ALABAMA
The University of Alabama Press
Spring 2016
African American Studies . . . . . . . 27 Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 3, 7, 26 Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . 21–23 Asian American Studies . . . . . . . . 30 Auburn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 16 Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 27 Communications . . . . . . . . . . 31–33 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–10 Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–16 Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6 Folklore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 History . . . . . . . . . 17, 18, 20, 24, 26, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 30, 34 Index (Author/Title) . . . . . . . . . . 39 Judaic Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Law and Legal Studies . . . . . . . . 24 Literary Criticism . . . . . . . . . . 11–14 Medical Technology . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Military History . . . . . . . . . . 25, 28 Native American Studies . . . . . . . 22 Natural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 New in Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . 35–38 Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Paleontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–10 Poetry & Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Political Science . . . . . . . . . . 24, 29 Public Administration . . . . . . . . . 29 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17, 18 Rhetoric . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 31–33 Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Southern History . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Urban Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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ON THE COVER Designer Lou Robinson’s innovative creations adorn the jackets of UAP’s Fiction Collective Two (FC2) imprint. To illustrate Angela Woodward’s novel Natural Wonders about a widow who whimsically reimagines world history by piecing together orts and fragments of her late husband’s scientific research, Robinson invokes the spirit of the great nineteenth-century naturalists with a recreation of a vintage bookplate depicting a scholar perched atop the tusks of a mastodon. Read more about Woodward’s book on page 4.
ALABAMA / NATURE
Exploring Wild Alabama
A Guide to the State’s Publicly Accessible Natural Areas Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport Foreword by Chris Oberholster
Exploring Wild Alabama is the most comprehensive guide available to Alabama’s publicly accessible natural destinations. Written for sports enthusiasts, hikers, and birders, as well as for ecotourists and readers interested in Alabama’s rich biodiversity, Exploring Wild Alabama is an essential part of any day trip or overnight stay in the state. Exploring Wild Alabama is an exceptionally detailed guide to the most beautiful natural destinations in the state. From the rocky outcrops of the Appalachian plateaus to the sugar-white beaches of the Gulf Coast’s Orange Beach and Dauphin Island, Alabama offers a wealth of remarkable sites to explore by car or canoe, bicycle or motorcycle, or on foot. Intrepid explorers Kenneth M. Wills and L. J. Davenport divide Alabama into eleven geographic regions that feature state parks and preserves, national monuments and forests, wildlife management areas, Nature Conservancy and Forever Wild properties, botanical gardens and arboreta, as well as falls, caverns, and rock cliffs. Exploring Wild Alabama provides detailed site entries to one hundred and fifty destinations. Each section is beautifully illustrated with color photographs and area maps. Exploring Wild Alabama includes a large state map and numerous local topographic maps to help readers locate each site. Individual site entries include written directions to each site and GPS coordinates; engaging notes about the ecology, landscape features, and local species of plants and animals of the sites; and international recreation symbols for hiking, fishing, boating, camping, hunting, and other fun outdoor activities. Wills and Davenport guide travelers to Alabama jewels such as Sand Mountain’s Chitwood Barrens, which harbors the rare Green Pitcher Plant and other exotic botanical species; Blowing Springs Cave in Lauderdale County, named for the cool air and the clear spring flowing out of the cave opening; Jackson Prairies in the Lime Hills region; and Booker’s Mill in Conecuh County, offering diverse habitats and historic structures. Long a favorite destination for outdoor sports enthusiasts, Alabama is fast becoming a major “ecotourism” destination, with thousands of travelers discovering the state’s unsung natural treasures. Exploring Wild Alabama will be used and trusted by anyone who loves the outdoors—birders, botanists, cave explorers, cyclists, hunters, fishermen, rock climbers, canoeists, teachers, and other outdoor enthusiasts. Kenneth M. Wills is president of the Friends of Moss Rock Preserve and works currently for the Jefferson County Health Department. He has traveled the entire state as a natural resource planner and biologist for the Alabama Environmental Council. L. J. Davenport is a professor of biology at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and a past Carnegie Foundation Alabama Professor of the Year. He is the author of Nature Journal and a forthcoming book on Alabama botanists.
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JULY 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 / 448 PAGES 167 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS / 27 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-5830-3 / $29.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8877-5 / $29.95T EBOOK “Exploring Wild Alabama goes beyond the classic guidebook for seeing many of the natural wonders our great state has to offer. It represents the culmination of extensive field research and exploration that brings the knowledge of natural sciences and history to the general public. The work is exceptionally well-written and includes detailed descriptions of the geology, geography, flora, and fauna of each location, as well as various activities to enjoy. I look forward to seeing this book on the shelves of bookstores, gift shops, and outdoor stores throughout Alabama.” —Randy Mecredy, former director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History “Exploring Wild Alabama is a much needed resource. The authors have done a superlative job of describing and depicting the physiographic and ecological diversity of Alabama. To my knowledge, this is the first book to provide a statewide guide to actual places for the reader to visit. The writing is accessible to a general readership without being simplistic. I can’t wait to have it on my own bookshelf!” —Mark A. Bailey, coauthor of Turtles of Alabama
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TENNESSEE / FOLKLORE
Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey Commemorative Edition Kathryn Tucker Windham Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s introduction to the Volunteer State’s most enduring ghost stories. In Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey, beloved and best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham presents a spine-tingling collection of Tennessee’s eeriest ghost tales. Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her home, Windham traveled from the mysterious muds of Memphis to the haunted hollow’s of east Tennessee to collect the spookiest collection of Volunteer State revenants ever written. In these perennial favorites, Windham captures the gentle folk humor of native Tennesseans as well as fascinating facts about the state’s rich history. In “The Dark Legend,” Windham recounts the story of explorer Merriwether Lewis, who met an untimely end on the Natchez Trace 1809 and whose spirit, it is said, still treads through Tennessee’s forests. Windham also visits central Tennessee’s Chapel Hill, where people who know the town say those who stand on the train tracks on dark, lonely nights can often see a disembodied light floating along the tracks. Neighbors say it’s the ghost of a headless flagman who returns to cavort with nighttime guests. High in Tennessee’s Appalachian Mountains, Windham encounters Martin, the phantom fiddler of Johnson County. Legend has it that in life Martin’s musical skills so mesmerized the snakes of the Stone Mountains that they would slither from their dens to listen tamely to his fiddling. Intrepid visitors to the rocky tops of northeast Tennessee’s mountains say you can still hear Martin’s ghost fiddling in the hollows.
FEBRUARY 7 X 10 / 168 PAGES / 59 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1901-4 / $29.95T CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8947-5 / $29.95T EBOOK “In Windham’s tales . . . myth and fact intertwine to present a picture of the South that is as true as any textbook.” —Paris Review
This handsome, new commemorative hardback edition returns Windham’s suspenseful classic to its original keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author’s children. Kathryn Tucker Windham grew up in Thomasville, Alabama, the youngest child in a large family of storytellers. For many years a Selma resident, Windham was a freelance writer, collected folklore, and photographed the changing scenes of her native South. A nationally recognized storyteller and a regular fixture on Alabama Public Radio, her commentaries were also featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Her other books include Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, and Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey.
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NATURAL HISTORY / PALEONTOLOGY / ALABAMA
Footprints in Stone
Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods Ronald J. Buta and David C. Kopaska-Merkel Foreword by Dana J. Ehret
Footprints in Stone is the definitive guide to the Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site in northwest Alabama, the discovery of whose vast quantity of 310-million-year-old fossil tetrapod footprints and other traces is one of the most significant developments in modern paleontology. The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about its fossil record. Currently 2,500 miles from the equator and more than 250 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, the Minkin site was a swampy tropical forest adjacent to a tidal flat during the Coal Age or Carboniferous Period more than 300 million years ago. That fecund strand of sand and mud at the ocean’s edge teemed with the earth’s earliest reptiles as well as amphibians, fish, horseshoe crabs, spiders, jumping insects, and other fascinating organisms. Unlike dinosaurs and other large animals whose sturdy bodies left hard fossil records, most of these small, soft-bodied creatures left no concrete remains. But they did leave something else. Preserved in the site’s coal beds along with insect wings and beautifully textured patterns of primeval plants are their footprints, fossilized animal tracks from which modern paleontologists can glean many valuable insights about their physical anatomies and behaviors. The paleontological examination of fossil tracks is now the cutting-edge of contemporary scholarship, and the Minkin site is the first and largest site of its kind in eastern North America. Discovered by a local high school science teacher, the site provides both professional and amateur paleontologists around the world with a wealth of fossil track samples along with an inspirational story for amateur explorers and collectors. Authoritative and extensively illustrated, Footprints in Stone brings together the contributions of many geologists and paleontologists who photographed, documented, and analyzed the Minkin site’s fossil trackways. An engrossing tale of its serendipitous discovery and a detailed study of its fossil records, Footprints in Stone is a landmark publication in the history of paleontology. Ronald J. Buta is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Alabama, with his main interests in galaxy morphology and dynamics. He is the author of The de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies and the content creator of the Galaxy Morphology website hosted through the University of Alabama. David C. Kopaska-Merkel is section chief of petroleum systems and technology at the Geological Survey of Alabama and a member of the National Center for Science Education. Both Buta and Kopaska-Merkel are members of the Alabama Paleontological Society and coeditors of Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama.
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JULY 7 X 9 / 318 PAGES 45 COLOR, 109 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS / 6 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-5844-0 / $49.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8956-7 / $49.95T EBOOK “The Union Chapel fossil site (now known as the Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site) is globally important as the first large Carboniferous tracksite discovered in the world and as the first significant Paleozoic tracksite found in the eastern United States.” —Hartmut Haubold, Institute of Geological Sciences and Geiseltalmuseum, Martin-Luther-University, Germany “The collection and cataloging of fossil trackway material from the Union Chapel Mine has provided a unique opportunity for the professional and the amateur paleontological communities to share in a scientifically significant undertaking. Determined efforts by members of the Alabama Paleontological Society to salvage the mine’s rich and taxonomically diverse fossil vertebrate and invertebrate trackways before the impending reclamation of the site has resulted in a treasure trove of material that should provide important insights into the paleoecology of Coal-Age Alabama for many years to come.” —Jim Lacefield, author of Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks: A Guide to the State’s Ancient Life and Landscapes “Footprints in Stone offers something for everyone. From the youngest amateur scientist to university-level paleontology students, the story of the discovery and preservation of the Minkin site is a good read that will both surprise and teach readers about a unique period of earth history that is preserved in central Alabama.” —Douglas W. Haywick, associate professor of geology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama
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FICTION
Natural Wonders A Novel
Angela Woodward Foreword by Stacey Levine
Natural Wonders is a novel in the form of a series of lectures about the earth and its prehistory. In it, a grieving widow assembles an idiosyncratic history of the earth’s history based on her understanding and impressions of her deceased husband’s papers. Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize In Natural Wonders, Jenny is given the task of assembling a memorial edition of her recently deceased husband Jonathan’s lecture series about the physical history of the earth. With little knowledge of his work or of Jonathan himself, Jenny constructs from his fragmentary and disorganized notes her own version of our planet’s past. Presented as a series of lectures, Jenny’s earth history is an amalgam of stories from science and about scientists—a Serbian mathematician and his theory of the ice ages, a Swiss doctor camped on a glacier, the mysterious materia pinguis thought to have drifted down from stars to form fossils. Into these stories she interweaves scenes from their marriage as well as material she finds on Jonathan’s shelves. In her history, an explanation of continental drift becomes enmeshed with a schoolboy’s erotic encounter with an older woman. Icebergs in an Andean lake launch a woman’s jealous affair with a third-rate actor, and H. G. Wells’s Island of Dr. Moreau is dramatically recounted in new form. Natural Wonders mixes mythology, popular fiction, and a misfired romance with the story of the earth hurtling around the sun. From intimately human to geologic to cosmic, it explores change, love, and loss. Angela Woodward is the author of The Human Mind, End of the Fire Cult, and Origins and Other Stories, which was chosen by Gabriel Blackwell as the winner of the 2014 Collagist magazine chapbook competition.
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MARCH 5.5 X 8.5 / 184 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-055-6 / $17.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-860-6 / $17.95T EBOOK “Empiricists are us. We know what we know through our sensing apparatus. A fact, we know, is a thing done, and once it is done it is done and leaves only artifact and residue, evidence of its happening. But we also know (we’re giddy with fear) that our senses are so easily fooled. And in that fooling lies great wonder! Angela Woodward in Natural Wonders knows what the grand satirists—Swift and Sterne and Defoe—knew about the great tectonic paradigm shift to this new way of knowing. Her deadpan take on the scientific deadpan is expansive and microscopic, hilarious and heartbreaking. The book is a studious study of silly seriousness, a calculating engine collecting forever the erotic and effervescent data of our empirical world. It is so surely never sure of itself. It can’t not believe its eyes. Behold! Observe! See! The natural wonder of Natural Wonders as it does a bang-up tangled tango with the tabula rasa.” —Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and coeditor of Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology “Natural Wonders is an amazing work about sentience and biologic magic, its structure built and layered with beautiful rigor. It is full of delicious sentences that will pull readers into its meditation on story making and the awe that seems to be just outside our sight. Woodward’s novel contextualizes our shred of a civilization so vividly readers will see the world with new eyes. I am sure you will love it!” —Stacey Levine, author of The Girl with Brown Fur and Frances Johnson
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FICTION
Intimacy A Novel
Stanley Crawford
Intimacy is the story of an unnamed narrator ruminating on suicide. He reflects on the origins and significance of his material possessions, and on the seemingly inconsequential moments in his life, while he prepares to carry out his plans. In this melancholy novel about a man on the brink of suicide, Stanley Crawford allows readers to question what it really means to be close to a person. Intimacy follows an unnamed narrator planning his own death. His preparations become a trigger and occasion for him to revisit key moments in his life and his material possessions, which are the solid artifacts from his life’s journey. As sparrows in flight might form a single arrow, the life of the narrator comes into focus as a collage of fleeting events and images. Readers gain insights into tiny moments that slowly build into a picture of a man who seems to have very little, aside from material possessions, to lose. The narrative pulls the reader along a trail of digressions—about running shoes, about the symbolism of rings—that lead down a proverbial rabbit hole until we realize the narrator’s intentions. Despite our lack of concrete knowledge about the narrator’s life, he allows us to share his thought processes: how every thought leads to the next, how memories seep upward when he picks up a particular T-shirt, or when he glimpses his car keys. And alongside our growing understanding of the narrator comes a recognition of our own thought processes: how we, like him, relate to our bodies; how we, too, cannot break away from the constant motion of our thoughts. Intimacy is a brief, intense novel charged with the heightened sense of closeness that comes from watching a man’s last hours. It illuminates how brief snapshots of memory can trace the outline of an entire life. Stanley Crawford is a graduate of the University of Chicago as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. He is the author of several novels, among them Seed, Petroleum Man, Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine, Travel Notes, and Gascoyne, as well as the memoirs A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm and Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. He is coproprietor along with his wife, Rose Mary Crawford, of El Bosque Garlic Farm in Dixon, New Mexico.
MARCH 5.5 X 8.5 / 128 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-054-9 / $16.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-859-0 / $16.95T EBOOK Praise for Stanley Crawfrod’s Seed: “Seed is one of the finest novels I have ever read.” —Michael Ventura, author of Night Time Losing Time and The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God “Seed is an anti-quest narrative: our hero sleeps, aggrieved, in his chair, dreaming of shedding possessions. He is ferocious, uncertain, disheveled, a spirit kindred to Unguentine, a mess, and easy to love. Another brilliant and hilarious novel by a great American writer.” —Noy Holland, author of Swim for the Little One First and What Begins with Bird
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Hex
A Novel Sarah Blackman
Hex is the debut novel by Sarah Blackman, the award-winning author of Mother Box and Other Tales. In Hex, Blackman explores the ways one woman uses language and stories to rebuild her own shattered sense of self. Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thingy, as Alice calls her, and a sort of fantastic narcissism wherein she figures herself as the nexus of a supernatural world she understands through a blend of mountain lore, indigenous Cherokee legend, and the dangerous idiom of the fairy-tale girl who enters the forest despite being warned. The novel is written in blended parts and is crafted as an address to Thingy’s daughter, Ingrid the Second, who is now in Alice’s care. Alice attempts to tell Ingrid the story of her life: her friendship with Thingy; her troubled relationships with her father, a small-town sexual troubadour; her stepmother, a hard-minded business woman who treats all interactions as commerce; her marriage to her husband Jacob, a silent figure of tremendous will; and her growing suspicion that Ingrid is another girl-child around whom disaster accumulates. Simultaneously, Alice tells the child the kind of bedtime stories she herself has used to make sense of her world. For Alice, and thus in Hex, the line between fantasy and reality is nonexistent, the mountain is older than its geology, and the world a limbo in which everything that has ever happened is coming around again. Hex is a novel about violence—the violence of the fist, of the womb, of the story. It is also a novel about language and how we use it to build a world when the one we find around us is irretrievably broken. Sarah Blackmon is the director of creative writing at the Fine Arts Center, a magnet arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, and a fiction editor at Diagram. Her debut collection of short fiction, Mother Box and Other Tales, won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2012.
MARCH 5.5 X 8.5 / 380 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-056-3 / $19.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-867-5 / $19.95T EBOOK Praise for Sarah Blackman’s Mother Box and Other Tales: “In her entrancing debut collection, Mother Box and Other Tales, Sarah Blackman combines realism with fairytales to expose the intricacies of domestic dramas.” — Rain Taxi “The subtitle of Sarah Blackman’s Mother Box and Other Tales— evoking as it does Arabian nights, anthropomorphic animals, and high seas adventures—promises that the twelve pieces collected therein will present something out of the ordinary. And, from the first page of the collection, it is clear that these tales will fulfill that promise.” — Kenyon Review
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POETRY / ALABAMA
The Myth of Water
JEAN I E THOM PSON
Poems from the Life of Helen Keller Jeanie Thompson
In The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller, Alabama poet Jeanie Thompson offers a rich collection of poems that form an illuminating first-person narrative through the life of writer and activist Helen Keller. The Myth of Water is a cycle of thirty-four poems by award-winning Alabama poet and writer Jeanie Thompson in the voice of worldrenowned Alabamian Helen Keller. In their sweep, the poems trace Keller’s metamorphosis from a native of a bucolic Alabama town to her emergence as a beloved, international figure who championed the rights of the deaf-blind worldwide. Thompson’s artfully concatenated vignettes form a mosaic that maps the insightful mind behind the elegant and enigmatic persona Keller projected. Thompson takes readers on the journey of Keller’s life, from some of the thirty-seven countries she visited, including the British Isles, Europe, and Japan to the wellsprings of her emotional awakening and insight. The poems are paired with fascinating biographical anecdotes from Keller’s life and samplings from her writing, which infuse the work with richly-rewarding biographical detail. The poems in The Myth of Water reveal the discerning subtlety, resiliency, and complexity of the person Thompson perceives Helen Keller to have been. Through a combination of natural intuition, manual signs, Braille alphabets, and lip reading, Keller came to grasp the revolving tapestry of the seasons and the infinite colors of human relationships. Published in a beautiful keepsake edition with French flaps, The Myth of Water is not a biography or a fictional retelling. It attempts to unlock what moved Keller to her life of service and self-examination. This is a deeply personal story of coming through—not overcoming—a double disability to a fully realized life in which a woman gives her heart to the world.
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AUGUST 6 X 9 / 80 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-5857-0 / $19.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8992-5 / $19.95T EBOOK “While it is hard to find a contemporary poet able to conjure any human figure, much less one so sealed in stone as Helen Keller, in Thompson’s Myth of Water Helen lives. She is present. Had I not read these simple poems I would not have believed they could have been written.” —Louie Skipper, author of To Speak This Tongue and As Sunrise Becomes The World: A Trilogy
Jeanie Thompson is the author of The Seasons Bear Us, White for Harvest: New and Selected Poems, Witness, Litany for a Vanishing Landscape, How to Enter the River, and Lotus and Psalm. Her poems have been published in Whatever Remembers Us, High Horse, Working the Dirt, and The Best of Crazyhorse, among others. She teaches at Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing program and is the founding executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, a statewide literary arts service organization.
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POETRY / CUBA
Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) Juan Carlos Flores Translated by Kristin Dykstra
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) is a collection of prose poems dedicated to “the poetical resurrection of Alamar,” the neighborhood where Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores has lived for decades. Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world. Flores’s highly structured texts, organized into “art galleries,” present prose paintings of a big place in very small form. Flores builds a poetic landscape with repeating structures that mirror Alamar’s five-floor walkups. Exploring life and dream on the flat surfaces of the poems, he gives fleeting glimpses of perception and survival at the urban margins. As the poet ages, so ages Alamar itself. Yet both find renewal through poetry. The eighty poems in this bilingual edition offer the first English translation of a complete Flores collection. It will also be of interest to Spanish-language readers seeking access to Cuban literature abroad. Award-winning scholar and translator Kristin Dykstra has compiled an introduction in which she presents Flores, his literary contexts, and references in his poems. Because Flores made specific requests regarding translation, fascinating notes also clarify and expound on choices Dykstra makes in the English version. A deluxe edition with a handmade, limited-edition color linocut print, including a letterpress-printed poem signed by the author, is available directly from the University of Alabama Press. Juan Carlos Flores is a well-known and widely respected Cuban poet. He won the 1990 David Prize, a national award for emerging writers, for his first book of poems, Los pájaros escritos. His second collection, Distintos modos de cavar un túnel, won the prestigious 2002 Julián del Casal prize from UNEAC, Cuba’s national union of artists and writers. His third book, El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales), was published by Letras Cubanas in 2009. Kristin Dykstra, recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, translated Reina María Rodríguez’s Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena for the University of Alabama Press in 2014. She has also translated two books by Cuban poet Omar Pérez, and her translation of Angel Escobar’s Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza is forthcoming from UA Press.
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MARCH 6 X 9 / 200 PAGES / 1 B&W ILLUSTRATION ISBN: 978-0-8173-5813-6 / $19.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8837-9 / $19.95T EBOOK ISBN: 978-0-8173-9012-9 / $49.95T PAPER + LINOCUT “Kristin Dykstra’s translation of Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores’s El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) breathes interpretive and musical life into the exciting syncopated prose poetry written by an author whose voice is genuinely distinctive among that island’s post-revolutionary generation. As well, Dykstra’s work is a solid scholarly contribution. It features rigorous translator’s notes and an essay that frames the work in its social circumstances and historical moment. Dykstra is widely recognized as one of our most accomplished translators devoted to contemporary poetry of Latin America. This translation will be welcomed by specialists in the field and general readers of poetry, as well as by those devoted more broadly to Cuban arts and culture.” —Roberto Tejada, coeditor of the journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas and author of National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment, Celia Alvarez Muñoz, and the poetry collection Exposition Park “Kristin Dykstra’s translation of Juan Carlos Flores’s El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) is a major literary event; it provides a complex and formally innovative understanding for the lives and culture of a distinct locale. Dykstra’s translations are superb, and her essay and notes are profoundly informative.” —Hank Lazer, author of Lyric & Spirit, as well as seventeen volumes of poetry including N18 and Portions
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Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza Ángel Escobar Translated by Kristin Dykstra
Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza is the best-known work by acclaimed Cuban poet Ángel Escobar. This is his first complete collection of poems to appear in English. Ángel Escobar’s Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza is known by many as the most devastating book of his poetic generation, .It is his first to be offered to an English-speaking audience. Merging personal and collective meditations, these twenty-three poems perform an indictment of violence. Escobar’s poetry delineates lacerations etched on bodies and minds by the sanguinary twentieth century, which unfolded out of a longer modernity spanning the Americas. Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza outlived its author, who took his own life in 1997. Brief and implicit appeals for justice and love offset the book’s abject theatricality. Escobar’s tragic masterpiece deftly interweaves themes into a striking synthesis offered in the spirit of survival. Award-winning translator Kristin Dykstra introduces this collection with a comprehensive examination of Escobar’s life, work, and the times within which he wrote. Dykstra situates Escobar’s poetic abjection as his drive to confront thingification face to (non)face.
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A deluxe edition with a handmade, limited-edition color linocut print, including a letterpress-printed poem signed by the author, is available directly from the University of Alabama Press. Ángel Escobar was born in Cuba’s eastern province of Guantánamo in 1957. A student of theater, Escobar moved to Havana in 1977. His work includes the poetry collections Viejas palabras de uso (Old Well-Used Words), Cuéntame lo que me pasa (Tell Me What’s Happening to Me), Cuando salí de La Habana (When I Left Havana), and the theater piece Ya nadie saluda al rey (Now No One Greets the King). His work received the Premio David in 1978 and the Premio Roberto Branly in 1985. Kristin Dykstra, recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, also translated Reina María Rodríguez’s Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena and Juan Carols Flores’s The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales), as well as various other books of Cuban poetry.
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Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena Reina María Rodríguez Translated by Kristin Dykstra
Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena contains a parallel translation of a mixed-genre work by acclaimed Cuban writer Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative nonfiction, culminating in a series of essays. Otras cartas a Milena was originally published in Cuba in 2003 and shows Reina María Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty-first century. These involve a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on Cubans like Rodríguez who have not migrated but continue to live and work in their home nation. The book’s title references Franz Kafka, whose Letters to Milena was posthumously published in 1952. The reference signals Rodríguez’s participation in the long cosmopolitan tradition asserted by Cuban writers and scholars of island literature. Rodríguez’s youngest daughter, featured most prominently in the letters making up the collection’s centerpiece, “A Girl’s Story,” was named after Milena Jesenská, the recipient of Kafka’s letters. With its bilingual format, Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena makes an important body of work available both to English readers in general (this will be the first English translation of a complete Rodríguez collection not excerpted from a larger work) and to Spanish-language readers unable to obtain the collection in any form, given the difficulty of distributing Cuban literature outside that country. The collection also includes critical commentary by Kristin Dykstra informed by Dykstra’s lengthy discussions with the author about her work. A deluxe edition with a handmade, limited-edition color linocut print, including a letterpress-printed poem, signed by the author, is available directly from the University of Alabama Press. Born in Cuba in 1952, Reina María Rodríguez is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, including Las fotos de la Señora Loss, La detención del tiempo / Time’s Arrest (bilingual edition), Bosque negro, and Violet Island and Other Poems (bilingual anthology). She is a two-time winner of the Casa de las Américas prize for poetry and was awarded the Italo Calvino award for her first novel. In 2013 Rodríguez won Cuba’s National Literature Prize, and in 2014 she received the prestigious Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Award for Poetry.
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Kristin Dykstra translated Reina María Rodríguez’s La detención del tiempo / Time’s Arrest and co-translated Rodríguez’s Violet Island and Other Poems. She also translated two books by Omar Pérez, and her translations of complete poetry collections by Juan Carlos Flores and Ángel Escobar. Dykstra was the recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.
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POETRY AND POETICS / LITERARY CRITICISM
Archaeopoetics Word, Image, History Mandy Bloomfield
Archaeopoetics explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge. Archaeopoetics explores “archaeological poetry,” ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography. Critic Mandy Bloomfield traces the emergence of a significant historicist orientation in recent poetry, exemplified by the work of five writers: American poet Susan Howe, Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, British poet Maggie O’Sullivan, and diasporic African Caribbean writers Kamau Brathwaite and M. NourbeSe Philip. Bloomfield sets the work of these five authors within a vigorous tradition, including earlier work by Ezra Pound and Walter Benjamin, and then shows how these five poets create poems that engender new encounters with pivotal episodes in history, such as the English regicide or Korea’s traumatized twentieth century. Exploring our shared but imperfectly understood history as well as omissions and blind spots in historiography, Bloomfield outlines the tension between the irretrievability of effaced historical evidence and the hope that poetry may reconstitute such unrecoverable histories. She posits that this tension is fertile, engendering a form of aesthetically enacted epistemological enquiry.
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“In Archaeopoetics, Mandy Bloomfield outlines a long-overlooked aspect of modern and contemporary poetry: its historicism. Her approach to visuality, especially in texts where it is more muted, has the potential to significantly influence future scholars.” —Sarah Dowling, author of DOWN and Security Posture
Fascinating and seminal, Archaeopoetics pays special attention to the sensuous materiality of texts and most especially to the visual manifestations of poetry. The poems in Archaeopoetics employ the visual imagery of the word itself or incorporate imagery into the poetry to propose persuasive alternatives to narrative or discursive frameworks of historical knowledge. Mandy Bloomfield is a lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, where she teaches both critical theory and modern and contemporary literature.
Modern and Contemporary Poetics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, series editors
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LITERARY CRITICISM
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction Michael J. Kiskis Foreword by Laura Skandera Trombley Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst
Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work. Twain scholar Michael Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction, Kiskis persuasively argues that not only was Mark Twain not, as many believe, “antidomestic,” but rather the home and family were the muse and core message of his writing. Mark Twain was the child of a loveless marriage and a homelife over which hovered the constant specter of violence. Informed by his difficult childhood, orthodox readings of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn frame these canonical literary figures as nostalgic—autobiographical fables of heroic individualists slipping the bonds of domestic life. Kiskis, however, presents a wealth of biographical details about Samuel Clemens and his family that reinterpret Twain’s work as a robust affirmation of domestic spheres of life. Among Kiskis’s themes are that, as the nineteenth century witnessed high rates of orphanhood and childhood mortality, Clemens’s work often depicted unmoored children seeking not escape from home but rather seeking the redemption and safety available only in familial structures. Similarly, Mark Twain at Home demonstrates that, following the birth of his first daughter, Twain began to exhibit in his writing an anxiety with social ills, notably those that affected children. In vigorous and accessible descriptions of Twain’s life as it became reflected in his prose, Kiskis offers a compelling and fresh understanding of this work of this iconic American author.
MAY 6 X 9 / 160 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1915-1 / $44.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8990-1 / $44.95S EBOOK “Sam Clemens’ understanding of family and of place intersects for him on the porch as he recalls his children wrapped around him and as he looks straight at his own present and finds it inhabited by ghosts. His idea of himself as a writer and his concept of the value of story were shaped both by the intensity of family life and by his seeing the world not only as a place in which to live but also, and more importantly I think, as the place in which (his) children would live, and very late in life as the place where his grandchildren might live. At his death he did not know that a grandchild was only a few months from entering that world—a long story that is grist for another conversation.” —from the Conclusion to Mark Twain at Home: How Family Life Shaped Twain’s Fiction
Michael Kiskis was the coeditor of Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography and Constructing Mark Twain. Gary Scharnhorst is the author of Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West and the editor of Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain. Laura E. Skandera Trombley is the author of Mark Twain’s Other Woman and Mark Twain in the Company of Women, as well as a coeditor of Constructing Mark Twain.
American Literary Realism and Naturalism Gary Scharnhorst, series editor
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LITERARY CRITICISM
Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors Harold K. Bush Continuing Bonds with the Dead explores the redemptive literary achievements of five nineteenth-century American authors who lost a son or daughter. In it, Harold K. Bush illuminates America’s evolving cultural attitudes about death and grief. Harold K. Bush’s Continuing Bonds with the Dead examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the death of a child became the defining “before-and-after moment” in their lives as adults and as artists. In narrating their struggles, Bush maps the intense field of creative energy induced by reverberating waves of parental grief, and the larger nineteenth-century culture of mortality and grieving. Bush explores in detail how each of these five writers grappled with and was altered by the loss of a child. He writes, for example, with moving insights about how the famed author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn found himself adrift on a river of grief when meningitis struck down his daughter, Susy. In his deeply learned exploration of Twain’s subsequent work, Bush illuminates how Twain wrote to cope with Susy’s death, to make sense of her persistent presence in his life, and possibly to redeem her loss. Passionate and personal, Bush’s insightful prose traces the paths of personal transformation each of these emblematic American writers took in order to survive the spiritual trauma of loss. The savage Civil War was America’s shared “before and after moment,” the pivot upon which the nation’s nineteenth century swung. Bush’s account of these five writers’ grief amplifies our understanding of America’s evolving, national relationship to mourning from then to the present. Harold K. Bush is professor of English at Saint Louis University and the author of Lincoln in His Own Time, Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age, and American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History.
American Literary Realism and Naturalism Gary Scharnhorst, series editor
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Schooling Readers
Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Allison Speicher Schooling Readers takes up a largely unexplored genre of fiction, the common school narrative, popular between 1830 and 1890. These stories both propagate and challenge the myth of the idyllic one-room school, and reveal Americans’ perceptions of and anxieties about public education, many of which still resonate today. Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century, though often now forgotten. Despite hailing from different regions with diverse histories and cultures, authors in all parts of the US produced remarkably similar school fictions. These stories, rather than offering idealized depictions of earnest schoolchildren in humble, rough-hewn schoolhouses, expose common schools as sites of both community bonding and social strife. These stories, Speicher shows, reflect surprisingly contemporary problems like school violence and apprehensions about assessments. In four insightful sections, Speicher illuminates the plotlines that define the common school narrative: school exhibitions, in which common schools were opened to the public for a day of student performances; romances between teachers and students; violence against teachers; and teachers adopting their students. She offers rich examples from one hundred and thirty school stories by well-known authors such as Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Edward Eggleston, as well as by educational reform pioneers such as C. W. Bardeen and long-forgotten contributors to nineteenth-century magazines.
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By reading these fictions alongside the discourse of reformers like Horace Mann, Speicher illustrates the utility of fiction for uncovering the diverse reactions nineteenth-century Americans had to the expansion of public education as well as the role fiction played in shaping these responses. Throughout she maintains a dual focus, drawing on both literary and educational history, thereby offering much of value to those interested in either field. Allison Speicher is an assistant professor of English teaching children’s literature and nineteenth-century American literature at Eastern Connecticut State University.
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ALABAMA / AUBURN / EDUCATION
The Village on the Plain Auburn University, 1856–2006 Dwayne Cox
The Village on the Plain: Auburn University, 1856–2006 tells the story of the founding of Auburn University as a small private college and the tumultuous history of its growth and transformation into the complex institution it is today. Long overdue for an institutional history, Auburn University possesses a rich and storied past. Dwayne Cox’s The Village on the Plain traces the school’s history in authoritative detail from its origins as a private college through its emergence as a complex land-grant university. Originally founded prior to the Civil War with an emphasis on classical education, Auburn became the state’s land-grant college after the cessation of hostilities. This infused the school with a vision of the South as a commercial and industrial rival to the North. By the 1880s, instruction in applied science had become Auburn’s curricular version of this “New South” creed. Like most southern universities, Auburn never enjoyed financial abundance, creating scarcity that intensified internal debate over whether liberal arts or applied disciplines deserved more of the school’s limited resources. Meager state funding for higher education complicated Auburn’s rise and became a source of competition with the University of Alabama. This rivalry was perhaps most intense between 1908 and 1948, when the two schools did not meet on the gridiron, but blocked and tackled one another in the legislature over the division of state funds. Like many universities founded in somewhat isolated locations during the antebellum period, Auburn developed an insular culture, which hindered the school’s progress in issues related to race. Cox traces how this insularity also found expression in the school’s resistance to outside academic regulatory organizations as well as in conflicts over the university’s governance. Auburn University’s history is that of a small private college that transformed itself in the face of sweeping national events and state politics, not only to survive threats but to emerge more complex and resilient. Offering much to students of higher education and Alabama history, as well as readers affiliated with Auburn University, The Village on the Plain tells the story of this complex and fascinating institution.
MAY 6 X 9 / 368 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1909-0 / $39.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8975-8 / $39.95S EBOOK “Dwayne Cox’s The Village on the Plain provides a model of higher education history. He has connected Auburn’s past and present to tell a lively story that balances achievements and controversies. Most exciting is that he connects its institutional history to the South’s distinctive local, regional, and state history. Cox connects his original archival research and documents to major themes and secondary sources making Auburn University integral to the heritage of American higher education. His timing is perfect, with nationwide celebration of the land-grant legacy.” —John R. Thelin, author of Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics and A History of American Higher Education
Dwayne Cox holds a PhD in history from the University of Kentucky and serves as Head of Special Collections and Archives at Auburn University.
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Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Creating Citizens
Edited by Brigitta R. Brunner Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities. They demonstrate the surprising and robust ways such programs bolster and enhance the mission of land-grand institutions. In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal arts curricula and powerfully advances the fundamental mission of American land-grand institutions. The nine essays in Creating Citizens offer structures for incorporating CCE initiatives into university programs, instructional methods and techniques, and numerous case studies and examples undertaken at Auburn University but applicable at any university. Many contributors describe their own rewarding experiences with CCE and emphasize the ways outreach efforts reinvigorate their teaching or research. Creating Citizens recounts the foundation of land-grant institutions by the Morrill Act of 1862. Their mission is to instruct in agriculture, military science, and mechanics, but these goals augmented rather than replaced an education in the classics, or liberal arts. Land-grant institutions, therefore, have a special calling to provide a broad spectrum of society with an education that not only enriched the personal lives of their students, but the communities they are a part of. Creating Citizens demonstrates the important opportunities CCE instruction represents to any university but are especially close to the heart of the mission of land-grant colleges.
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CONTRIBUTORS Kelly D. Alley / Barb Bondy / Elizabeth Brestan-Knight / Brigitta R. Brunner / Nan Fairley / Anne-Katrin Gramberg / William E. Kelly / Christopher McNulty / Iulia Pittman / James Emmett Ryan / Kyes Stevens / Timothy S. Thornberry Jr. / Chad Wickman
In open societies, the role and mission of public institutions of higher learning that are supported by public subsidies are perennial subjects of interest and debate. Creating Citizens provides valuable insights of interest to educators, education administrators, students, and policy makers involved in the field of higher education. Brigitta R. Brunner is a professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University. She has served as the associate director for the Public Relations Program, a research fellow with the Imagining America Engaged Undergraduate Research Group, a College of Liberal Arts Engaged Scholar, an Auburn University Provost’s Fellow, a fellow in the Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program, and a fellow in the Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership in Diversity program sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
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RELIGION / HISTORY
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century Wayne Flynt Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century offers a fascinating collection of essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt that illuminates the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants. Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a collection of fifteen essays by award-winning scholar Wayne Flynt that explores and reveals the often-forgotten religious heterogeneity of the American South. Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with issues such as poverty, social change, labor reform, civil rights, and party politics, and Flynt’s writing reaffirms religion as the lens through which southerners understand and attempt to answer these contentious questions. In Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century, however, Flynt gently but persuasively dispels the myth—comforting to some and dismaying to others—of religion in the South as an inert cairn of reactionary conservatism. Flynt introduces a wealth of stories about individuals and communities of faith whose beliefs and actions map the South’s web of theological fault lines. In the early twentieth century, North Carolinian pastor Alexander McKelway became a relentless crusader against the common practice of child labor. In 1972, Rev. Dr. Ruby Kile, in a time of segregated churches led by men, took the helm of the eight-member Powderly Faith Deliverance Center in Jefferson County, Alabama and built the fledgling group into a robust congregation with more than 700 black and white worshippers. Flynt also examines the role of religion in numerous pivotal court cases, such as the US Supreme Court school prayer case Engel v. Vitale, whose majority opinion was penned by Justice Hugo Black, an Alabamian. These fascinating case studies and many more illuminate a religious landscape of far more varied texture and complexity than is commonly believed.
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“Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a splendid retrospective of a great scholar’s career. Flynt dismantles generalizations, shows individual complexity, and, as the title suggests, reveals ‘diversity,’ as well as any scholar I know.” —Paul Harvey, coauthor of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America and the author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865–1925
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century offers much to readers and scholars interested in the South, religion, and theology. Writing with his hallmark wit, warmth, and erudition, Flynt’s Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century is a vital record of gospel-inspired southerners whose stories revivify sclerotic assumptions about the narrow conformity of southern Christians. Wayne Flynt is a distinguished professor emeritus at Auburn University and the author or coauthor of twelve books to date. His numerous awards include the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing, and induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor.
Religion and American Culture John M. Giggie and Charles A. Israel, series editors
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Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South Colin B. Chapell Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the “New South” period, which took place from 1877 to 1915, in ways that continue to manifest themselves today. Modernity remade much of the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was nowhere more transformational than in the American South. In the wake of the Civil War, the region not only formed new legal, financial, and social structures, but citizens of the South also faced disorienting uncertainty about personal identity and even gender itself. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him traces the changes in southern gender roles during the New South period of 1877–1915 and demonstrates that religion is the key to perceiving how constructions of gender changed. The Civil War cleaved southerners from the culture they had developed organically during antebellum decades, raising questions that went to the very heart of selfhood: What does it mean to be a man? How does a good woman behave? Unmoored from traditional anchors of gender, family, and race, southerners sought guidance from familiar sources: scripture and their churches. In Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him, Colin Chapell traces how concepts of gender evolved within the majority Baptist and Methodist denominations as compared to the more fluid and innovative Holiness movement.
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Grounded in expansive research into the archives of the Southern Baptist Convention; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and the Holiness movement, Chapell’s writing is also enlivened by a rich trove of primary sources: diaries, sermons, personal correspondence, published works, and unpublished memoirs. Chapell artfully contrasts the majority Baptist and Methodist view of gender with the relatively radical approaches of the emerging Holiness movement, thereby bringing into focus how subtle differences in belief gave rise to significantly different ideas of gender roles. Scholars have explored class, race, and politics as factors that contributed to contemporary southern identity, and Chapell restores theology to its intuitive place at the center of southern identity. Probing and illuminating, Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him offers much of interest to scholars and readers of the South, southern history, and religion. Colin B. Chapell teaches history at the University of Memphis.
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MEMOIR / JUDAIC STUDIES / TEXAS
Memories of Two Generations A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas Alexander Z. Gurwitz
Memories of Two Generations is the 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history.
Memories of Two Generations
In 1901, at the age of fifty-one, Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz made the bold decision to emigrate with his wife and four children from southeastern Ukraine in Tsarist Russia to begin a new life in Texas. In 1935, in his seventies, Gurwitz composed a retrospective autobiography, Memories of Two Generations, that recounts his personal story both of the rich history of the lost Jewish world of Eastern Europe and of the rambunctious development of frontier Jewish communities in the United States. In both Europe and America, Gurwitz inhabited an almost exclusively Jewish world. As a boy, he studied in traditional yeshivas and earned a living as a Hebrew language teacher and kosher butcher. Widely travelled, Gurwitz recalls with wit and insight daily life in European shtetls, providing perceptive and informative comments about Jewish religion, history, politics, and social customs. Among the book’s most notable features is his first-hand, insider’s account of the yearly Jewish holiday cycle as it was observed in the nineteenth century, described as he experienced it as a child. Gurwitz’s account of his arrival in Texas forms a cornerstone record of the Galveston Immigration Movement; this memoir represents the only complete narrative of that migration from an immigrant’s point of view. Gurwitz’s descriptions about the development of a thriving Orthodox community in San Antonio provide an important and unique primary source about a facet of American Jewish life that is not widely known. Gurwitz wrote his memoir in his preferred Yiddish, and this translation into English by Rabbi Amram Prero captures the lyrical style of the original. Scholar and author Bryan Edward Stone’s special introduction and illuminating footnotes round out a superb edition that offers much to experts and general readers alike. Bryan Edward Stone is a professor of history at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, and has taught as a visiting professor at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His book The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas won the Southern Jewish Historical Society Book Prize in 2011. Rabbi Amram Prero served as a rabbi in Lexington, Kentucky, and Rochester, Minnesota; directed the Hillel Society at the University of Florida in Gainesville; and served as national director of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission and the American Zionist Youth Commission.
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A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas A LE X A NDER Z. GURW ITZ
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Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Mark K. Bauman and Adam Mendelsohn, series editors
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HISTORY / LATIN AMERICA / MEXICO
The Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence Barry Robinson
The Mark of Rebels explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independence. In The Mark of Rebels Barry Robinson offers a new look at Mexican Independence from the perspective of an indigenous population caught in the heart of the struggle. During the conquest and settlement of Mexico’s Western Sierra Madre, Spain’s indigenous allies constructed an indio fronterizo identity for their ethnically diverse descendants. These communities used their special status to maintain a measure of autonomy during the colonial era, but the cultural shifts of the late colonial period radically transformed the relationship between these indios fronterizos and their neighbors. Marshalling an extensive array of archival material from Mexico, the United States, and Spain, Robinson shows that indio fronterizo participation in the Mexican wars of independence grafted into the larger Hidalgo Revolt through alignment with creole commanders. Still, a considerable gulf existed between the aims of indigenous rebels and the creole leadership. Consequently, the privileges that the indios fronterizos sought to preserve continued to diminish, unable to survive either the late colonial reforms of the Spanish regime or creole conceptions of race and property in the formation of the new nation-state.
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This story suggests that Mexico’s transition from colony to nation can only be understood by revisiting the origins of the colonial system and by recognizing the role of Spain’s indigenous allies in both its construction and demolition. The study relates events in the region to broader patterns of identity, loyalty, and subversion throughout the Americas, providing insight into the process of mestizaje that is commonly understood to have shaped Latin America. It also foreshadows the popular conservatism of the nineteenth century and identifies the roots of post-colonial social unrest. This book provides new context for scholars, historians, ethnographers, anthropologists, and anyone interested in the history of Mexico, colonization, Native Americans, and the Age of Revolutions. Barry Robinson is an associate professor of history at Queens University of Charlotte and the coeditor of Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
Universal Theory of Pottery Production
Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography Richard A. Krause By an analysis of ceramic production, appendage, and decorative techniques at the Paso del Indio archaeological site in Puerto Rico, Richard A. Krause’s A Universal Theory of Pottery Production offers new insight into a classic theory of pottery manufacture by production steps and stages. In A Universal Theory of Pottery Production, award-winning archaeologist Richard A. Krause presents an ethnographic account of pottery production based on archaeological evidence. Krause posits that the careful study of an archaeological site’s ceramics can be used to formulate a step-and-stage theory of pottery production for the area. Krause’s work suggests that by comparing the results of inquiries conducted at different sites and for different times, archaeologists may be able to create a general ethnographic theory of pottery production. Krause demonstrates this process through a comprehensive analysis of potsherds from the highly stratified Puerto Rican site of Paso del Indio. He first provides a comprehensive explanation of the archaeological concepts of attribute, mode, feature, association, site, analysis, and classification. Using these seven concepts, he categorizes the production and decorative techniques in the Paso del Indio site. Krause then applies the concept of “focal form vessels” to the site’s largest fragments to test his step-and-stage theory of production against the evidence they provide. Finally, he assigns the ceramics at Paso del Indio to previously discussed potting traditions. Unlike other books on the subject that use statistical methods to frame basic archaeological concepts, Krause approaches these topics from the perspective of epistemology and the explicatory practices of empirical science. In A Universal Theory of Pottery Production Krause offers much of interest to North American, Caribbean, and South American archaeologists interested in the manufacture, decoration, and classification of prehistoric pottery, as well as for archaeologists interested in archaeological theory.
APRIL 6 X 9 / 240 PAGES 53 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS / 1 MAP / 9 TABLES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1898-7 / $54.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8944-4 / $54.95S EBOOK “Krause shows how Rouse has had an impact on continental American archaeology, and I suspect that relatively few scholars are aware of these aspects of Rouse’s work.” —Sander van der Leeuw, coeditor of Time, Process, and Structured Transformation in Archaeology “A Universal Theory of Pottery Production deals with a very important topic that is all but ignored by new generations of American archaeologists: the theory behind classification systems. It will be of interest not only to Caribbean archaeologists, but also to scholars of the history of archaeology and anthropology.” —Antonio Curet, author of Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean
Richard A. Krause is a professor emeritus of archaeology at the University of Alabama and senior archaeologist at Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research. He is the author of several books and archaeological monographs, including The Clay Sleeps: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Three African Potters, The Leavenworth Site: Archaeology of an Historic Arikara Community, and The Snodgrass Small Mound and Middle Tennessee Valley Prehistory and is a coauthor of The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory.
Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory L. Antonio Curet, series editor
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ARCHAEOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions Edited by David H. Dye New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee is a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era. New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction of these dams flooded hundreds of thousands of square miles of river bottoms, campsites, villages, and towns that had been homes to Native Americans for centuries. This triggered an urgent need to undertake extensive archaeological fieldwork throughout the region. Those studies continue to influence contemporary archaeology. The state of Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley were especially well suited research targets thanks to their mild climate and long field seasons. A third benefit in the 1930s was the abundance of labor supplied by Tennesseans unemployed during the Great Depression. Within months of the passage of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, teams of archaeologists fanned out across the state and region under the farsighted direction of Smithsonian Institution curators Neil M. Judd, Frank H. H. Roberts, and Frank M. Setzler. The early months of 1934 would become the busiest period of archaeological fieldwork in US history. The twelve insightful essays in New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee document and explore this unique peak in archaeological study. Chapters highlight then-new techniques such as mound “peeling� and stratigraphic excavation adapted from the University of Chicago; the four specific New Deal sites of Watts Bar Reservoir, Mound Bottom, Pack, and Chickamauga Basin; bioarchaeology in the New Deal; and the enduring impact of the New Deal on contemporary fieldwork.
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CONTRIBUTORS Thaddeus G. Bissett / Jessica Dalton-Carriger / David H. Dye / Marlin F. Hawley / Jessica R. Howe / Shannon Koerner / Bernard K. Means / Michael C. Moore / Gerald F. Schroedl / Douglas W. Schwartz / Kevin E. Smith / Dawnie Wolfe Steadman / Lynne P. Sullivan / Giovanna M. Vidoli / Heather Worne
The challenges of the 1930s in recruiting skilled labor, training unskilled ancillary labor, developing and improvising new field methods, and many aspects of archaeological policies, procedures, and best-practices laid much of the foundation of contemporary archaeological practice. New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee offers an invaluable record of that pivotal time for professional, student, and amateur archaeologists. David H. Dye is a professor of archaeology at the University of Memphis. He is the author of War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America and the editor of Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices explores the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology in popular culture and the ways that professional archaeologists can respond to sensationalized depictions of archaeology and archaeologists. Lost City, Found Pyramid into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to contemporary ghost-hunting and reality TV. It examines how nonscientific pursuit of myths and legends warps both public perceptions of archaeology and of human history itself. A collection of twelve engaging and insightful essays, Lost City, Found Pyramid does far more than argue for the simple debunking of false archaeology. Rather, they bring into focus the value of understanding how and why pseudoarchaeology captures the public imagination. By comprehending pseudoarchaeology’s appeal as a media product, cultural practice, and communication strategy, archaeologists can enhance and enliven how they communicate about real archaeology in the classroom and in the public arena. The first part of Lost City, Found Pyramid provides numerous case studies. Some examine the work of well-intentioned romantics who project onto actual archaeological data whimsical interpretative frameworks or quixotic “proofs” that confirm legends, such as that of the Lost White City of Honduras, or other alternative claims. Other case studies lay bare how false claims may inadvertently lead to the perpetuation of ethnic stereotypes, economic exploitation, political adventurism, and a misunderstanding of science.
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CONTRIBUTORS David S. Anderson / Terry Barnhart / Christopher Begley / April M. Beisaw / James S. Bielo / Deborah A. Bolnick / Jeb J. Card / Stacy Dunn / Kenneth L. Feder / Denis Gojak / Bradley T. Lepper / Evan A. Parker / Tera C. Pruitt
Offering much of interest to scholars and students of archaeology, archaeology buffs, as well as policy-makers involved in the discovery, curation, and care of archaeological sites and relics, Lost City, Found Pyramid provides an invaluable corrective and hopeful strategy for engaging the public’s curiosity with the compelling world of archaeological discovery. Jeb J. Card is a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Miami University in Ohio. He is the editor of The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture. David S. Anderson is a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Roanoke College and the coeditor of Constructing Legacies of Mesoamerica: Archaeological Practices and the Politics of Heritage.
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HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE / LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America
An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court William S. Belko
Phillip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America is the definitive biography of a Virginia legislator and jurist whose life and career mirror the transformational decades of US history between the War of 1812 and the end of the Mexican American War in 1848.
PHILIP PENDLETON BARBOUR
William S. Belko’s Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America provides the first comprehensive biography of a pivotal yet nearly forgotten statesman who made numerous key contributions to a transformative period of early American history. Barbour, a Virginia lawyer, participated in America’s transition from a mostly republican government to a truer majority democracy, notably while serving as the twelfth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and later as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. After being elected to the US Congress during the War of 1812, Barbour also emerged as one of the foremost champions of states’ rights, consistently and energetically fighting against expansions of federal powers. He, along with other Jeffersonian Old Republicans, opposed federal plans for a national tariff and internal improvements. Later, Barbour became one of the first Jeffersonian politicians to join the Jacksonian Democrats in Jackson’s war against a national bank. Barbour continued to make crucial strides in support of states’ rights after taking his seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1836 under Chief Justice Roger Taney. He contributed to the Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge and Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky decisions, which bolstered states’ rights. He also delivered the opinion of the court in New York v. Miln, which provided the basis for the State Police Powers Doctrine. Expertly interweaving biography, history, political science, and jurisprudence, Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America remembers the man whose personal life and career were emblematic of the decades in which the United States moved from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Jackson, contributing to developments that continue to animate American politics today.
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Jacksonian America An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court
WILLIAM S. BELKO
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William S. Belko is the executive director of the Missouri Humanities Council and the author of The Triumph of the Antebellum Free Trade Movement (winner of the 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award) and The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West. He is also the editor of America’s Hundred Years’ War: US Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763–1858.
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CIVIL WAR / MILITARY HISTORY
Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America’s Bloodiest Day
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T HE F IGHT FOR THE C ONFEDER ATE LEFT & CENTER ON A MERICA’S BLOODIEST DAY
Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam offers a definitive guide to the Confederate army’s primary engagements at the epic Battle of Antietam. With its companion volume about the Union side, Unfurl Those Colors!, the two provide a detailed chronicle of America’s bloodiest day. With a tally of more than five thousand killed, twenty thousand wounded, and three thousand missing, the Battle of Antietam made September 17, 1862, the deadliest day of combat in American history. In Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam, Antietam scholar Marion V. Armstrong Jr. completes his magisterial study of Antietam begun in Unfurl Those Colors! by examining Robert E. Lee’s leadership at the climactic battle in the Confederate invasion of Union territory. Eminent Civil War historians consider Antietam the turning point of the war. Hoping to maintain the initiative they had gained at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate leaders looked to a stunning victory on Northern soil to sour Northern sentiment on the war as well as to coax European powers to recognize the fledgling Confederacy. Having examined McClellan’s command and role at Antietam in Unfurl Those Colors!, Armstrong now recounts in riveting detail Lee’s command decisions and their execution in the field, drawing on a superlative collection of first-person accounts by Confederate veterans to narrate the cataclysmic struggle between Lee and McClellan. Armstrong sets the stage with a lively recap of the political and military events leading up to the early fall of 1862 and foreshadowing the conflagration to come on September 17. Each chapter then traces a critical section of the battle, the fight for the West Woods and the bloody engagement of the Sunken Road. Armstrong augments this collection with an exceptional set of maps, which will be valued by scholars, readers, and visitors to the battlefield. These unique maps delineate troop movements in intervals as brief as fifteen minutes, bringing to life the fluid, mutable lines that characterize the glory and horror of Antietam. Either together with Unfurl Those Colors! or as a stand-alone account of the Confederate side of the battle, Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam provides the fullest possible understanding of the experience of Confederate soldiers at Antietam.
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Marion V. Armstrong Jr. is the author of Unfurl Those Colors: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign. He is a retired US Army reserve officer and teaches history at Middle Tennessee State University.
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Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama Paternalism, Race, and the New South Creed Brent J. Aucoin
Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I. This first comprehensive biography of Thomas Goode Jones records the life of a man whose political career reflects the fascinating and unsettled history of Alabama and the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. Often overshadowed by the pharaonic antebellum period, the Civil War, and the luminous heights of the civil rights movement, the deceptively placid decades at the turn of the century were, in fact, a period when southerners fiercely debated the course of the South’s future. In tracing Jones’s career, Brent J. Aucoin offers vivid accounts of the great events and trends of that pivotal period: Reconstruction, the birth of the “Solid South,” the Populist Revolt, and the establishment of racial disenfranchisement and segregation. Born in 1844, Jones served in the Confederate army and after the war identified as a conservative “Bourbon” Democrat. He served as Alabama’s governor from 1890 to 1894 and as a federal judge from 1901 until his death in 1914. As a veteran, politician, and judge, Jones embodied numerous roles in the shifting political landscape of the South. Jones was not, however, a reflexive conformist and sometimes pursued policies at odds with his party. Jones’s rhetoric and support of African American civil rights were exceptional and earned him truculent criticism from unrepentant racist factions in his party. His support was so fearless that it inspired Booker T. Washington to recommend Jones to Republican president Theodore Roosevelt as a federal judge. On the bench, Jones garnered national attention for his efforts to end peonage and lynching, and yet he also enabled the establishment of legalized segregation in Alabama, confounding attempts easily to categorize him as an odious reactionary or fearless progressive. A man who both represented and differed from his class, Thomas Goode Jones offers contemporary readers and scholars an ideal subject of study to understand a period of southern history that still shapes American life today.
JULY 6 X 9 / 288 PAGES / 2 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1913-7 / $54.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8988-8 / $54.95S EBOOK “Brent Aucoin has performed a real service by rescuing Governor (and Judge) Jones from obscurity and explaining his importance not only to Alabama history but to American civil rights history. The book—particularly its vivid account of Jones’s legal fight against peonage—portrays Jones as a man who, like his fictional counterpart Atticus Finch, lived a complex and sometimes contradictory life as he tried to balance justice against the racial mores of the Jim Crow-era South.” —Joseph A. Ranney, author of In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law “I wish that I had read this before I wrote my book on Booker T. Washington. It would have improved my understanding of Alabama politics in the 1890s.” —Robert J. Norrell, author of Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington and Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
Brent J. Aucoin is an associate dean and a professor of history at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900–1910.
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RHETORIC / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity Patricia G. Davis Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity explores the practices and cultural institutions that define and sustain African American “southernness,” demonstrating that southern identity is more expansive than traditional narratives that center on white culture. In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern identity was monolithically white. Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory—battlefields, museums, online communities—has dispelled the mirage of “southernness” as a stolid cairn of white culture and has begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes contributions by all of the region’s peoples. Laying Claim offers insightful and penetrating examinations of African American participation in Civil War reenactments; the role of black history museums in enriching representations of the Civil War era with more varied interpretations; and the internet as a forum within which participants exchange and create historical narratives that offer alternatives to unquestioned and dominant public memories. From this evolving cultural landscape, Davis demonstrates how simplistic caricatures of African American experiences are giving way to more authentic, expansive, and inclusive interpretations of southernness.
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As a case study and example of change, Davis cites the evolution of depictions of life at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Where visitors to the site once encountered narratives that repeated the stylized myth of Monticello as a genteel idyll, modern accounts of Jefferson’s day offer a holistic, inclusive, and increasingly honest view of Monticello as the residents on every rung of the social ladder experienced it. Contemporary violence and attacks about or inspired by the causes, outcomes, and symbols of the Civil War, even one hundred and fifty years after its end, add urgency to Davis’s argument that the control and creation of public memories of that war is an issue of concern not only to scholars but all Americans. Her hopeful examination of African American participation in public memory illuminates paths by which this enduring ideological impasse may find resolutions. Patricia G. Davis is an assistant professor of communication at Georgia State University.
Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique John Louis Lucaites, series editor
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HISTORY / MILITARY / UNITED STATES
Wolfhounds and Polar Bears The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920 Col. John M. House, US Army (Ret.) Wolfhounds and Polar Bears details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force’s (AEF) deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad. In the final months of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and many US allies decided to intervene in Siberia in order to protect Allied wartime and business interests, among them the Trans-Siberian Railroad, from the turmoil surrounding the Russian revolution. American troops would remain until April 1920 with some of our allies keeping troops in Siberia even longer. Few American citizens have any idea that the United States ever deployed soldiers to Siberia and that those soldiers eventually played a role in the Russian revolution while protecting the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Wolfhounds and Polar Bears relies on the detailed reports of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) as well as on personal stories to bring this rarely discussed expedition to life. Initial chapters recount the period in World War I when conditions in Russia pointed to the need for intervention as well as the varied reasons for that decision. A description of the military forces and the geographic difficulties faced by those forces operating in Siberia provide the baseline necessary to understand the AEF’s actions in Siberia. A short discussion of the Russian Railway Service Corps explains their essential and sometimes overlooked role in this story, and subsequent chapters provide a description of actual operations by the AEF. Wolfhounds and Polar Bears may well be the most detailed study of the military aspects of the American intervention in Siberia ever undertaken, offering a multitude of details not available in any other booklength history. Col. John M. House served in command and staff positions in the United States, Germany, South Korea, and Southwest Asia (Desert Shield and Desert Storm). House retired from the Army as a colonel in 2001 after twenty-six years in uniform. After retirement from the Army, he worked as a consultant and Army civilian employee and is now the president of John House, LLC. House is also a part time faculty member at Walden University, Columbus State University, and Northcentral University, and the author of Why War? Why an Army?
MAY 6 X 9 / 304 PAGES 27 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS / 9 MAPS / 10 TABLES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1889-5 / $49.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8898-0 / $49.95S EBOOK “I highly recommend this well-researched book on a US military operation that has been forgotten by most Americans. Our government ordered ten thousand men, which included two US infantry regiments to land at the Port of Vladivostok, Russia. Their mission was to protect US military supplies, property, and to assist the Czech Legion to evacuate Russia. This is one history lesson that will amaze you as you learn the fate of the American Expeditionary Force Siberia during its nineteen months in an unforgiving land.” —Z. Frank Hanner, director of the National Infantry Museum, Columbus, Georgia “John House displays a breadth of knowledge about the United States involvement in Siberia that is nothing short of phenomenal. Hugely researched and extremely well written. He has a crisp, clear style that allows him to lay out details that bring the larger themes to life. An understanding of common history between two nations is important to the road ahead and House helps us understand that and put it in context.” —Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, former director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management Mordecai Lee
A Presidential Civil Service is a masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission.
A Presidential Civil Service F D R’S L I A S O N O F F I C E for P E R S O N N E L M A N AG E M E N T
The Progressive Movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries comprised fissiparous groups across the political spectrum with quite different. All, however, agreed on the need for a politically autonomous and independent federal Civil Service Commission (CSC) to eliminate patronage and political favoritism. In A Presidential Civil Service, public administration scholar Mordecai Lee explores two models open to later reformers: continuing a merit-based system isolated from politics or a management-based system subordinated to the executive and grounded in the growing field of managerial science. Roosevelt’s 1937 Brownlow Committee, formally known as the President’s Committee on Administrative Management, has been widely studied including its recommendation to disband the CSC and replace it with a presidential personnel director. What has never been documented in detail was Roosevelt’s effort to implement that recommendation over the objections of Congress by establishing the LOPM as a nonstatutory agency. The role and existence of LOPM from 1939 to 1945 has been largely dismissed in the history of public administration. Lee’s meticulously researched A Presidential Civil Service, however, persuasively shows that LOPM played a critical role in overseeing personnel policy. It was involved in every major HR initiative before and during World War II. Though small, the agency’s deft leadership almost always succeeded at impelling the CSC to follow its lead. Roosevelt’s actions were in fact an artful and creative victory, a move finally vindicated when, in 1978, Congress abolished the CSC and replaced it with an Office of Personnel Management headed by a presidential appointee. A Presidential Civil Service offers a fascinating account and vital reassessment of the enduring legacy of Roosevelt’s LOPM. Mordecai Lee is a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Bureaus of Efficiency: Reforming Local Government in the Progressive Era; Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency: The US Bureau of Efficiency, 1916–1933; and The First Presidential Communications Agency: FDR’s Office of Government Reports. Lee has also served as an elected member of the Wisconsin State Legislature Assembly and Senate.
Public Admin: Criticism and Creativity Camilla Stivers, series editor
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APRIL 6 X 9 / 264 PAGES / 1 B&W ILLUSTRATION ISBN: 978-0-8173-1899-4 / $49.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8945-1 / $49.95S EBOOK “Lee’s deep knowledge, style, scholarship, and mastery of detail make him one of very best historians of US public administration. This is and will remain the definitive study of the origin of the US Presidential Liaison Office for Personnel Management and the long run-up to the establishment of the present-day US Office of Personnel Management. There is much more here about public administration than the establishment and development of the Liaison Office itself, however. Many of the arguments about merit versus management in A Presidential Civil Service continue to animate civil service reform today.” —David H. Rosenbloom, author of Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State, 1946–1999 “An impressive work of scholarship, A Presidential Civil Service synthesizes a vast amount of archival research. Lee’s extensive use of primary sources not only bolsters his findings but also adds color and depth to the story. His most important contribution is his challenge of conventional interpretations of the Brownlow report and its aftermath. Until now, attention has been focused on the report itself and on FDR’s failure to gain congressional approval of its central elements. Lee makes a strong case that, in fact, FDR managed to achieve his key purpose of centralized control over federal personnel policy with the creation of the Liaison Office for Personnel Management.” —James Thompson, associate professor of public administration, University of Illinois-Chicago
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HISTORY / SOUTHERN / ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Far East, Down South Asians in the American South
Edited by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki
Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South offers a collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in the American southeast. In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South, with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement, has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki provide a collection of essential essays that restores and explores an overlooked part of the South’s story— that of Asian immigration to the region. These essays form a comprehensive overview of key episodes and issues in the history of Asian immigrants to the South. During Reconstruction, southern entrepreneurs experimented with the replacement of slave labor with Chinese workers. As in the West, Chinese laborers played a role in the development of railroads. Japanese farmers also played a more widespread role than is usually believed. Filipino sailors recruited by the US Navy in the early decades of the twentieth century often settled with their families in the vicinity of naval ports such as Corpus Christi, Biloxi, and Pensacola. Internment camps brought Japanese Americans to Arkansas. Marriages between American servicemen and Japanese, Korean, Filipina, Vietnamese, and nationals in other theaters of war created many thousands of blended families in the South. In recent decades, the South is the destination of internal immigration as Asian Americans spread out from immigrant enclaves in West Coast and Northeast urban areas. Taken together, the book’s essays document numerous fascinating themes: the historic presence of Asians in the South dating back to the mid-nineteenth century; the sources of numerous waves of contemporary Asian immigration to the South; and the steady spread of Asians out from the coastal port cities. Far East, Down South adds a vital new dimension to popular understanding of southern history.
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CONTRIBUTORS Christopher A. Airriess / Daniel Bronstein / Angela Chia-Chen Chen / John Howard / John Jung / Verna M. Keith / Karen J. Leong / Wei Li / Vincent H. Melomo / Raymond A. Mohl / David M. Reimers / Greg Robinson / Chizuru Saeki / John E. Van Sant / Wenxian Zhang
Raymond A. Mohl was a distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He is the author of Poverty in New York, 1783–1825 and the founding editor of the Journal of Urban History. John E. Van Sant is the author of Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850–80, the editor of Mori Arinori’s Life and Resources in America, and a coauthor of Historical Dictionary of United States–Japan Relations. Chizuru Saeki is the author of US Cultural Propaganda in Cold War Japan: Promoting Democracy 1948–1960.
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RHETORIC / COMMUNICATIONS
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things Edited by Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality. A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects. The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively overturn the stubborn assumption that objects are passive tools in the hands of objective human agents. Rhetoric has proved that forms of communication such as digital images, advertising, and political satires do much more than simply lie dormant, and Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things shows that objects themselves also move, circulate, and produce opportunities for new rhetorical publics and new rhetorical actions. Objects are not simply inert tools but are themselves vibrant agents of measurable power. Organizing the work of leading and emerging rhetoric scholars into four broad categories, the collection explores the role of objects in rhetorical theory, histories of rhetoric, visual rhetoric, literacy studies, rhetoric of science and technology, computers and writing, and composition theory and pedagogy. A rich variety of case studies about objects such as women’s bicycles in the nineteenth century, the QWERTY keyboard, and little free libraries ground this study in fascinating, real-life examples and build on human-centered approaches to rhetoric to consider how material elements—human and nonhuman alike—interact persuasively in rhetorical situations. Taken together, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things argues that the field of rhetoric’s recent attention to material objects should go further than simply open a new line of inquiry. To maximize the interdisciplinary turn to things, rhetoricians must seize the opportunity to reimagine and perhaps resolve rhetoric’s historically problematic relationship to physical reality and ontology. By tapping the rich resource of inanimate agents such as “fish, political posters, plants, and dragonflies,” rhetoricians can more fully grasp the rhetorical implications at stake in such issues.
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CONTRIBUTORS Cydney Alexis / Scot Barnett / Casey Boyle / James J. Brown Jr. / Marilyn M. Cooper / Kristie S. Fleckenstein / S. Scott Graham / Laurie Ellen Gries / Sarah O. Hallenbeck / William Hart–Davidson / Kim Lacey / Brian J. McNely / John Muckelbauer / Jodie Nicotra / Jason Palmeri / Thomas Rickert / Nathaniel A. Rivers / Kevin Rutherford / Donnie Johnson Sackey / Christa Teston / Katie Zabrowski
Scot Barnett is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University. Casey Boyle is an assistant professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique John Louis Lucaites, series editor
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The Politics of the Superficial Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display Brett Ommen
The Politics of the Superficial argues that the increasing volume of visually communicative surfaces in public life contributes to a very particular form of public imagination and political activity. In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the personal experience of aesthetics and individual identity. In space, viewers engage in the negotiation of meaning and collective belonging. Graphic design, then, fits the consumerist present precisely because it prompts viewers to differentiate between our collective commitments and individual sense of self. Ommen argues, for example, that on viewing a billboard, a driver isn’t merely being exposed to a set of commercial messages or exhortations, but rather responding in a self-aware way that differentiates her from her collective associations like Democrat, Republican, rich, poor, Catholic, or Jewish. By examining graphic design—as a profession, practice, and academic field—as the nexus for understanding visual display in public culture, The Politics of the Superficial develops two arguments about contemporary visual communication practices: first, that the study of visual communication privileges visual content at the expense of other dynamics, such as context; and second, that interpretations focusing on content conceal the most persuasive and subversive dimensions of the visual.
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Wide-ranging and stimulating, The Politics of the Superficial ultimately posits that, far from serving as a communal oasis for public imagination, contemporary visual culture offers the possibility for politically engaged communication and persuasion while simultaneously threatening the health of public discourse by atomizing its constituent parts. It will serve as a vital contribution to the field of visual rhetoric. Brett Ommen is an independent scholar and writer.
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RHETORIC / COMMUNICATIONS / URBAN STUDIES
Democracy’s Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention Candice Rai
Democracy’s Lot traces the communication strategies of various constituencies in a Chicago neighborhood, offering profound insights into the challenges that beset diverse urban populations and demonstrating persuasively rhetoric’s power to illuminate and resolve charged conflicts. Candice Rai’s Democracy’s Lot is an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts in urban communities. Rai roots her study of democratic politics and publics in a range of urban case studies focused on public art, community policing, and urban development. These studies examine the issues that erupted within an ethnically and economically diverse Chicago neighborhood over conflicting visions for a vacant lot called Wilson Yard. Tracing how residents with disparate agendas organized factions and deployed language, symbols, and other rhetorical devices in the struggle over Wilson Yard’s redevelopment and other contested public spaces, Rai demonstrates that rhetoric is not solely a tool of elite communicators, but rather a framework for understanding the agile communication strategies that are improvised in the rough-and-tumble work of democratic life. Wilson Yard, a lot eight blocks north of Wrigley Field in Chicago’s gentrifying Uptown neighborhood, is a diverse enclave of residents enlivened by recent immigrants from Guatemala, Mexico, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and elsewhere. The neighborhood’s North Broadway Street witnesses a daily multilingual hubbub of people from a wide spectrum of income levels, religions, sexual identifications, and interest groups. When a fire left the lot vacant, this divided community projected on Wilson Yard disparate and conflicting aspirations, the resolution of which not only determined the fate of this particular urban space, but also revealed the lot of democracy itself as a process of complex problem-solving. Rai’s detailed study of one block in an iconic American city brings into vivid focus the remarkable challenges that beset democratic urban populations anywhere on the globe—and how rhetoric supplies a framework to understand and resolve those challenges. Based on exhaustive field work, Rai uses rhetorical ethnography to study competing publics, citizenship, and rhetoric in action, exploring “rhetorical invention,” the discovery or development by individuals of the resources or methods of engaging with and persuading others. She builds a case for democratic processes and behaviors based not on reflexive idealism but rather on the hard work and practice of democracy, which must address apathy, passion, conflict, and ambivalence. Candice Rai is an assistant professor of English at the University of Washington.
DEMOCRACY’S LOT
RHETORIC, PUBLICS, AND THE PLACES OF INVENTION
CANDICE RAI
MARCH 6 X 9 / 288 PAGES 17 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS / 1 MAP / 6 TABLES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1900-7 / $54.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8946-8 / $54.95S EBOOK “Democracy’s Lot is one of the most interesting, original, and important studies I have read in a long time. Not only a fascinating story about gentrification and resistance in the contemporary North American city, it’s also a model of original sociological research, using a methodology the author calls ‘rhetorical ethnography,’ which combines the deep, sustained, social immersion of ethnography with the detailed, critical discourse analysis of rhetoric. Above all, Rai makes a timely, ground-breaking intervention into the study of contemporary democracy, putting the lie to both uncritical celebrations of free and open public spheres and radical critiques of democracy in the era of neoliberalism.” —David Fleming, author of City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America “Candice Rai presents an innovative methodological framework that employs textual analysis and fieldwork to study the inter actions of housing debates, street protests, public art, visceral bodily responses, and new media technologies. Fieldwork presents an exciting opportunity to expand the field of inquiry for rhetorical scholarship that typically lies outside of our reach. However, Rai adds to and extends this line of inquiry by drawing explicit connections between text-centered rhetorical themes and concepts (like topoi) and the field as a place of rhetorical practice.” —Robert Asen, coeditor of Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life
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Heightened Expectations
The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America Aimee Medeiros Heightened Expectations explores the complex relationship between the history of the social stigmatization of short stature in boys and the rise of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone industry. Heightened Expectations is a groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry. Drawing on medical and public health histories as well as on photography, film, music, prose, and other examples from popular culture, Aimee Medeiros tracks how the stigmatization of short stature in boys and growth hormone technology came together in the twentieth century. This book documents how the rise of modern capitalism and efforts to protect those most vulnerable to its harmful effects contributed to the social stigmatization of short statured children. Short boys bore the brunt of this discrimination by the mid-twentieth century, as cultural notions of masculinity deemed smallness a troubling trait in need of remedy. These boys became targets of growth hormone treatment, a trend accelerated by the development of effective HGH therapy in the late 1950s. With a revisionist twist, Medeiros argues that HGH therapy was not plagued by a limited number of sources of the hormone but rather a difficult-to-access supply during the 1960s and 1970s. The advent of synthetic HGH remedied this situation. Therapy was available, however, only to those who could afford it. Very few could, which made short stature once again a mark of the underprivileged class. Today, small boys with dreams of being taller remain the key customer base of the legitimate arm of the HGH industry. As gender and economic class disparities in treatment continue, some medical experts have alluded to patients’ parents as culprits of this trend. This book sheds light on how medicine’s attempt to make up for perceived physical shortcomings has deep roots in American culture. Of interest to historians and scholars of medicine, gender studies, and disability studies, Heightened Expectations also offers much to policy makers and those curious about where standards and therapies originate.
APRIL 6 X 9 / 244 PAGES / 14 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1910-6 / $39.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8962-8 / $39.95S EBOOK “Heightened Expectations offers a lively and engaging discussion of how short stature became a ‘disease’ in need of medical treatment. It convincingly demonstrates that the pathology‐ making of short stature dates back to the nineteenth century and is intertwined with the rise of modern capitalism.” —Heather Munro Prescott, author of A Doctor of Their Own and The Moring After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States “Heightened Expectations is an excellent treatment of a significant subject, the history of American ideas about height and medical approaches to issues of human growth, from the late 1800s onward. Medeiros’s treatment fits beautifully into the powerful and growing literature on the history of medicine, disability, gender, and the body.” —Amy Sue Bix, author of Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women and Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs
Aimee Medeiros is an assistant professor of the history of health sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Turning the Tide
The University of Alabama in the 1960s Earl H. Tilford
Turning the Tide is an institutional and cultural history of a dramatic decade of change at the University of Alabama set against the backdrop of desegregation, the continuing civil rights struggle, and the growing antiwar movement. “Turning the Tide is essential reading for anyone who ever worked for, attended, or has been a fan or supporter of the University of Alabama. Then, too, anyone interested in the way changes in higher education foretold changes in contemporary society during the tumultuous 1960s will be fascinated by this book.” —Roger Sayers, former president of the University of Alabama
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In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust Dan J. Puckett
In the Shadow of Hitler chronicles the experiences of Alabama Jews as they worked to overcome their own divisions in order to aid European Jews before, during, and after the Second World War.
“Puckett has written a wonderful examination of America’s Jews in Alabama and the Deep South, their conflict between orthodoxy and the more modern Reform Judaism, religious liberalism and cultural survival, and the realities of Jim Crow and Nazi mass murder. Every newspaper is examined, along with many organizations, archival documents, and synagogue newsletters— recorded in seventy-seven pages of detailed notes and bibliography. In the Shadow of Hitler is exhaustively researched, well written, and important.” —Journal of American History
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Dismembering the American Dream The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates Kate Charlton-Jones Foreword by DeWitt Henry Afterword by Monica Yates
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes’s adaption of the novel Revolutionary Road (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). Dismembering the American Dream is the first book-length critical study of Yates’s fiction. “The close reading of Yates’s fiction is enhanced and enabled by an awareness of how his own turbulent and unhappy life was explored and reflected in his work. Charlton-Jones’s research is impressive, as is her ability to apply it in a focused and acute way.... Dismembering the American Dream is an impressive piece of scholarship, redeeming Yates from misunderstanding and neglect.” —Times Literary Supplement
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Come Landfall A Novel
Roy Hoffman
Set along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the stories of three women and the men they love come together in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal.
“Hoffman’s generation-spanning novel of love, war, and hurricanes brings the Mississippi Gulf Coast vividly to life.” —Reader’s Digest
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After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature Edited by Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: How does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?
Child Abuse in the Deep South
Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics Lee W. Badger, Nicholas A. Green, L. Ralph Jones, and Julia A. Hartman This study of physical and sexual child abuse in the Deep South was designed to determine the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the state of Alabama, to identify the characteristics of confirmed child abuse, and to test the hypothesis that community size would contribute to a unique picture of the surveillance, reporting, and caseworker determination of abuse.
Ain’t Nothin’ But a Winner
Bear Bryant, The Goal Line Stand, and a Chance of a Lifetime Barry Krauss and Joe M. Moore
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A rollicking memoir from the linebacker at the heart of the most famous Alabama football play of all time.
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle This collection of 23 essays is the result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influence. Essays by contributors from the US, Japan, France, England, Thailand, and India explore the enduring themes of Steinbeck’s work and employ increasingly sophisticated literary critical methodologies to create a more subtle and theoretically grounded evaluation than has been previously possible of Steinbeck’s many works in multiple genres.
Coming Out of War
Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars Janis P. Stout American and British poetry, music, and visual art born of World Wars I and II.
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Language and Experience Ronald Berman
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/ novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the “age of jazz.”
Canons by Consensus
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Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies Joseph Csicsila Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout the 20th century.
Fanning the Spark Mary Ward Brown Fanning the Spark is the story of Mary Ward Brown’s life as a writer— her upbringing in rural Alabama; the joys of college, marriage, and motherhood; the sorrows of becoming a widow; and a lifelong devotion to writing, writers, and literature, and the company of those who shared those loves, nurturing and feeding her interior life in the face of many challenges, losses, and obstacles, both emotional and material.
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South The Other Invisible Institution John Macaulay “Macaulay does an excellent job of showing how much northern and southern Unitarianism diverged in the antebellum period. His argument that southern Unitarianism should be considered an independent denominational and intellectual movement is a convincing contribution to southern religion history.” —Journal of Southern History
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders Felice Flanery Lewis Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the Civil War. Particularly interesting for Civil War buffs are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
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AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX
After Strange Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Escobar, Ángel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Ain’t Nothin’ But a Winner . . . . . . . . 37
Exploring Wild Alabama . . . . . . . . . . 1
Anderson, David S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Fanning the Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Archaeopoetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Far East, Down South . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Armstrong Jr., Marion V. . . . . . . . . . 25
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway . . . . . 38
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Aucoin, Brent J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Flores, Juan Carlos . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Politics of the Superficial, The . . . . . . 32
Badger, Lee W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Flynt, Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Presidential Civil Service, A . . . . . . . 29
Barnett, Scot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Footprints in Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Puckett, Dan J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Belko, William S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Green, Nicholas A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Rai, Candice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Berman, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Gurwitz, Alexander Z. . . . . . . . . . . 19
Rodríguez, Reina María . . . . . . . . . 10
Beyond Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Hartman, Julia A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things . . . 31
Blackman, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hearle, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Robinson, Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Bloomfield, Mandy . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Heightened Expectations . . . . . . . . 34
Saeki, Chizuru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Boyle, Casey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Hex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Schooling Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza . . . 9
Hoffman, Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Shillinglaw, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Brown, Mary Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
House, John M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Brunner, Brigitta R. . . . . . . . . . . . 16
In the Shadow of Hitler . . . . . . . . . . 35
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century . . . 17
Bush, Harold K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Intimacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Speicher, Allison . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Buta, Ronald J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jay, Gregory S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Stout, Janis P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Canons by Consensus . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Jones, L. Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Card, Jeb J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Kiskis, Michael J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapell, Colin B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Kopaska-Merkel, David C. . . . . . . . . 3
Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama . . . . 26
Charlton-Jones, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Krause, Richard A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Thompson, Jeanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Child Abuse in the Deep South . . . . . . 37
Krauss, Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Tilford, Earl H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Come Landfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Laying Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Trailing Clouds of Glory . . . . . . . . . . 38
Coming Out of War . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Lee, Mordecai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Turning the Tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Continuing Bonds with the Dead . . . . 13
Lewis, Felice Flanery . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Lost City, Found Pyramid . . . . . . . . . 23
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Cox, Dwayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Crawford, Stanley . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Creating Citizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Csicsila, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Davenport, L. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Davis, Patricia G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Democracy’s Lot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Universal Theory of Pottery Production . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Mark of Rebels, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Van Sant, John E. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Mark Twain at Home . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Village on the Plain, The . . . . . . . . . 15
Medeiros, Aimee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Wills, Kenneth M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Memories of Two Generations . . . . . . 19
Windham, Kathryn Tucker . . . . . . . . 2
Miller, David L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Wolfhounds and Polar Bears . . . . . . 28
Mohl, Raymond A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Woodward, Angela . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Moore, Joe M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him . . . . . 18
Myth of Water, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Natural Wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Dye, David H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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