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ON THE COVER Romaine Brooks, La France Croisée, 1914, oil on canvas, 116.2 × 85.0 cm; Smithsonian American Art Museum. From the book Portraits of Remembrance, p. 21
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Table of Contents ALABAMA .................................................................................................................... 10 ANTHROPOLOGY .......................................................................................................23-24 ARCHAEOLOGY ............................................................................................................. 26 ART HISTORY ............................................................................................................... 21 BIOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................................6 CIVIL WAR .................................................................................................................. 10 CREATIVE NONFICTION .................................................................................................... 2 ETHNOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................. 23 FICTION ..................................................................................................................... 4-5 FOOD ......................................................................................................................... 15 HISTORY .............................................................................................. 1, 11, 18-20, 22, 25 INFORMATION SCIENCE ..................................................................................................17 JEWISH STUDIES ...................................................................................................... 8, 20 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ....................................................................................22, 24-27 LITERARY CRITICISM ............................................................................................. 1, 12-14 LGBTQ STUDIES ........................................................................................................... 16 MEMOIR..................................................................................................................1-2, 8 MILITARY HISTORY ....................................................................................................9, 21 NATURAL HISTORY ..........................................................................................................6 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ............................................................................................... 11 POETRY ...................................................................................................................... 12 POLITICAL SCIENCE ...................................................................................................... 27 RELIGION & SCIENCE ..................................................................................................... 11 RELIGION ................................................................................................................ 18-19 RHETORIC ............................................................................................................... 15-17 TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................17 WOMEN’S STUDIES ....................................................................................................... 19 WORLD WAR I .............................................................................................................. 21 NEW IN PAPER .........................................................................................................28-32 RECENTLY PUBLISHED ...............................................................................................33-38 INDEX ......................................................................................................................... 37 ORDER FORM ............................................................................................................... 38 SALES INFORMATION .................................................................................................... 39
MEMOIR / LITERARY CRITICISM / HISTORY
Mark Twain, the World, and Me Following the Equator, Then and Now Susan K. Harris
WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE A scholar accompanies Twain on his journey around the world In Mark Twain, the World, and Me: “Following the Equator,” Then and Now, Susan K. Harris follows Twain’s last lecture tour as he wound his way through the British Empire in 1895–1896. Deftly blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage, and travel memoir, Harris gives readers a unique take on one of America’s most widely studied writers. Structured as a series of interlocking essays written in the first person, this engaging volume draws on Twain’s insights into the histories and cultures of Australia, India, and South Africa and weaves them into timely reflections on the legacies of those countries today. Harris offers meditations on what Twain’s travels mean for her as a scholar, a white woman, a Jewish American, a wife, and a mother. By treating topics as varied as colonial rule, the clash between indigenous and settler communities, racial and sexual “inbetweenness,” and species decimation, Harris reveals how the world we know grew out of the colonial world Twain encountered. Her essays explore issues of identity that still trouble us today: respecting race and gender, preserving nature, honoring indigenous peoples, and respecting religious differences. Susan K. Harris is distinguished professor emerita at the University of Kansas. She is author of God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902; The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew; The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain; 19th-Century American Women’s Novels: Interpretive Strategies; and Mark Twain’s Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images.
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“Writing with great a understanding and appreciation of Twain, Harris shows how the issues that engaged him in his travels still invite discussion today. This insightful book opens a window on a person, and a past, that continues to resonate.” — Publishers Weekly “In Mark Twain, the World, and Me, Susan Harris shows great skill in describing both the pull and the personal stakes that brought her into such a sustained, fruitful engagement with Mark Twain—a cultural icon who seems to radiate ‘unlikeness’ with regard to her own roots and upbringing. There’s no self-indulgence here; instead, we see the high-risk adventure that informs the best literary scholarship.” — Bruce Michelson, author of Printer’s Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution
ALSO OF INTEREST Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader Mark Twain Edited by Alan Gribben and Jeffrey Alan Melton
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Goodbye, My Tribe An Evangelical Exodus Vic Sizemore
Memoir of a writer’s growing disenchantment with his evangelical upbringing Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus is Vic Sizemore’s chronicle of personal essays chronicling two simultaneous transformations. One is the gathering of unconnected—and nonpolitical—evangelical congregations across the nation into the political juggernaut called the Religious Right; the other is the author’s own coming to terms with the emotional and spiritual trauma of his life deep inside fundamentalist Christianity, and his struggle to free himself from its grasp. Sizemore, whose father was a preacher and professor at a small West Virginia Bible college, attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, arguably the crucible of American evangelical Christianity.
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“Vic Sizemore gives voice to an entire generation of American evangelicals like me who have lost their faith—in other words, we’ve exchanged myth for fact and hate for love. This beautifully written book explains an entire growing movement made up of survivors who escaped an evangelical upbringing. Goodbye, My Tribe is a literary nonfiction masterpiece and a roadmap for refugees from fundamentalist religion of all kinds to an inner space where peace can be found.” — Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
ALSO OF INTEREST Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives Wayne Flynt
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Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home Hilde Løvdal Stephens
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Sizemore began writing these essays with the aim of exploring and understanding what happened when the mythology of his “tribe” crumbled from beneath his feet. He draws heavily on his upbringing and his family history as a framework for how his “tribe” of white evangelicals have found ways to reconcile Christianity with what the author finds to be troubling stances on many social issues, among them race, gender, sexuality, materialism, anti-intellectualism, and white supremacy. In a clear-eyed and eloquent voice, Sizemore grapples movingly with his own bewilderment and chagrin as he struggles to reconcile the essential philosophical and moral decay that he believes many evangelicals have come to embrace. His insights, arranged topically and thematically and told through graceful and accessible prose, toggle between memoir and literary journalism, along a spectrum that touches on history, philosophy, theology, and personal reflections. Vic Sizemore is author of the short story collection I Love You I’m Leaving, and his work has appeared in Story Quarterly, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, storySouth and many other literary journals. He lives and writes in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Excerpted from the introduction to Goodbye, My Tribe When I left the world of fundamentalism, I felt no anger, only the vertigo of having lost my mythology, my paradigm, my Christian weltanschauung. I started writing with the aim of finding understanding. Then, over the past few years, I watched in horror as the men steering my conservative white evangelical tribe sent it lurching from chuckling, good-old-boy white patriarchy toward violent white nationalism. Here in my hometown, Jerry Falwell Jr. bragged in 2015 from his chapel pulpit that he would whip out his pistol—he patted himself where he apparently had a concealed weapon—like John Wayne and “end those Muslims.” I found myself wanting to call out to the true believers I knew who were still at the school, “Stop him. Don’t let him do this.” I waited for them to rise up and denounce his violent rhetoric, his anti-Christ white nationalism. Silence. As I saw it at the time, conservative white evangelicalism was veering off its true course. Even though I was no longer in the fold, I still believed it was primarily about accepting Jesus as Savior, and then following him as Lord—working out one’s salvation by modeling your life according to his teachings and example. That was how I remembered it anyway. I had spent my impressionable youth in church pews imbibing the teaching of great heroes of our tribe: Billy Sunday, Harry Ironside, Jack Hyles, Bill Gothard, John R. Rice, Lester Roloff, Vance Havner, Lee Roberson, Bob Jones, Jack Wyrtzen, and Lester Pipkin. Dwight Moody. Charles Spurgeon. Jerry Falwell Sr.’s Liberty University was the reason I first came to Lynchburg, Virginia, the town where I currently live, the town where my children have grown into young adulthood. Trying to figure out my own history, I had to contend with Liberty University, a bastion of conservative white evangelicalism. I did a lot of reading about the history of Christianity in general and my own conservative tradition specifically. I read Falwell’s autobiography Strength for the Journey, and solid chunks of his jeremiad Listen America! In the very beginning of his autobiography, Falwell blames his family’s woes on “the Enemy.” He is referring to Satan, who was apparently the reason his father was an asshole. In Falwell’s public life however, it becomes clear that he is not so concerned with the Enemy Satan, whom he could not see to get a bead on, but entire groups of actual human beings. He aimed his hatred and blame at enemies he could see all around him. People fighting for
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racial desegregation and civil rights for people of color were his first enemies—the facts of his activism against civil rights are not in the autobiography but are well documented elsewhere. LGBTQ people longing to be free of oppression were the Enemy as well. Women marching for equal rights: Enemy. Big government liberals trying to force integration, violate states’ rights: Enemy. Muslims: Enemy. Communists: Enemy. Anyone else who opposed conservative white evangelicalism. Darwin, Freud, Marx— that unholy trinity that had laid my tribe’s mythology to waste. Enemy. Enemy. Enemy. I began writing these essays before the Trump phenomenon, to explore what happens when your tribe’s mythology crumbles from beneath their feet. As I wrote, it became clear, at least for me, the Christianity I learned was warp and woof with southern bigotry. Looking at the religious leaders of my youth, I found angry blue eyes tight with aggrieved privilege, staring out of the eyeholes in their Jesus masks. Looking at rank-and-file members of my tribe, I discovered a people just as unmoored as I had been when I left the fold, in a wild ocean, the heaving storms of a cultural paradigm shift so complete it was washing away everything they held to be gospel truth. They were in a state of panic, grasping for whatever could steady their boats and beat them against the current back into their nostalgic, happy past.
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The Book of Kane and Margaret A Novel Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi Illustrations by Gautam Rangan
WINNER OF FC2’S RONALD SUKENICK INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona Kane Araki and Margaret Morri are not only the names of teenage lovers living in a World War II Japanese relocation camp. Kane Araki is also the name of a man who, mysteriously, sprouts a pair of black raven’s wings overnight. Margaret Morri is the name of the aging healer who treats embarrassing conditions (smelly feet and excessive flatulence). It’s also the name of an eleven-year-old girl who communes with the devil, trading human teeth for divine wishes.
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“This beautifully rendered reflection on a dark moment of American history will appeal to fans of literary speculative fiction.” — Publishers Weekly “Araki-Kawaguchi’s The Book of Kane and Margaret is an important book and a brilliant one. Surreal, moving, and beautifully written. One of my favorite reads of this or any year.” — Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reach Trilogy
ALSO OF INTEREST A Brief Alphabet of Torture: Stories Vi Khi Nao
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TOKYO Michael Mejia
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In The Book of Kane and Margaret, dozens of Kane Arakis and Margaret Morris populate the Canal and Butte camp divisions in Gila River. Amidst their daily rituals and family dramas, they find ways to stage quiet revolutions against a domestic colonial experience. Some internees slip through barbed wire fences to meet for love affairs. Others attempt to smuggle whiskey, pornography, birds, dogs, horses, and unearthly insects into their family barracks. And another seeks a way to submerge the internment camp in Pacific seawater. Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi writes dreampop speculative fictions that can be enjoyed on a bus ride or in line for coffee. All his best stories have something to do with talking insects. He is author of Disintegration Made Plain and Easy.
FICTION
The Town of Whispering Dolls Stories Susan Neville Foreword by Shelley Jackson
WINNER OF FC2’S CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war Located somewhere in the rust belt in the early twenty-first century, residents of the town of Whispering Dolls dream of a fabled and illusory past, even as new technologies reshape their world into something different and deeply strange. Dolls walk down the streets, cradling their empty heads and letting the wind turn them into flutes. A politician heads to Washington, DC, and leaves a toxic underground plume in his wake. A woman eats car parts instead of confronting the children who have forgotten her. A young woman falls in love with the robot who took her job at the candy factory. In The Town of Whispering Dolls, it is usually the grandmothers and the children who grieve. Feeling invisible, in the story “Here,” a woman who has buried her children looks up at the sky where commercial and military jets fly overhead and tries to express her rage to the rich and powerful: “Keep flying above us in your planes. From one coast to the other, keep right on flying over us! We test your bombs and your beloved warriors. Here. Right here. Look down.” Susan Neville is professor of creative writing and Demia Butler Chair in English at Butler University. She is author of Invention of Flight: Stories, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction.
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“What beauties these stories are. Susan Neville has an imagination not only rich and strange but also very much a moral imagination. How gentle and shocking is her view of what humans have done, and what a find this book is.” — Joan Silber, author of Improvement
ALSO OF INTEREST Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman: Stories Aimee Parkison
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Once into the Night Aurelie Sheehan
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NATURAL HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY
André Michaux in North America Journals and Letters, 1785–1797 Translated from the French, Edited, and Annotated by Charlie Williams, Eliane M. Norman, and Walter Kingsley Taylor Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists Known to today’s biologists primarily as the “Michx.” at the end of more than 700 plant names, André Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chênes de l’Amérique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America.
MARCH 7 x 10 / 608 PAGES / 124 COLOR FIGURES / 18 B&W FIGURES / 16 MAPS / 2 TABLES ISBN 978-0-8173-2030-0 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9244-4 / $54.95 EBOOK “Michaux is fascinating [but] largely unknown. . . . All of the available works on Michaux are valuable for scholars seeking to understand him as well as the early environment of the South. [Yet] all have limitations. . . . The present effort—translations with annotations—will remedy the lack of a solid edition of Michaux’s work. The editors have done an excellent job in gathering material and presenting their work.” — Kathryn E. Holland Braund, author of Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812 “André Michaux in North America brings together a wealth of material from the many worlds of early American natural history. This book is a massive undertaking, invaluable and sure to serve as a lasting resource on the transatlantic culture of scientific discovery.” — Thomas Hallock, coeditor of Travels on the St. Johns River: John Bartram and William Bartram
ALSO OF INTEREST Maria Martin’s World: Art and Science, Faith and Family in Audubon’s America Debra J. Lindsay
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Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785–1797 is the first complete English edition of Michaux’s American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships—debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck—that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar. Charlie Williams is retired librarian at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in North Carolina. He is chairman of the André Michaux International Society (AMIS). Eliane M. Norman is professor emerita of biology at Stetson University. She is coauthor of André Michaux in Florida: An Eighteenth Century Botanical Journey. Walter Kingsley Taylor is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Central Florida. He is coauthor of André Michaux in Florida: An Eighteenth Century Botanical Journey and author of several field guides to Florida biota, including Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities, A Guide to Florida Grasses, and Florida Wildflowers: A Comprehensive Guide.
Fig. 1: Yellow-wood, by Henri J. Redouté, from the North American Sylva, 1819, by François André Michaux (Photo by Charlie Williams)
Fig. 3: Bur oak, by Pierre J. Redouté, from the North American Sylva, 1819, by François André Michaux (Photo by Charlie Williams) Fig. 2: Southern red oak, by Pancrae Bessa, from the North American Sylva, 1819, by François André Michaux (Photo by Charlie Williams)
Fig. 4: André Michaux imagined at the Tipton Farm. Artist Jenny Noseworthy drew this image of Michaux exploring on Colonel Tipton’s farm in present-day Johnson City, Tennessee. Notice both her depiction of a medium-sized man with powerful calf muscles and her over-the-shoulder view that leaves his facial features to the imagination. (Courtesy of the TiptonHaynes Tennessee State Historic Site)
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A Final Reckoning A Hannover Family’s Life and Death in the Shoah Ruth Gutmann
NEW IN PAPER A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, A Final Reckoning resonates with emotional intensity and insight. Ruth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939.
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“Written in measured and dispassionate prose, Ruth Gutmann’s story of her German childhood and years in assorted Nazi concentration camps brings a compelling voice to the genre of Holocaust memoir. By quietly revealing how the Nazis slowly tore apart the fabric of her comfortable middleclass existence in the city of Hannover and by unashamedly confronting her father’s efforts as a Jewish official to save his family and his community, she demonstrates the complete inadequacy of words like ‘passivity’ or ‘collaborator’ to illuminate the complex human response to evil.” — Muriel R. Gillick, author of Once They Had a Country: Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War
ALSO OF INTEREST Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny Cora Wilburn, edited and introduced by Jonathan D. Sarna
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For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey Back to Faith Baruch G. Goldstein
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Gutmann’s compelling story captures many facets of the Jewish experience in Nazi Germany. She describes her early life in Hannover as the daughter of a prominent and patriotic member of the Jewish community. Her flight on the Kindertransport offers a vivid, firsthand account of that effort to save the children of Jewish families. Her memories of the camps include coming to the attention of Josef Mengele, who often used twins in human experiments. Gutmann writes with moving clarity and nuance about the complex feelings of survivorship. A Final Reckoning provides not only insights into Gutmann’s own experience as a child in the midst of the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also a window into the lives of those, like her father, who were forced to carry on and comply with the regime that would ultimately bring about their demise. Ruth Herskovits Gutmann was born in 1928 in Germany. From 1943, she and her twin sister were interned in Thereisenstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other concentration camps. She was liberated on a transport near Hamburg on May 1, 1945. After her retirement from Columbia University in 1988, she studied the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
MILITARY HISTORY / WORLD WAR II
Mighty by Sacrifice The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944 James L. Noles and James L. Noles Jr. NEW IN PAPER Highlights the high cost of the Allied air offensive during World War II On August 29, 1944, the 15th US Army Air Force unleashed 500 bombers against oil and rail targets throughout central Europe. The 20th Squadron of the 2nd Bombardment Group was dispatched on what was regarded as an easy assignment: attack the Privoser Oil Refinery and associated railroad yards at Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. This “milk run” deteriorated into the bloodiest day in the 2nd Bombardment Group’s history; none of the 20th Squadron’s B-17 Flying Fortress bombers returned from the mission. Forty airmen were killed, another forty-six spent the rest of the war as POWs, and only four, with the aid of the OSS, anti-German partisans, and sympathetic Czech civilians, managed to evade capture. The Noleses’ extensively researched chronicle of the 90 airmen who left on the mission to Moravska Ostrava provides a remarkable personal window into the Allies’ Combined Bomber Offensive at its height during World War II. In a microcosm, their stories encapsulate how the US Army Air Force built, trained, and employed one of the mightiest war machines ever seen. Their stories also illustrate, however, the terrible cost in lives demanded by that same machine. James L. Noles is a retired Army officer whose career culminated at the rank of brigadier general. He now resides in Florence, Alabama. James L. Noles Jr. is an independent historian and founding partner of the Birmingham, Alabama, law firm of Barze Taylor Noles Lowther LLC. He is author of several books including Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay and Undefeated: From Basketball to Battle: West Point’s Perfect 1944 Season.
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“Mighty by Sacrifice is an immensely readable book. The authors do a masterful job in blending oral history sources and archival material to produce a first-rate work.” — Air Power History “[Mighty by Sacrifice] is an excellent selection of first-hand accounts by Army Air Force personnel of their service in World War II.” — Journal of America’s Military Past
ALSO OF INTEREST Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner
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Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay James L. Noles Jr.
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CIVIL WAR / ALABAMA
A War State All Over Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause Ben H. Severance
An in-depth political study of Alabama’s government during the Civil War Alabama’s military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Confederate cause. In his study of Alabama during the Civil War, Ben H. Severance argues that Alabama’s electoral and political attitudes were, in their own way, just as unified in their support for the cause of southern independence. To be sure, the civilian populace often expressed unease about the conflict, as did a good many of its legislators, but the majority of government officials and military personnel displayed pronounced Confederate loyalty and a consistent willingness to accept a total war approach in pursuit of their new nation’s aims; as Severance puts it, Alabama was a “war state all over.”
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“This original contribution to the historiography of Alabama’s 1863 elections fills an important need by effectively demonstrating that Alabama’s elections for state and national representation, as well as how soldiers would have likely voted, were a repudiation of previous politicians, but not necessarily a repudiation of the war effort.” — Joseph W. Danielson, author of War’s Desolating Scourge: The Union’s Occupation of North Alabama
ALSO OF INTEREST 1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr.
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The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama Edited by Kenneth W. Noe
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In A War State All Over: Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause, Severance examines the state’s political leadership at multiple levels of governance—congressional, gubernatorial, and legislative—and orients much of its analysis around the state elections of 1863. Coming at the war’s midpoint, these elections provide an invaluable gauge of popular support for Alabama’s role in the Civil War, particularly at a time when the military situation for Confederate forces was looking bleak. The results do not necessarily reflect a society that was unreservedly prowar, but they clearly establish a polity that was committed to an unconditional Confederate victory, in spite of the probable costs. Severance’s innovative work focuses on the martial character of Alabama’s polity while simultaneously acknowledging the widespread angst of Alabama’s larger culture and society. In doing so, it puts a human face on the election returns by providing detailed character sketches of the principal candidates that illuminate both their outlook on the war and their role in shaping policy. Ben H. Severance is professor and chair of history at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is author of Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War and Tennessee’s Radical Army: The State Guard and Its Role in Reconstruction, 1867–1869.
HISTORY / PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE / RELIGION & SCIENCE
Fictions of Certitude Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920 John S. Haller Jr. The search for belief and meaning among nineteenth-century intellectuals The nineteenth century’s explosion of scientific theories and new technologies undermined many deep-seated beliefs that had long formed the basis of Western society, making it impossible for many to retain the unconditional faith of their forebears. A myriad of discoveries—including Faraday’s electromagnetic induction, Joule’s law of conservation of energy, Pasteur’s germ theory, Darwin’s and Wallace’s theories of evolution by natural selection, and Planck’s work on quantum theory—shattered conventional understandings of the world that had been dictated by traditional religious teachings and philosophical systems for centuries. Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920 investigates the fin de siècle search for truth and meaning in a world that had been radically transformed. John S. Haller Jr. examines the moral and philosophical journeys of nine European and American intellectuals who sought deeper understanding amid such paradigmatic upheaval. Auguste Comte, John Henry Newman, Herbert Spencer, Alfred Russel Wallace, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Fiske, William James, Lester Frank Ward, and Paul Carus all belonged to an age in which one world was passing, while another world that was both astounding and threatening was rising to take its place. For Haller, what makes the work of these nine thinkers worthy of examination is how they strove in different ways to find certitude and belief in the face of an epochal sea change. Some found ways to reconceptualize a world in which God and nature coexist. For others, the challenge was to discern meaning in a world in which no higher power or purpose can be found. As explained by D. H. Myer, “The later Victorians were perhaps the last generation among English-speaking intellectuals able to believe that man was capable of understanding his universe, just as they were the first generation collectively to suspect that he never would.” John S. Haller Jr. is emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and has written on subjects ranging from the history of race and sexuality to medicine, pharmacy, and spirituality. He is former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences and, until his retirement, served for twenty years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.
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“Haller has produced a delectable smorgasbord of nineteenth-century thought, enough to satisfy the hungry appetite of any scholar interested in the history and philosophy of science, Victorian society and culture, the history of ideas, or social and intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” — Michael A. Flannery, author of Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology
ALSO OF INTEREST Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology Michael A. Flannery
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LITERARY CRITICISM / POETRY
American Poetry as Transactional Art Stephen Fredman
Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry—its forms and traditions. Indeed much of what constitutes poetry in the lyric tradition depends on a stringently controlled point of view and aims for a timeless, intransitive utterance. Stephen Fredman’s study proposes a different perspective.
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“This astonishingly wide-ranging, capacious and brilliantly incisive set of essays on American poetry and poetics in the second half of the twentieth century, ranges from revaluations of the mystical strain in Charles Olson and Robert Duncan to the talk poetry of David Antin, the performance art of Laurie Anderson, and the reconstruction of ‘autobiography’ in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life. The collection reminds us that Stephen Fredman, recognized as one of our best poetry critics, is also a truly revisionist literary historian.” — Marjorie Perloff, author of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, and many other books on Modern and Postmodern poetry
ALSO OF INTEREST Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 Allen Fisher
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Modernism the Morning After Bob Perelman
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American Poetry as Transactional Art explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, and correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms—its existential interactions with the outside world. Poetry operating in this vein draws together images, ideas, practices, rituals, and verbal techniques from around the globe, and across time—not to equate them, but to establish dialogue, to invite as many guests as possible to the World Party, which Robert Duncan has called the “symposium of the whole.” Fredman invites new readers into contemporary poetry by providing lucid and nuanced analyses of specific poems and specific interchanges between poets and their surroundings. He explores such topics as poetry’s transactions with spiritual traditions and practices over the course of the twentieth century; the impact of World War II on the poetry of Charles Olson and George Oppen; exchanges between poetry and other art forms including sculpture, performance art, and ambient music; the battle between poetry and prose in the early work of Paul Auster and in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life. The epilogue looks briefly at another crucial transactional occasion: teaching American poetry in the classroom in a way that demonstrates that it is at the center of the arts and at the heart of American culture. Stephen Fredman is emeritus professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art, A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry, The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition, and Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse.
LITERARY CRITICISM
Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years Ery Shin Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years brings to life Stein’s surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of which originated in a dread of anti-Semitism. Stein’s earlier works such as Tender Buttons and Lucy Church Amiably tend to prioritize formal innovations over narrative-building and overt political motifs. However, Ery Shin argues that Stein’s later works engage more with storytelling and life-writing in startling ways— most emphatically and poignantly through the surrealist lens. Beginning with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and continuing in later works, Stein renders legible her war-torn era’s jarring dystopian energies through narratives filled with hallucinatory visions, teleportation, extreme coincidences, action reversals, doppelgangers, dream sequences spanning both sleeping and waking states, and great whiffs of the occult. Such surrealist gestures are predicated on Stein’s return to the independent clause and, by extension, to plot, characterization, and anecdotes. By summoning the marvelous in a historically situated world, Stein joins her surrealist contemporaries in their own ambivalent crusade on behalf of historiography. Besides illuminating Stein’s art and life, the surrealist framework developed here brings readers deeper into those philosophical ideas invoked by war. Topics of discussion emphasize how varied Jewish experiences were in Hitler’s Europe, how outliers like Stein can be included in the surrealist project, surrealism’s theoretical bind in the face of WWII, and the age-old question of artistic legacy. Ery Shin is assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared in Modern Language Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, and Texas Studies in Literature and Language.
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“Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years is a serious and original contribution to Stein studies. The breadth of historical and literary contexts is impressive as well as Shin’s exquisite close readings of a wide range of Stein’s primary texts.” — Sharon J. Kirsch, author of Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric and coeditor of Primary Stein: Returning to the Writing of Gertrude Stein
ALSO OF INTEREST Cather Among the Moderns Janis P. Stout
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Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric Sharon J. Kirsch
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Kitchen Economics Women’s Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy Thomas Strychacz An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought Readers of late nineteenth-century female American authors are familiar with plots, characters, and households that make a virtue of economizing. Scholars often interpret these scenarios in terms of a mythos of parsimony, frequently accompanied by a sort of elegiac republicanism whereby self-sufficiency and autonomy are put to the service of the greater good—a counterworld to the actual economic conditions of the period.
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“Kitchen Economics is a thoughtful, deeply contextualized, and persuasively detailed re-reading of late-nineteenth-century female regionalist writers from the perspective of their engagement with political economic theory. This book will be a valuable addition to a growing body of work on women writers and economic discourse.” — Mary Templin, author of Panic Fiction: Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis
ALSO OF INTEREST Panic Fiction: Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis Mary Templin
ISBN 978-0-8173-1810-9 / $49.95s CLOTH EBOOK AVAILABLE
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America Edited by Jill Bergman
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In Kitchen Economics: Women’s Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy, Thomas Strychacz takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent “the economic” by situating them within traditions of classical political economic thought. Offering case studies of key works by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, this study focuses on three complex cultural fables—the island commonwealth, stadialism (or stage theory), and feeding the body politic—which found formal expression in political economic thought, made their way into endless public debates about the economic turmoil of the late nineteenth century, and informed female authors. These works represent counterparts, not counterworlds, to modernity; and their characteristic stance is captured in the complex trope of femina economica. This approach ultimately leads us to reconsider what we mean by the term “economic,” for the emphasis of contemporary neoclassical economics on economic agents given over to infinite wants and complete self-interest has caused the “sufficiency” and “common good” models of female regionalist authors to be misinterpreted and misvalued. These fictions are nowhere more pertinent to modernity than in their alliance with today’s important alternative economic discourses. Thomas Strychacz is the May Treat Morrison Professor of English at Mills College. He is author of Modernism, Mass Culture, and Professionalism; Hemingway’s Theaters of Masculinity; and Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence.
RHETORIC / FOOD
Cookery Food Rhetorics and Social Production Edited by Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein Afterword by Greg Dickinson
The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production. The classical canon of rhetorical invention entails the process of discovering one’s persuasive appeals, whereas the contemporary landscape of agricultural production touches virtually everyone on the planet. Together, rhetoric and food shape the boundaries of shared living. The essays in this volume probe the many ways that food informs contemporary social life through its mediation of bodies—human and extra-human alike—in the forms of intoxication, addiction, estrangement, identification, repulsion, and eroticism. Our bodies, in turn, shape the boundaries of food through research, technology, cultural trends, and, of course, by talking about it. Each chapter explores food’s persuasive nature through a unique prism that includes intoxication, dirt, “food porn,” strange foods, and political “invisibility.” Each case offers new insights about the relations between rhetorical influence and embodied practice through food. As a whole Cookery articulates new ways of viewing food’s powers of persuasion, as well as the inherent role of persuasion in agricultural production. The purpose of Cookery, then, is to demonstrate the deep rhetoricity of our modern industrial food system through critical examinations of concepts, practices, and tendencies endemic to this system. Food has become an essential topic for discussions concerned with the larger social dynamics of production, distribution, access, reception, consumption, influence, and the fraught question of choice. These questions about food and rhetoric are equally questions about the assumptions, values, and practices of contemporary public life. Donovan Conley is Berman Chair in Language and Thought and associate professor of communication studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is coeditor of Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. He also has published articles in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Pre/Text, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Culture, Theory and Critique. Justin Eckstein is assistant professor and director of forensics in the communication department at Pacific Lutheran University. He also has published articles in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Argumentation, Argumentation and Advocacy, Western Journal of Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, among other journals.
APRIL 6 x 9 / 176 PAGES / 2 B&W FIGURES / 1 TABLE ISBN 978-0-8173-5983-6 / $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-2049-2 / $64.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9280-2 / $29.95 EBOOK “Cookery contributes to the fields of rhetoric a sophisticated mapping of how our consummatory pleasures are enmeshed in symbolic significance, including those moments where what is legible as food, desire, and satiation exceeds extant frames of meaning and feeling.” — Isaac West, author of Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law CONTRIBUTORS Donovan Conley / Greg Dickinson / Katie Dickman / Justin Eckstein / Casey R. Kelly / Jeff Rice / Nathaniel A. Rivers / Anna Marjorie Young
ALSO OF INTEREST Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks Edited by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister
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Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf
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RHETORIC / LGBTQ STUDIES
Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions Ian Barnard
Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender In Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary “sex panics” are undergirded by queerphobia, even when the panics in question don’t appear to have much to do with queerness. Barnard presents six case studies that treat a wide range of sex panic rhetorics around child molesters, sex trafficking, transgenderism, incest, queer kids, and pedagogy to demonstrate this argument. By using examples from academic scholarship, political discourse, and popular culture, including the Kevin Spacey scandal and the award-winning film Moonlight, Barnard shows how homophobia and transphobia continue to pervade contemporary Western culture.
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“Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions is a provocative and engaging read, making an original and significant contribution to the fields of rhetorical studies, feminist theory, and queer studies.” — Jeffrey A. Bennett, author of Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance “Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions is timely, well conceived and orchestrated, providing fresh perspective on the ‘stubbornness of old anti-queer mindsets and practices’ manifest in the rhetorics of sex panics and their enabling (neo-) liberal discourses and ideologies, and ‘excavation of queerphobia’ at the heart of them.” — Charles E. Morris III, coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
ALSO OF INTEREST Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance Jeffrey A. Bennett
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Barnard is concerned not so much with looking at the overt homophobia and transphobia that are the more obvious objects of antihomophobic and antitransphobic critique. The author’s focus, rather, is on excavating the significant traces of these panics in a neoliberal culture that has supposedly demonstrated its civility by its embrace of diversity, renunciation of its homophobic past, and attentiveness to the transgender revolution that has swept popular, media, and political culture in the United States and elsewhere. During a time of increasing conservative backlashes against advancing LGBTQ rights and human rights discourses in general, this book shows why it is important to attend to the liberal covers for sex panics that are not too far removed from their rhetorically conservative cousins. Ian Barnard (they/them/their) is professor of rhetoric and composition in the English department and director of LGBTQ studies at Chapman University. They are author of Upsetting Composition Commonplaces and Queer Race: Cultural Interventions in the Racial Politics of Queer Theory.
RHETORIC / INFORMATION SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY
Architects of Memory Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age Nathan R. Johnson Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency We are now living in the most robust age for public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. Even so, the methods and technologies created by scientists, espionage agencies, and information management coders and programmers have drastically delimited the ways that communities across the globe remember and forget our wealth of retrievable knowledge. In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esoteric memory technologies—from the card catalog to the book cart to Zatocoding and keyword indexing—as he delineates histories of librarianship and information science and provides a working vocabulary for understanding rhetoric’s role in contemporary memory practices. This volume draws upon the twin concepts of memory infrastructure and mnemonic technê to illuminate the seemingly opaque wall of mundane algorithmic techniques that determine what is worth remembering and what should be forgotten. Each chapter highlights a conflict in the development of twentieth-century librarianship and its rapidly evolving competitor, the discipline of information science. As these two disciplines progressed, they contributed practical techniques and technologies for making sense of explosive scientific advancement in the wake of World War II. Taming postwar science became routine features of practices and information technologies that undergird uncountable modern communication systems, including search engines, algorithms, and databases for nearly every national clearinghouse of the twenty-first century. Nathan R. Johnson is assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida. His work has appeared in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Poroi, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture.
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“Architects of Memory is poised to make an original and important contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the rhetorics of public memory and information science. Johnson is at his best when illuminating the actual techniques of public memory—the hard, everyday material ways in which key arbiters organize public memory.” — Timothy Barney, author of Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power
ALSO OF INTEREST Rhetorical Machines: Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics Edited by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu
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Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks Edited by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister
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Between Dixie and Zion Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel Walker Robins
Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention One week after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) repeatedly and overwhelmingly voted down resolutions congratulating fellow Southern Baptist Harry Truman on his role in Israel’s creation. From today’s perspective, this seems like a shocking result. After all, Christians—particularly the white evangelical Protestants that populate the SBC—are now the largest pro-Israel constituency in the United States. How could conservative evangelicals have been so hesitant in celebrating Israel’s birth in 1948? How did they then come to be so supportive?
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“In Between Dixie and Zion, Robins offers a new, refreshing, understanding of Baptist involvement with Palestine, and provides new information and insights that had been missing from former narratives about Baptists and evangelicals.” — Yaakov Ariel, author of An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews
ALSO OF INTEREST Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home Hilde Løvdal Stephens
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Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century Wayne Flynt
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R ELIGION AN D AMERICAN C ULTURE David Edwin Harrell Jr., Wayne Flynt, and Edith L. Blumhofer, Series Editors
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Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel addresses these issues by exploring how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the “Palestine question”: whether Jews or Arabs would, or should, control the Holy Land after World War I. Walker Robins argues that, in the decades leading up to the creation of Israel, most Southern Baptists did not directly engage the Palestine question politically. Rather, they engaged it indirectly through a variety of encounters with the land, the peoples, and the politics of Palestine. Among the instrumental figures featured by Robins are tourists, foreign missionaries, Arab pastors, converts from Judaism, biblical interpreters, fundamentalist rebels, editorialists, and, of course, even a president. While all revered Palestine as the Holy Land, each approached and encountered the region according to their own priorities. Nevertheless, Robins shows that Baptists consistently looked at the region through an Orientalist framework, broadly associating the Zionist movement with Western civilization, modernity, and progress over and against the Arabs, whom they viewed as uncivilized, premodern, and backward. He argues that such impressions were not idle—they suggested that the Zionists were bringing to fruition Baptists’ long-expressed hopes that Israel would regain the prosperity it had held in the biblical era, the Holy Land would one day be revived, and biblical prophecies preceding the return of Christ would be fulfilled. Walker Robins is lecturer in history at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. His work has been published in the Journal of Church and State, Journal of Southern Religion, Baptist History & Heritage Journal, and Israel Studies.
RELIGION / WOMEN’S STUDIES / HISTORY
Home without Walls Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era Carol Crawford Holcomb A critical examination of the Woman’s Missionary Union and how it shaped the views of Southern Baptist women The Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU), founded in 1888, carved out a uniquely feminine space within the Southern Baptist Convention during the tumultuous years of the Progressive Era when American theologians were formulating the social gospel. These women represented the Southern Baptist elite and as such had the time to read, write, and discuss ideas with other Southern progressives. They rubbed shoulders with more progressive Methodist and Presbyterian women in clubs and ecumenical missionary meetings. Baptist women studied the missionary publications of these other denominations and adopted ideas for a Southern Baptist audience. Home without Walls: Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era shows how the social attitudes of women were shaped at the time. By studying primary documents—including personal letters, official exchanges and memoranda, magazine publications, newsletters, and editorials—Carol Crawford Holcomb uncovers ample evidence that WMU leaders, aware of the social gospel and sympathetic to social reform, appropriated the tools of social work and social service to carry out their missionary work. Southern Baptist women united to build a financial empire that would sustain the Southern Baptists through the Great Depression and beyond. Their social attitudes represented a kaleidoscope of contrasting opinions. By no stretch of the imagination could WMU leaders be characterized as liberal social gospel advocates. However, it would also be wrong to depict them as uniformly hostile to progressivism or ignorant of contemporary theological ideas. In the end, they were practical feminists in their determination to provide a platform for women’s views and a space for women to do meaningful work. Carol Crawford Holcomb is professor of church history and Baptist studies at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and director of the UMHB Center for Baptist Studies.
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“Southern Baptists are not usually associated with the social gospel, but they should be. In Home without Walls, Carol Crawford Holcomb demonstrates that the Woman’s Missionary Union nurtured women and encouraged them to engage in socially oriented ministry that went far beyond church planning. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in southern religion and social engagement.” — Keith Harper, author of The Quality of Mercy: Southern Baptists and Social Christianity, 1890–1920
ALSO OF INTEREST Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home Hilde Løvdal Stephens
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The Woman I Am: Southern Baptist Women’s Writings, 1906–2006 Melody Maxwell
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R EL IG ION A ND A M ER ICA N CU LTU R E David Edwin Harrell Jr., Wayne Flynt, and Edith L. Blumhofer, Series Editors
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JEWISH STUDIES / HISTORY
Zionism and the Melting Pot Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics M. M. Silver
Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today Zionism and the Melting Pot pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theological, political, diplomatic, and philanthropic networks that enabled the establishment of new Jewish communities in Palestine and the United States. M. M. Silver’s innovative new study highlights the grassroots nature of these actors and their efforts—preaching, fundraising, emigration campaigns, and mutual aid organizations—and argues that these activities were not fundamentally ideological in nature but instead grew organically from traditional Judaic customs, values, and community mores.
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“Dr. Silver’s innovative study explores the tripartite matrix of ‘preaching, emissary work, and [Zionist] pioneering.’ He marshals a remarkable breadth and depth of knowledge to inject the field with a fresh and nuanced analysis of the ‘internal dynamics’ and ‘interplay’ of the modern Jewish experience vis-à-vis ‘gentile society.’” — Mark A. Raider, editor of The Essential Hayim Greenberg: Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
ALSO OF INTEREST To Stand Aside or Stand Alone: Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement P. Allen Krause; edited by Mark K. Bauman with Stephen Krause
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A New Vision of Southern Jewish History: Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility Mark K. Bauman
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Silver examines events in three key locales—Ottoman Palestine, czarist Russia and the United States—during a period from the early 1870s to a few years before World War I. This era which was defined by the rise of new forms of anti-Semitism and by mass Jewish migration, ended with institutional and artistic expressions of new perspectives on Zionism and American Jewish communal life. Within this timeframe, Silver demonstrates, Jewish ideologies arose somewhat amorphously, without clear agendas; they then evolved as attempts to influence the character, pace, and geographical coordinates of the modernization of East European Jews, particularly in, or from, Russia’s czarist empire. Unique in his multidisciplinary approach, Silver combines political and diplomatic history, literary analysis, biography, and organizational history. Chapters switch successively from the Zionist context, both in the czarist and Ottoman empires, to the United States’ melting-pot milieu. More than half of the figures discussed are sermonizers, emissaries, pioneers, or writers unknown to most readers. And for luminaries such as Theodor Herzl or Emma Lazarus, Silver’s analysis typically relates to texts and episodes that are not covered in extant scholarship. By uncovering the foundations of Zionism—the Jewish nationalist ideology that became organized formally as a political movement—and of melting-pot theories of Jewish integration in the United States, Zionism and the Melting Pot breaks ample new ground. M. M. Silver is professor of history at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and at the University of Haifa in Israel. He has published books in Hebrew and English that include Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story and Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography.
ART HISTORY / MILITARY HISTORY
Portraits of Remembrance Painting, Memory, and the First World War Edited by Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public’s appetite for the kind of up-close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for drawn or painted battle scenes. Painting also figured significantly in the formation of collective war memory after the armistice. Paintings became sites of memory in two ways: first, many governments and communities invested in freestanding panoramas or cycloramas that depicted the war or featured murals as components of even larger commemorative projects, and second, certain paintings, whether created by official artists or simply by those moved to do so, emerged over time as visual touchstones in the public’s understanding of the war. Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale, including modernist masterpieces and crowd-pleasing expressions of sentimentality or spiritualism. Contributors raise a host of topics in connection with the volume’s overarching focus on memory, including national identity, constructions of gender, historical accuracy, issues of aesthetic taste, and connections between painting and literature, as well as other cultural forms. Margaret Hutchison is adjunct lecturer at Australian Catholic University. She is the author of Painting War: A History of Australia’s First World War Art Scheme. Steven Trout is chair of the Department of English and codirector of the Center for the Study of War and Memory at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He is author of Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War and On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941, and coeditor of World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories.
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“Portraits of Remembrance is a welcome addition to scholarship on commemoration and memory of the First World War.” — Pearl James, author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War I CONTRIBUTORS Martin Bayer / Philip D. Beidler / Laura Brandon / Heidi A. Cook / Peter Harrington / Marguerite Helmers / Margaret Hutchison / Mark Levitch / Caroline Lord /Andrew M. Nedd / Elizabeth Richards Rivenbark / Sandrine Smets / Gizem Tongo / Steven Trout / Jay Winter
ALSO OF INTEREST On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 Steven Trout
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Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials Edited by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott
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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights A Brief History with Documents Edited by Lawrence A. Clayton and David M. Lantigua An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. He is remembered principally as the author of the Black Legend, as well as the protector of American Indians. He was one of the pioneers of the human rights movement, and a Christian activist who invoked law and Biblical scripture to challenge European colonialism in the great age of the Encounter. He was also one of the first and most thorough chroniclers of the conquest, and a biographer who saved the diary of Columbus’s first voyage for posterity by transcribing it in his History of the Indies before the diary was lost.
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“Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights is a welcome text for undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines: history, religion, international relations, anthropology, and others.” — Noble David Cook, author of Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650 “Clayton and Lantigua’s volume does an excellent job of exploring the complex intellectual obsessions of Las Casas and his unwavering quest to seek political and legal justice for the indigenous population of the Americas.” — Franklin W. Knight, author of Bartolomé de las Casas: An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, With Related Texts
ALSO OF INTEREST Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Karen F. Anderson-Córdova
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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents provides the most wide-ranging and concise anthology of Las Casas’s writings, in translation, ever made available. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his largely unavailable writings on political philosophy and law, and addresses the underappreciated aspects of his thought. Fifteen of the twenty-six documents are entirely new translations of Las Casas’s writings, a number of them appearing in English for the first time. This volume focuses on his historical, political, and legal writings that address the deeply conflicted and violent sixteenth-century encounter between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. It also presents Las Casas as a more comprehensive and systematic philosophical and legal thinker than he is typically given credit for. The introduction by Lawrence A. Clayton and David M. Lantigua places these writings into a synthetic whole, tracing his advocacy for indigenous peoples throughout his career. By considering Las Casas’s ideas, actions, and even regrets in tandem, readers will understand the historical dynamics of Spanish imperialism more acutely within the social-political context of the times. Lawrence A. Clayton is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama. He is author of Bartolomé de las Casas: A Biography and coauthor of A New History of Modern Latin America. David M. Lantigua is assistant professor of moral theology and Christian ethics in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is coeditor of Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics.
ANTHROPOLOGY / ETHNOGRAPHY
Civil Becomings Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean Raúl Acosta
An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organizations Activism and advocacy have drawn academic interest as alternative ways of achieving collective ends outside established political institutions. However, there has been very little theoretical attention aimed at the interconnections between the two spheres. In Civil Becomings: Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean, Raúl Acosta examines the manner in which progressive nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and activists act in a more intermingled and processual way than scholars have previously acknowledged. Acosta focuses on networks from the vantage point of two NGOs: one in Brazil that concentrated on environmental issues in the Amazon and another in Barcelona called the Mediterranean Social Forum. The focus of this research is not on organizational aspects of collaboration, but rather on the practices and contexts in which such cooperation occurs. Three major aspects of activist and advocacy networks are analyzed: their communicative characters, their collective performances of the political, and the negotiations they engage in between vernacular and cosmopolitan values. This volume theorizes the cooperative actions of activist and advocacy networks as legitimating processes for the work of participating groups. In doing so, Acosta argues, they address the issues that justify a joint campaign or effort and also crucially underpin each participating collective as a worthy organization of civil society. Raúl Acosta is project manager at the Research Group on Urban Ethics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He is author of NGO and Social Movement Networking in the World Social Forum: An Anthropological Approach and coeditor of Making Sense of the Global: Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes.
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“Civil Becomings is an original, ethnographically grounded and analytically strong contribution to the literature on transnational activism and social and environmental justice.” — Anke Schwittay, author of New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance “ Civil Becomings makes an original and significant contribution to the field of anthropological studies of transnational activism, development, environmentalism, and globalization. The research [ . . . ] has a solid methodology and the analysis is sophisticated and engages major contemporary theoretical debates.” — Benjamin Junge, author of Cynical Citizenship: Gender, Regionalism, and Political Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
ALSO OF INTEREST Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs Edited by Amanda Lashaw, Christian Vannier, and Steven Sampson
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From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama Carla Guerrón Montero A new reading of Panama’s nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism Based on long-term ethnographic and archival research, From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building. Carla Guerrón Montero analyzes the ways in which tourism becomes a vehicle for the development of specific kinds of institutional multiculturalism and nation-building projects in a country that prides itself on being multiethnic and racially democratic.
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“Provides a clear and comprehensive narrative of Afro-Antillean struggles for recognition in Panama.” — Baron L. Pineda, author of Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast
The narrative centers on Panamanian Afro-Antilleans who arrived in Panama in the nineteenth century from the Greater and Leeward Antilles as a labor force for infrastructural projects and settled in Panama City, Colón, and the Bocas del Toro Archipelago. The volume discusses how Afro-Antilleans, particularly in Bocas del Toro, have struggled since their arrival to become part of Panama’s narrative of nationhood and traces their evolution from plantation workers for the United Fruit Company to tourism workers. Guerrón Montero notes that in the current climate of official tolerance, they have seized the moment to improve their status within Panamanian society, while also continuing to identify with their Caribbean heritage in ways that conflict with their national identity. Carla Guerrón Montero is professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware. She is author of El Color de la Panela: Estudio sobre la Mujer Negra en los Andes Afro-Ecuatorianos and editor of Careers in Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Academics and Practitioners.
ALSO OF INTEREST Among the Garifuna: Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast Marilyn McKillop Wells
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Borders of Visibility: Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State Jennifer L. Shoaff
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Mastering the Law Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey
Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America Atlantic slavery can be overwhelming in its immensity and brutality, as it involved more than 15 million souls forcibly displaced by European imperialism and consumed in building the global economy. Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire lays out the deep history of Iberian slavery, explores its role in the Spanish Indies, and shows how Africans and their descendants used and shaped the legal system as they established their place in Iberoamerican society during the seventeenth century. Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey places the institution of slavery and the people involved with it at the center of the creation story of Latin America. Iberoamerican customs and laws and the institutions that enforced them provided a common language and a forum to resolve disputes for Spanish subjects, including enslaved and freedpeople. The rules through which Iberian conquerors, settlers, and administrators incorporated Africans into the expanding Empire were developed out of the need of a distant crown to find an enforceable consensus. Africans and their mestizo descendants, in turn, used and therefore molded Spanish institutions to serve their interests. Salazar Rey mined extensively the archives of secular and religious courts, which are full of complex disputes, unexpected subversions, and tactical alliances among enslaved people, freedpeople, and the crown. The narrative unfolds around vignettes that show Afroiberians building their lives while facing exploitation and inequality enforced through violence. Salazar Rey deals mostly with cases originating from Cartagena de Indias, a major Atlantic port city that supported the conquest and rule of the Indies. His work recovers the voices and indomitable ingenuity that enslaved people and their descendants displayed when engaging with the Spanish legal ecology. The social relationships animating the case studies represent the broader African experience in the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey is assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Connecticut Stamford.
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“Salazar Rey passionately presents intriguing case studies that provide insights into ongoing debates about the function and processes of Spanish law codes and slavery in the Americas. These case studies effectively narrate evidence taken from multiple church and civil courts to demonstrate the legal persona of slaves in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Province of Cartagena.” — Nicole von Germeten, author of Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico
ALSO OF INTEREST Taxing Blackness: Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain Norah L. A. Gharala
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic Erika Denise Edwards
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Las Varas Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes Howard Tsai
Archaeological data from Las Varas, Peru, that establishes the importance of ritual in constructing ethnic boundaries Recent popular discourse on nationalism and ethnicity assumes that humans by nature prefer “tribalism,” as though people cannot help but divide themselves along lines of social and ethnic differences. Research from anthropology, history, and archaeology, however, shows that individuals actively construct cultural and social ideologies to fabricate the stereotypes, myths, and beliefs that separate “us” from “them.” Archaeologist Howard Tsai and his team uncovered a thousand-year-old village, Las Varas, in northern Peru where the inhabitants performed rituals to recognize and reinforce ethnic identities.
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“Archaeologists and anthropologists have been interested in ethnicity for many years. Las Varas is a welcome addition to this literature, offering a unique study of relationships between different ethnic groups in the chaupiyunga zone.” — Christina Conlee, author of Beyond the Nasca Lines: Ancient Life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert
Las Varas is located near the coast in a valley leading into the Andes. Excavations revealed a western entrance to the village for those arriving from the coast and an eastern entry point for those coming from the highlands. Rituals were performed at both of these entrances, indicating that the community was open to exchange and interaction, yet at the same time controlled the flow of people and goods through ceremonial protocols. Using these checkpoints and associated rituals, the villagers of Las Varas were able to maintain ethnic differences between themselves and visitors from foreign lands. Las Varas: Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes reveals a rare case of finding ethnicity by relying solely on archaeological remains. Tsai analyzes data from the excavation of Las Varas within a theoretical framework based on current understandings of ethnicity. He demonstrates the potential for archaeologists to discover how ethnic identities were constructed in the past, which ultimately leads to questioning the supposed naturalness of tribal divisions in human antiquity. Howard Tsai is lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
ALSO OF INTEREST Tenahaha and the Wari State: A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley Edited by Justin Jennings and Willy Yépez Álvarez
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Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes Amy Eisenberg
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Between the Sword and the Wall The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Harvey F. Kline Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia In Between the Sword and the Wall: The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Harvey Kline, a noted expert on contemporary Colombian politics, brings to a close his multivolume chronicle of the incessant violence that has devastated Colombia’s population, politics, and military for decades. This, his newest work on the subject, recounts and analyzes the negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended with a peace agreement in 2016. The FARC insurgency began in 1964, and every Colombian president after 1980 unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a peace agreement with the group. Kline analyzes how the Santos administration was ultimately able to negotiate peace with the FARC. The agreement failed to receive the approval of the Colombian people in an October 2016 plebiscite, but a renegotiated version was later approved by the congress in the same year. Afterward, more than 7,000 rebels turned over their weapons to the UN mission in Colombia. The former combatants were then to be judged by a special court empowered to punish but not imprison those who had violated human rights. Throughout the book, Kline emphasizes the dual nature of the Santos negotiations, first with the FARC and second with the democratic opposition to the agreement led by former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
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“Between the Sword and the Wall is a very important contribution to knowledge about the perspectives, proposals, and reactions of the Santos government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the 2010–2016 peace negotiations.” — Cynthia McClintock, author of Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin America and coauthor of The United States and Peru: Cooperation at a Cost
Kline provides readers with a well-researched analysis based on a variety of resources, including media articles and primary documents from the government, international organizations, and the FARC. He also conducted extensive interviews with twenty-eight government officials and Colombian experts from all ideological persuasions. Harvey F. Kline is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama. He is author of Fighting Monsters in the Abyss: The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010; Showing Teeth to the Dragons: State-building by Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2002–2006; Chronicle of a Failure Foretold: The Peace Process of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana; and State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986–1994.
ALSO OF INTEREST Fighting Monsters in the Abyss: The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010 Harvey F. Kline
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Showing Teeth to the Dragons: State-building by Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2002–2006 Harvey F. Kline
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The Spaces of Violence James R. Giles
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in 10 contemporary American novels In The Spaces of Violence, James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Bank’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God, Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle, Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Denis Johnson’s Angels, Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. A concluding chapter extends the focus to texts by Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Chuck Palahniuk, who treat the destructive effects of violence on family structures. James R. Giles is author of many books, including Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence and Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren.
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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 The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers—Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly—and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout American poetry. This study spans nearly one hundred years of literary and musical history, from the New Negro Renaissance to the present. Emily Ruth Rutter not only examines blues musicians as literary touchstones or poetic devices, but also investigates the relationship between poetic constructions of blues icons and shifting discourses of race and gender. Rutter’s nuanced analysis is clear, compelling, and rich in critical assessments of these writers’ portraits of the musical artists, attending to their strategies and oversights.
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Emily Ruth Rutter is assistant professor of English at Ball State University. She is author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line.
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Chesnutt and Realism A Study of the Novels Ryan Simmons Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism What does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist? As a writer whose career was restricted by the dismal racial politics of his era, Chesnutt refused to conform to literary conventions for depicting race. Nor did he use his imaginative skills to evade the realities he and other African Americans faced. Rather, he experimented with ways of portraying reality that could elicit an appropriate, proportionate response to it, as Ryan Simmons demonstrates in extended readings of each of Chesnutt’s novels, including important unpublished works overlooked by previous critics. In addition, Chesnutt and Realism addresses a curiously neglected subject in American literary studies—the relationship between American literary realism and race. By taking Chesnutt seriously as a contributor to realism, this book articulates the strategies by which one African American intellectual helped to define the discourses that influenced his fate. Ryan Simmons is instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, where he teaches courses including English, African American literature, and multicultural literature.
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The Women of Provincetown, 1915—1922 Cheryl Black
Examines the roles that a remarkable group of women played in one of the most influential theatre groups in America In this fascinating work, Cheryl Black argues that, in addition to its role in developing an American tradition of non-commercial theatre, Provincetown has another, largely unacknowledged claim to fame— it was one of the first theatre companies in the United States in which women achieved prominence in every area of operation. At a time with women playwrights were rare, women directors rarer, and women scenic designers unheard of, Provincetown’s female members excelled in all of these functions. In addition to the well-known playwright Susan Gaspell, the company’s female membership included the likes of poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mina Loy, and Djuna Barnes; journalists Louise Bryant and Mary Heaton Vorce; novelists Neith Boyce and Evelyn Scott; and painter Marguerite Zorach. The Women of Provincetown is an engaging piece of social history, offering new insight into the relationship between gender and theatre.
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Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy Public Administration in the Information Age Akhlaque Haque Investigates public administration’s increasing dependence on technology and the consequence of its pervasive use In Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that the pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology (IT) enables sophisticated and well-intentioned public services that nevertheless risk deforming public policy decisionmaking and sees a contradiction inherent in a public that seeks services that require a level of data collection that in turn triggers fears of a tyrannical police state. Haque sees the contradiction at the core of a public that seeks services that require a level of data collection that triggers fears of a tyrannical police state.
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Engrossing, challenging, and timely, this is essential reading for both policy makers as well as the great majority of readers and citizens engaged in contemporary arguments about the role of government, public health and security, individual privacy, data collection, and surveillance. Akhlaque Haque is professor of Political Science and Public Administration, and director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Engineering Security The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861 Mark A. Smith A thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.S. military defense during the National Period The system of coastal defenses built by the federal government after the War of 1812 was more than a series of forts standing guard over a watery frontier. It was an integrated and comprehensive plan of national defense developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, and it represented the nation’s first peacetime defense policy. Known as the Third System since it replaced two earlier attempts, it included coastal fortifications but also denoted the values of the society that created it. The governing defense policy was one that combined permanent fortifications to defend seaports, a national militia system, and a small regular army.
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In addition to providing the country with military security, the Third System also provided the context for the ongoing discussion in Congress over national defense through annual congressional debates on military funding. Mark A. Smith is professor of history at Fort Valley State University in Georgia. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Military History, The Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, and The Georgia Historical Quarterly.
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Mark Twain The Complete Interviews Edited by Gary Scharnhorst The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews is an annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain spanning his entire career. In these interviews, Twain discusses such topical issues as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless issues as human nature, politics, war and peace, government corruption, humor, race relations, imperialism, international copyright, the elite, and his impressions of other writers. These interviews are both oral performances in their own right and a new basis for evaluating contemporary responses to Twain’s writings. Some of the parameters Gary Scharnhorst has followed in assembling the collection is to omit self-interviews, humorous sketches written by Twain in interview form, interviews judged by Twain scholars to be spurious, purported interviews that contain no direct quotations, and interviews that exist only in versions translated from the English, as there is no way to verify the accuracy of their retranslations back into English. Because the interviews are records of verbal conversations rather than texts written in Twain’s hand, Scharnhorst has corrected errors in spelling and regularized punctuation. Four interviews here are new to scholarship; fewer than a fifth have ever been reprinted. Because Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews makes accessible, in one volume, source documents of immeasurable value to understanding one of America’s most consequential writers, it will be valued by both academic and public libraries, Twain scholars and enthusiasts, and general readers of humor. Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books and editor of the journal American Literary Realism.
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“This book provides vivid biographical data with an immediacy that brings to life everything from Mark Twain’s personal idiosyncrasies and mannerisms to his central ideas on life and literature. . . . the material will delight and enlighten anyone interested in Mark Twain” — CHOICE
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A Forgotten Front Florida during the Civil War Era Edited by Seth A. Weitz and Jonathan C. Sheppard An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War A Forgotten Front: Florida during the Civil War Era provides a muchneeded overview of the Civil War in Florida. Editors Seth A. Weitz and Jonathan C. Sheppard provide insight into a commonly neglected area of Civil War historiography. The essays in this volume examine Florida’s most significant military engagements and the guerrilla warfare necessitated by the occupied coastline. Contributors look at the political underpinnings of the conflict as it played out in the state, beginning with the decade prior to the outbreak of the war through secession and wartime leadership, and examine the period through the lenses of race, slavery, women, religion, ethnicity, and historical memory. Seth A. Weitz is associate professor of history at Dalton State College. Jonathan C. Sheppard is executive director at Mission San Luis: Florida’s Apalachee-Spanish Living History Museum.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature Freemasonry in the American Civil War Michael A. Halleran The first in-depth study of the Freemasons during the Civil War From first-person accounts culled from regimental histories, diaries, and letters, Michael A. Halleran has constructed an overview of nineteenth-century American freemasonry in general and Masonry in the armies of both North and South in particular, and provided telling examples of how Masonic brotherhood worked in practice. Halleran details the response of the fraternity to the crisis of secession and war, and examines acts of assistance to enemies on the battlefield and in prisoner of war camps. The author examines carefully the major Masonic stories from the Civil War, including the myth that Confederate Lewis A. Armistead made the Masonic sign of distress as he lay dying at the high-water mark of Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg. The result is an objective and compelling account of the brotherhood of Freemasons under the stress of a life—and death—struggle.
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Duped
Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception
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Timothy R. Levine
ISBN 978-0-8173-2041-6 $84.95s CLOTH
A scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods
ISBN 978-0-8173-5968-3 $34.95t PAPER
“Tim Levine has given us an elegant and persuasive explanation of one of the oldest puzzles in psychology. Why are human beings so easily deceived? Duped has completely changed my understanding of liars and their lies.”
ISBN 978-0-8173-9271-0 $34.95 EBOOK
— Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and host of the podcast Revisionist History
Re-Creating Nature
Science, Technology, and Human Values in the Twenty-First Century
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James T. Bradley
ISBN 978-0-8173-2029-4 $39.95t CLOTH
An exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies
ISBN 978-0-8173-9243-7 $39.95 EBOOK
“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.” —CHOICE
Cosella Wayne
or, Will and Destiny
Cora Wilburn Edited and introduced by Jonathan D. Sarna
The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman
6 x 9 / 448 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-2034-8 $64.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5956-0 $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9261-1 $29.95 EBOOK
“American Jewish history has generally been unkind to individuals who failed to live up to the community’s (shifting) ideals. Subversives, the independent minded, the transgressors—women in particular—have been banished from the cultural memory. That, more than anything else, may account for the forgetting of Cora Wilburn—until now.” — From the introduction by Jonathan D. Sarna
Henry Bradley Plant
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Canter Brown Jr.
ISBN 978-0-8173-2037-9 $79.95s CLOTH
The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida
ISBN 978-0-8173-5966-9 $34.95t PAPER
Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South
“Canter Brown Jr. effectively mines diplomatic, borderlands, business, transportation, communications and even religious history and developments throughout Plant’s long life across most of the nineteenth century to tell the subject’s story and validate his importance.”
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Time in the Barrel
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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
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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
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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 “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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184 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1998-4 $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9204-8 $49.95 EBOOK
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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
280 PAGES 1 B&W FIGURE ISBN 978-0-8173-1985-4 $44.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9187-4 $44.95 EBOOK
“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
232 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1994-6 $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9197-3 $49.95 EBOOK
“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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Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail
Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands “Serves as a robust example of unrelenting and careful historical archaeological research that tells a dramatic, true story that represents part of an island nation’s past brought into the present.”
6 x 9 / 316 PAGES 45 B&W FIGURES 14 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-2045-4 $64.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5965-2 $29.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9275-8 $29.95 EBOOK
— Roger C. Smith, author of The Maritime Heritage of the Cayman Islands and Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus
Octopus Crowd
Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age
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Steve Mullins
ISBN 978-0-8173-2024-9 $54.95s CLOTH
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia
ISBN 978-0-8173-9238-3 $54.95 EBOOK
“A well written and copiously illustrated account, 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
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
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“This book offers a vital contribution to the Eigner’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.” — Michael Davidson, professor emeritus of American literature University of California, San Diego
George Galphin’s Intimate Empire
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Bryan C. Rindfleisch
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The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South “Detailing Galphin’s social and economic networks was obviously painstaking work because it involved tracking the lives and fates of so many different people, especially in the case of Creek men and women who oftentimes appear only fleetingly in the documents and then oftentimes under various names. Yet Rindfleisch has done it, and he presents convincing and well-argued evidence for virtually every node in Galphin’s network.” — Robbie Ethridge, author of From Chicaza to Chikcasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715
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ISBN 978-0-8173-9241-3 $54.95 EBOOK
ALABAMA
Bay Boy
Stories of a Childhood in Point Clear, Alabama Watt Key Illustrations by Murray Key
A charming, humorous, and colorful coming-of-age memoir
6 x 8 / 136 PAGES 21 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-2035-5 $24.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9263-5 $24.95 EBOOK
“Mobile Bay is famous in song and story, and Watt Key now joins the distinguished ranks of those writers who have helped make it so. If, after half an hour absorbed in these pages, you do not immediately make travel plans to gaze upon these lovely tawny waters for yourself, I for one shall be surprised.” — From the foreword by John S. Sledge
The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods Emily Blejwas Alabama’s history and culture revealed through fourteen iconic foods, dishes, and beverages “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.”
7 x 9 / 344 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
— 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
Alabama Creates
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Edited by Elliot A. Knight, Preface by Al Head, Introduction by Gail C. Andrews
ISBN 978-0-8173-2010-2 $39.95t CLOTH
200 Years of Art and Artists A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists “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.”
ISBN 978-0-8173-9223-9 $39.95 EBOOK
— From the introduction by Gail C. Andrews
Tuscaloosa
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G. Ward Hubbs
ISBN 978-0-8173-5944-7 $24.95t PAPER
200 Years in the Making 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
ISBN 978-0-8173-9233-8 $24.95 EBOOK
“The book is richly illustrated with photos, maps and portraits. Hubbs’s prose is clear and fluid; it is rich with detail but never bogs down. Any reader will be delighted and enlightened. Tuscaloosans SHOULD read this book for pleasure and to learn how we got here, now, this red-hot minute.” — Don Noble, Tuscaloosa News
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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 “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.”
6.125 x 9.25 / 184 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
— Gregory A. Waselkov, author of Old Mobile Archaeology and A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814
The Old Federal Road in Alabama
6.125 x 9.25 / 176 PAGES 47 COLOR FIGURES 7 MAPS
Kathryn H. Braund, Gregory A. Waselkov, and Raven M. Christopher
ISBN 978-0-8173-5930-0 $24.95t PAPER
An Illustrated Guide
A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama’s development “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.”
ISBN 978-0-8173-9259-8 $24.95 EBOOK
— 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
Trees of Alabama
Photographs by Michael E. Hogan
6 x 9 / 384 PAGES 707 COLOR FIGURES 42 B&W FIGURES 139 MAPS
An easy-to-use guide to the most common trees in the state
ISBN 978-0-8173-5941-6 $34.95t PAPER
Lisa J. Samuelson
“The best available tree identification tool for Alabama because it has an emphasis on the southeast where species complexes tend to be more confusing.”
ISBN 978-0-8173-9230-7 $34.95 EBOOK
— John L. Clark, associate professor of biological sciences, University of Alabama (2005 to 2015) and Aldo Leopold Distinguished Teaching Chair, The Lawrenceville School (2015 to 2018)
Lizards and Snakes of Alabama Craig Guyer, Mark A. Bailey, and Robert H. Mount
An up-to-date and comprehensive herpetological guide to Alabama “The go-to resource for lizard and snake information in Alabama and neighboring states. The beautiful up-close photographs that will assist conservationists of all levels in the identification of snake and lizard species and will be an authoritative reference for years to come.” — Ericha Shelton-Nix, editor of Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 and Certified Wildlife Biologist with the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries
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AUTHOR AND TITLE INDEX
Acosta, Raúl ..................................... 23
Scharnhorst, Gary ............................ 31
Chesnutt and Realism .................... 29
Araki-Kawaguchi, Kiik ........................ 4
Severance, Ben ................................ 10
Civil Becomings ............................... 23
Barnard, Ian ..................................... 16
Sheppard, Jonathan C. .................... 32
Cookery ............................................ 15
Black, Cheryl .................................... 29
Shin, Ery ........................................... 13
Engineering Security ........................ 30
Clayton, Lawrence A. ....................... 22
Silver, M. M. ..................................... 20
Fictions of Certitude ....................... 11
Conley, Donovan .............................. 15
Simmons, Ryan ................................ 29
Final Reckoning (A) ............................ 8
Eckstein, Justin ................................ 15
Sizemore, Vic ..................................... 2
Forgotten Front (A) ........................... 32
Fredman, Stephen ........................... 12
Smith, Mark ...................................... 30
From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions ................ 24
Giles, James R. ................................ 28
Strychacz, Thomas ........................... 14
Guerrón Montero ............................. 24
Taylor, Walter Kingsley ....................... 6
Gutmann, Ruth .................................. 8
Trout, Steven .................................... 21
Haller Jr., John S. ............................. 11
Tsai, Howard ..................................... 26
Halleran, Michael A. ........................ 32
Waselkov, Gregory A. ....................... 38
Haque, Akhlaque ............................. 30
Weitz, Seth A. ................................... 32
Harris, Susan K. ................................. 1
Williams, Charlie ................................ 6
Johnson, Nathan R. ......................... 17 Kline, Harvey F. ................................ 27 Lantigua, David M. ........................... 22 Neville, Susan .................................... 5 Noles, James L. ................................. 9 Noles Jr., James L. ............................. 9 Norman, Eliane M. ............................. 6 Robins, Walker ................................. 18 Rutter, Emily Ruth ............................ 28 Salazar Rey, Ricardo Raúl ............... 25
Goodbye, My Tribe ............................. 2 Home without Walls ......................... 19 Kitchen Economics .......................... 14 Las Varas ......................................... 26 Mark Twain ....................................... 31 Mark Twain, the World, and Me ......... 1
Holcomb, Carol Crawford ................. 19 Hutchison, Margaret ........................ 21
Gertrude Stein’s Surrealist Years ............................... 13
American Poetry as Transactional Art ......................... 12 André Michaux in North America ............................. 6-7 Architects of Memory ....................... 17 Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights ........ 22 Better Angels of Our Nature (The) .............................. 32 Between Dixie and Zion ................... 18 Between the Sword and the Wall ..................................... 27 Blues Muse (The) ............................. 28 Book of Kane and Margaret (The) ............................ 4
Mastering the Law .......................... 25 Mighty by Sacrifice ............................. 9 Portraits of Remembrance ............. 21 Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions ......................... 16 Spaces of Violence (The) ................. 28 Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy ................................ 30 Town of Whispering Dolls (The) ......... 5 War State All Over (A) ....................... 10 Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922 ..................................... 29 Zionism and the Melting Pot ........... 20
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