Fall 2019 Catalog by University of Alabama Press

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ON THE COVER “Cora Wilburn” by Moran Barak From the from the front cover design of Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny (p. 12)

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natural history / alabama

Trees of Alabama Lisa J. Samuelson Photographs by Michael E. Hogan

An easy-to-use guide to the most common trees in the state From the understory flowering dogwood presenting its showy array of white bracts in spring, to the stately, towering baldcypress anchoring swampland with their reddish buttresses; from aromatic groves of Atlantic white-cedar that grow in coastal bogs to the upland rarity of the fire-dependent montane longleaf pine, Alabama is blessed with a staggering diversity of tree species. Trees of Alabama offers an accessible guide to the most notable species occurring widely in the state, forming its renewable forest resources and underpinning its rich green blanket of natural beauty. Lisa J. Samuelson provides a user-friendly identification guide featuring straightforward descriptions and vivid photographs of more than 140 common species of trees. The text explains the habitat and ecology of each species, including its forest associates, human and wildlife uses, common names, and the derivation of its botanical name. With more than 800 full-color photographs illustrating the general form and habitat of each, plus the distinguishing characteristics of its buds, leaves, flowers, fruit, and bark, readers will be able to identify trees quickly. Colored distribution maps detail the range and occurrence of each species grouped by county, and a quick guide highlights key features at a glance. This book also features a map of forest types, chapters on basic tree biology and terminology (with illustrative line drawings), a spotlight on the plethora of oak species in the state, and a comprehensive index. This is an invaluable resource for biologists, foresters, and educators and a great reference for outdoorspeople and nature enthusiasts in Alabama and throughout the southeastern United States. Lisa J. Samuelson is Dwain G. Luce Professor of Forestry, Auburn University Alumni Professor, and director of the Center for Longleaf Pine Ecosystems at the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. She has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications on tree physiology and three dendrology textbooks, including Forest Trees: A Guide to the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the United States and Forest Trees: A Guide to the Eastern United States. Michael E. Hogan is a fine woodworker and award-winning photographer whose images have appeared in numerous educational, extension, and outreach publications.

february 6 x 9 / 360 PAGES 707 COLOR FIGURES / 42 B&W FIGURES / 139 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-5941-6 / $34.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9230-7 / $34.95 EBOOK “ Samuelson’s book is the best available tree identification tool for Alabama because it has an emphasis on the southeast where species complexes tend to be more confusing.” — John L. Clark, associate professor of biological sciences, University of Alabama (2005 to 2015) and Aldo Leopold Distinguished Teaching Chair, The Lawrenceville School (2015 to 2018)

also of interest Ferns of Alabama John W. Short and Daniel D. Spaulding

978-0-8173-5647-7 / $39.95t PAPER ebook available

Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives Paulette H. Ogard and Sara C. Bright

978-0-8173-5595-1 / $34.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

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memoir / alabama

Bay Boy Stories of a Childhood in Point Clear, Alabama Watt Key Illustrations by Murray Key

A charming, humorous, and colorful coming-of-age memoir Bay Boy is a collection of essays by award-winning young adult author Watt Key, chronicling his boyhood in Point Clear, Alabama. During his childhood, Point Clear was not the tony enclave of today with its spas, art galleries, and multimillion dollar waterfront properties. Rather, it was a sleepy resort community, practically deserted in the winter, with a considerable population of working-class residents. As Key notes in his introduction, “Life in Point Clear is really about being outside. . . . I have never found a place so perfectly suited to exercise a young boy’s imagination.” Key and his brother filled their days collecting driftwood to make forts, scooting around the bay in a sturdy Stauter boat, and making art and writing stories when it rained.

october 6 x 8 / 136 PAGES / 21 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2035-5 / $24.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9263-5 / $24.95 EBOOK

“ Mobile Bay is famous in song and story, and Watt Key now joins the distinguished ranks of those writers who have helped make it so. If, after half an hour absorbed in these pages, you do not immediately make travel plans to gaze upon these lovely tawny waters for yourself, I for one shall be surprised.” — From the foreword by John S. Sledge

also of interest Among the Swamp People: Life in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Watt Key

978-0-8173-5932-4 / $19.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

Back Home: Journeys through Mobile Roy Hoffman

978-0-8173-5431-2 / $24.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

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In a tone that is simple and direct, punctuated by truly hilarious moments. Key writes about Gulf Coast traditions including Mardi Gras, shrimping, fishing, dove hunting, jubilees, camping out, and bracing for hurricanes. These stories are full of colorful characters— Nasty Bill Dickson, a curmudgeonly tow-truck driver; I’llNeeda, a middle-aged homeless woman encamped in a shack across the road; and the Ghost of Zundel’s Wharf, “the restless soul of a longdead construction worker.” The stories are illustrated by charming and evocative artwork by the author’s brother Murray Key. Watt Key is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and speaker. He is the author of Alabama Moon, Dirt Road Home, Fourmile, Terror at Bottle Creek, Hideout, Deep Water and Among the Swamp People: Life in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. Murray Key is a renowned portrait and caricature artist living in Fairhope, Alabama.

The Jubilee An excerpt from Bay Boy As summer slips into the heavy heat of July and August, afternoons on the bay turn rough and windy. Flags tingting on their poles and pelicans ride the air currents just over the pine trees. There’s a thunderstorm crossing the bay from Mobile. You can hear the rumble of it and see the gray curtain of rain approaching. It’s much faster than it looks. Within ten minutes, everyone is running up the wharf with raindrops spotting the boards at their heels. After the storm passes, frogs cheep from the wet lawn and the waves beyond are left beaten into smooth swells, lapping against the beach. Cicadas thrum at the onset of evening. The air is so still you can hear the throbbing of a ship’s diesel engine in the channel. A screen door slams ten houses away. Voices on the wharfs again. Lightning bugs . . . jubilee. Combine a late afternoon squall, calm evening, and incoming tide, and you’ll have the perfect setup for a jubilee. These conditions create oxygen-depleted water in the bay, which drive flounder, shrimp, crabs, and other bottom-dwelling sea creatures to shore. There can be anywhere from three to fifteen jubilees in a given year, most of them falling between July and September. When I describe a jubilee to my out-of-town friends, they usually look at me with a skeptical smirk. I try to offer proof, but the pictures I have are blurry night shots. And due to their rare and unpredictable nature, it isn’t the sort of event I can simply take them to. I have to accept that jubilees will likely remain a phenomenon that only people living on the Eastern Shore are able to truly appreciate.

The fish swim to the beach in the early morning hours when it’s still dark. Like D-Day, they come in waves. I remember standing halfway out the wharf, watching flounder the size of large skillets gliding below me. I tried to throw the gig at them like a spear, but it never worked. Schools of baby catfish swarm by the thousands. I threw my cast net over them once. I spent the rest of the morning trying to pick them out until Dad shook his head and told me the net was ruined. The sea creatures crowd the shoreline and appear to be drugged and sluggish. There is little challenge to gigging the flounder or scooping the shrimp and crabs. They usually stay for an hour or two, then leave at daylight when ship waves come crashing in from the ship channel and stir the water. As if they’ve been shaken to their senses again. When I was sixteen, my brother and I filled a rowboat with flounder and sold them to the Blue Marlin restaurant. It was the easiest money we’d ever made. These days I’m more responsible about how much seafood I take. Besides, I’m more interested in watching the kids enjoy themselves. I remember the fun of collecting samples of all the different types of fish that come in. We made exotic aquariums and tried to keep them as pets. It wasn’t until we were a little older that we figured out why our fish never lived more than an hour or two. We’d made their aquariums out of jubilee water, just the thing that they were trying to escape. We’d jubileed them to death. Though I’ve probably experienced a hundred jubilees by now, I still find them fascinating. And it’s certainly an event that you have to see to fully appreciate. Unfortunately, unless you live on Mobile Bay, you probably won’t see one. You’ll just have to take my word for it. uapress.ua.edu

FICTION

Masses and Motets A Francesca Fruscella Mystery Jeffrey DeShell

A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue Masses and Motets is a tale composed of four basic interwoven threads, corresponding to the four-part choral writing of Pierre de la Rue’s service music. The first thread comes from the diaries of a recently murdered priest, Father Andrea Vidal, former secretary to the notorious Father Marcial Maciel. The second thread is the mystery story, a police procedural focusing on the efforts of Denver detective Francesca Fruscella to solve the murder and retrieve Vidal’s diary. The third strand is the story of Father Signelli, a priest sent from the Vatican to “fix” the murder. And the fourth strand explores the best and worst of Catholic culture: art and music created by Catholic artists and sexual abuse by Catholic priests.

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“ Jeffrey DeShell writes the only detective novels I want to read. Masses and Motets tore the top of my head off; I loved every word.” — Benjamin Whitmer, author of Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers and Cry Father: A Novel “ Jeffrey DeShell has managed to make the form of the crime novel erudite, challenging, and entertaining at the same time. What a wonderful trompe l’oeil, a true literary experiment and adventure. This a truly fine piece of work.” — Percival Everett

also of interest Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery Jeffrey DeShell

ISBN 978-1-57366-175-1 / $14.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

Fort Da: A Report Elisabeth Sheffield

ISBN 978-1-57366-150-8 / $19.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

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Vidal’s narrative is the story of a priest who systematically, sincerely, and hopefully tries to destroy his very self through sex, drinking, and drugs in order to get closer to God. Fruscella’s story is that of a middle-aged, female detective trying to solve a ghastly murder while constantly battling the sexism of the Catholic Church. Signelli’s tale is that of an older career priest who, in doing the bidding of his superiors to fix problems that threaten the order of the Church, has perhaps compromised his own soul. By no means a simple narrative of wicked priests, this is a story of men who desperately want to believe, as well as a story of what this belief might shelter and cost. Jeffrey DeShell is author of the novels Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery, In Heaven Everything is Fine, S&M: A Novel, Peter: An (A)Historical Romance, The Trouble with Being Born, and Arthouse: A Novel.

FICTION

Slater Orchard An Etymology Darcie Dennigan

An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization In Slater Orchard, a cleaning woman navigates a half-imaginary world ravaged by industrial waste and pollution. As she labors to grow pear trees in a dumpster, appearances unravel around and within her, and the orchard becomes a burial ground. We begin to question both the reliability of the narrator and of consensual reality. With sharp wit and precise diction, Darcie Dennigan calls on and works in the lineage of great modernist women, from Clarice Lispector to Marie Redonnet. Slater Orchard is thoroughly contemporary in its themes, however, evincing dire questions of rampant capitalism and climate change that are rapidly changing our world and the exigencies of living in it. Darcie Dennigan is an award-winning poet and playwright whose books include Madame X and The Parking Lot and other feral scenarios. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

september 5.5 x 8.5 / 142 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-072-3 / $16.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-883-5 / $9.95 EBOOK

“ The experience of reading Slater Orchard is as gratifying as it is harrowing. We fall in love with the voice of its narrator, a young woman who seems to be learning to see world as real only when she has words for what she encounters. But our attraction to the way she tells this story is quickly called into question by the horror of the story itself. This novel is genius in its commitment to tell the truth about our lives, that we live in and next to all forms of evil, that some of us lose ourselves so others might survive.” — Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition

also of interest A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories Vi Khi Nao

ISBN 978-1-57366-061-7 / $16.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

Bhopal Dance: A Novel Jennifer Natalya Fink

ISBN 978-1-57366-064-8 / $17.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

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Drain Songs Stories and a Novella Grant Maierhofer

A collection of related stories that deal with the anxiety, pain, and ennui of addiction and withdrawal Drain Songs gathers five stories and a novella focused on the many trials of modern life—addiction and depression, mania and disorder, attempts and failure at keeping the worst at bay. Grant Maierhofer’s stories focus on characters in varying states of disarray and stuckness, continuing his literary project of analyzing lives on the fringes of sanity and society. The novella “Drain Songs” is a harrowing narrative focused squarely on addiction and recovery, twelve-step programs, and codependency.

october 5.5 x 8.5 / 208 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-074-7 / $17.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-885-9 / $9.95 EBOOK

“ Drain Songs is witty, brutal, tender, and exquisitely unhinged. Grant Maierhofer’s prose is a magnificent fire fueled by the treasures and trash of the last 100 years. It lights new paths into the darkness.” — Sam Lipsyte, author Hark and The Ask “Mr. Maierhofer writes like one exploring his own nervous system armed with only a scalpel and the language of his forebears. The title novella is a galvanizing and intimate confession of an addict of the American canon of miseries, a genuinely worthy nod to Berryman and Co.” — Jonathan Lethem

also of interest The Making Sense of Things George Choundas

ISBN 978-1-57366-065-5 / $17.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

Big City Marream Krollos

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In all of these tales, Maierhofer takes a bee’s-eye view of protagonists from all walks of life, from the working class to the academy, from janitors to professors, embodying the commonalities of men and women struggling with very fundamental elements of survival, perspective, and identity—attempts formal and informal to contend with the trials that forever engage and perplex humanity. His evocative prose conveys both despair and resignation as well as stultifying, brain-deadening routine and repetition. Still, these stories transcend angst and tilt toward agony and ecstasy and the hope of redemption. Grant Maierhofer is author of Flamingos, Gag, Clog, and Postures. His shorter work has appeared in in Egress, 3:AM, LIT, and Always Crashing and can also be read at his website grantmaierhofer.fail.

memoir / alabama

Sweet Mystery A Book of Remembering Judith Hillman Paterson

An exquisitely written memoir—combining sorrow and joy, anger and forgiveness, suffering and healing—that affirms the resilience and strength that imbue the human spirit Judith Paterson was just nine years old in 1946 when her mother died of a virulent combination of alcoholism and mental illness at the age of 31. Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering is Paterson’s harrowing account of the memories of her mother, told with eloquence and understanding. Set largely in Montgomery, Alabama, the story plays out against a backdrop of relatives troubled almost as much by southern conflicts over race and class as by the fallout from a long family history of drinking, denial, and mental illness. While rich in the details and flavor of small-town life in the South during the 1940s, Sweet Mystery transcends time and regionalism to evoke universal American themes. Ultimately, it confirms the damaging effects of early trauma on children as well as the innate and familial strengths that enable some children to survive, grow up, and heal. Originally published in 1996 to critical acclaim in the national media, Sweet Mystery was called “a beautifully written, excruciating collision of form and emotion, joy and pain, willpower and self-examination, control and surrender” by the Washington Post. This edition contains a new afterword written by the author as well as a list of suggested readings. Judith Hillman Paterson served as professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery and as a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She has published four books including literary studies of the work of Sir Thomas More and Philip Roth. She lives in her hometown, Montgomery, Alabama, with her husband, Mark Grable.

december 5.5 x 8.5 / 284 PAGES / 18 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5960-7 / $24.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9268-0 / $24.95 EBOOK

“ A remarkable work . . . tender, excruciating, compelling.” — Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird “ A brilliant memoir. . . . Sweet Mystery has special appeal for readers who have survived difficult childhoods.” — Boston Globe “ The author deftly evokes both the atmosphere of the small-town South and the dynamics of a troubled family, making this as engrossing as a good Southern novel.” — Publishers Weekly

also of interest Almost Family: 35th Anniversary Edition Roy Hoffman

ISBN 978-0-8173-5927-0 / $19.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives Wayne Flynt

ISBN 978-0-8173-1754-6 / $34.95t CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

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COMMUNICATIONS / SOCIAL SCIENCE / PSYCHOLOGY

Duped Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception Timothy R. Levine A scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods From the advent of fake news to climate-science denial and Bernie Madoff’s appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. Some people appear authentic and sincere even when the facts discredit them, and many people fall victim to conspiracy theories and economic scams that should be dismissed as obviously ludicrous. This happens because of a near-universal human tendency to operate within a mindset that can be characterized as a “truth-default.” We uncritically accept most of the messages we receive as “honest.” We all are perceptually blind to deception. We are hardwired to be duped. The question is, can anything be done to militate against our vulnerability to deception without further eroding the trust in people and social institutions that we so desperately need in civil society?

november 6 x 9 / 400 PAGES / 15 B&W FIGURES / 18 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2041-6 / $84.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5968-3/ $34.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9271-0 / $34.95 EBOOK “ Tim Levine has given us an elegant and persuasive explanation of one of the oldest puzzles in psychology. Why are human beings so easily deceived? Duped has completely changed my understanding of liars and their lies.” — Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success and host of the podcast Revisionist History

Timothy R. Levine’s Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception recounts a decades-long program of empirical research that culminates in a new theory of deception— truth-default theory. This theory holds that the content of incoming communication is typically and uncritically accepted as true, and most of the time, this is good. Truth-default allows humans to function socially. Further, because most deception is enacted by a few prolific liars, the so called “truth-bias” is not really a bias after all. Passive belief makes us right most of the time, but the catch is that it also makes us vulnerable to occasional deceit. Levine’s research on lie detection and truth-bias has produced many provocative new findings over the years. He has uncovered what makes some people more believable than others and has discovered several ways to improve lie-detection accuracy. In Duped, Levine details where these ideas came from, how they were tested, and how the findings combine to produce a coherent new understanding of human deception and deception detection. Timothy R. Levine is distinguished professor and chair of the department of communication studies at the University of Alabama–Birmingham. He has been studying deception for more than twenty-five years and has published his research in more than 140 articles in academic journals.

also of interest Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life Spencer Schaffner

ISBN 978-0-8173-2022-5 / $74.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5955-3 / $24.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

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A conversation with Tim Levine, author of Duped What is truth-default theory? Truth-default theory is a new social scientific theory of human-to-human deception and deception detection. It helps explain why people lie, how often they lie, why lies work, and how best to catch lies. Deception research has been ongoing for about fifty years and many of the findings are both surprising and seemingly in contradiction with other findings. Truth-default theory began as an effort to make sense of research results by providing a coherent framework where the findings all fit together in a way that made sense. As it turned out, making sense out of prior findings led to several new predictions and findings. The book tells the story of the theoryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how I came up with it, what the theory says, how it works, and the research I designed to test it. What will people be surprised to learn when they read Duped? So much. When it comes to deception, nothing is what it seems. Duped debunks one commonly held myth after another. For example, liars donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look away when they lie. Knowing someone better does not better enable you to spot their lie. Most people are more honest than the average person. Every chapter contains new surprises. Why did you decide to write this book? As an academic, I feel an obligation to share what I have learned with anyone who is interested. I have published peer reviewed journal articles reporting on individual experiments and sets of experiments on this topic over my entire career. The trouble with journal articles is that they are all self-contained. The individual experiments all fit together into a bigger picture, but my readers would never know that because of how they are presented. A book offers the space and freedom to adequately communicate the ideas and evidence in a complete and coherent way. Why do most people lie? People lie when the truth is a problem. Or when they want something. Or if they have a goal and reality thwarts that goal. To them, deception provides a solution and means to an end. Can gullibility, or truth-default, be harmful? Yes, absolutely. Gullibility did not work out too well for the defenders of the city of Troy when they accepted the Trojan horse. Victims of Bernie Madoff lost large sums of money. But, the surprising point of truth-default theory is that despite the potential for much harm, gullibility is actually a net plus. We evolved in a way that makes us vulnerable to deception because the advantages greatly outweigh the harm.

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SOUTHERN HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY / FLORIDA

Henry Bradley Plant Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South Canter Brown Jr.

The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida In this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant’s influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. One of the preeminent historians of Florida, Brown brings this important but understudied figure in American history to the foreground.

november 6 x 9 / 372 PAGES / 22 B&W figures ISBN 978-0-8173-2037-9 / $79.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5966-9 / $34.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9266-6 / $34.95 EBOOK “ Henry Bradley Plant explores in enlightening and engaging detail its protagonist’s complex blend of driving work ethic, relentless ambition, shameless networking, repeated good luck, and well-timed bribery and corporate scheming, which combined to transform the poor, Connecticut widow’s son into a rich transportation titan with international reach and the trust of presidents. The author effectively mines diplomatic, borderlands, business, transportation, communications and even religious history and developments throughout Plant’s long life across most of the nineteenth century to tell the subject’s story and validate his importance.” — Daniel R. Weinfeld, author of The Jackson County War: Reconstruction and Resistance in Post–Civil War Florida

also of interest Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court William S. Belko

ISBN 978-0-8173-1906-9 / $59.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

Thomas Goode Jones: Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South Brent J. Aucoin

ISBN 978-0-8173-1913-7 / $54.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

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Henry Bradley Plant: Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South carefully examines the complicated years of adventure and activity that marked Plant’s existence, from his birth in Connecticut in 1819 to his somewhat mysterious death in New York City in 1899. Brown illuminates Plant’s vision and perspectives for the state of Florida and the country as a whole and traces many of his influences back to events from his childhood and early adulthood. The book also elaborates on Plant’s controversial Civil War relationships and his utilization of wartime earnings in the postwar era to invest in the bankrupt Southern rail lines. With the success of his businesses such as the Southern Express Company and the Tampa Bay Hotel, Plant transformed Florida into a hub for trade and tourism—traits we still recognize in the Florida of today. This thoroughly researched biography fills important gaps in Florida’s social and economic history and sheds light on a historical figure to an extent never previously undertaken or sufficiently appreciated. Both informative and innovative, Brown’s volume will be a valuable resource for scholars and general readers interested in Southern history, business history, Civil War–era history, and transportation history. Canter Brown Jr. has taught in the history and political science departments at Florida A&M University. He is author or coauthor of many books, including Florida’s Black Public Officials, 1867–1924; Fort Meade, 1849–1900; with Walter W. Manley II, The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917–1972; and, with Larry Eugene Rivers, Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works.

history / alabama

The Founding of Alabama Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County Frances Cabaniss Roberts Edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Reidy

The most thorough history of Alabama’s Madison County region, widely available for the first time The 1956 dissertation by Frances Cabaniss Roberts is a classic text on Alabama history that continues to be cited by southern historians. Roberts was the first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Alabama’s history department. In the 1950s, she was the only full-time faculty member at what is now the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she was appointed chair of the history department in 1966. Roberts’s dissertation, “Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County,” remains the most thorough history of the region yet produced. While certainly a product of its era, Roberts work is visionary in its own way and offers a useful look at Alabama’s rise to statehood. Thomas Reidy, editor of this edition, has kept Roberts’s words intact except for correction of minor typographical errors and helpful additions to the notes and citations. His introduction describes both the value of Roberts’s decades of service to UAH and the importance of her dissertation over time. While highlighting the great intrinsic value of Roberts’s research and writing, Reidy also notes its significance in demonstrating how the practice of history—its methods, priorities, and values—has evolved over the intervening decades. In her examination of Madison County, Roberts spotlights exemplars of civic performance and good community behavior, giving readers one of the earliest accountings of the antebellum southern middle class. Unlike many historians of her time, Roberts displays an interest in both the “common folks” and leaders who built the region—rural and urban—and created the institutions that shaped Madison County. She examines the contributions of merchants, shopkeepers, lawyers, doctors, architects, craftsmen, planters, farmers, elected and appointed officials, board members, and entrepreneurs. Frances Cabaniss Roberts (1916–2000) was instrumental in founding the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she was a professor of history for more than forty years. She is author or coauthor of several books about Alabama history, including Civics for Alabama Schools and Shadows on the Wall: The Life and Works of Howard Weeden. Thomas Reidy is former lecturer of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. In 2013, he led a campaign to pardon and exonerate the defendants in the Scottsboro Boys case.

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“ Just as fine as I remembered, exceedingly well researched, clearly and persuasively argued, and important beyond the limits of its subject, early antebellum Madison County. . . . The passage of the years has not in the least diminished the significance of its findings.” — J. Mills Thornton III, author of Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma and Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965

also of interest Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State Herbert James Lewis

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Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt

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FICTION / JUDAIC STUDIES

Cosella Wayne Or, Will and Destiny Cora Wilburn Edited and introduced by Jonathan D. Sarna

The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman Published serially in the spiritualist journal Banner of Light in 1860, Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny is the first coming-of-age novel, written and published in English by an American Jewish woman, to depict Jews in the United States and transforms what we know about the history of early American Jewish literature. The novel never appeared in book form, went unmentioned in Jewish newspapers of the day, and studies of nineteenth-century American Jewish literature ignore it completely. Yet the novel anticipates many central themes of American Jewish writing: intermarriage, generational tension, family dysfunction, Jewish-Christian relations, immigration, poverty, the place of women in Jewish life, the nature of romantic love, and the tension between destiny and free will.

october 6 x 9 / 448 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-2034-8 / $64.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5956-0 / $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9261-1 / $29.95 EBOOK “ American Jewish history has generally been unkind to individuals who failed to live up to the community’s (shifting) ideals. Subversives, the independentminded, the transgressors—women in particular— have been banished from the cultural memory. That, more than anything else, may account for the forgetting of Cora Wilburn—until now.” — from the introduction by Jonathan D. Sarna

also of interest Memories of Two Generations: A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas Alexander Z. Gurwitz; Edited and Introduced by Bryan Edward Stone

978-0-8173-1903-8/ $59.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America Rosemarie Bodenheimer

978-0-8173-1925-0 / $49.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

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The narrative recounts a relationship between an abusive Jewish father and the rebellious daughter he molested as well as that daughter’s efforts at finding a place in the complex social fabric of nineteenth-century America. It is also unique in portraying such themes as an unmarried Jewish woman’s descent into poverty, her forlorn years as a starving orphaned seamstress, her apostasy and return to Judaism, and her quest to be both Jewish and a spiritualist at one and the same time. Jonathan Sarna, who introduces the volume, discovered Cosella Wayne while pursuing research at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. This edition is supplemented with Cora Wilburn’s recently rediscovered diary, selections from which are reprinted in the appendix. Together, these materials help to situate Cosella Wayne within the life and times of one of nineteenth-century American Jewry’s least known and yet most prolific female authors. Cora Wilburn (1824–1906), born Henrietta Pulfermacher, emigrated from France to the United States under the name Henretty Jackson in 1848. Her novels, essays and poems mostly appeared in rare spiritualist journals and Jewish periodicals. Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and directs its Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. He is also chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History. He is author or editor of more than thirty books on American Jewish history and life, including American Judaism: A History.

JEWISH STUDIES / LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES / HISTORY

Polacos in Argentina Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture Mariusz Kałczewiak An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s Between the 1890s and 1930s, Argentina, following the United States and Palestine, became the main destination for Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews seeking safety, civil rights, and better economic prospects. In the period between 1918 and 1939, sixty thousand Polish Jews established new homes in Argentina. They formed a strong ethnic community that quickly embraced Argentine culture while still maintaining their unique Jewish-Polish character. This mass migration caused a transfer of cultural, social, and political contents in both Poland and Argentina, forever shaping the cultural landscape of both lands. In Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture, Mariusz Kałczewiak has constructed a multifaceted and in-depth narrative that sheds light on marginalized aspects of Jewish migration and enriches the dialogue between Latin American Jewish studies and Polish Jewish Studies. Based on archival research, Yiddish travelogues on Argentina, and the Yiddish and Spanish-language press, this study recreates a mosaic of entanglements that Jewish migration wove between Poland and Argentina. Most studies on mass migration fail to acknowledge the role of the country of origin, but this innovative work approaches Jewish migration to Argentina as a continuous process that took place on both sides of the Atlantic. Taken as a whole, Polacos in Argentina enlightens the heterogeneous and complex issue of immigrant commitments, belongings, and expectations. Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina serves as a case study of how ethnicity evolves and transforms among migrants and their children, and the dynamics that emerge between putting down roots in a new country and maintaining commitments to the country of origin. Mariusz Kałczewiak is senior research associate and lecturer in the Slavic Studies department at the University of Potsdam. His scholarship has appeared in American Jewish History, The New Ethnic Studies in Latin America, and Studia Judaica.

december 6 x 9 / 344 PAGES / 23 B&W FIGURES / 5 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2039-3 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9269-7 / $49.95 EBOOK

“ This is a pioneering and fascinating study of global Yiddish culture, beyond the borders of Eastern Europe, with special focus on its encounters with non-European cultures.” — Raanan Rein, author of Argentina, Israel, and the Jews: Peron, The Eichmann Capture and After and Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?

also of interest The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942: A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania’s Contested Borderlands Paul A. Shapiro

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Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Haven in Chile Eva Goldschmidt Wyman

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HISTORY / LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Hiding in Plain Sight Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic Erika Denise Edwards Details how African-descended women’s societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina Argentina promotes itself as a country of European immigrants. This makes it an exception to other Latin American countries, which embrace a more mixed—African, Indian, European—heritage. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic traces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a “black disappearance” by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a “white” Argentina. Erika Denise Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods, with a focus on how these women sought whiteness to better their lives and that of their children.

January 6 x 9 / 200 PAGES / 5 B&W figures / 7 tables ISBN 978-0-8173-2036-2 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9265-9 / $54.95 EBOOK

“ Edwards boldly argues that African-descended women in Córdoba employed their clothing choices, motherly responsibilities, and positions as concubines to transform black identities into white privilege. By exploring intimate struggles, Edwards effectively revises Argentina’s national story of black invisibility to a narrative of black agency of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.” — Rachel Sarah O’Toole, author of Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru

Edwards argues that attempts by black women to escape the stigma of blackness by recategorizing themselves and their descendants as white began as early as the late eighteenth century, challenging scholars who assert that the black population drastically declined at the end of the nineteenth century because of the whitening or modernization process. She further contends that in Córdoba, Argentina, women of African descent (such as wives, mothers, daughters, and concubines) were instrumental in shaping their own racial reclassifications and destinies. This volume makes use of a wealth of sources to relate these women’s choices. The sources consulted include city censuses and notarial and probate records that deal with free and enslaved African descendants; criminal, ecclesiastical, and civil court cases; marriages and baptisms records and newsletters. These varied sources provide information about the day-to-day activities of cordobés society and how women of African descent lived, formed relationships, thrived, and partook in the transformation of racial identities in Argentina. Erika Denise Edwards is associate professor of colonial Latin American history and Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

also of interest Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain Norah L. A. Gharala

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A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century Bonnie A. Lucero

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RHETORIC / COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Lives, Letters, and Quilts Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance Vanessa Kraemer Sohan

How writers, composers, and artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials In Lives, Letters, and Quilts: Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance, Vanessa Kraemer Sohan applies a translingual and transmodal framework informed by feminist rhetorical practice to three distinct case studies that demonstrate women using unique and effective rhetorical strategies in political, religious, and artistic contexts. These case studies highlight a diverse set of actors uniquely situated by their race, gender, class, or religion, but who are nevertheless connected by their capacity to envision and recontextualize the seemingly ordinary means and materials available in order to effectively persuade others. The Great Depression provides the backdrop for the first case study, a movement whereby thousands of elderly citizens proselytized and fundraised for a monthly pension plan dreamt up by a California doctor in the hopes of lifting themselves out of poverty. Sohan investigates how the Townsend plan’s elderly supporters—the Townsendites—worked within and across language, genre, mode, and media to enable them for the first time to be recognized by others, and themselves, as a viable political constituency. Next, Sohan recounts the story of Quaker minister Eliza P. Kirkbride Gurney who met President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Their subsequent epistolary exchanges concerning conscientious objectors made such an impression on him that one of her letters was rumored to be in his pocket the night of his assassination. Their exchanges and Gurney’s own accounts of her transnational ministry in her memoir, provide useful examples of how, throughout history, women rhetors have adopted and transformed typically underappreciated forms of rhetoric—such as the epideictic—for their particular purposes. The final example focuses on the Gee’s Bend quiltmakers—a group of African American women living in rural Alabama who repurpose discarded work clothes and other castoff fabrics into the extraordinary quilts for which they are known. By drawing on the means and materials at hand to create celebrated works of art in conditions of extreme poverty, these women show how marginalized artisans can operate both within and outside the bounds of established aesthetic traditions, and communicate the particulars of their experience across cultural and economic divides. Vanessa Kraemer Sohan is associate professor of English at Florida International University. Her work has appeared in College English, Pedagogy, and JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics.

december 6 x 9 / 248 PAGES / 7 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2038-6 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9267-3 / $49.95 EBOOK

“ Lives, Letters, and Quilts is an engaging read. The case study chapters provide interesting background and analysis, and as a study of quotidian forms of rhetorical resistance, this book makes a valuable contribution.” — Robert E. Terrill, author of Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment and Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship

also of interest Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things Edited by Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle

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What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics Edited by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness

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MILITARY HISTORY / PUBLIC MEMORY

War and Public Memory Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Europe David A. Messenger

An introduction to key issues in the study of war and memory that examines significant conflicts in twentieth-century Europe David A. Messenger argues that in order to understand the history of twentieth-century Europe, we must first appreciate and accept how different societies and cultures remember their national conflicts. We must also be aware of the ways that those memories evolve over time. In War and Public Memory: Case Studies in TwentiethCentury Europe, Messenger outlines the relevant history of war and its impact on different European nations, and assesses how and where the memory of these conflicts emerges in political and public discourse and in the public sphere and public spaces of Europe.

january 6 x 9 / 240 PAGES / 20 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2044-7 / $79.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5964-5 / $39.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9274-1 / $39.95 EBOOK “ War and Public Memory is a gripping story of Europe’s most divisive conflicts. In lucid prose, Messenger traces how loss has been carved into the European landscape. This vital study demonstrates that past atrocities continue to shape national identity, while memorials transform war into productive mechanisms of memory.” — Sara J. Brenneis, author of Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940–2015

The case studies presented in this volume emphasize the major wars fought on European soil as well as the violence perpetrated against civilian populations. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the conflict and then proceeds with a study of how memory of that struggle has entered into public consciousness in different national societies. The focus throughout is on collective social, cultural, and public memory, and in particular how memory has emerged in public spaces throughout Europe, such as parks, museums, and memorial sites. Messenger discusses memories of the First World War for both the victors and the vanquished as well as their successor states. Other events discussed include the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent conflicts in the former Soviet Union, the Armenian genocide, the collapse of Yugoslavia , the legacy of the civil war in Spain, Germany’s reckoning with its Nazi past, and the memory of occupation and the Holocaust in France and Poland. This volume serves as both an invaluable introduction to the study of public memory and an appeal to scholars, students, and citizens for the enduring significance of memory studies in understanding the history of twentieth-century Europe. David A. Messenger is chair and professor of history at the University of South Alabama. He is coeditor of A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe and author of Hunting Nazis in Franco’s Spain.

also of interest Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France Kate Clarke Lemay

ISBN 978-0-8173-1981-6 / $54.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

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WORLD WAR II / MILITARY HISTORY

The Battle over Peleliu Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War Stephen C. Murray

New in Paper An ethnographic and historical account of the commercial, cultural, and military encroachment by Japan and the United States on the island nation of Palau The expansionist Japanese empire annexed the inhabited archipelago of Palau in 1914. The airbase built on Peleliu Island became a target for attack by the United States in World War II. The Battle over Peleliu: Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War offers an ethnographic study of how Palau and Peleliu were transformed by warring great powers and further explores how their conflict is remembered differently by the three peoples who shared that experience. Author Stephen C. Murray uses oral histories from Peleliu’s elders to reconstruct the island’s prewar way of life, offering a fascinating explanation of the role of land and place in island culture. To Palauans, history is conceived geographically, not chronologically. Land and landmarks are both the substance of history and the mnemonic triggers that recall the past. Murray then offers a detailed account of the 1944 US invasion against entrenched Japanese forces on Peleliu, a seventy-four-day campaign that razed villages, farms, ancestral cemeteries, beaches, and forests, and with them, many of the key nodes of memory and identity. Murray also explores how Islanders’ memories of the battle as shattering their way of life differ radically from the ways Japanese and Americans remember the engagement in their histories, memoirs, fiction, monuments, and tours of Peleliu. Determination to retrieve the remains of 11,000 Japanese soldiers from the caves of Peleliu has driven high-profile civic groups from across the Japanese political spectrum to the island. Contemporary Japan continues to debate pacifist, right-wing apologist, and other interpretations of its aggression in Asia and the Pacific. These disputes are exported to Peleliu, and subtly frame how Japanese commemoration portrays the battle in stone and ritual. Americans, victors in the battle, return to the archipelago in far fewer numbers. For them, the conflict remains controversial but is most often submerged into the narrative of “the good war.” Stephen C. Murray received his PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2006. He and his wife currently operate a historic preservation consulting firm, Murray & Murray Associates, in Goleta, California.

september 6 x 9 / 292 PAGES / 16 B&W FIGURES / 6 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-5978-2 / $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-8889-8 / $29.95 EBOOK

“ The Battle over Peleliu is an important contribution to Pacific history, because it considers the significant voices, experiences, and memories of the Islanders in their view of the battle for Peleliu as ‘an unmitigated social, cultural, and environmental disaster.’” — Journal of Pacific History “ Everybody lost at Peleliu, and Murray does a remarkable job of making us understand why.” — Pacific Affairs

also of interest On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 Steven Trout

ISBN 978-0-8173-5723-8 / $34.95s PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

Points of Honor: Short Stories of the Great War by a US Combat Marine Thomas Boyd, Edited and with an Introduction by Steven Trout

ISBN 978-0-8173-5911-9 / $19.95t PAPER EBOOK AVAILABLE

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ARCHAEOLOGY / LOUISIANA

Uprooted Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods D. Ryan Gray

The archaeology of four New Orleans neighborhoods that were replaced by public housing projects Uprooted: Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods uses archaeological research on four neighborhoods that were razed during the construction of public housing in World War II–era New Orleans. Although each of these neighborhoods was identified as a “slum” historically, the material record challenges the simplicity of this designation. D. Ryan Gray provides evidence of the inventiveness of former residents who were marginalized by class, color, or gender and whose everyday strategies of survival, subsistence, and spirituality challenged the city’s developing racial and social hierarchies.

february 6 x 9 / 296 PAGES / 34 B&W FIGURES / 4 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2047-8 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9277-2 / $54.95 EBOOK

“ Ryan Gray’s Uprooted: Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods strikes a novel and creative series of questions about the relationships between heritage, municipal housing, and the color line illuminated with an interesting range of broadly defined archaeological resources. Telling this story as historical archaeology is novel if not unique, aspiring to paint a picture with prosaic materiality, urban spatiality, historical depth, and a critical eye on the motivations of a stream of ideologues eager to engineer the American city.” — Paul R. Mullins, author of The Archaeology of Consumer Culture

also of interest The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast Benjamin A. Steere

ISBN 978-0-8173-1949-6 / $54.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

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These neighborhoods initially appear to have been quite distinct, ranging from the working-class Irish Channel, to the relatively affluent Creole of Color–dominated Lafitte area, to the former location of Storyville, the city’s experiment in semilegal prostitution. Archaeological and historical investigations suggest that race was the crucial factor in the areas’ selection for clearance. Each neighborhood manifested a particular perceived racial disorder, where race intersected with ethnicity, class, or gender in ways that defied the norms of Jim Crow segregation. Gray’s research makes use of both primary documents—including census records, city directories, and even the brothel advertising guides called “Blue Books”—and archaeological data to examine what this entailed at a variety of scales, reconstructing narratives of the households and communities affected by clearance. Public housing, both in New Orleans and elsewhere, imposed a new kind of control on urban life that had the effect of making cities both more segregated and less equal. The story of the neighborhoods that were destroyed provides a reminder that their erasure was not an inevitable outcome, and that a more equitable and just city is still possible today. A critical examination of the rise of public housing helps inform the ongoing debates over its demise, especially in light of the changing face of post-Katrina New Orleans. D. Ryan Gray is associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans.

ARCHAEOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America Edited by Stephen B. Carmody and Casey R. Barrier

Archaeological case studies consider material evidence of religion and ritual in the pre-Columbian Eastern Woodlands Archaeologists today are interpreting Native American religion and ritual in the distant past in more sophisticated ways, considering new understandings of the ways that Native Americans themselves experienced them. Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief: Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America broadly considers Native American religion and ritual in eastern North America and focuses on practices that altered and used a vast array of material items as well as how physical spaces were shaped by religious practices. Unbound to a single theoretical perspective of religion, contributors approach ritual and religion in diverse ways. Importantly, they focus on how people in the past practiced religion by altering and using a vast array of material items, from smoking pipes, ceremonial vessels, carved figurines, and iconographic images, to sacred bundles, hallucinogenic plants, revered animals, and ritual architecture. Contributors also show how physical spaces were shaped by religious practice, and how rock art, monuments, soils and special substances, and even land- and cityscapes were part of the active material worlds of religious agents. Case studies, arranged chronologically, cover time periods ranging from the Paleoindian period (13,000–7900 BC) to the late Mississippian and into the protohistoric/contact periods. The geographical scope is much of the greater southeastern and southern Midwestern culture areas of the Eastern Woodlands, from the Central and Lower Mississippi River Valleys to the Ohio Hopewell region, and from the greater Ohio River Valley down through the Deep South and across to the Carolinas. Stephen B. Carmody is assistant professor in the department of social science at Troy University.

december 6 x 9 / 328 PAGES / 35 B&W figures / 3 maps / 6 tables ISBN 978-0-8173-2042-3 / $69.95s HARDCOVER ISBN 978-0-8173-9272-7 / $69.95 EBOOK

“ Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief contributes important new insights into often overlooked aspects of past human behavior—those of religion and ritual. Using many different components of the archaeological record to investigate ancient religion and ritual, the contributors demonstrate that even relatively mundane cultural materials have the potential to illuminate the most ephemeral aspects of past human cultures.” — Richard W. Jefferies, author of Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley

also of interest Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent

Casey R. Barrier is assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Bryn Mawr College.

Edited by Brad H. Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat

Contributors Sarah E. Baires / Melissa R. Baltus / Casey R. Barrier / James F. Bates / Sierra M. Bow / James A. Brown / Stephen B. Carmody / Meagan E. Dennison / Aaron Deter-Wolf / David H. Dye / Bretton T. Giles / Cameron Gokee / Kandace D. Hollenbach / Thomas A. Jennings / Megan C. Kassabaum / John E. Kelly / Ashley A. Peles / Tanya M. Peres / Charlotte D. Pevny / Connie M. Randall / Jan F. Simek / Ashley M. Smallwood / Renee B. Walker / Alice P. Wright

Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast

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Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf

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Garden Creek The Archaeology of Interaction in Middle Woodland Appalachia Alice P. Wright Presents archaeological data to explore the concept of glocalization as applied in the Hopewell world Originally coined in the context of twentieth-century business affairs, the term glocalization describes how the global circulation of products, services, or ideas requires accommodations to local conditions, and, in turn, how local conditions can significantly impact global markets and relationships. Garden Creek: The Archaeology of Interaction in Middle Woodland Appalachia presents glocalization as a concept that can help explain the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction not only in the present but also in the deep past.

december 6 x 9 / 224 PAGES / 36 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP / 8 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2040-9 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9270-3 / $54.95 EBOOOK

“ Wright’s investigation and interpretations of the Garden Creek site open a window on an important and understudied corner of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere. The intensive investigation of this relatively small area is an exemplary case study that will be useful as a model for similar projects.” — Bradley T. Lepper, author of Ohio Archaeology: An Illustrated Chronicle of Ohio’s Ancient American Indian Cultures

also of interest Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians Christopher B. Rodning

ISBN 978-0-8173-1841-3 / $59.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction James B. Stoltman

978-0-8173-1859-8 / $69.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

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Alice P. Wright uses the concept of glocalization as a framework for understanding the mutual contributions of large-scale and small-scale processes to prehistoric transformations. Using geophysical surveys, excavations, and artifact analysis, Wright shows how Middle Woodland cultural contact wrought changes in religious practices, such as mound building and the crafting of ritual objects for exchange or pilgrimage. Wright presents and interprets original archaeological data from the Garden Creek site in western North Carolina as part of a larger study of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere, a well-known but poorly understood episode of cross-cultural interaction that linked communities across eastern North America during the Middle Woodland period. Although Hopewellian culture contact did not encompass the entire planet, it may have been “global” to those who experienced and created it, as it subsumed much of the world as Middle Woodland people knew it. Reimagining Hopewell as an episode of glocalization more fully accounts for the diverse communities, interests, and processes involved in this “global” network. Alice P. Wright is assistant professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is coeditor of Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast.

ARCHAEOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

Megadrought in the Carolinas The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence John S. Cable Considers the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast A prevailing enigma in American archaeology is why vast swaths of land in the Southeast and Southwest were abandoned between AD 1200 and 1500. The most well-known abandonments occurred in the Four Corners and Mimbres areas of the Southwest and the central Mississippi valley in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and in southern Arizona and the Ohio Valley during the fifteenth century. In Megadrought in the Carolinas: The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence, John S. Cable demonstrates through the application of innovative ceramic analysis that yet another fifteenth-century abandonment event took place across an area of some 34.5 million acres centered on the South Carolina coast. Most would agree that these sweeping changes were at least in part the consequence of prolonged droughts associated with a period of global warming known as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly. Cable strengthens this inference by showing that these events correspond exactly with the timing of two different geographic patterns of megadrought as defined by modern climate models. Cable extends his study by testing the proposition that the former residents of the coastal zone migrated to surrounding interior regions where the effects of drought were less severe. Abundant support for this expectation is found in the archaeology of these regions, including evidence of accelerated population growth, crowding, and increased regional hostilities. Another important implication of immigration is the eventual coalescence of ethnic and/or culturally different social groups and the ultimate transformation of societies into new cultural syntheses. Evidence for this process is not yet well documented in the Southeast, but Cable draws on his familiarity with the drought-related Puebloan intrusions into the Hohokam Core Area of southern Arizona during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to suggest strategies for examining coalescence in the Southeast. The narrative concludes by addressing the broad implications of late prehistoric societal collapse for today’s human-propelled global warming era that portends similar but much more long-lasting consequences. John S. Cable is director and president of Palmetto Research Institute.

january 6 x 9 / 328 PAGES / 23 B&W FIGURES / 5 MAPS / 23 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2046-1 / $64.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9276-5 / $64.95 EBOOK

“ Questions concerning regional abandonment and migration of agricultural societies loom large throughout all of North America. Cable has provided the first book-length topic on this issue as it applies to anywhere in eastern North America, and it will clearly set the tone for future efforts along these lines in the Southeast.” — Charles R. Cobb, author of From Quarry to Cornfield: The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production

also of interest Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland Gayle J. Fritz

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Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia’s Emergence Sarah E. Baires

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ARCHAEOLOGY / CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism Edited by Todd M. Ahlman and Gerald F. Schroedl A new perspective on Caribbean historical archaeology that goes beyond the colonial plantation Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.

october 6 x 9 / 272 PAGES /30 B&W FIGURES / 9 MAPS / 15 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2032-4 / $64.95s HARDCOVER ISBN 978-0-8173-9248-2 / $64.95 EBOOK

Contributors Todd M. Ahlman / Douglas V. Armstrong / Samantha Rebovich Bardoe / Paul Farnsworth / Jeffrey R. Ferguson / R. Grant Gilmore III / Diana Gonzรกlez-Tennant / Edward Gonzรกlez-Tennant / Barbara J. Heath / Carter L. Hudgins / Kenneth G. Kelly / Eric Klingelhofer / Roger H. Leech / Stephan Lenik / Gerald F. Schroedl / Diane Wallman / Christian Williamson

also of interest Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society Matthew C. Reilly

978-0-8173-2028-7 / $59.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE

Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation: An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies Marco G. Meniketti

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The essays in this volume are grounded in strong research programs and data analysis that incorporate humanistic narratives in their discussions of Amerindian, freedmen, plantation, institutional, military, and urban sites. Sites include a sample of the many different types found across the Caribbean from a variety of colonial contexts that are seldom reported in archaeological research, yet constitute components essential to understanding the full range and depth of Caribbean history. Contributors examine urban contexts in Nevis and St. John and explore the economic connections between Europeans and enslaved Africans in urban and plantation settings in St. Eustatius. The volume contains a pioneering study of frontier exchange with Amerindians in Dominica and a synthesis of ceramic exchange networks among enslaved Africans in the Leeward Islands. Chapters on military forts in Nevis and St. Kitts call attention to this often-neglected aspect of the Caribbean colonial landscape. Contributors also directly address culture heritage issues relating to community participation and interpretation. On St. Kitts, the legacy of forced confinement of lepers ties into debates of current public health policy. Plantation site studies from Antigua and Martinique are especially relevant because they detail comparisons of French and British patterns of African enslavement and provide insights into how each addressed the social and economic changes that occurred with emancipation. Todd M. Ahlman is director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University. He is coeditor of TVA Archaeology: Seventy-Five Years of Prehistoric Site Research. Gerald F. Schroedl is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Tennessee. He is author of The Archaeological Occurrence of Bison in the Southern Plateau and Cherokee (Peoples of America).

NAVAL HISTORY / ARCHAEOLOGY / CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton

The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands The story has been passed through generations for more than two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail. Sometimes misunderstood as the loss of a single ship, it was in fact the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in all of Caribbean naval history. Surviving historical documents and the remains of the wrecked ships in the sea confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is a legend based on a historical event in which HMS Convert, formerly L’Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and 9 of her 58-ship merchant convoy sailing from Jamaica to Britain, wrecked on the jagged eastern reefs of Grand Cayman in 1794. The incident has historical significance far beyond the boundaries of the Cayman Islands. It is tied to British and French history during the French Revolution, when these and other European nations were competing for military and commercial dominance around the globe. The Wreck of the Ten Sail attests to the worldwide distribution of European war and trade at the close of the eighteenth century. In Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean, Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton focuses on the ships, the people, and the wreck itself to define their place in Caymanian, Caribbean, and European history. This well-researched volume weaves together rich oral folklore accounts, invaluable supporting documents found in archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and France, and tangible evidence of the disaster from archaeological sites on the reefs of the East End. Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton is director of the Cayman Islands National Museum. She coedited Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean and contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Underwater Archaeology, Caribbean Heritage, the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, and the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology.

december 6 x 9 / 296 PAGES / 45 B&W FIGURES / 14 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-2045-4 / $64.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5965-2 / $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9275-8 / $29.95 EBOOK “ Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail serves as a robust example of unrelenting and careful historical archaeological research that tells a dramatic, true story that represents part of an island nation’s past brought into the present.” — Roger C. Smith, author of The Maritime Heritage of the Cayman Islands and Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus

also of interest Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age Steve Mullins

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Family Matters James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home Hilde Løvdal Stephens The first full-length study of a pivotal figure in American evangelical faith

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“ Hilde Løvdal Stephens’s book. . . is a deeply researched, well-conceived, and well-executed study of one of the most influential and underexamined figures in the history of the modern Religious Right.” — Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch, The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon “ Hilde Løvdal Stephens’s Family Matters offers the balanced, scholarly, historically nuanced study of James Dobson’s work that students and historians of modern American evangelical politics have been waiting for. With a keen attention to issues of gender, sexuality, race, and religion, Stephens avoids cheap polemics or caricatures as she traces the ideology and career of the Christian broadcaster and popular psychologist who was for decades at the center of the nation’s culture wars.” — Daniel K. Williams, author of Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade

R ELIGION AN D AMERICAN C ULTURE David Edwin Harrell Jr., Wayne Flynt, and Edith L. Blumhofer, Series Editors

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James Dobson—child psychologist, author, radio personality, and founder of the Christian conservative organization Focus on the Family—published his first book, Dare to Discipline, in 1970 and quickly became the go-to family expert for evangelical parents across the United States as American evangelicalism rose as a major political force. The family expert became a leading voice in the Reagan Revolution and played a role in making American evangelicals even more firmly associated with the Republican Party. Dobson’s principle beliefs are that the family is the center of Christian America and that the traditional family must be defended from perceived threats such as gay rights, feminism, abortion, and the secularization of public schools. Dobson and Focus on the Family dominated Christian media through print, radio, and online venues, and their message reached millions of American evangelical households, shaping the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of evangelical families throughout the culture wars from the 1980s into the 2000s. Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home by Hilde Løvdal Stephens is an insightful history and analysis of James Dobson’s rise to fame, effect on American evangelical culture, and subsequent descent from relevance. Extensively researched, Løvdal Stephens scoured through Dobson’s books, articles, and other materials published by Focus on the Family in order to explore how evangelicals defined and defended the traditional family as an ideal and as a symbol in an ever-changing world. By contextualizing the history of Dobson’s reign, Løvdal Stephens’s discerning analysis fills an important gap in our understandings of the politics and culture of late twentieth-century conservative Christianity in the United States. She explores complex topics ranging from Dobson’s celebration of what he believes are timeless biblical values, such as maintaining strict and defined gender roles, to the ways Dobson and Focus on the Family balanced their basic ideals with real everyday lives of average American evangelical families, facing the realities of divorce, working mothers, and other perceived threats to the traditional family. Hilde Løvdal Stephens is visiting associate professor of English at the University of Southeastern Norway.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES / HISTORY / SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The Green Revolution in the Global South Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences R. Douglas Hurt A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution The Green Revolution was devised to increase agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world. Agriculturalists employed anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizing agents, mechanical tilling, hybridized seeds, pesticides, herbicides, and a multitude of other techniques to increase yields and feed a mushrooming human population that would otherwise suffer starvation as the world’s food supply dwindled. In The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences, R. Douglas Hurt demonstrates that the Green Revolution did not turn out as neatly as scientists predicted. When its methods and products were imported to places like Indonesia and Nigeria, or even replicated indigenously, the result was a tumultuous impact on a society’s functioning. A range of factors—including cultural practices, ethnic and religious barriers, cost and availability of new technologies, climate, rainfall and aridity, soil quality, the scale of landholdings, political policies and opportunism, the rise of industrial farms, civil unrest, indigenous diseases, and corruption—entered into the Green Revolution calculus, producing a series of unintended consequences that varied from place to place. As the Green Revolution played out over time, these consequences rippled throughout societies, affecting environments, economies, political structures, and countless human lives. Analyzing change over time, almost decade by decade, Hurt shows that the Green Revolution was driven by the state as well as science. Rather than acknowledge the vast problems with the Green Revolution or explore other models, Hurt argues, scientists and political leaders doubled down and repeated the same missteps in the name of humanity and food security. In tracing the permutations of modern science’s impact on international agricultural systems, Hurt documents how, beyond increasing yields, the Green Revolution affected social orders, politics, and lifestyles in every place its methods were applied—usually far more than once. R. Douglas Hurt is professor of history at Purdue University. He is author of Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South; The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century; and The Great Plains during World War II. He is former editor of Agricultural History, former president of the Agricultural History Society, Fellow of the Agricultural History Society, and Affiliate Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska.

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“ This is an important book because it takes on a subject laden with emotion, ideology, myth, and distortion for more than half a century. It is crisply written, fast-paced and based upon thorough, carefully documented research and brings a fresh, balanced, much-needed, and much welcomed historical approach to the subject.” — David Vaught, author of Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920 “ The Green Revolution in the Global South is unusual is the author’s even-handed approach to the Green Revolution. He does not take sides but instead illuminates the respective positions of the Green Revolution’s advocates and critics. Hurt writes clearly and offers countless apt examples throughout.” — Howard P. Segal, coauthor of Technology in America: A Brief History

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The Yellowhammer War The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama Edited by Kenneth W. Noe Essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath Many books about Alabama’s role in the Civil War have focused serious attention on the military and political history of the war. The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama present a sharp and challenging picture of Alabama during the Civil War era that not only examines the military and political history of Alabama’s Civil War contributions, but it also covers areas of study usually neglected by centennial scholars, such as race, women, the home front, and Reconstruction. Readers are treated to a broad canvas of topics on the Civil War and the state that include Patricia A. Hoskins’s look at Jews in Alabama during the Civil War; Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño’s examination of white women’s attitudes during secession; Harriet E. Amos Doss’s study of the reaction of Alabamians to Lincoln’s Assassination; and Jason J. Battles’s essay on the Freedman’s Bureau.

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Kenneth W. Noe is Alumni Professor and Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University and author of several books, including Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 and Southwest Virginia’s Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era.

The Perfect Lion The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham Jerry H. Maxwell The first complete biography of one of Alabama’s most notable Civil War figures An Alabama native, Pelham left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery commander in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Lee is reported to have said of him, “It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!” No individual has had a greater elevation to divine status than John Pelham, remembered fondly as the “Gallant Pelham.” Blond, blue-eyed, and handsome, Pelham’s modest demeanor charmed his contemporaries, and he was famously attractive to women. He was killed in action at the battle of Kelly’s Ford in March of 1863, at twenty-four years of age, and reportedly three young women of his acquaintance donned mourning at the loss of the South’s “beau ideal.” Maxwell’s work provides the first deeply researched biography of Pelham and explains his enduring attraction.

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Jerry H. Maxwell (1942–2011), was a noted speaker on Civil War topics and the author of many articles on the conflict.

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Send the Alabamians World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division Nimrod T. Frazer Recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division Send the Alabamians tells the remarkable story of a division of Alabama recruits whose service Douglas MacArthur observed had not “been surpassed in military history.” The ferocity of the Alabamians, so apt to get them in trouble at home, proved invaluable in the field. At the climactic Battle of Croix Rouge, the hot-blooded 167th exhibited unflinching valor and, in the face of machine guns, artillery shells, and poison gas, sustained casualty rates over 50 percent to dislodge and repel the deeply entrenched and heavily armed enemy. Relying on extensive primary sources such as journals, letters, and military reports, Frazer draws a vivid picture of the individual soldiers who served in this division, so often overlooked but critical to the war’s success. Send the Alabamians offers a richly researched yet grippingly readable account of an episode essential to our understanding of WWI, Alabama history, and southern military history in general. Nimrod “Rod” Thompson Frazer is a retired investment banker, formerly CEO of Enstar. He earned his MBA at Harvard and was awarded the Silver Star for his military service in Korea. His research on the Rainbow Division of WWI stems from his father’s stories of the famous team.

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Columbus, Georgia, 1865 The Last True Battle of the Civil War Charles A. Misulia A thoroughly researched account of a memorable Civil War battle Columbus, Georgia, 1865 is a comprehensive study of the Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, conflict, which occurred in the dark of night and extended over a mile and half through a series of forts and earthworks and was finally decided in an encounter on a bridge a thousand feet in length. This volume offers the first complete account of this battle, examining and recounting in depth not only the composition and actions of the contending forces, which numbered some three thousand men on each side, but meticulously detailing the effect of the engagement on the city of Columbus and its environs. Misulia’s study fills in an omission in the grand account of our cataclysmic national struggle and adds a significant chapter to the history of an important regional city. In addition, Misulia takes on the long-vexing question of which encounter should be recognized as the last battle of the Civil War and argues persuasively that Columbus, Georgia, qualifies for this distinction on a number of counts. Charles A. Misulia is a Florida attorney and the president of Veteran Arms, LLC, a Georgia-based company specializing in reproductions of historical firearms. He works extensively with historical film, television, and theatrical productions.

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Unknown Waters A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) Alfred S. McLaren Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War Unknown Waters tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651), who made the first survey of an extremely important and remote region of the Arctic Ocean. The unpredictability of deep-draft sea ice, shallow water, and possible Soviet discovery, all played a dramatic part in this fascinating 1970 voyage. Covering 3,100 miles over a period of some 20 days at a laborious average speed of 6.5 knots or less, the attack submarine carefully threaded its way through innumerable underwater canyons of ice and over irregular seafloors, at one point becoming entrapped in an “ice garage.” Only cool thinking and skillful maneuvering of the nearly 5,000-ton vessel enabled a successful exit.

november 6.125 x 9.25 / 268 PAGES / 58 B&W FIGURES / 12 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-5977-5 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-8006-9 / $19.95 EBOOK

Alfred S. McLaren is a retired US Navy Captain, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit, president emeritus of The Explorers Club, senior pilot of the SAS Aviator submersible, and president of The American Polar Society.

Like Grass before the Scythe The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry William Remmel Edited by Robert Patrick Bender

Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces Sergeant William Remmel was a German immigrant who had settled with his parents and family in far upstate New York. His letters collected in Like Grass before the Scythe cover more than two full years of his service and provide details on military and social history in the eastern theater of operations and on the experience of the home front in upstate New York among a largely immigrant, working-class family and community. Remmel wrote in English and apparently his parents responded in German. In addition to the important material on an immigrant family’s experience, Remmel also deals with the question of slavery, illness and hospital care (when he was wounded), the problem of hard war/total war, as well as the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.

december 6 x 9 / 192 PAGES / 10 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5975-1 / $24.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-8147-9 / $24.95 EBOOK

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Robert Patrick Bender teaches history at Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell and is editor of Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight: The Civil War Diary of Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds, 1861-1865.

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Sissy! The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture Harry Thomas Jr. An innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys Sissy! offers an unprecedented and counterintuitive overview of cultural and artistic attitudes toward male effeminacy in post–World War II America and provides a unique and contemporary reinterpretation of the “sissy” figure in modern art and literature. Harry Thomas Jr. argues that effeminate men and boys are generally portrayed using the grotesque, an artistic mode concerned with the depictions of hybrid bodies, arguing that the often grotesque imagery used to depict effeminate men evokes a complicated array of emotions. Thomas looks to the sissies in the 1940s novels of Truman Capote and Carson McCullers; the truth-telling flaming princesses of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room; the superstardom of pop culture icon Liberace; the prophetic queens of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America; and many others to demonstrate how effeminate men have often been adored because they are seen as the promise of a different world, one free from the bounds of heteronormativity. Harry Thomas Jr. teaches high school English and sponsors the Gender and Sexuality Alliance at Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina. His work has been published in Twentieth Century Literature, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Rolling Stone.

december 6 x 9 / 258 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-5972-0 / $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9148-5 / $29.95 EBOOK

Beautiful War Studies in a Dreadful Fascination Philip D. Beidler A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war? Incorporating painting, music, photography, literature, and film, Beidler traces a disturbing but fundamental truth: that war has always provided an aesthetic inspiration while serving ends as various and complex as ideological or geopolitical history, public memory, and mass entertainment. Beautiful War is a bold and vivid account of the role of war and military conflict as a subject of art. Beidler’s study offers much of value to literary and cultural critics, historians, veterans, students of art history and communication studies, and those interested in expanding their understanding of art and media’s influence on contemporary values and memories of the past. Philip D. Beidler is professor emeritus of English at The University of Alabama and author of many works of cultural and literary criticism, among them The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War and Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam.

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Echoes of Emerson Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather Diana Hope Polley Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism and Realism—have come to be understood and defined Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather traces the complex and unexplored relationship between American realism and the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Critics often read American realism as a clear disavowal of earlier American romantic philosophy and as a commitment to recognizing the stark realities of a new postbellum order. Diana Hope Polley’s study complicates these traditional assumptions by reading American realism as an ongoing dialogue with the ideas—often idealisms—of America’s greatest romantic philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this illuminating work, Polley offers detailed readings of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady, Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, and Willa Cather’s My Ántonia— all through the lens of Emersonian philosophy and discourse.

december 6 x 9 / 188 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-5971-3 / $24.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9139-3 / $24.95 EBOOK

Diana Hope Polley is professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, University College.

Haints American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions Arthur Redding Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction In Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, Arthur Redding argues that ghosts serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history.

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Authors such as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed heritage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today their descendants are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studies—such as James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen and Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child—gothic writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice. Arthur Redding is professor of English at York University, Toronto, Canada, and is the author of Radical Legacies: Twentieth Century Public Intellectuals in the United States; Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War; and Raids on Human Consciousness: Writing, Anarchism, and Violence.

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Center Places and Cherokee Towns Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians Christopher B. Rodning Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape Center Places and Cherokee Towns is a multi-faceted consideration of archaeology, ethnohistory, and recorded oral tradition that adeptly demonstrates the distinct ways that Cherokee identity was constructed through architecture and other material forms. Christopher B. Rodning posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that acted as “center places.” Drawing on archaeological data, delving into primary documentary sources dating from the eighteenth century, and considering Cherokee myths and legends remembered and recorded during the nineteenth century, Rodning shows how the arrangement of public structures and household dwellings in Cherokee towns both shaped and were shaped by Cherokee culture. Christopher B. Rodning is professor of anthropology at Tulane University. He is coeditor of Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site.

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Cultures of Doing Good Anthropologists and NGOs Edited by Amanda Lashaw, Christian Vannier, and Steven Sampson Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subﬁeld of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The collection explores issues such as normative democratic civic engagement, elitism and professionalization, the governance of feminist advocacy, disciplining religion, the politics of philanthropic neutrality, NGO tourism and consumption, blurred boundaries between anthropologists as researchers and activists, and barriers to producing critical NGO ethnographies. Amanda Lashaw is visiting assistant professor in the education department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Christian Vannier is lecturer in the departments of anthropology and Africana studies at the University of Michigan, Flint. Steven Sampson is professor emeritus of social anthropology at Lund University in Sweden.

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Treatise on Laughter Laurent Joubert

Translated by Gregory David de Rocher

Translation from French of an essay on the nature and character of human laughter Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. His monumental and perhaps his best work Traité du Ris, the Treatise on Laughter provides categories and examples of the laughable. The work describes laughter, its causes and effects, its types and differences. His subdivisions and categories, along with their examples, furnish today’s critic and reader with a Renaissance vision of comic commonplaces. It is this vision that may prove to be of great value in analyzing comic literature of the Renaissance. Gregory David de Rocher’s skill as a translator brings this highly readable book to life. Laurent Joubert (1529–1582) was a French physician who wrote numerous medical texts in both Latin and French including the two-volume Erreurs Populaires.

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Gregory David de Rocher is a retired professor of romance languages and classics at The University of Alabama.

Character, Community, and Politics Clarke E. Cochran

A classic political philosophy text, available again Character, Community, and Politics revives, or redefines, a number of fundamental but neglected ideas. Chief among them are commitment, community, responsibility, and character—concepts Cochran develops through discussions of authority, freedom, pluralism, and the common good. Cochran draws upon a wide variety of fields, such as philosophy, ethics, literature, moral theology, and sociology. These ideas are renewed in such a way that they come to outline a theory of human life and political order distinct from sclerotic categories such as conservatism, socialism, radicalism, or Marxism. Clarke E. Cochran is professor emeritus of political science at Texas Tech University. He is the coauthor of several books, including American Public Policy: An Introduction and Catholics, Politics, and Public Policy: Beyond Left and Right.

december 6.125 x 9.125 / 210 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-5962-1 / $24.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9049-5 / $24.95 EBOOK

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journals

Theatre Symposium, Volume 27 Theatre and Embodiment Edited by Sarah McCarroll Theatre Symposium is the official journal of the Southeastern Theatre Conference and features select papers presented at the annual Theatre Symposium Event. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 27 explore a broad range of issues related to embodiment from examination of historical bodies in performance to pedagogical concerns

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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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Theatre History Studies 2019, Volume 38 Edited by Sara Freeman Theatre History Studies is the official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference and devoted to research and excellence in all areas of theatre history. Published annually since 1981, Theatre History Studies has provided critical, analytical, and descriptive articles on all aspects of theatre history. The journal is devoted to disseminating the highest quality scholarly endeavors in order to promote understanding and discovery of world theatre history.

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Sara Freeman is associate professor of theatre at the University of Puget Sound. She 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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Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

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Spencer Schaffner

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A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment

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“This book’s focus on the ‘darker’ side of writing is as intriguing as it is illuminating. Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Schaffner’s book finds that the beliefs that underlie generative approaches to writing are the very ones that underlie its use of writing as punishment.”

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— Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation

Alexander Hamilton’s Public Administration Richard T. Green

Examines how Hamilton’s thoughts and experiences about public administration theory and practice have shaped the nation

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“Green has given us the definitive synthesis of Hamilton’s vision, ideas, and practices for governing the American commercial republic. This book will stimulate further scholarship, and debate, for years to come.” — Brian J. Cook, professor and chair of the Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech, and editor of Administration and Society Journal

Standing Watch

American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era Jonathan Li-Chung Leung

The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War “A rare inside look at the Silent Service and the extraordinary men who helped us win the Cold War. Leung captures both the camaraderie and the tense moments of submarine life, and his book helps flesh out an important part of our history that was largely hidden beneath the waves.” — Christopher Drew, coauthor, Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American

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Submarine Espionage

Cather Among the Moderns Janis P. Stout

A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism “A major contribution to the field of Cather scholarship. It will immediately be a touchstone for anyone working on Cather. Further, it helps us understand literary modernism, and modernism itself, in deeper and more nuanced ways.”

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— Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War and a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation

John Abbot and William Swainson Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration Janice Neri, Tara Nummedal, and John V. Calhoun

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An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist

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“A panoply of winged insects comes brilliantly to life in Janice Neri’s studious account of John Abbot’s never-before-published entomological drawings. Their global journey—from the tidewaters of Georgia to the windy shores of Wellington—reveals a naturalist’s world that is as interconnected as it is fragile and fleeting.” — Neil Safier, director and librarian, John Carter Brown Library

FALL 2019

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author and title index

authorS

Paterson, Judith Hillman �� 7

Duped .........................................................8

Ahlman, Todd M................................. 22

Polley, Diana Hope............................. 30

Echoes of Emerson .................................30

Barrier, Casey R. ................................ 19

Redding, Arthur.................................. 30

Family Matters .........................................24

Beidler, Philip D. ................................ 29

Remmel, William................................ 28

Founding of Alabama, The .....................11

Bender, Robert Patrick ...................... 28

Reidy, Thomas ................................... 11

Garden Creek ...........................................20

Brown , Canter ................................... 10

Roberts, Frances Cabaniss �� 11

Cable, John S. ................................... 21

Rodning, Christopher B. .................... 31

Green Revolution in the Global South, The ....................................25

Carmody, Stephen B. ........................ 19

Sampson, Steven .............................. 31

Cochran, Clarke E............................... 32

Samuelson, Lisa J. .............................. 1

Dennigan, Darcie ................................ 5

Sarna, Jonathan D. ........................... 12

DeShell, Jeffrey ................................... 4

Schroedl, Gerald F. ............................ 22

Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean ......................................22

Edwards, Erika Denise....................... 14

Sohan, Vanessa Kraemer.................. 15

Like Grass before the Scythe �� 28

Frazer, Nimrod T. ............................... 27

Stout, Janis P. .................................... 34

Lives, Letters, and Quilts ........................15

Freeman, Sara ................................... 33

Thomas, Harry, Jr. ............................. 29

Masses and Motets ...................................4

Gray, D. Ryan ..................................... 18

Vannier, Christian .............................. 31

Megadrought in the Carolinas ��21

Hurt, R. Douglas ................................ 25

WIlburn, Cora .................................... 12

Perfect Lion, The......................................26

Joubert, Laurent ................................ 32

Wright, Alice P. ................................... 20

Polacos in Argentina ...............................13

Haints .......................................................30 Henry Bradley Plant ................................10 Hiding in Plain Sight ................................14

Send the Alabamians ..............................27

Kałczewiak, Mariusz .......................... 13 Key, Watt ............................................. 2

titles

Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief ��19

Lashaw, Amanda ............................... 31

Battle over Peleliu, The............................17

Sissy! .........................................................29

Leshikar-Denton, Margaret E. �� 23

Bay Boy .......................................................2

Slater Orchard ............................................5

Levine, Timothy R. ............................... 8

Beautiful War............................................29

Sweet Mystery ............................................7

Løvdal Stephens, Hilde ..................... 24

Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail...........................................23

Theatre History Studies 2019, Vol. 38 ...........................................33

Center Places and Cherokee Towns ......................................31

Theatre Symposium, Vol 27.........................................................33

Character, Community, and Politics ...............................................32

Treatise On Laughter ...............................32

Maierhofer, Grant ................................ 6 Maxwell, Jerry H. ............................... 26 McCarroll, Sarah ............................... 33 McLaren, Alfred S. ............................. 28 Messenger, David A. .......................... 16 Misulia, Charles A. ............................ 27 Murray, Stephen C. ............................ 17 Noe, Kenneth W................................. 26

Columbus, Georgia, 1865 ......................27 Cosella Wayne ..........................................12 Cultures of Doing Good ...........................31 Drain Songs ...............................................6

Trees of Alabama .......................................1 Unknown Waters .....................................28 Uprooted ...................................................18 War and Public Memory..........................16 Yellowhammer War, The..........................26

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