Spring 2018 Catalog by University of Alabama Press

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civil war / history / memoir

The Perfect Scout A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas George W. Quimby Edited by Anne Sarah Rubin and Stephen Murphy

A rare and dramatic first-person account by a Union scout who served General William Tecumseh Sherman on his “march to the sea” After his father-in-law passed away, Stephen Murphy found, among the voluminous papers left behind, an ancestral memoir. Murphy quickly became fascinated with the recollections of George W. Quimby (1842– 1926), a Union soldier and scout for General William Tecumseh Sherman. Before Quimby became a part of Sherman’s March, he was held captive by Nathan Bedford Forrest’s troops in western Tennessee. He joined Sherman’s Army in Vicksburg, destroying railroads and bridges across Mississippi and Alabama on the way to Georgia. As the notorious march began, Quimby became a scout and no longer experienced war as his fellow soldiers did. Scouts moved ahead of the troops to anticipate opportunities and dangers. The rank and file were instructed to be seen and feared, while scouts were required to be invisible and stealthy. This memoir offers the rare perspective of a Union soldier who ventured into Confederate territory and sent intelligence to Sherman. Written around 1901 in the wake of the Spanish American War, Quimby’s memoir shows no desire to settle old scores. He’s a natural storyteller, keeping his audience’s attention with tales of drunken frolics and narrow escapes, providing a memoir that reads more like an adventure novel. He gives a new twist to the familiar stories of Sherman’s March, reminding readers that while the Union soldiers faced few full-scale battles, the campaign was still quite dangerous. More than a chronicle of day-to-day battles and marches, The Perfect Scout is more episodic and includes such additional elements as the story of how he met his wife and close encounters with the enemy. Offering a full picture of the war, Quimby writes not only about his adventures as one of Sherman’s scouts, but also about the suffering of the civilians caught in the war. He provides personal insight into some of the war’s historic events and paints a vivid picture of the devastation wreaked upon the South that includes destroyed crops and homes and a shattered economy. He also tells of the many acts of kindness he received from Southerners, including women and African Americans, who helped him and his fellow scouts by providing food, shelter, or information.

january 6 x 9 / 224 PAGES / 3 B&W FIGURES / 2 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1971-7 / $29.95t CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9161-4 / $29.95 EBOOK “ An important contribution to Civil War scholarship. It provides the perspective of a scout, and there are few published narratives by men who held this important role.” — Wendy Hamand Venet, author of A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta “ The Perfect Scout is a good read that will appeal to a general audience as well as scholars. George Quimby had a gift for storytelling and a great sense of humor.” — Lorien Foote, author of The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army

Anne Sarah Rubin is a professor of history and the associate director of the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory and the award-winning A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868. Stephen Murphy is a retired management consultant for small businesses. His wife, Chris, is the great-great-granddaughter of George W. Quimby and helped bring Quimby’s unpublished manuscript to the attention of the scholarly community. They live in Seattle, Washington.

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CIVIL RIGHTS / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES / HISTORY

The Road South Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders B. J. Hollars Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words In May 1961, despite multiple Supreme Court rulings, segregation remained alive and well within the system of interstate travel. All across the American South, interstate buses as well as their travel facilities were divided racially. This blatant disregard for law and morality spurred the Congress of Racial Equality to send thirteen individuals—seven black, six white—on a harrowing bus trip throughout the South as a sign of protest.

may 6 x 9 / 200 PAGES / 10 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-1980-9 / $24.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9179-9 / $24.95 EBOOK “ At various points personal quest, memoir, travelogue, and oral history, B. J. Hollars’ The Road South is a fine and important contribution to our understanding of the Freedom Riders, what motivated them, how their participation in the movement shaped them, and how they shaped America.” — Derek Charles Catsam, author of Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides “ By undertaking his own journey of reconciliation, author B. J. Hollars brings fresh relevance to the history of the 1961 Freedom Rides. His compelling and creative melding of past with present reminds us that extraordinary actions by fiercely determined young people have—and still can—change the world. This inspiring tribute to citizens who transformed America during the turbulent times of the 1960s, brings a road into view that beckons us anew to travel the distance for freedom.” — Ann Bausum, author of Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement “ From the opening interview with Jim Zwerg all the way to the end, I felt as if I were getting to know these historical figures better than I had in the past, and I have interviewed several of them myself.”

These original riders were met with disapproval, arrests, and violence along the way, but that did not stop the movement. That summer, more than four hundred Freedom Riders continued their journey—many of them concluding their ride at Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Farm, where they endured further abuses and indignities. As a result of the riders’ sacrifice, by November of 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission finally put an end to interstate commerce segregation, and in the process, elevated the riders to become a source of inspiration for other civil rights campaigns such as voter registration rights and school desegregation. While much has been written on the Freedom Rides, far less has been published about the individual riders. Join award-winning author B. J. Hollars as he sets out on his own journey to meet them, retracing the historic route and learning the stories of as many surviving riders as he could. The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders offers an intimate look into the lives and legacies of the riders. Throughout the book these civil rights veterans’ poignant, personal stories offer timely insights into America’s racial past and hopeful future. Weaving the past with the present, Hollars aims to demystify the legendary journey, while also confronting more modern concerns related to race in America. The Road South is part memoir and part research-based journalism. It transcends the traditional textbook version of this historical journey to highlight the fascinating stories of the many riders—both black and white—who risked their lives to move the country forward. B. J. Hollars is an associate professor of english at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of several books including Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America; Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of The University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa; Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds; From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human, among others.

— Frye Gaillard, author of Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America and Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom “ Reads like a personal conversation with the people who changed the world. For documenting the responses, effects, and engagements of nonsoutherners and the Freedom Riders, this book is an eye-opener.” — Linda Royster Beito, coauthor of Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power

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TOP ROW (left to right) James Farmer, mug shot, May 24, 1961 William “Bill” Harbour, mug shot, May 28, 1961 Miriam Feingold, mug shot, June 21, 1961 Bernard LaFayette Jr., mug shot, May 24, 1961 BOTTOM ROW (left to right) Catherine Burks, mug shot, May 28, 1961 Hezekiah Watkins, mug shot, June 21, 1961 FAR RIGHT James Zwerg, yearbook photo, 1962

An Excerpt from The Road South James Zwerg, Appleton Wisconsin By the end of their first day as Freedom Riders, Jim and his seatmate, an African American man named Paul Brooks, found themselves behind bars in the Birmingham City Jail. Their bus had successfully traveled two hundred miles, but upon their arrival in Birmingham, Eugene “Bull” Connor, the city’s notoriously violent commissioner of public safety, immediately put a halt to what he viewed as a flagrant disregard for state law. As the bus shuddered to a stop, the door flung wide open, and on walked Connor himself. He eyed the Riders from behind his wire-rimmed glasses, then turned his attention to the driver. “Y’all got some Freedom Riders from Nashville on here?” The driver nodded. “Can you point them out to me?” The driver turned, then pointed directly toward Jim and Paul Brooks just one seat back. Connor turned his attention to the riders. “Come on, boy,” Connor said to Paul Brooks. “You know you shouldn’t be sitting there. Y’all get out of there now, come on.” From his seat by the window, Brooks explained that according to the Morgan v. Virginia Supreme Court ruling, it was illegal to segregate interstate buses. Furthermore, he added, he was quite comfortable in his current seat. “All right, boy, you’re under arrest,” Connor said matterof-factly. He told Jim to move out of the way, but Jim responded by echoing his seatmate’s remarks. A frustrated Connor sent both men to jail, where Jim and Paul Brooks spent the next two days. Meanwhile, the rest of the Freedom Riders were soon to be trapped in the Birmingham bus terminal—a situation

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only slightly better than jail. As the riders awaited a bus driver to take them to Montgomery, Jim found himself in the awkward position of being stone sober and trapped in the jail’s drunk tank. There, amid forty or so white folks, Jim tried his best to blend in, or at least not be exposed as a civil rights–supporting Northerner. Soon, however, his cover was blown. “Hey,” a man hollered, “this is one of them goddamned nigger-loving Freedom Riders.” Jim braced himself for the worst, but the worst did not befall him that day. The men gave him a hard time (“What the hell are you doing, boy? What’s the matter with you?”), but for whatever reason, they stopped short of violence. As the hours passed, Jim began earning the men’s trust. Although they didn’t have much in common, they shared an equal disgust for their deplorable living conditions in the tank. The floor was covered with vomit and feces, creating an odor so foul that even breathing became a challenge. After obtaining a few mops, Jim began organizing a cleanup crew, and as the men worked together to improve their shared space, they began to converse as well. And then, unexpectedly, they began to sing—a freedom song, no less. Jim started them off, and soon the others joined in: “Paul and Silas bound in jail / Got nobody to go on bail / Keep your eyes on the prize / Hold on.” When he was released from the tank two and a half days later, Jim was approached by a few of the men who still remained. “We don’t necessarily agree with you,” they said, shaking his hand, “but we think we understand why you’re doing it.” Jim nodded. It was a start.

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ALABAMA / HISTORY

Alabama Founders Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State Herbert James Lewis

A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people who participated in those events. In Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State, Herbert James Lewis provides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama’s status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state.

june 6 x 9 / 232 PAGES / 32 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-1983-0 / $39.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-5915-7 / $24.95t PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9183-6 / $24.95 EBOOK “ The individuals Lewis discusses here were instrumental in laying a figurative foundation for the development of the state of Alabama. They are therefore people we should know. Alabama Founders is an outstanding introduction to their lives and times and promises to be a valuable reference source for anyone seeking to understand Alabama’s beginnings.” — Mike Bunn, director of operations at Historic Blakeley State Park in Baldwin County, Alabama, author of Civil War Eufaula, and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812 “ Territorial and early statehood are topics that have long been neglected in favor of the more popular topics of Native Americans, the Civil War, and civil rights. Alabama Founders fills a need for scholarship that highlights this time period and the personalities who shaped it.” — Clay Williams, sites administrator for the museums division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812

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While well researched and thorough, this book does not purport to be a definitive history of Alabama’s founding. Lewis has instead narrowed his focus to only those he believes to be key figures in clearing the territory for settlement, serving in the territorial government, working to achieve statehood, playing a key role at the Constitutional Convention of 1819, or being elected to important offices in the first years of statehood. The founders who readied the Alabama Territory for statehood include Judge Harry Toulmin, Henry Hitchcock, and Reuben Saffold II. William Wyatt Bibb and his brother Thomas Bibb respectively served as the first two governors of the state, and Charles Tait, known as the “Patron of Alabama,” shepherded Alabama’s admission bill through the US Senate. Military figures who played roles in surveying and clearing the territory for further settlement and development include General John Coffee, Andrew Jackson’s aide and land surveyor, and Samuel Dale, frontiersman and hero of the “Canoe Fight.” Those who were instrumental to the outcome of the Constitutional Convention of 1819 and served the state well in its early days include John W. Walker, Clement Comer Clay, Gabriel Moore, Israel Pickens, and William Rufus King. Herbert James Lewis is retired from the US Department of Justice and currently serves on the board of directors of the Alabama Historical Association. He is the author of Clearing the Thickets: A History of Antebellum Alabama and Lost Capitals of Alabama. He has also published articles in the Alabama Review and Alabama Heritage.

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ALABAMA / HISTORY

Alabama The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt

A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama’s evolution. Organized chronologically and divided into three main sections—the first concluding in 1865, the second in 1920, and the third bringing the story to the present—makes clear and interprets the major events that occurred during Alabama’s history within the larger context of the South and the nation. General readers as well as scholars will welcome this up-to-date and scrupulously researched history of Alabama, which examines such traditional subjects as politics, military history, economics, race, and class. It contains essential accounts devoted to Native Americans, women, and the environment, as well as detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil rights, and the many cultural developments, from literature to sport, that have enriched Alabama’s history. A key facet of this landmark historical narrative is the strong emphasis placed on the common everyday people of Alabama, those who have been rightly described as the “bone and sinew” of the state. William Warren Rogers (1929–2017) spent nearly four decades as professor of history at Florida State University, where his first doctoral student was Wayne Flynt. Rogers authored more than two dozen books about Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, among them The One-Gallused Rebellion: Agrarianism in Alabama, 1865–1896, and co-authored, with Robert David Ward, Labor Revolt in Alabama: The Great Strike of 1894; August Reckoning: Jack Turner and Racism in Post–Civil War Alabama; and Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. Robert David Ward (1929–2006) spent his teaching career at Georgia Southern University where he served as department chair, founding tennis coach, and a renowned teacher and director of theses.

july 6.125 x 9.25 / 808 PAGES / 65 B&W FIGURES / 11 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1974-8 / $59.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-5917-1 / $39.95s Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-9166-9 / $39.95 EBOOK praise for previous editions: “ Fresh, compelling, insightful—the authoritative Alabama history for today’s readers and those of the 21st century.” — Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton, University of Alabama at Birmingham “ This work is authoritative, yet entertaining. Alabamians will not only understand their own rich heritage; they will experience anew the complex forces that have made Alabama what it is today.” — Kenneth R. Johnston, University of North Alabama “ Alabama history enthusiasts, teachers, and practitioners are encouraged to update their libraries with this new edition.” — Alabama Heritage

Leah Rawls Atkins served as the founding director of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Auburn University from 1985 to 1995. Her publications include Developed for the Service of Alabama: The Centennial History of the Alabama Power Company, 1906–2006 and The Building of Brasfield & Gorrie. Wayne Flynt is a distinguished university professor emeritus, Auburn University. He has published fourteen books, including, Poor but Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites; Alabama Baptists; Alabama in the Twentieth Century; Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century; Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee; and a memoir, Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, and Extraordinary Lives.

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fiction

TOKYO Michael Mejia

A novel in three parts, linked by a single narrative of disaster, loss, and longing TOKYO is an incisive, shape-shifting tour de force, a genre-bending mix of lyric prose, science fiction, horror, and visual collage exploring the erotic undercurrents of American perceptions of Japanese culture and identity. By turns noir, surreal, and clinical in its language and style, TOKYO employs metaphors of consumption, disease, theater, gender fluidity, monstrousness, and ecological disaster in intertwined accounts touching on matters of cultural appropriation, fiction’s powerful capacity to produce immersive realities, and the culturally corrupting late capitalist excesses that entangle both the United States and Japan.

march 6 x 9 / 280 PAGES / 6 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS / 44 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-1-57366-066-2 / $20.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-877-4 / $9.95 EBOOK “ A noir told through bodies, Michael Mejia’s TOKYO is a song— a labyrinth—an obfuscation that leaves the reader ravenous for more gleaming riddles—oh!—enticing enigma.” — Lily Hoang, author of A Bestiary “ In TOKYO the boundaries between the realistic and the fantastical flex, blur, and eventually disappear altogether. Beautifully propelling us through a series of styles and voices, moving from words to photographs to paintings and back again, this is a novel that first draws us in, then reveals itself as a novel, then becomes an embodied interrogation of art and originality. A highly original and provocative work.”

The novel opens with a fantastic, slyly comic report written by a Japanese executive, describing the anomalous bluefin tuna his company purchased at Tokyo’s iconic fish market, as well as the dissolution of the executive’s marriage to his Japanese-American, or Sansei, wife. But when an American writer—whose own Sansei wife was previously married to a Japanese executive—begins investigating the report’s author and his claims, assisted by a mysterious Japanese correspondent the American suspects may once have been his wife’s lover, identities begin to scramble until it’s uncertain who is imagining who, and who is and isn’t Japanese. Meanwhile, a secret plot to establish pure Japaneseness through the global distribution of genetically-engineered bluefin tuna seems to be rushing toward its conclusion like a great wave. Michael Mejia is the author of the novel Forgetfulness and his writing has been published in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor in chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Utah.

— Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses “ Visually arresting and gorgeously terrifying, Michael Mejia’s passionate immersion in a TOKYO of the imagination delivers an electrifying rush of sizzling sensations, a proliferation of ethical provocations, and the erotic thrill of intimate betrayal.” — Melanie Rae Thon, author of Voice of the River, Silence & Song, and The 7th Man

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fiction

Bhopal Dance A Novel Jennifer Natalya Fink Foreword by Mary Caponegro

Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize

An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster—and perhaps our own On the night of December 2, 1984, in the midst of the Reaganomic era, an explosion at an American-owned factory in Bhopal, India, released untold amounts of toxic gas on uncounted numbers of people, creating a human and environmental disaster of insurmountable proportions. Known as the Bhopal disaster, it once dominated international headlines, and is now barely remembered. Yet Bhopal remains emblematic of all the many quickly forgotten disasters that followed, and of the permanent state of globalized disaster in which we now dwell. What does it mean when corporations instead of states control not only the means to create environmental disasters, but also the tools to bury them? How does one revolt against these unelected entities? How do our most private desires get shaped by this stateless horror? Jennifer Natalya Fink’s Bhopal Dance is an epic and epochal tale of such a horror and its buried consequences. At the center of the novel is Cordelia, an owlish woman with a ménage of lovers, who leads a revolutionary Canadian political movement catalyzed by the Bhopal disaster, only to end up imprisoned with just a toilet to talk to. Who she hallucinates is her father. Who is her father. Who is the State. Who may be her mother. Or her twin/lover. Cordelia is a remarkable bird in her own right, and ‘owlishness’ is a feathery conceit deployed in both the book’s form and content, a way of exploring queer possibilities for altering the terms of one’s imprisonment. For setting corporatized corporeality alight. Ablaze. Pets and punk rock, dentists and dyslexia, Shakespeare and salsa: they all dance together here. Jennifer Natalya Fink is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, including the Dana Award-winning The Mikvah Queen. She is an associate professor at Georgetown University and founder of The Gorilla Press, a nonprofit promoting youth literacy through bookmaking.

march 5.5 x 8.5 / 176 PAGES ISBN 978-1-57366-064-8 / 17.95t PAPER ISBN 978-1-57366-875-0 / $9.95 EBOOK “ No one anywhere on the planet can arrange language, history, memory, and the bodies of women in more intense and intimate orchestration than Jennifer Natalya Fink does in Bhopal Dance. Between desire and cultural inscription arise bodies that refuse to be bound by the rules and laws set out for them. Let the novel be undone by bodysong and language meat.” — Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan “ This new novel continues Jennifer Natalya Fink’s raucous narrative style, a style both ecstatic and cutting. She and about five to nine other Bad White Girls have evolved a literary method of attack on Americans (like themselves, double irony) who can’t quite shuck the dream of something good that will cure their shock at being here. They try revolution and it backfires and lands them in jail, where freedom gurgles in the mouth of a toilet bowl. This book takes the conundrum to an explosive level. The pages burn with sex and toxic car-time, Union Carbide and ruined Bhopal. No reconciliations offered.” — Fanny Howe, author of The Needles’ Eye: Passing through Youth “ Youth, bad romance, intellectual idealism, and the very big question of how to respond to the bigger nightmares we face on earth—Jennifer Natalya Fink gets deep into the muck of it, with sly humor and fierce intelligence, a conscience, a soul, and a gift for exploding what we think it is to tell a story.” — Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave

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fiction

The Making Sense of Things George Choundas Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize

A grand tour of the edges of our lives, where glory and significance riot against the logic of living and the pall of tragedy A collection of twelve stories that pulse with memory, magic, and myth—all our favorite ways of trying to make sense of things. Readers are treated to vivid and unforgettable characters. A fiercely independent woman puts the man who loves her to unconscionable tests, never guessing that arson, suicide, and canine obesity will yield a magical kind of happiness. A honeymooner in Venice, addled by fever and second thoughts, commits by dumb error a double murder. A lawyer founders when a car wreck claims his son and ex-wife, then discovers that the desperation of grief is a kind of hope.

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George Choundas is a former FBI agent, winner of the New Millennium Fiction Prize, and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee with work in over fifty publications, including The Best Small Fictions 2015. The Making Sense of Things was also shortlisted for the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, the St. Lawrence Book Award for Fiction, and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.

“ Reading George Choundas is a bit like watching an archer casually shoot an arrow, hit the bullseye, then draw a second, finer arrow from his quiver and split the first arrow in half. One gets the sense he could do it forever, firing arrow after arrow into the exact center of the heart of the matter. This collection is staggering and brilliant and might have made me a better writer but definitely made me a better person.” — Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel “ You want to read this book because you have never before read a book like this one. Inventive, humorous, dark, yes; but also continually outstripping our responses. Choundas may be a genius or someone with something up his sleeve, or both. What’s important is that he gives us twelve fabulous and brilliant stories. The sentences run almost amok on purpose. These stories will open your eyes even wider.” — Kelly Cherry, author of Temporium: Before the Beginning to After the End “ These stories are wildly touching, funny in really funny ways, but also flights of mind, image, fantasy, and language telling us that reality is as malleable as love and as changeable as a fire in a forest.” — G.K. Wuori, author of HoneyLee’s Girl

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FICTION / MILITARY / WORLD WAR I

Points of Honor Short Stories of the Great War by a US Combat Marine Thomas Boyd Edited and with an Introduction by Steven Trout

A masterwork of World War I short stories portraying the experiences of Marines in battle Points of Honor: Short Stories of the Great War by a US Combat Marine is based on author Thomas Boyd’s personal experiences as an enlisted Marine. First published in 1925 and long out of print, this edition rescues from obscurity a vivid, kaleidoscopic vision of American soldiers, US Marines mostly, serving in a global conflict a century ago. It is a true forgotten masterpiece of World War I literature.

february 5.5 x 8.5 / 248 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-5911-9 / $19.95t paper ISBN 978-0-8173-9178-2 / $19.95 ebook “ Thomas Boyd is famous for the novel Through the Wheat, now enshrined as a World War I classic. In Points of Honor, through a set of interlocking narratives, he pulls off something of a short story version of William March’s Company K. A clear and interesting introduction by Steven Trout, pegged for the literate general reader, makes a strong case for the stories as something of an advance over Through the Wheat. Here the characters and situations are diverse, and the modes of narration and development are strikingly varied.” — Philip D. Beidler, author of Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination and The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War

The narratives in Points of Honor deal almost entirely with Marines in the midst of battle or faced with the consequences of military violence. The eleven stories in this collection offer a panoramic view of war experience and its aftermath, what Boyd described as “a mass of more human happenings.” The themes are often antiheroic: dehumanization, pettiness, betrayal by loved ones at home, and the cruelty of military justice. But Boyd’s vision also accommodates courage and loyalty. Like all great works of war literature, this collection underscores the central paradox of armed conflict—its ability to bring out both the best and worst in human beings. This reissue of Points of Honor is edited, annotated, and introduced by Steven Trout. Trout provides an overview of Thomas Boyd’s war experience and writing career and situates the stories within the broader context of World War I American literature. Points of Honor received strong reviews at the time of its initial publication and remains an overwhelming reading experience today. While each of the stories is a freestanding work of art, when read together they carry the force of a novel. Thomas Boyd (1898–1935) was a Marine veteran of World War I and the author of the novel Through the Wheat (1923), widely regarded as one of the finest depictions of combat in American literature. Boyd also wrote historical fiction and biographies of figures such as General “Mad” Anthony Wayne and “Light Horse” Harry Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee. Steven Trout is the chair of the Department of English and codirector of The Center for the Study of War and Memory at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 and coeditor of World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories.

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ART HISTORY / MILITARY HISTORY / WORLD WAR II

Triumph of the Dead American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France Kate Clarke Lemay

An investigation into the relationship between history, art, architecture, memory, and diplomacy Between 1948 and 1956, the United States government planned an enormous project to build fourteen permanent overseas military cemeteries in Europe. These park-like burial grounds eventually would hold the graves of approximately 80,000 American soldiers and nurses who died during, or immediately after, World War II. Five of these cemeteries are located in France, more than any other nation: two in Normandy; one in Provence; and two in Lorraine. In Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France, Kate Clarke Lemay explores the relationship between art, architecture, war memory, and Franco-American relations. She addresses the many functions, both original and more recent, that the American war cemeteries have performed, such as: war memorials, diplomatic gestures, Cold War political statements, prompts for debate about Franco-American relations, and the nature of French identity itself. Located on or near former battlefields, the American war cemeteries are at once history lessons, sites of memory, and commemorative monuments. As places of mourning, war cemeteries are considerably different than civic cemeteries in their rituals, designs, and influences on collective memory. As transatlantic sites, the cemeteries both construct and sustain an American memory of World War II for a Francophile and European audience.

august 7 x 9 / 256 pages / 60 B&W FIGURES / 4 MAPS ISBN 978-0-8173-1981-6 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9181-2 / $54.95 EBOOK “ Triumph of the Dead provides much needed information on post-WWII American military cemeteries in Europe, as well as the US agenda in postwar Europe in general.” — Erika Doss, author of Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

The book features forty-nine black and white photographs and four maps. Scholars as well as enthusiasts of World War II history, mid-century art and architecture, and cultural diplomacy will be interested in reading this richly researched book, the first in-depth history of some of the most important sites of American World War II remembrance. Kate Clarke Lemay is a historian at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. Her research honors include an IIE Fulbright research grant and two grants from the Terra Foundation in American Art.

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HISTORY / CIVIL WAR / FLORIDA

A Forgotten Front Florida during the Civil War Era Edited by Seth A. Weitz and Jonathan C. Sheppard

An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession.” Although it was the third state to secede, Florida’s small population and meager industrial resources made the state of little strategic importance. Because it was the site of only one major battle, it has, with a few exceptions, been overlooked within the field of Civil War studies.

june 6 x 9 / 216 PAGES / 5 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP ISBN 978-0-8173-1982-3 / $39.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9182-9 / $39.95 EBOOK “ A Forgotten Front helps fill the historiographical void by covering both traditional political and military topics, as well as examining subjects that have become much more popular areas of scholarship in recent decades.” — David J. Coles, associate editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War and coauthor of Sons of Garibaldi in Blue and Gray: Italians in the American Civil War “ A fine collection of essays that serves as a much needed overview of the Civil War in Florida. At the same time, the individual essays shed light on various aspects of the Civil War, such as pre-war politics, secession, the role of women and Hispanics, Unionism, guerilla warfare, and race.” — James Denham, professor of history and Director of the Lawton M. Chiles Jr. Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College Contributors Chris Day / R. Boyd Murphree / David Nelson / David B. Parker / Tracy J. Revels / Jonathan C. Sheppard / Robert A. Taylor / Lauren K. Thompson / Zack C. Waters / Seth A. Weitz

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During the Civil War, more than fifteen thousand Floridians served the Confederacy, a third of which were lost to combat and disease. The Union also drew the service of another twelve hundred white Floridians and more than a thousand free blacks and escaped slaves. Florida had more than eight thousand miles of coastline to defend, and eventually found itself with Confederates holding the interior and Federals occupying the coasts—a tenuous state of affairs for all. Florida’s substantial Hispanic and Catholic populations shaped wartime history in ways unique from many other states. Florida also served as a valuable supplier of cattle, salt, cotton, and other items to the blockaded South. A Forgotten Front: Florida during the Civil War Era provides a much-needed overview of the Civil War in Florida. Editors Seth A. Weitz and Jonathan C. Sheppard provide insight into a commonly neglected area of Civil War historiography. The essays in this volume examine the most significant military engagements and the guerrilla warfare necessitated by the occupied coastline. Contributors look at the politics of war, beginning with the decade prior to the outbreak of the war through secession and wartime leadership and examine the period through the lenses of race, slavery, women, religion, ethnicity, and historical memory. Seth A. Weitz is an associate professor of history at Dalton State College. He has published in The Historian, Tampa Bay Journal of History, and FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, among other publications. Jonathan C. Sheppard is the executive director at Mission San Luis: Florida’s Apalachee-Spanish Living History Museum. He is the author of By the Noble Daring of Her Sons: The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee.

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CIVIL WAR / NAVAL HISTORY / MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY

Engines of Rebellion Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War Saxon T. Bisbee A challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world’s navies. Warships utilizing all of these technologies were built in France and Great Britain in the 1850s, but it was during the American Civil War that large numbers of ironclads powered solely by steam proved themselves to be quite capable warships. Historians have given little attention to the engineering of Confederate ironclads, although the Confederacy was often quite creative in building and obtaining marine power plants. Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War focuses exclusively on ships with American-built machinery, offering a detailed look at marine steam-engineering practices in both northern and southern industry prior to and during the Civil War. Beginning with a contextual naval history of the Civil War, the creation of the ironclad program, and the advent of various technologies, Saxon T. Bisbee analyzes the armored warships built by the Confederate States of America that represented a style adapted to scarce industrial resources and facilities. This unique historical and archaeological investigation consolidates and expands on the scattered existing information about Confederate ironclad steam engines, boilers, and propulsion systems. Through analysis of steam machinery development during the Civil War, Bisbee assesses steam plants of twenty-seven ironclads by source, type, and performance, among other factors. The wartime role of each vessel is discussed, as well as the stories of the people and establishments that contributed to its completion and operation. Rare engineering diagrams never before published or gathered in one place are included here as a complement to the text. Saxon T. Bisbee is the vessel manager and nautical archaeologist at Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center in Seattle, WA. He is coauthor of The Scuppernong River Project, Volume 1: Explorations of Tyrrell County Maritime History.

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august 6 x 9 / 272 pages / 45 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-1986-1 / $59.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9188-1 / $59.95 EBOOK “ Engines of Rebellion is unquestionably a contribution to our knowledge of Confederate naval vessels, particularly their machinery.” — William N. Still Jr., author of Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I and coauthor of Raiders and Blockaders: The American Civil War Afloat “ Provides an important look at the issues that the Confederate Navy dealt with, both in acquiring the machinery, but also the issues concerning the operation of the machinery. This book is thoroughly researched, insightful, and well written.” — Robert M. Browning Jr., author of Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War and Success Is All that Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War

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ART / HISTORY / NATURE

Maria Martin’s World Art and Science, Faith and Family in Audubon’s America Debra J. Lindsay The first book-length treatment of one of John James Audubon’s background painters Maria Martin (1796–1863) was an evangelical Lutheran from Charleston, South Carolina, who became an accomplished painter within months of meeting John James Audubon. Martin met Audubon through her brother-in-law, Reverend John Bachman, who befriended Audubon while passing through Charleston on route to Florida where he expected to find new avian species. Martin was an amateur artist, but by the time Audubon left, she had familiarized herself with his style of drawing. Six months after their initial meeting, her background botanicals were deemed to be of high caliber and worthy of embellishing Audubon’s exquisite bird paintings.

february 7 x 10 / 328 PAGES 50 COLOR figures / 6 B&W FIGURES ISBN: 978-0-8173- 1951-9 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173- 9121-8 / $49.95 EBOOK “ An engaging work that brings Maria Martin to the attention of historians of women, the family, and American science. In addition, John James Audubon’s story and recent publications of Audubon visuals will make Debra Lindsay’s book attractive to general readers.” — Ann B. Shteir, author of Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 “ Maria Martin’s World is a compelling story and helps fill a need for a full-scale biography of Martin, whose illustrations are integral to one of the greatest works of natural history ever produced.” — Christoph Irmscher, author of Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science

Martin’s botanicals and insects appeared in volumes two and four of The Birds of America (1830–1838). She painted snakes for John Edwards Holbrook’s North American Herpetology (1842) and assisted in drafting the descriptive taxonomies prepared by John Bachman—who later became her husband in 1848, following the death of her older sister—for The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1846–1854). Until now, her contributions have been unknown to all but the most astute students of natural history and art history and a close circle of family and friends. Maria Martin’s World is a heavily illustrated volume examining how Maria Martin learned to paint aesthetically beautiful botanicals with exacting accuracy. Drawing on deep research into archival documents and familyheld artifacts, Debra Lindsay brings Maria Martin out from behind the curtain of obscurity and disinformation that has previously shrouded her and places her centrally in her own time and milieu. In the telling of Maria Martin’s story, Lindsay also uncovers many nuances of the behavior and actions of the two prominent men in her life that readers interested in Audubon and Bachman will find noteworthy. Martin was a gifted artist recognized for having contributed beautiful paintings to a monumental natural history. But beyond her contributions to the world of nature this is a biography of an evangelical Lutheran steeped in the faith of her German ancestors and raised to respect the patriarchal norms of her time. Maria Martin pursued her scientific and artistic interests only when they did not conflict with her religious and familial responsibilities. Debra J. Lindsay is a professor of history and Chair of the History and Politics department at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. She is the author of Science in the Subarctic: Trappers, Traders, and the Smithsonian Institution.

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BIOGRAPHY / NATURAL HISTORY

Nature’s Prophet Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology Michael A. Flannery An astute study of Alfred Russel Wallace’s path to natural theology A spiritualist, libertarian socialist, women’s rights advocate, and critic of Victorian social convention, Alfred Russel Wallace was in every sense a rebel who challenged the emergent scientific certainties of Victorian England by arguing for a natural world imbued with purpose and spiritual significance. Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology is a critical reassessment of Wallace’s path to natural theology and counters the belief by some scientists of the time that Wallace’s theistic and sociopolitical positions are not to be taken seriously in the history and philosophy of science. Author Michael A. Flannery provides a cogent and lucid account of a crucial—and often underappreciated—element of Wallace’s evolutionary worldview. As co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, of the theory of natural selection, Wallace willingly took a backseat to the well-bred, better known scientist. Whereas Darwin held fast to his first published scientific explanations for the development of life on earth, Wallace continued to modify his thinking, refining his argument toward a more controversial metaphysical view that placed him within the highly charged intersection of biology and religion. Despite considerable research into the naturalist’s life and work, Wallace’s own evolution from natural selection to natural theology has been largely unexplored; yet, as Flannery persuasively shows, it is readily demonstrated in his writings from 1843 until his death in 1913. Nature’s Prophet provides a detailed investigation of Wallace’s ideas, showing how, although he independently discovered the mechanism of natural selection, he at the same time came to hold a very different view of evolution from Darwin.

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“ Nature’s Prophet is an astute study of Wallace’s path to natural theology and provides a cogent account of a crucial—and often underappreciated or dismissed—element of Wallace’s profound evolutionary worldview.” — Martin Fichman, author of An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace and Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture

Ultimately, Flannery shows, Wallace’s reconsideration of the argument for design yields a more nuanced version of creative and purposeful theistic evolution and represents one of the most innovative contributions of its kind in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, profoundly influencing a later generation of scientists and intellectuals. Michael A. Flannery is a professor emeritus of libraries at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life and editor of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwinism.

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HISTORY / MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY / BIOLOGY

Malignant Growth Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915 Alan I Marcus

An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful investigation of the first public crusade to determine the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause during the heady era of bacteriology was colored by the Germ Theory of Disease. Researchers had demonstrated in malady after malady that each disease was the result of a singular and specific pathogenic agent. That model led investigators to optimistically conclude that they would soon find the cause of what was termed the “emperor of all maladies,” cases of which were apparently increasing at a prodigious rate worldwide. april 6 x 9 / 368 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1979-3 / $59.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9177-5 / $59.95s EBOOK “ This book is a careful and interesting investigation of a topic that has been much ignored. The work definitely has implication for what we are doing today in cancer research.” — K. Codell Carter, author of The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories

In this accessible history of science and medicine, Marcus exposes the complex story of the efforts made from 1875 through 1915 to first conquer and, failing that, to control cancer—a dual approach remains in force to this day. He reveals the messiness of real-time scientific research, tracing the repeated lurches of promise, discoveries of hope, and the inevitable despair that always followed. Other barriers existed to the research, such as inconsistency in test standards and interlaboratory competition and mistrust. Researchers approached cancer from such disparate specialties as clinical medicine, zoology, botany, chemistry, nutrition, bacteriology, pathology, and microbiology. Although they came from diverse fields, each steadfastly maintained that cancer operated in an analogous fashion to other bacteriological diseases. Virtually every country and a slew of various clinicians and investigators waged this first war on cancer, operating in remarkably diverse scientific venues. Cancer laboratories and hospitals, as well as organizations like the American Cancer Society, were born out of this first offensive on cancer. Even as cancer continues to proliferate today, these institutions that initially formed to defeat cancer more than a hundred years ago persist and continue to expand. Alan I Marcus is the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of History at Mississippi State University. He is the chair of the history department there and also served as the interim chair of the chemistry department while writing this book. He is the author of Cancer from Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence.

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ALABAMA / HISTORY / medicine AND TECHNOLOGY

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987 By Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell Foreword by Linda Kenney Miller

An important historical account of Tuskegee University’s significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide Tuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T. Washington, the scientific innovator George Washington Carver, or the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. Although the university’s accomplishments and devotion to social issues are well known, its work in medical research and health care has received little acknowledgment. Tuskegee has been fulfilling Washington’s vision of “healthy minds and bodies” since its inception in 1881. In To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down, Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell document Tuskegee University’s medical and public health history with rich archival data and never-before-published photographs. Tuskegee University was on the forefront in providing local farmers the benefits of their agrarian research and helped create the massive Agricultural Extension System managed today by land grant universities throughout the United States. Tuskegee established the first baccalaureate nursing program in the state and was also home to Alabama’s first hospital for African Americans. Washington accepted the first licensed female physician in the state for the position of resident physician at Tuskegee. Most notably, Tuskegee was the site of a remarkable development in American biochemistry history: its microbiology laboratory was the only one relied upon by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) to produce the HeLa cell cultures employed in the national field trials for the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. Chandler and Powell are also interested in correcting a long-held but false historical perception that Tuskegee University’s medical research legacy begins and ends with its involvement with the shameful and infamous study of untreated syphilis. Meticulously researched, this book is filled with previously undocumented information taken directly from the vast Tuskegee University archives. Readers will gain a new appreciation for how Tuskegee’s people and institutions have influenced community health, food science, and national medical life throughout the twentieth century.

july 6 x 9 / 192 PAGES / 60 B&W FIGURES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1989-2 / $39.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9191-1 / $39.95 EBOOK “ A timely and important historical account of significant advances in health care made at Tuskegee over the span of more than a century. . . . To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down recognizes the tenures of [five] Tuskegee presidents for their efforts to eradicate the racial, social, and cultural obstacles that they faced in their collective quest to maintain fidelity to the mission first espoused by Dr. Washington: high quality educational programs, effective public health policies, and equal opportunity.” — from the foreword by Linda Kenney Miller “ This book should be required reading for all incoming freshmen at Tuskegee and other medical schools across the country.” — Phyllis Earles, University Archivist and Head of Special Collections, John B. Coleman Library at Prairie View A&M University

Dana R. Chandler is the university archivist and an assistant professor of history at Tuskegee University. He serves on the board of directors of the Epigraphic Society and won the 2016 Outstanding Faculty Performance Award at Tuskegee University for Service, Library Services. Edith Powell is a retired professor in the School of Nursing and Allied Health at Tuskegee University. She is certified in clinical laboratory science and blood banking by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and is a member of the advisory committee for Tuskegee University’s National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care.

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Interruptions The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature Gerald L. Bruns

A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing, as a device in modern literature. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition, starting with Friedrich Schlegel’s inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words, and their freedom from rule-governed hierarchies.

april 6 x 9 / 168 PAGES / 7 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-5906-5 / $34.95s PAPER ISBN 978-0-8173-9172-0 / $34.95 EBOOK “ Bruns is a delightful and witty guide to the most varied expressions of the avant-garde.” — Jean-Michel Rabaté, author of Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human and The Ghosts of Modernity “ Gerald Bruns writes on current cutting-edge poetry from his angle as one of our leading critical theorists. His vast knowledge—of Heidegger and Blanchot, Derrida and Cavell— gives him special insights into the writings of leading writers from Beckett to Bernstein. Interruptions is a brilliant performance, a set of ruminations both profound and original.” — Marjorie Perloff, author of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy and The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage

Bruns opens the book with a short history of the fragment as a distinctive feature of literary modernism in works from Gertrude Stein to Paul Celan to present-day authors. The study progresses to the later work of Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett, and argues, controversially, that Blanchot’s writings on the fragment during the 1950s and early 1960s helped to inspire Beckett’s turn toward paratactic prose. The study also extends to works of poetry, examining the radically paratactic arrangements of two contemporary British poets, J. H. Prynne and John Wilkinson, focusing chiefly on their most recent, and arguably most abstruse, works. Bruns also offers a close study of the poetry and poetics of Charles Bernstein. Interruptions concludes with two chapters about James Joyce. First, Bruns tackles the language of Finnegans Wake, namely the break-up of words themselves, its reassembly into puns, neologisms, nonsense, and even random strings of letters. Second, Bruns highlights the experience of mirrors in Joyce’s fiction, particularly in Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, where mirrored reflections invariably serve as interruptions, discontinuities, or metaphorical displacements and proliferations of self-identity. Gerald L. Bruns is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. His previous books include The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics and What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

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POETRY

Of Such a Nature / Índole José Kozer Translated by Peter Boyle

A collection by one of Latin America’s most distinguished poets, now available to English readers José Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to ever win the Pablo Neruda Prize given by the Neruda Foundation in Chile. He is the author of over ninety books, including Este judío de números y letras, Bajo este cien, La garza sin sombras, Carece de causa, and Y del esparto la invariabilidad. Kozer is also noteworthy as a key poet of the Cuban diaspora, having left Cuba in 1960 and residing ever since in the United States. Of Such a Nature / Índole is a bilingual edition translated into English by Peter Boyle. In addition, Boyle provides an extensive introduction placing Kozer’s work in a critical context. The Spanish word “índole” can be translated as: “a type,” “a sort,” or “that sort of thing.” The title, Índole, therefore suggests that the poems gathered in this collection, are all instances of specific types of situations, things, or experiences. Kozer has gathered a collection of poems about everyday life—cleaning one’s dentures, a woman leaning over a bowl of oatmeal, a salamander glimpsed while eating breakfast—but always with death not far away. Of Such a Nature / Índole is a remarkable collection of poems published in Cuba in 2012, covering such materials as Kozer’s Jewish heritage, his Cuban childhood and ongoing connection to the Island, Buddhist and East Asian traditions of spiritual practice, his everyday life in Florida with his wife, ageing, illness, and the shadow of death. Irony and humor are here as well, and to read these poems is to be in the presence of the full seriousness of poetry and its playfulness, its ability to undercut all pretensions.

april 6 x 9 / 256 PAGES / 1 B&W FIGURE ISBN 978-0-8173-5905-8 / $19.95t Paper ISBN 978-0-8173-9167-6 / $19.95 EBOOK “ Índole hangs together as a collection; each poem is an exploration composed of careful deliberate details. While Kozer’s style and poetic structure are different, his poems in Índole are reminiscent of Neruda’s Odas elementales for their revelation of the miraculous and the epiphanic to be found in the every day.” — Emily A. Maguire, author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

José Kozer was born in Cuba and moved to New York, where he taught Spanish language and literature at Queens College, CUNY, for over thirty years. He currently resides in Hallandale, Florida, writing poems and reading as he pleases. Peter Boyle is an Australian poet and translator of poetry. In 2013 he received the NSW Premier’s Prize for literary translation. As a poet he is the author of seven collections, most recently Ghostspeaking and Towns in the Great Desert: New and Selected Poems.

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Gears and God Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America Nathaniel Williams A revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith In Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America, Nathaniel Williams analyzes the genre of technology-themed exploration novels—dime novel adventure stories featuring steampowered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles. This genre proliferated during the same cultural moment when evolutionary science was dismantling Americans’ prevailing, biblically based understanding of human history.

july 6 x 9 / 216 PAGES 5 B&W figures / 2 maps / 3 tables ISBN: 978-0-8173-1984-7 / $44.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9186-7 / $44.95 EBOOK “ Gears and God is a clearly written, persuasive book which brings fresh insights to bear on the rich literature of dime novels, science fiction, and technocratic exploration narratives at the turn of the twentieth century.” — Gregory M. Pfitzer, author of History Repeating Itself: The Republication of Children’s Historical Literature and the Christian Right and Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920

While their heyday occurred in the late 1800s, technocratic adventure novels like Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court inspired later fiction about science and technology. Similar to the science fiction plotlines of writers like Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard, and anticipating the adventures of Tom Swift some decades later, these novels feature Americans using technology to visit and seize control of remote locales, a trait that has led many scholars to view them primarily as protoimperialist narratives. Their legacy, however, is more complicated. As they grew in popularity, such works became as concerned with the preservation of a fraught Anglo-Protestant American identity as they were with spreading that identity across the globe. Many of these novels frequently assert the Bible’s authority as a historical source. Collectively, such stories popularized the notion that technology and travel might essentially “prove” the Bible’s veracity—a message that continues to be deployed in contemporary debates over intelligent design, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and in reality TV shows that seek historical evidence for biblical events. Williams argues that these fictions performed significant cultural work, and he consolidates evidence from the novels themselves, as well as news articles, sermons, and other sources of the era, outlining and mapping the development of technocratic fiction. Nathaniel Williams is a lecturer for the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, and serves on the advisory board for the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. He has published articles in American Literature, Utopian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and elsewhere.

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LITERATURE / BIOGRAPHY

Thomas Wolfe Remembered Edited by Mark Canada and Nami Montgomery

A collection of reminiscences captures the private life of a great American writer Thomas Wolfe’s life may seem to be an open book. A life that, after all, was the source for his best-known works, including the novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, as well as his numerous short stories and dramas. Since his death in 1938, scholars and admirers of Wolfe have relied largely on these texts to understand the man himself. Thomas Wolfe Remembered provides something new: a rich, multifaceted portrait painted by those who knew him (casually or intimately), loved him (or didn’t), and saw, heard, and experienced the literary (and literal) giant. This volume gathers in one place for the first time dozens of reminiscences by friends, family members, colleagues, and casual acquaintances, adding color and fine details to the self-portrait the author created in his novels. Wolfe found plenty to challenge and frustrate him throughout his life, from his boyhood in Asheville, North Carolina, to his education at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University, through his time in New York and Europe, his travels through the American West, and his death in Baltimore. He experienced two distracted parents in a loveless marriage, the premature death of a beloved brother, a minor stutter, and the difficulties of controlling a mercurial temper. Yet Wolfe’s exuberance, perceptiveness, memory, and compulsion to record virtually all that he experienced made for an extravagance of material that sometimes angered the people whose lives he used as source material. Editors Mark Canada and Nami Montgomery have collected dozens of remembrances, many unpublished or long forgotten, including pieces from Julia Wolfe, Margaret Roberts, Frederick Koch, Maxwell Perkins, Elizabeth Nowell, Edward Aswell, and Martha Dodd. Some are endearing, others are disturbing, and many are comical. All provide glimpses into the vibrant, haunted, boyish, paranoid, disheveled, courteous, captivating, infuriating, and altogether fascinating giant who was Thomas Wolfe.

september 6 x 9 / 328 PAGES / 12 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-1990-8 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9193-5 / $49.95 EBOOK “ Thomas Wolfe Remembered is lively and informative, providing many insights for understanding Wolfe’s rich and complex art and life. It’s a very welcome and important addition to Wolfe scholarship and will no doubt greatly appeal to both Wolfe scholars and general readers.” — Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., author of The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950 and Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West

Mark Canada is a professor of English and the executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Indiana University Kokomo. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of five books, including Introduction to Information Literacy for Students and Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America: Thoreau, Stowe, and Their Contemporaries Respond to the Rise of the Commercial Press. His work has appeared in American Literary Realism, Journalism History, and other venues. Nami Montgomery is an ESL specialist in the Office of International Programs at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

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LITERARY CRITICISM / LATIN AMERICA STUDIES / HISTORY

Hispanicism and Early US Literature Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity John C. Havard Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States In Hispanicism and Early US Literature, author John C. Havard posits that representations of Spain, Spanish America, Spanishness, and Spanish Americanness are integral elements in the evolution of early national and antebellum US literature. He argues that Spanish-speaking countries have long held a broad fascination for Americans and that stock narratives regarding these peoples were central to the period’s US literature.

april 6 x 9 / 240 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-1977-9 / $44.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9174-4 / $44.95 EBOOK “ Havard significantly expands and enriches the coverage of sources that have been neglected in surveys and monographs on the literature of antebellum America.” — Iván Jaksić, author of The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880 “ Hispanicism and Early US Literature is a well-researched study that explores US literary responses to Spain and Spanish America during an important period of national identity formation.” — Kirsten Silva Gruesz, author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing

Beginning with the work of eighteenth-century literary nationalists such as Joel Barlow, US writers have often been drawn to reflect on Spain and Spanish America. Such reflection was often inspired by geopolitical conflicts such as US expansion into Spanish Louisiana and the US-Mexican War. Havard terms the discourse emerging from these reflections “Hispanicism.” This discourse was used to portray the dominant viewpoint of classical liberalism that propounded an American exceptionalism premised on the idea that Hispanophone peoples were comparatively lacking the capacity for self-determination, hence rationalizing imperialism. On the conservative side were warnings against progress through conquest. Havard delves into selected works of early national and antebellum literature on Spain and Spanish America to illuminate US national identity. Poetry and novels by Joel Barlow, James Fenimore Cooper, and Herman Melville are mined to further his arguments regarding identity, liberalism, and conservatism. Understudied authors Mary Peabody Mann and José Antonio Saco are held up to contrast American and Cuban views on Hispanicism and Cuban annexation as well as to develop the focus on nationality and ideology via differences in views on liberalism. More than just a work of literary criticism, this study offers a substantial amount of cultural and political history discussed. Havard’s use of archival sources such as political articles and personal correspondence elucidates not just literary genres and movements such as early national epic poetry, abolitionist fiction, and the American Renaissance, but also US culture writ large. John C. Havard is an associate professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery.

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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY / LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Faces of Resistance Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity Edited by S. Ashley Kistler

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power In the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence. Today, he is revered as a powerful symbol of Q’eqchi’ identity. Aj Poop B’atz’ is only one of many indigenous heroes who have been recognized by Maya in Mexico and Guatemala throughout centuries of subjugation, oppression, and state-sponsored violence. Faces of Resistance: Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity explores the importance of heroes through the analyses of heroic figures, some controversial and alternative, from the Maya area. Contributors examine stories of hero figures as a primary way through which Maya preserve public memory, fortify their identities, and legitimize their place in their country’s historical and political landscape. Leading anthropologists, linguists, historians, and others incorporate ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archival material into their chapters, resulting in a uniquely interdisciplinary book for scholars as well as students. The essays offer the first critical survey of the broad significance of these figures and their stories and the ways that they have been appropriated by national governments to impose repressive political agendas. Related themes include the role of heroic figures in the Maya resurgence movement in Guatemala, contemporary Maya concepts of “hero,” and why some assert that all contemporary Maya are heroes. S. Ashley Kistler is associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Rollins College. She serves as reviews editor for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and is the author of Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala.

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june 6 x 9 / 256 PAGES / 2 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP ISBN 978-0-8173-1987-8 / $54.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9189-8 / $54.95 EBOOK “ Faces of Resistance adopts an original approach to explore the politics and history of indigenous activism and identity in the Maya area. It offers a significant contribution to the field, in particular the impact of little known or under-represented people from a range of historical and contemporary settings.” — Arturo Arias, author of Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America Contributors Abigail E. Adams / Fernando Armstrong-Fumero / David Carey Jr. / Allen J. Christenson / Ixnal Ambrocia Cuma Chávez / S. Ashley Kistler / Betsy Konefal / Stephanie J. Litka / Walter E. Little / W. George Lovell / Christopher H. Lutz / Judith M. Maxwell

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ARCHAEOLOGY / CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Cahokia’s Complexities Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers Susan M. Alt

Critical new discoveries and archaeological patterns increase understanding of early Mississippian culture and society The reasons for the rise and fall of early cities and ceremonial centers around the world have been sought for centuries. In the United States, Cahokia has been the focus of intense archaeological work to explain its mysteries. Cahokia was the first and exponentially the largest of the Mississippian centers that appeared across the Midwest and Southeast after AD 1000. Located near present-day East St. Louis, Illinois, the central complex of Cahokia spanned more than 12 square kilometers and encompassed more than 120 earthen mounds. april 6 x 9 / 168 PAGES / 55 B&W figures / 3 maps / 7 tables ISBN 978-0-8173-1976-2 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9173-7 / 49.95 EBOOK “ Cahokia’s Complexities engages with interesting, broadly relevant anthropological theory and grounds this engagement in a detailed material case study.” — Meghan C. L. Howey, author of Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600 and associate editor of the Journal of Archaeological Anthropology “ Alt outlines interesting ideas about the role of hybridity and diversity in the development of Cahokia, one of the most complex polities and cultural landscapes of Native North America. Cahokia’s Complexities is an important book about current archaeological knowledge of the Cahokian cultural landscape, and in shaping what we will learn from new archaeological finds in the years to come in the American Bottom and in the Cahokian diaspora, and it is an important contribution to broader scholarly conversations in archaeology about complexity.”

As one of the foremost experts on Cahokia, Susan M. Alt addresses long-standing considerations of eastern Woodlands archaeology— the beginnings, character, and ending of Mississippian culture (AD 1050–1600)—from a novel theoretical and empirical vantage point. Through this case study on farmers’ immigration and resettling, Alt’s narrative reanalyzes the relationship between administration and diversity, incorporating critical new discoveries and archaeological patterns from outside of Cahokia. Alt examines the cultural landscape of the Cahokia flood plain and the layout of one extraordinary upland site, Grossman, as an administrative settlement where local farmers might have seen or participated in Cahokian rituals and ceremonies involving a web of ancestors, powers, and places. Alt argues that a farming district outside the center provides definitive evidences of the attempted centralized administration of a rural hinterland. Susan M. Alt is an associate professor of anthropology and faculty curator at Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University. She is the editor of Ancient Complexities: New Perspectives in Precolumbian North America and coeditor of Medieval Mississippians: The Cahokian World.

— Christopher B. Rodning, author of Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians

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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY

Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past Edited by Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A. Shuler Foreword by Mary Lucas Powell

A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones?: Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A. Shuler marks steady advances over the past three decades in the theory, methodology, and purpose of bioarchaeology in the southeastern United States and across the discipline. With a geographic scope that ranges from Louisiana to South Carolina and a temporal span from early prehistory through the nineteenth century, the coverage aims to be holistic. Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast: Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past is organized into two main parts. The first, “Context and Culture History in Bioarchaeology,” focuses on the fundamentals of archaeology—figuring out who lived at an archaeological site, when they lived there, what they did, and how they lived their lives. This builds the framework that allows archaeologists to answer deeper questions, such as the ones addressed in the second part, “Social Identities in Bioarchaeology.” Here contributors explore questions of identity, ethnicity, gender and the status of women, social status, class, power and exploitation, migration, and conflict. These chapters implement and contribute to anthropological theory and showcase improved methods, such as innovative statistical analyses, and incorporate newer technology, including a DNA and geographic information system applications. Shannon Chappell Hodge is an associate professor of anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University. Kristrina A. Shuler is an associate professor and director of anthropology at Auburn University.

august 6 x 9 / 264 PAGES / 58 B&W figures / 7 maps / 32 tables ISBN 978-0-8173-1991-5 / $74.95s hardcover ISBN 978-0-8173-9194-2 / $74.95 EBOOK “ Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast compares favorably with other southeastern-focused bioarchaeology volumes that survey the various archaeological populations in the American southeast. It belongs on bookshelves next to volumes such as Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast and What Mean These Bones?: Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology.” — Michelle D. Hamilton, associate professor of anthropology at Texas State University “ A wonderful successor to What Mean These Bones?, Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast demonstrates the current diversity seen in theoretical approaches in the discipline, from traditional population-based analyses of health to more socially focused studies of the individual. It will be a valuable addition to courses in both bioarchaeology as well as southeastern prehistory.” — Marie Danforth, professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi Contributors Ralph Bailey Jr. / Tracy K. Betsinger / Steven N. Byers / Della Collins Cook / Carlina de la Cova / J. Lynn Funkhouser / Mark C. Griffin / Barbara Thedy Hester / Shannon Chappell Hodge / Emily Jateff / Christopher Judge / Ginesse A. Listi / Charles F. Philips Jr. / Eric C. Poplin / Rebecca Saunders / Kristrina A. Shuler / Eric Sipes / Maria Ostendorf Smith / William D. Stevens / Matthew A. Williamson / Christopher Young

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RHETORIC / LAW / GENDER STUDIES

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent Feminist Rhetoric and the Law Katie L. Gibson A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from equal protection to reproductive rights. Beginning in the early 1970s, Ginsburg led a consequential attack on sexist law in the United States. By directly confronting the patriarchal voice of the law, she pointedly challenged an entrenched genre of legal language that silenced the voices and experiences of American women and undermined their status as equal citizens. From her position on the United States Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg continues to challenge the traditional scripts of legal discourse to insist on a progressive vision of the Constitution and to demand a more inclusive and democratic body of law. march 6 x 9 / 184 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1978-6 / $44.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9175-1 / $44.95 EBOOK “ A significant contribution to the rhetorical studies literature; the cultural and political value of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is considerable and there is a definite need for a careful, sustained analysis of her judicial rhetoric. Gibson provides just such an analysis, and her work is a powerful contribution to the ongoing conversations about the relationships between law, rhetoric, and the broader political culture.” — Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland, author of The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process and coauthor of The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism

This illuminating work examines Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s contributions in reshaping the rhetoric of the law (specifically through the lens of watershed cases in women’s rights) and describes her rhetorical contributions—beginning with her work in the 1970s as a lawyer and an advocate for the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project through her tenure as a Supreme Court justice. Katie L. Gibson examines Ginsburg’s rhetoric to argue that she has dramatically shifted the boundaries of legal language. Gibson draws from rhetorical theory, critical legal theory, and feminist theory to describe the law as a rhetorical genre, arguing that Ginsburg’s jurisprudence can appropriately be understood as a direct challenge to the traditional rhetoric of the law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg stands as an incredibly important figure in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century feminism. While a growing number of admirers celebrate Justice Ginsburg’s voice of dissent today, Ginsburg’s rhetorical legacy reveals that she has long articulated a sharp and strategic voice of judicial dissent. This study contributes to a more complete understanding of her feminist legacy by detailing the unique contributions of her legal rhetoric. Katie L. Gibson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical studies. Her scholarship investigates the politics of representation in legal discourses, political communication, and popular culture.

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RHETORIC / LAW

Disorder in the Court Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense Andrea L. Alden

The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense The insanity defense is considered one of the most controversial, most misunderstood, and least straightforward subjects in the American legal system. Disorder in the Court: Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense traces the US legal standards for the insanity defense as they have evolved from 1843, when they were first codified in England, to 1984, when the US government attempted to revise them through the Insanity Defense Reform Act. Throughout this period “insanity” existed primarily as a legal term rather than a medical one; yet the testimony of psychiatric experts is required in cases in which an insanity defense is raised. The adjudication of such cases by courtroom practice is caught between two different but overlapping discourses, the legal and the medical, both of which have historically sought to assert and maintain firm disciplinary boundaries. Both expert and lay audiences have struggled to understand and apply commonplace definitions of sanity, and the portrayal of the insanity defense in popular culture has only served to further frustrate such understandings. Andrea L. Alden argues that the problems with understanding the insanity defense are, at their foundation, rhetorical. The legal concept of what constitutes insanity and, therefore, an abdication of responsibility for one’s actions does not map neatly onto the mental health professions’ understandings of mental illness and how that affects an individual’s ability to understand or control his or her actions. Additionally, there are multiple layers of persuasion involved in any effort to convince a judge, jury—or the public, for that matter—that a defendant is or is not responsible for his or her actions at a particular moment in time. Alden examines landmark court cases such as the trial of Daniel McNaughtan, Durham v. United States, and the trial of John Hinckley Jr. which signal the major shifts in the legal definitions of the insanity defense. Combining archival, textual, and rhetorical analysis, Alden offers a close reading of texts, including trial transcripts, appellate court opinions, and relevant medical literature from the time period. She contextualizes these analyses through popular texts—for example, newspaper articles and editorials—showing that while all societies have maintained some version of mental illness as a mitigating factor in their penal systems, the insanity defense has always been fraught with controversy.

august 6 x 9 / 224 pages ISBN 978-0-8173-1972-4 / $54.95s / CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9163-8 / $54.95 / EBOOK “ This is a terrific book and one that is long overdue. Disorder in the Court engages two important, but relatively understudied, areas of rhetorical scholarship—the rhetoric of law and the rhetoric of medicine—in order to shed light on the intriguing issue of insanity defenses.” — Edward Schiappa, author of Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media and coauthor of Argumentation: Keeping Faith with Reason “ An important contribution that provides a concise rhetorical assessment of the development of the insanity defense in America.” — Francis J. Mootz III, author of Law, Hermeneutics, and Rhetoric and Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory

Andrea L. Alden is an assistant professor of English at Grand Canyon University.

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new in paper

An American Rabbi in Korea A Chaplain’s Journey in the Forgotten War Milton J. Rosen Edited and Translated by Stanley R. Rosen

A firsthand account of the American Jewish experience on the frontlines During the height of the Korean conflict, 1950–51, Orthodox Jewish chaplain Milton J. Rosen wrote 19 feature-length articles for Der Morgen Zhornal, a Yiddish daily in New York, documenting his wartime experiences as well as those of the servicemen under his care. As chaplain, Rosen was able to offer a unique account of the American Jewish experience on the frontlines and in the United States military while also describing the impact of the American presence on Korean citizens and their culture. Stanley R. Rosen translated his father’s articles into English and also provides an introductory overview of the war that includes helpful maps and photographs.

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Milton J. Rosen, born in Lithuania in 1906, studied in Jerusalem and settled in Chicago where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1929. After 19 years as a practicing Orthodox rabbi, he was called up for military chaplaincy and served several tours of duty in Japan and Korea. Stanley R. Rosen served in Korea as an information officer and later became a physician practicing internal medicine in Illinois and Wisconsin.

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Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South Alabama’s Hill Country, 1874–1920 Samuel L. Webb

A challenge to the long-held view that the only important and influential politicians in post-Reconstruction Deep South states were Democrats

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In this insightful and exhaustively researched volume, Samuel L. Webb presents new evidence that, contrary to popular belief, voters in at least one Deep South state did not flee en masse from the Republican party after Reconstruction. As Webb demonstrates conclusively, the party gained strength among white voters in Upcountry areas of northern Alabama between 1896 and 1920. Not only did GOP presidential candidates win more than a dozen area counties but Republican congressional candidates made progress in Democratic strongholds, and local GOP officials gained control of several county courthouses. This ground-breaking reassessment of Alabama state politics from Reconstruction to the 1920s describes a people whose political culture had strong roots in the democratic and egalitarian Jacksonian ideology that dominated north Alabama in the antebellum period. Samuel L. Webb is professor emeritus of history at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He co-edited Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State.

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Doctrine and Race African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews

Examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in which white Christianity operated and how they could use that knowledge to justify social change. Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews’s study scrutinizes how white fundamentalists wrote blacks out of their definition of fundamentalism and how blacks constructed a definition of Christianity that had, at its core, an intrinsic belief in racial equality. In doing so, this volume challenges the prevailing scholarly argument that fundamentalism was either a doctrinal debate or an antimodernist force. Mathews shows it was a constantly shifting set of priorities for different groups at different times. Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews is professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington and is the author of Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South.

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Isaac Taylor Tichenor The Creation of the Baptist New South Michael E. Williams

The influential role Tichenor played in shaping both the Baptist denomination and southern culture Isaac Taylor Tichenor worked as a Confederate chaplain, a mining executive, and as president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama (now Auburn University). He also served as corresponding secretary for the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Atlanta from 1882 until 1899. In these capacities Tichenor developed the New South ideas that were incorporated into every aspect of his work and ultimately influenced many areas of southern life, including business, education, religion, and culture. In Isaac Taylor Tichenor: The Creation of the Baptist New South, Michael E. Williams Sr. provides a comprehensive analysis of Tichenor’s life, examining the overall impact of his life and work. This volume, available now in paperback for the first time, also documents the methodologies Tichenor used to rally Southern Baptist support around its struggling Home Mission Board, which defined the makeup of the Southern Baptist Convention and defended the territory of the convention.

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Michael E. Williams is dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history at Dallas Baptist University and the author of To God Be the Glory: The Centennial History of Dallas Baptist University, 1898–1998.

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Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy Roger Pickenpaugh

Discusses an important yet often misunderstood topic in American History Camp Chase, located four miles west of Columbus, Ohio, started, as did so many other prisons, as a training camp for eager Union recruits. By late 1861 it housed Confederate prisoners, and was also used as quarters for Union soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the Confederacy and released on parole or exchanged. During the four years of the war, Camp Chase developed as a prison camp, reflecting the efforts of both civilian and military officials to fashion a coherent prison policy. Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy is a careful, thorough, and objective examination of the history and administration of the camp and is of true significance in the literature on the Civil War.

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Roger Pickenpaugh is a retired history teacher. He is the author of Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union and Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy, and Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863.

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More Than Science and Sputnik The National Defense Education Act of 1958 Wayne J. Urban

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of groundbreaking legislation that lead to advancement in science education Sparked by dramatic Soviet achievements, particularly in nuclear technology and the development of the Sputnik space orbiter, the United States responded in the late 1950s with an extraordinary federal investment in education. Designed to overcome a perceived national failure to produce enough qualified scientists, engineers, and mathematicians to compete with the Communist bloc, the effort resulted in the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA). Representative Carl Elliott and Senator Lister Hill both from Alabama, and then Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Elliot Richardson were the prime movers in shaping of this landmark legislation. may 6.125 x 9.25 / 264 PAGES ISBN 978-0-8173-5919-5 / $29.95s Paper ISBN 978-0-8173-9026-6 / $29.95 EBOOK

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More Than Science and SputnikÂ analyzes primary documents of the three leaders to describe the political process that established the NDEA. The book illustrates what the assumptions of the key players were, and why they believed the act was needed. Wayne J. Urban is former associate director of the Education Policy Center and coauthor of American Education: A History.

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Lacan in Public Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric Christian Lundberg

A strong argument that rhetoric lies at the heart of Lacan’s work Scholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire, affect, politics, and pleasure. And though Lacan explicitly contends with some of the pivotal thinkers in the field of rhetoric, rhetoricians have been hesitant to embrace the French thinker both because his writing is difficult and because Lacan’s conception of rhetoric runs counter to the American traditions of rhetoric in composition and communication studies. But Lacan’s conception of rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues in Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric, upsets and extends the received wisdom of American rhetorical studies. As Lundberg shows, Lacan’s work speaks directly to conversations at the center of current rhetorical scholarship, including debates regarding the nature of the public and public discourses, the materiality of rhetoric and agency, and the contours of a theory of persuasion. Christian Lundberg is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His articles have appeared in Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Pre/Text, Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

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Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy The Politics of Implementation Stephen L. Percy

An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for persons with disabilities Following on the heels of other civil rights legislation, disability rights laws emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Often these laws were more symbolic than precise in terms of objectives and strategies to guide the implementation of antidiscrimination policies. The premise of Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy is that implementation policies in these areas evolved through protracted political struggles among a variety of persons and groups affected by disability rights laws. Efforts to influence policies extended far beyond the process of legislative enactment and resulted in struggles that were played out in the courts and in the executive branch. Included within this examination of federal disability rights laws are the role of symbolic politics, the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary models used for the study of policy implementation, and the politics of administrative policymaking. Stephen L. Percy is the Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University. He is the author of Demand Processing and Performance in Public Service Agencies and A Time for Boldness: A Story of Institutional Change.

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selected backlist: New and Notable

Keep Your Airspeed Up The Story of a Tuskegee Airman Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner

The inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account

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“ Keep Your Airspeed Up is a surprise. A very nice one. Not only is it a warm and genuine biography, beginning even before author Harold H. Brown was born, but this book takes readers through a two-pronged fight, both in war and for civil rights, as told through quiet tales of heroes and those who created them. . .Even if you don’t consider yourself a World War II buff, this book is more than just that; there’s other history here, as well as a biography that will charm you plenty.” — Marco Eagle

Constance Baker Motley One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law Gary L. Ford Jr.

A pioneer and trailblazer in the legal profession, Constance Baker Motley was key litigator and legal strategist for several landmark civil rights cases including the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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“ Gary L. Ford Jr.’s well-researched book is more than a biography of Motley’s extraordinary life. It is an argument for recognizing the tenacious, courageous role African American women like her played in advancing the cause of civil rights and equal justice for all. To witness Judge Motley in action was to be fortified and astounded. Now, thanks to Ford, a new generation can bear witness to her immense talents.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Campesinos Inside the Soul of Cuba Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi

A collection of loving and intimate photographs by world-renowned photographers documenting people and places from every corner of the island nation “ I am not just staring at a photograph in a book. I am there in the countryside of Cuba. It is a surreal experience. This is the power and the grandeur of great photography—that I feel I am looking out of the window of a bus or car and that I AM THERE. It takes special photographers to achieve this. Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi have done just this, and I am happy to have been able to travel there with them through their moving images.”

10 x 12 248 PAGEs 270 COLOR FIGURES 1 MAP ISBN 978-0-8173-1950-2 $49.95t CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9120-1 $49.95 EBOOK

— Robert Stevens, from the Introduction

Grandeur of the Everyday The Paintings of Dale Kennington

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Dale Kennington, Introduction by Daniel White, Conversation with Kristen Miller Zohn, Essay by Rebecca Brantley

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A lavishly illustrated overview of the life and work of realist painter Dale Kennington, featuring more than eighty-five of her most renowned works

ISBN 978-0-8173-9168-3 $29.95 EBOOK

“ Dale Kennington’s art of the everyday rises to the level of the extraordinary because of her sure handling of the elements of painting: composition, perspective, palette. It is not hyperbole to say that Dale Kennington is, for those many of us who admire and respect her work, a regional and even a national treasure.” — William U. Eiland, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art

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selected backlist: alabama

Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century William H. Stewart

A fascinating and revealing look at an extremely complex state government, illuminating many of the often misunderstood details of contemporary Alabama politics “ Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century is interesting and informative, and it brings an important topic up to date. Good examinations of state-level politics need to be done from time to time, and there is no comparable work on contemporary Alabama politics currently available.”

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— Robert P. Steed, coeditor of Writing Southern Politics: Contemporary Interpretations and Future Directions

These Rugged Days Alabama in the Civil War John S. Sledge

An accessibly written and riveting narrative of Alabama’s role in the Civil War “ As a writer, Sledge possesses an appealing gift for evocative prose, his picturesque writing style well suited to drawing in both casual readers and more serious students of Civil War Alabama. His narrative generally follows the top commanders, but it also generously incorporates pithy excerpts from the diaries and letters of common soldiers and civilians from all parts of the state. Sledge’s engaging writing style also hearkens back to that of Foote and Catton, a quality that will undoubtedly broaden the volume’s appeal.”

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1865 Alabama From Civil War to Uncivil Peace Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr.

A detailed history of a vitally important year in Alabama history examining the end of the Civil War and the early days of Reconstruction “ One of the most interesting and provocative studies of a Confederate state that has appeared in recent years. McIlwain presents an impressive amount of fresh research and information that advances a number of striking and controversial interpretations.”

6x9 376 PAGES 21 B&W figures ISBN 978-0-8173-1953-3 $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9136-2 $49.95 EBOOK

— George C. Rable, author of God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War

Getting Out of the Mud The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928 Martin T. Olliff

Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement in progressive-era Alabama, detailing how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobilists

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“ Olliff weaves a unique combination of history, sociology, political science, and economics to create a three-dimensional fabric.” — David O. Whitten, author of Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South

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Borders of Visibility Jennifer L. Shoaff

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An extremely timely anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic

ISBN 978-0-8173-1967-0 $59.95s CLOTH

Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State

“ A valuable anthropological gem that will have impact for years to come. It gives women on the Dominican Republic border a human face. This is much-needed nuanced ethnography that takes the marginalized out of obscurity while exposing the extent to which their invisibility is a chimera.”

ISBN 978-0-8173-9158-4 $59.95 EBOOK

— Gina Athena Ulysse, author of Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle and Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-Making in Jamaica

Beautiful Politics of Music Trova in Yucatán, Mexico Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a treasured cultural heritage a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán “ A sophisticated examination of cultural tradition and innovation that makes the argument for cultural imagination and aesthetic choice, which is extremely important today when hard lines are once again being drawn around heritage and the arts, who defines them and who owns them.”

6x9 216 PAGES 14 B&W FIGURES 3 MAPS 1 TABLE ISBN 978-0-8173-1962-5 $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9147-8 $49.95 EBOOK

— Anya Peterson Royce, author of Becoming an Ancestor: The Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death and Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Ancient Ocean Crossings Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas Stephen C. Jett

A compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another, but constituted a “global ecumene”

6x9 528 PAGES 39 B&W FIGURES ISBN 978-0-8173-1939-7 $49.95s CLOTH ISBN 978-0-8173-9075-4 $49.95 EBOOK

“ An extraordinary study that is exceptionally well researched, written, organized and presented, Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas is a seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections.” — Robert Stevens, from the Introduction

Land of Water, City of the Dead Religion and Cahokia’s Emergence Sarah E. Baires

Explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs “ Baires make a good case for her theory of Cahokia. She looks at the great city and its religion in a different way that will aid future studies while promoting new perspectives.”

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— American Archaeology

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frontlist author and title index

Alden, Andrea L. ................................................... 27

Percy, Stephen L. .................................................. 31

Disorder in the Court �� 27

Alt, Susan M. ........................................................ 24

Pickenpaugh, Roger �� 30

Doctrine and Race ...................................................29

Atkins, Leah Rawls �� 5

Powell, Edith ........................................................ 17

Engines of Rebellion �� 13

Bisbee, Saxon T. .................................................... 13

Quimby, George W. �� 1

Faces of Resistance �� 23

Boyd, Thomas ....................................................... 10

Rubin, Anne Sarah �� 1

Forgotten Front, A.................................................. 12

Boyle, Peter.......................................................... 19

Rogers, William Warren �� 5

Gears and God....................................................... 20

Bruns, Gerald L. .................................................... 18

Rosen, Milton J. .................................................... 28

Hispanicism and Early US Literature................................................. 22

Canada, Mark ....................................................... 21

Rosen, Stanley R. .................................................. 28

Chandler, Dana R. ................................................. 17

Sheppard, Jonathan C. �� 12

Choundas, George �� 8

Shuler, Kristrina A. �� 25

Fink, Jennifer Natalya �� 7

Trout, Steven ........................................................ 10

Flannery, Michael A. �� 15

Urban, Wayne J. ................................................... 30

Flynt, Wayne........................................................... 5

Ward, Robert David �� 5

Malignant Growth ................................................. 16

Gibson, Katie L. .................................................... 26

Webb, Samuel L. .................................................. 28

Maria Martin’s World �� 14

Havard, John C. .................................................... 22

Weitz, Seth A. ...................................................... 12

More Than Science and Sputnik �� 30

Hodge, Shannon Chappell �� 25

Williams Jr., Michael E. �� 29

Nature’s Prophet.................................................... 15

Hollars, B. J............................................................. 2

Williams, Nathaniel �� 20

Of Such a Nature / Índole �� 19

Perfect Scout, The.................................................... 1

Kistler, S. Ashley ................................................... 23 Kozer, José............................................................ 19

Alabama................................................................. 5 Lemay, Kate Clarke �� 11 Alabama Founders �� 4 Lewis, Herbert James �� 4

Interruptions......................................................... 18 Isaac Taylor Tichenor �� 29 Lacan in Public ...................................................... 31 Making Sense of Things, The �� 8

Points of Honor...................................................... 10 Road South, The ...................................................... 2

American Rabbi in Korea, An �� 28

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent................................................... 26

Bhopal Dance.......................................................... 7

Thomas Wolfe Remembered �� 21

Marcus, Alan I....................................................... 16

Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast �� 25

To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down �� 17

Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam �� 29

Cahokia’s Complexities �� 24

Tokyo.................................................................... 6

Mejia, Michael........................................................ 6

Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy �� 30

Triumph of the Dead �� 11

Lindsay, Debra J.................................................... 14 Lundberg, Christian �� 31

Montgomery, Nami �� 21 Murphy, Stephen �� 1

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Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy.................................................... 31

Two-Party Politics in the One-Party South �� 28

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