Spring 2019 Catalog by University of Alabama Press

SPRING 2019

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ON THE COVER Portrait of Dr. George Washington Carver, 1937. Arthur Leroy Bairnsfather. Oil on canvas, 50 ½ × 36 inches; collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, AFI.14.2014, gift of Ann B. Lambert and Robert R. Bairnsfather. From the book: Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists (p. 2)

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Table of Contents ALABAMA � �� 1-5, 35, 39 ARCHAEOLOGY � �� 30-32 ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY � �� 2, 14 AUSTRALIA � �� 26 BIOGRAPHY �� 15, 19 CARIBBEAN STUDIES � �� 29, 30 EDUCATION �� 29 FICTION � �� 6-8 FILM �� 23 FOOD �� 3 gender studies �� 28 HISTORY ................................................................................ 1, 3-5, 22, 25, 28, 33, 38-39 judaic studies �� 33 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY �� 10-11, 14-15 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS �� 9 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES �� 28 LAW �� 21, 23 LITERARY CRITICISM �� 16-18, 20, 36 LITERATURE �� 19 MARITIME AND NAVAL HISTORY � �� 26-27 MILITARY HISTORY �� 13, 32, 34, 38 NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES �� 25, 31 NATURAL HISTORY � �� 14-15 PHILOSOPHY �� 10 POETRY �� 18 POLITICAL SCIENCE � �� 22 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION �� 22, 39 RHETORIC and writing � �� 9, 20-21, 37, 38 NEW IN PAPER � �� 35-38 BACK IN PRINT �� 39 BACKLIST & RECENT RELEASES �� 40-42 ORDER FORM � �� 44 SALES INFORMATION �� 45

history / alabama

Tuscaloosa 200 Years in the Making G. Ward Hubbs A lavishly illustrated history of this distinctive city’s origins as a settlement on the banks of the Black Warrior River to its development into a thriving nexus of higher education, sports, and culture In both its subject and its approach, Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making is an account unlike any other of a city unlike any other— storied, inimitable, and thriving. G. Ward Hubbs has written a lively and enlightening bicentennial history of Tuscaloosa that is by turns enthralling, dramatic, disturbing, and uplifting. Far from a traditional chronicle listing one event after another, the narrative focuses instead on six key turning points that dramatically altered the fabric of the city over the past two centuries. The selection of this frontier village as the state capital gave rise to a building boom, some extraordinary architecture, and the founding of The University of Alabama. The state’s secession in 1861 brought on a devastating war and the burning of the university by Union cavalry; decades of social adjustments followed, ultimately leading to legalized racial segregation. Meanwhile, town boosters set out to lure various industries, but with varying success. The decision to adopt new inventions, ranging from electricity to telephones to automobiles, revolutionized the daily lives of Tuscaloosans in only a few short decades. Beginning with radio, and followed by the Second World War and television, the formerly isolated townspeople discovered an entirely different world that would culminate in Mercedes-Benz building its first overseas production plant nearby. At the same time, the world would watch as Tuscaloosa became the center of some pivotal moments in the civil rights movement—and great moments in college football as well. An impressive amount of research is collected in this accessibly written history of the city and its evolution. Tuscaloosa is a versatile history that will be of interest to a general readership, for scholars to use as a starting point for further research, and for city and county school students to better understand their home locale. G. Ward Hubbs, professor emeritus at Birmingham-Southern College, is grateful to call Tuscaloosa home. He is the editor of Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr and author of Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community and Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman.

january 8.5 x 11 / 216 PAGES 162 FIGURES / 6 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-5944-7 / $24.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9233-8 / $24.95 EBOOK “ Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making by G. Ward Hubbs reads like a fascinating work of fiction with twisting plots and memorable characters, but the reality is that it is the true story of the town we have grown to love and call our home. From its selection as the state capital through the tenure of interesting political, educational, and sports figures, and the survival of this strong community rising out of the ashes of the devastating tornado, the story of Tuscaloosa deserves to be told.” — Terry Saban, cofounder with Nick Saban of Nick’s Kids Foundation “Tuscaloosa has traveled a long, arduous, and storied road in its 200 years of existence. Guy Hubbs’ wellresearched and well-written account of our great city’s history sheds a light on our many challenges and opportunities. From a frontier village to our state’s capital, from a city stifled and insulated to the inclusive, economic powerhouse it is today, we have come a long way in our growth, character, and prospects for the future. Tuscaloosa: 200 Years in the Making is a testament to a city of remarkable history and strength.” — Walt Maddox, Mayor of Tuscaloosa

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ALABAMA / ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Alabama Creates 200 Years of Art and Artists Edited by Elliot A. Knight Preface by Al Head / Introduction by Gail C. Andrews

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts, pottery, visionary paintings, sculpture, photography, folk art, and abstract art have all contributed to diverse visions of Alabama’s culture and environment. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.

july 12 x 10 / 264 PAGES 212 COLOR FIGURES / 36 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2010-2 / $39.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9223-9 / $39.95 EBOOK “ Alabama artists have helped contextualize the state as a place that is embracing its past while visualizing its future. Artists such as the internationally hailed quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, public artist Rick Lowe, painters Jack Whitten and Thornton Dial, and photographer Carolyn Sherer have portrayed a richer understanding of Alabama that is appreciated not only by those of us who live here but also by the nation in general. Alabama would not have the exposure or the expanded worldview that are so apparent without the work of the visual artists who have helped us reveal the complexity, diversity, and multifaceted nature of our populations and our state. Alabama artists help us define who we are and what home is.” — From the introduction by Gail C. Andrews

Published to coincide with the state’s bicentennial, Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists features ninety-four of Alabama’s most accomplished, noteworthy, and influential practitioners of the fine arts from 1819 to the present. The book highlights a broad spectrum of artists who worked in the state, from its early days to its current and contemporary scene, exhibiting the full scope and breadth of Alabama art. This retrospective volume features biographical sketches and representative examples of each artist’s most masterful works. Alabamians like Gay Burke, William Christenberry, Roger Brown, Thornton Dial, Frank Fleming, the Gee’s Bend Quilters, Lonnie Holley, Dale Kennington, Charlie Lucas, Kerry James Marshall, David Parrish, and Bill Traylor are compared and considered with other nationally significant artists. Alabama Creates is divided into four historical periods, each spanning roughly fifty years and introduced by editor Elliot A. Knight. Knight contextualizes each era with information about the development of Alabama art museums and institutions and the evolution of college and university art departments. The book also contains an overview of the state’s artistic heritage by Gail C. Andrews, director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Alabama Creates conveys in a sweeping and captivating way the depth of talent, the range of creativity, and the lasting contributions these artists have made to Alabama’s extraordinarily rich visual and artistic heritage. Elliot A. Knight is executive director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts; he previously served there as the visual arts program manager, the deputy director, and the director of the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery. Al Head is executive director emeritus of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Gail C. Andrews is director emerita of the Birmingham Museum of Art.

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ALABAMA / FOOD / HISTORY

The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods Emily Blejwas

Alabama’s history and culture revealed through fourteen iconic foods, dishes, and beverages The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods explores well-known Alabama food traditions to reveal salient histories of the state in a new way. In this book that is part history, part travelogue, and part cookbook, Emily Blejwas pays homage to fourteen emblematic foods, dishes, and beverages, one per chapter, as a lens for exploring the diverse cultures and traditions of the state. Throughout Alabama’s history, food traditions have been fundamental to its customs, cultures, regions, social and political movements, and events. Each featured food is deeply rooted in Alabama identity and has a story with both local and national resonance. Blejwas focuses on lesser-known food stories from around the state, illuminating the lives of a diverse populace: Poarch Creeks, Creoles of color, wild turkey hunters, civil rights activists, Alabama club women, frontier squatters, Mardi Gras revelers, sharecroppers, and Vietnamese American shrimpers, among others. A number of Alabama figures noted for their special contributions to the state’s foodways, such as George Washington Carver and Georgia Gilmore, are profiled as well. Alabama’s rich food history also unfolds through accounts of community events and a food-based economy. Highlights include Sumter County barbecue clubs, Mobile’s banana docks, Appalachian Decoration Days, cane syrup making, peanut boils, and eggnog parties. Drawing on historical research and interviews with home cooks, chefs, and community members cooking at local gatherings and for holidays, Blejwas details the myths, legends, and truths underlying Alabama’s beloved foodways. With nearly fifty color illustrations and fifteen recipes, The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods will allow all Alabamians to more fully understand their shared cultural heritage. Emily Blejwas is the author of the novel Once You Know This and the director of the Gulf States Health Policy Center in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

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july 7 x 9 / 360 PAGES 49 COLOR FIGURES / 48 B&W FIGURES / 2 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-2019-5 / $39.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9231-4 / $39.95 EBOOK “ Through the lens of food, The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods explores in vivid detail cultural groups across the state, revealing not only recipes for traditional dishes but also for survival and success during difficult times. Readers who already know Alabama history well will find this approach interesting and refreshing.” — Joyce H. Cauthen, author of Out of Whole Cloth: The Life of Bettye Kimbrell and With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow: A History of Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama “ Offers a compelling, rich journey through the state’s history and an unusual approach to our understanding of the past. It will make a wonderful contribution to culinary history and the history of Alabama.” — Susan Tucker, author of City of Remembering: A History of Genealogy in New Orleans and editor of New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories

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ALABAMA / HISTORY

The Old Federal Road in Alabama An Illustrated Guide Kathryn H. Braund, Gregory A. Waselkov, and Raven M. Christopher

A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama’s development Forged through the Creek Nation by the United States, the “federal road” was developed as a communication artery to link the east coast with Louisiana. The postal road created tensions within the Creek Nation that resulted in a devastating war in 1813–1814. The Federal Road served as the primary artery of emigration into Alabama after the forced surrender of vast acreage by the Creek Indians following the Creek War.

august 6.125 x 9.25 / 184 PAGES 47 color figures / 30 B&W figures / 7 maps ISBN 978-0-8173-5930-0 / $24.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9259-8 / $24.95 EBOOK “ While much has been written about the Federal Road’s passage through Alabama, this is the first detailed guide that allows modern-day readers to travel portions of the old road where possible and to see significant sites along the way, including historical markers, museums, a wildlife refuge, a national forest, sites of forts, sites of Creek stands and taverns, monuments, and historical parks.” — Herbert James Lewis, author of Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State and Clearing the Thickets: A History of Antebellum Alabama “ This delightful ‘pocket guide’ on the Federal Road brings attention to a vital, but poorly understood, link to our shared past with brevity, a conversational tone, and an intrinsic connection to the places where history happened. The format is ideally suited to the exploration of the story of the Federal Road as it is easily accessible and usable by readers of all ages.” — Mike Bunn, author of Early Alabama: A History and Guide to the Formative Years, 1798–1825 and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812

Central to understanding Alabama’s territorial and early statehood years, the Federal Road was both a physical and symbolic thoroughfare that cut a swath of shattering change through the land and cultures it traversed. The road revolutionized Alabama’s expansion, altering the course of its development by playing a significant role in sparking a cataclysmic war, facilitating unprecedented American immigration, and enabling an associated radical transformation of the land itself. The first half of The Old Federal Road in Alabama: An Illustrated Guide offers a narrative history that includes brief accounts of the construction of the road, the experiences of historic travelers, and describes major changes to the road over time. The authors vividly reconstruct the course of the road in detail and make use of a wealth of well-chosen illustrations. Along the way they give attention to the very terrain it traversed, bringing to life what traveling the road must have really been like and illuminating its story in a way few others have ever attempted. The second half of the volume, “Touring on the Old Federal Road in Alabama,” is divided into three parts—Eastern, Central, and Southern— and serves as a modern traveler’s guide to the Federal Road. This section includes driving tours and maps, highlighting historical sites and surviving portions of the old road and how to visit them. Kathryn H. Braund is Hollifield Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. She coedited (with Gregory A. Waselkov) William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians. She is the author of Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685–1815 and coedited Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812 and Fields of Vision: Essays on the Travels of William Bartram. Gregory A. Waselkov is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Alabama. He has written, edited, and contributed to many books on southern archaeology and history, including Old Mobile Archaeology and A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814. Raven M. Christopher is chief curator at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. She is co-author with Gregory A. Waselkov of the Archaeological Survey of the Old Federal Road in Alabama, Final Report, prepared for the Alabama Department of Transportation.

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ALABAMA / HISTORY

Early Alabama An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798–1826 Mike Bunn An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state’s origins Alabama’s territorial and early statehood years represent a crucial formative period in its past, a time in which the state both literally and figuratively took shape. The story of the remarkable changes that occurred within Alabama as it transitioned from frontier territory to a vital part of the American union in less than a quarter century is one of the most compelling in the state’s past. This history is rich with stories of charismatic leaders, rugged frontiersmen, a dramatic and pivotal war that shaped the state’s trajectory, raging political intrigue, and pervasive sectional rivalry. Many of Alabama’s modern cities, counties, and religious, educational, and governmental institutions first took shape within this time period. It also gave way to the creation of sophisticated trade and communication networks, the first large-scale cultivation of cotton, and the advent of the steamboat. Contained within this story of growth and innovation is a parallel story, the dispossession of Native groups of their lands and the forced labor of slaves, which fueled much of Alabama’s early development. Early Alabama: An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798– 1826 serves as a traveler’s guidebook with a fast-paced narrative that traces Alabama’s developmental years. Despite the great significance of this era in the state’s overall growth, these years are perhaps the least understood in all of the state’s history and have received relatively scant attention from historians. Mike Bunn has created a detailed guide—appealing to historians and the general public—for touring historic sites and structures including selected homes, churches, businesses, government buildings, battlefields, cemeteries, and museums.

june 6.125 x 9.25 / 192 PAGES 49 COLOR FIGURES / 10 B&W FIGURES / 13 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-5928-7 / $24.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9255-0 / $24.95 EBOOK “ You’ll find no better pathfinder through the historical thickets of Alabama’s past than Mike Bunn. Curious readers and adventurous travelers alike will enjoy this authoritative and lively guide to our state’s remarkable origins.” — Gregory A. Waselkov, author of Old Mobile Archaeology and A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814

Mike Bunn is director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Baldwin County, Alabama. He is a coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812 and the author of Civil War Eufaula.

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fiction

Once into the Night Aurelie Sheehan Foreword by Laird Hunt

Winner of FC2’s Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize Stories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary Aurelie Sheehan’s Once into the Night is a collection of 57 brief stories—a fictional autobiography made of assumed identities and what-ifs. What is the difference between fiction and a lie? These stories dwell in a netherworld between memory and the imagination, exploring the nature of truthtelling.

february 5.5 x 8.5 / 148 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-071-6 $16.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-881-1 $9.95 EBOOK “ Aurelie Sheehan must have gotten her poetic prose license at an elusive shop of glittering perceptions. Her enchantingly quirky, surprise-a-millisecond chapters are fabulous—I wished to go Two, Three, Many more times into the Night, but, alas, these original micro-stories of fables, foibles, and family ended quickly. Please pick them up where I left off, wishing to read them again. How did she do it? Aurelie Sheehan made Oscar Wilde wake Calvino with a start and a glass of bubbly—not in her book, but no kidding, Once into the Night propelled me with its witty, associative voice into a cosmos of magic and memory that I haven’t experienced since those guys woke me with a start and a glass of….”

Here the inner life is granted pride of place with authenticity found in misremembered childhood notebooks, invisible tattoos, and the love life of icemen. Radical in its conception of story, this collection blurs the line between fiction, poetry, and essay, reconceiving contemporary autofiction in its own witty, poignant vernacular. The stories intersect with and deviate from a “provable” life—a twin distinction that becomes the source of their power. Aurelie Sheehan is professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories and the novel History Lesson for Girls. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and other journals.

— Jane Miller, author of Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions “ With a casual and wounding intelligence presiding over every story, Once into the Night feels like a séance of emotions that you’re sometimes embarrassed to be feeling, sometimes can’t wait to feel again, and sometimes feel relieved to know that you can.” — John D’Agata, author of About a Mountain

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Girl Zoo Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess

A dark yet playful collection of short stories that pushes boundaries and blurs the lines between the real and surreal Girl Zoo is an enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short stories that examines how women in society are confined by the limitations and expectations of pop culture, politics, advertising, fashion, myth, and romance. In each story, a woman or girl is literally confined or held captive, and we can only watch as they are transformed into objects of terror and desire, plotting their escape from their cultural cages. Taken as a whole, this experimental speculative fiction invites parallels to social justice movements focused on sexuality and gender, as well as cautionary tales for our precarious political movement. Parkison and Guess offer no solutions to their characters’ captivity. Instead, they challenge their audience to read against the grain of conventional feminist dystopian narratives by inviting them inside the “Girl Zoo” itself. Take a step inside the zoo and see for yourself. We dare you. Behind the bars, a world of wonder awaits. Aimee Parkison is the author of Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman: Stories, winner of Fiction Collective Two’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, The Petals of Your Eyes, and the story collections The Innocent Party and Woman with Dark Horses, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. Parkison is the director of creative writing at Oklahoma State University, where she teaches fiction writing in the MFA and PhD programs. Carol Guess is the author of nineteen books of poetry and prose, including Darling Endangered, Doll Studies: Forensics, Tinderbox Lawn, and With Animal (cowritten with Kelly Magee). In 2014 she was awarded the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement by Columbia University. She teaches in the MFA program at Western Washington University and lives in Seattle.

february 5.5 x 8.5 / 170 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-070-9 / $16.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-882-8 / $9.95 EBOOK “ Part dark angry fairytales, part avant-gothic myths, part surreal fever dreams, and always genuinely unique, Girl Zoo is a remarkable collaborative collection of concentrated fictions about 56 captive women who are the same woman, not the same woman, and not not the same woman. The rhythms, syntax, vocabulary, and meta-logic feel childlike, yet the content remains relentlessly bloody, violent, somehow naively dangerous to the bone.” — Lance Olsen, author of Dreamlives of Debris “ Girl Zoo is a breathtaking journey inside the cold hard facts of gender and sexual incarceration. Taking the ‘woman as object’ trope to its logical extreme, these stories stage a break-in and dare the reader to imagine what it would take for women and girls to break out of the very narratives that keep us caged. A triumph of the imaginal in the face of a culture that would see us silenced, dead, and gone. Read these girls, change your life.” — Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan “ Stark and eerie, sharp and freewheeling, Girl Zoo renders its subjects in perfectly balanced prose. A captivating reflection of our times.” — Amelia Gray, author of Museum of the Weird and Gutshot

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Famous Children and Famished Adults Stories Evelyn Hampton Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize Stories that remap the world to reveal hidden places we have always suspected of existing and scenarios that show us glimpses of ourselves In these stories, readers encounter a wizened, silent child; a documentary filmmaker lost in the Amazon; a writer physically overwhelmed by the amount of content she has generated; the disappearance of the world’s cats; and an enormous houseplant that has become quietly malevolent. Through these encounters, which are presented with insightful, intricate, and often very funny writing, readers come to know the scintillating zone where fiction and reality become indistinguishable.

february 5.5 x 8.5 / 160 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-069-3 / $16.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-880-4 / $9.95 EBOOK “ Evelyn Hampton’s stories are terrific, unexpected word events: some built from subverted and perverted romcom premises; some lucid dreamt metaphors extended past absurdity to return to wisdom; some pre-splintered into archaeological shards but with the knowledge of our ruins vibrating within. Or, as Hampton writes, these are ‘another encounter with Madam.’ Elsewhere, the derangements of childhood find home in voices skillfully projected into non-orphans writhing with unsatisfied wants, panting and parentless beside their American moms and dads. In Hampton’s work, there is a writing of emptiness that I love. You should re-pot that plant, you should pulverize the deluging content into mist, you should enter the center of the wasp--and you should read Evelyn Hampton.”

Working in the tradition of voice impressionists like Maria Bamford, Hampton draws on a wide range of styles and voices to tell stories that seem at once familiar and strange, spoofed and invented. Readers who have enjoyed the work of Shirley Jackson, George Saunders, Lydia Davis, or Robert Walser will be at home in these pages, but so too will readers who have given up on fiction. These stories show us that insouciance can be beautiful, confusion can be intricate and ordered, and rule-breaking can be a discipline all its own. Evelyn Hampton is the author of Discomfort, The Aleatory Abyss, and the chapbooks MADAM, Seven Touches of Music, and We Were Eternal and Gigantic. She lives in Denver.

— Eugene Lim, author of Dear Cyborgs “ Evelyn Hampton’s prose can be measured in breaths, like poetry, and in gasps, like philosophy. The beauty on the line level will stop your heart. These are vicious stories, aching stories, stories that bleed and stories that can staunch the bleeding of loneliness, hubris, and desire. They are also, as the best darkest things are, extremely funny. A gorgeous, riveting collection.” — Kristen Iskandrian, author of Motherest: A Novel

spring 2019

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WRITING AND RHETORIC / LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life Spencer Schaffner A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment Writing tends to be characterized as a positive aspect of literacy that helps us to express our thoughts, to foster interpersonal communication, and to archive ideas. However, there is a vast array of evidence that emphasizes the counterbelief that writing has the power to punish, shame, humiliate, control, dehumanize, fetishize, and transform those who are subjected to it. In Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life, Spencer Schaffner looks at many instances of writing as punishment, including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and subjection. Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life is a fascinating inquiry into how sinister writing can truly be and directly questions the educational ideal that powerful writing is invariably a public good. While Schaffner does look at the darker side of writing, he neither vilifies nor supports the practice of writing as punishment. Rather, he investigates the question with humanistic inquiry and focuses on what can be learned from understanding the many strange ways that writing as punishment is used to accomplish fundamental objectives in everyday life. Through five succinct case studies, we meet teachers, judges, parents, sex traffickers, and drunken partiers who have turned to writing because of its presumed power over writers and readers. Schaffner provides careful analysis of familiar punishments, such as schoolchildren copying lines, and more bizarre public rituals that result in ink-covered bodies and individuals forced to hold signs in public. Schaffner argues that writing-based punishment should not be dismissed as benign or condemned as a misguided perversion of writing, but instead should be understood as an instrument capable of furthering both the aims of justice and degradation. Spencer Schaffner is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author of Binocular Vision: The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides. His work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Composition Studies; and Discourse and Society.

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june 6 x 9 / 144 PAGES / 7 B&W FIGURES 978-0-8173-5955-3 / $24.95t PAPER 978-0-8173-2022-5 / $74.95s CLOTH 978-0-8173-9236-9 / $24.95 EBOOK “ Asking, at core, if our writing inside and outside the classroom must advance erudition, Writing as Punishment chronicles how that script has been perverted to argue that ‘writing is a viable tool for disciplining, controlling, brainwashing, shaming, demeaning, subjugating, and humiliating others.’ This book more than proves its points. The writing is fantastically crisp; the thesis sound (and soundly provocative). However queasy-making, Schaffner’s individual case studies are each perfectly selected. His conclusions are, to say the least, wickedly inspired.” — Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture “ This book’s focus on the ‘darker’ side of writing is as intriguing as it is illuminating. Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Schaffner’s book finds that the beliefs that underlie generative approaches to writing are the very ones that underlie its use of writing as punishment.” — Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation

spring 2019

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY

Re-Creating Nature Science, Technology, and Human Values in the Twenty-First Century James T. Bradley

An exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies

august 6 x 9 / 376 PAGES 28 B&W FIGURES / 1 TABLE ISBN 978-0-8173-2029-4 / $39.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9243-7 / $39.95 EBOOK “ Building further on his remarkable scholarly work, James Bradley once again observes and dissects modern science and modern life in ways that challenge any kind of reader: student, scholar, research scientist, and most especially political decision makers. His interdisciplinary approach to studying the implications of biotechnology is the most accessible and useful, yet profound, of any academic work in this vast field. With characteristic good humor and patience, he confronts the fundamental issues within not only life sciences but moral and political philosophy as well. This is a necessary, although uncomfortable, wake-up call for humankind generally.” — Timothy P. Terrell, author of The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning: Developing Analytical Acuity from Law School to Law Practice

Praise for Brutes or Angels “ The perfect book for anyone looking for a reliable, thorough source to understand the underlying science, ethics, and sociopolitical challenges posed by contemporary transformations in biotechnology. [. . .] Throughout, Bradley speaks with a specialist’s authority, a generalist’s open mind, and a humanist’s sensitivity.”

Many of the ethical issues raised by new technologies have not been widely examined, discussed, or indeed settled. For example, robotics technology challenges the notion of personhood. Should a robot, capable of making what humans would call ethical decisions, be held responsible for those decisions and the resultant actions? Should society reward and punish robots in the same way that it does humans? Likewise, issues of safety, environmental concerns, and distributive justice arise with the increasing acceptance of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food production nanotechnology in engineering and medicine, and human gene therapy and enhancement. The problem of dual-use—when a technology can be used both to benefit and to harm—exists with virtually all new technologies but is central in the context of emerging twenty-first century technologies ranging from artificial intelligence and robotics to human gene-editing and brain-computer interfacing. In Re-Creating Nature: Science, Technology, and Human Values in the Twenty-First Century, James T. Bradley addresses emerging biotechnologies with prodigious potential to benefit humankind but that are also fraught with ethical consequences. Some actually possess the power to directly alter the evolution of life on earth. Specifically, these topics include stem cells, synthetic biology, GMOs in agriculture, nanotechnology, bioterrorism, CRISPR gene-editing technology, three-parent babies, robotics and roboethics, artificial intelligence, and human brain research and neurotechnologies. Offering clear explanations of these various technologies, a pragmatic presentation of the conundrums involved, and questions that illuminate hypothetical situations, Bradley guides discussions of these and other thorny issues resulting from the development of new biotechnologies. He also highlights the responsibilities of scientists to conduct research in an ethical manner and the responsibilities of nonscientists to become “science literate” in the twenty-first century. James T. Bradley is professor emeritus in biological sciences at Auburn University and was the W. Kelley Mosley Professor of Science and Humanities and director of the Human Odyssey Program. He is the author of Brutes or Angels: Human Possibility in the Age of Biotechnology.

— CHOICE

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RHETORIC AND COMMUNICATION / SCIENCE

Citizen Science in the Digital Age Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement James Wynn New in Paper A discussion of 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. 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.

may 6 x 9 / 224 PAGES 11 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5952-2 / $24.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9086-0 / $24.95 EBOOK “ Wynn examines how citizen science can impact the conceptualization of key ideas (e.g., climate change or issues related to radiation) and can influence public debates, such as the reliability of climate models. [. . .] The work is almost entirely non-technical and will be accessible to readers from a wide array of disciplines and interests. Recommended.” — CHOICE “ 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

James Wynn is 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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spring 2019

SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT

maritime currents HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY Gene Allen Smith, Series Editor

Maritime Currents History and Archaeology

also in this series

About the Series

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Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology is a series devoted to lively and important scholarship covering the spectrum of maritime history and nautical archaeology broadly defined. It provides readers with works that focus on the role of canals, rivers, lakes, and oceans in history; on the economic, military, and political use of those waters; and upon the people, communities, and industries that support maritime endeavors. Limited neither by geography nor by time, volumes in the series contribute to the overall understanding of maritime history and can be enjoyed by both general readers as well as specialists.

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This new series continues UAP’s very strong tradition of publishing in the field of naval history, with a particularly strong emphasis on Civil War and, more recently, World War II naval history. These volumes also complement our lists in history; archaeology; and Atlantic, Caribbean, and Latin American studies.

Series Editor Gene Allen Smith is professor of history and director of the Center for Texas Studies at Texas Christian University. He is the author of nine books, including The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 and Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s–1820s. During the 2013–14 academic year, Smith served as the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair of Naval Heritage at the United States Naval Academy. He has also served as an external valuator for the world-renowned nautical archaeology program at Texas A&M University, and he currently serves as president of the North American Society for Oceanic History.

Editorial Advisory Board John F. Beeler Alicia Caporaso Annalies Corbin Ben Ford Ingo K. Heidbrink Susan B. M. Langley Nancy Shoemaker Joshua M. Smith William H. Thiesen

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MILITARY HISTORY

Standing Watch American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era Jonathan Li-Chung Leung The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch: American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era offers the perspective of the submariners themselves, lending them a voice and paying homage to their service. Jonathan Li-Chung Leung provides an original glimpse into a world of unique challenges and characters, a life isolated and submerged, and a duty defined by the juxtaposition of monotonous routine and unparalleled excitement. These personal accounts of life below the surface offer readers a front-row seat to close encounters with Soviet submarines and the naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as an intimate understanding of daily life onboard the vessels, the culture of military discipline, and the religious-like fervor exercised in honoring traditions big and small. By weaving first-hand perspectives into a larger thematic and historic overview, this account delivers a lively and colorful picture of the Silent Service. Set against the backdrop of sobering geopolitical disputes and their own role as the nation’s defenders against a seemingly ambiguous super-enemy, these veterans focus on their responsibilities and reflect on careers built on the simple axioms of pride and service. This invigorating and unreserved account is an unprecedented addition to the existing literature on naval and military history. Jonathan Li-Chung Leung volunteers on the USS Blueback (SS-581) at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, where he has conducted public tours and worked on the maintenance crew since 2002. He also works as an air traffic controller in Honolulu, Hawaii.

april 6 x 9 / 224 PAGES 34 B&W FIGURES / 2 Tables ISBN 978-0-8173-5957-7 / $29.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-2012-6 / $69.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9250-5 / $29.95 EBOOK “ Readers will be amazed by the interesting and engaging description of the dangerous and uncertain nature of submarine service. Leung reminds us that someone always stands the watch protecting our nation, its global interests and our democratic values. Standing Watch left me wanting to learn more and enhanced my appreciation for the men and women in today’s submarine force.” — Regina T. Akers, historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC “ As a career US Cold War submariner with a huge submarine library, I feel comfortable in saying that Standing Watch is the first book to my knowledge to examine the perceptions of the effect of the Cold War on junior US Submarine Force personnel.” — Alfred S. McLaren, author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)

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NATURAL HISTORY / ART / SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

John Abbot and William Swainson Art, Science, and Commerce in NineteenthCentury Natural History Illustration Janice Neri, Tara Nummedal, and John V. Calhoun An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist During his lifetime (1751–ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and profoundly influenced North American entomology, as he documented many species in the New World long before they were scientifically described. For sixty-five years, Abbot worked in Georgia to advance knowledge of the flora and fauna of the American South by sending superbly mounted specimens and exquisitely detailed illustrations of insects, birds, butterflies, and moths, on commission, to collectors and scientists all over the world.

april 8.5 x 11 / 256 PAGES 114 COLOR FIGURES / 1 B&W FIGURE ISBN 978-0-8173-2013-3 / $49.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9251-2 / $49.95 EBOOK “ I believe this work, by including reproductions of 104 drawings, will add substantively to the limited information available to the public about Abbot and his devotion to entomology during the early part of the ‘golden age’ of natural history.” — Gary R. Mullen, coeditor of Philip Henry Gosse’s Letters from Alabama: Chiefly Relating to Natural History Janice Neri (1970–2016) was professor of art history at Boise State University. She is author of The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700. Tara Nummedal is associate professor of history and Italian studies at Brown University. She is author of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire and Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany. John V. Calhoun is research associate at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in Gainesville, Florida. He is coauthor of Butterflies through Binoculars: A Field, Finding, and Gardening Guide to Butterflies in Florida.

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Between 1816 and 1818, Abbot completed 104 drawings of insects on their native plants for English naturalist and patron William Swainson (1789–1855). Both Abbot and Swainson were artists, naturalists, and collectors during a time when natural history and the sciences flourished. Separated by nearly forty years in age, Abbot and Swainson were members of the same international communities and correspondence networks upon which the study of nature was based during this period. The relationship between these two men—who never met in person— is explored in John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration. This volume also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally intended as a companion to an earlier survey of insects from Georgia, the newly rediscovered Turnbull manuscript presents beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths, and a wasp. Most of the insects are pictured with the flowering plants upon which Abbot thought them to feed. Abbot’s journal annotations about the habits and biology of each species are also included, as are nomenclature updates for the insect taxa. Today, the Turnbull drawings illuminate the complex array of personal and professional concerns that informed the field of natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These illustrations are also treasured artifacts from times past, their far-flung travels revealing a world being reshaped by the forces of global commerce and information exchange even then. The shared project of John Abbot and William Swainson is now brought to completion, signaling the beginning of a new phase of its significance for modern readers and scholars.

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BIOGRAPHY / NATURAL HISTORY / SCIENCE

Charles Valentine Riley Founder of Modern Entomology W. Conner Sorensen, Edward H. Smith and Janet R. Smith, with Donald C. Weber

Riley propelled entomology from a collector’s parlor hobby of the nineteenth century to the serious study of insects in the Modern Age This definitive biography is the first full account of a fascinating American scientist whose leadership created the modern science of entomology that recognizes both the essential role of insects in natural systems and their challenge to the agricultural food supply that sustains humankind. Charles Valentine Riley: Founder of Modern Entomology tells the story of how Riley (1843–1895), a young British immigrant to America—with classical schooling, only a smattering of natural history knowledge, and with talent in art and writing but no formal training in science—came to play a key role in the reorientation of entomology from the collection and arrangement of specimens to a scientific approach to insect evolution, diversity, ecology, and applied management of insect pests. Drawing on Riley’s personal diaries, family records, correspondence, and publications, the authors trace Riley’s career as farm laborer, Chicago journalist, Missouri State Entomologist, chief federal entomologist, founder of the National Insect Collection, and initiator of the professional organization that became the Entomological Society of America. Also examined in detail are his spectacular campaigns against the Rocky Mountain Locust that stalled western migration in the 1870s, the Grape Phylloxera that threatened French vineyards in the 1870s and 80s, the Cotton Worm that devastated southern cotton fields after the Civil War, and the Cottony Cushion Scale that threatened the California citrus industry in the 1880s. The latter was defeated through importation of the Vedalia Beetle from Australia, the spectacular first example of biological control of an invasive insect pest by its introduced natural enemy. A striking figure in appearance and deed, Riley combined scientific, literary, artistic, and managerial skills that enabled him to influence every aspect of entomology. A correspondent of Darwin and one of his most vocal American advocates, he discovered the famous example of mimicry of the Monarch butterfly by the Viceroy, and described the intricate coevolution of yucca moths and yuccas, a complex system that fascinates evolutionary scientists to this day. Whether applying evolutionary theory to pest control, promoting an American silk industry, developing improved spray technologies, or promoting applied entomology in state and federal government and to the public, Riley was the central figure in the formative years of the entomology profession. In addition to showcasing his own renderings of the insects he investigated, this comprehensive account provides fresh insight into the personal and public life of an ingenious, colorful and controversial scientist, who aimed to discover, understand, and outsmart the insects.

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july 7 x 10 / 464 PAGES 17 COLOR FIGURES / 27 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS / 1 TABLE ISBN 978-0-8173-2009-6 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9222-2 / $54.95 EBOOK W. Conner Sorensen is the author of Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840–1880 and many articles in scientific journals. Edward H. Smith (1915–2012) was professor emeritus and head of entomology at Cornell University where he chaired the Department of Entomology and authored numerous Riley-related articles in scientific journals and publications. Janet R. Smith (1922–2018) was Edward H. Smith’s research partner and spouse. Donald C. Weber is research entomologist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Cather Among the Moderns Janis P. Stout

A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed. Stout presents Cather on a large, dramatic stage among a sizable cast of characters and against a brightly lit social and historical backdrop, invoking numerous figures and instances from the broad movement in the arts and culture that we call modernism.

march 6 x 9 / 288 PAGES 12 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2014-0 / $44.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9253-6 / $44.95 EBOOK “ Cather Among the Moderns is a major contribution to the field of Cather scholarship. It will immediately be a touchstone for anyone working on Cather; with its groundbreaking study of the relationships between Cather and a range of other authors and their works, from Dorothy Canfield Fisher to Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost, it will also serve as a wonderful resource for future studies. Further, it helps us understand literary modernism, and modernism itself, in deeper and more nuanced ways.” — Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War and a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation

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Early on, Stout addresses the matter of gender. The term “cross-dresser” has often been applied to Cather, but Stout sees Cather’s identity as fractured or ambiguous, a reading that links her firmly to early twentiethcentury modernity. Later chapters take up topics of significance both to Cather and to twentieth-century American modernists, including shifting gender roles, World War I’s devastation of social and artistic norms, and strains in racial relations. She explores Cather’s links to a small group of modernists who, after the war, embraced life in New Mexico, a destination of choice for many artists, and which led to two of Cather’s most fully realized modernist novels, The Professor’s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. The last chapter addresses Cather’s place within modernism. Stout situates Cather in relation to, among others, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, with their shared ties to tradition even while making innovations— often startling—in literary form. She also shows parallels with William Faulkner with respect to economic disparity and social injustice. Janis P. Stout is professor of English emerita at Texas A&M University. She is the author of South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History; Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin; Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars; and Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. She is also coeditor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.

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The Stuff of Our Forebears Willa Cather’s Southern Heritage Joyce McDonald Connecting Cather’s work to the southern literary tradition and the South of her youth A diverse and experimental writer who lived most of her life in New York City, Willa Cather is best known for her depiction of pioneer life on the Nebraska plains. Despite Cather’s association with Nebraska, however, the novelist’s Virginia childhood and her southern family were deeply influential in shaping her literary imagination. Joyce McDonald shows evidence, for example, of Cather’s southern sensibility in the class consciousness and aesthetic values of her characters and in their sense of place and desire for historical continuity, a sensibility also evident in her narrative technique of weaving stories within stories and in her use of folklore. Beginning with an examination of Cather’s Virginia childhood and the southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, McDonald traces the effects of those influences in Cather’s novels. The patterns that emerge reveal not only Cather’s strong ideological connection to the pastoral but also the political position implicit in her choice of that particular mode. The Willa Cather who emerges from the pages of The Stuff of Our Forebears is not the Cather who claimed to eschew politics but a far more political novelist than has heretofore been perceived. Joyce McDonald is the author of several books for children and young adults including Swallowing Stones and the Edgar Award–nominated Shades of Simon Gray.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene Ronald Berman

A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene is a fascinating addition to Fitzgerald scholarship. Each chapter in this volume elaborates on a crucial aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s depiction of American society, specifically through the lens of the social sciences that most influenced his writing and thinking. Ronald Berman addresses, among other subjects, Fitzgerald’s use of philosophy, cultural analyses, and sociology—all enriched by the insights of his own experience living an American life. He was especially interested in how life had changed from 1910 to 1920. Many Americans were unable to navigate between the 1920s and their own memories of a very different world before the Great War; especially Daisy Buchanan who evolves from girlhood (as typified in sentimental novels of the time) to wifehood (as actually experienced in the new decade). There is a profound similarity between what happens to Fitzgerald’s characters and what happened to the nation. Ronald Berman is professor emeritus of English literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including FitzgeraldWilson-Hemingway: Language and Experience; Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties; and The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s World of Ideas.

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POETRY / LITERARY CRITICISM

Letters to Jargon The Correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams Edited and Introduced by Andrew Rippeon Gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by a crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the 1950s and 1960s and the Language poets in the 1970s and 1980s, Larry Eigner’s poems occupy an important place in American poetry and poetics, and his reputation and legacy grow seemingly stronger with each passing year. Letters to Jargon collects all of the known correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams, the influential publisher of Jargon Society Press and himself a poet.

september 6 x 9 / 312 PAGES 17 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5934-8 / $39.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9225-3 / $39.95 EBOOK “ I highly recommend Letters to Jargon. As a scholar who has studied Eigner’s life and letters extensively, and is viciously protective of his work, I am in awe.” — Jennifer Bartlett, author of Derivative of the Moving Image and coeditor of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability “ This correspondence between Larry Eigner and his early publisher and poet, Jonathan Williams, offers a vital contribution to the former’s emerging career and aesthetic development. Andrew Rippeon has done a masterful job of editing both sides of the correspondence, providing extensive notes for each letter along with unpublished essays, notes, and reviews by Eigner found in the Jargon Society archives. These letters show Eigner’s keen engagement with the day’s news and with the emerging literary scene circulating within little magazines, chapbooks and publishers—and not incidentally through correspondence.”

Eigner’s correspondence with Williams began in the early 1950s, as the two were in conversation over the manuscript of On My Eyes, published by Jargon in 1960. Their correspondence continued for many years thereafter, extending into the period when Eigner’s work started to gain recognition from the nascent movement that would become known as “Language” writing. The letters are quite broad in their range of reference and provide a fuller context for Eigner’s poetry and thinking. Eigner and Williams discuss their own poetic practices, including the source material for specific poems, general writing practices, and small press and little magazine publication. This volume offers considerable insight into their shared literary communities as Eigner reports on his readings in contemporary poetry and poetics, as well as his correspondence and contact with other poets including Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Robert Grenier, and Barrett Watten. Also recorded are Eigner’s reactions to current events and explications of his own poems, including the contexts for appropriated lines and distinctions of character spacing. Eigner also shares with Williams details of his home life, his financial difficulties, and the daily challenges of his cerebral palsy. Finally, the book features a series of images of the original letters, enabling readers to see Eigner’s specific material-textual practices. Andrew Rippeon is visiting assistant professor of literature and creative writing at Davidson College.

— Michael Davidson, professor emeritus of American Literature University of California, San Diego

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LITERATURE / BIOGRAPHY

Kurt Vonnegut Remembered Edited by Jim O’Loughlin

A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), who began his writing career working for popular magazines, held both literary aspirations and an attraction to genre fiction. His conspicuous refusal to respect literary boundaries was part of what made him a countercultural icon in the 1960s and 1970s. Vonnegut’s personal life was marked in large part by public success and private turmoil. Two turbulent marriages, his sudden adoption of his late sister’s four children (and the equally sudden removal of one of those children), and a mid-1980s suicide attempt all signaled the extent of Vonnegut’s inner troubles. Yet, he was a generous friend to many, maintaining close correspondences throughout his life. Kurt Vonnegut Remembered gathers reminiscences—by those who knew him intimately, and from those met him only once—that span Vonnegut’s entire life. Among the anecdotes in this collection are remembrances from his immediate family, reflections from his comrades in World War II, and tributes from writers he worked with in Iowa City and from those who knew him when he was young. Editor Jim O’Loughlin offers biographical notes on Vonnegut’s relationship with each of these figures. Since Vonnegut’s death, much has been written on his life and work, but this new volume offers a more generous view of his life, particularly his last years. In O’Loughlin’s introduction to the volume, he argues that we can locate and understand Vonnegut’s best self through his public persona, and that in his performance as the kind and humane figure that many of the speakers here knew him as, Vonnegut became a better person than he ever felt himself to be. Jim O’Loughlin is associate professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the coauthor of Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870–1900.

march 6 x 9 / 264 PAGES 9 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2011-9 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9224-6 / $49.95 EBOOK “ Given Vonnegut’s enduring popularity, Kurt Vonnegut Remembered offers a positive, necessary contribution to the field of writings about this enigmatic author.” — D. Quentin Miller, author of Understanding John Edgar Wideman, The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature, and A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law “ In this welcomed assemblage of encounters with Vonnegut by those who knew him best, Kurt Vonnegut Remembered celebrates the authenticity of the author’s life and work as a whole, demonstrating the efficacy of Vonnegut’s primary moral that we are who we pretend to be.” — Lawrence R. Broer, author of Vonnegut and Hemingway: Writers at War and Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

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RHETORIC / LITERARY CRITICISM

Rhetorical Machines Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics Edited by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages. In so doing, it argues that computation is in fact rife with the values of those who create it and thus has powerful ethical and moral implications. From Socrates’s critique of writing in Plato’s Phaedrus to emerging new media and internet culture, the scholars assembled here provide insight into how computation and rhetoric work together to produce social and cultural effects.

july 6 x 9 / 272 PAGES 15 B&W FIGURES / 13 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2021-8 / $69.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5954-6 / $34.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9235-2 / $34.95 EBOOK “ Rhetorical Machines provides an extension of current work in digital rhetoric, and helps to add a nuanced and more usable framework than more surface contentions about whether rhetoric and rhetorical agency is limited to humans or can be inhabited and deployed by machines/algorithms/ software agents.” — Douglas Eyman, author of Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice Contributors Kevin Brock / James J. Brown Jr. / Jonathan Buehl / Helen J. Burgess / Ian Clark / Joshua Daniel-Wariya / J. W. Hammond / William HartDavidson / Lavinia Hirsu / John Jones / Jennifer Juszkiewicz / Elizabeth Losh / Jennifer Helene Maher / Tim Menzies / Minh-Tam Nguyen / Ryan M. Omizo / James Chase Sanchez / Anthony Stagliano / Annette Vee / Joseph Warfel

This multidisciplinary volume features contributions from scholarpractitioners across the fields of rhetoric, computer science, and writing studies. It is divided into four main sections: “Emergent Machines” examines how technologies and algorithms are framed and entangled in rhetorical processes, “Operational Codes” explores how computational processes are used to achieve rhetorical ends, “Ethical Decisions and Moral Protocols” considers the ethical implications involved in designing software and that software’s impact on computational culture, and the final section includes two scholars’ responses to the preceding chapters. Three of the sections are prefaced by brief conversations with chatbots (autonomous computational agents) addressing some of the primary questions raised in each section. At the heart of these essays is a call for emerging and established scholars in a vast array of fields to reach interdisciplinary understandings of human-machine interactions. This innovative work will be valuable to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to rhetoric, computer science, writing studies, and the digital humanities. John Jones is associate professor and the director of digital media studies in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. His scholarship has appeared in Communication Design Quarterly Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Computers and Composition, and the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Lavinia Hirsu is lecturer of applied linguistics, composition, and English as a foreign language at the University of Glasgow. Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition and The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.

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Presumptions and Burdens of Proof An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law Edited by Hans V. Hansen, Fred J. Kauffeld, James B. Freeman, and Lilian Bermejo-Luque An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. Their functions have been explicitly recognized in legal theory since the middle ages, but their pervasive presence in all forms of argumentation and in inquiries beyond the law—including politics, science, religion, philosophy, and interpersonal communication— have been the object of study since the nineteenth century. However, the documents and essays central to any discussion of presumptions and burdens of proof as devices of argumentation are scattered across a variety of remote sources in rhetoric, law, and philosophy. Presumptions and Burdens of Proof: An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law brings together for the first time key texts relating to the history of the theory of presumptions along with contemporary studies that identify and give insight into the issues facing students and scholars today. The collection’s first half contains historical sources and begins with excerpts from Aristotle’s Topics and goes on to include the locus classicus chapter from Bishop Whately’s crucial Elements of Rhetoric as well as later reactions to Whately’s views. The second half of the collection contains contemporary essays by contributors from the fields of law, philosophy, rhetoric, and argumentation and communication theory. These essays explore contemporary understandings of presumptions and burdens of proof and their role in numerous contexts today. This anthology is the definitive resource on the subject of these crucial rhetorical modes and will be a vital resource to all scholars of communication and rhetoric, as well as legal scholars and practicing jurists. Hans V. Hansen is professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Windsor in Ontario. He is coeditor of Fallacies: Classical and Contemporary Readings and is coeditor of the journal Argumentation.

may 6 x 9 / 288 PAGES 2 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2017-1 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9226-0 / $49.95 EBOOK “ Presumptions and Burdens of Proof fills a current void in scholarship and provides an excellent balance of prior published work along with new work that advances scholarly inquiry in new directions. It will become a standard resource and will have a heuristic impact in generating new scholarship.” — Raymie McKerrow, professor emeritus of communication and rhetoric, Ohio University. Contributors Lilian Bermejo-Luque / James Crosswhite / Frans H. van Eemeren / James B. Freeman / Richard Gaskins / David Godden / G. Thomas Goodnight / Hans V. Hansen / Hanns Hohmann / Fred J. Kauffeld / Douglas Walton

Fred J. Kauffeld (1942–2017) was professor and chair of the Department of Communication Arts at Edgewood College and coeditor of Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric. James B. Freeman is professor of philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Argument Structure: Representation and Theory, Acceptable Premises: An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem, Thinking Logically: Basic Concepts for Reasoning, and Dialectics and the Macrostructure of Arguments. Lilian Bermejo-Luque is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Granada. She is the author of Giving Reasons: A Linguistic-Pragmatic Approach to Argumentation Theory.

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spring 2019

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY

Alexander Hamilton’s Public Administration Richard T. Green

Examines how Hamilton’s thoughts and experiences about public administration theory and practice have shaped the nation American public administration inherited from Alexander Hamilton a distinct republican framework through which we derive many of our modern governing standards and practices. His administrative theory flowed from his republican vision, prescribing not only the how of administration but also what should be done and why. Administration and policy merged seamlessly in his mind, each conditioning the other. His Anti-Federalist detractors clearly saw this and fought his vision tooth and nail.

april 6 x 9 / 270 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-2016-4 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9256-7 / $49.95 EBOOK “ With impeccable research and analysis, Professor Green cogently and convincingly shows why Alexander Hamilton was not only a brilliant public administration theorist and philosopher of the U.S. Founding period, but remains one for us today as well. Green’s outstanding contribution to the Constitutional School of American Public Administration is a must read for all serious students and scholars of contemporary public administration, and especially those seeking a stronger understanding of the U.S. presidency, separation of powers and federalism.” — David Rosenbloom, distinguished professor of Public Administration and editor in chief, Routledge Public Administration and Public Policy Series, American University “ Alexander Hamilton’s Public Administration is an important and original book which has the potential to contribute significantly to the way in which we think and talk about the relationship between public administration and the Constitution. It combines a deep historical knowledge of Hamilton’s ideas and practices with insightful and interesting observations about public policy and administration.”

That conflict endures to this day because Americans still have not settled on just one vision of the American republic. That is why, Richard Green argues, Hamilton is a pivotal figure in our current reckoning. If we want to more fully understand ourselves and our ways of governing today, we must start by understanding Hamilton, and we cannot do that without exploring his administrative theory and practice in depth. Alexander Hamilton’s Public Administration considers Hamilton both as a founder of the American republic, steeped in the currents of political philosophy and science of his day, and as its chief administrative theorist and craftsman, deeply involved in establishing the early institutions and policies that would bring his interpretation of the written Constitution to life. Accordingly, this book addresses the complex mix of classical and modern ideas that informed his vision of a modern commercial and administrative republic; the administrative ideas, institutions, and practices that flowed from that vision; and the substantive policies he deemed essential to its realization. Green’s analysis grows out of an immersion in Hamilton’s extant papers, including reports, letters, pamphlets, and essays. Readers will find a comprehensive explanation of his theoretical contributions and a richly detailed account of his ideas and practices in historical context. Richard T. Green is professor of political science and public administration at the University of Utah. He is the coauthor of Foundations of Public Service.

— Michael W. Spicer, author of The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration: A Conflict in World Views and In Defense of Politics in Public Administration: A Value Pluralist Perspective

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LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES / FILM

Trial Films on Trial Law, Justice, and Popular Culture Edited by Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, and Martha Merrill Umphrey A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films was a courtroom drama. Since then, this niche genre has produced such critically acclaimed films as Twelve Angry Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Anatomy of a Murder. The popularity and success of these films can be attributed to the fundamental similarities of filmic narratives and trial proceedings. Both seek to construct a “reality” through storytelling and representation and in so doing persuade the audience or jury to believe what they see. Trial Films on Trial: Law, Justice, and Popular Culture is the first book to focus exclusively on the special significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. The contributors to this volume offer a contemporary approach to the trial film genre. Despite the fact that the medium of film is one of the most pervasive means by which many citizens come to know the justice system, these trial films are rarely analyzed and critiqued. The chapters cover a variety of topics, such as how and why film audiences adopt the role of the jury, the narrative and visual conventions employed by directors, and the ways mid-to-late-twentieth-century trial films offered insights into the events of that period. Austin Sarat is associate dean of the faculty and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Sarat is the author or editor of more than ninety books, including Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture; Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty; When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition; and Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering. Jessica Silbey is professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law and co-director of the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity. She is the author of The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property and coeditor of Law and Justice on the Small Screen. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and the director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College. She has coedited more than a dozen books, including Reimagining “To Kill a Mockingbird”: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law.

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april 6 x 9 / 240 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-5929-4 / $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-2026-3 / $84.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9257-4 / $29.95 EBOOK “ Trial Films on Trial successfully brings together distinguished and emerging scholars to engage important questions about law’s representation in film and, fascinatingly, film’s law-like logic.” — Daniel LaChance, author of Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States “ A marvelously generative text which will, I am certain, stand as an important and defining contribution to the field of law and film.” — Patricia Ewick, coauthor of The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life Contributors Carol J. Clover / Barry Langford / Katie Model / Jennifer Petersen / Austin Sarat / Ticien Marie Sassoubre / Jessica Silbey / Norman W. Spaulding / Martha Merrill Umphrey

spring 2019

SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT

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Indians and Southern History

Editorial Advisory Board

About the Series

Kathryn H. Braund

Over the last thirty years, American Indian history has become a vibrant field of study. Rooted in new approaches to Indian history, and steeped in ethnohistorical methodologies, this generation of scholarship has emphasized Native American perspectives on a wide range of events and topics. In the process, many scholars have carved out significant positions in the discipline. These scholars identify themselves as students of Southern history, and many of their arguments dovetail with issues familiar to more generalized historians of the American South. Even so, the narrative of the region has not changed to reflect their work. This is especially true in the post-Removal period, where the narrative of the colonial and antebellum South remains largely defined by negotiations between black and white.

Melanie Benson-Taylor Robbie Ethridge Julie Reed Rose Stremlau Daniel Usner Gregory A. Waselkov

The Indians and Southern History series calls for a paradigm shift in the study of the American South. Rather than merely placing Indians into traditional Southern narratives, books in this series address how indigenous peoples force a fundamental rethinking of issues as varied as geography, historical turning points, and deeply rooted ideas such as the nature of slavery and indigenous declension. Although it is rooted in the field of history, this series encourages works that take interdisciplinary approaches. In addition to anthropology, the series draws upon archaeology, linguistics, sociology, political science, literature, ethnomusicology, and Native American studies.

Series Editors Andrew K. Frank is Allen Morris Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier, a volume that explores race and identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Angela Pulley Hudson is associate professor of history at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South and Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians. Kristofer Ray is visiting assistant professor of history at University of Mississippi and editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. He is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier and Cherokees, Europeans, and Empire in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1774.

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SOUTHERN HISTORY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

George Galphin’s Intimate Empire The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America Bryan C. Rindfleisch A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South A native of Ireland, George Galphin arrived in South Carolina in 1737 and quickly emerged as one of the most proficient deerskin traders in the South. This was due in large part to his marriage to Metawney, a Creek Indian woman from the town of Coweta, who incorporated Galphin into her family and clan, allowing him to establish one of the most profitable merchant companies in North America. As part of his trade operations, Galphin cemented connections with Indigenous and European peoples across the South, while simultaneously securing links to merchants and traders in the British Empire, continental Europe, and beyond. In George Galphin’s Intimate Empire: The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America, Bryan C. Rindfleisch presents a complex narrative about eighteenth-century cross-cultural relationships. Reconstructing the multilayered bonds forged by Galphin and challenging scholarly understandings of life in the Native South, the American South more broadly, and the Atlantic World, Rindfleisch looks simultaneously at familial, cultural, political, geographical, and commercial ties—examining how eighteenth-century people organized their world, both mentally and physically. He demonstrates how Galphin’s importance emerged through the people with whom he bonded. At their most intimate, Galphin’s multilayered relationships revolved around the Creek, Anglo-French, and African children who comprised his North American family, as well as family and friends on the other side of the Atlantic. Through extensive research in primary sources, Rindfleisch reconstructs an expansive imperial world that stretches across the American South and reaches into London and includes Indians, Europeans, and Africans who were intimately interconnected and mutually dependent. As a whole, George Galphin’s Intimate Empire provides critical insights into the intensely personal dimensions and cross-cultural contours of the eighteenth-century South and how empire-building and colonialism were, by their very nature, intimate and familial affairs.

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Bryan C. Rindfleisch is assistant professor of history at Marquette University. His work has been published in Early American Studies, Native South, The American Historian, Ethnohistory, and Journal of Early American History.

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MARITIME HISTORY / AUSTRALIA

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

A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it.

august 6 x 9 / 296 PAGES 25 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-2024-9 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9238-3 / $54.95 EBOOK “ Octopus Crowd is well written and copiously illustrated, clearly revealing the challenges and risks facing the pioneers of the pearling industry.” — Malcolm Tull, president of the International Maritime History Association and author of A Community Enterprise: The History of the Port of Fremantle, 1897 to 1997 “ There is no other book remotely like Octopus Crowd. It has a diverse reading audience and is of international interest. It is finely textured and well written.” — Clive Moore, author of Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s and Kanaka: A History of Melanesian Mackay

Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia’s most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an “octopus crowd”—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all of these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia’s shifting sociopolitical landscape. Steve Mullins is associate professor of history at Central Queensland University. He is the author of Torres Strait: A History of Colonial Occupation and Culture Contact, 1864–1897 and coeditor of Andrew Goldie in New Guinea 1875–1879: Memoir of a Natural History Collector and Community, Environment, and History: Keppel Bay Case Studies.

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NAVAL HISTORY

To My Dearest Wife, Lide Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855 Edited by M. Patrick Sauer and David A. Ranzan A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy George B. Gideon Jr. served as second assistant engineer aboard the USS Powhatan from 1852 to 1856. From his position on the steam frigate, Gideon traveled to Singapore, Labuan, Borneo, Hong Kong, and many other Asian lands. During his time at sea, Gideon penned dozens of letters to his wife, Lide, back home in Philadelphia. Recently discovered in the attic of his great-great-grandniece, were fifty-one letters penned by Gideon providing thorough and insightful commentary throughout the voyage. Through these correspondences, Gideon laboriously documents the details of his daily life on board, from the food they ate to the technical aspects of his work, as well as observations concerning the historical events unfolding around him, such as Chinese piracy, the Taiping Rebellion, the Crimean War, and the devastation of Shimoda. To My Dearest Wife, Lide: Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855 is a rare first-person account of the landmark American naval expedition to Japan to establish commercial relations between the two countries. Gideon’s letters have been meticulously transcribed and annotated by the editors and are an invaluable primary historical source. Gideon’s letters are candid and revealing, delving into the rampant dysfunction in the navy of the 1850s—sickness and disease, alcohol abuse, and poor leadership, among other challenges. Gideon also unabashedly shares his own cynical views of the navy’s role in supporting American economic interests in Japan. This firsthand account of the political mission of the Perry expedition is a unique contribution to naval and military history and gives readers a better view of life aboard a navy ship.

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M. Patrick Sauer is an entrepreneur based in Baltimore, Maryland. His wife is a descendant of George B. Gideon Jr. David A. Ranzan is university archivist and special collections librarian and associate professor at Adelphi University. He is the editor of Surviving Andersonville: One Prisoner’s Recollections of the Civil War’s Most Notorious Camp and coeditor of With Commodore Perry to Japan: The Journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852–1855 and Hero of Fort Schuyler: Selected Revolutionary War Correspondence of Brigadier General Peter Gansevoort, Jr.

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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES / HISTORY / gender studies

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

A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city Founded as a white colony in 1819, Cienfuegos, Cuba, quickly became home to people of African descent, both free and enslaved, and later a small community of Chinese and other immigrants. Despite the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity that defined the city’s population, the urban landscape was characterized by distinctive racial boundaries, separating the white city center from the heterogeneous peripheries. A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century explores how the de facto racial segregation was constructed and perpetuated in a society devoid of explicitly racial laws.

april 6 x 9 / 288 PAGES 28 B&W FIGURES / 12 MAPS / 10 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2003-4 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9212-3 / $54.95 EBOOK “ An insightful and well-researched microhistory of the range of dynamics that shaped race relations, urban order, and sexual labor in Cienfuegos. A Cuban City, Segregated joins an increasingly rich historiography centered on the political and social history—especially with regard to race and gender— of Cuba during the nineteenth century.” — Tiffany A. Sippial, author of Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920 “ This is an excellent study of the construction of urban order in a nineteenth-century Cuban city and a unique contribution to several bodies of literature in the field, especially Latin American urban history, studies of race and slavery, and Cuban studies.” — Guadalupe García, author of Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana and coeditor of Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance

spring 2019

Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie A. Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba is recognizing the often unspoken ways specifically classed notions and practices of gender shaped the historical production of race and racial inequality. In the context of nineteenth-century Cienfuegos, gender, race, and class converged in the concept of urban order, a complex and historically contingent nexus of ideas about the appropriate and desired social hierarchy among urban residents, often embodied spatially in particular relationships to the urban landscape. As Cienfuegos evolved subtly over time, the internal logic of urban order was driven by the construction and defense of a legible, developed, aesthetically pleasing, and, most importantly, white city center. Local authorities produced policies that reduced access to the city center along class and gendered lines, for example, by imposing expensive building codes on centric lands, criminalizing poor peoples’ leisure activities, regulating prostitution, and quashing organized labor. Although none of these policies mentioned race outright, this new scholarship demonstrates that the policies were instrumental in producing and perpetuating the geographic marginality and discursive erasure of people of color from the historic center of Cienfuegos during its first century of existence. Bonnie A. Lucero is associate professor of history and director of the Center for Latino Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. She is the author of Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba and co-editor of Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America.

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CARIBBEAN STUDIES / EDUCATION

Unmastering the Script Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity Sheridan Wigginton and Richard T. Middleton IV Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness Unmastering the Script: Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity examines how school curriculum–based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society. Wigginton and Middleton analyze how social science textbooks and historical biographies intended for young Dominicans reflect an increasing shift toward a clear and public inclusion of blackness in Dominican identity that serves to renegotiate the country’s longstanding antiblack racial master script. The authors argue that although many of the attempts at this inclusion reflect a lessening of “black denial,” when considered as a whole, the materials often struggle to find a consistent and coherent narrative for the place of blackness within Dominican identity, particularly regarding the ways in which blackness continues to be meaningfully related to the otherness of Haitian racial identity. Unmastering the Script approaches the text materials as an example of “reconstructing” and “unburying” an African past, supporting the uneven, slow, and highly context-specific nature of the process. This work engages with multiple disciplines including history, anthropology, education, and race studies, building on a new wave of Dominican scholarship that considers how contemporary perspectives of Dominican identity both accept the existence of an African past and seek to properly weigh its importance. The use of critical race theory as the framework facilitates unfolding the past political and legal agendas of governing elites in the Dominican Republic and also helps to unlock the nuance of an increasingly black-inclusive Dominican identity. In addition, this framework allows the unveiling of some of the socially damaging effects the Haitian Other master script can have on children, particularly those of Haitian ancestry, in the Dominican Republic. Sheridan Wigginton is professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at California Lutheran University.

september 6 x 9 / 144 PAGES 10 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2031-7 / $64.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9245-1 / $64.95 EBOOK “ Examining the concept of race within the Dominican national rhetoric through the analysis of textbooks, Wigginton and Middleton offer an appropriate and rational interpretation of Dominican textbooks in public schools that is easy to follow and provides clear examples of racialist inculcation.” — Dawn F. Stinchcomb, author of The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic “ Through their examination of textbooks, Wigginton and Middleton reveal a shift taking place in the Dominican Republic surrounding ideas of blackness. They provide a rich example and show how blackness continues to be reconsidered in the Dominican Republic, reconstructing a sense of being Afro-Dominican.” — Kimberly Eison Simmons, author of Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

Richard T. Middleton IV is assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Cities, Mayors, and Race Relations: Task Forces as Agents of Race-Based Policy Innovations.

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spring 2019

ARCHAEOLOGY / CARIBBEAN STUDIES

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

First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation

september 6 x 9 / 264 PAGES 19 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS / 1 TABLE ISBN 978-0-8173-2028-7 / $59.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9242-0 / $59.95 EBOOK “ Archaeology below the Cliff is a very holistic and strong anthropological approach to Caribbean history and archaeology. The book exemplifies the very best in anthropological methodologies and theoretical approaches.” — Georgia L. Fox, author of The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco “ Archaeology below the Cliff is theoretically sophisticated and breaks new ground by exploring the lives of people who have been ignored in traditional Caribbean history and archaeology. It is a provocative historical anthropological study that blurs disciplinary boundaries of archaeology, history, and anthropology.” — Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking

Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society is the first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. “Redlegs” is a pejorative to describe the marginalized group who remained after the island transitioned to a sugar monoculture economy dependent on the labor of enslaved Africans. A sizable portion of the “white” minority, the Redlegs largely existed on the peripheries of the plantation landscape in an area called “Below Cliff,” which was deemed unsuitable for profitable agricultural production. Just as the land on which they resided was cast as marginal, so too have the poor whites historically and contemporarily been derided as peripheral and isolated as well as idle, alcoholic, degenerate, inbred, and irrelevant to a functional island society and economy. Using archaeological, historical, and oral sources, Matthew C. Reilly shows how the precarious existence of the Barbadian Redlegs challenged elite hypercapitalistic notions of economics, race, and class as they were developing in colonial society. Experiencing pronounced economic hardship, similar to that of the enslaved, albeit under very different circumstances, Barbadian Redlegs developed strategies to live in a harsh environment. Reilly’s investigations reveal that what developed in Below Cliff was a moral economy, based on community needs rather than free-market prices. Reilly extensively excavated households from the tenantry area on the boundaries of the Clifton Hall Plantation, which was abandoned in the 1960s, to explore the daily lives of poor white tenants and investigate their relationships with island economic processes and networks. Despite misconceptions of strict racial isolation, evidence also highlights the importance of poor white encounters and relationships with Afro-Barbadians. Historical data are also incorporated to address how an underrepresented demographic experienced the plantation landscape. Ultimately, Reilly’s narrative situates the Redlegs within island history, privileging inclusion and embeddedness over exclusion and isolation. Matthew C. Reilly is assistant professor of anthropology at the City College of New York.

spring 2019

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ARCHAEOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma Archaeology from the WPA Era until Today Amanda L. Regnier, Scott W. Hammerstedt, and Sheila Bobalik Savage Revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. The WPA crews excavated eight mound sites and dozens of nonmound residential sites in the Arkansas River Valley that date between AD 1000 and 1450. These sites are considered the westernmost representations of Mississippian culture in the Southeast. The results of these excavations were documented in field journals and photographs prepared by the field supervisors and submitted in a series of quarterly reports to WPA headquarters. These reports contain a wealth of unpublished information summarizing excavations at the mound sites and residential sites, including mound profiles, burial descriptions, house maps, artifact tables, and artifact sketches. Of the excavated mound sites, results from only one, Spiro, have been extensively studied and synthesized in academic literature. The seven additional WPA-excavated mound sites—Norman, Hughes, Brackett, Eufaula, Skidgel, Reed, and Lillie Creek—are known to archaeologists outside of Oklahoma only as unlabeled points on maps of mound sites in the Southeast. The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma curates and contextualizes the results of the WPA excavations, showing how they inform archaeological understanding of Mississippian occupation in the Arkansas Valley. Regnier, Hammerstedt, and Savage also relate the history and experiences of practicing archaeology in the 1930s, incorporating colorful excerpts from field journals of the young, inexperienced archaeologists. Finally, the authors update current knowledge of mound and nonmound sites in the region, providing an excellent example of historical archaeology. Amanda L. Regnier is director of the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Reconstructing Tascalusa’s Chiefdom: Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Communities along the Alabama River. Scott W. Hammerstedt is senior researcher at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey and affiliated faculty in the department of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is also codirector of the Spiro Landscape Archaeological Project, Le Flore County, Oklahoma.

august 6 x 9 / 408 PAGES 105 B&W FIGURES / 3 MAPS / 25 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2025-6 / $69.95s HARDCOVER ISBN 978-0-8173-9239-0 / $69.95 EBOOK “ I am very happy to see that more of the New Deal–era/Works Progress Administration work that previously had not been published is being brought to publication by a younger generation of archaeologists. This volume will serve as a standard reference work and data source for many years to come.” — Lynne P. Sullivan, coauthor of Curating Archaeological Collections: From the Field to the Repository and coeditor of Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective “ I commend the authors in unearthing historical documents related to New Deal investigations in Eastern Oklahoma, critically examining those original findings, and contextualizing the WPA investigations with respect to the latest understandings of archaeology in the region.” — Bernard K. Means, author of Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition and editor of Shovel Ready: Archaeology and Roosevelt’s New Deal for America

Sheila Bobalik Savage is an affiliated researcher at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey.

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ARCHAEOLOGY / MILITARY HISTORY

Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare Edited by Steven D. Smith and Clarence R. Geier

Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable subdiscipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. Although archaeologists have clearly demonstrated their utility in the study of large-scale battles and sites of conventional warfare, such as camps and forts, conflicts involving asymmetric, guerilla, or irregular warfare are largely missing from the historical record.

june 6 x 9 / 272 PAGES 24 B&W FIGURES / 10 MAPS / 3 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2020-1 / $49.95s HARDCOVER ISBN 978-0-8173-9234-5 / $49.95 EBOOK Contributors Wade P. Catts / Carl G. Drexler / Clarence R. Geier / Charles M. Haecker / Adrian Mandzy / Kim A. McBride / W. Stephen McBride / Michael C. Scoggins / Douglas D. Scott / Michelle Sivilich / Steven D. Smith

Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare presents recent examples of how historical archaeology can contribute to a better understanding of asymmetric warfare. The volume introduces readers to this growing study and to its historic importance. Contributors illustrate how the wide range of traditional and new methods and techniques of historiography and archaeology can be applied to expose critical actions, sacrifices, and accomplishments of competing groups representing opposing philosophies and ways of life, which are otherwise lost in time. The case studies offered cover significant events in American and world history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, Indian wars in the Southeast and Southwest, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Prohibition, and World War II. All such examples used here took place at a local or regional level, and several were singular events within a much larger and more complex historic movement. While retained in local memory or tradition, and despite their potential importance, they are poorly, and incompletely addressed in the historic record. Furthermore, these conflicts took place between groups of significantly different cultural and military traditions and capabilities, most taking on a “David vs. Goliath” character, further shaping the definition of asymmetric warfare. Steven D. Smith is director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. He is the coeditor of Archaeology, History, and Predictive Modeling: Research at Fort Polk, 1972—2002 and The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities. Clarence R. Geier is professor emeritus of anthropology at James Madison University. He is the senior editor of four books on the historical archaeology of the Civil War as well as Historical Archaeology of Military Sites: Method and Topic.

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JUDAIC STUDIES / SOUTHERN HISTORY

A New Vision of Southern Jewish History Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility Mark K. Bauman Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, “rewriting southern Jewish history” in ways that its earliest historians could not have envisioned or anticipated, and doing so by specifically targeting themes and trends that might not have been readily apparent to those scholars. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility features essays collected from over a thirty-year career, including a never-before-published article. The prevailing narrative in southern Jewish history tends to emphasize the role of immigrant Jews as merchants in small southern towns and their subsequent struggles and successes in making a place for themselves in the fabric of those communities. Bauman offers assessments that go far beyond these simplified frameworks and draws upon varieties of subject matter, time periods, locations, tools, and perspectives over three decades of writing and scholarship. A New Vision of Southern Jewish History contains Bauman’s studies of Jewish urbanization, acculturation and migration, intra- and intergroup relations, economics and business, government, civic affairs, transnational diplomacy, social services, and gender—all complicating traditional notions of southern Jewish identity. Drawing on role theory as informed by sociology, psychology, demographics, and the nature and dynamics of leadership, Bauman traverses a broad swath—often urban—of the southern landscape, from Savannah, Charleston, and Baltimore through Atlanta, New Orleans, Galveston, and beyond the country to Europe and Israel.

may 6 x 9 / 616 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-2018-8 / $59.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9229-1 / $59.95 EBOOK “ Bauman has, unlike nearly everyone else who has written in southern Jewish history, provided a scholarly perspective that goes beyond descriptive and, for lack of a better term, ‘cute’ stories about the oddities of Jewish life.” — Hasia R. Diner, author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962 and The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000

Bauman’s retrospective volume gives readers the opportunity to review a lifetime of work in a single publication as well as peruse newly penned introductions to his essays. The book also features an “Additional Readings” section designed to update the historiography in the essays. Mark K. Bauman spent twenty-six years teaching at Atlanta Metropolitan College, where he retired in 2002 as a full professor. He is the editor of Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History and the coeditor of The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s and To Stand Aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement.

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MILITARY HISTORY / WWI

The Best World War I Story I Know On the Point in the Argonne, September 26–October 16, 1918 Nimrod T. Frazer Distributed for Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation

An astonishing account of fortitude and bravery in World War I The Best World War I Story I Know: On the Point in the Argonne is the breath-taking story of three US Army divisions tasked with capturing the Côte de Châtillon during the Meuse-Argonne offensive in autumn 1918. Readers will first follow in the footsteps of Missouri-Kansas Guard troops who were repulsed in the opening days of the battle; their courage in the face of heavy fire was not enough to overcome poor leadership.

available 6 x 9 / 216 PAGES 11 B&W FIGURES / 13 MAPS ISBN 978-1-73254-850-3 / $19.95 PAPER ISBN 978-1-73254-851-0 / $19.95 EBOOK “ With a combat veteran’s eye for detail, Rod Frazer narrates how three American divisions struggled to capture the Côte de Châtillon during the forty-seven day Meuse-Argonne battle. The Best World War I Story I Know: On the Point in the Argonne is a compelling story of grit and determination by untested doughboys matched against far more experienced German troops in the final showdown of World War I.” — Mitchell Yockelson, author of Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I and Borrowed Soldiers: American Under British Command, 1918 “ As he did with Send the Alabamians, Rod Frazer gives an excellent account of the Meuse-Argonne campaign, the most important battle fought by the American Army in WWI. He sets the strategic picture then details the battle through the eyes of the doughboy. The horrors of WWI come to the fore. During the 42nd Division’s deployment to Iraq in 2005, we adopted the motto ‘Never Forget.’ We should Never Forget what happened one hundred years ago in the Meuse-Argonne.” — Major General (retired) Joseph Taluto, Chairman, Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation

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They were replaced by the 1st Division, the “best of the Regular Army.” This fine unit became physically and mentally exhausted after suffering horrendous casualties. Unable to fight on, “The Big Red One” was exchanged at the base of Côte de Châtillon, with the 42nd, the Rainbow Division. It too struggled to gain ground on the heavily-contested hill until General Douglas MacArthur’s determined 84th Brigade of “Alabama cotton pickers and Iowa corn growers” forced their way past the Germans. The Côte was finally in American hands and the war all but over. Nimrod T. Frazer was born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a family with a strong military tradition. Following in their footsteps, Frazer enlisted in the Army in 1950 and volunteered for Korea. Serving as a tank platoon leader, he was awarded the Silver Star for Gallantry in Action. On returning to the United States, Frazer attended Columbia University and Harvard, receiving an MBA from Harvard. He engaged in a successful business career. Service to country and community have been his main focus throughout life. In 2011, he erected a Memorial to the Rainbow Division and the 167th Infantry Regiment on the site of the battle of Croix Rouge Farm in France where his father received a Purple Heart. It honors all soldiers of the Rainbow Division who gave their lives on French battlefields during WWI. He has told their story in a book called Send the Alabamians, published in 2014 by the University of Alabama Press. In 2017, he gave the same over life-size bronze sculpture, representing an American soldier carrying the body of his dead comrade, a work by the British sculptor James Butler, R.A., to the city of Montgomery. In 2017, France made Frazer a Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ALABAMA / MUSIC

Doc The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man Frank “Doc” Adams and Burgin Mathews

New in Paper Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself Doc tells the story of an accomplished jazz master, from his musical apprenticeship under John T. “Fess” Whatley and his time touring with Sun Ra and Duke Ellington to his own inspiring work as an educator and bandleader. Central to this narrative is the often-overlooked story of Birmingham’s unique jazz tradition and community. From the very beginnings of jazz, Birmingham was home to an active network of jazz practitioners and a remarkable system of jazz apprenticeship rooted in the city’s segregated schools. Birmingham musicians spread across the country to populate the sidelines of the nation’s bestknown bands. Local musicians, like Erskine Hawkins and members of his celebrated orchestra, returned home heroes. Frank “Doc” Adams explores, through first-hand experience, the history of this community, introducing readers to a large and colorful cast of characters—including “Fess” Whatley, the legendary “maker of musicians” who trained legions of Birmingham players and made a significant mark on the larger history of jazz. Adams’s interactions with the young Sun Ra, meanwhile, reveal life-changing lessons from one of American music’s most innovative personalities. Along the way, Adams reflects on his notable family, including his father, Oscar, editor of the Birmingham Reporter and an outspoken civic leader in the African American community, and Adams’s brother, Oscar Jr., who would become Alabama’s first black supreme court justice. Adams’s story offers a valuable window into the world of Birmingham’s black middle class in the days before the civil rights movement and integration. Throughout, Adams demonstrates the ways in which jazz professionalism became a source of pride within this community, and he offers his thoughts on the continued relevance of jazz education in the twenty-first century.

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Frank “Doc” Adams (1928–2014) served Birmingham City Schools for more than forty years, both as a band director and as the district’s supervisor of music. For his contributions to Alabama jazz, he was a charter inductee, in 1978, to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Burgin Mathews is a writer and teacher who has written on the music of the American South. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America Edited by Jill Bergman

A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place 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, highlighting 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.

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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 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.

Educating the Sons of Sugar Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana R. Eric Platt A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite Of the existing literature, higher education within planter society is typically relegated to a footnote, providing only brief glimpses into a complex instructional regime responsive to wealthy planters. R. Eric Platt’s Educating the Sons of Sugar allows for a greater focus on the mindset of French Creole sugar planters and provides a comprehensive record and analysis of a private college supported by planter wealth. Jefferson College was founded in St. James Parish in 1831, surrounded by slaveholding plantations and their cash crop, sugar cane. Creole planters (regionally known as the “ancienne population”) designed the college to impart a “genteel” liberal arts education through instruction, architecture, and geographic location. Jefferson College played host to social class rivalries (Creole, Anglo-American, and French immigrant), mirrored the revival of Catholicism in a region typified by secular mores, was subject to the “Americanization” of south Louisiana higher education, and reflected the ancienne population’s decline as Louisiana’s ruling population.

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Resulting from loss of funds, the college closed in 1848. While in existence, Jefferson College was a social thermometer for the white French Creole sugar planter ethos that instilled the “sons of sugar” with a cultural heritage resonant of a region typified by the management of plantations, slavery, and sugar production. R. Eric Platt is associate professor of Higher and Adult Education in the Department of Leadership at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Sacrifice and Survival: Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South.

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The Mark of Criminality Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era Bryan J. McCann Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era’s worst racial stereotypes. Rather, he positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable. At the center of this era—when politicians sought to prove their “tough-on-crime” credentials—was the mark of criminality, a set of discourses that labeled members of predominantly poor, urban, and minority communities as threats to the social order. Through their use of the mark of criminality, public figures implemented extremely harsh penal polices that have helped make the United States the world’s leading jailer of its adult population. For groups like NWA and solo artists including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, the mark of criminality was a source of power, credibility, and revenue. By understanding gangsta rap as a potent, if deeply imperfect, enactment of the mark of criminality, we can better understand how crime is always a site of struggle over meaning. Bryan J. McCann is assistant professor of rhetoric and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. He has written for Rhetoric Society Quarterly and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

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Paradigms of Paranoia The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction Samuel Chase Coale An examination of the American fascination with conspiracy and the distrust it sows The popularity of The DaVinci Code and The Matrix trilogy exemplifies the fascination Americans have with conspiracy-driven subjects. Scholars have suggested that in modern times the JFK assassination initiated an industry of conspiracy—Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Area 51, and the Iran-Contra Affair. Samuel Chase Coale reminds us that conspiracy is foundational in American culture, from the apocalyptic Biblical narratives in early Calvinist households to the fear of Mormon, Catholic, Jewish, and immigrant populations in the nineteenth century. Coale argues that contemporary culture—a landscape characterized by doubt, ambiguity, fragmentation, information overload, and mistrust—has fostered a radical skepticism so pervasive that the tendency to envision or construct conspiracies often provides the best explanation for the chaos that surrounds us. Conspiracy as embodied in narrative form provides a fertile field for exploration of the anxiety lying at the heart of the postmodern experience. Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Paradise, Joan Didion’s Democracy, Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods, and Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy are some of the texts Coale examines for their representations of isolated individuals at the center of massive, anonymous master plots that lay beyond their control. These narratives remind us that our historical sense of national identity has often been based on the demonizing of others and that American fiction arose and still flourishes with apocalyptic visions. Samuel Chase Coale is professor of American literature and culture at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and author of Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance and The Mystery of Mysteries: Cultural Differences and Designs.

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Wolfhounds and Polar Bears The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920 Col. John M. House, US Army (Ret.) Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force’s deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad In the final months of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and many US allies decided to intervene in Siberia in order to protect Allied wartime and business interests, among them the Trans-Siberian Railroad, from the turmoil surrounding the Russian Revolution. American troops would remain until April 1920 with some of our allies keeping troops in Siberia even longer. Wolfhounds and Polar Bears relies on the detailed reports of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) as well as on personal stories to bring this rarely discussed expedition to life. Initial chapters recount the period in World War I when conditions in Russia pointed to the need for intervention as well as the varied reasons for that decision. A description of the military forces and the geographic difficulties faced by those forces operating in Siberia provide the baseline necessary to understand the AEF’s actions in Siberia. A short discussion of the Russian Railway Service Corps explains their essential and sometimes overlooked role in this story, and subsequent chapters provide a description of actual operations by the AEF.

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John M. House served in command and staff positions in the United States, Germany, South Korea, and Southwest Asia (Desert Shield and Desert Storm). House retired from the Army as a colonel in 2001 after twenty-six years in uniform. After retirement from the Army, he worked as a consultant and Army civilian employee and is now the president of John House, LLC. House is also a part time faculty member at Walden University, Columbus State University, and Northcentral University, and the author of Why War? Why an Army?

A War of Words The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis R. Jarrod Atchison A rhetorial analysis of Jefferson Davis’s public discourse Numerous biographies of Jefferson Davis have been penned; however, until now, there has been no substantive analysis of his public discourse as president of the Confederacy. R. Jarrod Atchison’s A War of Words uses concepts from rhetorical theory and public address to help answer a question that has intrigued scholars from a variety of disciplines since the collapse of the Confederacy: What role, if any, did Davis play in the collapse of Confederate nationalism? Atchison posits that Davis’s initial successes constrained his rhetorical options later in the war and concludes that, in the end, Davis’s rhetorical leadership was a failure because he was unable to articulate a coherent Confederate identity in light of the sacrifices endured by the populace in order to sustain the war effort. R. Jarrod Atchison is associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University.

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Planning the Urban Region A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations Peter Self Provides a comparative framework for analyzing issues of urban planning and government In tandem with an analysis of the basic purpose and rationale of urban planning, Peter Self discusses the achievements and failures of different types of planning authorities. Planning the Urban Region surveys in turn the planning of city governments, metro governments, and regional bodies as they attempt to guide the growth and character of large urban areas—within whose sprawl live roughly one-half of the populations of Western countries—with examples drawn from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, and France. Self argues that the urban region is at a political and organizational crossroads, as it must grapple with the problems of urban sprawl: the social effects of land use and housing, conflicts between local communities and the metro organizations, environmental issues, and the capacity of governmental systems to handle complex issues. Planning the Urban Region is a valuable contribution to the literature on the future of cities and urban regions and should materially inform the debate on the place of public planning in shaping that future. Peter Self (1919–1999) was a journalist, town planner, and political scientist. He is also the author of several books, including Political Theories of Modern Government: Its Role and Reform, Government by the Market?: The Politics of Public Choice, and Rolling Back the Market: Economic Dogma and Political Choice.

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Back To Birmingham Richard Arrington, Jr., and His Times Jimmie Lewis Franklin The dramatic and inspiring story of a man who demonstrated faith in his city, his region, and its people During the 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama, became a major battleground in the struggle for human rights in the American South. As one of the most segregated cities in the United States, the city of Birmingham became known for its violence against blacks and the callous suppression of black civil rights. In October of 1979, the city that had once used dogs and fire hoses to crush protest demonstrations elected a black mayor, Richard Arrington, Jr. A man of quiet demeanor, Arrington was born in the small rural town of Livingston, Alabama, and moved to Birmingham as a child. Arrington was destined to bring about some fundamental changes in a city that once defied racial progress. Jimmie Lee Franklin’s account is guided by the belief that Americans everywhere can benefit from understanding the dynamics of social and political change, and they can be buoyed by the individual triumph of a driven leader who beat the odds. Ultimately, Back to Birmingham is a testament to how far black southerners have traveled over the decades. Jimmie Lewis Franklin is professor emeritus of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Journey Toward Hope: A History of Blacks in Oklahoma, The Blacks in Oklahoma, and Born Sober: Prohibition in Oklahoma, 1907–1959.

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Time in the Barrel

256 PAGES 18 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS

James P. Coan

ISBN 978-0-8173-1999-1 $34.95t CLOTH

A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War

ISBN 978-0-8173-9205-5 $34.95 EBOOK

A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien

“A vivid, compulsively page-turning and often gut-wrenching narrative.” —Arizona Daily Star

Triumph of the Dead

American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France

232 PAGES 10 COLOR FIGURES / 50 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS

Kate Clarke Lemay

ISBN 978-0-8173-1981-6 $54.95s CLOTH

An investigation into the relationship between history, art, architecture, memory, and diplomacy

ISBN 978-0-8173-9181-2 $54.95 EBOOK

“Provides much needed information on post–WWII American military cemeteries in Europe, as well as the US agenda in postwar Europe in general.” —Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

Engines of Rebellion

Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War Saxon T. Bisbee

A challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective

280 PAGES 45 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-1986-1 $59.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9188-1 $59.95 EBOOK

“This fascinating study of Confederate ironclads and the machinery that drove them is a significant contribution to Civil War naval history and technology.” —Civil War Books and Authors

Field Rhetoric

320 PAGES 12 B&W FIGURES / 2 MAPS / 2 TABLES

Edited by Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

ISBN 978-0-8173-1995-3 $54.95s CLOTH

Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric and fieldwork “Rai and Gottschalk Druschke have brought together an outstanding group of scholars to address an important and increasing area of concern for rhetorical scholars: How may we incorporate field methods into our research to study a wider range of rhetorical practices?”

ISBN 978-0-8173-9199-7 $54.95 EBOOK

—Robert Asen, author of Democracy, Deliberation, and Education

Desiring the Bomb

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

A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age

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“A brilliant, insightful, and sometimes humorous examination of nuclear apocalyptic discourse keyed to the organizing figure of the Bomb.” —Joshua Gunn, author of Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media —and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent Feminist Rhetoric and the Law Katie L. Gibson

A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence

184 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1978-6 $44.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9175-1 $44.95 EBOOK

“Gibson provides a powerful contribution to the ongoing conversations about the relationships between law, rhetoric, and the broader political culture.” —Trevor Parry-Giles, author of The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, —and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process

Nature’s Prophet

Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology Michael A. Flannery

An astute study of Alfred Russel Wallace’s path to natural theology

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“Provides a cogent account of a crucial—and often underappreciated or dismissed—element of Wallace’s profound evolutionary worldview.” —Martin Fichman, author of An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of —Alfred Russel Wallace and Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture

The Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry Emily Ruth Rutter

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists

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“An interesting and valuable work which will be of particular interest to those teaching American poetry with an emphasis on its connections with African American vernacular musical traditions.” —Erich Nunn, author of Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the —Southern Imagination

Gears and God

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Nathaniel Williams

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Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith “A clearly written, persuasive book which brings fresh insights to bear on the rich literature of dime novels, science fiction, and technocratic exploration narratives at the turn of the twentieth century.”

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—Gregory M. Pfitzer, author of History Repeating Itself: The Republication —of Children’s Historical Literature and the Christian Right

Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink

248 PAGES 33 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS / 6 TABLES

Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf

ISBN 978-0-8173-1992-2 $64.95s CLOTH

Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast

Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States “An excellent resource on the foodways of the Southeast and provides fascinating new data, as well as revisiting previously studied sites and analyses of foodways.”

ISBN 978-0-8173-9195-9 $64.95 EBOOK

—Renee B. Walker, coeditor of Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene —in North America

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alabama history

Alabama

816 PAGES 65 B&W FIGURES / 11 MAPS

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

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

A revised and fully updated edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial

ISBN 978-0-8173-5917-1 $39.95s PAPER

“Fresh, compelling, insightful—the authoritative Alabama history for today’s readers and those of the 21st century.”

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

The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition

—Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Alabama Founders

216 PAGES 32 B&W FIGURES

Herbert James Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State

—Mike Bunn, author of Civil War Eufaula

The Road South

192 PAGES 10 B&W FIGURES

B. J. Hollars

ISBN 978-0-8173-1980-9 $24.95t CLOTH

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

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

Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders

“The Road South is a fine and important contribution to our understanding of the Freedom Riders, what motivated them, how their participation in the movement shaped them, and how they shaped America.” —Derek Charles Catsam, author of Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of —Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides

These Rugged Days

296 PAGES 8 COLOR FIGURES / 37 B&W FIGURES / 3 MAPS

John S. Sledge

ISBN 978-0-8173-1960-1 $34.95t CLOTH

Alabama in the Civil War

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

ISBN 978-0-8173-9142-3 $34.95 EBOOK

—The Tuscaloosa News

Deep in the Piney Woods

264 PAGES 3 B&W FIGURES / 5 MAPS / 20 TABLES

Tommy Craig Brown

ISBN 978-0-8173-1997-7 $39.95s CLOTH

Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800–1865 A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama’s most overlooked and least studied regions “Brown uses a wealth of primary documentation to make the point that this region demonstrated its loyalty to the cause by, among other things, raising and equipping numerous companies, thereby showing as much enthusiasm as other parts of the state.”

ISBN 978-0-8173-9201-7 $39.95 EBOOK

—Lonnie A. Burnett, author of The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth —of the “Mobile Register”

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author and title index

Adams, Frank “Doc”........................... 35

O’Loughlin, Jim .................................. 19

Cuban City, Segregated, A...................... 28

Atchison, R. Jarrod............................. 38

Parkison, Aimee................................... 7

Doc...................................................... 35

Bauman, Mark K................................ 33

Ranzan, David A................................. 27

Early Alabama.............................................5

Bergman, Jill ...................................... 36

Regnier, Amanda L............................. 31

Berman, Ronald................................. 17

Reilly, Matthew C. .............................. 30

Famous Children and Famished Adults.........................................8

Bermejo-Luque, Lilian........................ 21

Rindfleisch, Bryan C. ......................... 25

Blejwas, Emily...................................... 3

Rippeon, Andrew................................ 18

Bradley, James T. .............................. 10

Sarat, Austin ...................................... 23

Braund, Kathryn H............................... 4

Sauer, M. Patrick ............................... 27

Bunn, Mike........................................... 5

Savage, Sheila Bobalik...................... 31

John Abbot and William Swainson.....................................14

Calhoun, John V. ................................ 14

Schaffner, Spencer.............................. 9

Kurt Vonnegut Remembered ��19

Christopher, Raven M. ......................... 4

Self, Peter........................................... 39

Letters to Jargon...................................... 18

Franklin, Jimmie Lewis ...................... 39

Sheehan, Aurelie ................................. 6

Mark of Criminality, The....................... 37

Frazer, Nimrod T................................. 34

Silbey, Jessica.................................... 23

Freeman, James B. ........................... 21

Smith, Edward H. ............................... 15

New Vision of Southern Jewish History, A................... 33

Geier, Clarence R............................... 32

Smith, Janet R. .................................. 15

Green, Richard T. ............................... 22

Smith, Steven D. ................................ 32

Old Federal Road in Alabama, The .................................... 4

Guess, Carol......................................... 7

Sorensen, W. Conner......................... 15

Once into the Night................................ 6

Hammerstedt, Scott W....................... 31

Stout, Janis P. .................................... 16

Hampton, Evelyn.................................. 8

Umphrey, Martha Merrill.................... 23

Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars...................................... 32

Hansen, Hans V. ................................ 21

Waselkov, Gregory A. ........................... 4

Hirsu, Lavinia..................................... 20

Wigginton, Sheridan........................... 29

Presumptions and Burdens of Proof.................................. 21

House, John M. ................................. 38

Wynn, James...................................... 11

Re-Creating Nature.............................. 10

Kauffeld, Fred J. ................................ 21

George Galphin’s Intimate Empire....................................... 25 Girl Zoo........................................................7

Octopus Crowd..................................... 26

Planning the Urban Region �� 39

Rhetorical Machines............................ 20

Hubbs, G. Ward.................................... 1 Jones, John......................................... 20

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene.........................17

Alabama Creates........................................2

Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma, The ....................... 31 Standing Watch................................... 13

Knight, Elliot A. .................................... 2

Alexander Hamilton’s Public Administration.............................. 22

Leung, Jonathan Li-Chung �� 13

Archaeology below the Cliff.................... 30

Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods, The.............................. 3

Lucero, Bonnie A................................ 28

Back to Birmingham................................ 39

To My Dearest Wife, Lide...................... 27

Mathews, Burgin................................ 35

Best World War I Story I Know, The.......................................... 34

Trial Films on Trial................................ 23

McCann, Bryan J................................ 37 Middleton IV, Richard T...................... 30 Mullins, Steve .................................... 26

Cather Among the Moderns �� 16 Charles Valentine Riley........................... 15

Neri, Janice ....................................... 14

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America �� 36

Nummedal, Tara ................................ 14

Citizen Science in the Digital Age �� 11

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Tuscaloosa ............................................ 1 Unmastering the Script........................ 29 War of Words....................................... 38 Wolfhounds and Polar Bears �� 38 Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life �� 9

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