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Jim Crow Wisdom

Making Freedom

Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940

The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery

JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY

R. J. M. BLACKETT

How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade, Holloway explores the stories black Americans have told about their past and why these stories are vital to understanding a modern black identity. In the process, Holloway asks much larger questions about the value of history and facts when memories do violence to both.

The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences of escaped slaves and those who aided them to explore the inner workings of the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, while shedding light on the political effects of slave escape in southern states, border states, and the North. r. j. m. blackett is Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and author of Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War, among other books.

jonathan scott holloway is professor of history, African

The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era

American studies, and American studies at Yale University.

“A sharply focused, deeply researched, and insightful study, Making Freedom not only adds to our knowledge of the Underground Railroad, but also expands its breadth and deepens its importance. A very fine study of an important subject.” —Ira Berlin, University of Maryland

“An evocative, beautifully written exploration of knowledge production, memory, and self-creation in African American life. Jim Crow Wisdom is compelling.” —Imani Perry, Princeton University “Beautifully written and broadly accessible, Jim Crow Wisdom opens up entirely new conversations about what we think to be familiar topics. Jonathan Holloway’s reading of film, literature, tourist sites, and the very act of remembering itself does more than merely tell us about African American identity; it helps us understand the story of this nation—even if it is a story that many people don’t want to tell.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.

“This book will engage you with arresting stories and careful attention to the mechanics of the underground railroad—how slaves escaped, how free black communities rallied around them and squared off against slaveholders, government officers, and the Fugitive Slave Law. Blackett offers nuanced and hard truths about the African American struggle for a free soil North that change our understanding of the UGRR and the 1850s.” —Anthony E. Kaye, author of Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

“Shows how racial alienation continues to stoke a centuries-old longing for home in many African-Americans.” —Chronicle of Higher Education

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Black Faces, White Spaces

Seeing Race in Modern America

Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

MATTHEW PRATT GUTERL In this fiercely urgent book, Matthew Pratt Guterl focuses on how and why we come to see race in very particular ways. What does it mean to see someone as a color? As racially mixed or ethnically ambiguous? What history makes such things possible? Drawing creatively from advertisements, YouTube videos, and everything in between, Guterl redirects our understanding of racial sight away from the dominant categories of color—away from brown and yellow and black and white—and instead insists that we confront the visual practices that make those same categories seem so irrefutably important.

CAROLYN FINNEY Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the “great outdoors” and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.

matthew pratt guterl is professor of Africana studies and American studies at Brown University and is the author of American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation among other books.

carolyn finney is assistant professor of environmental

“In this provocative explication of the cultural ‘sightlines’ that train the eye to scout and discover racial distinctions, Guterl urges us to see our own seeing anew. Varied and resourceful in its archive, impressive in its historical sweep, often brilliant in its close observations, and at once intellectually playful and morally sober, Seeing Race in Modern America will grip lifelong specialists as surely as it will readers who have never paused to consider these questions. An essential contribution.” —Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

science, policy, and management at the University of California, Berkeley.

“A wonderfully written and deeply insightful book that convincingly explodes the one-size-fits-all narrative of how nature in the United States is both often imagined to be racialized and is, in fact, racialized. Given the white privileging of geography, the sorts of intellectual-cultural insights offered here could very well be transformative. This book will stand alone in the field of geographic treatments of race and nature.” —Nik Heynen, University of Georgia

“Illustrates how race continues to operate as subtext in the world of ideas, coloring our expectations and, more important, our personal and political decisions.” —Chronicle of Higher Education

“Using collective memory, race, and environment, Finney looks at the effect of slavery and Jim Crow segregation and their key roles in shaping African American connections to place—the ‘great outdoors’ or the ‘environment’ more generally. She looks at representation of African Americans in the great outdoors as being a key site of contestation, of struggle. She also looks at the difficulties inherent in discussions of race and diversity within environmentalism, and with environmentalists. Finney shines a different light, and brings a different voice to bear.” —Julian Agyeman, Tufts University

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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867

Crafting Lives African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900

Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867

CATHERINE W. BISHIR

EDITED BY RENÉ HAYDEN, ANTHONY E. KAYE, KATE MASUR, STEVEN F. MILLER, SUSAN E. O'DONOVAN, LESLIE S. ROWLAND, AND STEPHEN A. WEST

From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities—thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others—played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African American artisans in the small but important port city of New Bern. In so doing, she highlights the community’s often unrecognized importance in the history of nineteenth-century black life.

Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South’s labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labor, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land. The documents—many of them in the freedpeople’s own words—speak eloquently for themselves, while the editors’ interpretive essays provide context and illuminate major themes.

catherine w. bishir is curator of Architectural Records

rené hayden is an independent scholar in Washington, D.C. anthony e. kaye is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University. kate masur is associate pro-

Special Collections at North Carolina State University Libraries. She is author or co-author of six books, including North Carolina Architecture.

fessor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University. steven f. miller is coeditor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland. susan e. o’donovan is associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. leslie s. rowland is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project. stephen a. west is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America.

“In Bishir’s able hands, these urban artisans of color emerge as complex and fascinating people who led communities, brought about change, and paved the way for future African American triumphs and challenges.” —John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte “With all the patience and precision of a New Bern tailor or tinsmith, Catherine Bishir has crafted a compelling picture of a gifted, embattled, and far-flung community of artisans. The implications of this masterful study ripple well beyond the coastal counties of North Carolina, nudging all of us to rethink our sense of the southern past.” —Peter H. Wood, author of Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War

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From Brown to Meredith

Geographies of Liberation

The Long Struggle for School Desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1954-2007

The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary ALEX LUBIN

TRACY E. K’MEYER

Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks imagined their freedom and, conversely, the ways in which various Middle Eastern groups have understood and used the African American freedom struggle to shape their own political movements.

2014 Samuel W. Thomas Book Award, Louisville Historical Society

When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville’s local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools. This debate came at a time when scholars, pundits, and much of the public had declared school integration a failed experiment rightfully abandoned. Using oral history narratives, newspaper accounts, and other documents, Tracy E. K’Meyer exposes the disappointments of desegregation, draws attention to those who struggled for over five decades to bring about equality and diversity, and highlights the many benefits of school integration.

alex lubin is associate professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico and director of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut.

tracy e. k’meyer is professor of history and co-director of the Oral History Center at the University of Louisville.

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“K’Meyer brings scholarly sophistication and a breadth of knowledge to this straightforward, articulate, important contribution to the history of the Civil Rights Movement.” —Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky

“A fascinating, wide-ranging history . . . traces the complex ways in which the histories of African Americans, Palestinians, and Jews can be seen relationally through shared experiences of exile and exclusion. An important, timely, scrupulously researched and well-written book.” —Malini Johar Schueller, author of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 and Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship

“From Brown to Meredith is an intervention: it takes on current (mis)understandings about the history of school desegregation, especially the tendency to see it as over and done with and, consequently, a failure. Here is an alternate history—grounded in oral history—of biracial efforts to support successful desegregation, especially through busing, that most maligned of means to achieve integration. We glimpse here what it would have taken, and what Louisville partially achieved, to make the promise of Brown a reality.” —Kathy Nasstrom, University of San Francisco

“Geographies of Liberation is a revelatory and informative work of intercultural scholarship that demonstrates how African American, Arab, and Jewish political imaginaries cannot be fully thought or understood outside the shared geopolitical context in which they developed across the twentieth century, nor apart from the interdependent, if also conflictual, narratives of race, religion, self-determination, belonging, and exclusion that were forged between them.” —Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

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This Ain’t Chicago

W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the PostSoul South

STEPHANIE J. SHAW

ZANDRIA F. ROBINSON

In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois’ book as a profoundly nuanced interpretation of the souls of black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution “I hope you know this ain’t Chicago.” In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture. Analytically separating black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences.

stephanie j. shaw is professor of history at the Ohio State University and author of What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

zandria f. robinson is assistant professor of sociology at

“This book establishes Stephanie Shaw as one of the leading Du Bois scholars of her generation. She deftly combines several disciplines to produce an elegant, erudite, sophisticated, beautifully-crafted meditation on Du Bois’ view of the dawn of the 20th century from the vantage point of the 21st century.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times

the University of Memphis. She is coeditor of Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age.

New Directions in Southern Studies

“This Ain’t Chicago is a fascinating exploration of the shifting contours of racial and regional identity in the post-civil rights era. Robinson shows that southern regional identity and culture provide insights into understanding something about cities and ‘urban change.’ The book offers a bridge between the worlds of southern studies, cultural studies, and urban theory.” —Bruce Haynes, University of California, Davis

“Shaw’s ambitious and provocative book uncovers Du Bois’ deliberate use of Hegel’s phenomenology and philosophy of history. As Du Bois saw it, slavery and the failure of Reconstruction prevented whites as well as blacks from coming to self-consciousness and kept all Americans from the realization of freedom.” —James Kloppenberg, Harvard University

“Zandria Robinson deploys a sharp eye, a wealth of material, and a mordant wit to address a topic that everyone should have known was important. No one has an excuse for not knowing that now.” —John Shelton Reed

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Greater than Equal

With Malice toward Some

African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965

Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era WILLIAM A. BLAIR

SARAH CAROLINE THUESEN

Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War–era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly than federal agents in punishing traitors in their midst, forcing the government to rethink legal practices and definitions. Ultimately, punishment for treason extended well beyond wartime and into the framework of Reconstruction policies, including the construction of the Fourteenth Amendment. Establishing how treason was defined not just by the Lincoln administration, Congress, and the courts but also by the general public, Blair reveals the surprising implications for North and South alike.

During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school officials, and civic leaders to reconstruct this highstakes drama. She explores how African Americans pressed for equality in curricula, higher education, teacher salaries, and school facilities how white officials co-opted equalization as a means of forestalling integration and, finally, how black activism for equality evolved into a fight for something “greater than equal”—integrated schools that served as models of civic inclusion.

william a. blair, Liberal Arts Research Professor in U.S. History at the Pennsylvania State University, serves as director of the Richards Civil War Era Center and as editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era.

sarah thuesen teaches history at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.

“An impressive book full of fascinating stories. Thuesen’s style is clear and easy to follow, her research is excellent, and her exploration of black education in North Carolina is thorough.” —Adam Fairclough, Leiden University

Littlefield History of the Civil War Era

“William Blair’s With Malice toward Some represents a remarkably fresh contribution toward historians’ understanding of treason and loyalty during the Civil War era. Highly original and deeply researched in heretofore neglected sources, Blair offers a elegantly written reinterpretation that operates at many levels, with many different actors, and with profound implications for the American constitutional system during wartime. A must read for nineteenth-century American historians.” —William A. Link, author of Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath

“Historically rich and convincingly rendered. Thuesen addresses conflicting interpretations of black educational advocacy prior to desegregation without losing sight of poignant individual stories.” —Vanessa Siddle Walker, Emory University

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“This book makes a very important contribution to the scholarship on treason and disloyalty during the American Civil War and Reconstruction; it has wonderful new research while drawing on the latest literature; and it is a very good read.” —Michael Vorenberg, Brown University

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Learning from the Wounded

The Green and the Gray

The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

The Irish in the Confederate States of America DAVID T. GLEESON

SHAUNA DEVINE

Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson’s sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subject, Gleeson considers the role of Irish southerners in the debates over secession and the formation of the Confederacy, their experiences as soldiers, the effects of Confederate defeat for them and their emerging ethnic identity, and their role in the rise of Lost Cause ideology.

Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War’s approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease—a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools’ access to cadavers for teaching purposes was highly restricted. Shauna Devine argues that in spite of these limitations, Union army physicians rose to the challenges of the war, undertaking methods of study and experimentation that would have a lasting influence on the scientific practice of medicine.

david t. gleeson is reader in American History at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

shauna devine is visiting research fellow in the department of the history of medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.

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“No one knows more about this subject than Gleeson. His intelligent, complex, and persuasively argued book answers central questions about the Irish in the Confederacy.” —Lawrence Kohl, University of Alabama

Civil War America

“An important contribution to the history of medicine in the United States. Devine argues convincingly that the war gave American physicians enormous opportunities to do work on native ground that only small numbers of them had previously been able to observe in European centers.” —Michael Bliss, author of William Osler: A Life in Medicine and Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery

“[An] eye-opening account. . . . As [Gleeson’s] analysis unfolds, there is much that will surprise, perhaps even unsettle.” —Boston Globe “An extremely important and significant study. It is the most comprehensive analysis of the Irish in the Confederacy by some distance, and stands to remain so for some time to come.” —IrishAmericanCivilWar.com

“Learning from the Wounded is more than a path-breaking study of how the American Civil War transformed American medicine and medical research. It opens a wide window onto the individual and institutional players who shaped this transformation, giving the overall story the sustained and in-depth attention it has long deserved as part of, and not apart from, the broader history of the Civil War.” —Jeffrey S. Reznick, author of Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War

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Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South

Nature’s Civil War Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

JAIME AMANDA MARTINEZ

KATHRYN SHIVELY MEIER

Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation. State and local officials cooperated with the Confederate War Department and Engineer Bureau, as well as individual generals, to ensure a supply of slave labor on fortifications. Using the implementation of this policy in the Upper South as a window into the workings of the Confederacy, Jaime Amanda Martinez provides a social and political history of slave impressment. She challenges the assumption that the conduct of the program, and the resistance it engendered, was an indication of weakness and highlights instead how the strong governments of the states contributed to the war effort.

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions—strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat—which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale. Using soldiers’ letters, diaries, and memoirs, plus a wealth of additional personal accounts, medical sources, newspapers, and government documents, Kathryn Shively Meier reveals how these soldiers strove to maintain their physical and mental health by combating their deadliest enemy—nature.

jaime amanda martinez is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

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2011 Edward M. Coffman Prize, Society for Military History

kathryn shively meier is assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.

“Meier’s research is formidable, her writing graceful, and the analysis judicious. She offers a powerful and imaginative argument about the practical strategies of soldier agency that will invigorate scholarly and popular conversation about how Civil War soldiers survived the physical and psychological trauma of military service.” —Peter Carmichael, Gettysburg College

Civil War America

“Martinez challenges the standard critiques of slave impressment with fresh and substantial evidence. An original contribution to Civil War scholarship.” —George Rable, University of Alabama “Martinez has produced a work with which all those who question Confederate nationalism and the efficiency of the Confederate government must reckon.” —Virginia Magazine

“Civil War soldiers interacted with hostile environments that forced them to learn new ways to cope with threats to their bodies and minds. Living outdoors in rain, snow, blistering heat, and freezing cold, drinking polluted water, eating bad food and the wrong foods, tormented by insects, mired in mud and filth, most of them learned to surmount these obstacles to survival. Kathryn Shively Meier’s astute and penetrating analysis of their ability to adapt and to devise methods of self-care is a welcome addition to the environmental and medical history of the Civil War.” —James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

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Washington Brotherhood

Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker

Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War

The Journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs

RACHEL A. SHELDEN

With a foreword by Robert K. Krick

Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s—particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories.

Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson’s staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early. Hinrichs’s detailed wartime journals, published here for the first time, shed new light on mapmaking as a tool of war, illuminate Jackson’s notoriously superior strategic and tactical use of terrain, and offer unique perspectives on the lives of common soldiers, staff officers, and commanders in Lee’s army. Impressively comprehensive, Hinrichs’s writings constitute a valuable and revelatory primary source from the Civil War era.

EDITED BY RICHARD BRADY WILLIAMS

richard brady williams is an independent historian based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is author of Chicago’s Battery Boys: The Chicago Mercantile Battery in the Civil War’s Western Theater.

rachel a. shelden is assistant professor of history at Georgia College and State University.

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“As the highly literate and unfailingly candid observations of a well-placed Confederate staff officer, Stonewall’s Prussian Mapmaker is of paramount importance in understanding the leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia. Captain Hinrich’s character sketches of the legion of Southern generals whom he came to know intimately are among the most penetrating I have ever read. Enhanced by Richard Williams’ fine editorial work, this book is sure to become a Confederate classic.” —Peter Cozzens, author of Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign

“Shelden pulls back the façade of sectionalist pistol-wielding and Bowie knife@-brandishing to reveal the surprising brotherhood that existed within the antebellum Washington community.” —Mark E. Neely Jr., McCabe-Greer Professor of Civil War History, Pennsylvania State University “In her striking new book, Rachel Shelden goes behind the scenes to show readers a Washington, D.C., in the years before the Civil War that rarely reached the public eye. She highlights sociable day-to-day life in boardinghouses and hotels, where Northerners and Southerners took their measure of each other and often became friends. When secession suddenly brought their world to a screeching halt, many of the dismayed principals tried vainly to stem the torrent.” —Daniel W. Crofts, The College of New Jersey

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New Netherland Connections

Ireland in the Virginian Sea

Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America

Colonialism in the British Atlantic AUDREY HORNING

SUSANAH SHAW ROMNEY

In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting their close interconnection as fields for colonial experimentation. Focusing on the Ulster Plantation in the north of Ireland and the Jamestown settlement in the Chesapeake, she challenges the notion that Ireland merely served as a testing ground for British expansion into North America. Horning instead analyzes the people, financial networks, and information that circulated through and connected English plantations on either side of the Atlantic.

2013 Jamestown Prize, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Hendricks Award for 2013, New Netherland Institute

Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within an Atlantic economy and the nascent colony of New Netherland. In the greater Hudson Valley, Dutch newcomers, Native American residents, and enslaved Africans wove a series of intimate networks that reached from the West India Company slave house on Manhattan, to the Haudenosaunee longhouses along the Mohawk River, to the inns and alleys of maritime Amsterdam. This work pioneers a new understanding of the development of early modern empire as arising out of personal ties.

audrey horning is professor of archaeology and director of research for Past Cultural Change at Queen’s University Belfast. This is her fifth book. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

susanah shaw romney is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

“Audrey Horning interweaves the history and archaeology of seventeenth-century Ulster and Virginia to reevaluate the cliché of Ireland as a testing ground for North American colonization. In reconstructing these intersecting historical archaeologies, she provides dense and provocative case studies of Atlantic expansion. A valuable book.” —Peter Pope, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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“How do you build an empire? Not with armies and might alone; not just with financial clout, or guile, or aggression. As Romney so elegantly demonstrates, the Dutch empire was built and maintained by individuals. Families, friends, and colleagues stitched together ‘intimate networks’ that stretched across the globe and became the ground-level means by which the colony of New Netherland operated.” —Russell Shorto, author of Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

“An account both theoretically sophisticated and attentive to detail and context. Every historical archaeologist must read and digest this book; Horning tells us not just about Ireland and Virginia, but instructs us in how we should practice a more sensitive and nuanced historical archaeology.” —Matthew H. Johnson, Northwestern University

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Final Passages

Freedom’s Debt

The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752

GREGORY E. O’MALLEY

WILLIAM A. PETTIGREW 2009 Jamestown Prize, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Drawing on a database of over seven thousand intercolonial slave trading voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, O’Malley identifies and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade. He argues that such voyages were a crucial component in the development of slavery in the Caribbean and North America and that trade in the unfree led to experimentation with free trade between empires.

In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments of the RAC and its opponents in Parliament and in public debate. Ultimately, Pettigrew powerfully reasons that freedom became the rallying cry for those who wished to participate in the slave trade and therefore bolstered the expansion of the largest intercontinental forced migration in history.

gregory e. o’malley is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

william a. pettigrew is lecturer in history at the University of Kent.

“By taking up the traffic in human chattel after the Middle Passage, O’Malley fundamentally transforms our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade and its consequences in the English Atlantic world. . . . A critical contribution to scholarship on the economics of the slave trade, and on the lived experience of its victims.” —Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University

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“For the first time, the origins of the British slave trade receive the searching inquiry they long have deserved. With Freedom’s Debt, Pettigrew tells a new story about the political foundations of the traffic as well as the ideological seeds of its dissolution.” —Christopher Leslie Brown, Columbia University

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“Pettigrew powerfully demonstrates the importance of both political contestation and capitalist disagreements in the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade. In so doing, he skillfully shifts our focus from the heroic story of abolition to an earlier, more political account of the origins of the slave trade itself and the subsequent move to abolish it.” —Steve Pincus, Yale University

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Two Troubled Souls

A Crisis of Community

An Eighteenth-Century Couple’s Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World

The Trials and Transformation of a New England Town, 1815-1848

AARON SPENCER FOGLEMAN

MARY BABSON FUHRER

Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached to and doctored many Atlantic peoples in religious missions, revivals, and communal experiments, they encountered scandals, bouts of madness, and other turmoil, including within their own marriage. Aaron Spencer Fogleman’s riveting narrative offers a lens through which to better understand how individuals engaged with the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and how men and women experienced many of its important aspects differently.

In the first decades of the American republic, Mary White, a shopkeeper’s wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary. Woven into its record of everyday events is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation in small-town life. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and sense of common good, Boylston had survived the upheaval of revolution and the creation of the new nation. Then, in a single generation of wrenching change, families, neighbors, church, and town descended into contentious struggle. Examining the tumultuous Jacksonian era at the intimate level of family and community, Mary Babson Fuhrer brings to life the troublesome creation of a new social, political, and economic order centered on individual striving and voluntary associations in an expansive nation.

aaron spencer fogleman is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of Jesus is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America and Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717–1775.

mary babson fuhrer is a public historian and independent scholar living in Boxborough, Massachusetts. “A loving, almost elegiac depiction of the town of Boylston, Massachusetts, from traditional to modern, based on a remarkable collection of family papers that allows a detailed reconstruction of the texture of local, family, and personal experience in this nineteenth-century town. A phenomenal collection of letters and diaries provides this access and a window onto the workings of household, neighborhood, and town that is hard to match.” —John L. Brooke, author of Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

“In Aaron Fogleman’s delightful book, the human dramas and the distinctive characters of the Reyniers come through with clarity and poignancy—to read the first few pages is to want to read the rest. Fogleman portrays them shrewdly, sharply, compellingly, and compassionately. His scholarship is capacious and even audacious in its sweep and in its depth. In the telling of the Reyniers’ story, we learn much about the tumultuous and brutal Atlantic world.” —Michael Zuckerman, author of Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain

“Fuhrer charts a transition from community to individualism, but in her telling, this familiar saga takes on a remarkable subtlety and richness. What could be more pertinent to Americans of the twenty-first century experiencing similar mixed feelings of excitement and unsettlement at the globalizing forces of our time—forces that first took off in the world of Boylston nearly two centuries ago?” —Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut

“The eighteenth-century Atlantic world comes into surprising new perspective as Aaron Fogleman follows an adventurous missionary couple in Europe, the American colonies, and the Caribbean. Two Troubled Souls is a great read, absorbing from start to finish.” —Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Women on the Margins

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The Red Atlantic

The Tuscarora War

American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927

Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies

JACE WEAVER

DAVID LA VERE

From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region’s historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver’s sweeping and highly readable survey of history and literature, synthesizes scholarship to place indigenous people of the Americas at the center of our understanding of the Atlantic world. Weaver illuminates their willing and unwilling travels through the region, revealing how they changed the course of world history.

At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men, women, and children, and took about 40 captives. So began the Tuscarora War, North Carolina’s bloodiest colonial war and surely one of its most brutal. In his gripping account, David La Vere examines the war through the lens of key players in the conflict, reveals the events that led to it, and traces its far-reaching consequences.

jace weaver is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia and author of Notes from a Miner’s Canary: Essays on the State of Native America, among other books.

david la vere is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and author of Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut’s Tomb, among other books.

“The Red Atlantic is an original, learned, and comparative historical narrative of transatlantic cultures and nations. Jace Weaver considers the significance of the cultural exchange, political ideas, literature, technology, and material trade with Native American Indians, or the historical and cultural transatlantic significance of the Red Atlantic. He has written an extraordinary and comprehensive comparative history of Native American Indians in the Red Atlantic, and his discussions of the subject will surely inspire and influence future students, research, and writing on the subject.” —Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley

“This masterfully told story breaks new ground in our understanding of European-Indigenous conflict in the British North American colonies. La Vere brings the major participants to life as he explores why the war happened, how it unfolded, and its many consequences.” —Paul Kelton, University of Kansas “David LaVere has given us a long-needed history of the Tuscarora War, one grounded in documentary evidence, constructed around the lives of major characters, and written in a style so engaging that it will appeal not just to scholars but to anyone interested in early American history.” —Theda Perdue,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Following in the wake of Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic, this book re-visions the Atlantic as Native space. Indians inhabited an Atlantic world and participated in the multiple lanes of exchange that developed following Columbus’s voyages. Native foods, technologies, and ideas traveled to Europe; Native people traveled to Europe (sometimes more than once) as captives and slaves, as soldiers and sailors, as diplomats, and occasionally as celebrities. And writers, both Native and non-Native, created a fictional literature of the Red Atlantic. An important and stimulating book.” —Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College

“Writing engagingly and accessibly, La Vere conveys a great amount of ethnohistorical detail to adult readers. This important work fills a significant niche in the literature on Colonial America.” —Library Journal Starred Review

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Kindred by Choice

Framing Chief Leschi

Germans and American Indians since 1800

Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

H. GLENN PENNY

LISA BLEE

How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for two centuries. He also assesses what persists of the affinity across the political ruptures of modern German history and challenges readers to rethink how cultural history is made.

In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians. A party of militiamen traveling through Nisqually country was ambushed, and two men were shot from behind and fatally wounded. After the war, Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader, was found guilty of murder by a jury of settlers and hanged in the territory’s first judicial execution. But some 150 years later, in 2004, the Historical Court of Justice, a symbolic tribunal that convened in a Tacoma museum, reexamined Leschi’s murder conviction and posthumously exonerated him. In Framing Chief Leschi, Lisa Blee uses this fascinating case to uncover the powerful, lasting implications of the United States’ colonial past.

h. glenn penny is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa and author of Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany. “Penny approaches his subject with sincerity and care, uncovering and narrating in engaging style. . . . A significant contribution to our understanding of this peculiar and not-so-obvious aspect of Germans’ mentality.” —Times Literary Supplement

lisa blee is assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University.

A project of First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies

“Blee’s study of contested history and an Indian leader’s evolving significance illustrates in fresh, compelling ways the complex nature and importance of the endeavor we call history. It will no doubt be useful to scholars in several fields, particularly American Indian, public, Pacific Northwest, or Western history. It could be a valuable teaching tool for students of historical method and historical memory, both graduate and undergraduate.” —Alexandra Harmon, author of Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History

“Penny’s nuanced exploration of this multilayered German fascination is a very readable volume that will engage both European and North American students of history. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” —Choice

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“While on its face this book is about Chief Leschi’s history, re-trial, and role in the Pacific Northwest, Blee makes its purpose and argument more about the complexity, and even impossibility, of disentangling history and memory in the effort to engage the U.S. history and present of colonialism, and thus also the effort to move towards justice for indigenous peoples.” —Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College

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The Worlds the Shawnees Made

Choosing the Jesus Way

Migration and Violence in Early America

American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle

STEPHEN WARREN

ANGELA TARANGO

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, “We have always been the frontier.” Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond.

within the denomination.

This book uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Focusing on the Assemblies of God denomination, Tarango shows how converted indigenous leaders eventually transformed a standard Pentecostal theology of missions in ways that reflected their own religious struggles and advanced their sovereignty

angela tarango is assistant professor of religion at Trinity University.

“A well-researched and well-written contribution . . . significant and enormously valuable.” —Michael D. McNally, Carleton College

stephen warren is associate professor of history at Augustana College and was a historian for the PBS documentary “We Shall Remain,” which aired in 2009.

“Tarango’s groundbreaking work focuses on the participation of indigenous peoples in the Assemblies of God. It is significant, not only for telling an important history in one particular Christian denomination, but also for the way it brilliantly challenges prevailing assumptions within Native studies, anthropology, and religious studies about the relationship between Native identity and religious/spiritual practice.” —Andrea Smith, University of Michigan

“An important and much-needed book on the early history of the Shawnees and mid-America. In this outstanding history, Warren situates Shawnees within the colonial world of Indian and European interactions as well as in the world of Indian and Indian interactions. As a result, the Shawnees come alive as people caught in a changing world, figuring out ways to survive and take advantage of new opportunities that came their way.” —Robbie Ethridge, author of From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715

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“Spanning time and space—from contemporary Shawnee communities to long-ago villages known only from archaeology, and from the Ohio Valley to the Southeast—Stephen Warren uncovers stories of a Native people buffeted but never defeated by colonialism. The Worlds the Shawnees Made impressively combines hard-headed detective work with great cultural sensitivity.” —Daniel K. Richter, author of Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts

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The Gift of the Face

The Revolution Is for the Children

Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian

The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962

SHAMOON ZAMIR

ANITA CASAVANTES BRADFORD

Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document the traditional culture of every Native American tribe west of the Mississippi. Zamir argues that Curtis’s photography engages meaningfully with the crisis of culture and selfhood brought on by the dramatic transformations of Native societies. This radical reassessment is presented as a series of close readings that explore the relationship of aesthetics and ethics in photography. Zamir’s richly illustrated study resituates Curtis’s work in Native American studies and in the histories of photography and visual anthropology.

Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that “the revolution is for the children.” Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of “Castro-communism.” Anita Casavantes Bradford’s analysis of the pivotal years between the Revolution’s triumph and the 1962 Missile Crisis uncovers how and when children were first pressed into political service by ideologically opposed Cuban communities on both sides of the Florida Straits. anita casavantes bradford is assistant professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine. Envisioning Cuba

“Anita Casavantes Bradford’s story is compelling, even dramatic at times, and well established in theory and data. Her perspective on children as nation-makers and nation-breakers— the politics of childhood—really adds a new and worthwhile dimension to our discussion of social processes that were as dramatic and profound as the creation of the Two Cubas—the revolutionary nation and the exile.” —Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan

shamoon zamir is associate professor of literature and visual studies at New York University Abu Dhabi.

“Well researched, convincingly argued, and elegantly written, The Gift of the Face constitutes a remarkable achievement and a highly significant contribution to Native American studies and visual cultural studies.” —Shari Huhndorf, University of California, Berkeley “The major strength of this book resides in its close readings of a selection of photogravures of Native Americans, mostly portraits, made by Edward S. Curtis for the monumental publication The North American Indian. Zamir reveals and emphasizes the role of Native figures—not just as informants, but as subjects—in the creation and meaning of these images. The book will surely appeal to specialists in Native American studies, visual culture, American studies, anthropology, history, and related fields. It should also appeal to a broader, more general readership of ethically-minded citizens, especially to the many readers interested in Native Americans.” —Mick Gidley, University of Leeds

“The role of children in the revolution and counter-revolution is a highly complex and controversial subject that has been treated very lightly in the existing literature. Casavantes Bradford makes a significant contribution to the field of Cuban studies by taking on subjects long considered taboo or off limits due to their politically charged contents. As the author shows, the political uses and misuses of children by the revolutionary government, the exile community, and the Catholic church, as well as the reality of racism in Miami and Havana, were factors in the development of post-1959 Cuba, and her insights in this regard make a valuable contribution to the scholarship on twentieth-century Cuban nationalism.” —Félix Masud-Piloto, DePaul University

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The Structure of Cuban History

Conceiving Freedom

Meanings and Purpose of the Past

Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

LOUIS A. PÉREZ JR.

CAMILLIA COWLING

In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain’s defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country’s history.

In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts.

louis a. pérez jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Academia de la Historia de Cuba, Pérez is author, most recently, of Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos.

camillia cowling is assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick.

“A rich social history—beautifully written and deeply researched—of women and the struggle for emancipation during the final years of slavery in Cuba and Brazil.” —Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University

“A thought-provoking and thoughtful assessment of historical ideas of Cuba and Cubanness, as they were forged, interrupted, disputed, imagined, fulfilled for some, and contested by many, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries—all at the hands of a masterful historian of Cuba.” —Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard University

“In this comparative history, Cowling tells the story of the abolition of slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro by examining the lives and actions of slave women. As she explores their understandings of motherhood, citizenship, and freedom, she shows how these women, both enslaved and free, fought for their and their children’s freedom and thereby contributed to the dismantling of slavery in the Atlantic world.” —Keila Grinberg, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

“Absolutely no one knows Cuba like Pérez. . . . A challenging addition to the ever-growing body of Cuban histories.” —Library Journal “Pérez continues to be at the forefront of the historiography of Cuba and its people. Those interested in the history of Cuba will find this book promising and useful.” —Colonial Latin American Historical Review

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The Formation of Candomblé

Eating Puerto Rico

Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil

A History of Food, Culture, and Identity

LUIS NICOLAU PARÉS

CRUZ MIGUEL ORTIZ CUADRA

Translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author

Translated by Russ Davidson

Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico.

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas. Originally published in Brazil and not available in English, The Formation of Candomble reveals cultural changes that have occurred in religious practices within Africa, as well as those caused by the displacement of enslaved Africans in the Americas.

cruz miguel ortíz cuadra is senior lecturer in the department of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, and author of Puerto Rico en la olla, among other books. russ davidson is curator emeritus of Latin American and Iberian collections and professor emeritus of librarianship at the University of New Mexico.

luis nicolau parés is professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia. richard vernon is senior lecturer in Portuguese and Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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“A magnificent book. Ortiz provides a fascinating anthropological, historical, and sociological study of Puerto Rican culture articulated through the foods consumed historically on the island. But the book is about much more than that. It is a history of the deep culture of Puerto Ricans since the Spanish conquest, addressing race, ethnicity, and class.” —César J. Ayala, coauthor of Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898

“With scholarly rigor, a historically-grounded Africanist perspective, extensive research, and methodological sophistication, Pares’s pathbreaking book is cultural history at its best.” —João José Reis, author of Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia “Crossing 300 years of history, Parés explores one of the most important and influential African-derived religious forms in the contemporary African diaspora. In addition to chronicling the history of the Jeje nation, the foundational Afro-Brazilian group, Pares provides a theoretical tour-de-force on some of the most timely topics relating to African diaspora culture and history.” —James H. Sweet, author of Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

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latin american & caribbean studies

latino studies

Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920

The Latino Generation

TIFFANY A. SIPPIAL

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how “American” they actually are. By presenting thirteen riveting oral histories of young, first-generation college students, Mario T. García counters those long-held stereotypes and expands our understanding of what he terms “the Latino Generation.”

Voices of the New America MARIO T. GARCÍA

Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. Tiffany A. Sippial argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba’s struggle to define itself as a modern nation found focus in the social and sexual anxieties surrounding prostitution and its regulation. Sippial shows how prostitution became a prism through which Cuba’s hopes and fears were refracted. Widespread debate about prostitution created a forum in which issues of public morality, urbanity, modernity, and national identity were discussed with consequences not only for the capital city of Havana but also for the entire Cuban nation.

mario t. garcía is professor of Chicano studies and history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author of Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice.

tiffany a. sippial is associate professor of history at

“No scholar has more incisively shown the historical contours of what it means to be Latino than Mario T. García. In The Latino Generation, García draws on the life histories of Latinos coming of age, revealing the complexities of contemporary Latino and, indeed, American identity. The book is required reading for anyone hoping to understand how Latinos are both redefining and being redefined by the United States.” —Tomás R. Jiménez, author of Replenished Identity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

Auburn University.

Envisioning Cuba

“Sippial’s courageous and even audacious book is a major addition to the fields of Cuban and gender studies, as well as Latin American state formation and postcolonial studies. In it, she traces the history of prostitution and its regulation from the mid nineteenth century to 1920, addressing issues including slavery, labor, race, colonialism, and gender.” —Aline Helg, author of Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912

“Mario García’s The Latino Generation is based on thirteen oral histories that he conducted over the span of several years with University of California, Santa Barbara, students. By historicizing the lives of these young people, García places them within the continuum of Chicano/Latino history, and thus emerges a portrait of a specific era from the perspective of those who lived it. García makes clear that history is— not was, but is—and that everyday people are the engines of change. This book will become a major contribution and enhance our understanding of the experiences of this Latino Generation of the early twenty-first century.” —Ernesto Chavez, University of Texas at El Paso

“An extremely well-researched, insightful, and enormously interesting book. Drawing on a rich array of archival and secondary sources, Sippial considers changing attitudes toward prostitution, issues of public order and policing, morality, notions of proper conduct and decency, revenue enhancing measures, disease, public health, race, modernity, citizenship, and progress. In so doing, she provides an excellent examination of the various competing voices articulating the evolving concept of the Cuban nation.” —Franklin W. Knight, The Johns Hopkins University

2013

2014

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latino studies

Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement

Latinos at the Golden Gate Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco

Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

TOMÁS F. SUMMERS SANDOVAL JR.

SONIA SONG-HA LEE

Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay. Latin American migrants have been part of the city’s story since its beginning. Charting the development of a hybrid Latino identity forged through struggle—latinidad—from the Gold Rush through the civil rights era, Tomas F. Summers Sandoval Jr. chronicles the rise of San Francisco’s diverse community of Latin American migrants.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s. Lee demonstrates that Puerto Ricans and African Americans shaped the complex and shifting meanings of “Puerto Rican–ness” and “blackness” through political activism. African American and Puerto Rican New Yorkers came to see themselves as minorities joined in the civil rights struggle, the War on Poverty, and the Black Power movement—until white backlash and internal class divisions helped break the coalition, remaking “Hispanicity” as an ethnic identity that was mutually exclusive from “blackness.”

tomás f. summers sandoval jr. is associate professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o studies and history at Pomona College. “Tomás Summers Sandoval brings much needed attention to the social history and lived experiences of Latinos in the region and draws special attention to the histories of political activism and political resistance that have been critical to San Francisco's development. His new book fills one of the largest holes in Latino historiography and helps readers of all stripes to better understand the centrality of Latinos in the making of the city.” —Stephen J. Pitti, Yale University

sonia song-ha lee is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis. Justice, Power, and Politics

“A significant contribution to Puerto Rican, African American, New York, and U.S. postwar history, this book will be an important contribution to the ongoing debate on ‘Black/ Brown relations’ in the United States.” —Frank Andre Guridy, author of Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow

“Tomás Summers Sandoval offers a fresh and much-needed interpretation of Latina/o community and identity formation in the United States. This major work fills a tremendous void in scholarship.” —Matt Garcia, Arizona State University

2013

“Lee’s thorough and careful research into the history of grassroots politics in the 1960s and 1970s represents an important addition to the literature on the civil rights movement and its coda in New York City. The story she tells of the uneasy collaborations between Puerto Rican and African American activists and leaders in this period adds much-needed depth to the history of New York in general and to the history of civil rights activism in particular.” —Lorrin Thomas, Rutgers University-Camden

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women’s history

Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women

The Myth of Seneca Falls

Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

BLAIN ROBERTS

LISA TETRAULT

From the South’s pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow–era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that emphasized whiteness, and where, in the 1950s and 1960s, black-owned beauty shops served as crucial sites of resistance for civil rights activists. By showing how battles over beauty came to a head during the civil rights movement, Roberts sheds new light on the tactics southerners used to resist and achieve desegregation.

The story of how the women’s rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women’s suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during the second half of the nineteenth century in response to internal movement dynamics as well as the racial politics of memory after the Civil War. lisa tetrault is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University.

blain roberts is associate professor of history at California State University, Fresno.

Gender and American Culture

“Tetrault examines how the history and memory of women’s suffrage was created by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, as well as their legions of accomplices over time. She makes the convincing case that an archival approach to this ‘construction’ of a canonized memory will show us how an origins myth rooted in the narrative of Seneca Falls has hovered over the story and reputation of women’s suffrage ever since Stanton and Anthony wrote their History. How and why Stanton and Anthony created their own myth of leadership as well as the progress narrative of their movement is a splendid case for how the politics of memory works in history.” —David Blight, Yale University

“We’ve needed Blain Roberts’s book for a very long time, and she abundantly delivers the goods—on southern beauty and on women’s beauty generally. Looking on both sides of the color line, Roberts sees the moral resonances of beauty, whose work was about power as well as appearance. A great book for oh so many reasons!” —Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People and Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol “A compelling, illuminating, and well-written book. . . . An innovative study that will make an important contribution to gender history, histories of the body, American studies, and the history of the twentieth-century U.S. South.” —Michele Mitchell, New York University

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women’s history

The Trials of Laura Fair

Searching for Scientific Womanpower

Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West

Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

CAROLE HABER On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair’s lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair’s disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. carole haber is professor of history and dean of the School

LAURA MICHELETTI PUACA This compelling history traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America’s supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women’s rights generated suspicion, feminist reformers routinely invoked national security rhetoric and scientific “manpower” concerns in their efforts to advance women’s education and employment. Puaca brings to light the untold story of an important but largely overlooked strand of feminist activism. This book reveals much about the history of American feminism, the politics of national security, and the complicated relationship between the two. Laura Micheletti Puaca is assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University.

Gender and American Culture

of Liberal Arts at Tulane University.

“Puaca demonstrates how in an era and in professions hostile to gender inclusivity, women such as Virginia Gildersleeve and later Mary Ingraham Bunting energetically worked to expand the token number of women in math, science, and engineering. . . . Her narrative has special resonance in our current era of slashed research budgets when gains of earlier activists can no longer be taken for granted.” —Jane Sherron DeHart, University of California, Santa Barbara

“In her outstanding new book, Carole Haber examines Laura Fair’s murder case, as well as its lasting significance and continuing impact on the portrayal of women in the press and popular media. The scholarship is excellent and the read is thrilling.” —Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University at Fullerton “In this absorbing account of a notorious San Francisco murder, Carole Haber probes the multiple versions of the female defendant created by prosecution and defense attorneys to explain why she shot her lover. Haber then goes beyond these competing ideas of gender to offer an ingenious explanation of the crime that has puzzled mystery lovers for well over a century.” —Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California at Santa Barbara

“By covering such a wide chronological scope—1940 to 1980 —Puaca traces technocratic feminism into eras such as the 1970s where other historians have found its impact to be less obvious. Doing so allows her to make important contributions to both the history of feminism and the history of scientific development.” —Linda Eisenmann, Wheaton College

2014

2013

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women’s history

religious history

Island Queens and Mission Wives

Common Threads

How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World

A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism

JENNIFER THIGPEN

SALLY DWYER-MCNULTY

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai‘i’s ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this important shift by focusing on two groups of women: missionary wives and high-ranking Hawaiian women. Examining the enduring and personal exchange between these groups, Thigpen argues that women’s relationships became vital to building and maintaining the diplomatic and political alliances that ultimately shaped the islands’ political future.

A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty’s Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled for its footing in a Protestant-dominated society often openly hostile to Catholics. Focusing on those who wore the most visually distinct clothes—priests, women religious, and schoolchildren—Dwyer-McNulty tracks and analyzes changes in Catholic clothing all the way through the twentieth century and into the present, which finds the new Pope Francis choosing to wear plain black shoes rather than ornate red ones.

jennifer thigpen is assistant professor of history at Washington State University.

sally dwyer-mcnulty is associate professor of history at

Gender and American Culture

Marist College.

“Thigpen’s book makes significant contributions to American religious history, the history of American missions, and American women’s history, and it converses with works in Hawaiian studies and studies of colonialism. Some previous scholars have studied missionary women, other previous scholars have studied Native Hawaiian women’s engagement with the mission, but no previous scholar has made the relationship between these two groups an object of study. Thigpen demonstrates convincingly that the relationship between these two groups of women is crucial to understanding why the New England mission to Hawai‘i’ took the shape it did.” —David Chang, author of The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929

“The book examines a robust range of clothing cultures among nineteenth- and twentieth-century American Catholics. Dwyer-McNulty deftly weaves popular practice, ecclesiology, theology, genders, daily life, and ritual life into a single, compelling account. Her prose is very readable and her research is authoritative. In all, a splendid piece of scholarship and a fine read.” —David Morgan, Duke University “Totally unique in its assemblage of important information on the role of Catholic clothing in American religious history, this book will serve as the starting point for any research on this very significant topic. Readers will appreciate the depth of the religious history accomplished by the author.” —Colleen McDannell, University of Utah

“An interesting, carefully researched, and well-written book that revisits an area of U.S. history that is currently the focus of considerable scholarly analysis. It will be of value for students and scholars of U.S. western history and for Pacific historians, who will be informed and engaged in nineteenth-century Hawaiian history.” —Patricia Grimshaw, University of Melbourne

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religious history

Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism Muslim American Women in Modern America on Campus Undergraduate Social Life and Identity

PAULA M. KANE

SHABANA MIR

One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known as Sister Mary of the Crown of Thorns, she spent most of her life gravely ill and possibly exhibiting Christ’s wounds. In this portrait of Sister Thorn, Paula M. Kane scrutinizes the responses to this American stigmatic’s experiences and illustrates the surprising presence of mystical phenomena in twentieth-century American Catholicism.

Shabana Mir’s powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives. shabana mir is assistant professor of global studies and anthropology at Millikin University.

paula m. kane is associate professor and John and Lucine O’Brien Marous Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920.

“A delightful and powerful read. Mir explores Muslim women’s navigation of identity in the higher education context and finds that it is rich and generative, as well as troubling and alienating. The diverse perspectives of these women illuminate the many ways in which concepts of agency, modesty, normalcy, and practice are framed in contemporary society.” —Sally Campbell Galman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

“Riveting. Kane’s compelling narrative uses the story of a stigmatic nun to illuminate broader themes of convent culture, authority and resistance, and religion and science.” —Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame “With Sister Thorn, a generation of American Catholic social and cultural history reaches a culmination. This brilliantly researched and told story of ‘a failed saint and possibly a false stigmatic’ is at the same time a revealing study of how American Catholics in the twentieth century lived their everyday lives in close proximity to the supernatural. Kane offers a new perspective on almost everything about modern American Catholicism—family life, ethnic tensions, Catholic bodies, kitchen devotions, urbanism, relations among nuns and between nuns and priests, attitude towards suffering and pain, and much more. Reading Sister Thorn, I was repeatedly gripped by the sense that nothing about American Catholicism would ever look the same again.” —Robert Orsi, Northwestern University

“Thought-provoking and timely. . . the book offers a nuanced, frank voice to issues seldom discussed so openly, and a bracing challenge to academic communities, especially multicultural, religious, and women’s studies scholars, as well as general readers.” —Publishers Weekly

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religious history

southern history

Bringing God to Men

The Making of a Southern Democracy

American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War

North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory

JACQUELINE E. WHITT

TOM EAMON

During the second half of the twentieth century, the American military chaplaincy underwent a profound transformation. Broad-based and ecumenical in the World War II era, the chaplaincy emerged from the Vietnam War as generally conservative and evangelical. Whitt foregrounds the voices of chaplains themselves to explore how those serving in Vietnam acted as vital links between diverse communities, working personally and publicly to reconcile apparent tensions between their various constituencies. Whitt also offers a unique perspective on the realities of religious practice in the war’s foxholes and firebases, as chaplains ministered with a focus on soldiers’ shared experiences rather than traditional theologies.

The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls. So argues Tom Eamon in his probing narrative of the state’s political path since the 1940s. He charts the state’s political transformation into a modern democratic society to show that this change was more than an evolution—it was a revolution, one that largely came about through political means, driven by strong movements and individuals working for change. tom eamon teaches political science at East Carolina University. He has won numerous teaching awards and written extensively on American politics. Eamon provides political and election commentary for WUNC radio as well as for other outlets.

jacqueline e. whitt is assistant professor of strategy at the Air War College.

“Eamon’s lively book tells the important and interesting tale of North Carolina’s post-World War II politics. The issues that were debated and fought over in the state during these years, the campaigns conducted, and the people elected to public office have had a profound impact on the lives of North Carolinians and on citizens of the whole nation.” —Patrick R. Cotter, coauthor of After Wallace: The 1986 Contest for Governor of Alabama

“A well-researched and significant addition to scholarship surrounding religion and the Vietnam War. This is a unique look at military chaplains, especially in examining how they had a foot in two worlds: the domestic religious/ denominational scene and the military. It will appeal to historians of the 1960s and 1970s and scholars in religious studies and military history.” —David E. Settje, author of Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars

“Eamon provides a thorough analysis of the political history of North Carolina over the last century, with particular attention to presidential, gubernatorial, senate and state legislative elections. This excellent book will appeal to college students, journalists, and anyone interested in North Carolina politics.” —John L. Sanders, professor emeritus of public law and government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Whitt argues that while chaplains did struggle with how to define their religious faith, they generally found their faith compatible with their military obligations. This was possible primarily because they focused on pastoral rather than prophetic roles. The book is well conceived, well organized, and well written, and should appeal to people interested in religion and religious history, military history, and the history of the Vietnam War era.” —Mitchell Hall, Central Michigan University

“The most comprehensive account to date of postwar Tar Heel politics. . . . For anyone interested in North Carolina politics, Eamon’s book will be an essential reference.” —Rob Christensen, Raleigh News & Observer

2014

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southern history

Stories of the South

Dixie Highway

Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915

Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

K. STEPHEN PRINCE

TAMMY INGRAM

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South’s image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation’s earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard–fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie’s creation.

k. stephen prince is assistant professor of history at the

tammy ingram is assistant professor of history at the College

University of South Florida.

of Charleston.

“Stories of the South” is a thoughtful, well-conceived, and valuable contribution to the scholarship on the Reconstruction era. It offers a fresh perspective on topics of long-standing interest while simultaneously directing our attention to new fields of endeavor. It is written in a lively, compelling, and laudably concise style. This book marks the emergence of a significant new voice on the post–Civil War South.” —W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture

Sponsored by the postdoctoral fellows program at the Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Although historians have previously examined the Good Roads Movement, scholars of the early twentieth-century South have long awaited a fully contextualized study of road building. Dixie Highway provides the most comprehensive study that we have today of the Good Roads Movement and its consequences. This will be essential reading for students of the modern South.” —William A. Link, author of Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath

“Extremely original and important . . . a well written book that will be of interest to scholars in U.S. history and to scholars in English and other disciplines interested in what is often called the New Southern Studies.” —Grace E. Hale, University of Virginia

“Ingram shows how the struggles to create, first, the Dixie Highway, and later, a federal highway system, ignited debates about federal power and local control. The book is well conceptualized, well organized, and nicely written.” —Kari Frederickson, University of Alabama

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southern history

The Indicted South

Soul Food

Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness

The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time

ANGIE MAXWELL

ADRIAN MILLER Includes 22 recipes

By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Maxwell examines and connects three key twentieth-century moments in which the South was exposed to intense public criticism, identifying in white southerners’ responses a pattern of defensiveness that shaped the region’s political and cultural conservatism.

Honor Book for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association

In this insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition. Focusing each chapter on the culinary and social history of one dish—such as fried chicken, chitlins, yams, greens, and “red drinks” —Miller uncovers how it got on the soul food plate and what it means for African American culture and identity.

angie maxwell is Diane D. Blair Assistant Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Arkansas.

adrian miller is a writer, attorney, and certified barbecue judge who lives in Denver, Colorado. He has served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton, a senior policy analyst for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Jr., and a Southern Foodways Alliance board member.

New Directions in Southern Studies

“An insightful, well-researched and very readable book, which captures a pivotal era in southern history. It should appeal to readers in historical and literary studies as well as to the general reader interested in the twentieth-century South.” —Fred Hobson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“In his thought-provoking and persuasive book, Adrian Miller mounts a spirited defense of the diet that African Americans have identified with for generations. He makes a convincing case that the essentials of a make-do diet in hard times—field peas, yams, greens—deserve an honored place among the universal comfort foods that contemporary Americans eat for enjoyment and good health.” —John Egerton, author of Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History

“Maxwell focuses on three significant episodes in the history of the twentieth century South: the Scopes trial, the Fugitives’ defense of Southern Agrarianism, and the construction of the ideology of massive resistance. In each case, she has done an excellent job of contextualizing events and conveying a sense of the atmosphere in which they unfolded. Maxwell’s book provides a nuanced understanding of the mindset behind southern whites’ defiance of external pressures for changes in southern society, one that goes beyond the reliance on rather simplistic devices such as a ‘siege mentality’ or the mere persistence of sectional antagonism. An important and significant book.” —James C. Cobb, author of Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South

“[A] comprehensive and entertaining history of soul food. . . . A lively and thorough account for fans of food literature and of African American history. Recipes included. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

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american studies

southern history

The Workboats of Core Sound

Ain’t Got No Home

Stories and Photographs of a Changing World

America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left

WRITTEN AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY LAWRENCE S. EARLEY

ERIN ROYSTON BATTAT

Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-water boats, both for their livelihoods as fishermen and to maintain connections with one another and with the rest of the world. As Lawrence S. Earley discovered, each workboat has stories to tell, of boatbuilders and fishermen, and of family members and past events associated with these boats. The rich history of these hand-built wooden fishing boats, the people who work them, and the communities they serve lies at the heart of Earley’s evocative new book of essays, interviews, and photographs.

Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead that we should understand these Depression-era migrations as interconnected responses to the capitalist collapse and political upheavals of the early twentieth century. During the 1930s and 1940s, Battat shows, writers and artists of both races created migration stories specifically to bolster the black-white Left alliance. erin royston battat is a lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University.

lawrence s. earley is a writer and photographer living in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is author of Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest.

“A major contribution to scholarship on the mid-century literary Left, as well as to political debates—very much ongoing —over the relationship between race and class in the culture and history of the United States.” —Barbara Foley, Rutgers University-Newark

“An important book, both a wonderful tribute to Down East fishing communities and a wrenching testament to the changes associated with forces far beyond a fisherman’s control.” —Barbara Garrity-Blake, Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, N.C.

“Battat’s book provides a provocative and most welcomed re-reading of Depression literary and visual texts—some in juxtaposition and others in critical conversation—about the urgent need for an interracial movement for economic change. A significant contribution to the field of the cultural study of U.S. migration.” —Kimberley L. Phillips, author of War! What Is It Good For?

“I’ll never look at a boat moored in a bay again and just see ‘a boat.’ I'll always wonder about the web of builders, fishermen, and local families whose lives are connected to it, sometimes over generations. Earley has brought these boats to life in a way nobody ever has.” —David Cecelski, author of The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War

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“Not only a beautiful photography book that’s pleasing to look at but one that will prove a valuable record of a way of life that might not be around much longer.” —Sea History

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american studies

Dress Casual

Modern Food, Moral Food

How College Students Redefined American Style

Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century

DEIRDRE CLEMENTE

HELEN ZOE VEIT

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it’s jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool. The modern casual American wardrobe, Clemente argues, was born in the classrooms, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and gyms of universities and colleges across the country. As young people gained increasing social and cultural clout during the early twentieth century, their tastes transformed mainstream fashion from collared and corseted to comfortable. From east coast to west and from the Ivy League to historically black colleges and universities, changing styles reflected new ways of defining the value of personal appearance, and, by extension, new possibilities for creating one’s identity.

American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rules surrounding eating, while reformers were working to reshape the diets of immigrants and the poor. And by the time of World War I, the country’s first international aid program was bringing moral advice about food conservation into kitchens around the country. In Modern Food, Moral Food, Helen Zoe Veit argues that the twentieth-century food revolution was fueled by a powerful conviction that Americans had a moral obligation to use self-discipline and reason, rather than taste and tradition, in choosing what to eat.

deirdre clemente is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

helen zoe veit is assistant professor of history at Michigan State University.

Gender and American Culture

“A gripping read, full of fascinating information on conceptualizing, cooking, and eating food. Veit shows how the U.S. government tried to manage food consumption during World War I by instilling a self-disciplined approach to food as a wartime necessity and democratic virtue. In the process, she reveals surprising connections between domestic developments and foreign affairs. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the making of modern American dietary practice.” —Kristen Hoganson, author of Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920

“A wonderful, informative, and engaging contribution to our understanding of so many aspects of twentieth-century America, the histories of gender, higher education, fashion, and entrepreneurship prominently among them.” —Daniel Horowitz, Smith College “A thoroughly researched and often vibrantly written book. By highlighting the agency of collegians themselves and their influence on both college administrators and arbiters of the fashion industry, Clemente offers an original take on the history of clothing and consumerism that both builds upon and challenges existing scholarship.” —Lori Rotskoff, co-editor of When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made

“Modern Food, Moral Food takes us back to the Progressive Era and to the origins of many popular American ideas about what we should eat. Veit’s superb scholarship and lively prose make for an important, timely contribution to modern food history.” —Susanne Freidberg, author of Fresh: A Perishable History

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The Vegetarian Crusade

Freedom’s Frontier

The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

ADAM D. SHPRINTZEN

STACEY L. SMITH

Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country’s founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. In his lively history of early American vegetarianism and social reform, Adam D. Shprintzen chronicles the expansion and acceptance of vegetarianism in mainstream society. From Bible Christians to Grahamites, the American Vegetarian Society to the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Shprintzen explores the diverse proponents of reform-motivated vegetarianism and explains how each of these groups used diet as a response to changing social and political conditions.

Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom’s Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California’s unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.

adam d. shprintzen is editor of the Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington at the Mount Vernon Estate and a historian specializing in nineteenth-century America.

stacey l. smith is assistant professor of history at Oregon

“This important book unravels the ideological and organizational roots of what is today a powerful quickly growing dietary movement and how it moved from the fringes to mainstream. It introduces a host of colorful figures such as Sylvester Graham, William Alcott and John Harvey Kellogg and the many battles they fought in the early years of American vegetarianism. A fascinating story with surprises at every step.” —Ken Albala, professor of history, University of the Pacific

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“This well-researched and accessible work is recommended for readers of U.S. social history and for vegetarians interested in knowing that the roots of their movement go deeper than the publication of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and the founding of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Fans of culinary history books . . . will also find much to love here.” —Library Journal

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Steel Closets

Visions of Freedom

Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

ANNE BALAY

PIERO GLEIJESES

Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwestern Indiana, to give voice to this previously silent and invisible population. She presents powerful stories of the intersections of work, class, gender, and sexual identity in the dangerous industrial setting of the steel mill.

During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa’s last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa. Piero Gleijeses uses archival sources, particularly from the United States, South Africa, and the closed Cuban archives, to provide an unprecedented international history of this important theater of the late Cold War.

anne balay has taught English and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Indiana University Northwest.

piero gleijeses is professor of American foreign policy at the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, among other books.

“Too much of current popular culture and academic literature either omits any mention of working class queers, or dismisses them with stereotypes. Balay gets right down to work, letting LGBT steelworkers speak for themselves and bringing to their voices her own coherent, readable perspective.” —Esther Newton, University of Michigan

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“A remarkable achievement. Once again, Piero Gleijeses brings his impressive forensic skills and his ability to drill down into documents to see the bigger picture to offer a transnational history that never once loses its focus (as too often is the case in studies claiming to ‘decenter’ the Cold War). This book will force a fundamental rethinking of how we conceive of the struggle for freedom from colonial and neocolonial rule in southern Africa, and Cuba’s role in helping to win it.” —Greg Grandin, New York University

“A breathtakingly original book. Through oral histories that are eloquent, dramatic, and full of surprises, Anne Balay constructs a compelling story of class, gender, and sexuality that is unlike anything I have read before. It is a fascinating study that has the page-turning quality of a novel packed with unforgettable, real-life individuals.” —John D’Emilio, co-author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

“With unique access to Cuban documents, Piero Gleijeses recounts the complex story of Cuban, U.S., and South African contestation in Southern Africa from the mid 1970s to 1991 in masterly fashion. Anyone concerned with this history will now have to take account of Visions of Freedom.” —Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town

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20th century

The Sino-Soviet Alliance

What’s Wrong with the Poor?

An International History

Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty

AUSTIN JERSILD

MICAL RAZ

In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration with the Soviets.

In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout the 1960s, ending with President Richard Nixon’s 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America’s poor, were seen as having practically nothing.

austin jersild is associate professor of history at Old Dominion University.

The New Cold War History

“Jersild has found highly revealing documents from Chinese archives and rounded out his account of intra-bloc exchange by incorporating the Chinese perspective. The result is a truly international history of the socialist bloc advising relationship in China.” —Qiang Zhai, Auburn University at Montgomery

mical raz is a physician and historian of medicine. She is author of The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery.

Studies in Social Medicine

“Jersild takes a bottom-up approach to the Sino-Soviet alliance. By recounting the low politics of economic advisers and cultural administrators, he brings a whole new perspective to the relationship, provides a real texture to it, so that we know, for once, what happened in the 1950s beyond the facade of top-leader discussions. He also bridges the gap between social and diplomatic history to show how attitudes of advisers and practitioners at the low level were undermining this alliance even before visible cracks appeared at the political level. A superb treatment of the subject.” —Sergey Radchenko, Reader in International Politics, Aberystwyth University

“This book is an impressive feat and is filled with revealing connections. Raz provides a model for exactly the kind of multidisciplinary look we need to understand these critical issues.” —Barbara Beatty, Wellesley College “What’s Wrong With the Poor? is required reading for anyone who wonders why we cut food stamps, or close inner-city schools, or promote income disparities between the haves and the have-nots. As Mical Raz brilliantly and passionately shows, these and other injustices result, not because ‘the poor’ lack initiative or foresight. Instead, they reflect stigmatizing, intransigent, and oft-racialized assumptions about ‘deprivation’ that are embedded into structures of mass-psychology and common sense. What’s Wrong With the Poor? is a vital, important book that will change the ways we think about economic inequality and the logics and rationalizations that support it.” —Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, author of, The Protest Psychosis

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20th century

Baptized in PCBs

The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry

Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town

War and Politics, 1910-1930

ELLEN GRIFFITH SPEARS

KATHRYN STEEN

In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city’s historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston’s battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements.

Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and high prices by trying to manufacture chemicals domestically. Learning the complex science and industry, however, posed a serious challenge. This book explains how the United States built a synthetic organic chemicals industry in World War I and the 1920s. Kathryn Steen argues that Americans’ intense anti–German sentiment in World War I helped to forge a concentrated effort among firms, the federal government, and universities to make the United States independent of “foreign chemicals.”

ellen griffith spears is assistant professor in New College and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama.

kathryn steen is associate professor of history at Drexel University.

New Directions in Southern Studies

“The importance of this story lies in the conflict between private property rights—German assets in the United States and economic development—in the establishment of an American organic chemicals industry. Steen does a great job of sorting through and explaining a very complicated story.” —John K. Smith, Lehigh University

“An important study in the ongoing effort to document and understand the huge legacy of environmental racism in our past. Hopefully this story will help spur us to fight against the ongoing scourge of environmental injustice in frontline communities.” —Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

“Steen’s book will become essential reading for scholars interested in the impact of World War I on American political economy and for anyone looking to understand the emergence of the modern American chemical industry. The book also contributes to diplomatic history in illustrating the turn away from internationalism in the inter-war period and demonstrating its effects on industrial policy.” —Steven W. Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

“This is an excellent book—well written, exhaustively researched, original, and brilliantly conceived. Anyone interested in the history of the South, business history, civil rights, and environmental justice will find this essential reading. But more than that, this is a great story—at turns inspiring, maddening, depressing, and instructive. Everyone knows about Love Canal, Times Beach, Missouri, and Three Mile Island. Hopefully, after this book is published, everyone will know about Anniston as well!” —Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

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