Fall 2018 Catalog by University of Alabama Press

Alabama

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS FALL 2018

From the Director On the fall 2018 list from The University of Alabama Press, we take you on a world tour—from Alabama to Vietnam to Latin America, with some appearances from Cahokia and “from Indiana and beyond.”

ON THE COVER The moth Ceratomia hageni from Southeastern Grasslands: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management

Table of Contents AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES �� 8, 16 ALABAMA .................................................... 1, 7, 10, 12–13 ANTHROPOLOGY �� 18 ARCHAEOLOGY �� 20–22 BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR �� 2, 7–8, 28 COMMUNICATIONS & RHETORIC �� 11, 18–19, 28 FICTION ....................................................................... 4–6 FOOD AND FOODWAYS �� 9, 13, 20–21 HISTORY .................................................... 9, 14, 23–25, 29 LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS �� 12, 30

We are pleased to announce the first two books in our new Archaeology of Food series, Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink (p. 20) and Feeding Cahokia (p. 21). We hope these whet your appetite for many more interesting books in this series. And, on another food-related subject, we are announcing a paperback edition of Barbecue: The History of an American Institution, a bestselling book on a topic near to many foodies’ hearts. Our fall list certainly presents a strong focus on books of regional interest, with new offerings regarding the TVA effects on North Alabama families (p. 11), a study of Alabama linguistics (p. 12), a thirty-fifth anniversary edition of a popular novel set in Alabama (p. 6), and a history of the region of the state now known as the wiregrass (p. 10). We have also highlighted several recent titles that make for perfect reading as the state of Alabama approaches its bicentennial celebration in 2019 (pp. 32–33). The state began a three-year celebration in 2017 to lead up to the landmark achievement of 200 years of statehood, which is officially December 14, 2019. We will continue to focus on these local interest books that will inform and educate our state’s citizens, and others, who wish to learn more about the history and culture of this most beautiful and culturally and biologically diverse state.

MILITARY HISTORY �� 2, 19, 28

With the latest offering in the Gosse Nature Guides series, Lizard and Snakes of Alabama (p. 1), we have dedicated a page (p. 34) to remind readers of the five previous books in this series.

MUSIC �� 16

Happy Reading,

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES �� 23–25 LITERARY CRITICISM �� 17

NATURAL HISTORY/ ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES �� 1, 14–15 POETICS �� 16 PUBLIC POLICY �� 11, 30 RELIGION �� 22

Linda Manning Director, The University of Alabama Press

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NATURAL HISTORY / HERPETOLOGY / ALABAMA

Lizards and Snakes of Alabama Craig Guyer, Mark A. Bailey, and Robert H. Mount An up-to-date and comprehensive herpetological guide to Alabama Lizards and Snakes of Alabama is the most comprehensive taxonomy gathered since Robert H. Mount’s seminal 1975 volume on the reptiles and amphibians of Alabama. This richly illustrated guide provides an up-to-date summary of the taxonomy and life history of lizards and snakes native to, or introduced to, the state. Alabama possesses one of the most species-rich biotas in north temperate areas and this richness is reflected in some groups of lizards, such as skinks, and especially in snakes. The authors examine all known species within the state and describe important regional variations in each species, including changes in species across the many habitats that comprise the state. Significant field studies, especially of Alabama’s threatened and endangered species, have been performed and are used to inform discussion of each account. The life-history entry for each species is comprised of scientific and common names, full-color photographs, a morphological description, discussion of habits and life cycle, and a distribution map depicting the species range throughout the state, as well as notes on conservation and management practices. The illustrated taxonomic keys provided for families, genera, species, and subspecies are of particular value to herpetologists. This extensive guide will serve as a single resource for understanding the rich natural history of Alabama by shedding light on an important component of that biodiversity. Accessible to all, this volume is valuable to both the professional herpetologist and the general reader interested in snakes and lizards. Craig Guyer is professor emeritus of biological sciences at Auburn University, with special focus on herpetology, tropical ecology, and biogeography. He is coauthor of Amphibians and Reptiles of La Selva, Costa Rica, and The Caribbean Slope: A Comprehensive Guide and Turtles of Alabama. Mark A. Bailey is senior biologist at Conservation Southeast, Inc., specializing in conserving the biodiversity of the Southeastern United States. He is coauthor of Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Southeastern United States and Turtles of Alabama. Robert H. Mount (1931–2017) was emeritus professor of biological sciences at Auburn University and author of the seminal work in herpetology, The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama.

JANUARY 2019 6 x 9 / 464 PAGES / 118 COLOR FIGURES 109 B&W FIGURES / 77 MAPS / 7 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-5916-4 / $39.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9192-8 / $39.95 EBOOK “ Lizards and Snakes of Alabama will be well received by professional herpetologists and will serve as a critical source of information for researchers, including students, involved in projects on reptiles anywhere in the Southeast. It will also be a useful reference for wildlife biologists and conservationists.” — Whit Gibbons, author of Their Blood Runs Cold: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians and co-author of Ecoviews: Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales and Ecoviews Too: Ecology for All Seasons “ Written by esteemed herpetologists, this book will be the go-to resource for lizard and snake information in Alabama and neighboring states. The natural history details are factual, well researched, and the Conservation and Management section for each species articulates conservation measures needed to conserve Alabama’s reptile diversity. This book contains beautiful up-close photographs that will assist conservationists of all levels in the identification of snake and lizard species and will be an authoritative reference for years to come.” — Ericha Shelton-Nix, editor of Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 and Certified Wildlife Biologist with the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries

Gary R. Mullen, L. J. Davenport, Elbert G. Reid, and Edward O. Wilson, series editors

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MEMOIR / VIETNAM / MILITARY HISTORY

Time in the Barrel A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien James P. Coan

A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War Con Thien, located only two miles from the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Vietnam, was a United States Marine Corps firebase that was the scene of fierce combat for months on end during 1967. Staving off attacks and ambushes while suffering from ineffectual leadership from Washington as well as media onslaughts, courageous American Marines protected this crucial piece of land at all costs. They would hold Con Thien, but many paid the ultimate price. By the end of the war, more than 1,400 Marines had died and more than 9,000 sustained injuries defending the “Hill of Angels.”

NOVEMBER 6 x 9 / 256 PAGES / 18 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-1999-1 / $34.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9205-5 / $34.95 EBOOK “ Con Thien certainly has been re-created here. I have read few personal narratives from the Marine war in Vietnam that get as close to the sheer sacrifice and misery that I have always suspected to be their lot.” — Philip D. Beidler, US Army Vietnam War veteran and author of Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination, The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War, and American Wars, American Peace: Notes from a Son of the Empire “ Time in the Barrel brings to life a significant and often overlooked event in America’s war in Vietnam: the siege of the Marine firebase at Con Thien during the critical months of September–October 1967. James P. Coan has delivered a gritty and impassioned book, one that will enlighten general military history readers as well as Vietnam War and Marine Corps specialists.” — Gregg Jones, author of Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam, winner of the 2015 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for distinguished nonfiction from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

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For eight months, James P. Coan’s five-tank platoon was assigned to Con Thien while attached to various Marine infantry battalions. A novice second lieutenant at the time, the author kept a diary recording the thoughts, fears, and frustrations that accompanied his life on “The Hill.” Time in the Barrel: A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien offers an authentic firsthand account of the daily nightmare that was Con Thien. An enticing and fascinating read featuring authentic depictions of combat, it allows readers to fully grasp the enormity of the fierce struggle for Con Thien. The defenders of Con Thien were bombarded with hundreds of rounds of incoming rockets, mortars, and artillery that pounded the beleaguered outpost daily. Monsoon downpours turned the red laterite clay soil into a morass of oozing mud, flooded bunkers and trenches, and made Con Thien a living hell. Being at Con Thien came to be ruefully referred to by the Marines stationed there as “time in the barrel” because they were targets as easy as fish in a barrel. More than a retelling of military movements, Coan’s engrossing narratives focus on the sheer sacrifice and misery of one Marine’s experience in Vietnam. Through his eyes, we experience the abysmal conditions the Marines endured, from monsoon rainstorms to the constant threat of impending attack. Climatic moments in history are captured through the rare, personal perspective of one particularly astute and observant participant. James P. Coan is a former Marine Corps captain who was awarded a Purple Heart for his injuries at Con Thien. He is the author of the historical memoir Con Thien: The Hill of Angels. He resides in Sierra Vista, Arizona, with his wife and family.

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Figures, from left: 1. Leathernecks of the Ninth Marines wait out a North Vietnamese Army rocket and artillery attack against the outpost at Con Thien in late 1967. United States Marine Corps History Division/Department of Defense (A193030). 2. Rat race winner. Courtesy of Larry Hogue, USMCVTA. 3. Marine Pfc R.L. Crumrine, operating in the DMZ with the 9th Marines on May 27, 1967, bows his head in anguish after learning that one of his best friends was killed by the NVA. United States Marine Corps History Division/Department of Defense (A188699) 4. Infantry ride Marine tanks on the road by Con Thien. Courtesy of the United States Marine Corp Vietnam Tankers Association (USMCVTA). 5. Marine artillerymen of the Second Battalion, Twelfth Marines tear up the North Vietnamese in the Demilitarized Zone by firing high explosive and white phosphorous shells from a 105mm howitzer, Oct. 19, 1967. United States Marine Corps History Division / Department of Defense (A421910). 6. Reverse side of sign at Con Thien’s main gate entrance. Courtesy of John Wear, USMCVTA.

An Excerpt from Time in the Barrel The First Day The date was 10 September, 1967. I was a 25-year-old U. S. Marine second lieutenant waiting nervously in my commanding officer’s Jeep while he made some lastminute arrangements in his office. This was the all-important day I had been striving for since I joined the Marine Corps eleven months earlier—the day I took command of a Marine tank platoon. But the platoon operated out of Con Thien, not exactly a desirable place to call home. People reacted strangely when I mentioned going to Con Thien, especially those who’d been there already. I felt something ominous about the fading grins, the serious, searching stares. And I didn’t like the way they wished me “good luck,” as if I was going to need it—lots of it. A heavy, gray, overcast sky did nothing to ease my apprehension over what was destined to happen to me in the days and weeks to follow. I recalled my meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Chapman, the 3d Tank Battalion Commanding Officer, when he informed me that I was going up to Con Thien. I respected the colonel. He was a wise man, not impressed with his own importance, and a genuine person who appreciated a good joke, no matter who told it. He was serious this evening, however, as he sagged heavily into a wooden folding chair behind his field desk. “Lieutenant Coan, were going to have to replace Mister Barry on Con Thien. He’s been wounded twice; one more time and he leaves us. You’re flying up tomorrow to Dong Ha. From there, you go on to Con Thien and assume command of First Platoon.”

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I exhaled deeply, then blurted out, “That’s great news, sir!” Exhilarated by the prospect of my first command, yet not wanting to appear overly excited, I decided against saying more. “Okay, but remember, you are no good to us dead. Stay down in that turret and don’t be sightseeing when the shelling starts up there. You’ll have a good man for a platoon sergeant, Gunny Hopkins. He’s forgotten more about tanks than you know, so don’t think you have all the answers . . . you don’t. And wear that blasted flak jacket at all times, in or out of your tank, and make your men do it, too! Tankers have a way, sometimes, of believing they are made of steel, like their tanks. And, oh, yes . . . ” His voice trailed off briefly as he stared at his desk top, obviously searching for the correct words; then, he continued on in a lowered tone: “Make certain you have the facts straight on your casualties, then call them in immediately. We can’t afford mistakes in casualty reporting; it affects the entire system, not to mention the next of kin who receive conflicting reports on their loved ones. And, Jim, lieutenants aren’t made out of steel, either. Good luck to you.” My life was going to take an interesting turn in the next few days, to say the least. Mentally and emotionally I was in good shape, prepared to handle anything thrown my way, but I couldn’t shake the butterflies in my stomach. Pinpointing a specific reason behind the misgivings would have helped me relax more, but it was an elusive quest. Was I afraid of dying? No, no more so than in times past when I considered my ultimate mortal destiny. And I knew intuitively I would be okay under fire; I had no reason to think otherwise. But Con Thien, with its evil reputation, that was troubling me. Danger was lurking up there, and the manner in which I found it would be a totally new experience, and the not knowing what to expect was worse, by far, than knowing.

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FICTION

Big City Marream Krollos

A fiction of the city as a chorus of voices, an entity that is both one and many Marream Krollos’s Big City is a structurally innovative work of prose composed of vignettes, verse, dialogues, monologues, and short stories. Alone, they are fragments, but together they offer a glimpse of the human condition and form a harmonized narrative of desire, loneliness, and beauty. Through language that builds, destroys, and violates, Krollos maps the geography of our contemporary condition, a haunting meditation on human togetherness and isolation.

SEPTEMBER 5.5 x 8.5 / 256 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-067-9 / $18.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-878-1 / $9.95 EBOOK “ Big City by Marream Krollos is a stunning novel. By turns tender, strange, and fierce, it is always achingly honest, always surprising, and often, just when it needs to be, very funny. I thought of Italo Calvino, Roberto Bolaño, and Renee Gladman while I was reading it. I thought too of explorers and cartographers and strangers sleeping and waking and walking in sunlight. What beautiful, powerful writing this is.” — Laird Hunt, author of The Evening Road and Neverhome

Krollos plays with the tension between the voice of the lonely “I” produced by the urban experience and the polyphony of the city itself. A city is a chorus and a collection of traces; it is a way of being with others and the concretization of the social divisions that keep people apart. As a lifelong city dweller, Krollos is obsessed with the way that cities shape our experiences of the world, our ideas about inside and outside and self and other. By mapping the emotional highs and lows of particular (though often anonymous) beings, the book creates a geography of the urban consciousness. The sensation of reading this lyric work of fiction is akin to how one experiences an attentive walk in an unknown city: one becomes attuned to the tenor of its many voices, how the languages lift and flourish, and how the micro and macro became integrally linked. Marream Krollos was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She has since lived in Los Angeles, New York, Seville, Seoul, Christchurch, and Riyadh. She received her PhD from the University of Denver. She previously lived in Jeddah where she taught one of the very few creative writing classes in the kingdom.

“ Marream Krollos’s city is place of aloneness and longing. With an obsessive, unforgettable voice (and a rare intellectual rigor), Krollos explores the bottomless antipathy her city dwellers feel for themselves. Big City is an amazing and ferocious book.” — Brian Kiteley, author of Still Life with Insects and The River Gods “ Lonely, menaced, loveless, longing, people sing the city into existence. They ‘squawk and squirt words’; they ‘spit on every inch of this concrete.’ Reading Marream Krollos is ‘to withdraw amongst many,’ to become anonymous and personal, to hear voices that contain ‘all forms of palpable weather.’ Read her. Every building in Big City opens up into a bridge that is a sentence that reaches from one body toward another: a plea, a threat, an offering.” — Joanna Ruocco, author of Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith

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FICTION

The Moon over Wapakoneta Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond Michael Martone

Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s Midwest The Moon over Wapakoneta is vintage Michael Martone, the visionary oracle of the American Midwest with the gift for discovering the marvelous in the mundane. In these stories Martone shows us how traveling across time zones from Ohio to Indiana is a form of time travel; how a beer bottle can serve as a kind of telescope, how Amish might power their spaceships with windmills as they travel through space and time. These stories capture the paradox of feeling that one is in the heart of the country while at the same time in the middle of nowhere, of natives who find themselves strangers in their once familiar, but now strange, lands. On display is a love of obsolete technologies, small-town whimsy, home movies of proms and birthday parties, steam engines and baseball games. If Italo Calvino lived in Indiana rather than Italy, these are the fictions he might have made. Michael Martone is a professor of creative writing in the Department of English at the University of Alabama. He is the author of many books, among them The Blue Guide to Indiana, Four for a Quarter, and Michael Martone. He lives in Tuscaloosa with the poet Theresa Pappas.

SEPTEMBER 5.5 x 8.5 / 168 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-068-6 / $16.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-879-8 / $9.95 EBOOK “ A playfully poetic exploration of place, proximity, relativity, and time. Refreshingly original and poignantly sentimental. A feast for the mind. Some of my favorite bits were ‘Four Yearbook Signatures’ and ‘Girl Who Cried Sweetly.’” — Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water: Stories “ In Moon over Wapakoneta, Michael Martone has turned his literary gaze to the moon and the stars and we’re all the luckier for it. Within these pages are Amish astronauts, atomic clocks, moon museums, and holographic movie stars. Once again, the Mark Twain of metafiction offers us a collection of fictions and beautiful universes—including our own.” — Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World: Stories “ Oh, this world is wondrous and strange. Michael Martone, the Indiana trickster, makes amusements of a serious, silliest, surrealist sort. In this, his book of games, Martone electrifies distances across outer space; lost lusts; the lore of locomotives; the love, love, love of literature and all its lands. A journey far beyond.” — Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark: Stories, Mr. Splitfoot

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FICTION

Almost Family 35th Anniversary Edition Roy Hoffman

The complex friendship between a black housekeeper and her Jewish employer is at the heart of Hoffman’s prize-winning novel about life in the civil rights era South Nebraska Waters is black. Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee, fret over their children, and watch the civil rights movement unfold out their window, and into their homes, they are like family—almost. As Nebraska makes her way, day in and out, to Vivian’s house to cook and help tend the Gold children, the “almost” threatens to widen into a great divide. The two women’s husbands affect their relationship, as do their children, Viv Waters and Benjamin Gold, born the same year and coming of age in a changing South. The bond between the women both strengthens and frays. SEPTEMBER 5.5 x 8.5 / 272 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-5927-0 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9219-2 / $19.95 EBOOK PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION “ Hoffman never lets facts flatten characters; he has made them too human—too strong or too stubborn—for that.” — New Yorker “ Everything in this book rings true—the dialogue, the cadences, the deft-touch observations, the best and worst of human nature.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution “ Hoffman has got it all exactly right: the interlocking of individual lives and great public events that made every Southerner feel as though he or she were living on the very edge of history.”

Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award and Alabama Library Association Award for fiction, Roy Hoffman’s Almost Family explores the relationship that begins when one person goes to work for another, and their friendship—across lines of race, income, and religion—develops degrees of understanding yet growing misunderstanding. This edition commemorates the 35th anniversary of the book’s publication and features a foreword by the author and includes a discussion guide for readers and book clubs. Roy Hoffman is the author of the novels Come Landfall and Chicken Dreaming Corn and the nonfiction Back Home: Journeys through Mobile and Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and he was a long-time staff writer for the Mobile Press-Register. He received the Clarence Cason Award in nonfiction from The University of Alabama and is on the faculty of Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program.

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ALABAMA / MEMOIR

Among the Swamp People Life in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Watt Key Illustrations by Kelan Mercer

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Chronicles the beauties of the delta’s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and the extraordinary community of characters who reside there Among the Swamp People is the story of author Watt Key’s discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. “The swamp” consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north of Mobile Bay. There he leases a habitable outcropping of land and constructs a primitive cabin from driftwood to serve as a private getaway. His story is one that chronicles the beauties of the delta’s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters— by turns generous and violent, gracious and paranoid, hilarious and reckless—who live, thrive, and perish there. There is no way into the depths of the delta except by small boat. To most it would appear a maze of rivers and creeks between stunted swamp trees and mud. Key observes that there are few places where one can step out of a boat without “sinking to the knees in muck the consistency of axle grease. It is the only place I know where gloom and beauty can coexist at such extremes. And it never occurred to me that a land seemingly so bleak could hide such beauty and adventure.” This colorful and lively account of life in the wilds of Alabama’s MobileTensaw River Delta also chronicles Key’s development as a writer, as he matured from a twenty-five-year-old computer programmer with no formal training as a writer to a highly successful, award-winning author of fiction for a young adult audience with three acclaimed novels published to date. In learning to make a place for himself in the wild, as in learning to write, Key’s story is one of “hoping someone—even if just myself—would find value in my creations.” Albert Watkins “Watt” Key Jr. is a novelist, screenwriter, and speaker living in south Alabama with his wife and three children. He is the author of several books including Deep Water: A Story of Survival, Hideout, Terror at Bottle Creek, and Alabama Moon, his critically acclaimed debut novel, made into a major motion picture starring John Goodman.

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AVAILABLE 6 x 8 / 208 PAGES / 21 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5932-4 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-8890-4 / $19.95 EBOOK “ Among the Swamp People is laugh-out-loud funny and filled with vivid characters, salty dialogue, and poignant moments by a writer of great insight and skill.” — John S. Sledge, author of These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War, The Mobile River, and Cities of Silence: A Guide to Mobile’s Historic Cemeteries “ The pleasure and dangers of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta are seen through the eyes of a Mobile, Ala., native in this sentimental account that spans a decade. . . . The book works well as both a travelogue and a portrait of humans struggling with and living alongside nature.” — Publishers Weekly

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CIVIL RIGHTS / LAW / BIOGRAPHY

Constance Baker Motley One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law Gary L. Ford Jr. NEW IN PAPER

When the name Constance Baker Motley is mentioned, more often than not, the response is “Who was she?” or “What did she do?” The answer is multifaceted, complex, and inspiring. Constance Baker Motley was an African American woman; the daughter of immigrants from Nevis, British West Indies; a wife; and a mother who became a pioneer and trailblazer in the legal profession. She broke down barriers, overcame gender constraints, and operated outside the boundaries placed on black women by society and the civil rights movement. In Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law, Gary L. Ford Jr. explores the key role Motley played in the legal fight to desegregate public schools as well as colleges, universities, housing, transportation, lunch counters, museums, libraries, parks, and other public accommodations. AUGUST 6 x 9 / 176 PAGES / 15 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5933-1 / $24.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9144-7 / $24.95 EBOOK “ Gary L. Ford Jr.’s well-researched book is more than a biography of Motley’s extraordinary life. It is an argument for recognizing the tenacious, courageous role African American women like her played in advancing the cause of civil rights and equal justice for all. To witness Judge Motley in action was to be fortified and astounded. Now, thanks to Ford, a new generation can bear witness to her immense talents.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University “ Ford’s book presents in vivid detail how Constance Baker Motley’s work altered the legal landscape of the United States systematically, case after case, dismantling the Jim Crow laws in the Southern United States. It is an engagingly quick read that gives the reader a comprehensive introduction to the life and career of an oft-overlooked fighter in the civil rights movement.” — US District Judge Marcia Cooke, Law360

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The only female attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Motley was also the only woman who argued desegregation cases in court during much of the civil rights movement. From 1946 through 1964, she was a key litigator and legal strategist for landmark civil rights cases including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and she represented Martin Luther King Jr. as well as other protesters arrested and jailed as a result of their participation in sit-ins, marches, and freedom rides. Motley exhibited a leadership style that reflected her personality traits, skills, and strengths. She was a visionary who formed alliances and inspired local counsel to work with her to achieve the goals of the civil rights movement. As a leader and agent of change, she was committed to the cause of justice and she performed important work in the trenches in the South and behind the scenes in courts that helped make the civil rights movement successful. Gary L. Ford Jr. is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College. He has earned several degrees, including a BA in African American History from Harvard University, a JD from Columbia University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School, and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland.

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FOOD AND COOKING / SOUTHERN CULTURE / HISTORY

Barbecue The History of an American Institution Robert F. Moss

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The previously untold history of the quintessential American cuisine Americans enjoy reading about barbecue almost as much as they love eating it. Books on the subject cover almost every aspect of the topic: recipes, grilling tips, restaurant guides, pit-building instructions, and catalogs of exotic variants such as Mongolian barbecue and Indian tandoor cooking. Despite this coverage, the history of barbecue in the United States has until now remained virtually untold. Indeed, barbecue has a long, rich history—a history that formerly could be found only through scattered references in old letters, journals, newspapers, diaries, and travel narratives. Barbecue: The History of an American Institution draws on hundreds of sources to document the evolution of barbecue from its origins among Native Americans to its present status as an icon of American culture. This is the story not just of a dish but of a social institution that helped shape the many regional cultures of the United States. The history begins with British colonists’ adoption of barbecuing techniques from Native Americans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, moves to barbecue’s establishment as the preeminent form of public celebration in the nineteenth century, and is carried through to barbecue’s iconic status today. From the very beginning, barbecues were powerful social magnets, drawing together people from a wide range of classes and geographic backgrounds. Barbecue played a key role in three centuries of American history, both reflecting and influencing the direction of an evolving society. By tracing the story of barbecue from its origins to today, Barbecue traces the very thread of American social history. Robert F. Moss is a food-and-drinks writer and culinary historian living in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the Contributing Barbecue Editor for Southern Living, the Southern Food Correspondent for Serious Eats, and, with Hanna Raskin of the Post and Courier, the cohost of The Winnow, a podcast about dining in the South.

SEPTEMBER 7 x 9 / 288 PAGES / 65 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5935-5 / $24.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-8707-5 / $24.95 EBOOK “ Amazing as it seems, in all the welter of barbecue books, there is not a single one that comes close to recording this history. The effort has been long overdue, but here it is, finally, and it fills some huge gaps in the long and colorful story of this food tradition. I venture to guess that when word gets around that a real social history of barbecue has been published, thousands of Americans who love this subject will be clamoring for a copy.” — John Egerton, author of Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History “ Moss knows more about the history of barbecue than anyone I’ve yet encountered, and nothing like this book has ever before been published. To his great credit, he treats his subject seriously but not solemnly. Barbecue is simply a lot of fun to read about. At least it is in Moss’s hands. He has some good stories to tell, and he tells them well. I love it that aristocrats of the South Carolina low country established private clubs where gentlemen could eat ‘cue without having to mingle with the hoi polloi. Who knew that barbecue once flourished in New England?” — John Shelton Reed, coauthor of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue

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ALABAMA / SOUTHERN HISTORY / CIVIL WAR

Deep in the Piney Woods Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800–1865 Tommy Craig Brown A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama’s most overlooked and least studied regions Much of Alabama’s written history concentrates on the Tennessee Valley, the hill counties, and the Black Belt, while the piney woods of south central and southeastern Alabama, commonly known as the wiregrass region today, is one of the most understudied areas in Alabama history. Deep in the Piney Woods: Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800–1865 offers a comprehensive and long overdue account of a historically rich region of the state, challenging many commonly held assumptions about the area’s formation and settlement, economy, politics, race relations, and its role in both the secession of the state and the Civil War.

OCTOBER 6 x 9 / 272 PAGES / 3 B&W FIGURES / 5 MAPS / 20 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-1997-7 / $39.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9201-7 / $39.95 EBOOK “ Older views of the Piney Woods held that the region only half-heartedly supported secession and, once the war began, was characterized by a less than enthusiastic participation on the battlefield, as well as the home front. Brown uses a wealth of primary documentation to make the point that this region demonstrated its loyalty to the cause by, among other things, raising and equipping numerous companies, thereby showing as much enthusiasm as other parts of the state.” — Lonnie A. Burnett, author of The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth of the “Mobile Register” and Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist: Selected Essays on Revolution, Recognition, and Race “ An outstanding contribution to Alabama history, and a long overdue chronicle of a too-often overlooked region, perhaps painting one of the most complete portraits of any region in the state during the war era.”

Historians routinely depict this part of the state as an isolated, economically backward wilderness filled with poor whites who showed little interest in supporting the Confederacy once civil war erupted in 1861. Tommy Craig Brown challenges those traditional interpretations, arguing instead that many white Alabamians in this territory participated in the market economy, supported slavery, favored secession, and supported the Confederate war effort for the bulk of the conflict, sending thousands of soldiers to fight in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war. This thorough and expansive account of southeastern Alabama’s role in the Civil War also discusses its advocacy for state secession in January 1861; the effects of Confederate conscription on the home front; the economic devastation wrought on the area; and the participation of local military companies in key campaigns in both the eastern and western theaters, including Shiloh, the Peninsula Campaign, the Overland Campaign, Atlanta, and Franklin-Nashville. Brown argues that the lasting effects of the war on the region’s politics, identity, economy, and culture define it in ways that are still evident today. Tommy Craig Brown is a historian and archivist in Special Collections and Archives at Auburn University.

— Mike Bunn, author of Civil War Eufaula

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SOUTHERN HISTORY / PUBLIC POLICY / COMMUNICATIONS

The Greater Good Media, Family Removal, and TVA Dam Construction in North Alabama Laura Beth Daws and Susan L. Brinson Examines the role of press coverage in promoting the mission of the TVA, facilitating family relocation, and formulating the historical legacy of the New Deal For poverty-stricken families in the Tennessee River Valley during the Great Depression, news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal plans to create the Tennessee Valley Authority—bringing the promise of jobs, soil conservation, and electricity—offered hope for a better life. The TVA dams would flood a considerable amount of land on the riverbanks, however, forcing many families to relocate. In exchange for this sacrifice for the “greater good,” these families were promised “fair market value” for their land. As the first geographic location to benefit from the electricity provided by TVA, the people of North Alabama had much to gain, but also much to lose. In The Greater Good: Media, Family Removal, and TVA Dam Construction in North Alabama, Laura Beth Daws and Susan L. Brinson describe the region’s preexisting conditions, analyze the effects of relocation, and argue that local newspapers had a significant impact in promoting the TVA’s agenda. The authors contend that it was principally through newspapers that local residents learned about the TVA and the process and reasons for relocation. Newspapers of the day encouraged regional cooperation by creating an overwhelmingly positive image of the TVA, emphasizing its economic benefits and disregarding many of the details of removal. Using mostly primary research, the volume addresses two key questions: What happened to relocated families after they sacrificed their homes, lifestyles, and communities in the name of progress? And what role did mediated communication play in both the TVA’s family relocation process and the greater movement for the public to accept the TVA’s presence in their lives?

FEBRUARY 6 x 9 / 208 PAGES / 4 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2008-9 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9221-5 / $54.95 EBOOK “ The Greater Good is well written and will appeal to both scholarly and regional audiences interested in the time period, southern history, and TVA.” — Aaron D. Purcell, author of White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era and editor of The Journal of East Tennessee History

The Greater Good offers a unique window into the larger impact of the New Deal in the South. Until now, most research on the TVA was focused on organizational development rather than on families, with little attention paid to the role of the media in garnering acceptance of a governmentenforced relocation. Laura Beth Daws is an associate professor of communication at Kennesaw State University. She has published articles in Communication Teacher, Florida Communication Journal, Kentucky Communication Journal, and In Media Res. Susan L. Brinson is a professor emeritus of mass communication at Auburn University. She is the author of Personal and Public Interests: Frieda B. Hennock and the Federal Communications Commission and The Red Scare, Politics, and the Federal Communications Commission, 1941–1960, and is coeditor of Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting.

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ALABAMA / LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Speaking of Alabama The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language Edited by Thomas E. Nunnally Foreword by Walt Wolfram Afterword by Michael B. Montgomery

Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama Thomas E. Nunnally’s fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with affection and curiosity the speech varieties occurring both past and present across Alabama. Taken together, the accounts in this volume offer an engaging view of the major features that characterize Alabama’s unique brand of southern English.

DECEMBER 6 x 9 / 400 PAGES / 31 B&W FIGURES / 16 TABLES / 20 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-1993-9 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9198-0 / $49.95 EBOOK “ While there is ample documentation of language variation on a state and local level [in Alabama], the authors attempt to do more—to understand and to explicate the role of language in community life. For example, Allbritten probes the way that the production of vowels may project identity, Hasty examines attitudes of linguistic insecurity and self-deprecation that are sometimes associated with local and state dialect norms, and Johnson and Nunnally examine the socioeducational and sociopsychological dimensions of code-switching for African Americans sometimes caught between local and external, mainstream norms. So we see an effort to understand the reasons that we use language as we do—to situate ourselves socially, to project our identities to others, and to use language variation in the presentation of ourselves as we negotiate our varying communities of practice.” — From the foreword by Walt Wolfram CONTRIBUTORS Rachael Allbritten / Guy Bailey / Charlotte Brammer / Catherine Evans Davies / Jocelyn Doxsey / Crawford Feagin / J. Daniel Hasty / Kimberly Johnson / Thomas E. Nunnally / Michael D. Picone / Robin Sabino / Anna Head Spence

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Written in an accessible manner for general readers and scholars alike, Speaking of Alabama includes such subjects as the special linguistic features of the Southern drawl, the “phonetic divide” between north and south Alabama, “code-switching” by African American speakers in Alabama, pejorative attitudes by Alabama speakers toward their own native speech, the influence of foreign languages on Alabama speech, the vowel and diphthong differences that distinguish certain Alabama regions from others, as well as ongoing changes in Alabama’s dialects. Adding to these studies is a foreword by Walt Wolfram and an afterword by Michael B. Montgomery, both renowned experts in southern English, which place both the the methodologies and the findings of the volume into their larger contexts and point researchers to needed work ahead in Alabama, the South, and beyond. The volume also contains a number of useful appendices, including a guide to the sounds of Southern English, a glossary of linguistic terms, and online sources for further study. Language, as presented in this collection, is never abstract but always examined in the context of its speakers’ day-to-day lives, the driving force for their communication needs and choices. Whether specialist or general reader, Alabamian or non-Alabamian, all readers will come away from these accounts with a deepened understanding of how language functions between individuals, within communities, and across regions, and will gain a new respect for the driving forces behind language variation and language change. Thomas E. Nunnally is a professor emeritus of English at Auburn University. He is coeditor of From the Gulf States and Beyond: The Legacy of Lee Pederson and LAGs and Language Variety in the South Revisited.

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ALABAMA / FOOD AND COOKBOOKS

A Centennial Celebration of the Bright Star Restaurant Bright Star Restaurant, Inc.

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The history of an iconic Alabama restaurant Like the celestial body after which it was named, the Bright Star Restaurant has served as a beacon that has attracted people to downtown Bessemer, Alabama, for more than 100 years. During that time, the restaurant has become a monument in the city to which its history has been inextricably linked. This informative and entertaining book tells the story of the Greek immigrant who left his tiny village in the rugged mountains of Greece’s Peloponnesos region for the uncertainty of a new life in a new country. The story traces the founding of the restaurant in 1907 and the family that continues the tradition of fine food and genuine hospitality that began there more than a century ago. More than a history of a brick-and-mortar business, A Centennial Celebration of the Bright Star Restaurant is the story of people—the excitement of the immigrants seeking a better life for their families, a family known for commitment to its community, and the evolution of a restaurant from a small café with a horseshoe-shaped bar to one of the true landmarks on the culinary landscape of Alabama. Everyone from steelworkers to senators, have enjoyed the Bright Star’s fine food and have experienced the genuine southern hospitality of the restaurant’s owners. In addition to being a great place to eat, the Bright Star has developed a reputation for being part of the city’s “family.” Legions of loyal patrons have made the Bright Star their restaurant of choice for everything from a casual lunch to the setting for a festive holiday gathering.

OCTOBER 8.5 x 9 / 208 PAGES / 58 B&W PHOTOGRAPHS / 15 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS ISBN 978-0-8173-5931-7 / $24.95t PAPER “ Everyone who knows the Bright Star Restaurant in Bessemer, Alabama—and that’s a lot of folks in our state—think two things about it: that it’s got some of the best, most consistent food in the South, and that the friendly atmosphere is as much of a draw as the delicious Greek-style seafood and steaks. Both have kept my family and me going back over and over again to the Bright Star. My duties as U.S. senator have taken me around the world. I’ve been fortunate enough to have eaten many special meals in wonderful and exotic locations, but I feel just as fortunate to have the Bright Star Restaurant waiting for me when I return home to Alabama.” — from the tribute by Richard Shelby, U.S. Senator “ Every once in a while—possibly only once in a lifetime—if we are really lucky we will run across a restaurant that is truly special. I’ve had the privilege of eating at five-star restaurants in Europe as well as here in the United States, and without question my favorite restaurant in the world is the Bright Star in Bessemer, Alabama. The restaurant stands on its own, but the story of a young man from Greece who had very little money and could not speak English making his way to Alabama and starting a restaurant that has thrived for more than one hundred years is a heartwarming one. His struggles, his love for his restaurant, and his love for the people of Alabama and his family is one you’ll not soon forget.” — from the tribute by Gene Stallings, University of Alabama football coach, 1990–1996

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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES / HISTORY

A Field on Fire The Future of Environmental History Edited by Mark D. Hersey and Ted Steinberg

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some of their orthodoxies, inviting them to approach familiar stories from new angles, to integrate new methodologies, and to think creatively about the questions this field is well positioned to answer.

JANUARY 6 x 9 / 328 PAGES / 13 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-2001-0 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9208-6 / $49.95 EBOOK “ A fun, thought-provoking read penned by some of the most talented environmental historians in the field.” — Bartow J. Elmore, author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism “ The essays in A Field on Fire examine new trends in environmental history and will interest environmental historians, geographers, and historians of science and technology.” — Lisa Mighetto, author of Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics and executive director of the American Society for Environmental History CONTRIBUTORS Marco Armiero / Kevin C. Armitage / Brian C. Black / Lisa M. Brady / Karl Boyd Brooks / Robert Wellman Campbell / Brian Allen Drake / Sterling Evans / Sara M. Gregg / Mark D. Hersey / Shen Hou / Neil M. Maher / Christof Mauch / Daniel T. Rodgers / Adam Rome / Edmund Russell / Mikko Saikku / Ted Steinberg / Frank Zelko

Worster’s groundbreaking research serves as the organizational framework for the collection. Editors Mark D. Hersey and Ted Steinberg have arranged the book into three sections corresponding to the primary concerns of Worster’s influential scholarship: the problem of natural limits, the transnational nature of environmental issues, and the question of method. Under the heading “Facing Limits,” five essays explore the inherent tensions between democracy, technology, capitalism, and the environment. The “Crossing Borders” section underscores the ways in which environmental history moves easily across national and disciplinary boundaries. Finally, “Doing Environmental History” invokes Worster’s work as an essayist by offering self-conscious reflections about the practice and purpose of environmental history. The essays aim to provoke a discussion on the future of the field, pointing to untapped and underdeveloped avenues ripe for further exploration. A forward thinker like Worster presents bold challenges to a new generation of environmental historians on everything from capitalism and the Anthropocene to war and wilderness. This engaging volume includes a very special afterword by one of Worster’s oldest friends, the eminent intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers, who has known Worster for close to fifty years. Mark D. Hersey is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University where he directs the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South. He is author of My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver. Ted Steinberg is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and professor of law at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for a Perfect Lawn, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America, and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England.

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NATURAL HISTORY / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Southeastern Grasslands Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management Edited by JoVonn G. Hill and John A. Barone

A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies, glades, and savannas have been plowed up or paved over, lost to agriculture, urban growth, and cattle ranching. The few remaining grassland sites are complex ecosystems, home to hundreds of distinct plant and animal species, and worthy of study. Southeastern Grasslands: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management brings together the latest research on southeastern prairie systems and species, provides a complete picture of an increasingly rare biome, and offers solutions to many conservation biology queries. Editors JoVonn G. Hill and John A. Barone have gathered renowned experts in their fields from across the region who address questions related to the diversity, ecology, and management of southeastern grasslands, along with discussions of how to restore sites that have been damaged by human activity. Over the last twenty years, both researchers and the public have become more interested in the grasslands of the Southeast. This volume builds on the growing knowledge base of these remarkable ecosystems with the goal of increasing appreciation for them and stimulating further study of their biota and ecology. Topics such as the historical distribution of grasslands in the South, the plants and animals that inhabit them, as well as assessments of several techniques used in their conservation and management are covered in-depth. Written with a broad audience in mind, this book will serve as a valuable introduction and reference for nature enthusiasts, scientists, and land managers. JoVonn G. Hill is an assistant research professor with the Mississippi Entomological Museum at Mississippi State University and is currently serving as editor of Transactions of the American Entomological Society. Hill is a founding member of the Black Belt Prairie Restoration Initiative, a flagship project of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s East Gulf Coastal Plain Joint Venture.

JANUARY 8.75 x 11.5 / 344 PAGES / 41 COLOR FIGURES / 38 B&W FIGURES / 18 COLOR MAPS / 21 B&W MAPS / 35 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-1988-5 / $54.95s HARDCOVER ISBN 978-0-8173-9190-4 / $54.95 EBOOK “ Southeastern Grasslands offers a good representation of the biological significance bestowed upon these systems and the efforts currently underway to restore and maintain them for future generations to know and appreciate.” — Alfred R. Schotz, botanist and community ecologist with the Alabama Natural Heritage Program (ALNHP) at Auburn University “ An excellent and thorough account, past and present, of the grasslands of the southeastern United States. The information included in this volume will be of interest to anyone studying grasslands, whether in the southeastern United States or elsewhere.” — Robert H. Mohlenbrock, author of Vascular Flora of Illinois: A Field Guide and This Land: A Guide to Eastern National Forests

John A. Barone is a professor of biology at Columbus State University in Georgia. He has written several book chapters and has published articles in Castanea, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Biological Conservation, and Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

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POETICS / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES / MUSIC

The Blues Muse Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry Emily Ruth Rutter A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blue artists WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers—Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly—and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry. This study spans nearly one hundred years of literary and musical history, from the New Negro Renaissance to the present.

OCTOBER 6 x 9 / 248 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1994-6 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9197-3 / $49.95 EBOOK “ An impressively researched and lucidly written analysis of nearly one hundred years of American poetry inspired by Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Lead Belly, and Robert Johnson— those ‘blues muses’ whose complex lives, art, personae, and historiographies have made them especially rich and persistent subjects for white and black American poets alike.” — Emily J. Lordi, author of Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature and Donny Hathaway’s Donny Hathaway Live “ The Blues Muse is an interesting and valuable work which will be of particular interest to those teaching American poetry with an emphasis on its connections with African American vernacular musical traditions.” — Erich Nunn, author of Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination

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Emily Ruth Rutter structures the study around one pivotal understanding: however marginalized, poetry is a crucial medium for comprehending sociopolitical and cultural developments. Building from this idea, Rutter traces the evolution of the poetic invocation of blues muses through a succession of cultural eras, political climates, and artistic movements, asking how and why these protean blues figures change shape both within and across generations. Drawing on the work of poets Langston Hughes, Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka, Harryette Mullen, Terrance Hayes, and many more, as a guide, Rutter discusses topics such as the poetic renderings of black struggle, the constantly evolving notions of authenticity, and the portrayal of blues artists as heroic symbols of African American resistance. The Blues Muse not only examines blues musicians as literary touchstones or poetic devices, but also investigates the relationship between poetic constructions of blues icons and shifting discourses of race and gender. Rutter’s nuanced analysis is clear, compelling, and rich in critical assessments of these writers’ portraits of the musical artists, attending to their strategies and oversights. Emily Ruth Rutter is assistant professor of English at Ball State University. She is the author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line. Her research has been published in African American Review, South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Culture, Aethlon, and MELUS.

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LITERARY CRITICISM / AMERICAN STUDIES / TECHNOLOGY

Modernizing Solitude The Networked Individual in NineteenthCentury American Literature Yoshiaki Furui An innovative and timely examination of the concept of solitude in nineteenth-century American literature During the nineteenth century, the United States saw radical developments in media and communication that reshaped concepts of spatiality and temporality. As the telegraph, the postal system, and public transportation became commonplace, the country achieved a level of connectedness that was never possible before. At this level, physical isolation no longer equaled psychological separation from the exterior world, and as communication networks proliferated, being disconnected took on negative cultural connotations. Though solitude, and the lack thereof, is a pressing concern in today’s culture of omnipresent digital connectivity, Yoshiaki Furui shows that solitude has been a significant preoccupation since the nineteenthcentury. The obsession over solitude is evidenced by many writers of the period, with consequences for many basic notions of creativity, art, and personal and spiritual fulfillment. In Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Furui examines, among other works, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Emily Dickinson’s poetry and letters, and telegraphic literature in the 1870s to identify the virtues and values these writers bestowed upon solitude in a time and place where it was being consistently threatened or devalued. Although each writer has a unique way of addressing the theme, they all aim to reclaim solitude as a positive, productive state of being that is essential to the writing process and personal identity. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach to understand modern solitude and the resulting literature, Furui seeks to historicize solitude by anchoring literary works in this revolutionary yet interim period of American communication history, while also applying theoretical insights into the literary analysis. Yoshiaki Furui is an associate professor of English at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. He has published scholarship in Journal of American Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

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FEBRUARY 6 x 9 / 232 PAGES / 9 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2006-5 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9218-5 / $54.95 EBOOK “ An engaging discussion of how the developments of the nineteenth-century communications revolution changed the ways in which writers in the United States came to understand the categories of solitude and loneliness in the middle decades of the century.” — Les Harrison, author of The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman “ In its reclamation of solitude as a productive state of being, Modernizing Solitude joins recent writing that argues for a degree of off-the-grid, more meditative existence to curb social media addiction. As such, it would appeal to those who seek models of moderation, or who are at least curious about the ways in which historical figures negotiated their media consumption in order to remain productive individuals.” — John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes

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RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION STUDIES / CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Field Rhetoric Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion Edited by Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric and fieldwork A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication, technical communication, and critical and participatory-action research, among others—have increasingly called for ethnographic fieldwork that grounds the study of rhetoric within the contexts of its use and circulation. Employing field methods more commonly used by ethnographers allows researchers to capture rhetoric-in-action and to observe the dynamic circumstances that shape persuasion in ordinary life.

AUGUST 6 x 9 / 304 PAGES / 12 B&W FIGURES / 2 MAPS / 2 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-1995-3 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9199-7 / $54.95 EBOOK “ Rai and Gottschalk Druschke have brought together an outstanding group of scholars to address an important and increasing area of concern for rhetorical scholars: How may we incorporate field methods into our research to study a wider range of rhetorical practices? This volume will appeal to rhetoric faculty and graduate students in both communication and English, as well as scholars in related disciplines who may be interested in a rhetorical approach to studying culture and society.” — Robert Asen, author of Democracy, Deliberation, and Education CONTRIBUTORS John M. Ackerman / Heather Brook Adams / Ralph Cintron / Rick Cruse / Lauren Cutlip / Jane Disney / Caroline Gottschalk Druschke / Danielle Endres / Emma Fox / Jeffrey T. Grabill / Gerard A. Hauser / Carl G. Herndl / Aaron Hess / Sarah Beth Hopton / Kendall Leon / Laura Lindenfeld / erin daina mcclellan / Bridie McGreavy / Michael K. Middleton / Chris Petersen / Phaedra C. Pezzullo / Stacey Pigg / Elena Yu Polush / Candice Rai / Samantha SendaCook / Mack Shelley

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Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion gathers new essays that describe and theorize this burgeoning transdisciplinary mode of field-based scholarship. Contributors document and support this ethnographic turn in rhetorical studies through sustained examination of the diverse trends, methods, tools, theories, practices, and possibilities for engaging in rhetorical field research. This fascinating volume offers an introduction to these inquiries and serves as both a practical resource and a theoretical foundation for scholars, teachers, and students interested in the intersection of rhetoric and field studies. Editors Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke have assembled scholars working in diverse field sites to map and initiate key debates on the practices, limitations, and value of rhetorical field methods and research. Working synthetically at the junction of rhetorical theory and field practices, the authors in this collection build from myriad field-based cases to examine diverse theoretical and methodological considerations. The collection also serves as a useful reference for interdisciplinary qualitative researchers interested in doing research from a rhetorical or discursive perspective in various disciplines and fields, such as English, composition, communication, natural resources, geography, sociology, urban planning, anthropology, and more. Candice Rai is an associate professor of English at the University of Washington. She is the author of Democracy’s Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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RHETORIC & COMMUNICATION STUDIES / MILITARY HISTORY

Desiring the Bomb Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age Calum L. Matheson

A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age Every culture throughout history has obsessed over various “end of the world” scenarios. The dawn of the Atomic Age marked a new twist in this tale. For the first time, our species became aware of its capacity to deliberately destroy itself. Since that time the Bomb has served as an organizing metaphor, a symbol of human annihilation, a stand-in for the unspeakable void of extinction, and a discursive construct that challenges the limits of communication itself. The parallel fascination with and abhorrence of nuclear weapons has metastasized into a host of other end-of-the-world scenarios, from global pandemics and climate change to zombie uprisings and asteroid collisions. Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age explores these world-ending fantasies through the lens of psychoanalysis to reveal their implications for both contemporary apocalyptic culture and the operations of language itself. What accounts for the enduring power of the Bomb as a symbol? What does the prospect of annihilation suggest about language and its limits? Thoroughly researched and accessibly written, this study expands on the theories of Kenneth Burke, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, and many others from a variety of disciplines to arrive at some answers to these questions. Calum L. Matheson undertakes a series of case studies—including the Trinity test site, nuclear war games, urban shelter schemes, and contemporary survivalism—and argues that contending with the anxieties (individual, social, cultural, and political) born of the Atomic Age depends on rhetorical conceptions of the “real,” an order of experience that cannot be easily negotiated in language. Using aspects of media studies, rhetorical theory, and psychoanalysis, the author deftly engages the topics of Atomic Age survival, extinction, religion, and fantasy, along with their enduring cultural legacies, to develop an account of the Bomb as a signifier and to explore why some Americans have become fascinated with fantasies of nuclear warfare and narratives of postapocalyptic rebirth.

NOVEMBER 6 x 9 / 200 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1998-4 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9204-8 / $49.95 EBOOK “ Addresses head on the vexing—and I mean vexing—question of the symbolic and affective power of the Bomb.” — Ned O’Gorman, author of Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy “ Desiring the Bomb is a brilliant, insightful, and sometimes humorous examination of nuclear apocalyptic discourse keyed to the organizing figure of the Bomb. It’s the first groundbreaking, book-length analysis of nuclear rhetoric from a psychoanalytic perspective. Matheson’s study is a substantially original contribution—chilling in its implications—to the theoretical humanities in general, and communication and rhetorical studies in particular.” — Joshua Gunn, author of Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century

Calum L. Matheson is assistant professor of public deliberation and civic life at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of peer-reviewed scholarship that has appeared in Argumentation and Advocacy, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Games and Culture, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech.

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ARCHAEOLOGY / FOOD STUDIES

Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf

Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast, however, is the first collection devoted exclusively to southeastern foodways analyzed through archaeological perspectives. These essays examine which foods were eaten and move the discussion of foodstuffs into the sociocultural realm of why, how, and when they were eaten.

AUGUST 6 x 9 / 232 PAGES / 33 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS / 6 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-1992-2 / $64.95s HARDCOVER ISBN 978-0-8173-9195-9 / $64.95 EBOOK “This volume is an excellent resource on the foodways of the Southeast and provides fascinating new data, as well as revisiting previously studied sites and analyses of foodways.” — Renee B. Walker, coeditor of Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America “Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink is a collection of works elucidating—and in some instances integrating—many diverse aspects of diet and cuisines, written by authors who bring a broad range of expertise to the field of archaeology. It is a major contribution.” — Gayle J. Fritz, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis CONTRIBUTORS Rachel V. Briggs / Stephen B. Carmody / Aaron Deter-Wolf / Thomas E. Emerson / Kandace D. Hollenbach / Megan C. Kassabaum / Scot Keith / Nicolas Laracuente / Kelly L. Ledford / Tanya M. Peres / Thomas J. Pluckhahn / Neill J. Wallis / Lauren A. Walls / Elic M. Weitzel

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Editors Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf present a volume that moves beyond basic understandings, applying new methods or focusing on subjects not widely discussed in the Southeast to date. Chapters are arranged using the dominant research themes of feasting, social and political status, food security and persistent places, and foodways histories. Contributors provide in-depth examination of specific food topics such as bone marrow, turkey, Black Drink, bourbon, earth ovens, and hominy. Contributors bring a broad range of expertise to the collection, resulting in an expansive look at all of the steps taken from field to table, including procurement, production, cooking, and consumption, all of which have embedded cultural meanings and traditions. The scope of the volume includes the diversity of research specialties brought to bear on the topic of foodways as well as the temporal and regional breadth and depth, the integration of multiple lines of evidence, and, in some cases, the reinvestigation of well-known sites with new questions and new data. Tanya M. Peres is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University. She is the coeditor of Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology and Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases. Aaron Deter-Wolf is a prehistoric archaeologist for the Tennessee Division of Archaeology and coeditor of Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America and Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing.

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ARCHAEOLOGY / FOODWAYS

Feeding Cahokia Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland Gayle J. Fritz

An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn. This farming economy is typically framed in terms of ruling elites living in mound centers who demanded tribute and a mass surplus to be hoarded or distributed as they saw fit. Farmers are cast as commoners who grew enough surplus corn to provide for the elites. Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland presents evidence to demonstrate that the emphasis on corn has created a distorted picture of Cahokia’s agricultural practices. Farming at Cahokia was biologically diverse and, as such, less prone to risk than was maizedominated agriculture. Gayle J. Fritz shows that the division between the so-called elites and commoners simplifies and misrepresents the statuses of farmers—a workforce consisting of adult women and their daughters who belonged to kin groups crosscutting all levels of the Cahokian social order. Many farmers had considerable influence and decision-making authority, and they were valued for their economic contributions, their skills, and their expertise in all matters relating to soils and crops. Fritz examines the possible roles played by farmers in the processes of producing and preparing food and in maintaining cosmological balance. This highly accessible narrative by an internationally known paleoethnobotanist highlights the biologically diverse agricultural system by focusing on plants, such as erect knotweed, chenopod, and maygrass, which were domesticated in the midcontinent and grown by generations of farmers before Cahokia Mounds grew to be the largest Native American population center north of Mexico. Fritz also looks at traditional farming systems to apply strategies that would be helpful to modern agriculture, including reviving wild and weedy descendants of these lost crops for redomestication. With a wealth of detail on specific sites, traditional foods, artifacts such as famous figurines, and color photos of significant plants, Feeding Cahokia will satisfy both scholars and interested readers.

JANUARY 6 x 9 / 224 PAGES / 22 COLOR FIGURES / 19 B&W FIGURES / 3 MAPS / 8 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2005-8 / $59.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9217-8 / $59.95 EBOOK “A significant contribution both to our understanding of food and farming among ancient American Indians and to our understanding of the largest American Indian polity north of Mexico.” — C. Margaret Scarry, editor of Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands and coeditor of Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland “Here, for the first time, dozens of monographs and syntheses are marshaled to deal with the many topics and problems that have arisen over the timing and nature of the biologically diverse agricultural system unique to the central Mississippi Valley.” — James A. Brown, coeditor of Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest

Gayle J. Fritz is a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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ARCHAEOLOGY / RELIGION

Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent Edited by Brad H. Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide archaeologists with unparalleled opportunities to explore new questions about the lives of ancient native peoples. For many years the topics of technology, economy, and political organization have received the most research attention, while ritual, religion, and symbolic expression have largely been ignored. This was often the case because researchers considered such topics beyond reach of their methods and data.

NOVEMBER 6 x 9 / 344 PAGES / 53 B&W FIGURES / 12 MAPS / 9 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-1996-0 / $64.95s HARDCOVER ISBN 978-0-8173-9200-0 / $64.95 EBOOK “ Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent makes original and significant contributions to the fields of both Cahokia studies and religious studies, and is filled with sound research and scholarship.” — Cheryl Claassen, author of Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America: An Interpretive Guide and Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley: Archaic Sacred Sites and Rituals CONTRIBUTORS Susan M. Alt / Melissa Baltus / Kenneth B. Farnsworth / Eve A. Hargrave / Kristin M. Hedman / Brad H. Koldehoff / Go Matsumoto / Kathryn E. Parker / Timothy R. Pauketat / Jonathan Remo / John D. Richards / William F. Romain / Kayeleigh Sharp / Mary L. Simon / Mark J. Wagner / Thomas J. Zych

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In Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent, editors Brad H. Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat and their contributors demonstrate that this notion is outdated through their analyses of a series of large datasets from the midcontinent, ranging from tiny charred seeds to the cosmic alignments of mounds, to explore new questions about the religious practices and lives of native peoples. At the core of this volume are case studies that explore religious practices from the Cahokia area and surrounding Illinois uplands. Additional chapters explore these topics using data collected from sites and landscapes scattered along the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. This innovative work facilitates a greater appreciation for, and understanding of, ancient native religious practices, especially their seamless connections to everyday life and livelihood. The contributors do not advocate for a reduced emphasis on technology, economy, and political organization; rather, they recommend expanding the scope of such studies to include considerations of how religious practices shaped the locations of sites, the character of artifacts, and the content and arrangement of sites and features. They also highlight analytical approaches that are applicable to archaeological datasets from across the Americas and beyond. Brad H. Koldehoff is the chief archaeologist and cultural resources unit chief at the Illinois Department of Transportation and a research assistant at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey and the Illinois State Museum. Koldehoff has written numerous technical reports about Mississippi Valley archaeological sites, including Cahokia, as well as journal articles and book chapters. Timothy R. Pauketat is a professor of anthropology and medieval studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a visiting research scientist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. Pauketat is one of the foremost experts on Cahokia and particularly esteemed for theoretical perspectives on early urbanism, religion, and the relational ontologies of Woodland and Mississippian peoples of eastern North America. A prolific author and editor, representative publications include An Archaeology of the Cosmos: Rethinking Agency and Religion in Ancient America, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi, and The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology.

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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES / HISTORY

The Saints of Progress A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity Carmen Kordick

A reshaping of traditional understandings of Costa Rica and its national identity The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity chronicles the development of the Tarrazú Valley, a historically remote—although internationally celebrated—coffeegrowing region. Carmen Kordick’s work traces the development of this region from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century to consider the nation-building process from the margins, while also questioning traditional scholarly works that have reproduced, rather than deconstructed, Costa Rica’s exceptionalist national mythology, which hail Costa Rica as Central America’s “white,” democratic, nonviolent, and egalitarian republic. In this compelling political, economic, and lived history, Kordick suggests that Costa Rica’s exceptionalist and egalitarian mythology emerged during the Cold War, as revolution, civil war, military dictatorship, and state violence plagued much of Central America. From the vantage point of Costa Rica’s premier coffee-producing region, she examines local, national, and transnational processes. This deeply textured narrative details the inauguration of coffee capitalism, which heightened existing class divisions; a successful armed revolt against the national government, which forged the current political regime; and the onset of massive out-migration to the United States. Kordick’s research incorporates more than one hundred oral histories and thousands of archival sources gathered in both Costa Rica and the United States to produce a human history of Costa Rica’s past. Her work on the recent past profiles the experiences of migrants in the United States, mostly in New Jersey, where many undocumented Costa Ricans find low-paid work in the restaurant and landscaping sectors. The result is a fine-grained examination of Tarrazú’s development from the 1820s to the present that reshapes traditional understandings of Costa Rica and its national past.

DECEMBER 6 x 9 / 312 PAGES / 26 B&W FIGURES / 3 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-2002-7 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9209-3 / $49.95 EBOOK “ Kordick makes a substantial contribution to the literature on Costa Rica and joins an ongoing discussion (especially among Costa Rican scholars) of the prevalent Costa Rican national myths by debunking the idea of the nation as a timelessly peaceful land of primarily white yeoman farmers.” — Julie A. Charlip, author of Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930 and coauthor of Latin America: An Interpretive History

Carmen Kordick is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University.

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A Great Fear Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812 Timothy Hawkins An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812 explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when Spain was overrun by French armies and, arguably, in its weakest state. In the first years after his appointment as Spanish ambassador to the United States, Luís de Onís claimed the heavy responsibility of defending Spanish America from the wave of French spies, subversives, and soldiers whom he believed Napoleon was sending across the Atlantic to undermine the empire.

JANUARY 6 x 9 / 256 PAGES / 2 B&W FIGURES / 5 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-2004-1 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9213-0 / $49.95 EBOOK “ An exemplary and well-rounded transnational history that offers a provocative new look into the repercussions of Napoleonic intrigue and espionage in the New World.” — Scott Eastman, author of Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759–1823 and coeditor of The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World: The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 “ Hawkins contributes a deft analysis, both of the history of US tensions with Spain over border issues and of its mounting Francophilia.” — Teresa Van Hoy, author of A Social History of Mexico’s Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and Priests

As a leading representative of Spain’s loyalist government in the Americas, Onís played a central role in identifying, framing, and developing what soon became a coordinated response from the colonial bureaucracy to this perceived threat. This crusade had important short-term consequences for the empire. Since it paralleled the emergence of embryonic independence movements against Spanish rule, colonial officials immediately conflated these dangers and attributed anti-Spanish sentiment to foreign conspiracies. Little direct evidence of Napoleon’s efforts at subversion in Spanish America exists. However, on the basis of prodigious research, Hawkins asserts that the fear of French intervention mattered far more than the reality. Reinforced by detailed warnings from Ambassador Onís, who found the United States to be the staging ground for many of the French emissaries, colonial officials and their subjects became convinced that Napoleon posed a real threat. The official reaction to the threat of French intervention increasingly led Spanish authorities to view their subjects with suspicion, as potential enemies rather than allies in the struggle to preserve the empire. In the long term, this climate of fear eroded the legitimacy of the Spanish Crown among Spanish Americans, a process that contributed to the unraveling of the empire by the 1820s. This study draws on documents and official records from both sides of the Hispanic Atlantic, with extensive research conducted in Spain, Guatemala, Argentina, and the United States. Overall, it is a provocative interpretation of the repercussions of Napoleonic intrigue and espionage in the New World and a stellar examination of late Spanish colonialism in the Americas. Timothy Hawkins is professor of history at Indiana State University. He is the author of José de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis.

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Taxing Blackness Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain Norah L. A. Gharala

A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans During the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. This royal tribute symbolized imperial loyalties and social hierarchies. As the number of free people of color soared, this tax became a reliable source of revenue for the crown as well as a signal that colonial officials and ordinary people referenced to define and debate the nature of blackness. Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain examines the experiences of Afromexicans and this tribute to explore the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime. Norah L. A. Gharala focuses on both the mechanisms officials used to define the status of free people of African descent and the responses of free Afromexicans to these categories and strategies. Her study spans the eighteenth century and focuses on a single institution to offer readers a closer look at the place of free Afromexicans in Bourbon New Spain, which was the most profitable and populous colony of the Spanish Atlantic. As taxable subjects, many free Afromexicans were deeply connected to the colonial regime and ongoing debates about how taxpayers should be defined, whether in terms of reputation or physical appearance. Gharala shows the profound ambivalence, and often hostility, that free people of African descent faced as they navigated a regime that simultaneously labeled them sources of tax revenue and dangerous vagabonds. Some free Afromexicans paid tribute to affirm their belonging and community ties. Others contested what they saw as a shameful imposition that could harm their families for generations. The microhistory includes numerous anecdotes from specific cases and people, bringing their history alive, resulting in a wealth of rural and urban, gender, and family insight.

FEBRUARY 6 x 9 / 336 PAGES / 9 B&W FIGURES / 23 TABLES / 3 MAPS IBSN 978-0-8173-2007-2 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9220-8 / $54.95 EBOOK “ An important study of the internal workings of the late eighteenth-century Spanish viceroyalties, exposing how racial specificity faded away in light of more pressing concerns regarding collecting as much tribute as possible. This book provides new perspectives on the history of race and class, demonstrating that physiognomy and phenotype did not overtake lineage.” — Nicole von Germeten, author of Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans and Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

Norah L. A. Gharala is an assistant professor of world history at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey.

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THEATRE / THEATRE HISTORY

Theatre History Studies 2018 Volume 37 Edited by Sara Freeman

Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference THEATRE HISTORY STUDIES, VOLUME 37 STEFAN AQUILINA

Meyerhold and The Revolution: A Reading through Henri Lefebvre’s Theories on “Everyday Life” VIVIAN APPLER

“Shuffled Together under the Name of a Farce”: Finding Nature in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon KRISTI GOOD

Kate Soffel’s Life of Crime: A Gendered Journey from Warden’s Wife to Criminal Actress PETER A. CAMPBELL

Staging Ajax’s Suicide: A Historiography DECEMBER 6 X 9 / 348 PAGES / 22 B&W FIGURES / 5 MAPS / 4 TABLES ISBN: 978-0-8173-7112-8 / $34.95s PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9211-6/ $34.95 EBOOK ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Individuals, USA: $25 Institution, USA: $35 Agent’s Discount: 10% Postage outside USA: Please include an additional $10.00 for subscriptions outside the USA Postage inside USA: By surface mail—no additional charge For subscriptions, please email: Allie Harper, aharper@uapress.ua.edu

BRIAN E. G. COOK

Rousing Experiences: Theatre, Politics, and Change MEGAN LEWIS

Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes: Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B and the Consequences of Staging the Colonial Gaze PATRICIA GABORIK

Taking the Theatre to the People: Performance Sponsorship and Regulation in Mussolini’s Italy ILINCA TODORUT AND ANTHONY SORGE

To Image and to Imagine: Walid Raad, Rabih Mouré, and the Arab Spring SHULAMITH LEV-ALADGEM

Where Has the Political Theatre in Israel Gone? Rethinking the Concept of Political Theatre Today CHRISTINE WOODWORTH

“Equal Rights By All Means!”: Beatrice Forbes-Robertson’s 1910 Suffrage Matinee and the Onstage Junction of the US And UK Franchise Movements LURANA DONNELS O’MALLEY

“Why I Wrote the Phyllis Wheatley Pageant-Play”: Mary Church Terrell’s Bicentennial Activism JULIET GUZZETTA

The Lasting Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame ASHLEY E. LUCAS

Chavez Ravine: Culture Clash and the Political Project of Rewriting History NOE MONTEZ

The Heavy Lifting: Resisting the Obama Presidency’s Neoliberalist Conceptions of the American Dream in Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Sara Freeman is an associate professor of theatre at the University of Puget Sound. Freeman is a coeditor of International Dramaturgy: Translation and Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker and recently staged Anne Washburn’s experimental show Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play.

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THEATRE / THEATRE HISTORY

Theatre Symposium, Volume 26 In Other Habits: Theatrical Costume Edited by Sarah McCarroll A substantive exploration of theatrical costume Stage costumes reveal character. They tell audiences who the character is or how a character functions within the world of the play, among other things. Theatrical costuming, however, along with other forms of theatre design, has often been considered merely a craft, rather than part of the deeply systemic creation of meaning onstage. In what ways do our clothes shape and reveal our habits of behavior? How do stage costumes work to reveal one kind of habit via the manipulation of another? How might theatre practitioners learn to most effectively exploit this dynamic? Theatre Symposium, Volume 26 analyzes the ways in which meaning is conveyed through costuming for the stage and explores the underlying assumptions embedded in theatrical practice and costume production. THEATRE SYMPOSIUM, VOLUME 26 MICHELE MAJER

Plus que Reine: The Napoleonic Revival in Belle Epoque Theatre and Fashion CAITLIN QUINN

Creating a Realistic Rendering Pedagogy: The Fashion Illustration Problem ALY RENEE AMIDEI

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Where’d I Put My Character?: The Costume Character Body and Essential Costuming for the Ensemble Actor

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Embracing the Chaos: Creating Costumes for Devised Work DAVID S. THOMPSON

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Costuming the Audience: Gentility, Consumption, and the Lady’s Theatre Hat in Gilded Age America JORGE SANDOVAL

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The RuPaul Effect: The Exploration of the Costuming Rituals of Drag Culture in Social Media and the Theatrical Performativity of the Male Body in the Ambit of the Everyday

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A Brand New Day on Broadway: The Genius of Geoffrey Holder’s Artistry and His Intentional Evocation of the African Diaspora ANDREW GIBB

On the [Historical] Sublime: J. R. Planché’s King John and the Romantic Ideal of the Past

Sarah McCarroll is an associate professor of theatre at Georgia Southern University, where she also serves as resident designer and costume shop manager for the theatre and performance program. Her published scholarship has appeared in Theatre Symposium and in Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies. She has also worked professionally at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.

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Elizabeth Robins, 1862–1952

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Actress, Novelist, Feminist Joanne E. Gates

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While buoyed by her early success as an actor, Elizabeth Robins began writing fiction that treated the feminist issues of her time: organized prostitution, women’s positions in war-torn England, and the dangers of rearmament. In her acting, writing, and political activism, she consistently challenged existing roles for women.

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Robins published several novels under the pseudonym C. E. Raimond, culminating in the sensational male-female bildungsroman, The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments, set in her native Zanesville, Ohio, the publication of which finally disclosed her identity. Robins’ work is marked by a number of true-life components and Elizabeth Robins, 1862–1952 is the first biography to use the vast collection of her private papers to demonstrate how Robins transformed her own life into literary and dramatic capital. Joanne E. Gates is an associate professor of English at Jacksonville State University and is coeditor of Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900.

Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

SEPTEMBER 9.25 x 6.25 / 464 PAGES

James B. McMillan and Michael B. Montgomery The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, naming practices, word play, and other aspects of language that have interested researchers and writers for two centuries. Compiled here are the works of linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators, as well as popular commentators.

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With more than 3,800 entries, this invaluable resource is a testament to the significance of Southern speech, long recognized as a distinguishing feature of the South, and the abiding interest of Southerners in their speech as a mark of their identity. The entries encompass Southern dialects in all their distinctive varieties—from Appalachian to African American, and sea islander to urbanite. James B. McMillan (1907–1996) was a professor emeritus of English at The University of Alabama. Michael B. Montgomery is a distinguished professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of South Carolina.

Friendship Fictions

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The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary Michael A. Kaplan

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A criticism often leveled at liberal democratic culture is its emphasis on the individual over community and private life over civic participation. However, liberal democratic culture has a more complicated relationship to notions of citizenship. As Michael Kaplan shows, citizenship comprises a major theme of popular entertainment, especially Hollywood film, and often takes the form of friendship narratives, and this is no accident.

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Examining the representations of citizenship-as-friendship in four Hollywood films (The Big Chill, Thelma & Louise, Lost in Translation, and Smoke), Kaplan argues that critics have misunderstood some of liberal democracy’s most significant features: its resilience, its capacity for self-revision, and the cultural resonance of its model of citizenship. For Kaplan, friendship—with its dynamic pacts, fluid alliances, and contingent communities—is one arena in which preconceptions about individual participation in civic life are contested and complicated. Michael A. Kaplan is an assistant professor in the department of communication studies at Baruch College, CUNY.

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Between Home and Homeland Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany Brian Amkraut As Hitler and his followers consolidated power in Germany, a number of efforts were set in motion, both within and without German cities, to facilitate the departure of Jews. Among them was the organization, Youth Aliyah— aliyah is the term for the Zionist goal of a homecoming for Jews in historic Israel. Although the youths saved by Youth Aliyah were but a small percentage of the Jewish population, the program is widely celebrated by those who seek examples of Jewish agency and of attempts to resist the coming horror.

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To this day, Youth Aliyah is considered by Israelis as a major contributor to the foundation of a Jewish presence leading to the modern state of Israel. Brian Amkraut details the story of the organization from its origins through its alliances and antagonisms with other Jewish organizations, and the challenges that vexed its efforts from every side, perhaps the greatest being sheer human naiveté. Brian Amkraut is executive director of the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University.

The Foreign and Domestic Dimensions of Modern Warfare Vietnam, Central America, and Nuclear Strategy Edited by Howard Jones After the development of the atomic bomb in 1945, Americans became engaged in a “new kind of war” against totalitarianism. Enemies and objectives slipped out of focus, causing political and military aims to mesh as a struggle to contain communism both at home and abroad encompassed civilians as well as soldiers. In matters relating to Vietnam, Central America, and the nuclear arms race, the domestic and foreign dimensions of each issue became inseparable. Policymakers in Washington had to formulate strategies dictated by “limited war” in their search for peace.

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These essays demonstrate that the making of foreign policy is immensely complicated, not subject to easy solution or to simple explanation. Despite these complexities, the central objective of policymakers remained clear: to safeguard what was perceived as the national interest. Howard Jones is a professor emeritus of history at The University of Alabama. He is the author of Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations and The Bay of Pigs.

The Forever Season

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“I died exactly the way I lived.” So begins the astonishing story of C. P. McKay, a star football player and passionate student who loves poetry. C. P. is a young man who appears to have everything going for him. But his downfall begins when he receives a scholarship to a major university. There, he finds his dream blocked from all directions by a ruthless coach, an unethical university president, and a cynical professor as he attempts to play the game he loves, satisfy his desire for knowledge, and guard his integrity. Don Keith writes with a concise, hard-edged pen about a subject he knows well—the South, its trailer park culture, and its passion for gridiron glory— while exploring universal themes of fumbling youth and innocence lost. Don Keith is a broadcast journalist who has won awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for news writing and reporting and was twice named Billboard Magazine “Radio Personality of the Year.” The Forever Season is his first novel and he has since published more than thirty works of fiction and non-fiction, including the nationally best-selling thrillers Final Bearing, Dangerous Grounds, and Firing Point.

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The Perfect Scout A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas George W. Quimby Edited by Anne Sarah Rubin and Stephen Murphy A rare and dramatic first-person account by a Union scout who served General William Tecumseh Sherman on his “march to the sea”

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“ An important contribution to Civil War scholarship. It provides the perspective of a scout, and there are few published narratives by men who held this important role.” — Wendy Venet, author of A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta

Scalia v. Scalia Opportunistic Textualism in Constitutional Interpretation Catherine L. Langford An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law

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“ No scholar before Langford has systematically analyzed every one of Scalia’s opinions in the three constitutional territories explored in Scalia v. Scalia—Eighth Amendment ‘Cruel and Unusual’ doctrine, First Amendment ‘Establishment’ and ‘Free Exercise’ doctrine, and abortion doctrine. Langford’s new contribution should interest legal academics and rhetorical scholars alike.” — Colin Starger, associate professor of law at the University of Baltimore

Chemical Lands Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945 David D. Vail An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, and poison

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“ Vail incisively documents the complex relationship between sprayers, pesticides, herbicides, and grassland landscapes in America and Canada.” — Frederick Rowe Davis, author of Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene Ronald Berman A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers

6 X 9 / 104 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1964-9 $39.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9149-2 $39.95 EBOOK

“ An admirable and succinct look at parallels between Fitzgerald’s depiction of American society and social science in general.” — Kirk Curnutt, author of The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald and editor of The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein

Sissy! The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture By Harry Thomas Jr. An innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys

6 x 9 / 224 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1963-2 $49.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9148-5 $49.95 EBOOK

“ Importantly, it helps to explain the ways that both mainstream American culture and gay culture continue to blur the lines between gender and sexuality in constructions of nonnormative and, as Thomas usefully calls them, ‘hegemonic’ masculinities.” — Michael P. Bibler, author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968

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Maria Martin’s World Art and Science, Faith and Family in Audubon’s America

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Debra J. Lindsay

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The first book-length treatment of one of John James Audubon’s background painters

ISBN 978-0-8173-9121-8 $49.95 EBOOK

“ An engaging work that brings Maria Martin to the attention of historians of women, the family, and American science. In addition, John James Audubon’s story and recent publications of Audubon visuals will make Debra Lindsay’s book attractive to general readers.”

— Ann B. Shteir, author of Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860

Malignant Growth Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915 Alan I Marcus An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

6 x 9 / 328 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1979-3 $59.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9177-5 $59.95 EBOOK

“ A careful and interesting investigation of a topic that has been much ignored. The work definitely has implication for what we are doing today in cancer research.”

— K. Codell Carter, author of The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease

A Forgotten Front Florida during the Civil War Era

6 x 9 / 272 PAGES / 5 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP

Edited by Seth A. Weitz and Jonathan C. Sheppard

ISBN 978-0-8173-1982-3 $39.95s CLOTH

An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War

ISBN 978-0-8173-9182-9 $39.95 EBOOK

“ A fine collection of essays that serves as a much needed overview of the Civil War in Florida. At the same time, the individual essays shed light on various aspects of the Civil War, such as pre-war politics, secession, the role of women and Hispanics, Unionism, guerilla warfare, and race.”

— James Denham, professor of history and Director of the Lawton M. Chiles Jr. Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College

Interruptions The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature Gerald L. Bruns A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic

6 x 9 / 216 PAGES / 7 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5906-5 $34.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9172-0 $34.95 EBOOK

“ Gerald Bruns writes on current cutting-edge poetry from his angle as one of our leading critical theorists. His vast knowledge—of Heidegger and Blanchot, Derrida and Cavell— gives him special insights into the writings of leading writers from Beckett to Bernstein.”

— Marjorie Perloff, author of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy and The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage

Hispanicism and Early US Literature Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity John C. Havard Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States

6 x 9 / 224 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1977-9 $44.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9174-4 $44.95 EBOOK

“ This is a well-researched study that explores US literary responses to Spain and Spanish America during an important period of national identity formation.”

— Kirsten Gruesz, author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing

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ALABAMA BICENTENNIAL: CELEBRATING 200 YEARS OF ALABAMA STATEHOOD

Alabama

6.125 x 9.25 / 816 PAGES / 65 B&W FIGURES / 11 MAPS

The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition

ISBN: 978-0-8173-1974-8 $59.95s CLOTH

William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt

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A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial

ISBN: 978-0-8173-9166-9 $39.95 EBOOK

“ Fresh, compelling, insightful—the authoritative Alabama history for today’s readers and those of the 21st century.” — Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Alabama

7 x 10 / 264 PAGES / 167 COLOR FIGURES / 122 B&W FIGURES / 19 MAPS

The Making of an American State Edwin C. Bridges

978-0-8173-1942-7 $39.95t CLOTH

A thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama from its geological origins to the early twenty-first century, this book offers a vital new narrative of the history, culture, and identity of the state

978-0-8173-5876-1 $19.95t PAPER

“ An exceedingly welcome and useful work. It is a popular history designed for everyone—and everyone should read it as the author tells the story of the state in a “warts and all” fashion.”

978-0-8173-9084-6$ $19.95 EBOOK

— The Alabama Review

Alabama Founders

6 x 9 / 232 PAGES 32 B&W FIGURES

Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State Herbert James Lewis

ISBN 978-0-8173-1983-0 $39.95t CLOTH

A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically

ISBN 978-0-8173-5915-7 $24.95t PAPER

“ The individuals Lewis discusses here were instrumental in laying a figurative foundation for the development of the state of Alabama. They are therefore people we should know. Alabama Founders is an outstanding introduction to their lives and times and promises to be a valuable reference source for anyone seeking to understand Alabama’s beginnings.”

ISBN 978-0-8173-9183-6 $24.95 EBOOK

— Mike Bunn, author of Civil War Eufaula, and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812

These Rugged Days Alabama in the Civil War John S. Sledge

An accessibly written and riveting narrative of Alabama’s role in the Civil War “ Sledge’s prose is eloquent. This is narrative history at its best. One normally ignores blurbs, but on the back cover, filmmaker Ken Burns says of These Rugged Days, ‘I couldn’t stop reading it.’ I couldn’t, either.”

6 x 9 / 296 PAGES / 8 COLOR FIGURES / 37 B&W FIGURES / 3 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-1960-1 $34.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9142-3 $34.95 EBOOK

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ALABAMA BICENTENNIAL: CELEBRATING 200 YEARS OF ALABAMA STATEHOOD

Selma A Bicentennial History Alston Fitts III

A sweeping account of the history of Selma from its founding to the present. Fitts provides a wellspring of new information about every facet of this storied city, including a deeper understanding of the civil rights movement and its continuing effects.

6 x 9 / 384 PAGES / 199 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-1932-8 $39.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9065-5 $39.95 EBOOK

“ There is a palpable even-handedness about this book. It could serve as a common frame of reference for all of Selma’s citizens, black and white, and certainly for people in other places, including other parts of Alabama; it offers a font of useful information.” — Frye Gaillard, author of Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America

Shot in Alabama A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers Frances Osborn Robb

A sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941 offering a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium

7 x 10 / 592 PAGES / 1 COLOR FIGURE / 153 DUOTONE FIGURES / 2 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-1878-9 $59.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-8878-2 $59.95 EBOOK

“ An invaluable resource for historians, archivists, librarians, collectors, hobbyists, and others who may have an interest in Alabama history or historic photography. ” — The Montgomery Independent

Exploring Wild Alabama A Guide to the State’s Publicly Accessible Natural Areas Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport

A comprehensive guide to Alabama’s publicly accessible natural destinations “ A remarkably detailed guide to some of our state’s most impressive places [ . . .] This book tells you when, where, how, and even what time of year to visit them along with informed notes about why you should.”

5.5 x 8.5 / 400 PAGES / 130 COLOR FIGURES / 27 COLOR MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-5830-3 $29.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-8877-5 $19.95 EBOOK

— Birmingham magazine

The Road South Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders

6 x 9 / 200 PAGES / 10 B&W FIGURES

B. J. Hollars

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Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words

ISBN 978-0-8173-9179-9 $24.95 EBOOK

“ At various points personal quest, memoir, travelogue, and oral history, B. J. Hollars’ The Road South is a fine and important contribution to our understanding of the Freedom Riders, what motivated them, how their participation in the movement shaped them, and how they shaped America.” — Derek Charles Catsam, author of Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

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GOSSE NATURE GUIDES

The Gosse Nature Guides are a series of natural history guidebooks prepared for the outdoor lay reader and enthusiast and named in honor of the early English naturalist who described Alabama’s flora and fauna so well in his Letters from Alabama, (U.S.) Chiefly Relating to Natural History (1859). Because Alabama is one of the nation’s most biodiverse states, its citizens and visitors require taxonomic-specific field guides to interpret the wealth of life that thrives within the state’s borders.

Mammals of Alabama Troy L. Best and Julian L. Dusi

The first and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama’s diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna. Includes hundreds of professional, close-up color specimen photographs of animals in their natural habitats.

ISBN 978-0-8173-5749-8 $34.95t PAPER

Ferns of Alabama

6 x 9 / 384 PAGES / 391 ILLUSTRATIONS

John W. Short and Daniel D. Spaulding

A much-needed field guide to the more than 120 species of ferns and fern allies occurring naturally in Alabama woods, stream banks, prairies, glades, roadsides, and trails. Each species account contains a description of the plant and its habitat, range, history, conservation status, and common names.

Turtles of Alabama Craig Guyer, Mark A. Bailey, and Robert H. Mount

ISBN 978-0-8173-5647-7 $39.95t PAPER

6 x 9 / 288 PAGES / 65 COLOR & 56 B&W LINE ART ILLUSTRATIONS / 42 COLOR MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-5806-8 $39.95t PAPER

Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives

6 x 9 / 512 PAGES / 418 ILLUSTRATIONS / 86 MAPS

An illustrated guide to the 84 known species of “true” butterflies (Papilionoidea) found within the state’s borders. Close-up photographs reveal fascinating details of camouflage, mimicry, coloration, and warning devices.

Nature Journal

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The definitive guide to the state’s fascinating and diverse turtle populations including freshwater, marine, and terrestrial species.

Paulette H. Ogard, Sara C. Bright

6 X 9 / 520 PAGES / 223 COLOR & 81 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING 81 MAPS / 4 TABLES

ISBN 978-0-8173-8817-1 $39.95 EBOOK

ISBN 978-0-8173-5595-1 $34.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9145-4 $34.95 EBOOK

6 x 9 / 256 PAGES / 26 ILLUSTRATIONS

L. J. Davenport, with a Foreword by John C. Hall

ISBN 978-0-8173-5569-2 $24.95t PAPER

An innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs from L. J. Davenport’s popular column in Alabama Heritage magazine.

ISBN 978-0-8173-8391-6 $34.95 EBOOK

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AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX

Amkraut, Brian ..................................................... 29

Kordick, Carmen ................................................... 23

Blues Muse, The.......................................................16

Bailey, Mark A. ....................................................... 1

Krollos, Marream �� 4

Centennial Celebration of The Bright Star Restaurant, A ��13

Barone, John A. .................................................... 15

Martone, Michael �� 5

Brinson, Susan L. .................................................. 11

Matheson, Calum L. �� 19

Brown, Tommy Craig �� 10

McCarroll, Sarah ................................................... 27

Constance Baker Motley �� 8 Deep in the Piney Woods ��10 Desiring the Bomb...................................................19 Coan, James P. ........................................................ 2

McMillan, James B. �� 28

Daws, Laura Beth ................................................. 11

Montgomery, Michael B. �� 28

Deter-Wolf, Aaron �� 20

Moss, Robert F. ....................................................... 9

Elizabeth Robins, 1862–1952 ��28 Feeding Cahokia......................................................21 Field on Fire, A.........................................................14 Freeman, Sara ...................................................... 26

Mount, Robert H. �� 1

Fritz, Gayle J. ........................................................ 21

Nunnally, Thomas E. �� 12

Ford, Gary L., Jr. ...................................................... 8

Pauketat, Timothy R. �� 22

Foreign and Domestic Dimensions of Modern Warfare, The ��29

Furui, Yoshiaki ...................................................... 17

Peres, Tanya M. ..................................................... 20

Friendship Fiction....................................................28

Gates, Joanne E. ................................................... 28

Rai, Candice ......................................................... 18

Great Fear, A...........................................................24

Gharala, Norah L. A. �� 25

Rutter, Emily Ruth �� 16

Greater Good, The....................................................11

Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline �� 18

Steinberg, Ted ...................................................... 14

Lizards and Snakes of Alabama �� 1

Guyer, Craig ............................................................ 1

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Modernizing Solitude ��17

Field Rhetoric..........................................................18

Hawkins, Timothy ................................................. 24

Almost Family.......................................................... 6

Hersey, Mark D. .................................................... 14

Among the Swamp People �� 7

Hill, JoVonn G. ...................................................... 15

Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English.....................................................30

Hoffman, Roy ......................................................... 6

Moon over Wapakoneta, The �� 5 Saints of Progress, The ��23 Speaking of Alabama ��12 Southeastern Grasslands ��15

Jones, Howard ...................................................... 29

Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent ��22

Taxing Blackness.....................................................25

Kaplan, Michael A. �� 28

Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink ��20

Time in the Barrel..................................................... 2

Key, Albert Watkins “Watt,” Jr. �� 7

Barbecue.................................................................. 9

Theatre History Studies ��26

Koldehoff, Brad H. �� 22

Between Home and Homeland ��29

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 26 ��27

Big City.................................................................... 4

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