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SUBJECT INDEX AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
12, 29
AMERICAN HISTORY
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ARCHAEOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
10, 20
BIOGRAPHY
5, 7–8, 11, 13–16, 31
DANCE 19 FILM HISTORY
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LATIN AMERICA
3, 30–40
LITERARY CRITICISM
30, 45–53
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
48–53
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
9, 22–27
MUSIC 14–17 POETRY 9 POLITICAL SCIENCE
10, 21, 32–33
SPACE 4–7
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Voices from Mariel Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift JOSÉ MANUEL GARCÍA
A mass exodus that shocked the world • Author is the narrator and coproducer of the award-winning documentary of the same name. • The author emigrated to the United States from Cuba as a child during the Mariel boatlift exodus and returned to his country 30 years later to reunite with friends and family. • Includes the never-before-published personal stories of various Mariel boatlift refugees as well as other firsthand witnesses such as a diplomat, a reporter and a former CIA intelligence officer during the Carter administration. • Explains the rampant discontent with Castro’s government and the unfulfilled promises of the Cuban Revolution. J O S É M A N U E L G A R C Í A is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Florida Southern College. He wrote the script for the international award-winning documentary Voices from Mariel and is the author of La literatura cubanoamericana y su imagen.
HISTORY/EMIGRATION & IMMIGRATION March 2018 200 pp. | 6 x 9 | 46 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-5666-1 Cloth $24.95
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The History of Human Space Flight TED SPITZMILLER
• The complete story of manned space flight. • Highlights men and women across the globe who have dedicated themselves to pushing the limits of space exploration. • Covers invention of hot air balloons, lifting gasses, rocket societies, engineering and space medicine advances, the space race, triumphs and tragedies, the development of the International Space Station, NASA’s interest in Mars and asteroids, and China’s emergence as a major player in the space arena.
SPACE March 2017 648 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 198 b/w illus., 3 tables ISBN 978-0-8130-5427-8 Cloth $39.95
T E D S P I T Z M I L L E R , retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is a pilot and flight instructor. He is the author of many books, including the two-volume work Astronautics.
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Safely to Earth The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home JACK CLEMONS
An Apollo and Space Shuttle diary • Takes readers behind the scenes and into the inner workings of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs during their most exciting years. • Reveals problems, challenges, and near-disasters previously unknown to the public, and offers candid opinions on the failures that led to the loss of 14 astronauts in the Challenger and Columbia tragedies. J AC K C L E M O N S was a lead engineer supporting NASA’s Apollo program and senior engineering software manager on the Space Shuttle program. He was part of the mission control backroom team that supported the NASA flight controllers on both the return of the Apollo 11 crew from the first Moon landing and the rescue of the Apollo 13 crew. A former senior vice president of engineering for Lockheed Martin, he is a writer, consultant, and speaker about NASA’s space programs.
SPACE September 2018 208 pp. | 6 x 9 | 51 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-5602-9 Cloth $24.95 Audio rights sold
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Waiting for Contact The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence L AW R E N C E S Q U E R I
Why do we pursue the quest for alien life? • Tells the story of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) movement, which emerged in 1959 as began using radio telescopes to listen for messages from space. • Discusses how Frank Drake, Philip Morrison, and Carl Sagan, supported the movement. • Also describes the challenges SETI has faced over the years as they struggle to be taken seriously by the scientific community.
SPACE September 2016 248 pp. | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8130-6214-3 Cloth $26.95
L AW R E N C E S Q U E R I is professor emeritus of history at East Stroudsburg University.
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Willy Ley Prophet of the Space Age JARED S. BUSS
• The first biography of GermanAmerican science popularizer Willy Ley, this book traces the writer’s rise to prominence and eventual loss of prestige as intellectuals like Wernher von Braun became influential. • Willy Ley was credited as the first historian of spaceflight and was perhaps the most important advocate of the American Space Age. • Tells why Ley fled Germany during the Nazi regime to build his career as America’s foremost expert on rockets, missiles, and space travel. J A R E D S . B U S S is adjunct professor
of history at Oklahoma City Community College.
SPACE August 2017 336 pp. | 6 x 9 | 10 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-5443-8 Cloth $34.95
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Life of the Party The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire BOB KEALING
• The definitive portrait of Brownie Wise, a plucky businesswoman who divorced her alcoholic husband, started her own successful business, and eventually popularized the “Tupperware Party” that made Tupperware succeed. • Tells how, at the height of Wise’s success, Earl Tupper fired her under mysterious circumstances, wrote her out of Tupperware’s success story, and left her with a pittance. September 2016 320 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 ISBN 978-1-1019-0365-0 Cloth $26.00 Translation rights available only; Korean rights sold
• Originally published as Tupperware Unsealed. B O B K E A L I N G , a five-time Emmy award–winning reporter, is the author of Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock, Kerouac in Florida: Where the Road Ends, and Elvis Ignited: The Rise of an Icon in Florida.
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E-mails from Scheherazad MOHJA KAHF
“Astutely considers the myriad conundrums and frustrations of women’s lives in general and Muslim women in particular.” —Booklist “Draws sharp, funny, earthy portraits of the fault line separating Muslim women from their Western counterparts.”—New York Times • Kahf’s poems describe the experiences of Arab-American immigrants. • She speaks not only to important issues of ethnicity, gender, and religious diversity in America, but also to universal human themes of family and kinship, friendship, and the search for a place to pray. M O H J A K A H F is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Arkansas.
POETRY/MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES April 2003 128 pp. | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8130-2621-3 Paper $14.95 Italian rights sold
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Art and Journals on the Political Front, 1910–1940 EDITED BY VIRGINIA H A G E L S T E I N M A R Q UA R DT
• Focusing on the period from the years just prior to World War I to the onset of World War II, this volume investigates the nexus of art, avant-garde thought, and politics as it appears in (explicitly or implicitly) partisan journals. • The art and journals in question helped politicize the artistic avant-garde in Italy, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Spain, the United States, Mexico, and France. V I R G I N I A H AG E L S T E I N M A R Q UA R DT is coeditor of The
POLITICAL SCIENCE/ART December 1997 336 pp. | 6 x 9 | 101 b/w photos, 8 color plates ISBN 978-0-8130-1535-4 Cloth $59.95
Avant-Garde Frontier: Russia Meets the West, 1910-1930 (UPF, 1992) and editor of Survivor from a Dead Age: The Memoirs of Louis Lozowick (1997).
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Captain “Hell Roaring” Mike Healy From American Slave to Arctic Hero DENNIS L. NOBLE AND TRUMAN R. STROBRIDGE
One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden • In the late 1880s, Healy arrested lawbreakers, stopped mutinies aboard merchant ships, fought the smuggling of illegal liquor and firearms, and rescued shipwrecked sailors as a Coast Guard captain. • A New York newspaper once declared him the “most famous man in America.” • Nearly a century later, the U.S. Coast Guard discovered Healy was born a slave in Georgia. D E N N I S L . N O B L E retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a senior chief petty officer and is the author of Rescue of the Gale Runner. T R U M A N R . S T R O B R I D G E ’s many positions in the federal government included command historian of the joint-service Alaska Command and also the U.S. Army, Alaska, and he has coauthored two books with Noble.
BIOGRAPHY/AMERICAN HISTORY September 2009 352 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 17 b/w photos | 3 maps ISBN 978-0-8130-5485-8 Paper $26.95 Motion picture rights optioned
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The Black Seminoles History of a FreedomSeeking People K E N N E T H W. P O R T E R E D I T E D B Y A LC I O N E M . A M O S A N D T H O M A S P. S E N T E R
“This fascinating story chronicles the lives of fugitive slaves who aligned themselves with Seminole Indians in Florida beginning in the early 1800s, fought with them in the Second Seminole War, and were removed, along with them to Indian Territory, where they struggled to remain free.” —Library Journal K E N N E T H W. P O R T E R , former profes-
AMERICAN HISTORY May 2013 328 pp. | 6 x 9 41 b/w photos | Map ISBN 978-0-8130-4488-0 Paper $19.95
sor of history at the University of Oregon, began researching Black Seminole history in the 1930s. When he died in 1981, he was still editing the 700 pages of his life’s work. Originally published in 1996, his book remains the definitive work on the subject.
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Jackie Cochran Pilot in the Fastest Lane DORIS L. RICH
• The first extensive critical biography of Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran, America’s greatest woman pilot. • Cochran was the first woman to break the sound barrier, first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic, possessor of more than 200 aviation records, and the commander of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. D O R I S R I C H is a journalist and author of Amelia Earhart: A Biography, Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator, and The Magnificent Moisants: Champions of Early Flight.
BIOGRAPHY/AMERICAN HISTORY April 2007 288 pp. | 6 x 9 29 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-3506-2 Paper $24.95 Motion picture rights optioned
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Gamble Rogers A Troubadour’s Life BRUCE HOROVITZ
A revered champion of Americana • The first biography ever written about Florida’s most beloved troubadour. • Includes first hand accounts from Gamble’s family and closest friends. • An inside look at the people and places that characterized the renaissance of the Florida folk scene during the 1970s and 80s. • An important piece of Florida’s cultural history. B R U C E H O R O V I T Z is an award-
BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC September 2018 192 pp. | 6 x 9 | 22 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-5694-4 Cloth $24.95
winning journalist and entrepreneur with extensive experience in the nonprofit and business communities of Jacksonville, Florida.
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Phil Gernhard, Record Man B I L L D E YO U N G
• The first biography of Phil Gerhard, the self-made music mogul who produced forty years’ worth of chart-topping songs and multimillion dollar albums. • Gernhard recorded his first million seller, “Stay” by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, at just 19 years old. • Gerhard struggled in his private life, eventually committing suicide. • DeYoung interivews Gernhard’s musicians, business partners, family members, and ex-wives to tell his story. B I L L D E YO U N G is the author of Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down.
BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC March 2018 176 pp. | 6 x 9 | 25 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-5677-7 Cloth $24.95
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Elvis Ignited The Rise of an Icon in Florida BOB KEALING
From Hillbilly Cat to the King of Rock and Roll • Follows a critical era in the Elvis saga, from when he was an unknown in 1955 to 1956 when he played more concerts in Florida than anywhere else. • Reveals how Elvis first became the object of worship, scorn, and controversy. • Talks about the Florida writers of Elvis’s hit song “Heartbreak Hotel.” • Bob Kealing interviews people who saw the King up close in high school gymnasiums, nightclubs, radio stations, and shopping centers. BIOGRAPHY/MUSIC March 2017 280 pp. | 6 x 9 | 45 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-6230-3 Cloth $28.00 Translation rights available only
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award–winning reporter, is the author of Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock, Kerouac in Florida: Where the Road Ends, and Life of the Party: The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire.
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Florida Soul From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band J O H N C A P O U YA
A second-to-none soul music heritage • Establishes Florida as one of the great soul capitals of the United States. • Shares the stories of artists including Ray Charles, James and Bobby Purify, Hank Ballard and his international hit song “The Twist,” Linda Lyndell (“What a Man”), and legendary duo Sam and Dave. • Capouya draws on extensive interviews with surviving musicians to re-create the exciting atmosphere of the golden age of soul. J O H N C A P O U YA is associate pro-
fessor of journalism and writing at the University of Tampa. His previous book, the biography Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture, is being adapted into a feature film.
MUSIC September 2017 408 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 60 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-6402-4 Paper $21.95
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Silent Films in St. Augustine THOMAS GRAHAM
“A must-read for film enthusiasts.” —Janelle Blankenship, coeditor of European Visions: Small Cinemas in Transition • Before Hollywood, early film stars like Rudolph Valentino, Ethel Barrymore, and Oliver Hardy made movies in St. Augustine, Florida. • More than 120 films were made in St. Augustine from 1906 to 1926 by film companies such as Thanhouser, Lubin, Éclair, Pathé, Edison, and Vitagraph. • The first full-length Frankenstein movie, Life Without Soul, was shot in St. Augustine. FILM HISTORY September 2017 216 pp. | 6 x 9 | 84 b&w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-5453-7 Cloth $24.95
• The city stood in for Spain, Italy, France, Egypt, Arabia, South Africa, Brazil, and Hawaii. T H O M A S G R A H A M is professor emer-
itus of history at Flagler College. He is the author of several books, including Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine.
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Dance and Gender An Evidence-Based Approach E D I T E D B Y W E N DY O L I V E R AND DOUG RISNER
• Written by leading researchers and emerging scholars from the US, Canada, and Australia. • Gives a snapshot of gender and dance in the early 21st century, while providing an in depth literature review of dance and gender since the 1980s. • Reviews contributions to the field from gender studies, queer studies, women’s studies, and cultural studies. • Topics covered regarding the dance studio are teen girls in competition culture, all-boys dance classes, and relationships among male dancers in professional dance companies. • Topics within gender equity include examination of statistics regarding who receives grants, awards, prizes, prestigious performance venues, and high-profile residencies and teaching opportunities. W E N DY O L I V E R , professor of dance at Providence College, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches. Doug Risner, professor of dance at Wayne State University, is coeditor of Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader.
DANCE/GENDER STUDIES February 2017 224 pp. | 6 x 9 | 22 tables ISBN 978-0-8130-6468-0 Paper $24.95
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Roland Barthes on Photography The Critical Tradition in Perspective N A N C Y S H AW C R O S S
• Analyzes for the first time—in any language—all of Barthes’s writings, both direct and indirect, about visual media in its many forms. • Combines theoretical and philosophical questions with the history and cultural contexts of photography. N A N C Y S H AW C R O S S teaches comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as curator of manuscripts in the Department of Special Collections there.
PHOTOGRAPHY CRITICISM November 1996 144 pp. | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8130-1469-2 Cloth $65.00 Korean rights sold
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Selling Guantánamo Exploding the Propaganda Surrounding America’s Most Notorious Military Prison JOHN HICKMAN
• Reveals exactly why the current internment of prisoners at the infamous naval base is so unprecedented and unique. • Exposes the holes in the Bush administration’s story about why prisoners captured in the War on Terror were detained in Guantánamo. • Argues Guantánamo prisoners were put on display as symbols of military victory, punished as substitutes for the architects of 9/11 who remained at large, and were used as pawns in a neoconservative move to signal a new U.S. foreign policy that ignored the United Nations. POLITICAL SCIENCE J O H N H I C K M A N is professor of gov-
ernment at Berry College.
May 2013 288 pp. | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8130-4455-2 Cloth $24.95
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The Veil Unveiled The Hijab in Modern Culture FA E G H E H S H I R A Z I
“An original contribution to a subject which is currently of much interest to the world at large, East or West, and has an important bearing on the position of women in the societies in which veiling is practiced.” —The Middle East Journal • Using examples from both the East and West—including Persian poetry, American erotica, Iranian and Indian films, and government-sanctioned posters—Faegheh Shirazi shows that the veil has become a ubiquitous symbol. • Reveals how the hijab is utilized as a profitable marketing tool for diverse enterprises, from Penthouse magazine to Saudi ad companies. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
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September 2003 240 pp. | 6 x 9 | 36 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-2698-5 Paper $24.95
• She argues that perceptions of the veil change with the cultural context of its use; for example, in a Hindi movie the veil draws in the male gaze, in an Iranian movie it denies it.
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FA E G H E H S H I R A Z I is associate professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures in the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Velvet Jihad: Muslim Women’s Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism.
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Velvet Jihad Muslim Women’s Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism FA E G H E H S H I R A Z I
• Reveals the creative strategies Muslim women have adopted to quietly fight against those who would limit their growing rights. • Shirazi examines issues that are important to all women, from routine matters such as daily hygiene and clothing to controversial subjects like abortion, birth control, and virginity. • As a woman extensive life experience in both Western and Middle Eastern cultures, Shirazi is uniquely positioned as an objective observer and reporter of changes and challenges facing Muslim women globally. FA E G H E H S H I R A Z I is associate pro-
fessor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures in the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture.
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES September 2009 276 pp. | 6 x 9 59 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-3730-1 Paper $29.95
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The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam LAMIA RUSTUM SHEHADEH
“Important for its political as well as its religious and gender insights, this book is highly recommended for all academic collections in politics and religion.”—Library Journal “A major contribution to both feminist and Islamist studies.”—Choice
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• Deconstructs the religio-political writings and political practices of the nine Islamic ideologues of the twentieth century who masterminded the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism: Hasan al-Banna, Abu al-’A’la al-Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Mortaza Mutahhari, Zaynab al-Ghazali, Hasan al-Turabi, Rashid al-Ghannoushi, and Sheikh Hussein Fadlallah. • Demonstrates that although these ideologues have individual peculiarities, their consistent emphasis on the subordinate status of women in society and in their relation to men constitutes a vehicle for attaining political power. L A M I A R U S T U M S H E H A D E H is associate professor in the Civilization Sequence Program at the American University of Beirut.
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Woman’s Identity and The Qur’an A New Reading N I M AT H A F E Z B A R A Z A N G I
“A valuable contribution to the Islamic scholarship-activism explosion of the 21st century.”—Middle East Journal • A bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur’an to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality • Nimat Hafez Barazangi asserts that Muslim women have been generally excluded from equal agency, from full participation in Islamic society, and thus from full and equal Islamic identity, primarily because of patriarchal readings of the Qur’an and the entire range of early Qur’anic literature. • Considers issues of dependent morality and of modesty, especially in attire. • She integrates her analysis with interviews she conducted with Muslim women in the United States and Canada, and compares it to a parallel group in Syria. N I M AT H A F E Z B A R A Z A N G I is a research fellow in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell University.
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES December 2004 192 pp. | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8130-3032-6 Paper $24.95
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia D AV I D E . LO N G A N D S E B A S T I A N MAISEL
SECOND EDITION “Full of insights into a complex and often misunderstood society which has so far managed to reconcile the secularizing influences of modern technology with its strong religious traditions.”—International Journal “Will undoubtedly become the new reference work on Saudi Arabia.” —Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES September 2010 224 pp. | 6 x 9 23 b/w photos | 4 tables ISBN 978-0-8130-3511-6 Paper $21.95
• Features extensive analysis of substantial political, economic, and social changes, including 9/11, the U.S. war on terror, the Saudi war on terror, oil pricing, and technological advancements. D AV I D E . LO N G , a retired diplomat and professor, is currently an international consultant on the Middle East and international terrorism. Sebastian Maisel is assistant professor of Arabic and Middle East studies at Grand Valley State University.
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Islam’s Jesus Z E K I S A R I TO P R A K
“Arguably, no issue is of more interest—and obviously, controversy—than the differing stances of Islam and Christianity on the Person and Work of Christ. This work . . . is clear and lucid, which is especially important for students coming from non-Muslim background.”—Muslim World Book Review “A primer for non-Muslims and Muslims alike to re-discover the revered central figure of the Christian religion as Jesus is understood in Muslim tradition.”—Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online • Takes a bold yet candid look at the highly charged topic of Jesus’s place in Islam, exploring some of the religion’s least understood aspects. Z E K I S A R I TO P R A K is associate pro-
fessor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and the Beddiüzaman Said Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies at John Carroll University. He is the author of numerous works on Islamic theology in English, Turkish, and Arabic.
MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES May 2014 240 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 ISBN 978-0-8130-6178-8 Paper $19.95
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Islam and the Americas EDITED BY AISHA KHAN
“Focuses on the agency of American Muslims in shaping the hemisphere’s story. . . . Commendable. Not only does it give prominence to a field in desperate need of more academic attention, but it interlocks the field with broader trends in globalization and gender studies.”—Religious Studies Review • In case studies that include the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, the Muslim and non-Muslim contributors to this interdisciplinary volume trace the establishment of Islam in the Americas over the past three centuries.
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• Shows how this religious tradition continually engages with local and global issues of culture, gender, class, and race. • Explores Muslims’ lived experiences and examines the ways Islam has been shaped in the “Muslim minority” societies in the New World. A I S H A K H A N is associate professor of anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad.
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Global Garveyism E D I T E D B Y R O N A L D J. S T E P H E N S A N D A D A M E W I N G
• The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), founded by Marcus Garvey, was the largest pan-African organization of its time, numbering over 1000 chapters in forty countries. Garveyism—the school of thought of the UNIA—was one of the most important mass movements in the history of the African diaspora, but its story is typically marginalized in most mainstream narratives of the black freedom struggle. • Examines the impact and influence of Garveyism in the United States, Jamaica, Cuba, Trinidad, South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Liberia, and Australia. • Aims to accomplish something similar to what the historian Peniel Joseph and others have done in popularizing the field of Black Power studies. R O N A L D J . S T E P H E N S , professor of interdisciplinary studies at Purdue University, is author of ldlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town. A D A M E W I N G , assistant professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, is author of The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics.
HISTORY/AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES March 2019 352 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 8 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-5621-0 Cloth $95.00
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Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature EDITED BY HEIKE SCHARM AND N ATA L I A M AT TA - J A R A
• Moving beyond the traditional study of Hispanic literature on a nation-by-nation basis, this volume explores how globalization is currently affecting Spanish and Latin American fiction, poetry, and literary theory. • Examines works by José Martí, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Junot Díaz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cecilia Vicuña, Jorge Luis Borges, and other writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ LATIN AMERICA October 2017 238 pp. | 6 x 9 4 b/w illus. | 1 map ISBN 978-0-8130-5494-0 Cloth $79.95
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• Discusses how expanding worldviews have impacted the way these authors write and how they are read today. • Helps characterize a new “world” literature that reflects changing understandings of memory, belonging, and identity. H E I K E S C H A R M , associate professor of Spanish at the University of South Florida, is the author of El Tiempo y el Ser en Javier Marías. N ATA L I A M AT TA J A R A is a Spanish teacher at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.
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Priest Under Fire Padre David Rodríguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvador’s Revolutionary Movement PETER M. SÁNCHEZ
“An excellent contribution to understanding the role of the Catholic Church in El Salvador during its most turbulent period.”—Journal of Church and State • Tells the story of how one priest joined the largest guerilla organization in El Salvador, the FPL (Popular Liberation Forces), to help his people and his country. • Provides much-needed insight into both the Salvadoran civil war and the Catholic Church-influenced grassroots political movements, showing that they continue to inform Latin America today. P E T E R M . S Á N C H E Z is professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Panama Lost?: U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal.
BIOGRAPHY/ LATIN AMERICA December 2015 328 pp. | 6 x 9 23 b/w photos |1 map | 1 table ISBN 978-0-8130-6119-1 Cloth $44.95
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Migrants and Political Change in Latin America LU I S F. J I M É N E Z
• Explores the impact that Mexican, Colombian and Ecuadorian migrants have had on the political behavior of their native countries. • Examines how return migrants have modified ideas about government accountability and the role it should have in the lives of its citizens. • The author relied on statistical models at the municipio level and on dozens of interviews carried out over months in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
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LU I S F. J I M É N E Z is assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Labor Politics in Latin America Democracy and Worker Organization in the Neoliberal Era PAUL W. POSNER, VIVIANA PATRONI, AND JEAN FRANÇOIS MAYER
• Provides an historical overview of labor politics in Latin America since the introduction of neoliberal reforms in the latter decades of the twentieth century. • Analyzes labor politics in five countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela—in order to explain the deteriorating working conditions confronted in most countries of the region. • Concludes that even with substantial variation among countries in how reforms have been implemented, most workers in the region have experienced increasing precarity, informal employment, and weaker labor movements. PAU L W. P O S N E R , associate professor of political science at Clark University, is the author of State, Market, and Democracy in Chile. Viviana Patroni, associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, is coeditor of Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility. Jean François Mayer, associate professor of political science at Concordia University, is coauthor of Understanding Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE/ HISTORY/LATIN AMERICA September 2018 272 pp. | 6 x 9 | 17 b/w illus., 4 tables ISBN 978-1-68340-045-5 Cloth $80.00
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Transnational Hispaniola New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies E D I T E D B Y A P R I L J. M AY E S A N D K I R A N C . J AYA R A M
• Rejects dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between Haiti and the Dominican Republic and instead highlights the connections and commonalities that extend across the border • An agenda-setting volume complete with reflections and advice on teaching a transnational approach to Haitian and Dominican studies.
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• Exploring a variety of topics including European colonialism, migration, citizenship, sex tourism, music, literature, and art, this volume speaks of an island and people bound together in a myriad of ways.
July 2018 272 pp. | 6 x 9 | 5 b/w illus. ISBN 978-1-68340-038-7 Cloth $89.95
• Authors are former co-chairs of the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association and have spent years shaping the field.
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A P R I L J . M AY E S , associate professor of history at Pomona College, is the author of The Mulatto Republic. K I R A N C . J AYA R A M , assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, is coeditor of Keywords of Mobility.
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Detain and Punish Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World’s Largest Immigration Detention System CARL LINDSKOOG
• Represents the first in-depth history of immigration detention in the United States, drawing upon extensive archival research to explore the origins and early development of what would become the world’s largest immigration detention system. • Reveals how the modern immigration detention regime was initially crafted to apply exclusively to Haitians. • Provides essential historical context to understand the current precarious status of Haitians and other immigrant groups in the United States, as well as the current debates over immigration restriction, refugee policy, and mass incarceration. C A R L L I N D S KO O G is assistant profes-
sor of history at Raritan Valley Community College.
HISTORY/CARIBBEAN & WEST INDIES August 2018 224 pp. | 6 x 9 | 10 b/w illus. ISBN 978-1-68340-040-0 Cloth $84.95
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Mestizo Modernity Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico D AV I D S . D A LTO N
• After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, post-revolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity— the mestizo. This book takes a close look at how authors, artists, and thinkers—some state-funded, some independent—engaged with official views of Mexican racial identity from the 1920s to the 1970s. • Dalton surveys essays, plays, novels, murals, and films that portray indigenous bodies being fused, or hybridized, with technology.
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• Incorporating the perspectives of posthumanism and cyborg studies, Dalton shows that technology played a key role in race formation in Mexico throughout the twentieth century. • Offers fascinating new insights into the culture of mestizaje, illuminating the attitudes that inform Mexican race relations in the present day. D AV I D S . D A LTO N is assistant pro-
fessor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Telling Migrant Stories Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film EDITED BY ESTEBAN E. LO U S TAU N AU A N D L AU R E N E . S H AW
• Explores how contemporary documentary film gives voice to Latin American immigrants whose stories on migration, border crossings, displacement, and identity would not otherwise be heard. • Contributors analyze films including Harvest of Empire, Sin País, The Vigil, De Nadie, Abuelos, La Churona, and Which Way Home, as well as internet documentaries distributed via platforms such as Vimeo and YouTube. • Features transcribed interviews with documentary filmmakers, including Luis Argueta, Jenny Alexander, Tin Dirdamal, Heidi Hassan, and María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa.
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• Shows how films highlight the individual agency of immigrants as well as the global systemic conditions that lead to mass migrations from Latin American countries.
February 2018 348 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 15 b/w illus. ISBN 978-1-68340-023-3 Cloth $89.95
E S T E B A N E . LO U S TAU N AU is associate professor of Spanish at Assumption College. L AU R E N E . S H AW , associate professor of Spanish at Elmira College, is the editor of Song and Social Change in Latin America.
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Key to the New World A History of Early Colonial Cuba LU I S M A R T Í N E Z - F E R N Á N D E Z
• Presents a holistic portrait of the island nation that interrelates geography, economy, society, politics, and culture. • Beginning with the first arrival of indigenous people around 7,000 years ago, Martínez-Fernández chronicles the conquest and establishment of colonial rule and how the island’s geographic uniqueness made it an ideal launching pad for Spanish conquests into Central America, Mexico, and Florida.
HISTORY/CUBA April 2018 236 pp. | 6 x 9 | 25 b/w illus. ISBN 978-1-68340-032-5 Cloth $74.95
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• Explores the differences between the urban, official, and mercantilist Havana, and the eastern frontier, which is rural, remote, relaxed, and rebellious. • Considers the role of Cuba and the Caribbean as a theater for European power struggles and focuses intimately on the people who both influenced and were influenced by these larger forces. LU I S M A R T Í N E Z - F E R N Á N D E Z , professor of history at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Revolutionary Cuba: A History.
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Cuban Cultural Heritage A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation PA B LO A LO N S O G O N Z Á L E Z
• Explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. • Delves into the intricacies of Cuban history, covering key issues such as Cuba’s cultural and political relationships with Spain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and so-called Third World countries; the complexities of Cuba’s status as a postcolonial state; and the potential future paths of the Revolution in the years to come. PA B LO A LO N S O G O N Z Á L E Z is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He is the author of several books, including Cultural Parks and National Heritage Areas: Assembling Cultural Heritage, Development and Spatial Planning.
ANTHROPOLOGY/HISTORY January 2018 352 pp. | 6 x 9 | 54 b/w illus., 6 maps ISBN 978-0-8130-5663-0 Cloth $84.95
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Santería Healing A Journey into the Afro-Cuban World of Divinities, Spirits, and Sorcery JOHAN WEDEL
• Demonstrates how Santería healing is carried out and experienced by the participants. • Grounds his analysis of Santería in lively and sometimes frightening narratives in which people reveal in their own words the experience of illness, sorcery, and healing. • Draws upon extensive fieldwork in contemporary Cuba, including interviews with Santería devotees, firsthand observations of divination sessions, and interviews with healed patients supplemented by comments from Santería healers. ANTHROPOLOGY/ LATIN AMERICAN December 2003 224 pp. | 6 x 9 17 b&w photos | 2 tables ISBN 978-0-8130-3051-7 Paper $24.95
• Shows that Santería is not only a challenge to Western medical theory, but also an important contribution to our understanding of illness, suffering, and well-being J O H A N W E D E L is instructor in social anthropology at Göteborg University, Sweden.
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Ancient Psychoactive Substances E D I T E D B Y S COT T M . F I T Z PAT R I C K
• Tracing evidence of mind-altering substances across a diverse range of ancient cultures, this collection explores how and why past civilizations harvested, manufactured, and consumed drugs. • Investigation of psychoactive substances from a deep time perspective indicates a much earlier and widespread use by humans than previously thought. • Case studies examine the use of stimulants, narcotics, and depressants by hunter-gatherers who roamed Africa and Eurasia, prehistoric communities in North and South America, and Maya kings and queens. • Uncovering signs of drugs including ayahuasca, peyote, ephedra, cannabis, tobacco, yaupon, vilca, and maize and molle beer, the essays explain how psychoactive substances were integral to interpersonal relationships, religious practices, and social cohesion in antiquity.
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S COT T M . F I T Z PAT R I C K , professor of archaeology at the University of Oregon, is coeditor of Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean.
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February 2018 340 pp. | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 53 b/w illus., 10 maps, table ISBN 978-0-8130-5670-8 Cloth $95.00
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Captain Kidd’s Last Ship The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant FREDERICK H. HANSELMANN
• The popular legend of Captain William Kidd—a nefarious pirate who captured the Algerian merchant ship the Quedagh Merchant and abandoned it off the coast of Hispaniola—is deconstructed and placed into historical context using archival and archaeological records. • The site reveals much about life aboard a privateer/pirate ship and its important links to the world scale economies that were in force during the 16th century. F R E D E R I C K H . H A N S E L M A N N is faculty in the Department of Marine Ecosystems and Society at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami and is a Fellow of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. He is coauthor of The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá.
ARCHAEOLOGY July 2019 300 pp. | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8130-5622-7 Cloth $85.00
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Adventures in Archaeology The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations P. J. C A P E LOT T I
Discover a little-known world of archaeology • Capelotti shows that even seemingly ordinary objects from the recent past hold secrets about the cultural history of humans. • Investigates the site where a stunt copy of the Orca, the fishing boat used in the movie Jaws, was stripped to pieces by fans—a revelation of the ways humans relate to popular culture. • Investigates abandoned base camps near the North Pole that are now used as destinations for Arctic tourism. • Discusses debris floating through outer space and equipment left behind on the surface of the moon, highlighting current efforts to preserve artifacts that exist beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. P. J . C A P E LOT T I is professor of anthropology at Penn State Abington. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Greatest Show in the Arctic: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905 and Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942.
ARCHAEOLOGY/ ANTHROPOLOGY October 2018 256 pp. | 6 x 9 | 44 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-6484-0 Paper $28.00
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Edible Insects and Human Evolution J U L I E J. L E S N I K
• Instead of focusing on meat-eating, Lesnik traces evidence that humans and their hominin ancestors consumed insects throughout the entire course of human evolution. • Offers a unique feminist perspective, positing that women would likely spend more time foraging for and eating insects than men—a pattern important to note because women are too often ignored in reconstructions of ancient human behavior. • Notes that insects were a reliable food source that mothers used to feed their families over the past five million years.
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• Lesnik points out that insects are a highly nutritious and very sustainable food, arguing that if we accept edible insects as a part of the human legacy, we may have new conversations about what is good to eat— both in past diets and for the future of food. J U L I E J . L E S N I K is assistant professor of anthropology at Wayne State University. She organized the first U.S. conference dedicated to edible insects in Detroit in 2016.
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Modernist Soundscapes Auditory Technology and the Novel A N G E L A F R AT TA R O L A
• Analyzes the influence of twentieth century auditory technologies— including the phonograph, telephone, and radio—on writers of the time, showing how modernist novelists used sound to bridge the distance between characters and to connect with the reader on a more intimate level than before. • Frattarola tunes into representations of voices, noise, and music in works by Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, and Samuel Beckett. • Argues that the use of headphones inspired modernists to record the interior monologues of their characters in a stream of consciousness style. • Challenges the traditional emphasis on vision in art and philosophy and contends that the experimentation typically associated with modernist writing is partly due to this new attentiveness to sound. A N G E L A F R AT TA R O L A is senior lan-
guage lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ MODERN December 2018 208 pp. | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8130-5607-4 Cloth $85.00
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The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell EDITED BY ALLAN PERO AND GYLLIAN PHILLIPS
• Establishes Edith Sitwell at the center of British modernism. • Showcases Sitwell’s many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. • Explores how Sitwell combined persona and poetry to foster an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity. • Argues that Sitwell was key to the development of a British avant-garde that operated alongside the conventionally accepted transatlantic modernism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.
LITERARY CRITICISM June 2017 198 pp. | 6 x 9 | 4 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-5442-1 Cloth $74.95
A L L A N P E R O is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. G Y L L I A N P H I L L I P S is associate professor of English studies at Nipissing University.
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Hemingway and Italy Twenty-First-Century Perspectives EDITED BY MARK CIRINO AND M A R K P. OT T
• Presents new material and fresh insights on Hemingway’s Italian life, career, and imagination. • Offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days. • Examines how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy. • Analyzes Hemingway’s Italian works including A Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees, lesser-known short stories, fables, and even an unpublished sketch. M A R K C I R I N O , associate professor
and Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair of English at the University of Evansville, is the author or editor of several books, including Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action. M A R K P. OT T , instructor of English at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, is the author or editor of several books, including A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream—A Contextual Biography.
LITERARY CRITICISM July 2017 262 pp. | 6 x 9 | 8 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-8130-5441-4 Cloth $79.95
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An Introduction to the Gawain Poet JOHN M. BOWERS
• Surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer’s anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl alongside the poet’s lesser-known but no less brilliant works. • Details the cultural, historical, political, and religious contexts for these works. • Historicizes the poet’s life and works in the context of the royal culture of King Richard II. • Surveys the works influenced by, as well as the influences reflected in, the poet’s work, from the Bible to The Lord of the Rings.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ MEDIEVAL STUDIES May 2012 224 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8130-4958-8 Paper $19.95
J O H N M . B O W E R S is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of five books, including Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition.
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An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer TISON PUGH
• This introduction begins with a review of Chaucer’s life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses. • Provides a clear and concise pronunciation guide and a glossary to help novice readers navigate Chaucer’s literature in its original language • Includes a survey of the writer’s sources and brief summaries of major plot lines. T I S O N P U G H is professor of English
at the University of Central Florida and world-renowned expert on Chaucer.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ MEDIEVAL STUDIES May 2013 272 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8130-6096-5 Paper $22.50
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An Introduction to Christine De Pizan NADIA MARGOLIS
“Clearly-written, clever, and always balanced. . . . The quality of this introduction of the excellent and prolific poet and polemicist challenges us all to reconsider the scope and quality of her accomplishments.” —The Medieval Review “Provides a complete and very accessible account of Pizan’s life and times, examines all her works, and scrutinizes all her sources and influences. Students and researchers of every stripe will want to consult this exhaustive resource. Highly recommended.”—Choice
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N A D I A M A R G O L I S , visiting professor in French and medieval studies at Mount Holyoke College, is coeditor of Women in the Middle Ages.
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An Introduction to British Arthurian Narrative SUSAN ARONSTEIN
“An insightful study of the British origins of the Arthurian tales.” —Choice “A very useful survey of the British Arthurian tradition that many teachers of introductory courses will want to include in their reading lists.” —Comitatus “A must-have for all those interested in King Arthur—from the amateur enthusiast to the established scholar.” —Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University • Covers over 400 years and discusses a broad range of romances, histories, and parodies written about King Arthur in Britain during the medieval period. S U S A N A R O N S T E I N , professor of English at the University of Wyoming, is the author of Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ MEDIEVAL STUDIES July 2012 206 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8130-6032-3 Paper $19.95
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An Introduction to Piers Plowman MICHAEL CALABRESE
• The first comprehensive introduction to Langland’s masterful work, Piers Plowman, covering all three iterations and outlining the various changes that occurred between each. • Offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical information about Langland and his work in context with his contemporaries, and keys to characters and to proper pronunciation.
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M I C H A E L C A L A B R E S E , professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, is the author of Chaucer’s Ovidian Arts of Love.
August 2016 392 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8130-6457-4 Paper $29.95
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Machaut’s Legacy The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond E D I T E D B Y R . B A R TO N PA L M E R AND BURT KIMMELMAN
• Argues that the medieval poet, composer, and musician Guillaume de Machaut was the major influence in narrative craft during the late Middle Ages and long after. • Examining Machaut’s series of debate poems, part of the French tradition of the “dit amoureux” (love tales), and contends that Machaut’s innovations in form and content were forerunners of the modern novel. • First academic study devoted exclusively to the influence of Guillaume de Machaut on artists that followed him. R . B A R TO N PA L M E R , Calhoun Lemon
Professor of Literature and director of film studies at Clemson University, is coeditor of An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry. BURT KIMMELMAN , professor of English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is the author of The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ MEDIEVAL November 2017 336 pp. | 6 x 9 | 8 b/w photos ISBN 978-0-8130-6241-9 Cloth $89.95
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