Fall 2013 Catalog by University of Alabama Press

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Contents Alabama............................... 2–3, 4, 6, 19, 21, 22, 23 American Art �� 13 American Studies ��16, 17 Anthropology �� 25 Architecture ��2–3 Caribbean Studies �� 20 Civil Rights ��4, 23 Civil War �� 22 Communications �� 10 Conservation Biology �� 1 Ecology �� 1 Fiction............................................................7, 8, 9 Forestry �� 6 History �� 26 Holocaust �� 5

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ON THE COVER Black Bears have returned to the mountains of northeastern Alabama. Courtesy of Steve Hillebrand/US Fish and Wildlife Service. (See page 1.)

Natural History / Ecology / Conservation Biology

Southern Wonder Alabama’s Surprising Biodiversity R. Scot Duncan Foreword by Edward O. Wilson

Southern Wonder explores Alabama’s amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of their preservation. Alabama ranks fifth in the nation in number of species of plants and animals found in the state, surpassed only by the much larger Western states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. When all the species of birds, trees, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, wildflowers, dragonflies, tiger beetles, and ants are tallied, Alabama harbors more species than 90 percent of the other states in the United States. Alabama is particularly rich in aquatic biodiversity, leading the nation in species of freshwater fishes, turtles, mussels, crayfish, snails, damselflies, and carnivorous plants. The state also hosts an exceptional number of endemic species—those not found beyond its borders—ranking seventh in the nation with 144 different species. The state’s 4,533 species, with more being inventoried and discovered each year, are supported by no less than 64 distinct ecological systems—each a unique blend of soil, water, sunlight, temperature, and natural disturbance regimes. Habitats include dry forests, moist forests, swamp forests, sunny prairies, grassy barrens, scorching glades, rolling dunes, and bogs filled with pitcher plants and sundews. The state also includes a region of subterranean ecosystems that are more elaborate and species rich than any other place on the continent. Although Alabama is teeming with life, the state’s prominence as a refuge for plants and animals is poorly appreciated. Even among Alabama’s citizens, few outside a small circle of biologists, advocates, and other naturalists understand the special quality of the state’s natural heritage. R. Scot Duncan rectifies this situation in Southern Wonder by providing a well-written, comprehensive overview that the general public, policy makers, and teachers can understand and use. Readers are taken on an exploratory journey of the state’s varied landscapes—from the Tennessee River Valley to the coastal dunes—and are introduced to remarkable species, such as the cave salamander and the beach mouse. By interweaving the disciplines of ecology, evolution, meteorology, and geologic history into an accessible whole, Duncan explains clearly why Alabama is so biotically rich and champions efforts for its careful preservation.

november 7 x 9 / 432 pages / 132 color illustrations, including 6 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-1802-4 / $39.95T cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-5750-4 / $29.95T paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8681-8 / $29.95 ebook “Scot Duncan has delivered one of the most important books ever written about Alabama. Beautifully composed, it is a revelation about one of the most biologically diverse regions in North America and a call to Alabama’s people to treasure and protect the state’s living heritage.” — Edward O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Social Conquest of Earth “This book covers almost every nook of biodiversity in the state. It is well-thought-out and delivered. The organization makes it easy for both lay and experienced readers of scientific knowledge to become enthralled in the subject matter.” — T. Wayne Barger, State Botanist, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

R. Scot Duncan is associate professor of biology and urban environmental studies at Birmingham-Southern College. Published in Cooperation with The Nature Conservancy

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architecture / alabama

The University of Alabama A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture Robert Oliver Mellown

The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries. In 1988 the University of Alabama Press published Robert Oliver Mellown’s The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus, a culmination of a decade’s worth of research into both the facts and the legends surrounding the architecture, history, and traditions of the Capstone.

september 7 x 10 / 232 pages / 157 color illustrations, including 13 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-5680-4 / $34.95T paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8673-3 / $34.95 ebook “The guide is also designed for armchair observers. Depending on your location (or inclination), put on a comfortable pair of walking shoes and proceed to the Rotunda, or take off your shoes and curl up in a comfortable chair and get ready to explore the complex, sometimes violent (but always fascinating) history of the campus of the state’s oldest institution of higher learning, the University of Alabama.” — From the Preface

Over twenty years later, this new guide brings to light the numerous additions, expansions, and renovations the university has undergone on its spacious grounds in Tuscaloosa. In addition to updated sections devoted to the university’s historic landmarks—such as Foster Auditorium, where “the stand in the schoolhouse door” occurred; Denny Chimes, where the handprints and footprints of famous Tide athletes are memorialized in concrete; and the Gorgas House, which withstood the destruction of Union troops at the end of the Civil War—new sections account for the acquisition of Bryce Hospital’s campus, the expansions at Bryant-Denny Stadium to accommodate the growing Crimson Tide fan base, and the burgeoning student recreation facilities, playing fields, and residential communities. Chapters are arranged into various campus tours for walking or driving— Antebellum, Victorian, Early Twentieth-Century, East Quad, West Quad, Science and Engineering Corridor, Student Life, Bryce, Medical, Southeast, Athletics, and Off Campus. Alumni, prospective students and their parents, new faculty, out-of-state visitors, and foreign dignitaries will all welcome this useful, compact, and colorful guide to one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. Robert Oliver Mellown is associate professor of art history emeritus at the University of Alabama and author of The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus.

The Barracks (later named Woods Hall), based on the VMI plan and built in 1868, was the first building to be erected on campus after the Civil War. Eugene Allen Smith photograph, ca. 1890. Courtesy of the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, the University of Alabama.

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Manly Hall. Courtesy of Duane A. Lamb.

The front of Foster Auditorium now faces Malone-Hood Plaza, the focal point of which is the Lucy Clock Tower. Courtesy of Duane A. Lamb.

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Alabama / Civil Rights / Memoir

This Bright Light of Ours Stories from the Voting Rights Fight Maria Gitin Foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin

Combining memoir with oral history, This Bright Light of Ours creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965. This Bright Light of Ours offers a tightly focused insider’s view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. A celebration of grassroots heroes, this book details through first-person accounts the contributions of ordinary people who formed the nonviolent army that won the fight for voting rights.

february 2014 6 x 9 / 360 pages 22 b&w illustrations, including 1 map ISBN: 978-0-8173-1817-8 / $39.95t cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8738-9 / $39.95 ebook “In addition to its important historiographical interventions, this book has many strengths. It provides a day-to-day look at a grassroots, local movement, an extremely rare perspective that is nearly impossible to accomplish without the kind of personal sources (letters home) and recollections that Gitin is able to draw on. It reveals SCLC’s operational culture. It explicates the role of outside organizers and the symbiotic relationship they had with local activists and movement supporters. This Bright Light of Ours shows how gender, race, class, and birthplace shaped people’s actions and activism. It makes painfully clear the daunting task that organizers faced because of racial terror and the paralyzing fear that it created. Gitin demonstrates the depth and breadth of white supremacy, which informed white opposition to the movement. And she shows how transformative movement participation was, and how difficult ‘reentering’ society was for activists after they left the southern struggle.” — Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

Combining memoir and oral history, Maria Gitin fills a vital gap in civil rights history by focusing on the neglected Freedom Summer of 1965 when hundreds of college students joined forces with local black leaders to register thousands of new black voters in the rural South. Gitin was an idealistic nineteen-year-old college freshman from a small farming community north of San Francisco who felt called to action when she saw televised images of brutal attacks on peaceful demonstrators during Bloody Sunday, in Selma, Alabama. Atypical among white civil rights volunteers, Gitin came from a rural low-income family. She raised funds to attend an intensive orientation in Atlanta featuring now-legendary civil rights leaders. Her detailed letters include the first narrative account of this orientation and the only in-depth field report from a teenage Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project participant. Gitin details the dangerous life of civil rights activists in Wilcox County, Alabama, where she was assigned. She tells of threats and arrests, but also of forming deep friendships and of falling in love. More than four decades later, Gitin returned to Wilcox County to revisit the people and places that she could never forget and to discover their views of the “outside agitators” who had come to their community. Through conversational interviews with more than fifty Wilcox County residents and former civil rights workers, she has created a channel for the voices of these unheralded heroes who formed the backbone of the civil rights movement. Maria Gitin is a California-based diversity trainer and fund-raising consultant for nonprofit organizations that focus on cultural competency. She speaks at national and international conferences on the subject of diversity, and for four decades she has been a volunteer, registering voters in communities of color. She has published The Melting Pot: The Variety of American Ethnic Cooking and two books of poetry, Night Shift and Little Movies. The Modern South Glenn Feldman and Kari Fredrickson, series editors

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Memoir / Holocaust / World War II

A Final Reckoning A Hannover Family’s Life and Death in the Shoah Ruth Gutmann Foreword by Kenneth Waltzer

A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, A Final Reckoning resonates with emotional intensity and insight. Ruth Gutmann’s memoir, first published in Germany in 2002, recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Ruth; her twin sister, Eva; stepmother, Mania; and father, Samuel Herskovits, were interned in both Thereisenstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau between June 1943 and March 1944, where all but Gutmann and her sister perished. Ruth and Eva spent the remainder of the war in numerous other camps. Gutmann’s memoir is compelling in several respects. It spans her birth and early life in Hannover, Germany; her escape to Holland on a kindertransport; her forced return to Hannover; her deportation to the concentration camps (where Ruth and Eva attracted the attention of Josef Mengele, though they were ultimately spared from his murderous studies of twin siblings); and her life postliberation. Particularly striking is Gutmann’s portrait of her father, Samuel, a leader in the Jewish community of Hannover who was forced under extreme pressure to communicate and, in some cases, cooperate with Nazi officials. Gutmann uses her own memories as well as years of reflection and academic study to reevaluate his role in their community. A Final Reckoning provides not only insights into Gutmann’s own experience as a child in the midst of the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also a window into the lives of those, like her father, who were forced to carry on and comply with the regime that would ultimately bring about their demise.

november 6 x 9 / 256 pages / 19 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1809-3 / $34.95T cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8718-1 / $34.95 ebook “Like most survivors, Ruth asks as the memoir of her wartime experience comes to an end, how she and her twin sister, Eva, were able to survive. Despite marrying and creating a family, she says she struggled with this burden the rest of her adult life.” — Kenneth Waltzer

Ruth Gutmann was liberated in 1945, and she began to study the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust after her retirement from Columbia University in 1988. Judaic Studies Series

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Forestry / Industrial History / Alabama

Green Gold Alabama’s Forests and Forest Industries James E. Fickle

Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama’s timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state. Alabama has the third-largest commercial forest in the nation, after only Georgia and Oregon. Fully two-thirds of the state’s land supports the growth of over fifteen billion trees on twenty-two million acres, which explains why Alabama looks entirely green from space. Green Gold presents the story of human use of and impact on Alabama’s forests from pioneer days to the present, as James E. Fickle chronicles the history of the industry from unbridled greed and exploitation through virtual abandonment to revival, restoration, and enlightened stewardship.

january 2014 6 x 9 / 472 pages / 38 b&w illustrations, including 3 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-1813-0 / $49.95T cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8739-6 / $49.95 ebook “Green Gold is a valuable work for the many people who have been involved in the forest products industry. As a compilation of the vast amount of information that is available not only from portions of narrowly focused historical works, but also from original sources available primarily in archival libraries and oral histories, it is much broader and more encompassing than previously written historical works on Alabama forests.” — Richard W. Brinker, Dean Emeritus, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University “I grew up in the South hearing forestry tales from my grandfather and working with my father, a consulting forester. This book pulls together the many things I heard and observed into a coherent package and is worthwhile as both an educational piece for businessmen, historians, and students who want to understand Southern forestry, and as a heritage and tribute to the many people who worked in forestry in Alabama and elsewhere in the South.”

As the state’s largest manufacturing industry, forest products have traditionally included naval stores such as tar, pitch, and turpentine, especially in the southern longleaf stands; sawmill lumber, both hardwood and pine; and pulp and paper milling. Green Gold documents all aspects of the industry, including the advent of “scientific forestry” and the development of reforestation practices with sustained yields. Also addressed are the historical impacts of Native Americans and of early settlers who used axes, saws, and water- and steam-powered sawmills to clear and utilize forests. Along with an account of railroad logging and the big mills of the lumber bonanza days of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book also chronicles the arrival of professional foresters to the state, who began to deal with the devastating legacy of “cut out and get out” logging and to fight the perennial curse of woods arson. Finally, Green Gold examines the rise of the tree farm movement, the rebirth of large-scale lumbering, the advent of modern environmental concerns, and the movement toward the “Fourth Forest” in Alabama. James E. Fickle is a visiting professor of forest and environmental history at Yale University and a professor of history at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Mississippi Forests and Forestry, Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry, and The New South and the “New Competition”: Trade Association Development in the Southern Pine Industry. A Copublication with the Alabama Forestry Foundation

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fiction

Mother Box, and Other Tales Sarah Blackman

Winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize The eleven stories and one novella of Mother Box, and Other Tales bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities. In language that is both barb and bauble, bitter and unbearably sweet, Sarah Blackman spins the threads of stories where everything is probable and nothing is constant. The stories in Mother Box, and Other Tales occur in an in-between world of outlandish possibility that has become irrefutable reality: a woman gives birth to seven babies and realizes at one of their weddings that they were foxes all along; a girl with irritating social quirks has been raised literally by cardboard boxes; a young woman throws a dinner party only to have her elaborate dessert upstaged by one of the guests who, as it turns out, is the moon. Love between mothers and children is a puzzling thrum that sounds at the very edge of hearing; a muted pulse that, nevertheless, beats and beats and beats. In these tales, the prosaic details of everyday lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a half-eaten sandwich, an unopened pack of letters on a tableâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;take on fevered significance as the characters blunder into revelations that occlude even as they unfold.

september 5.5 x 8.5 / 232 pages ISBN: 978-1-57366-174-4 / $16.95t paper ISBN: 978-1-57366-842-2 / $16.95 ebook

Sarah Blackman is the director of creative writing at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school, and a fiction editor at Diagram. She lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with the poet John Pursley III and their daughter, Helen.

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fiction

Once Human Stories Steve Tomasula

A stunning new collection of stories by a master fictionist, Once Human shows the ways to go beyond standard maps of simple understanding. A manga artist who is afraid that she herself is slipping into a cartoon version of life, a lab technician who makes art with the cloning technology she uses at work, a sociologist hunting for the gene that makes some people want to take risks—these are some of the characters that populate the stories in Once Human. Exploring the spaces where life is shaped by science and the technologies we bring into being, Steve Tomasula’s characters often find that the harder they look at the world, the less they can say. The map that emerges from these stories charts the territory of human longing and the failure of poetry, science, and technology to explain the “why” of the world, if not its “how.”

september 6 x 9 / 312 pages / illustrations throughout ISBN: 978-1-57366-176-8 / $22.95t paper ISBN: 978-1-57366-804-0 / $22.95 ebook

Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels VAS: An Opera in Flatland, The Book of Portraiture, IN & OZ, and TOC: A New-Media Novel. His short stories have appeared in Bomb, McSweeneys, the Iowa Review, and many other publications. A Howard Fellow, he lives in Chicago.

Praise for the works of steve tomasula “ A grand historical account of how the act of representing others always includes a representation of the self. . . . [The Book of Portraiture] reimagines what the novel, particularly the historical novel, might mean in the digital world, and it does so with verve, gusto, and style.” — Bookforum “ TOC is an entrancing digital novel that explores temporality’s elusiveness and how, ultimately, the more we think about time, the less we really know about it. Reminiscent of Borges, Calvino, and Ballard, TOC functions less through plot than thesis, less through character than idea. Steve Tomasula’s latest is nothing short of brilliant.” — Lance Olsen, author of Calendar of Regrets

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fiction

Expectation A Francisca Fruscella Mystery Jeffrey DeShell

On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music. In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg—by turns traditional, serial, and atonal—to inform his grammar and language. Moving progressively through specific Schoenberg compositions, DeShell complicates the surface of his text into lyrical derivatives, all the while drawing us into a murder mystery like no other as Detective Francisca Fruscella pursues both the killer and her own complicated personal history. By turns rapturous, rigorous, and gripping, Expectation is a thriller of another kind—and a bold venture to the limits of the mystery genre and language itself. Jeffrey DeShell is the author of the novels In Heaven Everything Is Fine, S & M, Peter: An (A)Historical Romance, The Trouble with Being Born, and Arthouse.

september 5.5 x 8.5 / 120 pages ISBN: 978-1-57366-175-1 / $14.95t paper ISBN: 978-1-57366-843-9 / $14.95 ebook Praise for the works of Jeffrey DeShell “In The Trouble with Being Born the parents trade riffs, mother and father telling their stories in short staccato sentences. DeShell is a daring, intelligent, hard-eyed, and tenderhearted writer, all of which is abundantly evident in his wonderful new novel.” — Lynne Tillman, author of No Lease on Life “Arthouse is a successful series of sketches, cleverly presented in fourteen unique ways—an interesting, ambitious book and highly recommended for the adventurous, cinematically inclined reader.” — Rain Taxi

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COMMUNICATIONS / RHETORIC / LABOR HISTORY

Soapbox Rebellion The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916 Matthew S. May Soapbox Rebellion is a critical history of the struggle of the Industrial Worker of the World (IWW) to organize migrant workers by extending union efforts, and the accompanying free speech fights, to the streets of the American West. From 1909 to 1916, the Industrial Workers of the World had no access to migrant workers on job sites, nor could they rely on traditional models of union organization based on fixed-place employment. Instead they developed a model of organizing that sought to build a base of solidarity through soapbox oratory on the public streets of the major cities of the American West. Many municipalities, such as San Diego, Spokane, and Fresno, crafted speech codes to block this approach in support of regional agricultural operations.

october 6 x 9 / 192 pages / 7 b&w figures ISBN: 978-0-8173-1806-2 / $39.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8696-2 / $39.95 ebook “This book is extremely readable and even inspiring. Although there is a large recent literature in English and other European languages on autonomist Marxism, I am unaware of any work that does this sort of careful synthesis of historical scholarship with contemporary theoretical concerns. This is a very fine work, indeed.” — James Arnt Aune, author of Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness, winner of a National Communication Association’s Diamond Anniversary Book Award

In Soapbox Rebellion Matthew S. May tells the history of the thousands of migrant workers who struggled to organize themselves by collectively and systematically violating repressive speech codes. Though the fights were not always successful, they did produce a novel form of fluid union organization that offers historians, labor activists, and social movement scholars a window into an alternative approach to what it means to belong to a union; May coins the phrase “Hobo Orator Union” to characterize these collectives. May integrates traditional rhetorical theory and criticism with the insights of Italian traditions of autonomist Marxism and the philosophical thought of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to reinvigorate the materialist basis of rhetorical history. Soapbox Rebellion highlights the methodological obstacles to recovering a workers’ history of public address; closely analyzes extant texts of these oratorical performances; and discusses the implications of these free speech fights for understanding grassroots resistance and class struggle today in an era of the decline of the institutional business union model and workplace contractualism. Matthew S. May is an assistant professor of rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at North Carolina State University. May’s scholarly research is informed by his advocacy for social justice and experience organizing. His articles have appeared in publications including the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Communication Inquiry. Studies in Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique John Louis Lucaites, series editor

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Rhetoric / Immigration / Latina/o Studies

The Border Crossed Us Vernacular Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity Josue David Cisneros The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national belonging. But the relationship between borders and citizenship breeds perpetual anxiety over the purported sanctity of the border, the security of a nation, and the integrity of civic identity. In The Border Crossed Us, Josue David Cisneros addresses these themes as they relate to the US-Mexico border, arguing that issues ranging from the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848 to contemporary debates about Latina/o immigration and border security are negotiated rhetorically through public discourse. He explores these rhetorical battles through case studies of specific Latina/o struggles for civil rights and citizenship, including debates about Mexican American citizenship in the 1849 California Constitutional Convention, 1960s Chicana/o civil rights movements, and modern-day immigrant activism. Cisneros posits that borders—both geographic and civic—have crossed and recrossed Latina/o communities throughout history (the book’s title derives from the popular activist chant, “We didn’t cross the border; the border crossed us!”) and that Latina/os in the United States have long contributed to, struggled with, and sought to cross or challenge the borders of belonging, including race, culture, language, and gender. The Border Crossed Us illuminates the enduring significance and evolution of US borders and citizenship, and provides programmatic and theoretical suggestions for the continued study of these critical issues.

november 6 x 9 / 304 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-1812-3 / $49.95s cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8723-5 / $49.95 ebook “The Border Crossed Us makes a unique and significant contribution to rhetorical studies and Latina/o studies by advancing an inclusive theoretical focus on the border and the intersections between rhetoric, borders, belonging, and Latinidad. The specific case studies provide a welcome breadth of textual material that will appeal to Latina/o rhetorical and communication scholars from myriad methodological orientations.” — Darrel Allan Wanzer, editor of The Young Lords: A Reader

Josue David Cisneros is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Studies in Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique John Louis Lucaites, series editor

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Literary Criticism

Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable James Nagel

Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America.

november 6 x 9 / 224 pages / 12 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1338-8 / $44.95s cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8717-4 / $44.95 ebook “This is an important book, well-written and free of jargon, and exhaustively researched—both for material bearing on the writers and on their cultural setting.” — Donald Pizer, editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: From Howells to London “Nagel’s readings of the stories reveal insight, reflecting his awareness of other scholars’ treatments of the fiction as well. The prose is clear and accessible without oversimplifying complexities.” — Thomas Bonner Jr., author of The Kate Chopin Companion: With Chopin’s Translations from French Fiction

Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable’s Old Creole Days; Grace King’s Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana, its four decades of rule by the Spanish, the Louisiana Purchase and the resulting cultural transformations across the region, Napoleonic law, the Code Noir, the plaçage tradition, the immigration of various ethnic and natural groups into the city, and the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. All of these historical factors energize and enrich the fiction of this important region. The literary context of these volumes is also central to understanding their place in literary history. They are short-story cycles—collections of short fiction that contain unifying settings, recurring characters or character types, and central themes and motifs. They are also examples of the “local color” tradition in fiction, a movement that has been much misunderstood. Nagel maintains that “local color” literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature. Finally, Nagel shows that New Orleans provided a profoundly rich and complex setting for the literary exploration of some of the most crucial social problems in America, including racial stratification, social caste, economic exploitation, and gender roles, all of which were undergoing rapid transformation at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. James Nagel is J. O. Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Georgia and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. He is the president of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story and a former president of the international Ernest Hemingway Society. Among his twenty-three books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film starring Sandra Bullock), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle, and Blackwell’s A Companion to the American Short Story, edited with Alfred Bendixen.

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Literary Criticism / American Art

Artistic Liberties American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880–1905 Edward Windsor Kemble’s rendering of Huck for the frontispiece of Twain’s novel.

Adam Sonstegard Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for authority over the publications. Though today, we commonly read major works of nineteenth-century American literature in unillustrated paperbacks or anthologies, many of them first appeared as magazine serials, accompanied by ample illustrations that sometimes made their way into the serials’ first printings as books. The graphic artists creating these illustrations often visually addressed questions that the authors had left for the reader to interpret, such as the complexions of racially ambiguous characters in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The artists created illustrations that depicted what outsiders saw in Huck and Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, rather than what Huck and Jim learned to see in one another. These artists even worked against the texts on occasion—for instance, when the illustrators reinforced the same racial stereotypes that writers such as Paul Laurence Dunbar had intended to subvert in their works. Authors of American realism commonly submitted their writing to editors who allowed them little control over the aesthetic appearance of their work. In his groundbreaking Artistic Liberties, Adam Sonstegard studies the illustrations from these works in detail and finds that the editors employed illustrators who were often unfamiliar with the authors’ intentions and who themselves selected the literary material they wished to illustrate, thereby taking artistic liberties through the tableaux they created. Sonstegard examines the key role that the appointed artists played in visually shaping narratives—among them Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, Stephen Crane’s The Monster, and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth—as audiences tended to accept their illustrations as guidelines for understanding the texts. In viewing these works as originally published, received, and interpreted, Sonstegard offers a deeper knowledge not only of the works, but also of the realities surrounding publication during this formative period in American literature.

november 6 x 9 / 264 pages / 85 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1805-5 / $49.95T cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8697-9 / $49.95 ebook “Artistic Liberties makes useful contributions to scholarship on the relationship between late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary texts and the illustrations that accompanied their original publication in book and serial form. It extends the work of other critics who have explored this terrain and situates its argument adeptly in relation to existing scholarship. Sonstegard is at his best when he allows the intricacies of the relationship between text and image, author and illustrator, to serve as aids to interpretation.” — Henry B. Wonham, author of Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism

Adam Sonstegard is an associate professor of English at Cleveland State University in Ohio. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Gary Scharnhorst, series editor

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Poetics

Reading the Difficulties Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry Edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian). The tenets of new poetry abound. But what of the new reading that such poetry demands? Essays in Reading the Difficulties ask what kinds of stances allow readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of the comfortable cues to comprehension—poetry that is frequently nonnarrative, nonrepresentational, and indeterminate in subject, theme, or message. january 2014 6 x 9 / 232 pages / 1 b&w illustration ISBN: 978-0-8173-5752-8 / $34.95S paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8720-4 / $34.95 ebook “The question of how to read difficult poetry (in this case, poetry written explicitly in the Modernist, or avant-garde, tradition) is a familiar subject, so a volume of this kind is a significant contribution to the field.” — Joel Bettridge, author of Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith “One of the strongest aspects of this project is the inclusion of critical assessments of very new work, such as Kristen Gallagher’s on Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies. This high standard of contemporaneousness is how and where I set my mark as I read across the essays.” — Alan Filreis, author of Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960

Some essays in Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan’s collection address issues of reader reception and the way specific stances toward reading support or complement the aesthetic of each poet. Others suggest how we can be open readers, how innovative poetic texts change the very nature of reader and reading, and how critical language can capture this metamorphosis. Some contributors consider how the reader changes innovative poetry, what language reveals about this interaction, which new reading strategies unfold for the audiences of innovative verse, and what questions readers should ask of innovative verse and of events and experiences that we might bring to reading it. Thomas Fink is a professor of English at the City University of New York. Judith Halden-Sullivan is a professor of English at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Modern and Contemporary Poetics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, series editors

CONTRIBUTORS Charles Bernstein / Carrie Conners / Thomas Fink / Kristen Gallagher / Judith Halden-Sullivan / Paolo Javier / Burt Kimmelman / Hank Lazer / Jessica Lewis Luck / Stephen Paul Miller / Sheila E. Murphy / Elizabeth Robinson / Christopher Schmidt / Eileen R. Tabios

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Poetics / Literary Criticism

Contemporaries and Snobs Laura Riding Edited by Jane Malcolm and Laura Heffernan

This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling account—by turns personal, by turns historical—of how the institutionalization of modernism denuded experimental poetry. Most importantly, Contemporaries and Snobs offers a counter-history of the idiosyncratic, of what the institution of modernism left (and leaves) behind. With Gertrude Stein as its figurehead, the book champions the noncanonical, the “barbaric,” and the undertheorized. Riding’s nuanced defense of a poetics of the person in Contemporaries and Snobs represents a forgotten but essential first attempt to identify and foster what is now a well-defined poetic lineage that leads from Stein to the contemporary experimental avant-garde. In these essays, Riding takes her readers on a remarkably thorough tour through the critical scene of the 1920s. Among other influential treatises, she considers T. S. Eliot’s The Sacred Wood and his editorial essays in The Criterion, Allen Tate’s “Poetry and the Absolute,” John Crowe Ransom’s essays on the modernist poet, Edgell Rickword’s essays in The Calendar of Modern Letters, and Herbert Read’s posthumous publication of T. E. Hulme’s essays. All of this criticism, Riding notes, gave modern poets a sheen of seriousness and professionalism, but was it good for poetry? Her decisive answer is “no.” This new edition includes an introduction by Laura Heffernan and Jane Malcolm that makes legible the many connections between Contemporaries and Snobs and the critical debates and poetic experiments of the 1920s, as well as explanatory notes, a chronological bibliography of Riding’s work, and an index of proper names.

february 2014 6 x 9 / 176 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5767-2 / $34.95S paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8737-2 / $34.95 ebook “It was left for Miss Laura Riding, American poet residing in England, to discover [Gertrude Stein’s Composition as Explanation], and to appreciate it.” — Elliott Paul, Paris Tribune “[Riding] has made a singularly complete and convincing survey of the causes of modern poetry.” — Times Literary Supplement

Laura Riding, later Laura (Riding) Jackson, was a prolific and respected poet, and writer of both fiction and nonfiction, who published all her major poetry during the 1920s and 1930s. During those two decades Riding published thirteen collections of poetry along with six novels and story collections and eight works of nonfiction, including Contemporaries and Snobs. Riding later turned her attention solely to nonfiction, actively publishing until her death in 1991. She was honored with the Mark Rothko Appreciation Award in 1971, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1973, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1979, and Yale University’s Bollingen Prize for her lifetime contribution to poetry in 1991. Jane Malcolm is an assistant professor of English at the Université de Montréal. She has written previously about Laura Riding’s gendered poetics and about the ambivalent feminisms of H.D., Mina Loy, and Gertrude Stein. Laura Heffernan is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Florida. She has written previously about the modernist criticism of Rebecca West, John Rodker, T. E. Hulme, and Edmund Wilson. Modern and Contemporary Poetics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, series editors

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American Studies / Literary Criticism / World History

Eclipse of Empires World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture Patricia Jane Roylance Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another. Patricia Jane Roylance’s central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that historical episodes of imperial eclipse, for example Incan Peru yielding to Spain or the Ojibway to the French, heightened the concerns of many American writers about specific intranational social problems plaguing the nation at the time—race, class, gender, religion, economics. Given the eventual dissolution of great civilizations previously plagued by these very same problems, many writers, unlike those who confidently emphasized U.S. exceptionalism, exhibited both an anxiety about the stability of American society and a consistent practice of self-scrutiny in identifying the national defects that they felt could precipitate America’s decline.

october 6 x 9 / 296 pages / 1 b&w illustration ISBN: 978-0-8173-1382-1 / $44.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8703-7 / $44.95 ebook “This book will appeal to scholars and students of American Studies and early and nineteenth-century American literature, as well as historians with an interest in transnational history and its representations within national discourses. I’d venture to say that its accessible and clear prose will make it a book with the potential for wider, nonspecialist, reading markets. The work is an important contribution to American studies. Indeed, it will be transformative.”

Roylance studies, among other texts, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Water-Witch (1830) and The Bravo (1831), which address the eclipse of Venice by New York City as a maritime power in the eighteenth century; William Hickling Prescott’s Conquest of Peru (1847), which responds to widespread anxiety about communist and abolitionist threats to the U.S. system of personal property by depicting Incan culture as a protocommunist society doomed to failure; and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha (1855), which resists the total eclipse of Ojibway culture by incorporating Ojibway terms and stories into his poem and by depicting the land as permanently marked by their occupation. Patricia Jane Roylance is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University.

— Eric Wertheimer, author of Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722–1872 “I am confident that this book—learned, ambitious, and accessibly written—will inspire debate in the field.” — Christoph Irmscher, author of Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science and coeditor of A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History

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LITERARY CRITICISM / WOMEN’S STUDIES / AMERICAN STUDIES

Panic Fiction Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis Mary Templin

Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class. Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors such as Hannah Lee, Catharine Sedgwick, Eliza Follen, Maria McIntosh, and Maria Cummins wrote dozens of novels and stories depicting the effects of financial panic on the home and proposing solutions to economic instability. This unique body of antebellum American women’s writing, which integrated economic discourse with the language and conventions of domestic fiction, is what critic Mary Templin terms “panic fiction.” In Panic Fiction: Antebellum Women Writers and Economic Crisis, Templin draws in part from the methods of New Historicism and cultural studies, situating these authors and their texts within the historical and cultural contexts of their time. She explores events surrounding the panics of 1837 and 1857, prevalent attitudes toward speculation and failure as seen in newspapers and other contemporaneous texts, women’s relationships to the marketplace, and the connections between domestic ideology and middle-class formation.

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Although largely unknown today, the phenomena of “panic fiction” was extremely popular in its time and had an enormous influence on nineteenth-century popular conceptions of speculation, failure, and the need for marketplace reform, providing a distinct counterpoint to the analysis of panic found in newspapers, public speeches, and male-authored literary texts of the time.

“ Templin’s argument that panic—as a phenomenon inherently disruptive to the regular functioning of the market—authorized women authors’ engagement in the predominantly male economic debates of the time is astute and richly suggestive. Templin does a fine job of bringing wide-ranging historical scholarship on antebellum class relations and working-class culture to bear on the cultural representations she examines.”

Mary Templin is an associate lecturer in the Honors College, University of Toledo.

— Lori Merish, author of Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature “ This is an original and engaging study. Based on extensive historical research and an illuminating interaction with recent scholarship on both women’s fiction and the ‘new economic criticism,’ it will be of use to scholars, in a variety of fields, from literature to women’s studies to American history.” — David Anthony, author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America

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Southern History / Jewish Studies / World War II

In the Shadow of Hitler Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust Dan J. Puckett

In the Shadow of Hitler is the first comprehensive state study of how southern Jews—and non-Jews—dealt with the coming of the Good War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews. In 1982, the Orthodox congregation of Ahavas Chesed in Mobile, Alabama, reconsecrated a Torah scroll from the Altneuschule in Prague, Czechoslovakia, that had been seized by the Nazis in the midst of the Holocaust. The Nazis, over the course of their occupation of Czechoslovakia, confiscated from Jewish communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia 1,564 Torahs, among numerous other Judaic ceremonial objects. The Nazis had the Torahs cataloged and planned to exhibit them after the war in a museum to the extinct Jewish race. Ahavas Chesed acquired the Altneuschule scroll from the Czech Memorial Scrolls Trust to honor the members of those communities who had perished in the camps. November 6 x 9 / 256 pages / 21 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1328-9 / $44.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8107-3 / $44.95 ebook “Dan J. Puckett provides academic and lay readers a compelling, well-researched, and strongly written case study of how the people in a Deep South state confronted Hitler’s persecution of the Jews. This first detailed state study sheds substantial light on national issues and is a must read for anyone interested in the impact of Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, Jewish and non-Jewish responses and interactions, and the histories of African American– Jewish relations, Alabama, the South, and the nation.” — Mark K. Bauman, editor of Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History and the journal Southern Jewish History “Puckett tells an important story. Its strength is to illuminate the very real and interdependent connection between major world events and the shifting parameters of local/regional life.” — Jennifer E. Brooks, Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition “ As we search all available sources to develop a broader understanding of the life of Holocaust survivors who made their homes in Alabama following their horrific experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe, we are indebted to Dan J. Puckett for his research that gives us insight into the early years of this immigration. In the Shadow of Hitler will be a uniquely important book for us, the Alabama Holocaust Commission, and for all who are interested in the Jewish history of our state.”

Dan J. Puckett’s In the Shadow of Hitler examines the Jews of of Alabama and shows that they were fully aware of events that affected Jews both nationally and internationally. Although Alabama’s Jewish community was divided between Central and Eastern European and Sephardic backgrounds and cultures, and the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox traditions, the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Europe forced this disparate Jewish community to put aside its differences and work together to aid and save European Jewry. In doing so, Alabama’s Jews not only effectively lobbied influential politicians on the local, state, and national level, and swayed the opinions of newspaper editors, Christian groups, and the general public, but their cooperation also built bridges that spanned the cultural and religious divides within their own community. In the Shadow of Hitler illustrates how this intracommunity cooperation, the impact of the war and the murder of six million European Jews, and the establishment of the state of Israel built the foundation for closer cultural and religious cooperation in Alabama in the decades that followed. Dan J. Puckett is an associate professor of history at Troy University. Modern South Glenn Feldman and Kari Fredrickson, series editors

— Phyllis G. Weinstein, Chair, Alabama Holocaust Commission

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sOUTHERN HISTORY / RELIGIOUS STUDIES / ALABAMA

Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules A History of the Episcopal Church in Alabama J. Barry Vaughn Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama’s cultural, political, and economic arenas despite being a denominational minority in the state. The consensus of southern historians is that, since the Second Great Awakening, evangelicalism has dominated the South. This is certainly true when one considers the extent to which southern culture is dominated by evangelical rhetoric and ideas. However, in Alabama one non-evangelical group has played a significant role in shaping the state’s history. J. Barry Vaughn explains that, although the Episcopal Church has always been a small fraction (around 1 percent) of Alabama’s population, an inordinately high proportion, close to 10 percent, of Alabama’s significant leaders have belonged to this denomination. Many of these leaders came to the Episcopal Church from other denominations because they were attracted to the church’s wide degree of doctrinal latitude and laissez-faire attitude toward human frailty. Vaughn argues that the church was able to attract many of the state’s governors, congressmen, and legislators by positioning itself as the church of conservative political elites in the state--the planters before the Civil War, the “Bourbons” after the Civil War, and the “Big Mules” during industrialization. He begins this narrative by explaining how Anglicanism came to Alabama and then highlights how Episcopal bishops and congregation members alike took active roles in key historic movements including the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement. Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules closes with Vaughn’s own predictions about the fate of the Episcopal Church in twenty-first-century Alabama. J. Barry Vaughn received a masters of divinity from Yale University and a PhD in divinity from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. From 2000 to 2004 he served as rector of an Episcopal parish in Philadelphia, and in 2004 he returned to his native Alabama to serve as the rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham. He is presently the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Las Vegas, Nevada. Religion and American Culture Charles Israel and John Giggie, series editors

october 6 x 9 / 280 pages / 11 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1811-6 / $49.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8721-1 / $49.95 ebook “The research in both primary and secondary documents is impressive. Unlike much ecclesiastical history written by nonprofessional historians, this work is set in a broad social and historical context. It is filled with tough love and deserved analysis and criticism of Episcopalians, filling an important gap in our present understanding of the state’s complex religious history, and the analysis is sharp and largely supported by the evidence.” — Wayne Flynt, author of Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie, and Alabama in the Twentieth Century “J. Barry Vaughn does well at suggesting the larger social, cultural, and political backdrop that provided the setting for the work of the various diocesan bishops. There is prodigious research, and I was delighted that there was some attention paid to material culture.” — Charles H. Lippy, author of Introducing American Religion and coauthor of Religion in Contemporary America

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LITERARY CRITICISM / LINGUISTICS / CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Caribbean Literary Discource Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean Barbara Lalla, Jean D’Costa, and Velma Pollard Caribbean Literary Discourse is a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers. Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices and literary experiments characteristic of the multicultural and multilingual Caribbean. In these societies, the language of the master— English in Jamaica and Barbados—overlies the Creole languages of the majority. As literary critics and as creative writers, Barbara Lalla, Jean D’Costa, and Velma Pollard engage historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives to investigate the literature bred by this complex history. They trace the rise of local languages and literatures within the Englishspeaking Caribbean, especially as reflected in the language choices of creative writers. november 6 x 9 / 296 pages / 9 tables ISBN: 978-0-8173-1807-9 / $49.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8702-0 / $49.95 ebook “This excellent collection marries the analytic skills of three linguists with their competencies in literary criticism and makes a much-needed contribution to uncovering the extraordinary wealth of Caribbean literary discourse. The writers’ sensitivity to the topic of discourse and orthographic choice gains insight from the creative authorial experience of the three scholars.” — Maureen Warner-Lewis, author of Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory “This volume is both timely and marketable. Particular strengths include the historical/developmental focus, the analysis of language in literature, the combination of a wide overview of issues like orality and literacy, and changing attitudes towards the use of Creole in writing.” — Susanne Mühleisen, author of Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles

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The study engages two problems: first, the historical reality that standard metropolitan English established by British colonialists dominates official economic, cultural, and political affairs in these former colonies, contesting the development of vernacular, Creole, and pidgin dialects even among the region’s indigenous population; and second, the fact that literary discourse developed under such conditions has received scant attention. Caribbean Literary Discourse explores the language choices that preoccupy creative writers in whose work vernacular discourse displays its multiplicity of origins, its elusive boundaries, and its most vexing issues. The authors address the degree to which language choice highlights political loyalties and tensions; the politics of identity, self-representation, and nationalism; the implications of code-switching—the ability to alternate deliberately between different languages, accents, or dialects—for identity in postcolonial society; the rich rhetorical and literary effects enabled by code-switching and the difficulties of acknowledging or teaching those ranges in traditional education systems; the longstanding interplay between oral and scribal culture; and the predominance of intertextuality in postcolonial and diasporic literature. Barbara Lalla is an emerita professor of language and literature in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She has written two novels as well as Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse and Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival. Jean D’Costa, Leavenworth Professor Emerita of Literature at Hamilton College, is a critic and children’s novelist. Lalla and D’Costa coauthored Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole. Velma Pollard is a retired senior lecturer in language education at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. She is an authority on Rastafarian language and the author of a novel, two collections of short fiction, and five books of poetry. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas Literary Prize in 1992.

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Southern History / Women’s Studies / Alabama

The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835 A Substitute for Social Intercourse Edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins and Ruth Smith Truss The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835, is the definitive edition of Gayle’s widely cited journal, a classic record of the life, particularly the interior life, of a socially prominent woman living on the Alabama frontier. The solitude of a life with an often-absent husband, Governor John Gayle, led Sarah Gayle to acknowledge her journal as a “substitute for social intercourse” during the years 1827 to 1835. The richness of her depictions of the life of a wife, mother, and household mistress in early Alabama has attracted much attention from historians, particularly since her life serves as a case study in Elizabeth Fox-Genovese’s Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Sarah’s descriptions of her loneliness, her frustration with the management of slaves, her challenges in child rearing, and her passion for self-education open an intimate window into her world. Many historians have borrowed from her now disintegrating original journal and its transcriptions to enhance their studies of numerous aspects of antebellum southern life. In studying this journal Sarah Wiggins realized that the poor condition of the original and its transcriptions has led historians to misinterpret Sarah Gayle’s story and the intentions of her words. The original journal has fallen to pieces, and pages have been reassembled in random order. Passages were deliberately defaced or cut and lost from the original. The various transcriptions in southern repositories omit the information on defaced pages and misread her handwriting. Protective of the reputations of family members, Gayle descendants attempted to obscure passages they believed did not reflect well on their ancestors: incessant financial problems, accusations of John Gayle’s alcohol abuse, and Sarah Gayle’s opium addiction. Using archival techniques, the editors recovered the obscured information and created the most reliable reading of Sarah’s journal currently available. The text is enhanced by Sarah Wiggins and Ruth Truss Smith with an introduction, notes, and detailed descriptions of how the damaged lines were restored. Sarah Wiggins is a professor emerita of history at the University of Alabama, a past president of the Alabama Historical Association, and editor of the Alabama Review for twenty years. She is the author or editor of The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865–1881; From Civil War to Civil Rights—Alabama 1860–1960: An Anthology from “The Alabama Review”; The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857–1878; and Love and Duty: Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family. Ruth Smith Truss is a professor of history and chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Montevallo who has published a number of articles related to Alabama history and has served on the board of directors of the Alabama Historical Association.

november 6 x 9 / 392 pages / 13 b&w illustrations, including 2 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-1333-3 / $39.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8716-7 / $39.95 ebook “ This lively and engaging journal is a much needed addition to the literature. It offers an insight into the world of women in the Old South and the struggles of a wife of a relatively absent husband immersed in Alabama politics. Her words bring into high relief the joys and sorrows of raising children, caring for kin, and maintaining social ties. Gayle’s journal, moreover, provides important digressions of her memories growing up and past encounters with those who came in and out of her life. In that vein, her detailed descriptions of her relationships with other women add to the historiography on the creation of a female culture distinct from the world of men.” — Victoria E. Ott, author of Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War

Published in Cooperation with the University Libraries, The University of Alabama, with Further Financial Support from the Library Leadership Board, the University Libraries, The University of Alabama

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Southern History / Civil War / Alabama

The Yellowhammer War The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama Edited by Kenneth W. Noe

Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath. During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for their yellow-trimmed uniforms that allegedly resembled the plumage of the yellow-shafted flicker or “yellowhammer” (now the Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, and the state bird of Alabama). The soldiers’ nickname, “Yellowhammers,” came from this epithet. After the war, Alabama veterans proudly wore yellowhammer feathers in their hats or lapels when attending reunions. Celebrations throughout the state have often expanded on that pageantry and glorified the figures, events, and battles of the Civil War with sometimes dubious attention to historical fact and little awareness of those who supported, resisted, or tolerated the war off the battlefield. october 6 x 9 / 304 pages / 4 b&w illustrations, including 2 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-1808-6 / $49.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8704-4 / $49.95 ebook “This volume makes a strong contribution to Alabama history and to the Civil War sesquicentennial.” — George C. Rable, award-winning author of Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! and God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War “Noe’s book certainly makes significant contributions to the field, not only in advancing the history of Alabama, but in the broader connections the work makes in regard to Civil War history. Noe’s edited volume is a perfect example of incorporating fresh concepts and research into an old genre, and presenting to the reader enjoyable and informative essays that will cause historians to rethink Alabama’s place in both the war and Reconstruction.” — Jonathan C. Sheppard, author of By the Noble Daring of Her Sons: The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee

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 likewise 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. From Patricia A. Hoskins’s look at Jews in Alabama during the Civil War and Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño’s examination of white women’s attitudes during secession to 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, readers are treated to a broader canvas of topics on the Civil War and the state. Kenneth W. Noe is an 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. Published in Cooperation with the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South

CONTRIBUTORS Jason J. Battles / Lonnie A. Burnett / Harriet E. Amos Doss Bertis English / Michael W. Fitzgerald / Jennifer Lynn Gross Patricia A. Hoskins / Kenneth W. Noe / Victoria E. Ott Terry L. Seip / Ben H. Severance / Kristopher A. Teters Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins Brian Steel Wills

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ALABAMA / SOUTHERN HISTORY / CIVIL RIGHTS

Turning the Tide The University of Alabama in the 1960s Earl H. Tilford Foreword by Jack Drake

Turning the Tide is an institutional and cultural history of a dramatic decade of change at the University of Alabama set against the backdrop of desegregation, the continuing civil rights struggle, and the growing antiwar movement. This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activists formed an alliance with President Frank A. Rose, his staff, and a small group of progressive-minded professors in order to transform the university during a time of social and political turmoil. Together they engaged in a struggle against Governor George Wallace and a state legislature that reflected the worst aspects of racism in a state where the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965 did little to reduce segregation and much to inflame the fears and passions of many white Alabamians. Earl H. Tilford details the origins of the student movement from within the Student Government Association, whose leaders included Ralph Knowles and future governor Don Siegelman, among others; the participation of key members of “The Machine,” the political faction made up of the powerful fraternities and sororities on campus; and the efforts of more radical non-Greek students like Jack Drake, Ed Still, and Sondra Nesmith. Tilford also details the political maneuverings that drove the cause of social change through multiple administrations at the university. Turning the Tide highlights the contributions of university presidents Frank A. Rose and David Mathews, as well as administrators like the dean of men John L. Blackburn, who supported the student leaders but also encouraged them to work within the system rather than against it. Based on archival research, interviews with many of the principal participants, and the author’s personal experiences, Tilford’s Turning the Tide is a compelling portrait of a university in transition during the turbulence surrounding the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. Earl Tilford is the author of Crosswinds: The Air Force’s Setup in Vietnam and Search and Rescue in Southeast Asia: USAF in Southeast Asia, and coeditor of The Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on the United States Involvement in the Persian Gulf War.

january 2014 6 x 9 / 248 pages / 27 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1814-7 / $34.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8725-9 / $34.95 ebook “Earl Tilford’s carefully researched and beautifully written account of the university during a time of transition and turmoil is a must read for Alabama alumni of any era.” — Dag Rowe, Class of 1969 “The way Tilford weaves in social phenomena like fraternities, beauty pageants, football, and other student activities will find a ready audience among students of that era. The book will also appeal to the aging baby boomer population now looking back on that formative period of their lives, the 1960s. This book is a real page-turner.” — John David Briley, author of Career in Crisis: Paul “Bear” Bryant and the 1971 Season of Change “Turning the Tide is essential reading for anyone who ever worked for, attended, or has been a fan or supporter of the University of Alabama. Then, too, anyone interested in the way changes in higher education foretold changes in contemporary society during the tumultuous 1960s will be fascinated by this book.” — Roger Sayers, former president of the University of Alabama

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Literary Criticism / Latin American Studies

Quince Duncan Writing Afro–Costa Rican Identity Dorothy E. Mosby

Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica’s first novelist of African descent and one of the nation’s most esteemed contemporary writers. As the grandson of Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants to Limón, Quince Duncan (b. 1940) incorporates his own memories in his writing on the experiences of first generation Afro–West Indian immigrants and their descendants in Costa Rica. Duncan’s novels, short stories, recompilations of oral literature, and essays intimately convey the challenges of Afro–West Indian contract laborers and the struggles of their descendants to be recognized as citizens of the nation they helped bring into modernity.

january 2014 6 x 9 / 232 pages / 1 map ISBN: 978-0-8173-1349-4 / $44.95s cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8722-8 / $44.95 ebook “One of the few studies of Duncan’s complete works to include his contributions to Latin American literature in all genres. It is through Mosby’s present study that the reader of Duncan’s works will appreciate his challenge to the hegemony that has constructed Costa Rican discourse of identity that allows room for the marginalized racial and ethnic groups only under the designation of folklore.” — Dawn F. Stinchcomb, author of The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic “ This work makes a most significant contribution to the fields of Spanish American, Central American, and African diaspora literatures. It can be considered a ‘first’ in that it stands as an exhaustive analysis of the creative works of one of Costa Rica’s most prolific fiction writers, Quince Duncan. This work provides students, critics, and enthusiasts the first critical study of Duncan’s literary corpus that takes into consideration his most recent works.”

Through his storytelling, Duncan has become an important literary and cultural presence in a country that forged its national identity around the leyenda blanca (white legend) of a rural democracy established by a homogeneous group of white, Catholic, and Spanish peasants. By presenting legends and stories of Limón Province as well as discussing the complicated issues of identity, citizenship, belonging, and cultural exile, Duncan has written the story of West Indian migration into the official literary discourse of Costa Rica. His novels, Hombres curtidos (1970) and Los cuatro espejos (1973), in particular portray the Afro–West Indian community in Limón and the cultural intolerance encountered by those of African-Caribbean descent who migrated to San José. Because his work follows the historical trajectory from the first West Indian laborers to the contemporary concerns of Afro–Costa Rican people, Duncan is as much a cultural critic and sociologist as he is a novelist. In Quince Duncan, Dorothy E. Mosby combines biographical information on Duncan with geographic and cultural context for the analysis of his works, along with plot summaries and thematic discussions particularly helpful to readers new to Duncan. Dorothy E. Mosby is an associate professor of Spanish, Latina/o, Latin American Studies at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts as well as the author of Place, Language, and Identity in Afro–Costa Rican Literature.

— Antonio D. Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro–Latin American Literature

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Anthropology / Latin American History

Secrecy and Insurgency Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala Silvia Posocco Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of contemporary theory, Silvia Posocco’s Secrecy and Insurgency presents a vivid ethnographic account of secrecy as both sociality and a set of knowledge practices. Informed by multi-sited anthropological fieldwork among displaced communities with experiences of militancy in the guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, the book traces the contours of dispersed and intermittent guerrilla social relations, unraveling the gendered dimensions of guerrilla socialities and subjectivities in a local context marked by violence and rapid social change. The chapters chart shifting regimes of governance in the northern departmento of Petén; the inception of violence and insurgency; guerrilla practices of naming and secret relations; moral orders based on sameness and sharing; and forms of relatedness, embodiment, and subjectivity among the combatants. The volume develops new critical idioms for grappling with partiality, perspective, and incompleteness in ethnography and contributes to new thinking on the anthropology of Guatemala. Secrecy and Insurgency will be of interest to social and cultural anthropologists, human geographers, and those interested in Latin American studies, human rights, women’s studies, and gender studies. Silvia Posocco is a lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

november 6 x 9 / 240 pages / 7 b&w illustrations, including 3 maps / 1 table ISBN: 978-0-8173-1359-3 / $49.95S cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8698-6 / $49.95 ebook “ I am convinced that this book will add greatly to our understanding of guerrilla identities during and after the Guatemalan conflict and to the contemporary history of the Petén (often overlooked by scholars), as well as provide a strong theoretical addition to our understanding of partiality, subjectivity, and the necessary incompleteness of ethnography.” — Timothy J. Smith, coeditor of After the Coup: An Ethnographic Reframing of Guatemala 1954

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Theatre / History

Theatre Symposium, Volume 21 Ritual, Religion, and Theatre Edited by E. Bert Wallace

Volume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual. Whether or not theatre arose from ritual and/or religion, from prehistory to the present there have been clear and vital connections among the three. Ritual, Religion, and Theatre, volume 21 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, presents a series of essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships that exist, historically and today, between these various modes of expression and performance.

november 6 x 9 / 152 pages / 27 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-7008-4 / $25.00s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8724-2 / $25.00 ebook CONTRIBUTORS Cohen Ambrose / David Callaghan / Gregory S. Carr Matt DiCintio / William Doan / Tom F. Driver / Steve Earnest Jennifer Flaherty / Charles A. Gillespie / Thomas L. King Justin Kosec / Mark Pizzato / Kate Stratton

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The essays in this volume discuss the stage presence of the spiritual meme; ritual performance and spirituality in The Living Theatre; theatricality, themes, and theology in James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones; Jordan Harrison’s Act a Lady and the ritual of queerness; Gerpla and national identity in Iceland; confession in Hamlet and Measure for Measure; Christian liturgical drama; Muslim theatre and performance; cave rituals and the Brain’s Theatre; and other, more general issues. Edited by E. Bert Wallace, this latest publication by the largest regional theatre organization in the United States collects the most current scholarship on theatre history and theory. E. Bert Wallace is an associate professor of theatre and the codirector of the Honors Program at Campbell University.

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History of the University of Alabama Volume One: 1818–1902 James B. Sellers

The University of Alabama, established in 1831, has survived poverty, riots, political interference, wartime destruction, attacks by clergy and laymen, and internal feuds to develop from a boarding school for planters’ sons to a modern and thriving state university. Using official records and state newspapers as well as letters and diaries of presidents, students, teachers, and alumni, this comprehensive volume that covers 1818 to 1902 reveals the hardships and achievements of the men and women who made the university during its early years. History of the University of Alabama, first published in 1953, details the educational progress made in spite of meager funds, primitive buildings and equipment, unruly students, and interruption by the Civil War. Interwoven with the accounts of campus life, extracurricular activities, early intercollegiate athletics, and building programs is the history of a long-sustained effort by many devoted presidents, faculty, and citizens to raise educational standards and to improve the instruction provided for the youth of the state.

september 6.125 x 9.25 / 664 pages / 32 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5769-6 / $39.95s paper

Patterson for Alabama The Life and Career of John Patterson Gene Howard

“Howard shines in his treatment of the critical civil rights confrontations that played such a vital role in Patterson’s political success. He uses Patterson’s words, strategies, and actions, as well as those of civil rights activists, to allow the reader to draw an unbiased interpretation of those events.” —Journal of Southern History

october 6 x 9 / 272 pages / 33 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5770-2 / $29.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8056-4 / $29.95 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8173-1605-1 / $39.95s cloth

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Cattle in the Cotton Fields A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama Brooks Blevins

“ In Cattle in the Cotton Fields, Brooks Blevins traces the changing roles of beef and dairy animals in Alabama, from their introduction by the Spanish in the mid-1500s to the 1990s. The book is a competent, well-organized history of cattle in Alabama that begins with openrange-woods ranching on the colonial frontier and continues through the contemporary period of cattle production by part-time farmers. . . . Cattle in the Cotton Fields is the only book that describes contemporary beef cattle production in a southern state and traces the history of cattle from their introduction to their present role in agriculture.” —The Business History Review

october 6 x 9 / 240 pages / 14 b&w illustrations, including 2 maps / 6 tables ISBN: 978-0-8173-5771-9 / $29.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8754-9 / $29.95 ebook

“ Brooks Blevins is to be complimented for writing a detailed and comprehensive history of the cattle industry in Alabama. . . . In addition to providing details of agricultural development in Alabama, this book should be of interest to those studying the agricultural history of the South.” —The Arkansas Historical Quarterly

Mule South to Tractor South Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South George B. Ellenberg

“ In examining the figurative and literal power of the draft mule within the historical narrative of the South from 1860 forward, the author demonstrates that the very ubiquity of the mule indeed camouflaged its importance to the region. . . . Artfully crafted and well written, Mule South to Tractor South calls upon a range of sources in providing a distinct contribution to the field of southern and agriculture history.” —North Carolina Historical Review “His insightful accounts of what working with mules was really like gives readers an appreciation of both the backbreaking labor that defined southern agriculture for generations and the unique relationship between man and beast that the arrangement required.” october

—Journal of Mississippi History

6 x 9 / 240 pages / 14 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5772-6 / $29.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8038-0 / $29.95 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8173-1597-9 / $39.95s cloth

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A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida Bernard Romans Edited and with an Introduction by Kathryn E. Holland Braund

“ Students of history, ecology, and anthropology will appreciate this book for the insight it provides into the perceptions of a learned individual caught up in the development of a young nation.” —Choice

october 6 x 9 / 456 pages / 19 b&w illustrations, including 7 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-5773-3 / $39.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8423-4 / $39.95 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8173-0876-6 / $49.95s cloth

A Small but Spartan Band The Florida Brigade in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia Zack C. Waters and James C. Edmonds

“ By relying heavily on primary sources, including journals, diaries, newspapers, letters, and court records, the authors have succeeded in producing what may well be the finest account of Florida’s troops in General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. . . . An engaging book that is sure to appeal to academics and nonacademics alike.” —Journal of Southern History “A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia makes a timely contribution to the history of the Confederacy by showcasing soldiers from its least populous state. In addition to describing the experiences of Floridians in the Eastern Theater of the war, it brings forth some original frameworks for examining familiar military campaigns and fulfills its purpose ‘to fill a void’ (p.1) in Civil War history.” —On Point: The Journal of Army History

november 6.125 x 9.25 / 272 pages / 21 b&w illustrations, including 10 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-5774-0 / $29.95S paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8711-2 / $29.95 ebook

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Debt, Investment, Slaves Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885 Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. Foreword by Gavin Wright

“Richard Kilbourne, a practicing lawyer and the author of two previous books dealing with aspects of credit and the law in Louisiana, has written a meticulously researched case study of how antebellum farmers and planters in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, financed their operations and then how they responded to the shock of change brought by emancipation. . . . Historians seeking a better understanding of credit relations in the nineteenth-century South and the effects these relations had on the antebellum and postbellum Southern society and economy cannot ignore this important book.” —Louisiana History

november 6.125 x 9.25 / 224 pages / 2 illustrations / 1 table ISBN: 978-0-8173-5775-7 / $24.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8755-6 / $24.95 ebook

Hope’s Promise Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry S. Scott Rohrer

“ Thankfully, Scott Rohrer has found a reason to study the Moravians and show their experience in North Carolina as pertinent not just to scholars of Moravinism, but also to historians of the south and American religious history.” —H-Net Reviews “Opens up an important new area of research in the fields of Moravian studies, American history, southern history, and ethnic studies. Those interested in the issues of acculturation, sociology of religion, and changing cultural values will find much food for thought.” —American Historical Review november 6 x 9 / 304 pages / 9 b&w illustrations, including 2 maps / 16 tables ISBN: 978-0-8173-5776-4 / $34.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8756-3 / $34.95 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8173-1435-4 / $44.95s cloth

“Rohrer’s work makes an important contribution to the study of Moravians in America and Southern evangelicalism. His storytelling skillfully exploits the deep record base left by the Moravians. He uses detailed biographies to illustrate his statistical analysis so that the individuals behind the numbers come to life. Readers interested in the dynamic relationship between early American religion and a rapidly changing society, as well as those exploring the Moravians, will find much to enjoy.” —Church History

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Contradiction and Conflict The Popular Church in Nicaragua Debra Sabia

“ Sabia’s interviews provide a penetrating look at the variety of perspectives that can be found even within the superficially homogeneous world of the Nicaraguan popular church. Her nuanced differentiation of the revolutionary Christian type from the reformist Christian type is helpful.” —Hispanic American Historical Review “ Sabia’s contributions are demonstrating how the extent of leftism in the Nicaraguan Catholic Church was overstated in the 1980’s, and through ethnographic research, describing ‘the variegated nature of the progressive Christian sector in Nicaragua.’” —The Catholic Historical Review november 6 x 9 / 256 pages / 11 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5777-1 / $29.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8757-0 / $29.95 ebook

A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil Laura Jarnagin

“ In this thoroughly researched and erudite study, Laura Jarnagin suggests a new paradigm for understanding the oft-studied migration of thousands of former Confederates from the American South to Brazil in the years immediately following the end of the Civil War.” —American Historical Review “ The rich detail extracted from the archives is the book’s great strength. . . . The transatlantic connections unearthed in these sources convince the reader that the study of such networks greatly enriches our understanding of the history of all the colonies/countries in the Atlantic world. Jarnagin provides intriguing evidence, for example, that Anglo-Portuguese trading networks with strong political connections generated much of the early market momentum for coffee production in Brazil.” —Hispanic American Historical Review

november 6 x 9 / 328 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5778-8 / $34.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8040-3 / $34.95 ebook

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Separate Spheres No More Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930 Edited by Monika M. Elbert

“ Monika Elbert’s essay collection offers a powerful contribution to the ongoing reexamination of separate spheres in nineteenth- and earlytwentieth century American and in American literary criticism.” —South Atlantic Review

december 6.125 x 9.25 / 320 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5779-5 / $34.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8759-4 / $34.95 ebook

Voices in the Wilderness Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric Patricia Roberts-Miller

“ Voices in the Wilderness contributes to the expansion of research beyond the history of ideas about rhetoric to examine the rhetorical and ethical practices of more diverse traditions. Roberts-Miller’s analysis will be of particular interest to scholars working on theories of the public sphere and histories of religious rhetorics.” —Rhetoric Society Quarterly

december 6 x 9 / 224 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5780-1 / $24.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8758-7 / $24.95 ebook

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Rhetorical Secrets Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America David Allen Grindstaff

“ Grindstaff is both passionate about his topic and well versed in the queer theory of the past three decades.” —GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies “ Grindstaff’s book is not only for those interested in learning about the rhetorical construction of gay male identity. Rhetorical Secrets also endeavors to explain how that identity is discursively produced by and among those who both deny and promote homophilia. . . . Rhetorical Secrets is a book that explicates one of the central interests of rhetoric, the formation and maintenance of a public and its subjects, but this explication is unique because it describes this process as a sensual, desire-charged, and desire-producing dynamic.” —Review of Communication

december 6 x 9 / 208 pages / 4 B&W illustrations / 2 tables ISBN: 978-0-8173-5781-8 / $24.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8760-0 / $24.95 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8173-1506-1 / $34.95s cloth

Abductive Reasoning Douglas Walton

“ Walton’s book is a good account of abductive reasoning, especially in the field of witness testimony, or argument from expert opinion.” —Artificial Intelligence and Law

december 6 x 9 / 320 pages / 12 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5782-5 / $34.95s paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8761-7 / $34.95 ebook

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judaic studies series

Paganism—Christianity—Judaism A Confession of Faith Max Brod Translated by William Wolfe

6 x 9 / 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5663-7 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8547-7 / EBook $35.00

Introduction by Eric Gottgetreu

Anna’s Shtetl Lawrence A. Coben

6 x 9 / 264 pages 5 B&W illustrations, including 1 map ISBN: 978-0-8173-1527-6 / cloth $43.50 ISBN: 978-0-8173-5673-6 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8131-8 / EBook $26.95

Birmingham’s Rabbi Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895–1940 Mark Cowett

To Come to the Land Immigration and Settlement in Sixteenth-Century Eretz-Israel Abraham David Translated by Dena Ordan

6 x 9 / 240 pages 15 B&W illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5003-1 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8271-1 / EBook $32.50

6.125 x 9.25 / 324 pages 3 B&W maps / 4 tables ISBN: 978-0-8173-0935-0 / cloth $49.95 ISBN: 978-0-8173-5643-9 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8520-0 / EBook $35.00

Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy David Ellenson

For Decades I Was Silent A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey Back to Faith Baruch G. Goldstein

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6 x 9 / 232 pages 6 B&W illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1272-5 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8184-4 / EBook $28.00

6 x 9 / 264 pages 23 B&W illustrations, including 2 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-1619-8 / cloth $29.95

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judaic studies series

Separation of Church and State Dina de-Malkhuta Dina in Jewish Law, 1750–1848 Gil Graff

This Happy Land The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston

5.5 x 8.5 / 238 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5035-2 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8684-9 / EBook $32.50

6 x 9 / 464 pages 49 B&W illustrations / 36 tables

James William Hagy

ISBN: 978-0-8173-1288-6 / Paper $48.00

Twilight of a Golden Age

6.125 x 9.25 / 288 pages

Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra Edited and Translated by Leon J. Weinberger

Rabbi Max Heller Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860–1929 Bobbie Malone

ISBN: 978-0-8173-5679-8 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8573-6 / EBook $43.50

6.125 x 9.25 / 296 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-0875-9 / cloth $34.95 ISBN: 978-0-8173-5766-5 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8735-8 / EBook $29.95

Bulgaria’s Synagogue Poets The Kastoreans Edited by Leon J. Weinberger

Rabbanite and Karite Liturgical Poetry in South Eastern Europe

8.5 x 11 / 180 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5623-1 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8329-9 / EBook $29.95

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Edited by Leon J. Weinberger

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alabama history

The Pecan Orchard Journey of a Sharecropper’s Daughter Peggy Vonsherie Allen

6 x 9 / 272 pages 7 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1672-3 / Cloth $29.95T ISBN: 978-0-8173-5659-0 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8454-8 / Ebook $18.95T

Nancy Batson Crews Alabama’s First Lady of Flight Sarah Byrn Rickman Foreword by Jane Kirkpatrick

A Conquering Spirit Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814 Gregory A. Waselkov

6 x 9 / 232 pages 24 B&W Illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5553-1 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8293-3 / Ebook $24.95

6.125 x 9.25 / 408 pages 43 B&W illustrations / 3 tables ISBN: 978-0-8173-1491-0 / Cloth $45.00T ISBN: 978-0-8173-5573-9 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8477-7 / Ebook $29.95T

Schools in the Landscape Localism, Cultural Tradition, and the Development of Alabama’s Public Education System, 1865–1915 Edith M. Ziegler

A Mansion’s Memories Revised edition Mary Chapman Mathews New Photographs by Chip Cooper

A Family Home A History of the President’s Mansion at Auburn University Nell Richardson

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6.125 x 9.25 / 232 pages 15 B&W illustrations, including 3 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-1709-6 / Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8359-6 / Ebook $41.50

7 x 10 / 160 pages 15 color and 58 B&W illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1535-1 / Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8206-3 / Ebook $24.95

7 x 10 / 184 pages 99 color illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1617-4 / Cloth $24.95t

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alabama history

Stand Up for Alabama Governor George Wallace Jeff Frederick

For the Love of Alabama Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson Edited by Sam Hodges

6.125 x 9.25 / 490 pages 15 B&W illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1574-0 / Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8031-1 / Ebook $47.50

6 x 9 / 192 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5666-8 / Paper $18.95

Foreword by Wayne Flynt

Fanning the Spark A Memoir Mary Ward Brown

In the Path of the Storms Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast Frye Gaillard, Sheila Hagler, and Peggy Denniston

Dixie Walker of the Dodgers The People’s Choice Maury Allen with Susan Walker

Satchel Paige’s America William Price Fox

5.5 x 8.5 / 168 pages 14 B&W illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-1645-7 / Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8154-7 / Ebook $24.95t

10 x 12 / 144 pages 26 B&W illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5504-3 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8073-1 / Ebook $24.95t

6 x 9 / 288 pages 24 B&W illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5599-9 / Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8358-9 / Ebook $22.50

5.5 x 8.5 / 152 pages 2 B&W illlustrations ISBN: 978-0-8173-5189-2 / Paper $17.95

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awards

Darkroom A Memoir in Black and White Lila Quintero Weaver

6.125 x 9.25 / 264 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-5716-6 / paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8619-1 / ebook $24.95T

2013 Druid Arts Award: Literary Artist Given by the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa

2013 Notable Book for a Global Society Sponsored by the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group International Reading Association

By the Noble Daring of Her Sons The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee

6.125 x 9.25 / 368 pages 14 b&w illustrations, including 4 maps / 1 table ISBN: 978-0-8173-1707-2 / cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8603-0 / ebook $49.95

Jonathan C. Sheppard

2012 Nathan Bedford Forrest History Award Given by the Forrest Cavalry Corps

The Perfect Lion The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham Jerry H. Maxwell

6.125 x 9.25 / 440 pages 17 b&w illustrations, including 9 maps ISBN: 978-0-8173-1735-5 / cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-8548-4 / ebook $49.95

2013 James F. Sulzby Award Given by the Alabama Historical Association

The Poisoned Chalice Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait

6 x 9 / 208 pages ISBN: 978-0-8173-1719-5 / cloth $38.50 ISBN: 978-0-8173-5697-2 / paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-8490-6 / ebook $24.95

2013 Timothy L. Smith and Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Book Award Wesleyan Theological Society

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author / title index

Abductive Reasoning 33

Fox, William Price

Allen, Maury

Frederick, Jeff

Allen, Peggy Vonsherie

Gaillard, Frye

Anna’s Shtetl 34

Gitin, Maria

Artistic Liberties 13

Graff, Gil

Baldwin, Lewis V.

Green Gold 6

Birmingham’s Rabbi 34

Grindstaff, David Allen

Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules 19

Goldstein, Baruch G.

Blackman, Sarah

Gutmann, Ruth

Blevins, Brooks

Hagy, James William

Border Crossed Us, The 11

Hagler, Sheila

Braund, Kathryn E. Holland

Halden-Sullivan, Judith

Brod, Max

Heffernan, Laura

Brown, Mary Ward

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Once Human 8

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Family Home, A 36

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For Decades I Was Silent 34

Rabbanite and Karite Liturgical Poetry in South Eastern Europe 35

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