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ALABAMA / HISTORY
Alabama
The Making of an American State Edwin C. Bridges
Alabama: The Making of an American State is a thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama, from its geological origins to the early twenty-first century, offering a vital new narrative of the history, culture, and identity of the state. Alabama: The Making of an American State is itself a watershed event in the long and storied history of the state of Alabama. Here, presented for the first time ever in a single, magnificently illustrated volume, Edwin C. Bridges conveys the magisterial sweep of Alabama’s rich, difficult, and remarkable history with verve, eloquence, and an unblinking eye. From Alabama’s earliest fossil records to its settlement by Native Americans and later by European settlers and African slaves, from its territorial birth pangs and statehood through the upheavals of the Civil War and the civil rights movement, Bridges makes evident in clear, direct storytelling the unique social, political, economic, and cultural forces that have indelibly shaped this historically rich and unique American region. Illustrated lavishly with maps, archival photographs, and archaeological artifacts, as well as art works, portraiture, and specimens of Alabama craftsmanship—many never before published—Alabama: The Making of an American State makes evident as rarely seen before Alabama’s most significant struggles, conflicts, achievements, and developments. Drawn from decades of research and the deep archival holdings of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, this volume will be the definitive resource for decades to come for anyone seeking a broad understanding of Alabama’s evolving legacy.
Edwin C. Bridges served as the director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History for thirty years and is the coauthor of Georgia’s Signers and the Declaration of Independence.
OCTOBER 7 X 10 / 264 PAGES 167 COLOR FIGURES / 122 B&W FIGURES / 19 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1942-7 / $39.95t CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-5876-1 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9084-6 / $19.95 EBOOK “We have long needed Alabama, and who better to write it than Edwin Bridges, director emeritus of the Alabama Department of Archives and History? His well-balanced and magnificently illustrated account of the state’s history is just a delightful—if sometimes sobering—read.” —G. Ward Hubbs, author of Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman and Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community “In beautiful and concise prose that understands the heart of the state, this story traces the successes and failures of Alabama and its people and, more importantly, explains why events played out as they did. The full-color illustrations and maps make it the first adult history of Alabama to be so richly illustrated.” —Leah Rawls Atkins, coauthor of Alabama: The History of a Deep South State
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ALABAMA / PHOTOGRAPHY / HISTORY
Shot in Alabama
A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers Frances Osborn Robb
Shot in Alabama is a sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941. It offers a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium, as well as the ways that medium distinctively reflects the story of a culturally rich region. Shot in Alabama by Frances Osborn Robb is a visual and textual narrative of Alabama’s photographic history from 1839 to 1941. It describes the phenomenon of photography as practiced in Alabama as a major cultural force, paying close attention to the particular contexts from which each image emerges and the fragments of microhistory that each image documents. Presented chronologically—from the very first photograph ever taken in the state to the appearance of cameras as commonplace possessions in mid-twentieth-century households—Robb draws into sharp relief the eras of daguerreotypes, Civil War photography, photographic portraiture at the end of the nineteenth century, urban and rural photography in the early twentieth century, WPA photography during the Great Depression, postcards and tourist photography, and pre–World War II illustrated books and art photographs. Robb also examines a wide spectrum of vernacular photography: Alabama-made photographs of everyday people and places, the photographs that fill dresser drawers and shoeboxes, a vast array of unusual images against which Alabama’s more typical iconography can be measured. She also chronicles the work of hundreds of photographers—black and white, amateur and professional, women and men—some littleknown outside their communities, some of them the medium’s most important practitioners. “Who Shot Alabama?” is an accompanying appendix that includes 1,400 photographers by name, working dates, and location—a resource that will help countless individuals, families, and archives identify the specific Alabama photographers whose names appear on family photographs or those in institutional collections. Shot in Alabama is an insightful document of photography as both a communicator and creator of social, cultural, economic, and visual history. It highlights the very personal worlds rendered by individual photographs as well as the larger panorama of Alabama history as seen through the photographs collectively. A landmark work of research, curation, and scholarship, it fills the void of published history on Alabama photography and is an invaluable resource for historians, archivists, librarians, collectors, hobbyists, and readers with an interest in Alabama history or historic photography. Shot in Alabama is a book that all Alabamians will want on their coffee tables. Huntsville resident Frances Osborn Robb has spent twenty-five years researching Alabama photographers and photographs while serving as a consultant on the state’s cultural history and historic photography for museums, archives, and libraries. She has curated or advised on many exhibitions, including Made in Alabama: A State Legacy and the award-winning exhibition In View of Home: Alabama Landscape Photographs. In her search for information and images, she has visited every county in Alabama and roamed as far as Maine and California to study photographs in institutional repositories and family collections. 2
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JANUARY 2017 7 X 10 / 592 PAGES 1 COLOR FIGURE / 153 B&W FIGURES / 2 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1878-9 / $59.95t CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8878-2 / $59.95 EBOOK “Shot in Alabama is an extraordinary, first-rate overview of photography in this state, from the introduction of daguerreotypes in 1839 to the beginning of US involvement in World War II, which Robb explains was itself a watershed in Alabama photography.” —Martin T. Olliff, editor of The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I “Frances Robb has always had a meticulous and discerning eye when it comes to looking at photographs. We photographers value this eye in helping us understand the patterns and nuances of our images. Now everyone can have access to Robb’s marvelous eye within the pages of Shot in Alabama, a first-ever compilation of the evolving, hundred-year span of photography in Alabama. These vernacular images have subtle power equal to that of many of the better-known iconic images of Alabama. This is a stunning collection of images that show how the people of Alabama lived and evolved during their formation as a state and into the early years of World War II. It is beautiful and haunting and at the same time gives new life to a time now past.” —Chip Cooper, author and photographer of Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City and Campesinos: Inside the Soul of Cuba
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BIOGRAPHY / HISTORY / MEDICINE
Genius Belabored
Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis Theodore G. Obenchain
Genius Belabored is the fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever, a leading cause of mortality in new mothers. In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G. Obenchain traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling mortality rates that plagued new mothers of the day. In engrossing detail, Obenchain recreates for readers the sights, smells, and activities within a hospital of that day. In an era before the acceptance of modern germ science, physicians saw little need for cleanliness or hygiene. As a consequence, antiseptic measures were lax and rudimentary. Especially vulnerable to contamination were new mothers, who frequently contracted and died from childbed fever (puerperal fever). Genius Belabored follows Semmelweis’s awakening to the insight that many of these deaths could be avoided with basic antiseptic measures like hand washing. The medical establishment, intellectually unprepared for Semmelweis’s prescient hypothesis, rejected it for a number of reasons. It was unorthodox and went against the lingering Christian tradition that the dangers of childbirth were inherent to the lives of women. Complicating matters, colleagues did not consider Semmelweis an easy physician to work with. His peers described him as strange and eccentric. Obenchain offers an empathetic and insightful argument that Semmelweis suffered from bipolar disorder and illuminates how his colleagues, however dedicated to empirical science they might have been, misjudged Semmelweis’s methods based upon ignorance and their emotional discomfort with him. In Genius Belabored, Obenchain identifies Semmelweis’s rightful place in the pantheon of scientists and physicians whose discoveries have saved the lives of millions. Obenchain’s biography of Semmelweis offers unique insights into the practice of medicine and the mindsets of physicians working in the premodern era. This fascinating study offers much of interest to general readers as well as those interested in germ theory, the history of medicine and obstetrics, or anyone wishing to better understand the trajectory of modern medicine.
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“Obenchain’s account of Semmelweis’s career is highly enjoyable. Its medical detail is impressive and exceeds that in any other account of the doctor’s life. Obenchain’s argument that Semmelweis suffered from bipolar disorder is original, and no other work has supported the hypothesis of Semmelweis’s mental illness so thoroughly.” —K. Codell Carter, author of Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis and translator of Semmelweis’s The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever “Obenchain carefully addresses the complex, and at times confusing, sources of Semmelweis’s personality disorders. This is a well-researched, well-written, sympathetic account of an important figure in nineteenth-century medicine.” —Michael A. Flannery, author of Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provisions, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy and editor of The English Physician
Theodore G. Obenchain is a retired neurosurgeon with several surgical instrument patents in his name and is the author of The Victorian Vivisection Debate: Francis Power Cobbe, Experimental Science, and the “Claims of Brutes,” as well as numerous professional journal articles.
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FICTION
Year of the Rat Marc Anthony Richardson
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice. In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother’s precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait.
Marc Anthony Richardson received his MFA from Mills College. He is an artist and writer from Philadelphia. Year of the Rat is his debut novel.
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“Even the most challenging of transgressive writers pales in comparison.... Technically a novel, it will make all but the most experimental of readers throw it across a room.” —Kirkus Reviews “In language that is at times phantasmagoric, at times ribald, and always beautiful, Marc Anthony Richardson’s debut novel astounds. Bold, provocative, and ambitious: we have a new, indispensable voice in American letters.” —Micheline Aharonian Marcom, author of Three Apples Fell from Heaven and The Mirror in the Well “Trust me, you’ve never read anything like Marc Anthony Richardson’s Year of the Rat, and you must stop everything you’re doing right now and make time for it. Gorgeous, unsparing, heartbreaking, the book is a prose poem of a testament to motherhood, to manhood, to lost generations, to hope itself.” —Cristina García, author of King of Cuba and The Lady Matador’s Hotel “Here is the debut of a breathtaking talent, a writer of relentless intelligence and vision. Marc Anthony Richardson’s writing is at once ecstatic and gritty, fierce and tender, gorgeous and as potent as a bomb.”
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—Carolina De Robertis, author of The Invisible Mountain and The Gods of Tango
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ALABAMA / FOLKLORE
Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen More Alabama Ghosts Kathryn Tucker Windham
Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen: More Alabama Ghosts is a deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s home state of Alabama. Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her home in Selma, Alabama, Kathryn Tucker Windham traveled the South, visiting the sites of spectral legends in Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee, among other places. In Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen: More Alabama Ghosts, a sequel to her landmark Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Windham introduces readers to thirteen more of Jeffrey’s ghostly acquaintances, each with the charm and universal appeal that has created hundreds of thousands of Jeffrey fans. Among the other hair-raising tales in this collection, Windham spotlights the apparitions of academia. From the three Yankee soldiers who haunt the University of Alabama’s Civil War–era Little Round House to the Confederate soldier who resides in the University Chapel at Auburn University, Alabama’s institutions of higher learning seem to have more than a few paranormal pupils. Photographs of the sites about which Windham writes are one of the best-loved features of her series of “Jeffrey the Ghost” books. Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen features the image of a beautiful child who, though not photographed in life, reappeared long enough to be photographed with his bereaved father’s borrowed camera. Bewitched readers will find the startling photograph of the child in the next-to-last chapter, just pages before he book’s photograph of Windham’s own spectral muse, Jeffrey. This commemorative edition returns Windham’s thrilling classic to its original 1982 keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author’s children.
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Praise for Kathryn Tucker Windham “In Windham’s tales . . . myth and fact intertwine to present a picture of the South that is as true as any textbook.” —Paris Review “Almost every town has its own ghostly legends. It’s separating fact from fiction and fantasy that requires someone of Mrs. Windham’s expertise.” —Huntsville Times
Kathryn Tucker Windham grew up in Thomasville, Alabama, the youngest child in a large family of storytellers. For many years a Selma resident, Windham was a freelance writer, collected folklore, and photographed the changing scenes of her native South. A nationally recognized storyteller and a regular fixture on Alabama Public Radio, her commentaries were also featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Her other books include Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, and Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey.
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PHOTOGRAPHY / CUBA
Campesinos
Inside the Soul of Cuba Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi
Campesinos: Inside the Soul of Cuba is a vivid and vibrant testimony in photographs to the life and spirit of Cuban campesinos, the country people who dwell in Cuba’s rural landscapes. Deep inside the soul of Cuba are the campesinos—the men and women who have always worked the countryside across the length and breadth of Cuba, away from cities, towns, and often villages. Resilient, resourceful, and proud, campesinos are the heart and soul of Cuba. The fruit of years of travel among Cuba’s less-known and little-explored rural communities, Campesinos: Inside the Soul of Cuba is a collection of loving and intimate photographs by world-renowned photographers Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi documenting people and places from every corner of the island nation, many never seen by Cubans themselves let alone visitors from abroad. Into the center of this world traveled two photographers to document these extraordinary people. One, Julio Larramendi, was born in Cuba and has spent his whole life there. The other, Chip Cooper, came to visit for the first time from his native Alabama more than a decade ago. Together, Cooper and Larramendi have captured the light, sounds, and spirit of the campesino landscape and the humble and determined people who inhabit it, ways of living that have not changed, in many instances, for a century or more. From green tobacco fields and winding roads to the faces, both stern and smiling, of children and their close-knit families, Cooper and Larramendi have captured in this landmark volume the rhythms and traditions of contemporary rural Cuban life in ways never before documented.
Chip Cooper is a current artist in residence from the Fototeca de Cuba for the City of Havana and artist in residence in the Honors College at the University of Alabama. He is the author, coauthor, and/or photographer of several photography books, including Hunting: The Southern Tradition, Alabama Memories, Silent in the Land, Common Threads: Photographs and Stories from the South, Crimson: The University of Alabama, Tin Man: Charlie Lucas, and Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City/La Habana Vieja: El espíritu de la ciudad viva. A past recipient of an artist fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Cooper’s work has been recognized both nationally and internationally and is held in many museums and in private and corporate collections. Julio Larramendi is a research associate for the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba, a professor and visiting artist in residence at the University of Alabama’s Honors College, and the editorial director of Ediciones Polymita. He was the founder and first president of the department of Latin American photography at the José Martí International Institute of Journalism. His work has been featured in more than fifty books. Larramendi has had more than one hundred solo exhibitions and sixty group exhibits across thirty countries and various Cuban cities, and he is the recipient of more than a dozen international awards.
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MARCH 2017 10 X 12 / 224 PAGES / 320 COLOR FIGURES / 1 MAP ISBN: 978-0-8173-1950-2 / $49.95t CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9120-1 / $49.95 EBOOK
“I am not just staring at a photograph in a book. I am there in the countryside of Cuba. It is a surreal experience. This is the power and the grandeur of great photography—that I feel I am looking out of the window of a bus or car and that I AM THERE. It takes special photographers to achieve this. Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi have done just this, and I am happy to have been able to travel there with them through their moving images.” —Robert Stevens, from the Introduction “Julio Larramendi and Chip Cooper do not place any claims on our state. Their interest is to give them an idea of our real life. In its esteem, they have painted its portrait. And we, these peasants, in our past and present reality, summon the ghosts of our grandparents.” —Reynaldo Gonzalez, from the Preface
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POETRY / CUBA
The World as Presence / El mundo como ser Marcelo Morales Introduced and Translated by Kristin Dykstra
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets. Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature. Marcelo Morales was born in Cuba in 1977. He is an established, prizewinning writer, yet he is younger in comparison to most of the Cuban poets known internationally, many of whom were born prior to the 1959 revolution. While older generations of Cuban poets have wrestled in their work with social and political critique, those critiques have often been articulated through formal experimentation and abstraction, unsurprising given the censorship and the real threats of punishment that dissident writers have faced. Morales, however, directly interrogates both the Cuban past and present. References to many significant moments, people, and issues in Cuban history and culture can be found throughout his work. Along with references to the activist group “The White Ladies,” the 1976 bombing of Cuban Airlines Flight 455, and the military aid that Cubans provided to Angola during its fight for independence, Morales’s poetry follows a timeline ranging from Martí to Guevara to the day of the 2014 announcement by Obama and Castro that diplomatic relations between the two nations would finally be restored. As Cuba experiences a series of historically remarkable transitions, Morales emerges from this context to offer an incisive poetic account of this critical moment in Cuban, as well as world, history. The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is both the debut of this work in any language and the first English translation of a complete Morales collection. Given the bilingual format, this book will be of interest both to English and Spanish readers.
Marcelo Morales is the author of the poetry collections Cinema (winner of the 1997 Pinos Nuevos Prize), El círculo mágico, and Materia (winner of the 2008 Julián del Casal Prize), among others. His novel La espiral appeared in 2006. Kristin Dykstra, recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, translated Reina María Rodríguez’s Other Letters to Milena/ Otras cartas a Milena and Juan Carlos Flores’s The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales), as well as various other books of Cuban poetry.
NOVEMBER 6 X 9 / 160 PAGES / 1 B&W FIGURE ISBN: 978-0-8173-5884-6 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9085-3 / $19.95 EBOOK “Through Kristin Dykstra’s superb translation of The World as Presence/El mundo como ser, we see Marcelo Morales’s never-ending need to articulate, to question, and to be awed by what is important to him as intellectual, as citizen, as family member, and poet. While his concerns are often political, philosophical, and global, they are at the same time intricately and inseparably bound to the body and the personal life of the poet. Morales directly interrogates (in a context that does not encourage or support directness) both the Cuban past and present, and through his work we find reference to a number of important markers of Cuban history and culture. An unforgettable presence for the unforgettable tenseness of the present.” —Daniel Borzutzky, author of The Book of Interfering Bodies and The Performance of Becoming Human “In this book, Morales achieves an impressive and deeply engaging balance, never abandoning a passionate commitment to a philosophical (perhaps phenomenological) investigation of the nature of being and presence, an affirmation of love, and ongoing attention to his family, all the while engaging Cuban political/cultural history up to the present moment. The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the most insightfully contemporary book of Cuban poetry that I have ever read.” —Hank Lazer, author of The New Spirit, Poems Hidden in Plain View, and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996–2008, and editor of What is a Poet?
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POETRY
Calligraphy Typewriters The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner Larry Eigner Edited by Curtis Faville and Robert B. Grenier Foreword by Charles Bernstein
Calligraphy Typewriters is the first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eigner’s most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousand poems that constitute his remarkable life’s work. Larry Eigner began writing poetry at age eight and was first published at age nine. Revered by poets and artists across a broad spectrum of generations and schools, Eigner’s remarkably moving poetry was created through enormous effort: because of severe physical disabilities, he produced his texts by typing with only one index finger and thumb on a 1940 Royal manual typewriter, creating a body of work that is unparalleled in its originality. Calligraphy Typewriters showcases the most celebrated of Eigner’s several thousand poems, which are an important part of both the Black Mountain/Projectivist movement of the 1950s and the Language movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In its two sections—Swampscott and Berkeley, named for the two locales where Eigner lived and worked—the volume traces his fantastic perception of the ordinary and his zeal for language. Eigner’s use of visual space, metaphor, and description provide fascinating insights into both his own life and the world that surrounded him. This volume maintains the distinctive visual spacing of his original typewritten manuscripts, reminders of his method, disability, and aesthetic sensibility. A collection that reimagines the ordinary, Calligraphy Typewriters is the definitive gathering of Eigner’s work, and will serve well not only poets and students of poetry, but readers and writers of every vein. Widely respected American poet Larry Eigner, the author of over 75 books and broadsides, was born “palsied from hard birth” (as he phrased it) in Lynn, Massachusetts, on August 7, 1927. With the exception of two teenage years in residence at the Massachusetts Hospital School in Canton, Eigner spent his first fifty years at home in his parents’ house in Swampscott, Massachusetts, where he was cared for by his mother, Bessie, and his father, Israel, and where he came to do his writing in a space prepared for him on the glassed-in front porch basically every day. Curtis Faville has worked as a teacher, editor, and publisher with degrees in English, creative writing, and landscape architecture. He has published four collections of poetry—Stanzas for an Evening Out, Ready, Wittgenstein’s Door, and Metro—as well as books by Bill Berkson, Ted Greenwald, and Larry Eigner, among others, under the L Publications/Compass Rose Books imprint. He maintains an eclectic Internet blog, The Compass Rose.
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“Larry Eigner’s poetry is one of the splendors of postwar American culture. There is no more perfect introduction to Eigner’s sublime actualizations of the ‘sustaining air’ of the everyday than this selection, incisively edited by Robert Grenier and Curtis Faville.” —Charles Bernstein, author of Recalculating, All the Whiskey in Heaven, and Girly Man “Calligraphy Typewriters is a tremendously important collection. It is apt to become the single most purchased, read, and used volume of Eigner’s work.” —Hank Lazer, author of The New Spirit, Poems Hidden in Plain View, and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996–2008, and editor of What is a Poet?
Poet, essayist, and visual artist Robert B. Grenier has taught literature and creative writing at UC Berkeley, Tufts, Franconia College, and Mills College. He edited Robert Creeley’s first Selected Poems for Scribner’s, and subsequently edited three books of poems by Larry Eigner: Waters / Places / A Time; Windows / Walls / Yard / Ways; and readiness / enough / depends / on. Working with Eigner, Grenier completed the preparation of some 1,800 “established texts” of Eigner’s poems. An archive of Grenier’s own work—the Robert Grenier Papers—is housed in Stanford University’s Green Library. Modern and Contemporary Poetics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, series editors 8
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POETRY & POETICS / LITERARY CRITICISM / ART HISTORY
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 Allen Fisher Foreword by Pierre Joris
Imperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher’s remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole. Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in the British poetry revival of the 1960s and 1970s—has a close and discerning connection to his subjects. In Imperfect Fit, Fisher focuses on the role of fracturing, ruptures, and breakages in many traditional ties between art and poetry, as well as the resulting use of collage and assemblage by practitioners of those arts. Fisher addresses, among other subjects, destruction as a signifier in twentieth-century art; the poetic employment of bureaucratic vocabularies and “business speak”; and the roles of public performance and memory loss in the fashioning of human knowledge and art. Commonplace notions of coherence, logic, and truth are reimagined and deconstructed in this study, and Fisher concludes by suggesting that contemporary culture offers a particularly robust opportunity— and even necessity—to engage in the production of art as a pragmatic act. Scholars of art, poetry, and aesthetics will be engaged and challenged by this insightful work.
Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, art historian, and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival. He is an emeritus professor of poetry and art at Manchester Metropolitan University and the author of several publications, including Sputtor, Gravity as a consequence of shape, and the seminal work Place.
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“These extraordinary essays by poet and painter Allen Fisher are foundational texts for contemporary UK poetics. For more than thirty years, Fisher has developed highly original, practical aesthetics based on a deep understanding of physics and psychology as well as art history, poetics, and philosophy. His poetry and his art works have consistently explored the ethics and aesthetics of the interrelatedness of science, art, and everyday life. In this essential book, Fisher persuasively gives the arts new scale and relevance in a scientific era.” —Peter Middleton, author of The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture and Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry “Few books about poetics are as hopeful and wide ranging as this one. Imperfect Fit should put an end once and for all to modernism’s nostalgia for order as it describes varieties of a more pertinent practice in poetry and art.” —Keith Tuma, editor of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
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MEMOIR / LITERARY STUDIES
The Eleventh House Memoirs
Hudson Strode Introduction by Don Noble
The Eleventh House is a remarkable memoir by an influential critic, teacher, world traveler, and raconteur whose sheer exuberance helped to form a network of literary friendships unparalleled in twentiethcentury arts and letters. Hudson Strode—writer, gardener, gourmet, and world traveler—proceeds from his childhood home in Alabama to the international literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, recounting meetings with Eugene O’Neill, H. L. Mencken, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, the Prince of Wales, and the King of Sweden. “Every place I visited,” says Hudson Strode, “was like a surprise package to be opened, and I untied the strings with high expectations.” Reading The Eleventh House: Memoirs is like going to a party of smartly dressed guests. Strode starts his foreign travels in Sorrento with Dante’s descendant Count Dante Serego-Alighieri as his guide. He takes a Russian cattle boat to Tunisia and lunches with the lovely Countess de Brazza. Then he embarks on a whirlwind tour of South America and writes South by Thunderbird. Later, in England, he visits Rebecca West at her country home and strikes up a warm friendship with Lady Astor. In Denmark his hostess is Isak Dinesen. In Finland he meets Jan Sibelius. Such are the times of Hudson Strode. With his keen eye for settings, with candor, energy, and curiosity, Strode sees his famous friends closely and wholly. His is a unique account. The Eleventh House is the story of a rewarding and fascinating life told by a man who remembers it all with affection. He tells it for the record and as great entertainment.
Hudson Strode (1892–1976), renowned author of a three-volume biography of Jefferson Davis, also wrote a number of widely acclaimed books on his world travels, among them Sweden: Model for a World, Ultimates in the Far East: Travels in the Orient and India, Timeless Mexico, and The Story of Bermuda. He enjoyed a distinguished career as a professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he made a lasting mark on generations of students and taught many noteworthy young writers who would go on to achieve national acclaim.
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Hudson Strode with F. Scott Fitzgerald: His ideal, he said, was to live the life of a hedonist. He argued that pleasure is the sole or chief good in life and that moral duty is fulfilled in the gratification of pleasure-seeking instincts. “We shall get all the joy out of life we can,” he said. “And then when I reach thirty-five I shall do away with myself. There is no sense in growing old.” Hudson Strode with Ernest Hemingway: I rose to go, wishing him luck on Winner Take Nothing. “What the artist must do,” he said, “is to capture the thing on the printed page so truly that the magnification will endure. That is the difference between journalism and literature. There is really very little literature.” Hudson Strode with Isak Dinesen: “Whenever I get out of touch with humanity,” she said with a merry look in her eyes, “I get on my bike and ride in the throng . . . . It makes all men brothers . . . . There is a kind of snobbish class distinction among motorcars, but with bicycles the model counts for nothing, nor the age, nor even the sex.” Hudson Strode with H. G. Wells: “Strode,” he said in his squeaky voice, “I may never see you again, but I want you to remember carefully the words I want incised on my tombstone: ‘You damn fools, I told you so!’ And with an exclamation mark, please.”
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BIOGRAPHY / THEATRE / LITERARY STUDIES
Eugene O’Neill Remembered Edited by Brenda Murphy and George Monteiro
Eugene O’Neill Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by O’Neill’s contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of America’s most significant playwrights. Eugene O’Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright’s life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O’Neill. O’Neill is known principally as the author of some of the most significant plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of America’s Nobel Laureates in literature. However, O’Neill’s life has long been shrouded in myth. O’Neill rarely gave interviews and was not forthcoming about the details of his life. He also abetted some of the misconceptions about his youth by, for example, advocating the story that he was expelled from Princeton for throwing a rock through Woodrow Wilson’s window or by exaggerating the amount of time he had spent at sea. The legend of the hard-drinking, tormented playwright with a grim view of life was further reinforced when Long Day’s Journey into Night was produced in 1956, three years after his death instead of the twenty-five years he had insisted on. The portrayal of O’Neill as a tragic figure has been solidified in a number of biographies. The purpose of this collection, however, is to present O’Neill as others saw him and described him in their firstperson accounts. In the course of these reminiscences, many of the vast and various narrators conflict with and contradict each other. Unlike other accounts of O’Neill’s life, much of the focus is on impressions instead of facts. The result is a revealing composite portrait of a key figure in twentieth-century American literary history. This extensive collection offers insights unavailable in any other book and will hold massive appeal for scholars and students interested in American literature, Eugene O’Neill, and theater history, as well as anyone keen to uncover intimate details of the life of one of America’s greatest writers.
Brenda Murphy is a professor emerita of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of numerous books on twentieth-century American literature and drama, including The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity and The Theatre of Tennessee Williams.
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“Eugene O’Neill Remembered is a cabinet of curiosity for diverse, fragmentary evocations left by a noisy writer and a difficult man who self-consciously made literary and theatrical history in the first part of the twentieth century.” —William Davies King, author of Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton “Monteiro and Murphy’s exemplary compilation will be greeted with cheers from those of us interested in gaining new access to the playwright’s elusive personality and the nature of his closest associations.” —Robert M. Dowling, author of Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts
George Monteiro is a professor emeritus of English and an adjunct professor emeritus of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University. His books include Stephen Crane’s Blue Band of Courage and Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / WOMEN’S STUDIES
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America Edited by Jill Bergman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a compelling investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place, consisting of nine essays penned by premier Gilman scholars that explore the varied uses of space and place within Gilman’s writing and seek to open new critical approaches to the study of her work. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman’s place on its ear, this finely crafted essay collection studies Gilman’s writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space. The contributors present fascinating and innovative readings of some of Gilman’s most significant works. By examining the settings in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland, for example, the volume analyzes Gilman’s construction of place, her representations of male dominance and female subjugation, and her analysis of the rules and obligations that women feel in conforming to their assigned place: the home. Additionally, this volume delineates female resistance to this conformity. Contributors highlight how Gilman’s narrators often choose resistance over obedient captivity, breaking free of the spaces imposed upon them in order to seek or create their own habitats. Through biographical interpretations of Gilman’s work that focus on the author’s own renouncement of her “natural” role of wife and mother, contributors trace her relocation to the American West in an attempt to appropriate the masculinized spaces of work and social organization. Engaging, well-researched, and deftly written, the essays in this collection will appeal to scholars of Gilman, literature, and gender issues alike.
Jill Bergman is the author of The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins and a coeditor of Our Sisters’ Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. She is a professor emerita at the University of Montana where she taught courses in American literature and Women’s Studies. Her work on American women writers has appeared in numerous journals and collections.
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CONTRIBUTORS Jill Bergman / Peter Betjemann / Sari Edelstein / Catherine J. Golden / Brady Harrison / Denise D. Knight / Gary Scharnhorst / William C. Snyder / Jennifer S. Tuttle
“I know of no other book that takes on this topic, and I think it will have a broad readership given that Gilman is a perennial favorite of feminist readers.” —Martha J. Cutter, author of Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity “This uniformly strong collection of essays from both familiar figures and new voices will prove a valuable resource for Gilman scholars.” —Cynthia J. Davis, author of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM / MILITARY HISTORY / POPULAR CULTURE
Beautiful War
Studies in a Dreadful Fascination Philip D. Beidler
Beautiful War is a probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war? Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip D. Beidler investigates the unending assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impulses behind the making of art out of war, and the unending and debatably aimless trajectories of war itself. Beidler’s critical scope spans from Shakespeare’s plays, through the Victorian battle paintings of Lady Butler, into the post–World War I writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, and up to twenty-firstcentury films such as The Hurt Locker and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. As these works of art have become ubiquitous in contemporary culture, the many faces of war clearly spill over into our art and media, and Beidler argues that these portrayals in turn shift the perception of war from a savage truth to a concept. Beautiful War argues that the representation of war in the arts has always been, and continues to be, an incredibly powerful force. Incorporating painting, music, photography, literature, and film, Beidler traces a disturbing but fundamental truth: that war has always provided an aesthetic inspiration while serving ends as various and complex as ideological or geopolitical history, public memory, and mass entertainment. Beautiful War is a bold and vivid account of the role of war and military conflict as a subject of art that offers much of value to literary and cultural critics, historians, veterans, students of art history and communication studies, and those interested in expanding their understanding of art and media’s influence on contemporary values and memories of the past.
Philip D. Beidler is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor of English at the University of Alabama and the author of many works of cultural and literary criticism, among them The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War; The Island Called Paradise: Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts; Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam; and American Wars, American Peace: Notes from a Son of the Empire.
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“Beidler offers us a dazzling array of case studies that, when taken together, convey the seemingly inexhaustible energy that Western cultures continue to pour into the representations of war via an ever-changing and everexpanding set of technologies and the protean nature of armed conflict as a locus for collective memory.” —Steven Trout, author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 “The subject of war is, of course, an important one, but what separates this book from many others on the subject is its unusual focus on so many forms of art— literature, film, music, visual art, poetry, photography, architecture, sculpture, shrines, memorials, and the museums that contain such—as they reflect on the intense human response that war induces.” —Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
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RELIGION / HISTORY / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism. By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in which white Christianity operated and how they could use that knowledge to justify social change. Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews’s study scrutinizes how white fundamentalists wrote blacks out of their definition of fundamentalism and how blacks constructed a definition of Christianity that had, at its core, an intrinsic belief in racial equality. In doing so, this volume challenges the prevailing scholarly argument that fundamentalism was either a doctrinal debate or an antimodernist force. Instead, it was a constantly shifting set of priorities for different groups at different times. A number of African American theologians and clergy identified with many of the doctrinal tenets of the fundamentalism of their white counterparts, but African Americans were excluded from full fellowship with the fundamentalists because of their race. Moreover, these scholars and pastors did not limit themselves to traditional evangelical doctrine but embraced progressive theological concepts, such as the Social Gospel, to help them achieve racial equality. Nonetheless, they identified other forward-looking theological views, such as modernism, as threats to “true” Christianity. Mathews demonstrates that, although traditional portraits of “the black church” have provided the illusion of a singular unified organization, black evangelical leaders debated passionately among themselves as they sought to preserve select aspects of the culture around them while rejecting others. The picture that emerges from this research creates a richer, more profound understanding of African American denominations as they struggled to contend with a white American society that saw them as inferior. Doctrine and Race melds American religious history and race studies in innovative and compelling ways, highlighting the remarkable and rich complexity that attended to the development of African American Protestant movements.
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“Mathews accomplishes what scholars of African American Protestantism from E. Franklin Frazier to Barbara Dianne Savage have tended to neglect: careful consideration of the religious values of black theological conservatism.” —Edward J. Blum, coauthor of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America “Doctrine and Race—which considers the evolution of black evangelicals during the interwar period through their struggle with the modernist controversies and white fundamentalism’s rise—is an extremely welcome contribution to the study of black religious history.” —Clarence E. Hardy III, author of James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture
Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews is an associate professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington and is the author of Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South.
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Edgar and Brigitte
A German Jewish Passage to America Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Edgar and Brigitte is a consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding. Based on personal insights into the lives of her parents and grandparents, Rosemarie Bodenheimer reconstructs the experience of German Jewish immigrants in early nineteenthcentury America. Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America is the fruit of an extraordinary archive of personal journals, letters, speeches, and published writings left by Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1933 and became American law professors. More German than Jewish, highly educated, and saturated to the core in the German cultural ideal of Bildung, Edgar and Brigitte embody many of the qualities of their generation of German Jews in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The couple’s encounters with the strange new dynamics of race, religion, and the workplace in their new American home offer a compelling account of the struggles that faced many immigrants with deep German roots. It is also an intimate portrait of a now-vanished German Jewish culture as it played out in the lives of Bodenheimer’s parents and her grandparents from the 1920s to the late 1960s, a story of emigration, assimilation, and the private struggles that accompany those forced shifts in orientation.
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The Bodenheimers’ letters and journals offer engaging perspectives into their personal lives that retrospective memories cannot match. Braiding intimate biography together with history and memoir, Edgar and Brigitte will appeal both to historians of the European Jewish diaspora and to readers interested in the struggles and resilience of people whose lives were upended by Hitler.
“Edgar and Brigitte presents a multifaceted look back at the German origins of two Jewish families and their relatives, friends, and professional colleagues. Based on letters and diary entries, Rosemarie Bodenheimer retraces the early emigration of her mother’s and father’s families to the United States and describes how they adapted and put down roots in their new home country.”
Rosemarie Bodenheimer is a professor emerita of English with a focus on Victorian Studies at Boston College. She is the author of Knowing Dickens and The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Elliot, Her Letters and Fiction, which was chosen as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book.
—Tobias Brinkmann, editor of Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain, 1880–1914 “This sensitive, well-written consideration of Edgar and Brigitte’s lives allows the reader insight into this family and their relationship to twentieth-century historical events.” —Kirsten Fermaglich, author of American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965
Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Mark K. Bauman and Adam D. Mendelsohn, series editors
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The Essential Hayim Greenberg Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism Hayim Greenberg Edited by Mark A. Raider
Foreword by Paul Mendes-Flohr
The Essential Hayim Greenberg is a landmark collection of essays by Hayim Greenberg, a founder of the Labor Zionist movement in America and a foremost writer, thinker, and activist in the fields of twentieth-century Jewish culture and politics. Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim Greenberg remains unknown to many. Since his death in 1953, Greenberg’s contributions to modern Jewish thought have largely fallen from view. In The Essential Hayim Greenberg: Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism, the first collection of Greenberg’s writings since 1968, Mark A. Raider reestablishes Greenberg as a prominent Jewish thinker and Zionist activist who challenged the prevailing orthodoxies of American Jewry and the Zionist movement. This collection of essays, spanning the 1920s to the early 1950s, includes Greenberg’s meditations on socialism and ethics, profiles of polarizing twentieth-century figures (among them Trotsky, Lenin, and Gandhi), and several essays investigating the compatibility of socialism and Communism. Greenberg always circles back, however, to the recurring question of how Jews might situate themselves in modernity, both before and after the Holocaust, and how Labor Zionist ideology might reshape the imbalances of Jewish economic life. Alongside his role as an American Zionist leader, Greenberg maintained a lifelong commitment to the vitality of the Jewish diaspora. Rather than promoting Jewish autonomy and statehood, he argued for fidelity to the Jewish spirit. This collection not only means to restore Greenberg to his previous stature in the field of Judaic Studies but also to return a vital and authentic voice, long quieted, to the continuing debate over what it means to be Jewish. The Essential Hayim Greenberg provides an accessible text for scholars, historians, and students of Jewish Studies, religion, and theology.
Mark A. Raider is the author or coeditor of numerous books, among them The Emergence of American Zionism, The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine, American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise, and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman without a State.
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“Mark A. Raider’s book is a thoughtful collection of Hayim Greenberg’s spiritual and ideological, national and universal worldview as one of the most original Zionist thinkers, who promoted the theory of a balanced double Jewish collective existence as an exile (galut) people, even in free countries, and as a national entity in their historical land, the State of Israel.” —Yosef Gorny, author of The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity “By framing the life of Hayim Greenberg through a brilliant introduction and then gathering the works of Greenberg together, Mark A. Raider has performed the singular service of bringing one of the most thoughtful and engaged public Jewish intellectuals and Zionist thinkers of the twentieth century back to life. This is a critical volume for anyone interested in modern Jewish and Zionist intellectual history and thought as well as Israel-Diaspora Jewish relations. Scholars and activists alike are indebted to Raider for this book.” —David Ellenson, author of Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity and After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity
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JUDAIC STUDIES / CIVIL RIGHTS / HISTORY
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement P. Allen Krause Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Stephen Krause To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement. Candid and revealing, the interviews make evident a remarkable range of attitudes and actions—from fervent engagement and personal sacrifice to apathy and indifference—that have been hitherto undocumented. In 1966, a young rabbinical student named P. Allen Krause conducted interviews with twelve Reform rabbis from southern congregations concerning their thoughts, principles, and activities as they related to the civil rights movement. Perhaps because he was a young seminary student or more likely because the interviewees were promised an embargo of twenty-five years before the interviews would be released to the public, the rabbis were extremely candid about their opinions on and their own involvement with what was still an incendiary subject. Now, in To Stand Aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement, their stories help elucidate a pivotal moment in time. After a distinguished rabbinical career, Krause wrote introductions to and annotated the interviews. When Krause succumbed to cancer in 2012, Mark K. Bauman edited the manuscripts further and wrote additional introductions with the assistance of Stephen Krause, the rabbi’s son. The result is a unique volume offering insights into these rabbis’ perceptions and roles in their own words and with more depth and nuance than hitherto available. This exploration into the lives of these teachers and civic leaders is supported by important contextual information on the local communities and other rabbis, with such background information forming the basis of a demographic profile of the Reform rabbis working in the South. The rabbis interviewed served in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia, and their interviews cover the years between 1954 and 1967. While some rabbis have given interviews that appeared elsewhere or have written about their own experiences themselves, several new voices appear here, suggesting that more southern rabbis were active than previously thought. These men functioned within a harsh environment: rabbis’ homes, synagogues, and Jewish community centers were bombed; one rabbi, who had been beaten and threatened, carried a pistol to protect himself and his family. The views and actions of these men followed a spectrum from gradualism to activism; while several of the rabbis opposed the evils of the separate and unequal system, others made peace with it or found reasons to justify inaction. Additionally, their approaches differed from their activist colleagues in the North even more than from each other. Within these pages, readers learn about the attitudes of the rabbis toward each other, toward their congregants, toward national Jewish organizations, and toward local leaders of black and white and Protestant and Catholic groups. Theirs are dramatic stories of frustration, cooperation, and conflict. P. Allen Krause (1939–2012), a congregational rabbi for over forty years, devoted his rabbinate to issues of human rights, social justice, and interfaith understanding. Rabbi Krause graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1961 and was awarded a doctorate of divinity from the Hebrew Union College in 1993. He was named the Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University in 2005. Mark K. Bauman is the author or editor of many books, including The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s and Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History, as well as the founding and current editor of the journal Southern Jewish History. Stephen Krause is an attorney in the San Francisco Bay area and an award-winning singer/songwriter.
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“To Stand Aside or Stand Alone will provide the Englishspeaking world with a documentary treasure trove that is, to the best of my knowledge, sui generis.” —Gary Phillip Zola, author of Isaac Harby of Charleston, 1788–1828: Jewish Reformer and Intellectual and coeditor of A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping “In 1966, Rabbi Allen Krause conducted frank interviews with Southern rabbis concerning Jews and the American civil rights movement. Now, fifty years later, transcripts of these precious interviews have finally been unsealed. The results—some of them explosive, some disturbing, and all of them illuminating—form the core of this book. It makes a unique contribution.” —Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews and American Judaism: A History
Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Mark K. Bauman and Adam D. Mendelsohn, series editors
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ALABAMA / POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century William H. Stewart
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century is an expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides readers with an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state’s distinctive political machinery. Why does Alabama rank so low on many of the indicators of quality of life? Why did some of the most dramatic developments in the civil rights revolution of the 1960s take place in Alabama? Why is it that a few interest groups seem to have the most political power in Alabama? William H. Stewart’s Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century explores these questions and more, illuminating many of the often misunderstood details of contemporary Alabama politics in this cohesive and comprehensive publication. The Alabama state government, especially as a specimen of Deep South politics, is a topic of frequent discussion by its general public—second only to college football. However, there remains a surprising lack of literature focusing on the workings of the state’s bureaucracy in an extensive and systematic way. Bearing in mind the Yellowhammer State’s long and rich political history, Stewart concentrates on Alabama’s statecraft from the first decade of the twenty-first century through the November 2010 elections and considers what the widespread Republican victories mean for their constituents. He also studies several different themes prominent during the 2010 elections, including the growing number and influence of special interest groups, the respective polarization of whites and blacks into the Republican and Democratic parties, and the increasingly unwieldy state constitution. This fascinating and revealing text provides a wealth of information about an extremely complex state government. Featuring detailed descriptions of important concepts and events presented in a thorough and intelligible manner, Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century is perfect for scholars, students, everyday Alabamians, or anyone who wants the inside scoop on the subtle inner workings of the Cotton State’s politics.
William H. Stewart is the author of The Alabama State Constitution and a coauthor of Alabama Government and Politics. He is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama and was presented the National Association of Secretaries of State Gold Medallion Award in July 2015 by Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill for “his service to the people of the state of Alabama.”
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SEPTEMBER 6 X 9 / 296 PAGES 41 B&W FIGURES / 6 MAPS / 14 TABLES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1927-4 / $49.95s HARDCOVER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9024-2 / $49.95 EBOOK “Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century is interesting and informative, and it brings an important topic up to date. Good examinations of state-level politics need to be done from time to time, and there is no comparable work on contemporary Alabama politics currently available.” —Robert P. Steed, coeditor of Writing Southern Politics: Contemporary Interpretations and Future Directions “Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century fills a glaring gap in the literature, as there has been no book (to my knowledge) on general and contemporary Alabama politics from a scholarly author since 1988.” —Steven L. Taylor, coauthor of A Different Democracy: American Government in a Thirty-One-Country Perspective
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ALABAMA / HISTORY
Selma
A Bicentennial History Alston Fitts III
Selma: A Bicentennial History is a sweeping account of the history of the city of Selma from its founding to the present and is a wellspring of new information about every facet of this storied city, including a deeper understanding of the civil rights movement there and its continuing effects to this day. In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is a greatly revised and expanded version of Fitts’s history of the city, replete with a wealth of new, never-before-published illustrations, which further develops a number of significant events, corrects critical errors, and, most importantly, incorporates many new stories and materials that document Selma’s establishment, growth, and development. Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and nonpartisan, Fitts’s pleasantly accessible history addresses every major issue, movement, and trend from the city’s settlement in 1815 to the end of the twentieth century. Its commerce, institutions, governance, as well as its evolving racial, religious, and class composition are all treated with candor and depth. Selma’s transformative role within the state and the nation is fully explored, and most notable is a nuanced and complex discussion of race relations from the rise of the civil rights era to modern times. Historians, scholars, and Alabamians will find great use for this updated and fully developed exploration of Selma’s rich, complex, and significant history.
Alston Fitts III is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who earned a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1964 and a PhD in English from the University of Chicago in 1974. A former English teacher, Fitts served for decades as the director of information and principal fundraiser for the Edmundite Missions, a Catholic organization based in Selma.
MARCH 2017 6 X 9 / 400 PAGES / 199 B&W FIGURES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1932-8 / $39.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9065-5 / $39.95 EBOOK
“There is a palpable even-handedness about this book. It could serve as a common frame of reference for all of Selma’s citizens, black and white, and certainly for people in other places, including other parts of Alabama; it offers a font of useful information.” —Frye Gaillard, author of Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America “What makes this book so worthwhile in my view is its discussion of the complexity of race since the days of the civil rights movement. Like so many communities that went through the civil rights movement, race remains a significant issue that can lead to open conflict with the slightest spark. Fitts shows how explosive the issue of race continued to be.” —Wilson Fallin Jr., author of Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
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ALABAMA / HISTORY / SOUTHERN CULTURE
Archipelagoes of My South
Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965 J. Mills Thornton III
Archipelagoes of My South is a collection of essays representing forty-five years of reflection on the central problems of southern history bound together by a common concern with defining the crucial interaction of race and class in the formation of southern politics and life. “The tourist archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible” writes the poet Derek Walcott. While Walcott refers to the islands of the Caribbean, the analogous idea of a land made into solitary islands by an imprisoned and inherited corruption is historian J. Mills Thornton III’s American South. The captivating essays in Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965 address this overarching and underlying narrative of Alabama politics and the history of the South. Highlighting events as significant as the role of social and economic conflict in the southern secession movement, various aspects of Reconstruction, and the role of the Ku Klux Klan in the politics of the 1920s, Thornton draws from various points in the southern past in an effort to identify and understand the sources of the region’s power. Moreover, each essay investigates its subject matter and peels back layers with an aim to clarify why the enormous diversity of the southern experience makes that power so great, all the while allowing the reader to see connections that would not otherwise be apparent. Archipelagoes of My South gathers together previously uncollected essays into a single volume covering the entire length and breadth of Thornton’s career. The author’s principal concerns have always been the arc of regional evolution and the significance of the local. Thus, the mechanisms of political and social change and the interrelationships across eras and generations are recurring themes in many of these essays. Even those who have spent their entire lives in the South may be unaware of the fractured layers of history that lie beneath the landscape they inhabit. For those southern residents who seek to comprehend more of their own past, this landmark compilation of essays on Alabama and southern history endeavors to provide illumination and enlightenment.
J. Mills Thornton III is the author of Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma and Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800–1860, which was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize by the American Historical Association in 1978. He is also a professor emeritus of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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“A marvelous collection of essays on the South by the brilliant J. Mills Thornton III. Based on exhaustive research and ranging across two centuries, Thornton’s prose is always lively, and his analysis razor-sharp. This book offers a model of historical thought and prose.” —Jane Dailey, author of Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia “This collection of essays is a real contribution to the scholarly literature. Thornton illustrates the old adage that all politics is local in a much larger meaning and shows how the local conditions interact in contingent ways to shape the larger views of history as well as to mislead us on how history actually plays out at the local and community levels for individuals, black and white, protestant and Jewish, etc.” —Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln and In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina
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LATIN AMERICA / MILITARY HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Pinochet Generation
The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century John R. Bawden
The Pinochet Generation weaves together the dramatic history of Chile’s complex and fraught relationship to its armed services by thorough analysis of the experiences of General Augusto Pinochet’s generation of soldiers and the beliefs and traditions that motivated their actions. Chilean soldiers in the twentieth century appear in most historical accounts, if they appear at all, as decontextualized figures or simply as a single man: Augusto Pinochet. In his incisive study The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century, John R. Bawden provides compelling new insights into the era and posits that Pinochet and his men were responsible for two major transformations in Chile’s constitution as well as the political and economic effects that followed. Determined to refocus what he sees as a “decontextualized paucity” of historical information on Chile’s armed forces, Bawden offers a new perspective to explain why the military overthrew the government in 1973 as well as why and how Chile slowly transitioned back to a democracy at the end of the 1980s. Standing apart from other views, Bawden insists that the Chilean military’s indigenous traditions and customs did more than foreign influences to mold their beliefs and behavior leading up to the 1973 coup of Salvador Allende. Drawing from defense publications, testimonial literature, and archival materials in both the United States and Chile, The Pinochet Generation characterizes the lens through which Chilean officers saw the world, their own actions, and their place in national history. This thorough analysis of the Chilean services’ history, education, values, and worldview shows how this military culture shaped Chilean thinking and behavior, shedding light on the distinctive qualities of Chile’s armed forces, the military’s decision to depose Allende, and the Pinochet dictatorship’s resilience, repressiveness, and durability.
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“The Pinochet Generation is an important counterpoint to most of the literature on the Chilean armed forces with original insights on the professional, strategic, and political views of the soldiers of the Pinochet generation.” —Brian Loveman, author of For la Patria: Politics and the Armed Forces in Latin America and Struggle in the Countryside: Politics and Rural Labour in Chile, 1919–1973
Bawden’s account of Chile’s vast and complex military history of the twentieth century will appeal to political scientists, historians, faculty and graduate students interested in Latin America and its armed forces, students of US–Latin American diplomacy, and those interested in issues of human rights.
“Bawden weaves together a careful history of Chile and its armed services with an in-depth examination of the experiences of General Augusto Pinochet’s generation. Through this lens, this study offers a valuable new perspective to explain why the military took over in 1973; governed in a determined, harsh, and extended way; and insisted on a prolonged, managed transition back to democracy at the end of the 1980s.”
John R. Bawden is an associate professor of history at the University of Montevallo and teaches twentieth century Latin American history. His articles on the Chilean military have been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies and The Latin Americanist.
—Paul W. Drake, author of Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800–2006
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RHETORIC / COMMUNICATION STUDIES / SCIENCE
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement James Wynn
In Citizen Science in the Digital Age, James Wynn examines the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection. James Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely used SETI@home project, simply draw on the processing power of participants’ home computers; others, like the protein-folding game FoldIt, ask users to take a more active role in solving scientific problems. In Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement, Wynn analyzes the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data. Wynn puzzles out the intricacies of these exciting new research developments by focusing on various case studies. He explores the Safecast project, which originated from crowd-sourced mapping for Fukushima radiation dispersal, arguing that evolving technologies enable public volunteers to make concrete, sound, science-based arguments. Additionally, he considers the potential use of citizen science as a method of increasing the public’s identification with the scientific community, and contemplates how more collaborative rhetoric might deepen these opportunities for interaction and alignment. Furthermore, he examines ways in which the lived experience of volunteers may be integrated with expert scientific knowledge, and also how this same personal involvement can be used to further policy agendas. Precious few texts explore the intersection of rhetoric, science, and the Internet. Citizen Science in the Digital Age fills this gap, offering a clear, intelligent overview of the topic intended for rhetoric and communication scholars as well as practitioners and administrators in a number of science-based disciplines. With the expanded availability of once inaccessible technologies and computing power to laypeople, the practice of citizen science will only continue to grow. This study offers insight into how—given prudent application and the clear articulation of common goals—citizen science might strengthen the relationships between scientists and laypeople.
JANUARY 2017 6 X 9 / 264 PAGES / 11 B&W FIGURES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1943-4 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9086-0 / $49.95 EBOOK
“Citizen Science in the Digital Age addresses issues created by the intersection of the citizen science movement and the new technologies of the Internet. It is timely, important, and right in line with the renewed interest in the relations between science and its publics.” —Carolyn R. Miller, author of Studies in Genre, Agency, and Technology “Wynn’s approach to citizen science hits a sweet spot between sociological and rhetorical studies of science, and pushes the boundaries in several respects. Citizen Science in the Digital Age usefully invites connections to diverse strands of work in the area.” —John Lyne, coauthor of “Rhetoric, Disciplinary, and Fields of Knowledge” in The Rhetoric Handbook
James Wynn is an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of Evolution by Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / ECOCRITICISM / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones Ecocriticism and the Liminal from “Invisible Man” to “The Walking Dead” Lee Rozelle
Lee Rozelle’s Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones is a study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster—toxified, ruined, abandoned, apocalyptic—and explorations of literary landfills, concrete islands, toxic dumps, deserted cities, tourist traps, and test sites. In Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones: Ecocriticism and the Liminal from “Invisible Man” to “The Walking Dead,” Lee Rozelle chronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II—creatures intimately linked to damaged habitats that rise from the muck, not to destroy or rule the world, but to save it. The book asks what happens to these landscapes after the madness, havoc, and destruction. What monsters and magic surface then? Rozelle argues that zombiescapes and phantom zones depicted in the book become catalysts for environmental reanimation and sources of hope. Liminality offers exciting and useful new ways to conceptualize places that have historically proven troublesome, unwieldy, or hard to define. Zombiescapes can reduce the effects of pollution, promote environmental justice, lessen economic disparity, and localize food production. The grotesques that ooze and crawl from these passages challenge readers to consider new ways to re-inhabit broken lands at a time when energy efficiency, fracking, climate change, the Pacific trade agreement, local food production, and sustainability shape the intellectual landscape. Rozelle focuses on literary works from 1950 to 2015—the zombiescapes and monsterscapes of post–World War II literature—that portray in troubling and often devastating ways the “brownfields” that have been divested of much of their biodiversity and ecological viability. However, he also highlights how these literary works suggest a new life and new potential for such environments. With an unlikely focus on places of ruination and an application of interdisciplinary, transnational approaches to a range of fields and texts, Rozelle advances the notion that places of distortion might become a nexus where revelation and advocacy are possible again.
NOVEMBER 6 X 9 / 160 PAGES / 7 B&W FIGURES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1926-7 / $44.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9023-5 / $44.95 EBOOK
“In addition to bringing an ecocritical lens to so-called ugly, monstrous creatures and liminal zones, Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones constructs a unique archive spanning nations throughout the Americas and the genres of novel, poetry, and graphic fiction.” —Heather Houser, author of Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect “Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones takes as its focus an ecocritical (re)reading of five fairly canonical works of literature and one popular graphic novel series. This is strong, interesting, and important scholarship.” —Patrick B. Sharp, author of Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones has much to offer to various fields of scholarship, including literary studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies. Research, academic, and undergraduate audiences will be captivated by Rozelle’s lively prose and unique anthropological, ecocritical, and literary analyses.
Lee Rozelle is a professor of English at the University of Montevallo and author of Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld.
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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / ETHNOHISTORY
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms
Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast Edward J. Lenik
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans. This volume provides a basis for interpreting the symbolism of more than eighty portable stone artifacts found in the region. Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images, or symbols. These are rendered on pebbles, plaques, pendants, axes, pestles, and atlatl weights, and are of varying sizes, shapes, and designs. Lenik draws from Indian myths and legends and incorporates data from ethnohistoric and archaeological sources together with local environmental settings in an attempt to interpret the iconography of these fascinating relics. For the Algonquian and Iroquois peoples, they reflect identity, status, and social relationships with other Indians as well as beings in the spirit world. Lenik begins with background on the Indian cultures of the Northeast and includes a discussion of the dating system developed by anthropologists to describe prehistory. The heart of the content comprises more than eighty examples of portable rock art, grouped by recurring design motifs. This organization allows for in-depth analysis of each motif. The motifs examined range from people, animals, fish, and insects to geometric and abstract designs. Information for each object is presented in succinct prose, with a description, illustration, possible interpretation, the story of its discovery, and the location where it is now housed. Lenik also offers insight into the culture and lifestyle of the Native American groups represented. An appendix listing places to see and learn more about the artifacts and a glossary are included. The material in this book, used in conjunction with Lenik’s previous research, offers a reference for virtually every known example of northeastern rock art. Archaeologists, students, and connoisseurs of Indian artistic expression will find this an invaluable work.
Edward J. Lenik is the president and principal investigator of Sheffield Archaeological Consultants, a cultural resource management firm in Wayne, New Jersey. An authority on rock art in the Northeast, he has led workshops on artifact analysis and archaeology lab work at New Jersey museums. He is the author of Making Pictures in Stone: American Indian Rock Art of the Northeast and Picture Rocks: American Indian Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands.
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Praise for Picture Rocks: American Indian Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands “This book is the only complete survey of the subject. Highly recommended.” —CHOICE “For the neophyte petroglyph hunter, Lenik’s book is indispensable, the closest thing there is to a field guide to Indian rock art from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick south through New Jersey.” —Hartford Courant Praise for Making Pictures in Stone: American Rock Art of the Northeast “A welcome addition to the corpus of known rock art in this vast region that, coupled with [Lenik’s] earlier book, represents the most comprehensive study of the rock art of northeastern North America. Essential.” —CHOICE
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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / ETHNOHISTORY
Forging Southeastern Identities Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South Edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith
Forging Southeastern Identities explores the many ways archaeologists and ethnohistorians define and trace the origins of Native Americans’ collective social identity. Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent the various methods used by esteemed scholars today to study how Native Americans in the distant past created new social identities when old ideas of the self were challenged by changes in circumstance or by historical contingencies. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists working in the Southeast have always recognized the region’s social diversity; indeed, the central purpose of these disciplines is to study peoples overlooked by the mainstream. Yet the ability to define and trace the origins of a collective social identity—the means by which individuals or groups align themselves, always in contrast to others—has proven to be an elusive goal. Here, editors Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith champion the relational identification and categorical identification processes, taken from sociological theory, as effective analytical tools. Taking up the challenge, the contributors have deployed an eclectic range of approaches to establish and inform an overarching theme of identity. Some investigate shell gorgets, textiles, shell trade, infrastructure, specific sites, or plant usage. Others focus on the edges of the Mississippian world or examine colonial encounters between Europeans and native peoples. A final chapter considers the adaptive malleability of historical legend in the telling and hearing of slave narratives.
MARCH 2017 6 X 9 / 336 PAGES / 42 B&W FIGURES / 11 TABLES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1941-0 / $59.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9078-5 / $59.95 EBOOK
CONTRIBUTORS Robin A. Beck / Ian W. Brown / Penelope B. Drooker / Robbie Ethridge / Kandace D. Hollenbach / Adam King / George E. Lankford / Christopher B. Rodning / David G. Moore / Rebecca Saunders / Johann A. Sawyer / Vincas P. Steponaitis / John E. Worth / Marvin T. Smith / Gregory A. Waselkov
Gregory A. Waselkov is the author of Old Mobile Archaeology and the award-winning A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814. He is a coauthor of Archéologie de l’Amérique coloniale française, which won Le Prix Lionel-Groulx. Waselkov serves as president of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference and was the former editor of the journal Southeastern Archaeology. He is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama. Marvin T. Smith is the author of more than seventy scholarly publications, including The Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast: Depopulation during the Early Historic Period and Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom. He is a professor of anthropology at Valdosta State University in Georgia.
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THEATRE / THEATRE STUDIES
Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35 Edited by Sara Freeman
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre “from the rubble of Berlin” and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of “Rethinking the Maternal” in contemporary and historical theatre. Also included is the Robert A. Schanke Award-winning essay “Whispers from a Silent Past: Inspiration and Memory in Natasha Tretheway’s Native Guard,” a keynote essay by Irma Mayorga, and eighteen reviews of new book publications of note. Theatre History Studies, published since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC) is a leading scholarly publication in the field of theatrical history and theory. The conference encompasses the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The purpose of the conference is to unite persons and organizations within the region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.
Sara Freeman is an associate professor of theatre at the University of Puget Sound. Freeman is a coediter of International Dramaturgy: Translation and Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker and recently staged Spring Awakening, the musical.
DECEMBER 6 X 9 / 376 PAGES / 10 B&W FIGURES ISBN: 978-0-8173-7110-4 / $34.95s PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9074-7 / $34.95 EBOOK CONTRIBUTORS Jay Ball / Karen Bamford / Amanda Boyle / Alex Cahill / Brian E. G. Cook / Rachel Price Cooper / Danny Devlin / Rodney Donahue / Jennifer Douglas / Sara Freeman / Jennifer Goff / Ann Haugo / Stuart Hecht / Chandra Owenby Hopkins / Rhona Justice-Malloy / Scott Knowles / Jozefina Komporaly / Patrick Konesko / Felicia Hardison Londré / Karin Maresh / Irma Mayorga / Duygu Erdogan Monson / Patrick Murray / Wes Pearce / Sheila Rabillard / Kate Roark / Emily Rollie / Rebecca Rovit / Michelle Salerno / Margaret Savilonis / Claire Syler / Arden Elizabeth Thomas / Steve Tillis Praise for Theatre History Studies “This established annual is a major contribution to the scholarly analysis and historical documentation of international drama. Refereed, immaculately printed and illustrated. . . . The subject coverage ranges from the London season of 1883 to the influence of David Belasco on Eugene O’Neill.” —CHOICE “International in scope but with an emphasis on American, British, and Continental theater, this fine academic journal includes seven to nine scholarly articles dealing with everything from Filipino theater during the Japanese occupation to numerous articles on Shakespearean production to American children’s theater. . . . An excellent addition for academic, university, and large public libraries.”
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THEATRE / THEATRE STUDIES
Theatre Symposium, Volume 24 Theatre and Space Edited by Becky K. Becker
Theatre Symposium, Volume 24 addresses “theatre and space” as a wide-ranging topic in theatre history, examining the myriad spatial arrangements, architectural styles, and historical contexts that inform theatrical productions, and the relationships of audiences to those spaces. At a time when so many options exist for access to theatrical entertainments, it is no surprise that theatre practitioners and scholars are often preoccupied with the role of the audience. While space undoubtedly impacts the rehearsal and production processes, its greater significance seems to rest in the impact a specific location has on the audience. This volume delves into issues of theatre and space, traversing traditional theatre spaces such as the African Grove Theater discussed by Gregory Carr, Tony Gunn’s examination of Edward Gorey’s theatrical designs, and George Pate’s reflections on Beckett’s stage directors. Also highlighted are some decidedly innovative spaces, like those described by J. K. Curry in her examination of “Theatre for One” and modern uses of medieval sacred spaces as detailed by Carla Lahey. Whether positive or negative in scope, meanings generated within theatre spaces are impacted by the cultural context from which they emerge—the ways in which space is conceived, scrutinized, and experiences. As a result, the relationship between space, theatre, and audience is diverse, complex, and ever changing in practice.
Becky K. Becker is a professor of theatre at Columbus State University in Columbus, Gerogia, and the coordinator for the international studies certificate. Her published work has been featured in Feminist Teacher, Theatre Symposium, and Shakespeare Beyond English.
JULY 6 X 9 / 144 PAGES / 7 B&W FIGURES ISBN: 978-0-8173-7011-4 / $34.95s PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9066-2 / $34.95 EBOOK
CONTRIBUTORS Arnab Banerji / Lisa Marie Bowler / Chase Bringardner / Marvin Carlson / Alicia Corts / Andrew Gibb / Samuel T. Shanks / Sebastian Trainor / Christine Woodworth
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CUBA / MEMOIR / HISTORY
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 Josep Conangla Edited by Joaquín Roy Translated by D. J. Walker
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba’s second War of Independence. Memoir of My Youth in Cuba is a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba by Josep Conangla. The English edition is based on the Spanish version edited by Joaquín Roy, who found the memoir and was given access to the Conangla family archives. Conangla’s memoir, now available in English, is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba’s second War of Independence. Spaniard Josep Conangla was conscripted at the age of twenty and sent to Cuba. In the course of his time there, he reaffirmed his pacifism and support of Cuban independence. The young man was a believer who unfailingly connected his view of events to the Christian humanitarianism on which he prided himself. Conangla’s advanced education and the influence of well-placed friends facilitated his assignment to safe bureaucratic positions during the war, ensuring that he would not see combat. From his privileged position, he was a keen observer of his surroundings. He described some of the decisions he made—which at times put him at odds with the military bureaucracy he served—along with what he saw as the consequences of General Valeriano Weyler’s decree mandating the reconcentración, an early version of concentration camps. What Conangla saw fueled his revulsion at the collusion of the Spanish state and its state-sponsored religion in that policy. “Red Mass,” published six years after the War of Independence and included in his memoir, is a vivid expression in verse of his abhorrence. Conangla’s recollections of the contacts between Spaniards and Cubans in the areas to which he was assigned reveal his ability to forge friendships even with Creole opponents of the insurrection. As an aspiring poet and writer, Conangla included material on fellow writers, Cuban and Spanish, who managed to meet and exchange ideas despite their circumstances. His accounts of the Spanish defeat, the scene in Havana around the end of the war, along with his return to Spain, are stirring.
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“Memoir of My Youth in Cuba, an antiwar statement, has a universal resonance.” —Teresa Prados-Torreira, author of Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Josep Conangla (b. 1875, Montblanc, Spain; d. 1965, Havana, Cuba) was a twenty-year-old law student when he was conscripted to serve in the Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898). He evaded active duty because of connections in Spain but worked in an infirmary, among other duties, and was a keen observer of his milieu and of important events, including the sinking of the USS Maine. Repatriated to Spain in 1898, Conangla became a journalist and enjoyed some success as a poet. In 1905 he returned to Cuba to live and write. He was a harsh critic of Spanish colonialism in Cuba and elsewhere and an advocate of Cuban and later Catalan independence. Conangla completed his memoir in 1958. Joaquín Roy is the author or coauthor of many works, including The Cuban Revolution (1959–2009): Relations with Spain, the European Union, and the United States and Historical Dictionary of the European Union. D. J. Walker is a professor emerita at the University of New Orleans. She translated On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier’s Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896–1898 and is the author of Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s. Atlantic Crossings Rafe Blaufarb, series editor 28
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The Domesticated Penis
How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
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HOW WOMANHOOD HAS SHAPED MANHOOD
Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones
The Domesticated Penis demonstrates that not only natural selection but also female choice have played key roles in shaping male anatomy. The book is the first anthropological history of the penis, incorporating evidence from evolutionary theory, primatology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology.
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The Domesticated Penis challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection has made to the attributes of the modern male phallus. Synthesizing a wealth of robust scholarship from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, evolutionary theory, and primatology, the authors successfully dismantle the orthodox view that each part of the human anatomy has followed a vector of development along which only changes and mutations that increased functional utility were retained and extended. Their research animates our understanding of human morphology with insights about how choices early females made shaped the male reproductive anatomy. In crisp and droll prose, Cormier’s and Jones’s rigorous scholarship incorporates engaging examples and lore about the human phallus in a variety of foraging, agrarian, and contemporary cultures. By detailing how female selection in mating led directly to a matrix of anatomical attributes in the male, their findings illuminate how the penis also acquired a matrix of attributes of the imagination and mythical powers—powers to be assuaged, channeled, or deployed for building productive societies. These analyses offer a highly persuasive alternative to moribund biological and behavioral assumptions about prehistoric alpha males as well as the distortions such assumptions give rise to in contemporary popular culture. In this anthropological tour de force, Cormier and Jones transcend reductive gender stereotypes and bring to our concepts of evolutional biomechanics an invigorating new balance and nuance.
Loretta A. Cormier is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the author of The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild Primate Malaria and Kinship with Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia. Sharyn R. Jones is an associate professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University and the author of Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations and coeditor of Behaviour Behind Bones: The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity.
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“In this (a)rousing journey through the anthropological and evolutionary biological record, the authors cogently present evidence that female choice played a large part in the evolution of the male penis. Women were not simply passive receptacles of alpha male sexual dominance. Rather, anthropologists Cormier and Jones suggest female agency played a much greater role than previously acknowledged. As a result, this form of ‘domestication’ of the penis essentially changed how the penis—and, thereby, masculinity—was (and is) to be understood. . . . Recommended.” —CHOICE “The Domesticated Penis is a study of the anatomical distinctiveness of the genitals of the human male and diverse cultural attitudes toward them and their symbolism. This is scholarship at its liveliest: a colorful, knowledgeable romp through history and across cultures and species, to explore how the penis we know and (mostly) love today developed its characteristic shape, size, physiology, and behavior. The core argument is evolutionary: ancient women knew what they wanted, and what they wanted was smooth, substantial, long-lasting penetration. Male anatomy evolved to match female desire.” —Beth A. Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
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Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey Commemorative Edition Kathryn Tucker Windham
Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduce thirteen of Georgia’s most famous ghost stories. Windham won hearts across the nation in her regular radio broadcasts and many public appearances. The South’s most prolific raconteur of revenants, Windham, giving new meaning to the phrase “ghost-writer,” does more than tell ghost stories—she captures the true spirit of the place. Evoking Georgia’s colonial era, “The Eternal Dinner Party” explains why the sounds of an elegant dinner soirée still waft from the grove of Savannah’s Bonaventure estate. At the onset of the Revolution, the Tattnall family abandoned Bonaventure and slipped away to England. Young Josiah Tattnall eventually returned to fight in the Revolution, restored Bonaventure, and later became Georgia’s governor. One holiday eve, when the mansion was bedecked with magnolia and holly and crowded with visitors, a fire too large to control swept through the old house. Tattnall, exhibiting his cool head and impeccable manners, ordered the massive dinner table carried out to the garden where he enjoined his holiday revelers to continue their stately meal. The melancholy strains of Tattnall’s dinner guests still echo through Bonaventure’s ancient oaks on moonlight nights. In “The Ghost of Andersonville,” Windham takes visitors near the woebegone Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. A plaque there still recounts the tale of Swiss immigrant and Confederate captain Henry Wirz. Convicted—many thought wrongly—of war crimes, Wirz’s restless ghost still perambulates the highways of south Georgia. Writing for the Georgia Historical Commission, Miss Bessie Lewis quips in her preface to this beloved collection, “Who should be better able to tell of happenings long past than the ghosts of those who had a part in them?” A perennial favorite, this commemorative edition restores Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey to the ghastly grandeur of its original 1973 edition.
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Praise for Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey
“Ghost stories have a very real place in the folklore and the history of a state or a nation. After all, who should be better able to tell of happenings long past than the ghosts of those who had a part in them?” —Miss Bessie Lewis, author of They Called Their Town Darien: Being a Short History of Darien and McIntosh County, Georgia and editor and publisher of the McIntosh County News Praise for Kathryn Tucker Windham “In Windham’s tales . . . myth and fact intertwine to present a picture of the South that is as true as any textbook.” —Paris Review
Kathryn Tucker Windham grew up in Thomasville, Alabama, the youngest child in a large family of storytellers. For many years a Selma resident, Windham was a freelance writer, collected folklore, and photographed the changing scenes of her native South. A nationally recognized storyteller and a regular fixture on Alabama Public Radio, her commentaries were also featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Her other books include Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen, Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, and Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey.
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Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey Commemorative Edition
Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh
This keepsake edition of the timeless bestseller Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh reproduces in facsimile the original hardcover version of a beloved classic.
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One of the best-known and widely shared books about the South, Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey has haunted the imaginations of generations of delighted young readers since it was first published in 1969. Written by nationally acclaimed folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh, the book recounts Alabama’s thirteen most ghoulish and eerie ghost legends. Curated with loving expertise, these thirteen tales showcase both Windham and Figh’s masterful selection of stories and their artful and suspenseful writing style. In crafting stories treasured by children and adults alike, the authors tell much more than ghost tales. Embedded in each is a wealth of fact and folklore about Alabama history and the old South. “I don’t care whether you believe in ghosts,” Windham was fond of saying. “The good ghost stories do not require that you believe in ghosts.” Millions of readers cherish memories of being chilled as teachers and parents read them unforgettable stories like “The Unquiet Ghost at Gaineswood,” about the ghost of Evelyn Carter, who fills this Demopolis antebellum mansion with midnight musical lamentations because her body wasn’t returned to her native Virginia, and “The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee,” about the wreck of the steamboat Eliza Battle, which caught fire on the way to Mobile and sank one February night in 1858. People that live along the river say the flaming steamboat wreck still rises on cold nights, its cotton cargo blazing across the waves while its terrified survivors cry for help from the icy water.
Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh
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Praise for Kathryn Tucker Windham “Spine-tingling with a twang . . .” —National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”
“Kathryn’s stories are told with an engaging clarity of style that makes it easy to tumble into the tale.” —Huntsville Times
The title’s “Jeffrey” refers to a friendly ghost who resides in the Windham home and who served as Windham’s unofficial collaborator in this work and the subsequent books in this popular series, all of which will now be reprinted in high-quality reproductions of their spooky originals.
Kathryn Tucker Windham grew up in Thomasville, Alabama, the youngest child in a large family of storytellers. For many years a Selma resident, Windham was a freelance writer, collected folklore, and photographed the changing scenes of her native South. A nationally recognized storyteller and a regular fixture on Alabama Public Radio, her commentaries were also featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Her other books include Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen, Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, and Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey. Writer and folklorist Margaret Gillis Figh was a frequent contributor to Southern Folklore Quarterly.
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Bonapartists in the Borderlands French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835 Rafe Blaufarb Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The US Congress welcomed the French to America and granted them a large tract of rich Black Belt land near Demopolis, Alabama, on the condition that they would establish a Mediterranean-style Vine and Olive colony.
“Blaufarb’s book skillfully distinguishes groups of French migrants made visible by conventions of post-Reconstruction mythmaking from other, more invisible groups of francophone immigrants who resided in the United States during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The range of interpretive horizons opened by this ambitiously conceived monograph is stunning.” —American Historical Review “This meticulously researched and well-written volume gives additional dimension and historical understanding to the complexities of the antebellum South.” —The Journal of Southern History
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Nationalizing a Borderland War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920 Alexander Victor Prusin This study enriches understanding of ethnic conflict by examining the factors in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia between 1914 and 1920 that led to the rise of xenophobic nationalism and to the ethnocide of World War II. From Russian, Polish, Ukranian, and Austrian archival sources, Prusin argues that while the violence inflicted upon Jews during that period may at first seem irrational and indiscriminate, a closer examination reveals that it was generated by traditional negative views of Jews and by the security concerns of the Russian and Polish militaries in the front zone. This violence, Prusin contends, served as a means of reshaping the socio-economic and political space of the province by diminishing Jewish cultural and economic influence.
“While a regional study, [Nationalizing a Borderland] is all the more important for locating the intersection between war, ethnicity, imperial collapse—and one should add collective psychic disturbance—in the creation of nation-states and the degree to which such a combination may have entirely fatal consequences for ethno-religious communities most marginal to the struggle.” —Nations and Nationalism
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The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Calvaryman Lt. Robert T. Hubard Edited by Thomas P. Nanzig
Robert Hubard was an enlisted man and officer of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia (CSA) from 1861 through 1865. He wrote his memoir during an extended convalescence spent at his father’s Virginia plantation after being wounded at the battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865.
“Unlike many such memoirs, Hubard’s assessments are critical as well as complimentary of the events and individuals he observed. Thomas P. Nanzig provides editorial clarity and includes some of the soldier’s correspondence. The result is a substantial contribution to Confederate cavalry operations in Virginia.” —Society of Civil War Historians “This work makes a nice contribution to the existing literature on Stuart’s cavalry, and anyone with an interest in the Civil War’s eastern theater, the military history of the Civil War, or Virginia history in general would do well to take notice of it.” —The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
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Civil War Weather in Virginia Robert K. Krick
This work fills a tremendous gap in our knowledge of a fundamental aspect of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and Richmond, Virginia. The information in Civil War Weather in Virginia is indispensable for students of the Civil War in the vital northern Virginia/Maryland theater of operations, and of the effects of weather on military history in general.
“A widely acclaimed authority on the Virginia campaigns as well as the Army of Northern Virginia, Krick is also an indefatigable researcher who seems constantly to be unearthing personal writings and data that bring data and life to Civil War history. Events become clearer and more accurate when weather data is inserted.” —Journal of Military History “Krick’s book is a valuable reference work that fills a gap in [the] literature and could potentially inspire research into the environmental history of the war—an area wide open for investigation.” —Journal of Southern History
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The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens Anca Rosu Wallace Stevens dedicated his poetry to challenging traditional notions about reality, truth, knowledge, and the role of language as a means of representation. Rosu demonstrates that Stevens’s experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language. Her readings of Stevens’s poems focus on revealing the dynamic through which meaning emerges in language patterns—a dynamic she calls images of sound.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and the Ideological History of American Liberalism Stephen P. Depoe A central feature of Schlesinger’s ideological perspective is his belief that American history has been marked by alternating periods of conservative and liberal dominance, which he has termed the “tides of national politics.” Throughout his career, Schlesinger has used these “tides” to defend the legitimacy and superiority of active liberal government and leadership. Stephen P. Depoe investigates how the “tides” concept has functioned in both Schlesinger’s historical scholarship and his partisan political discourse. Depoe also explores the ways this approach has shaped and channeled Schlesinger’s political thought over time, leading him toward certain definitions of situations and away from others.
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Public Administration’s Final Exam A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline Michael M. Harmon Michael Harmon employs the literary conceit of a final exam, first “written” in the early 1930s, to critique the field’s answers to long-standing questions of legitimacy. Because the assumptions that underwrite the question preclude the possibility of a coherent answer, the exam should be canceled and its question rewritten, Harmon argues. Envisaging a public administration no longer hostage to the legitimacy question, Harmon explains how the study and practice of public administration might proceed from adolescence to maturity.
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A Man’s Game Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism John Dudley A Man’s Game explores the development of American literary naturalism as it relates to definitions of manhood in many of the movement’s key texts and the aesthetic goals of writers such as Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and James Weldon Johnson. John Dudley argues that in the climate of the late nineteenth century when these authors were penning their major works, literary endeavors were widely viewed as frivolous—the work of ladies for ladies, who comprised the vast majority of the dependable reading public.
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The Vast and Terrible Drama American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century Eric Carl Link The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the contexts in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London created their most significant work. In 1896 Frank Norris wrote: “Terrible things must happen to the characters of the naturalistic tale. They must be twisted from the ordinary . . . and flung into the throes of a vast and terrible drama.” There could be “no teacup tragedies here.” This volume broadens our understanding of literary naturalism as a response to these and other aesthetic concerns of the nineteenth century.
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Disturbing Indians The Archaeology of Southern Fiction Annette Trefzer In Disturbing Indians, Annette Trefzer argues that not only have Native Americans played an active role in the construction of the South’s cultural landscape—despite a history of colonization, dispossession, and removal aimed at rendering them invisible—but their under-examined presence in southern literature provides a crucial avenue for a post-regional understanding of the American south.
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Visions of the Black Belt A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama Robin McDonald and Valerie Pope Burnes Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.
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Company K William March This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author’s experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K’s war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself.
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Experience Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion Norman Fischer Norman Fischer’s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.
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Civil War Alabama Christopher Lyle McIlwain, Sr. In fascinating detail, Civil War Alabama reveals the forgotten breadth of political opinions and loyalties among white Alabamians during the antebellum period. The book offers a major reevaluation of Alabama’s secession crisis and path to war and destruction.
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Among the Swamp People Life in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Watt Key A collection of colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Among the Swamp People chronicles the beauties of the delta’s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters.
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AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX
Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Edgar and Brigitte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Monteiro, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century. . 18
Eigner, Larry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Morales, Marcelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Among the Swamp People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Eleventh House, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Murphy, Brenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms . . . . . . 24
Essential Hayim Greenberg, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Nanzig, Thomas P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Archipelagoes of My South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Eugene O’Neill Remembered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Nationalizing a Borderland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Noble, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Faville, Curtis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Obenchain, Theodore G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Figh, Margaret Gillis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Pinochet Generation, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Fitts III, Alston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Prusin, Alexander Victor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Fischer, Norman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Public Administration’s Final Exam. . . . . . . . . . 34
Fisher, Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Raider, Mark A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Forging Southeastern Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Richardson, Marc Anthony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Freeman, Sara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Robb, Frances Osborn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Genius Belabored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rosu, Anca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Greenberg, Hayim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Roy, Joaquín . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Grenier, Robert B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rozelle, Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Harmon, Michael M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Selma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Hubard, Lt. Robert T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Shot in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Jeffrey’s Latest Thirteen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Smith, Marvin T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Jones, Sharyn R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Stewart, William H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Joris, Pierre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Strode, Hudson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Key, Watt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35. . . . . . . . 26
Krause, P. Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Theatre Symposium, Volume 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Krause, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. . . . . . . . 31
Krick, Robert K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey. . . . . . . . . 30
Larramendi, Julio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Thornton III, J. Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Civil War Weather in Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Lenik, Edward J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Company K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Link, Eric Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Trefzer, Annette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Conangla, Josep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Man’s Game, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Vast and Terrible Drama, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Cooper, Chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
March, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Visions of the Black Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Cormier, Loretta A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Walker, D. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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