil refinery, and saved Sandwich Notch from becoming a vacation community. Shaped by New Hampshire’s unique conservation focus on both resource use and preservation that developed during the first years of the twentieth century, as well as on the tradition of home rule in the state, the outcome of each campaign relied on the insight into, appreciation for, and dedication to protecting the historic and aesthetic values of these three places.
“In this book, Jarvis’s sound scholarship advances the environmental history of New England.” —Christopher L. Pastore, author of Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England
KIMBERLY A. JARVIS is professor of history at Doane University and author of Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It.
Environmental History and Ecology / New England History and Culture 216 pp., 6 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-501-1 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534-500- 4 Also available as an e- book July 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Also of Interest The Aquatic Frontier Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era Samuel P. Hanes $26.95 paper 978-1-62534-413-7
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From Environmental Loss to Resistance Infrastructure and the Struggle for Justice in North America EDITED BY MICHAEL LOADENTHAL AND LEA REKOW
“This volume of engaged scholarship in environmental studies touches on a range of fields, including environmental history, ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, environmental policy, cultural anthropology, and indigenous studies, and offers a synthesis of stories that are not brought together often enough.” —Robert S. Emmett, author of Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing
Also of Interest Finding Thoreau 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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North Americans have reached a socioenvironmental tipping point where social transformation has become necessary to secure a stable and desirable future. As hurricanes destroy coastal areas that once hosted schools and homes, petroleum refineries choke nearby communities and their parks, and pipeline construction threatens water rights for indigenous peoples, communities are left to determine how to best manage and mitigate environmental loss. In this new collection, a range of contributors—among them researchers, practitioners, organizers, and activists— explore the ways in which people counter or cope with feelings of despair, leverage action for positive change, and formulate pathways to achieve environmental justice goals. These essays pay particular attention to issues of race, class, economic liberalization, and geography; place contemporary environmental struggles in a critical context that emphasizes justice, connection, and reconciliation; and raise important questions about the challenges and responses that concern those pursuing environmental justice. Contributors include the volume editors, Carol J. Adams, Randall Amster, Jan Inglis, Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, Zoë Roller, and Michael Truscello. MICHAEL LOADENTHAL is visiting professor of social justice studies at Miami University, executive director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and founding director of the Prosecution Project. LEA REKOW is colead and cocurator of BifrostOnline, an international, open access project promoting sustainability, and founder of Green My Favela, an urban restoration project. Environmental History and Ecology / Transnational Studies / Sociology and Anthropology 192 pp., 5 illus., 3 maps $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534-505-9 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534-504-2 Also available as an e- book June 2020 spring / summer 2020
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PUBLIC HISTORY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Museum Diplomacy Transnational Public History and the U.S. Department of State RICHARD J. W. HARKER The Museums Connect program stands at the intersection of transnational public history and international diplomacy. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the American Alliance of Museums, this program partners U.S. museums and non-U.S. museums in projects designed to foster community collaboration and engagement. Museum Diplomacy focuses on three Museums Connect projects arranged between the United States and South Africa, Morocco, and Afghanistan, respectively. Utilizing a diverse range of oral interviews, Richard J. W. Harker explores how museums negotiate national boundaries, institutional and local histories, and post-9/11 geopolitical interests. Working in different political and professional contexts, museum partners have built community-driven collaborative exhibitions and projects that tell transnational stories. As more historic sites and museums seek to surmount social, cultural, and economic barriers between themselves and their communities in their exhibitions and programming, the Museums Connect program provides important lessons on how to overcome entrenched hierarchies of power in public history.
“Museum Diplomacy is highly original because of its focus on transnational public history. There really is nothing like it, which is why it’s so valuable to the field.” —Thomas Cauvin, president of the International Federation for Public History and author of Public History: A Textbook of Practice
RICHARD J. W. HARKER is coexecutive director of the Historic Oakland Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia.
Preserving Maritime America
Public History / Transnational Studies 288 pp. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 493-9 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 492-2 Also available as an e- book August 2020
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A Cultural History of the Nation’s Great Maritime Museums James M. Lindgren $28.95 paper 978-1-62534-463-2
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Rescued from Oblivion Historical Cultures in the Early United States ALEA HENLE
“In this richly layered study of archival history, Henle highlights not only the prejudices and priorities that members of early historical societies brought to their work but the various ways those prejudices and priorities were challenged by other historical actors.” —Elizabeth Yale, author of Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
In 1791, a group of elite Bostonian men established the first historical society in the nation. Within sixty years, the number of local history organizations had increased exponentially, with states and territories from Maine to Louisiana and Georgia to Minnesota boasting collections of their own. With in-depth research and an expansive scope, Rescued from Oblivion offers a vital account of the formation of historical culture and consciousness in the early United States, re-centering in the record groups long marginalized from the national memory. As Alea Henle demonstrates, these societies laid the groundwork for professional practices that are still embraced today: collection policies, distinctions between preservation of textual and nontextual artifacts, publication programs, historical rituals and commemorations, reconciliation of scholarly and popular approaches, and more. At the same time, officers of these early societies faced challenges to their historical authority from communities interested in preserving a broader range of materials and documenting more inclusive histories, including fellow members, popular historians, white women, and peoples of color. “Rescued from Oblivion is abundant with the kind of details that make for stimulating history, with interesting personalities, decisions with lasting consequences, and the restoration to the historical record of women and others who have previously been neglected.” —Robert B. Townsend, author of History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880–1940
Also of Interest Collecting the Globe The Salem East India Marine Society Museum George H. Schwartz $28.95 paper 978-1-62534-472-4
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ALEA HENLE is associate librarian and head of the access and borrow department at Miami University Libraries.
Public History / History: Twentieth- and Twenty- FirstCentury American 264 pp., 9 illus., 5 tables $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 499-1 $90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1- 62534- 498- 4 Also available as an e- book August 2020 spring / summer 2020
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2018 FOREWORD INDIES AWARDS, GOLD WINNER FOR MULTICULTURAL ADULT FICTION AND BRONZE WINNER FOR SHORT STORY COLLECTION My Old Faithful Stories
Yang Huang $19.95 td paper, 978-1-62534-336-9
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE The Slave Master of Trinidad William Hardin Burnley and the NineteenthCentury Atlantic World
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
2018 JOHN LYMAN BOOK AWARD FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR OCEANIC HISTORY, HONORABLE MENTION FOR U.S. MARITIME HISTORY Breaking the Banks Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866–1966
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Matthew McKenzie $28.95 paper, 978-1-62534-391-8
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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. Recognized as a leader in bringing Portuguese literature, history, and culture to an English-speaking audience, Tagus Press’s groundbreaking translations and journals address both Portuguese life abroad and in the United States.
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Smiling in the Darkness
The Poems of Renata Ferreira
Behind the Stars, More Stars
Adelaide Freitas Translated by Katharine F. Baker, with Bobby J. Chamberlain, Reinaldo F. Silva, and Emanuel Melo
Frank X. Gaspar
The Tagus/Disquiet Collection of New Luso-American Writing
$14.95 td paper, 978-1-933227-94-8 Portuguese in the Americas Series
Edited by Christopher Larkosh and Oona Patrick
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Portuguese in the Americas Series
Chiquinho A Novel of Cabo Verde Baltazar Lopes Translated by Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues and Carlos A. Almeida with Anna M. Klobucka
Minotaur, Parrot, and the SS Man
Stormy Isles
Essays on Jorge de Sena $19.95 paper, 978-1-933227-97-9
Vitorino Nemésio Edited and translated by Francisco Cota Fagundes
Adamastor Series
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An Azorean Tale
George Monteiro
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Unremembering Me
Eden-Brazil
A Biography Magda Pinheiro Translated by Mario Pereira
Luiz Ruffato Translated by Marguerite Itamar Harrison
Moacyr Scliar Translated by Malcolm K. McNee
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The Unknown Islands RAUL BRANDÃO TRANSLATED BY DAVID BROOKSHAW The Unknown Islands is considered one of the most beautiful works of travel literature in Portuguese and one of the most important homages to the Azorean archipelago. In the summer of 1924, Raul Brandão undertook a trip with other intellectuals through the Azores and Madeira. Fascinated with the landscapes of the islands and seduced by the people, he went on to pen this foundational text of Azorean literature—elegantly capturing the history, memory, and imaginary of this storied place.
RAUL BRANDÃO (1867–1930) was a Portuguese intellectual, writer, journalist, and military officer. His writing is characterized by the powerful realism of his literary descriptions and the moving lyricism of his language. Although he published in a variety of genres, his sensitive and sympathetic portrayal of the human condition remained the central theme of his work. DAVID BROOKSHAW is professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He has published widely in the field of Brazilian and Lusophone postcolonial studies. His translations include, most recently, Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes (2018) and Carlos Morais José’s The Archive of Confessions (2019). His translation of Mia Couto’s A Espada e a Azagaia is due out in 2020.
Also of Interest Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World
Category 236 pp. $19.95 td paper, ISBN 978-1-951470- 00-5 May 2020 Bellis Azorica Series Distributed for Tagus Press Sponsored by Direção- Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (DGLAB) UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
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“There Is a North”
Campuses of Consent
Time for Childhoods
Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
Sexual and Social Justice in Higher Education
Young Poets and Questions of Agency $29.95 paper, 978-1-62534-449-6
John L. Brooke
Theresa A. Kulbaga and Leland G. Spencer
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Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth
The Genealogical Sublime
The Conspiracy of Capital
The Case of the Slave-Child, Med
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Free Soil in Antislavery Boston
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Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly
Public History in Historical Perspective
Michael Mark Cohen
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Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth
American Intelligence
Rediscovering the Maine Woods
“Theatricals of Day”
Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire
Thoreau’s Legacy in an Unsettled Land Edited by John J. Kucich
Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture
Ben P. Lafferty
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Sandra Runzo
Rachel Conrad
Karen Woods Weierman
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People before Highways
The Sacking of Fallujah
Four by Euripides
Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making
A People’s History
Medea, Bakkhai, Hippolytos, and Cyclops Euripides
Karilyn Crockett
Ross Caputi, Richard Hil, and Donna Mulhearn
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New translations and introductions by Robert Bagg
Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
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Books for Idle Hours
Food for Dissent
Veterans Crisis Hotline
Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
Natural Foods and the Consumer Counterculture since the 1960s
Jon Chopan
Donna Harrington-Lueker
Maria McGrath
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Winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
In Sullivan’s Shadow
Guns in Law
Maria Baldwin’s Worlds
The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle
Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice
Aimee Edmondson
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Kathleen Weiler
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The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
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Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC 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 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
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 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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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
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
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
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).
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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$25.95 paper ISBN 978-1- 62534- 035-1 264 pp., 10 illus., 2013
$38.95 paper ISBN 978-1- 62534-298- 0 576 pp., 73 illus., 2018
$22.95 bt paper ISBN 978-1- 62534- 457-1 198 pp., 14 illus., 3 maps, 2019
$27.95 paper ISBN 978-1-55849-940-9 256 pp., 12 illus., 2012
$22.95 paper ISBN 978-1- 62534-182-2 280 pp., 21 illus., 2015
$22.95 paper ISBN 978-1-55849-107- 6 176 pp., 1997
$23.95 paper ISBN 978-1-55849-124-3 216 pp., 1998
$24.95 paper ISBN 978-1- 62534- 066-5 344 pp., 2014
$105.00 cloth ISBN 978-1- 62534-185-3 816 pp., 115 illus., 2017
LITERATURE
$34.95 paper ISBN 978-1- 62534- 031-3 688 pp., 2014
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
$29.95 paper ISBN 978-1- 62534-244-7 324 pp., 2016
$24.95 paper ISBN 978-1- 62534-318-5 264 pp., 9 illus., 2018
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BRIGHT LEAF, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, publishes insightful books about New England. Written for a popular audience, Bright Leaf explores a myriad of subjects that highlight the history, culture, diversity, and environment of the region.
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Flight Calls
Bricklayer Bill
Concrete Changes
Exploring Massachusetts through Birds John R. Nelson
The Untold Story of the Workingman’s Boston Marathon Patrick L. Kennedy and Lawrence W. Kennedy
Architecture, Politics, and the Design of Boston City Hall Brian M. Sirman
$24.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-306-2
$22.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-357-4
At Home
Went to the Devil
Historic Houses of Central and Western Massachusetts Beth Luey
A Yankee Whaler in the Slave Trade Anthony J. Connors
Boston’s Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance
$22.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-470-0
$22.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-465-6
$22.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-405-2
Cultural Change on Two Wheels Lorenz J. Finison $19.95 bt paper, 978-1-62534-411-3
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