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subject index
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African American Studies 13, 17-18, 23, 26, 30,
32-33, 40-41, 43, 45
American Studies 12, 21, 36
Anthropology 46
Art & Craft 4
Biography 4, 11, 48
Civil War 2-3, 16, 27
Cookbooks 28
Education 5, 13, 41
Environmental Studies 22, 35
Fiction 38
Health 21, 37
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early american history
Columbia Rising
Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution
to the Age of Jackson
john l. brooke
A capstone work that revolutionizes our understanding of civil society
in the early American republic
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize–winning historian John L. Brooke explores
the significant struggle within the young American nation over the extension
of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining
the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in
the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall
within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen.
The story of Martin Van Buren—kingpin of New York’s Jacksonian
“Regency,” president of the United States, and first theoretician of American
party politics—threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced
American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of
the American party system.
Brooke masterfully imbues local history with national significance, and his
analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise
over the balance of power offers an ideal window on a local struggle that
mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.
john l. brooke is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State
“
University. He won the Bancroft Prize in American History for The Refiner’s Fire:
The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844.
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Virginia
“
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3323-0, $45.00s Cloth
Approx. 656 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 13 illus., 4 maps,
7 graphs, 26 tables, appends., notes, index
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
• Major print reviews and features
• Local review coverage in New York/Upper
Hudson Valley area
• Online publicity campaign
John Brooke’s Columbia Rising
is a tour de force. Consolidating
and developing some of the most
compelling themes in recent
scholarship on the early republic,
Brooke brings the ‘public sphere’
down to earth, offering a deeply
grounded approach to the study of
political culture and history that will
transform the field. Columbia Rising
is a magnificent achievement.
—Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia
National Advertising
• New York Review of Books, William & Mary Quarterly,
and other history publications
Co-op Available
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civil war
Border War
Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War
stanley harrold
A comprehensive study of the border clashes preceding the Civil War
“
Writing with admirable clarity
and passion, Harrold vividly
recreates the violent and chaotic
decade of the 1850s. Harrold’s
devastating portrait of a
nation already at war along the
contested border should appeal
to all readers of history.
His research, both archival and
secondary, is exceptional.
“
—Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College
During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South
border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and
Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle—the underground railroad, enforcement
of the fugitive slave laws, mob actions, and sectional politics—are well known
as parts of other stories. Here, Stanley Harrold explores the border struggle
itself, the dramatic incidents that it comprised, and its role in the complex
dynamics leading to the Civil War.
Border War examines the previously neglected cross-border clash of
attitudes and traditions dating many generations back. By the mid-nineteenth
century, nowhere else were tensions greater between antislavery and proslavery
interests. Nowhere else was there more direct conflict between the forces binding
North and South together and those driving them apart. There were mass slave
escapes, battles between antislavery and proslavery vigilantes, and fierce resistance in the Border North to the kidnapping of free African Americans. There
were also fights throughout the borderlands between fugitive slaves and those
attempting to apprehend them. Harrold argues that, during the 1850s, warfare
on the Kansas-Missouri line and John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia,
were manifestations of a more pervasive border conflict that helped push the
Lower South into secession and helped persuade most of the Border South to
stand by the Union.
stanley harrold is professor of history at South Carolina State University
and author or editor of several books, including The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism:
Addresses to the Slaves.
Civil War America
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3431-2, $30.00t Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-9969-4, $35.00s Large Print Paper
Approx. 434 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 15 illus., 3 maps, notes, bibl., index
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
• Possible First Serial in Civil War Times
or America’s Civil War
• Advance Readers’ Copies available
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• New York Review of Books, Civil War Times, North & South,
Blue & Gray, America’s Civil War, Civil War History, and other
Civil War publications
Co-op Available
civil war | religious studies
God’s Almost Chosen Peoples
A Religious History of the American Civil War
george c. rable
The role of faith in Civil War Americans’ lives
Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict
saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but narratives of the
period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God’s Almost Chosen Peoples,
Lincoln Prize–winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking
account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith
to interpret the course of the war.
Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents—
including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational
papers and periodicals, letters, diaries, and newspaper articles—Rable illuminates the broad role of religion during the Civil War, giving attention to
often-neglected groups such as Mormons, Catholics, blacks, and people from
the Trans-Mississippi region. The book underscores religion’s presence in the
everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the
meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and
defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war. Rable shows that
themes of providence, sin, and judgment pervaded both public and private
writings about the conflict. Perhaps most important, this volume—the only
comprehensive religious history of the war—highlights the resilience of religious
faith in the face of political and military storms the likes of which Americans
had never before endured.
george c. r able holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History
at the University of Alabama. He is author of Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of
Southern Nationalism, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics
(UNC Press), and Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (UNC Press), which won the
Lincoln Prize.
Also available
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
George C. Rable
“
Rable’s fine volume will be the
standard study of Fredericksburg
for a long time to come.”
—Journal of Military History
688 pp., 25 illus., 8 maps
ISBN 978-0-8078-2673-7
$45.00t Cloth
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3426-8, $35.00t Cloth
Approx. 624 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 12 illus., notes, bibl., index
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
• Possible First Serial in Civil War Times or
America’s Civil War
• New York Review of Books, Civil War Times, North & South,
Blue & Gray, America’s Civil War, Civil War History, and other
Civil War publications, as well as publications in Religion
and American History
Co-op Available
• BEA Feature
art & craft | biography
A Chosen Path
The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
edited by mark shapiro
Foreword by Garth Clark
A comprehensive record of the artist’s life and work
contributors
Christopher Benfey
Garth Clark
Jody Clowes
Peter Held
Janet Koplos
Edward Lebow
Mark Shapiro
Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic
pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work
she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for
its depth, personal voice, and consistent originality. Many of her pieces defy
category, invoking body and landscape, pottery and sculpture, male and female,
hand and eye.
Equally compelling are Karnes’s experiences in some of the most significant
cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative
housing of her childhood, to Brooklyn College under modernist Serge
Chermayeff, to North Carolina’s avant-garde Black Mountain College, to the
Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, New York, which Karnes helped establish
as an experiment in integrating art, life, family, and community.
This book, designed to accompany an exhibit of Karnes’s works organized
by Peter Held, curator of ceramics for the Arizona State University Art Museum’s
Ceramics Research Center, offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of
Karnes. Edited by highly regarded studio potter Mark Shapiro, it combines essays
by leading critics and scholars with color reproductions of more than sixty of
Karnes’s works, providing new perspectives for understanding the achievements
of this extraordinary artist.
mark shapiro is a writer and studio potter whose work is exhibited
internationally.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3427-5, $40.00t Cloth
Approx. 224 pp., 8 x 11, 82 color and 39 b&w illus., notes, bibl., index
karen karnes exhibit schedule
ASU Ceramics Research Center, AZ
Asheville Art Museum, NC
Currier Museum of Art, NH
Racine Art Museum, WI
Crocker Art Museum, CA
September 17, 2010–January 8, 2011
February 1–June 30, 2011
August 27–December 3, 2011
January 31–May 27, 2012
June 23–September 30, 2012
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
• First Serial possible in Craft in America or
Craft Review
• BEA Feature with a raffle of one of Karnes’s works
• New York Review of Books, American Craft, and other craft publications
Co-op Available
general interest | education
Engines of Innovation
The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century
holden thorp and buck goldstein
Unlocking the promise of America’s research universities
In Engines of Innovation, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the
pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that
universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront
global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, childhood diseases,
and an impending worldwide shortage of clean water.
Combining their own experiences cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset
within one of the nation’s elite public universities with detailed descriptions of
the approaches taken by others, Thorp and Goldstein provide not only an urgent
call to action but also a practical guide for our nation’s leading institutions to
become major players in solving the world’s biggest problems. The result is a
provocative and thoughtful beginning to an important conversation among educators, their supporters and trustees, policymakers, and the public at large as to
how the American research university can best meet its societal responsibilities.
holden thorp is Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
buck goldstein is University Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3438-1, $25.00t Cloth
Approx. 192 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, notes, index
“
It is widely recognized that
innovative entrepreneurs play a
critical role in the technical progress
and economic growth of our society.
With the help of this excellent
book, colleges and universities
can begin to design and more
effectively to establish programs
in entrepreneurship.
“
—William J. Baumol, academic director
of the Berkley Center for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation,
New York University
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
• Author Tour: expect authors to be very
visible during Fall 2010 with speaking
engagements and other events in
university locales nationwide
• New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review,
Chronicle of Higher Education, Harvard Business Review,
and other national publications
Co-op Available
• Possible First Serial
• National and local radio coverage
• BEA Feature with giveaways
north carolina | photography | travel
The Coasts of Carolina
Seaside to Sound Country
bland simpson and scott taylor
Wonders of the vast coastal and intercoastal area that are like
nowhere else on earth
Also available
The Inner Islands
A Carolinian’s Sound Country
Chronicle
Bland Simpson
“
Part travel log, part history, part
memoir delicately tinged with
Elizabethan syntax, Simpson’s
north-to-south trip through some
of the state’s least known locales
will make you want to rent a boat
and travel from Machelhe Island to
the Cape Fear chain.”
—Pilot
ISBN 978-0-8078-3056-7
$34.95t Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7125-6
$20.00t Paper
The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront,
sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. Scott Taylor, who
has been photographing the coast for almost thirty years, and Bland Simpson,
whose many coastal books have delighted readers for two decades, come
together to offer an inviting visual and textual portrait organized around coastal themes such as nature, fishing, and community life, with an emphasis on particular places and seasons. Evocative text is woven together with 145 vivid color
images to present a unique and welcoming vision of the coastal region.
As natives of the area, the collaborators venture beyond the familiar to show
us swamp, marsh, river, sound, and seashore, uncovering places of uncommon
delight that most visitors rarely lay eyes on. Their work celebrates the beauty
of this amazing region and embodies their distinctive sense of what makes the
North Carolina coast so special.
bland simpson is Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of
English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
longtime member of the Tony Award–winning Red Clay Ramblers.
scott tay lor is a photographer whose photographs have appeared in many
local, state, regional, and national magazines, publications, and galleries; he works
from his studio and gallery in historic Beaufort, North Carolina.
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3439-8, $30.00t Cloth
Approx. 136 pp., 8 x 91⁄2, 145 color illus.
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
Co-op Available
• Author tour in North Carolina
• Our State, Carolina Country, Carolina Heritage Guide
Scott Taylor Photography, Inc. www.ScottTaylorPhoto.com
sports | north carolina
Carolina Basketball
A Century of Excellence
adam lucas
Foreword by Dean Smith
Afterword by Roy Williams
The official history of the first 100 years
Boasting six national championships and scores of Hall of Fame coaches and
players, Carolina Basketball has come a long way from the first season—when
the campus newspaper published a notice asking an unknown culprit to return
the team’s basketball. These pages are packed with little-known stories from
the program’s earliest days and new insights into its best-loved moments. All
the greats are here, from Jack Cobb and the “Blind Bomber” George Glamack to
Lennie Rosenbluth, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Michael Jordan, Antawn Jamison,
and Tyler Hansbrough. Lucas reveals the meaning of the “Carolina family” and
the origins and evolution of Tar Heel traditions that have made North Carolina
one of the premier teams in men’s college basketball.
These stories are brought to life with more than 200 color and black-andwhite photos; a foreword by Hall of Fame coach Dean Smith and an afterword
by fellow Hall of Famer Roy Williams; and an appendix of records and statistics.
Some 30 sidebars feature first-person recollections from prominent players
including Rosenbluth, Ford, and Jordan; opposing coaches like Lefty Driesell;
and national broadcasters like Dick Vitale.
This is the must-have book for Tar Heel fans and college basketball
lovers everywhere.
adam lucas is the publisher of Tar Heel Monthly and Tar Heels Today
and a columnist on TarHeelBlue.com. He is author of five previous books
on Carolina Basketball, including One Fantastic Ride: The Inside Story of
Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season (UNC Press).
Published in association with the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Athletics
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3410-7, $30.00t Cloth
Approx. 256 pp., 81⁄2 x 11, 220 illus., 4 tables, appends.
Also available
One Fantastic Ride
The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball’s
2009 Championship Season
Adam Lucas,
Steve Kirschner,
and Matt Bowers
Foreword by
Roy Williams
Lucas, Kirschner, and
Bowers did a terrific
job and for the North
Carolina faithful, this
is super, scintillating,
sensational, baby!”
—Dick Vitale
256 pp., 208 illus., 2 tables
ISBN 978-0-8078-3385-8, $29.95t Cloth
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
• Author Tour and events
• Review and features in sports
publications like Sports Illustrated,
ESPN: The Magazine, etc.
• Possible First Serial in Tar Heels Today,
Inside Carolina, Tar Heel Monthly, or
Carolina Alumni Review
• National and local radio coverage
• BEA Feature
• Carolina Alumni Review, Tar Heels Today, Tar Heel Monthly, Inside
Carolina, Our State, Carolina Country, Carolina Heritage Guide
Co-op Available
sports | north carolina
NC State Basketball
100 Years of Innovation
tim peeler and roger winstead
How Wolfpack basketball shaped the history of the game
“
As far as the history of the
game, NC State basketball
means innovation. . . . My only
guide is to run the program like
I think [my predecessors] would:
by doing things the right way,
loving this university, taking care
of the kids, and finding new,
innovative ways for our team
to be successful.
“
—NC State head coach Sidney Lowe
In this fascinating official history of the first 100 years of the North Carolina State
University men’s basketball program, Tim Peeler and Roger Winstead recount the
traditions and innovations that have shaped Wolfpack basketball as well as the
history and customs of college basketball itself.
In a nation once dominated by football and baseball, visionary coaches from
NC State—Gus Tebell, Everett Case, Norm Sloan, and Jim Valvano—helped push
basketball to the forefront of the national imagination, igniting a passion and
excitement for the game that made the Atlantic Coast Conference the center of
the college sports universe. This book, with 230 captivating photographs, showcases the many college basketball traditions made famous at NC State, including
cutting down the nets, spotlighting players during introductions, and even the
alley oop. All the legendary players and unique personalities that have passed
through the doors of Thompson Gymnasium, Reynolds Coliseum, and the RBC
Center are here, from Ronnie Shavlik and David Thompson to Sidney Lowe and
Julius Hodge.
With two national championships, 17 conference championships, and
countless memorable moments, NC State Basketball remains one of college
basketball’s proudest programs. Wolfpack fans and college basketball lovers alike
will find much to celebrate in this enthralling history.
tim peeler is managing editor of GoPack.com, NC State’s official athletics
department website. roger winstead is director of photography at NC State.
Distributed for the North Carolina State University Department of Athletics
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3447-3, $30.00t Cloth
Approx. 256 pp., 8 x 11, 230 illus.
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
• Local and regional print reviews and features
• Author Tour and events
• Review and features in sports publications like
Sports Illustrated, ESPN: The Magazine, etc.
• Statewide radio coverage
• NC State Magazine, The Wolfpacker, Our State, Carolina Country,
Carolina Heritage Guide
Co-op Available
north carolina | travel
Literary Trails of the
North Carolina Piedmont
A Guidebook
georgann eubanks
Seeing North Carolina through its writers’ eyes
Read your way across North Carolina’s Piedmont in the second of a series of
regional guides that bring the state’s rich literary history to life for travelers and
residents. Eighteen well-planned tours direct readers to sites that more than two
hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks
illustrate a writer’s connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local
culture—insights rarely found in travel guidebooks. Featured authors include
O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John
Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers,
Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, and David Sedaris. Literary Trails is
an exciting way to see anew the places that you already love and to discover new
people and places you hadn’t known about. The region’s rich literary heritage
will surprise and delight all readers.
georgann eubanks is a writer, teacher, and consultant to nonprofit groups
across the country. She has directed the Duke University Writers’ Workshop since 1989,
was a founder of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and is past chair of the North
Carolina Humanities Council.
Published in association with the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the
Department of Cultural Resources
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3333-9, $37.50s Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-5979-7, $19.95t Paper
Approx. 464 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 83 color and 18 b&w illus., 21 maps, index
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
Co-op Available
Also available
Literary Trails of the North
Carolina Mountains
A Guidebook
Georgann Eubanks
Underscores the state’s rich
literary legacy that’s ongoing,
and introduces folks to writers’
work they may want to further
explore.”
—Durham Herald-Sun
“
440 pp., 83 color and
20 b&w illus., 22 maps
ISBN 978-0-8078-3137-3
$35.00s Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-5833-2
$18.95t Paper
• Our State, Carolina Country, Carolina Heritage Guides
• Author tour in central North Carolina
latin american & caribbean studies | british history | biography
Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power
British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence
colin a. palmer
The turbulent political odyssey of a man—and of a nation
Also available
Eric Williams and the Making
of the Modern Caribbean
“
Colin A. Palmer
An informative and useful
account that greatly enhances
our understanding of a man
of tremendous political and
intellectual acuity.”
—American Historical Review
368 pp., 6 illus., 2 tables, 1 map
ISBN 978-0-8078-5924-7
$24.95s Paper
Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and
U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana’s struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the
colony’s first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953.
Informed by the first use of many British, U.S., and Guyanese archival
sources, Palmer’s work details Jagan’s rise and fall, from his initial electoral
victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup
d’état that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan’s
independence-minded administration. Jagan’s political odyssey continued—he
was reelected to the premiership in 1957—but in 1964 he fell out of power again
under pressure from Guianese, British, and U.S. officials suspicious of Marxist
influences on the People’s Progressive Party, founded in 1950 by Jagan and his
activist wife, Janet Rosenberg. But Jagan’s political life was not over—after
decades in the opposition, he became Guyana’s president in 1992.
Subtly analyzing the actual role of Marxism in Caribbean anticolonial
struggles and bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view,
Palmer examines the often malevolent roles played by leaders at home and
abroad and shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial
politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana’s independence until 1966,
scarring the body politic in the process.
colin a. palmer is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University.
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3416-9, $39.95s Cloth
Approx. 400 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 1 illus., 1 map, 14 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
Marketing Campaign
Publicity
Co-op Available
• New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic History
latin american & caribbean studies | biography
Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics
of Literacy
andrew j. kirkendall
An educational pioneer in the decades of development
andrew j. kirkendall is associate professor of history at Texas A&M
“
A comprehensive analysis
of the international career of
Paulo Freire and his impact on
literacy campaigns in
Latin America, Africa,
and worldwide.
“
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues
important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964),
the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s),
and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political
biography of Paulo Freire (1921–97), who played a crucial role in shaping
international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the
volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War.
A native of Brazil’s impoverished northeast, Freire developed adult literacy
training techniques that involved consciousness-raising, encouraging peasants
and newly urban peoples to see themselves as active citizens who could transform their own lives. Freire’s work for state and national government agencies
in Brazil in the early 1960s eventually aroused the suspicion of the Brazilian
military, as well as of United States government aid programs. Political pressures
led to Freire's brief imprisonment, following the military coup of 1964, and then
to more than a decade and a half in exile. During this period, Freire continued
his work in Chile, Nicaragua, and postindependence African countries, as well
as in Geneva with the World Council of Churches and in the United States at
Harvard University.
Andrew Kirkendall’s evenhanded appraisal of Freire’s pioneering life and
work, which remains influential today, gives new perspectives on the history
of the Cold War, the meanings of radicalism, and the evolution of the Left in
Latin America.
—James N. Green, Brown University
University and author of Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political
Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3419-0, $34.95s Cloth
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american studies
Empty Pleasures
The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from
Saccharin to Splenda
carolyn de la peña
The invention, marketing, and consumption of America’s “sweet cheats”
“
Empty Pleasures provides a
fascinating window into the
complex history of artificial
sweeteners in the United States,
blending business history with
discussions about how these
products actually worked
within the lives of consumers.
An in-depth, nuanced study.
“
—Amy Farrell, Dickinson College
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was
introduced at the 1893 World’s Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of
artificial sweeteners in America, Carolyn de la Peña blends popular culture with
business and women’s history, examining the invention, production, marketing,
regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl,
NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory
by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create
diet products, savvy women’s magazine writers and editors promoted artificially
sweetened foods as ideal, modern weight-loss aids, and early diet-plan entrepreneurs built menus and fortunes around pleasurable dieting made possible by
artificial sweeteners.
NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have enjoyed enormous success
by promising that Americans, especially women, can “have their cake and eat it
too,” but Empty Pleasures argues both that these “sweet cheats” have fostered
troubling and unsustainable eating habits and that the promises of artificial
sweeteners are ultimately too good to be true.
carolyn de la peña is professor of American studies at the University of
California, Davis. She is author of The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the
Modern American.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3409-1, $32.50t Cloth
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african american studies | education
Schooling the Freed People
Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom,
1861–1876
ronald e. butchart
The rich and complex history of the teachers of freedmen in the South
Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen’s education was largely the work
of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs
and abolitionism. Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion entirely.
For the most comprehensive study of the origins of black education in
freedom ever undertaken, Ronald Butchart combed the archives of all of the
freedmen’s aid organizations as well as the archives of every southern state to
compile a vast database of over 11,600 individuals who taught in southern
black schools between 1861 and 1876. Based on this path-breaking research,
he reaches some surprising conclusions: one-third of the teachers were African
Americans; black teachers taught longer than white teachers; half of the teachers were southerners; and even the northern teachers were more diverse than
previously imagined. His evidence demonstrates that evangelicalism contributed much less than previously believed to white teachers’ commitment to black
students, that abolitionism was a relatively small factor in motivating the
teachers, and that, on the whole, the teachers’ ideas and aspirations about their
work often ran counter to the aspirations of the freed people for schooling.
The crowning achievement of a veteran scholar, this is the definitive book
on freedmen’s teachers in the South as well as an outstanding contribution to
social history and our understanding of African American education.
ronald e. butchart is professor of history and education and affiliate
faculty in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia.
He is a leading authority on the history of African American education.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3420-6, $39.95s Cloth
Approx. 336 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 15 illus., 11 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
“
Rich in detail and strongly
documented, Schooling the
Freed People argues persuasively
for a more complex portrait of
the first generation of teachers
who actually taught in black
schools. This new portrait will
undoubtedly become the
new consensus, the point of
departure for future analyses
of teachers in the Reconstruction
era. Butchart radically reshapes
our understanding of
Reconstruction educators with
this pathbreaking book.
“
—James D. Anderson, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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politics | north carolina
New in Paperback!
The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics
The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped
Modern North Carolina
Second Edition, Revised and Updated
rob christensen
Ragan Old North State Award, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association
The state flourishes in a century of competitive politics
“
Lively and well crafted.
. . . A valuable study of an
important aspect of the
state’s history, accessible
for both general
and scholarly audiences.
“
—The Journal of Southern History
How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same
time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century
of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and
competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals, Democrats
nor Republicans, have been able to rest easy. It is this climate of competition and
challenge, Christensen argues, that enabled North Carolina to rise from poverty
in the nineteenth century to become a leader in research, education, and banking in the twentieth.
In this new paperback edition, Christensen provides updated coverage of
recent changes in North Carolina’s political landscape, including the scandals
surrounding John Edwards and Mike Easley, the defeat of U.S. senator Elizabeth
Dole, the election of the state’s first woman governor, and voters’ approval of an
African American candidate for president. The book provides an overview of the
run-up to the 2010 elections and explains how North Carolina has become, arguably, the most politically competitive state in the South.
rob christensen has covered North Carolina politics for thirty-seven years at
the News and Observer in Raleigh.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7151-5, $20.00t Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3189-2, $30.00t Cloth (2008)
368 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 24 illus., appends., notes, index
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north carolina | latin american studies
The Latino Migration Experience in
North Carolina
New Roots in the Old North State
hannah gill
The real story behind the changing demography of North Carolina
Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin
American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has
had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation. Here, Hannah
Gill offers North Carolinians from all walks of life a better understanding of
their Latino neighbors, bringing light instead of heat to local and national
debates on immigration.
Exploring the larger social forces behind demographic shifts, Gill shows
both how North Carolina communities are facing the challenges and opportunities presented by these changes and how migrants experience the economic and
social realities of their new lives. Latinos are no longer just visitors to the state
but are part of the inevitably changing, long term makeup of its population.
Today, emerging migrant communities and the integration of Latino populations remain salient issues as the U.S. Congress stands on the verge of
formulating comprehensive immigration reform for the first time in nearly
three decades. Gill makes connections between hometowns and the increasing
globalization of people, money, technology, and culture by shedding light on
the many diverse North Carolina residents who are highly visible yet, as she
shows, invisible at the same time.
hannah gill is assistant director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas
and research associate at the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3428-2, $49.95x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7163-8, $18.95s Paper
“
Gill is a shrewd and sensitive
ethnographer who brings her
subjects to life in a compelling way,
offering us portraits not only of
individuals but of communities
in formation. Can Latinos make
a happy home for themselves in
North Carolina and will they be
accepted as valuable neighbors by
other North Carolinians? Gill does
not and cannot say. But anyone
eager to address these questions
will want to read this book.
“
Approx. 240 pp., 51⁄2 x 81⁄2, 11 illus., 1 map, notes, bibl., index
—Leon Fink, University of Illinois
at Chicago
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civil war
civil war
New in paperback!
New in Paperback!
Disunion!
Lincoln and the Decision for War
The Coming of the American Civil War,
1789–1859
The Northern Response to Secession
elizabeth r. varon
The most provocative word in the political vocabulary
of antebellum America
In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate
of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their
opponents. As Elizabeth Varon
shows, “disunion” connoted the
dissolution of the republic—the
failure of the founders’ effort
to establish a stable and lasting representative government.
For many Americans in both the
North and the South, disunion
was a nightmare, a cataclysm
that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many
others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument
by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional
goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates
over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of
1860–61.
“Will become a standard text for students and scholars
interested in this tumultuous chapter in American history.”
—North & South
“Highly readable political, social, and intellectual history
at its best. . . . Highly recommended.”
—Choice
elizabeth r. varon is professor of history at Temple
University and author of We Mean to Be Counted: White Women
and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (UNC Press).
Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7159-1, $21.00t Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3232-5, $30.00t Cloth (2008)
ISBN 978-0-8078-6607-8, $35.00s Large Print
472 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 12 illus., notes, bibl., index
russell mcclintock
Best Civil War Book, History Book Club
Main Selection of the History Book Club and Featured Alternate
of the Military Book Club
How the North chose war over disunion
When Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 prompted several
Southern states to secede, the
North was sharply divided over
how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised
book, Russell McClintock follows
the decision-making process
from bitter partisan rancor to
consensus. From small towns to
big cities and from state capitals
to Washington, D.C., McClintock
highlights individuals both
powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary
citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the Northern response to what
was essentially a political crisis. He argues that although
Northerners’ reactions to Southern secession were understood and expressed through partisan newspapers and
officials, the decision fell into the hands of an ever-smaller
group of people until finally it was Lincoln alone who
would choose whether the future of the American republic
was to be determined through peace or by sword.
“Shrewd, nuanced, and definitely worth reading. . . . This
fine piece of scholarship certainly deserves to take its place
alongside the familiar historiographical landmarks.”
russell m c clintock earned his Ph.D. in U.S. history
from Clark University and now teaches at St. John’s High School
in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
Civil War America
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7154-6, $20.00t Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3188-5, $35.00t Cloth (2008)
400 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, notes, bibl., index
african american studies
An Example for All the Land
Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in
Washington, D.C.
kate masur
A new history of Reconstruction in the nation’s capital
k ate masur is assistant professor of history and African American studies
at Northwestern University.
October 2010
“
The constriction of citizenship
rights in the nation’s capital
is a story little told but rich
with both symbolic and
practical meaning. Masur’s
intriguing history of
Reconstruction in the District
is justified and fruitful.
“
In An Example for All the Land, Kate Masur offers the first major study of
Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur’s panoramic
account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the
presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique battleground in
the American struggle over equality.
After slavery’s demise, the question of racial equality produced a multifaceted debate about who should have which rights and privileges, and in which
places. Masur shows that black Washingtonians demanded public respect for
their organizations and equal access to streetcars, public schools, the vote, and
municipal employment. Congressional Republicans, in turn, passed local legislation that made the capital the nation’s vanguard of racial equality, drawing the
attention of woman suffragists hoping for similar experiments in women’s rights.
But a conservative coalition soon mobilized and, in the name of reform and
modernization, sought to undermine African Americans’ newfound influence
in local affairs. In a stunning reversal, Congress then abolished local selfgovernment, making the capital an exemplar of disfranchisement amid a
national debate about the dangers of democracy.
Combining political, social, and legal history, Masur reveals Washington as
a laboratory for social policy at a pivotal moment in American history and
brings the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship.
—Jane Dailey, University of Chicago
ISBN 978-0-8078-3414-5, $39.95s Cloth
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african american studies | women’s studies
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens
Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960
rebecca sharpless
African American women’s bridge from slavery to professionalism
Also available
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Women on Texas Cotton Farms,
1900–1940
Rebecca Sharpless
A careful regional study, sensitive
to the differences among rural
women as well as the common
ground that they shared. . . .
A book that farmwomen and
scholars alike can enjoy.”
—Journal of Southern History
352 pp., 5 illus., 3 maps,
9 tables
ISBN 978-0-8078-4760-2
$23.95s Paper
“
As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind,
many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of
the primary jobs they performed in white employers’ homes, feeding generations
of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways
and culture.
Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays,
and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control
over their own lives and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the
demands of employers and the restrictions of segregation. Sharpless also shows
how these women’s employment served as a bridge from old labor arrangements
to new ones. As opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African
American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive
manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions.
Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, this book evokes African
American women’s voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their
lives at work and at home. Sharpless looks beyond stereotypes to introduce the
real women who left their own houses and families each morning to cook in
other women’s kitchens.
rebecca sharpless is associate professor of history at Texas Christian
University. She is author of Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton
Farms, 1900–1940 (UNC Press).
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3432-9, $35.00s Cloth
Approx. 304 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 7 illus., appends., notes, bibl., index
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native american studies
The House on Diamond Hill
A Cherokee Plantation Story
tiya miles
Myths and realities of Cherokee chief James Vann and his historic home
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and
entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill, the most famous plantation in the
southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the
history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill’s founding,
its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the
Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950s.
This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation boundaries—from elite Cherokee
slaveholders to Cherokee subsistence farmers, from black slaves of various
ethnic backgrounds to free blacks from the North and South, from Germanspeaking Moravian missionaries to white southern skilled laborers. Moreover,
the book includes rich portraits of the women of these various communities.
Vividly written and extensively researched, this history illuminates gender,
class, and cross-racial relationships on the southern frontier.
tiya miles is associate professor of history, American culture, Afro-American
studies, and Native American studies at the University of Michigan. Her first book,
Ties That Bind: The Story of An Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, won
the Organization of American Historians’ Turner Prize and the American Studies
Association’s Romero Prize.
August 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3418-3, $32.50s Cloth
Approx. 336 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 18 illus., 1 table, 4 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index
“
This is one of the most
thoughtful, beautifully written
works of history on any topic
that I have read in a long while.
Miles has taken a complex set
of issues that have been long
obscured by a desire for
a romantic and guilt-free
past, and with grace and
sensitivity, has completely
rewritten history.
“
—Leslie M. Harris, Emory University
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legal history | sexuality studies | american history
Sexual Injustice
Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
marc stein
A socially, culturally, and politically transformative era of the Supreme Court
“
Marc Stein turns conventional
wisdom upside down in this
provocative critique of Supreme
Court decisions in the era of the
sexual revolution. Stein forces us
to rethink what liberalism means
in ways that extend far beyond
issues of sexuality.
“
—John D’Emilio, coauthor of
Intimate Matters:
A History of Sexuality in America
The U.S. Supreme Court of the 1960s and 1970s is typically celebrated by liberals
and condemned by conservatives for its rulings on abortion, birth control, and
other sexual matters. In this new work, historian Marc Stein demonstrates
convincingly that both sides have it wrong. Focusing on six major Supreme Court
cases, Stein examines the more liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Fanny Hill, Loving, Eisenstadt, and Roe
alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier.
In the same era in which the Court recognized special marital, reproductive,
and heterosexual rights and privileges, it also upheld an immigration statute
that classified homosexuals as “psychopathic personalities.” How, then, did
Americans come to believe that the Court supported the sexual revolution?
Stein shows that a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars
translated the Court’s language about marital and reproductive rights into
bold statements about sexual freedom and equality. Creatively researched and
persuasively argued, this book not only provides the first in-depth account of
Boutilier, one of the Court’s earliest gay rights cases, but will change the way we
think about the Supreme Court and the sexual revolution.
marc stein is associate professor of history, women’s studies, and sexuality
studies at York University in Toronto. He is author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves:
Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia and editor-in-chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3412-1, $39.95s Cloth
Approx. 384 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, notes, index
sexuality studies |
military history
sexuality studies | health |
american studies
Prescription for Heterosexuality
New Edition from UNC Press!
Coming Out Under Fire
The History of Gay Men and Women
in World War II
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
allan bérubé
With a new foreword by John D’Emilio and
Estelle B. Freedman
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Nonfiction
A classic in the field that remains the definitive study
During World War II, as the
United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented
numbers, the presence of gay
and lesbian Americans in
the armed forces increasingly
conflicted with the expanding
antihomosexual policies and
procedures of the military.
Allan Bérubé examines these
events—not as a story of how
the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how
a dynamic power relationship developed between gay
citizens and their government, transforming them both.
Drawing on GIs’ wartime letters, extensive interviews
with gay veterans, and declassified military documents,
Bérubé constructs a startling history of the two wars gay
military men and women fought—one for America and
another as homosexuals within the military.
Bérubé’s book, the inspiration for the 1995 Peabody
Award–winning documentary film, has become a classic
since it was published in 1990, just three years prior to
the introduction of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy,
which has continued to serve as an uneasy compromise
between gays and the military. With a new foreword by
John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, this book
remains a valuable contribution to the history of World
War II, as well as to the ongoing debate regarding the
gays in the U.S. military.
Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era
carolyn herbst lewis
How physicians defined and reinforced healthy
heterosexuality in the Cold War era
In this lively and engaging work,
Carolyn Lewis explores how
medical practitioners, especially
family physicians, situated
themselves as the guardians of
Americans’ sexual well-being
during the early years of the
Cold War. She argues that many
doctors viewed their patients’
sexual habits as more than an
issue of personal health. They
believed that a satisfying sexual
relationship between heterosexual couples with very specific attributes and boundaries
was the foundation of a successful marriage, a fundamental source of happiness in the American family, and a
crucial building block of a secure nation.
Drawing on hundreds of articles and editorials in
medical journals as well as other popular and professional
literature, Lewis traces how medical professionals defined
and reinforced heterosexuality in the mid-twentieth
century, giving certain heterosexual desires and acts
a veritable stamp of approval while labeling others as
unhealthy or deviant. Lewis links their prescriptive
treatment to Cold War anxieties about sexual norms,
gender roles, and national security. Doctors of the time,
Lewis argues, believed that “unhealthy” sexual acts, from
same-sex desires to female-dominant acts, could cause
personal and marital disaster; in short, says Lewis, they
were “un-American.”
carolyn herbst lewis is assistant professor of
history at Louisiana State University.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3425-1, 34.95s Cloth
Approx. 256 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, notes, bibl., index
allan bérubé (1946–2007) was a community historian
and author of numerous essays and articles.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7177-5, $24.95s Paper
424 pp., 6 x 9, 46 illus., notes, index
environmental studies | american history
New Edition!
Ecological Revolutions
Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Second Edition
carolyn merchant
With a new preface and epilogue by the author
One of the foundational works of American environmental history
“
“
Merchant has the gift
of being able to make
plain dirt interesting.
“
Studying ecological
transformations, Merchant
includes fascinating
analyses of the cultures
that corresponded to them.
. . . [Her] innovative theoretical
approach and her political
vision make a substantial
contribution to the field.
carolyn merchant is professor of environmental history, philosophy, and
ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of The Death of Nature,
Reinventing Eden, and several other books on environmental history. She is a past
president of the American Society for Environmental History and a recipient of the
society’s distinguished scholar award.
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7180-5, $29.95s Cloth
Approx. 398 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 1 table, notes, bibl., index
“
—American Quarterly
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical
alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature
all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth
century, when New England’s industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the
region. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major
transformations in the New England environment between 1600 and 1860.
In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twentyfirst-century globalization and climate change. Merchant argues that past ways
of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and
achieving sustainability in the future.
military history |
african american |
New in Paperback!
New Edition!
White Over Black
The Politics of War
American Attitudes Toward the Negro,
1550–1812
Race, Class, and Conflict in
Revolutionary Virginia
Second Edition
michael a. mcdonnell
winthrop d. jordan
With a new foreword by Christopher Leslie Brown
National Book Award
Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
The definitive work on the history of race relations
in America
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set
out in encyclopedic detail the
evolution of white Englishmen’s
and Anglo-Americans’ perceptions of blacks, perceptions
of difference used to justify
race-based slavery, and liberty
and justice for whites only.
This second edition, with a
new foreword by Christopher
Leslie Brown, reminds us that
Jordan’s text is still the definitive work on the history of race
in America in the colonial era. Every book published to
this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all
are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it.
“One of the most important historical works of the past 40
years, contributing to the cultural shift in white thinking
that made possible the election of Barack Obama.”
—Gordon S. Wood, The Wall Street Journal
winthrop d. jordan (1931–2007) taught history
at the University of Mississippi. He is also author of Tumult
and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave
Conspiracy. christopher leslie brown is
professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author
of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, which
won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Published for the Omohundro Institute
of Early American History and Culture,
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3402-2, $70.00x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7141-6, $29.95s Paper
Approx. 671 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 1 map, notes, bibl., index
New South Wales Premier’s History Award
An analysis of internal conflicts roiling beneath the
surface in Revolutionary Virginia
War often unites a society
behind a common cause, but the
notion of diverse populations all
rallying together to fight on the
same side disguises the complex
social forces that come into play
in the midst of perceived unity.
Michael A. McDonnell uses
the Revolution in Virginia to
examine the political and social
struggles of a revolutionary society at war with itself as much as
with Great Britain.
McDonnell documents the numerous contests within
Virginia over mobilizing for war. From these conflicts
emerged a republican polity rife with racial and class tensions. With its insights into the mobilization of popular
support, the exposure of social rifts, and the inversion of
power relations, McDonnell’s analysis is relevant to any
society at war.
“Here, in the great tradition of history from below, is a
powerful new interpretation of the American Revolution
in Virginia, its most important setting. By giving authoritative voice to small farmers, tenants, laborers, and servants in their struggles for independence, McDonnell has
emerged as a major new voice in early American history.”
— Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
michael a. m c donnell is a Senior Lecturer in history
at the University of Sydney.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7155-3, $24.95s Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3108-3, $45.00s Cloth (2007)
568 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 3 maps, notes, index
Rich Indians
Native People and the Problem of Wealth in
American History
alexandra harmon
Historical controversies about the moral implications of American
Indian wealth
“
Harmon offers an
original overview of Indian-white
relations in the United States
by tracing Euro-American
attitudes towards Indian
economic activity and Indian
wealth from seventeenth-century
Virginia to the modern age. An
original, wide-ranging, well-written,
and well-argued work.
“
—Frederick Hoxie, author of
A Final Promise: The Campaign
to Assimilate the American Indians,
1880–1920
Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans
amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability,
morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices.
Skillfully blending social, cultural, and economic history, Alexandra Harmon
examines seven such instances of Indian affluence and the dilemmas they
presented both for Native Americans and for Euro-Americans—dilemmas rooted
in the colonial origins of the modern American economy.
This wide-ranging book looks at controversies concerning Powhatan
economic status and aims during the Virginia colony’s first years, the ambitions
of some bicultural eighteenth-century Creeks and Mohawks, prospering Indians
of the Southeast in the early 1800s, inequality among removed tribes during the
Gilded Age, the spending of oil-rich Osages in the Roaring Twenties, resurgent
tribal communities from Alaska to Maine in the 1970s, and casinos that have
drawn gamblers to Indian country across the United States since the 1990s.
Harmon’s study not only compels us to look beyond stereotypes of greedy
whites and impoverished Indians, but also convincingly demonstrates that
Indians deserve a prominent place in American economic history and in the
history of American ideas through the twentieth century.
alex andr a harmon is associate professor of American Indian studies at
the University of Washington. She is editor of The Power of Promises: Perspectives
on Northwest Indian Treaties and author of Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations
and Indian Identities around Puget Sound.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3423-7, $39.95s Cloth
From Chicaza to Chickasaw
The European Invasion and the Transformation of
the Mississippian World, 1540–1715
robbie ethridge
The collapse of an indigenous world heralds the beginning of a new
historical era
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the
metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 by Hernando De
Soto to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer
lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European
empire and in a new social landscape that included a large population of
Europeans and Africans. Despite the fact that thousands of Indians died or were
enslaved and virtually all Native polities were radically altered in these years,
the collapse of this complex Mississippian world did not extinguish the Native
peoples of the South but rather transformed them.
Using a new interpretive framework that Ethridge calls the “Mississippian
shatter zone” to explicate these tumultuous times, From Chicaza to Chickasaw
examines the European invasion and the collapse of the precontact Mississippian
world and the restructuring of discrete chiefdoms into coalescent Native societies in a colonial world. Within this larger regional context, she closely follows
the story of one group—the Chickasaws—throughout this period. With skillfully
synthesized archaeological and documentary evidence, Ethridge illuminates the
Native South in its earliest colonial context and sheds new light on the profound
upheaval and cultural transformation experienced by the region’s first peoples.
robbie ethridge is professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi
and author of Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (UNC Press).
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3435-0, $37.50s Cloth
Approx. 352 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 10 illus., 9 maps, 2 tables, notes, bibl., index
Also available
Creek Country
The Creek Indians and Their World
Robbie Ethridge
A fascinating perspective on
cultural exchanges between
southeastern Creeks and other
Americans, emphasizing the
ecological context in which the
exchanges occurred.”
—Journal of American History
“
ISBN 978-0-8078-2827-4
$75.00x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-5495-2
$24.95t Paper
african american studies
Way Up North in Louisville
African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930–1970
luther adams
A pioneering study of African American migration within the region
“
Adams presents an exciting
and fresh contribution to the
scholarly understanding of the
growth and transformation of
Louisville from the 1930s to
the 1970s. This book provides
important insight into how
the changing dynamic of black
migration to and settlement in this
border city influenced civil rights
activism that reverberated beyond
the region. Adams recovers, too,
whites’ activism that both
enabled and hobbled blacks’
efforts to end segregation.
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half
the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in
the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the
South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks to move to
urban centers in the South to make their homes. Adams defines “home” as a
commitment to life in the South that fueled the emergence of a more cohesive
sense of urban community and enabled southern blacks to maintain their ties
to the South as a place of personal identity, family, and community. This
commitment to the South energized the rise of a more militant movement
for full citizenship rights and respect for the humanity of black people.
Way Up North in Louisville offers a powerful reinterpretation of the modern
civil rights movement and of the transformations in black urban life within the
interrelated contexts of migration, work, and urban renewal, which spurred
the fight against residential segregation and economic inequality. While
acknowledging the destructive downside of emerging post-industrialism for
African Americans in the Jim Crow South, Adams concludes that persistent
patterns of economic and racial inequality did not rob black people of their
capacity to act in their own interests.
luther adams is associate professor at the University of Washington Tacoma.
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3422-0, $49.95s Cloth
Approx. 320 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 13 illus., 3 maps, 7 tables, notes, bibl., index
“
—Kimberley L. Phillips,
The College of William and Mary
civil war
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
anne e. marshall
The development of Kentucky’s historical memory following the Civil War
Historian E. Merton Coulter famously said that Kentucky “waited until after
the war was over to secede from the Union.” In this fresh study, Anne E.
Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between
1865 and 1925 that belied the fact that Kentucky never left the Union and that
more Kentuckians fought for the North than for the South. Following the Civil
War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties, embracing
the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with formerly Confederate states. Although, on the surface, white Confederate memory
appeared to dominate the historical landscape of postwar Kentucky, Marshall’s
closer look reveals an active political and cultural dialogue that included white
Unionists, Confederate Kentuckians, and the state’s African Americans, who,
from the last days of the war, drew on Union victory and their part in winning
it to lay claim to the fruits of freedom and citizenship.
Rather than focusing exclusively on postwar political and economic factors,
Creating a Confederate Kentucky looks at Kentuckians’ activities—public
memorial ceremonies, dedications of monuments, and veterans organizations’
events—over the longer term, by which they commemorated the Civil War
and fixed the state’s remembrance of it for sixty years following the conflict.
anne e. marshall is assistant professor of history at Mississippi
Civil War America
December 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3436-7, $35.00s Cloth
“
State University.
“
In this much-anticipated
volume, Anne E. Marshall offers a
definitive answer to the conundrum
of why white Kentuckians
manufactured a false Confederate
past after the Civil War. It is both
a significant contribution to
studies of memory and a major
milestone in the history of the
Bluegrass State.
—Kenneth W. Noe, author of
Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who
Joined the Army after 1861
cookbook
New in paperback!
Matzoh Ball Gumbo
Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
marcie cohen ferris
A New York Times Notable Cookbook
A Chicago Tribune Favorite Cookbook
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Top Cookbook
A historic tour of southern Jewish foodways
From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food
throughout southern Jewish
history. She demonstrates with
delight and detail how southern
Jews reinvented culinary traditions as they adapted to the
customs, landscape, and racial
codes of the American South.
Richly illustrated, this culinary
tour of the historic Jewish South
is an evocative mixture of history
and foodways, including more than thirty recipes to try
at home.
“Goes far beyond the kitchen. . . . Documents Southern
Jewish domestic, social, racial, religious, and business life
over three centuries. Rich in anecdote and based on extensive interviews, Matzoh Ball Gumbo records an important
aspect of the American Jewish experience.”
—Jewish Book World
“A rich stew to savor. . . . Meticulously researched and
documented, eminently readable, further enlivened with
the voices of Ferris’s many interviewees, and illustrated
with photographs, newspaper clippings, and more,
Matzoh Ball Gumbo provides an utterly nourishing read.”
—The Forward
marcie cohen ferris is associate professor of
American studies at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. She is a former president of the Southern
Foodways Alliance.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7123-2, $22.00t Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-2978-3, $29.95t Cloth (2005)
344 pp., 7 x 10, 79 illus., notes, bibl., index
cookbook
Fruitcake
Heirloom Recipes and Memories of
Truman Capote and Cousin Sook
marie rudisill
With a new foreword by Jean Anderson
Kitchen wisdom from Truman Capote’s aunt
Fruitcake is a jaunty little collection of heirloom fruitcake recipes
selected by Marie Rudisill from a
nineteenth-century family farm
journal owned by Sook Faulk, a
cousin of Rudisill and Truman
Capote, who immortalized Sook
in his novella, A Christmas
Memory. Rudisill, made famous
as “The Fruitcake Lady” on Jay
Leno’s Tonight Show, aims to
elevate the much-maligned
reputation of what she calls
“the queen of cakes” in this book, which features 23
enticing recipes, including Peacock Fruitcake, Chocolate
Fruitcake, Civil War Fruitcake, Pore Man’s Fruitcake, and
Farmer’s Fruitcake. These are interspersed with pithy facts
about fruitcake, an excerpt from A Christmas Memory, bits
of kitchen wisdom and baking tips, and charming family
reminiscences, most of which feature Truman and Sook.
With a new foreword by cookbook author Jean Anderson,
this entertaining volume enriches our experience of
southern cooking by raising up one of its least-trumpeted
culinary traditions.
“A classic that belongs in every kitchen.”
—Jean Anderson, author of The New Doubleday Cookbook
Hailing from a large family in Monroeville, Alabama,
marie rudisill (1911–2006) was Truman Capote’s
doting aunt, an energetic family memoirist and writer, and a
fruitcake fan. She was winner of the 2001 Jack Daniel Lifetime
Achievement Award of the Southern Foodways Alliance.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-9930-4, $15.00t Paper
Approx. 80 pp., 5 x 7 1⁄2
Not for Sale in British Commonwealth except Canada
reference | sports | southern studies
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
edited by harvey h. jackson III
Charles Reagan Wilson, General Editor
How southerners spend their leisure time
What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish
in their spare time, their “leisure,” reveals much about their cultural values,
class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This
volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative
and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American
South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their
nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities.
Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch
sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the unusual
(pool checkers and a sport called “fireballing”). In seventy-eight topical entries,
contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities (such as
Dollywood, drive-ins, and the Appalachian Trail) and prominent sports figures
(including Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, and Hank Aaron). Taken
together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax,
pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun.
harvey h. jackson III is Professor and Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University and is author, coauthor, or
coeditor of nine books on various topics in southern history. charles reagan wilson is Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair in History
and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi
December 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3441-1, $45.00s Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7173-7, $22.95t Paper
Approx. 368 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 31 illus., bibl., index
For information on
The New Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture series,
please visit
www.uncpress.unc.edu.
african american studies | military history
Torchbearers of Democracy
African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
chad l. williams
Race, nation, manhood, and citizenship in the 1920s
“
In a manner that no
previous author has achieved,
Chad Williams vividly captures
the turbulent times and
sentiments of African Americans
in general and black soldiers
in particular during the
World War I era. His
scholarship is outstanding.
“
—John Morrow Jr.,
University of Georgia
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I
by declaring, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” For the 380,000
African American soldiers who fought and labored in the global conflict, these
words carried life or death meaning. Relating stories bridging the war and
postwar years, spanning the streets of Chicago and the streets of Harlem, from
the battlefields of the American South to the battlefields of the Western Front,
Chad Williams reveals the central role of African American soldiers in World War
I and how they, along with race activists and ordinary citizens alike, committed
to fighting for democracy at home and beyond.
Using a diverse range of sources, Williams connects the history of African
American soldiers and veterans to issues such as the obligations of citizenship,
combat and labor, diaspora and internationalism, homecoming and racial
violence, “New Negro” militancy, and African American historical memories of
the war. Democracy may have been distant from the everyday lives of African
Americans at the dawn of the war, but it nevertheless remained a powerful
ideal that sparked the hopes of black people throughout the country for societal
change. Torchbearers of Democracy reclaims the legacy of black soldiers and
establishes the World War I era as a defining moment in the history of African
Americans and peoples of African descent more broadly.
chad l. williams is associate professor of history at Hamilton College.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3394-0, $34.95s Cloth
british history | business & economic history
New Edition!
Econocide
British Slavery in the Era of Abolition
Second Edition
seymour drescher
With a new preface by the author and a new foreword by David Brion Davis
Abolition as a result of British public opinion
“[Drescher] showed how abolitionism was an important part of popular culture
in Britain at that time, commanding support from people who had no economic
interest in the matter one way or the other.”
—Stephen Davies, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
seymour drescher is Distinguished University Professor of history and
sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
August 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3446-6, $59.95x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7179-9, $24.95s Paper
Approx. 320 pp., 6 x 9, 9 graphs, 32 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
“
Seymour Drescher has
enjoyed a long and
distinguished career as
a specialist of European
colonial slavery, the slave
trade and abolitionism, and
especially of the role
played by Great Britain
in these processes.
“
In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams’s 1944 thesis, Seymour
Drescher argues that Britain’s abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted
not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from
the British public’s mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London
to commit what Drescher terms “econocide.” This action, he argues, was
detrimental to Britain’s economic interests at a time when British slavery
was actually at the height of its potential.
Originally published in 1977, Drescher’s work was instrumental in
undermining the economic determinist interpretation of abolitionism that
had dominated historical discourse for decades following World War II. For
this second edition, which includes a foreword by David Brion Davis, Drescher
has written a new preface, reflecting on the historiography of the British slave
trade since this book’s original publication.
—Lawrence C. Jennings,
Journal of Modern History
african american studies | photography
Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare
Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle
leigh raiford
Photography as artifact, artifice, document, and performance
“
This beautifully written text
will significantly shape
how we can and will
understand the visual culture
of social movements in the
United States. Raiford’s
scholarship is excellent.
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one
hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic
imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual
vocabulary about black lives. Raiford analyzes why activists chose photography
over other media, explores the doubts some individuals had about the strategies,
and shows how photography became an increasingly effective, if complex, tool
in representing black political interests.
Offering readings of the use of photography in the antilynching movement,
the civil rights movement, and the black power movement, Raiford focuses
on key transformations in technology, society, and politics to understand the
evolution of photography’s deployment in capturing white oppression, black
resistance, and African American life. By putting photography at the center
of the long African American freedom struggle, Raiford also explores how the
recirculation of these indelible images in political campaigns and art exhibits
both adds to and complicates our memory of the events.
leigh r aiford is assistant professor of African American studies at the
University of California, Berkeley.
January 2011
ISBN 978-0-8078-3430-5, $45.00s Cloth
Approx. 328 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 71 illus., notes, index
“
—Shawn Michelle Smith, author of
Photography on the Color Line:
W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
AP Photo/Bill Hudson.
african american studies | gender studies
Stormy Weather
Middle-Class African American Marriages between
the Two World Wars
anastasia c. curwood
A compelling picture of the personal challenges black couples experienced
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II
embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race.
Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial
factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how
spousal relationships should actually function in an ideal New Negro marriage.
Shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of African American social
history, Anastasia C. Curwood explores the public and private negotiations over
gender relationships inside marriage that consumed upwardly mobile black
Americans between 1918 and 1942.
Curwood uses private correspondence between spouses, including her
own grandparents, and public writings from leading figures of the era to
investigate African Americans’ deepest hopes within their private lives.
She follows changes and conflicts in African American marital ideals—and
demonstrates how those ideals sometimes clashed with reality. In the process,
Curwood shows how New Negro marriages are an especially rich site for
assessing the interactions of racial, class, and gender identities.
anastasia c. curwood is assistant professor of African American
Gender and American Culture
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3434-3, $35.00s Cloth
“
and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University.
“
Curwood opens up a
whole new field of inquiry
within African American and
gender studies while adding
depth to our understanding
of the ‘New Negro’ experience.
This is a fantastic work
of historical scholarship.
—Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College
latin american & caribbean studies
Blackness in the White Nation
A History of Afro-Uruguay
george reid andrews
The first book in English on black history in Uruguay
“
This new book written by
Reid Andrews, a master historian
at the height of his form, is
destined to become the standard
work on its topic, just as his study
The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires,
1800–1900 has been for
an entire generation.
“
—John Charles Chasteen, author of
Americanos: Latin America’s
Struggle for Independence
Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora,
yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans
arrived in the country. Afro-Uruguayans played important roles in Uruguay’s
national life, creating the second-largest black press in Latin America, a racially
defined political party, and numerous social and civic organizations.
Afro-Uruguayans were also central participants in the creation of Uruguayan
popular culture and the country’s principal musical forms, tango and candombe.
Candombe, a style of African-inflected music, is one of the defining features of
the nation’s culture, embraced equally by white and black citizens.
In Blackness in the White Nation, George Reid Andrews offers a comprehensive history of Afro-Uruguayans from the colonial period to the present. Showing
how social and political mobilization is intertwined with candombe, he traces
the development of Afro-Uruguayan racial discourse and argues that candombe’s
evolution as a central part of the nation’s culture has not fundamentally
helped the cause of racial equality. Incorporating lively descriptions of his
own experiences as a member of a candombe drumming and performance
group, Andrews consistently connects the struggles of Afro-Uruguayans to the
broader issues of race, culture, gender, and politics throughout Latin America
and the African diaspora generally.
george reid andrews is Distinguished Professor of History at the
University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3417-6, $59.95x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7158-4, $22.95s Paper
Approx. 272 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 14 illus., 9 tables, notes, bibl., index
latin american & caribbean studies | environmental studies
The Deepest Wounds
A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in
Northeast Brazil
thomas d. rogers
A melded history of workers and the agro-environment across
Brazil’s 400 years of sugar production
thomas d. rogers is assistant professor of Africana studies and
Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
December 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3433-6, $65.00x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7167-6, $25.95s Paper
“
Rogers capably and vividly
reconstructs the worldviews
and perspectives of all the major
stakeholders in the sugarcane
fields of Pernambuco. This is
an important, original, and
thought-provoking book.
“
In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental
changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil’s key northeastern sugargrowing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in
1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment
reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming
—the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane
grow.
Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, whose home state was
Pernambuco, observed, “Monoculture, slavery, and concentrated land ownership—but principally monoculture—opened here, in the life, the landscape, and
the character of our people, the deepest wounds.” Inspired by Freyre’s insight,
Rogers tells the story of Pernambuco’s wounds, describing the connections
among changing agricultural technologies, landscapes and human perceptions
of them, labor practices, and agricultural and economic policy. This web of
interrelated factors, Rogers argues, both shaped economic progress and left
extensive environmental and human damage.
Combining a study of workers with analysis of their landscape, Rogers
offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light
on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that
influences Brazil’s development even today.
—Stuart McCook, author of
States of Nature: Science, Agriculture,
and Environment in the
Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940
Approx. 456 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 7 illus., 1 table, 1 map, notes, bibl.,
sports | american studies
new in paperback!
Brand NFL
Making and Selling America’s Favorite Sport
michael oriard
With a new afterword from the author
The evolution of football through media, money, and mass appeal
Professional football today is an $8 billion sports entertainment industry—and
the most popular spectator sport in America, with designs on expansion across
the globe. In this astute field-level view of the National Football League since
1960, Michael Oriard looks closely at the development of the sport and at the
image of the NFL and its unique place in American life. New to the paperback
edition is Oriard’s analysis of the offseason labor negotiations and their potential
effects on the future of the sport, and his account of how the NFL is dealing with
the latest research on concussions and head injuries.
“Oriard, a former pro player and current professor, makes the epic tale of the
NFL’s touchdown drive from tainted image to powerhouse brand as intensely
exciting as a Sunday game on a highlight reel.”
—Robert Lipsyte, contributing writer, The New York Times
Also available
Bowled Over
Big-Time College Football from
the Sixties to the BCS Era
Michael Oriard
Sprightly, well researched, and
unusually insightful, Bowled Over
makes a wonderful addition to
football history.”
—Benjamin G. Rader, University
of Nebraska
“
michael oriard , a former professional football player, is Distinguished Professor
of American Literature and Culture and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
at Oregon State University. He is author of several books on football, most recently,
Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era (UNC Press).
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7156-0, $20.00t Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3142-7, $29.95t Cloth (2007)
336 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 2 tables, notes, index
352 pp., 7 illus., 3 tables
ISBN 978-0-8078-3329-2
$30.00t Cloth
medicinecivil
war — studies
new in paperback!
| gender
nature
new in paperback!
new in paperback!
The Gulf Stream
Make Room for Daddy
Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the
Amazing Story of the Powerful River
in the Atlantic
The Journey from Waiting Room to
Birthing Room
stan ulanski
A lively history of men’s changing role in childbirth
A virtual sea highway, teeming with life
Coursing through the Atlantic
Ocean is a powerful current
with a force 300 times that of
the mighty Amazon. Ulanski
explores the fascinating science
and history of this sea highway
known as the Gulf Stream, a
watery wilderness that stretches
from the Caribbean to the
North Atlantic. Spanning both
distance and time, Ulanski’s
investigation reveals how the
Gulf Stream affects and is
affected by every living thing that encounters it—from
tiny planktonic organisms to giant bluefin tuna, from
ancient mariners to big-game anglers. He examines the
scientific discovery of ocean circulation, the role of ocean
currents in the settlement of the New World, and the
biological life teeming in the stream.
“Ulanski is a scientist but doesn’t write like one. His book
is jam-packed with facts, but they are so gracefully integrated into the text that it’s only when you come up for
air that you realize you’ve been learning all along.”
—The Wall Street Journal
stan ulanski is professor of geology and environmental
science at James Madison University.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7157-7, $18.00t Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3217-2, $28.00s Cloth (2009)
232 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 24 illus., 4 maps, bibl., index
judith walzer leavitt
Using fathers’ first-hand
accounts from letters, journals,
and personal interviews along
with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer
Leavitt offers a new perspective
on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the
1980s. She shows how, as men
moved first from the hospital
waiting room to the labor room
in the 1960s, and then on to the
delivery and birthing rooms in
the 1970s and 1980s, they became progressively more
involved in the birth experience and their influence over
events expanded. With careful attention to power and
privilege, Leavitt charts not only the increasing involvement of fathers, but also medical inequalities, the impact
of race and class, and the evolution of hospital policies.
Illustrated with more than seventy images from television, films, and magazines, this book provides important
new insights into childbirth in modern America, even as it
reminds readers of their own experiences.
“A narrative history—illuminating and engaging—of what
fathers actually did while mothers were giving birth over
the past 80 years.”
—The Wall Street Journal
judith walzer leavitt is Rupple Bascom and Ruth
Bleier Professor of Medical History and Women’s Studies at
the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
August 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7168-3, $22.95s Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3255-4, $35.00s Cloth (2009)
400 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 72 illus., notes, index
fiction | latin american studies
Santa
A Novel of Mexico City
federico gamboa
Translated and edited by John Charles Chasteen
Available for the first time in English—the classic Mexican novel
“
Chasteen provides an artistic,
lyrical translation of Gamboa’s
striking and significant novel
that captures the spirit and
narrative of the story and
the authorial intention of
the novelist. Like Chasteen,
I indulged in the sentimentality
and reveled in the description
of Mexico City.
“
—William H. Beezley,
University of Arizona
This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a
country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and
abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the
city, Santa turns to prostitution and soon gains prominence as Mexico City’s
most sought-after courtesan. Despite the opportunities afforded by her success,
including the chance to quit prostitution, Santa is propelled by her personal
demons toward her ultimate downfall. This evocative novel—justly famous
for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city’s customs, social
interactions, and political activities—assumed singular importance in Mexican
popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired Mexico’s
first “talkie” and several other film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a
television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book.
Naturalist writer Federico Gamboa, who was also a lawyer and politican,
reveals much about Mexican mores and culture at the start of the twentieth
century and beyond, from expectations regarding gender roles to the myth of
the corrupting and decadent city. In describing how Santa is at the mercy of
social problems beyond her control, Gamboa provides a rich historical portrayal
of widespread conditions in the years leading to the Mexican Revolution.
federico gamboa (1864–1939) was one of the most important Mexican
novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
john charles chasteen is professor of history at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
August 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7107-2, $22.95s Paper
256 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4
american history |
labor studies
american history |
labor studies
Smeltertown
Braceros
Making and Remembering a
Southwest Border Community
Migrant Citizens and Transnational
Subjects in the Postwar United States
and Mexico
monica perales
deborah cohen
The rise and fall of an ethnic Mexican border
community
The political economy of labor migration
Company town. Blighted community. Beloved home. Nestled
on the banks of the Rio Grande,
at the heart of a railroad,
mining, and smelting empire,
Smeltertown—La Esmelda, as its
residents called it—was home to
generations of ethnic Mexicans
who labored at the American
Smelting and Refining Company
in El Paso, Texas.
Using newspapers, personal
archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews with former residents, including her own relatives, Monica
Perales unearths the history of this forgotten community.
Spanning almost a century, Smeltertown traces the birth,
growth, and ultimate demise of a working class community in the largest U.S. city on the Mexican border and
places ethnic Mexicans at the center of transnational
capitalism and the making of the urban West. Perales
shows that Smeltertown was composed of multiple real
and imagined social worlds created by the company, the
church, the schools, and the residents themselves. Within
these dynamic social worlds, residents forged permanence and meaning in the shadow of the smelter’s giant
smokestacks. Smeltertown provides insight into how people and places invent and reinvent themselves and illuminates a vibrant community grappling with its own sense
of itself and its place in history and collective memory.
monica per ales is assistant professor of history at the
University of Houston.
Published in association with the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3411-4, $65.00x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7146-1, $22.95s Paper
At the beginning of World War
II, the United States and Mexico
launched the bracero program,
a series of labor agreements that
brought Mexican men to work
temporarily in U.S. agricultural
fields. In Braceros, historian
Deborah Cohen asks why these
temporary migrants provoked
so much concern and anxiety in
the United States and what the
Mexican government expected
to gain in participating in the
program. Cohen reveals the fashioning of a U.S.-Mexican
transnational world, a world created through the interactions, negotiations, and struggles of the program’s
principal protagonists including Mexican and U.S. state
actors, labor activists, growers, and bracero migrants.
Cohen argues that braceros became racialized foreigners,
Mexican citizens, workers, and transnational subjects as
they moved between U.S. and Mexican national spaces.
Drawing on oral histories, ethnographic fieldwork, and
documentary evidence, Cohen creatively links the often
unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the
rise of consumer cultures, and gendered class and race
formation to show why those with connections beyond the
nation have historically provoked suspicion, anxiety, and
retaliatory political policies.
debor ah cohen is associate professor of history at the
University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Published in association with the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3359-9, $39.95s Cloth
Approx. 392 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index
Approx. 336 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 26 illus., 3 maps, 4 tables,
notes, index
canadian history | african american studies
North of the Color Line
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870–1955
sarah-jane mathieu
How African American and West Indian sleeping car porters shaped
Canada’s racial history
“
Sarah-Jane Mathieu’s
scholarship opens up and
deepens our understanding of
race, migration, immigration,
urbanization, and the discourse
of white supremacy through its
exploration of the United States’
northern neighbor. She exposes
multiple assumptions and
contradictions presently
embedded in the consciousness
of citizens of Canada and the
United States as well as the
historical literature. Her treatment
is creative, well-researched,
and beautifully written.
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks,
both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the
end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black
railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane
Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history
during the Jim Crow era.
By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province
of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers
and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former
sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading
racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the
bedrock of civil rights activism.
Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose
citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes
Canada’s racial history, and explores how black migrants brought their own
sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political
discourse there.
sar ah-jane mathieu is assistant professor of history at the University
of Minnesota.
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3429-9, $65.00x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7166-9, $22.95s Paper
“
—Beth Tompkins Bates, author of
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest
Politics in Black America, 1925–1945
african american studies | native american studies
The Quest for Citizenship
African American and Native American Education
in Kansas, 1880–1935
kim cary warren
The testing ground for national ideas about education and
American identity
kim cary warren is assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3396-4, $59.95x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7137-9, $24.95s Paper
“
In this engrossing comparative
study, Kim Warren explores
the education of African American
and Native American students
in Kansas in order to make larger
claims about the meanings and
expectations of U.S. citizenship.
The work she has done to unearth
fresh materials, as well as to smartly
re-examine well-known figures
in the histories of black and
Indian schooling, shines through
in this illuminating book.
“
In The Quest for Citizenship, Kim Cary Warren examines the formation of
African American and Native American citizenship, belonging, and identity
in the United States by comparing their educational experiences in Kansas
between 1880 and 1935. Warren focuses her study on Kansas, thought by many
to be the quintessential free state, not only because it was home to sizable
populations of Indian groups and former slaves, but also because of its unique
history of conflict over freedom during the antebellum period.
After the Civil War, white reformers opened segregated schools, ultimately
reinforcing the very racial hierarchies that they claimed to challenge. To resist
the effects of these reformers’ actions, African Americans developed strategies
that emphasized inclusion and integration, while autonomy and bicultural
identities provided the focal point for Native Americans’ understanding of what
it meant to be an American. Warren argues that these approaches to defining
American citizenship served as ideological precursors to the Indian rights and
civil rights movements.
This comparative history of two nonwhite races provides a revealing
analysis of the intersection of education, social control, and resistance, and
the formation and meaning of identity for minority groups in America.
—Tiya Miles, author of Ties That Bind:
The Story of An Afro-Cherokee Family
in Slavery and Freedom
Removable Type
Histories of the Book in Indian Country,
1663–1880
phillip h. round
The essential role of the book and print culture
in Native American history
In 1663, the Puritan missionary
John Eliot, with the help of a
Nipmuck convert whom the
English called James Printer,
produced the first Bible printed
in North America. It was printed
not in English but in Algonquian,
making it one of the first books
printed in a Native language. In
this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Phillip H. Round
examines the relationship
between Native Americans and
printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political
contexts for Native peoples’ use of the printed word.
From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains,
Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books
mattered greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural
formations of indigenous nations threatened by European
imperialism.
Removable Type showcases the varied ways that Native
peoples produced and utilized printed texts over time,
approaching them as both opportunity and threat.
Surveying this rich history, Round addresses such issues
as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in
the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the
establishment of “national” publishing houses by tribes,
the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the
importance of copyright in establishing Native intellectual
sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of
reprinting thereon), and the significance of illustrations.
native american studies |
religious studies
Native Americans, Christianity,
and the Reshaping of the
American Religious Landscape
edited by joel w. martin and
mark a. nicholas
Foreword by Michelene Pesantubbee
Revisiting Native Americans’ complex encounter with
Christianity and Christian missions
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin
and Mark A. Nicholas gather
emerging and leading voices in
the study of Native American
religion to reconsider the complex and often misunderstood
history of Native people’s
engagement with Christianity
and with Euro-American missionaries. Surveying mission
encounters from contact through
the mid-nineteenth century, the
volume alters and enriches our understanding of both
American Christianity and indigenous religion.
The essays here explore a variety of post-contact identities, including indigenous Christians, “mission friendly”
non-Christians, and ex-Christians, thereby exploring
the shifting world of Native-white cultural and religious
exchange. This collection challenges the pervasive
stereotype of Native Americans as culturally static and
ill-equipped to navigate the roiling currents associated
with colonialism and missionization.
The contributors are Emma Anderson, Joanna Brooks,
Steven W. Hackel, Tracy Neal Leavelle, Daniel Mandell,
Joel W. Martin, Michael D. McNally, Mark A. Nicholas,
Michelene Pesantubbee, David J. Silverman, Laura M.
Stevens, Rachel Wheeler, Douglas L. Winiarski, and
Hilary E. Wyss.
joel w. martin is Vice Provost for Academic Personnel,
phillip h. round is professor of English and American
Indian and Native studies at the University of Iowa. He is
author of The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California’s
Imperial Valley.
Dean of the Faculty, and Distinguished Professor of History at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
mark a. nicholas is an independent scholar living in
Philadelphia.
October 2010
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3390-2, $59.95x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7120-1, $24.95s Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3406-0, $75.00x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7145-4, $27.95s Paper
Approx. 336 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 2 maps, notes, index
african american studies |
women’s studies
american history | women’s studies
Talk with You Like a Woman
Hearts Beating for Liberty
African American Women, Justice, and
Reform in New York, 1890–1935
Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest
cheryl d. hicks
Dreams and expectations of black working-class
women in New York
With this book, Cheryl D. Hicks
brings to light the voices and
viewpoints of black workingclass women, especially southern migrants, who were the
subjects of urban and penal
reform in early twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares
the ideals of racial uplift and
reform programs of middle-class
white and black activists to the
experiences and perspectives
of those whom they sought to
protect and, often, control.
In need of support as they navigated the discriminatory labor and housing markets and contended with
poverty, maternity, and domestic violence, black women
instead found themselves subject to hostility from black
leaders, urban reformers, and the police. Still, these black
working-class women struggled to uphold their own standards of respectable womanhood. Through their actions
as well as their words, they challenged prevailing views
regarding black women and morality in urban America.
Drawing on extensive archival research, Hicks explores
the complexities of black working-class women’s lives
and illuminates the impact of racism and sexism on
early twentieth-century urban reform and criminal
justice initiatives.
chery l d. hicks is assistant professor of history at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
A reconsideration of antislavery history through
the perspective of western women
Challenging traditional histories
of abolition, this book shifts the
focus away from the East to
show how the women of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
and Wisconsin helped build a
vibrant antislavery movement
in the Old Northwest.
Stacey M. Robertson argues
that the environment of the
Old Northwest—with its own
complicated history of slavery
and racism—created a uniquely
collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism.
Western women helped build this local focus through
their unusual and occasionally transgressive activities.
They plunged into Liberty Party politics, vociferously supported a Quaker-led boycott of slave goods, and tirelessly
aided fugitives and free blacks in their communities.
Western women worked closely with male abolitionists,
belying the notion of separate spheres that characterized
abolitionism in the East. The contested history of race
relations in the West also affected the development of
abolitionism in the region, necessitating a pragmatic bent
in their activities. Female antislavery societies focused
on eliminating racist laws, aiding fugitive slaves, and
building and sustaining schools for blacks. This approach
required that abolitionists of all stripes work together,
and women proved especially adept at such cooperation.
stacey m. robertson is Oglesby Professor of
American Heritage at Bradley University. She is author of
Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist.
October 2010
December 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3424-4, $65.00x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7162-1, $24.95s Paper
stacey m. robertson
ISBN 978-0-8078-3408-4, $39.95s Cloth
literary studies
American Bards
Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely
Candidates for National Poet
edward whitley
Outsider poetics of the antebellum period
Walt Whitman has long been
regarded as the quintessential
American bard, the poet
who best represents all that is
distinctive about life in the
United States. Whitman himself
encouraged this view, but he was
also quick to remind his readers
that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national
poet, and that his working-class
upbringing and radical take on
human sexuality often put him
at odds with American culture. While American literary
history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented
the persona of the national outsider as the national bard,
Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman’s contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield,
an African American separatist and abolitionist; Eliza R.
Snow, a Mormon pioneer and women's leader; and John
Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and Native-rights
advocate.
These three poets not only provide a counterpoint to
the Whitmanian persona of the outsider bard, but they
also reframe the criteria by which generations of scholars
have characterized Whitman as America’s poet. This effort
to resituate Whitman’s place in American literary history
provides an innovative perspective on the most familiar
poet of the United States and the culture from which
he emerged.
edward whitley is assistant professor of English and
director of American studies at Lehigh University.
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3421-3, $49.95s Cloth
Approx. 256 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, notes, bibl., index
british history |
military history
Books and the British Army
in the Age of the American
Revolution
ira d. gruber
The books that influenced eighteenth-century British
army officers
Historians have long understood
that books were important to
the British army in defining the
duties of its officers, regulating
tactics, developing the art of
war, and recording the history
of campaigns and commanders.
Now, in this groundbreaking
analysis, Ira D. Gruber identifies
which among over nine hundred
books on war were considered
most important by British officers and how those books might
have affected the army from one era to another.
By examining the preferences of some forty-two
officers who served between the War of the Spanish
Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber shows that
by the middle of the eighteenth century British officers
were discriminating in their choices of books on war and,
further, that their emerging preference for Continental
books affected their understanding of warfare and their
conduct of operations in the American Revolution. In
their increasing enthusiasm for books on war, Gruber
concludes, British officers were laying the foundation
for the nineteenth-century professionalization of their
nation’s officer corps. Gruber’s analysis is enhanced with
detailed and comprehensive bibliographies and tables.
ir a d. gruber is Harris Masterson Jr. Professor Emeritus
of History at Rice University. From 1966 to 2009 he taught
courses in early American and military history at Rice
University, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Army Staff
College. His previous books include The Howe Brothers and the
American Revolution (UNC Press).
Copublished with The Society of the Cincinnati
October 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3378-0, $55.00s Cloth
Approx. 360 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 9 illus., 1 map, 16 tables, notes,
bibl., index
american history | women’s studies | african american studies
New in paperback!
A Movement Without Marches
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty
in Postwar Philadelphia
lisa levenstein
Honorable Mention, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization
of American Historians
Government benefits and services come with strings attached
“A deeply humane account of poor women’s struggles for dignity and survival.
Lisa Levenstein combines history from the bottom up with an unparalleled
account of the institutions, from courts to schools, that shaped and constrained
black women’s lives. Her book opens up new ways of thinking about the unfinished history of race, gender, and civil rights in modern America.”
—Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
lisa levenstein is assistant professor of history at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro.
August 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7164-5, $22.95s Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3272-1, $45.00s Cloth (2009)
“
If we could persuade our
elected representatives to
consider the historical context
in which they make policies
regarding welfare and poverty
that impact the lives of women
and their families this would be
one book they should read.
The stories here challenge onedimensional sound bites that
too often suffice in public
discourse on these issues.
“
Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic
African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that
led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor
black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphia’s most impoverished
neighborhoods into its welfare offices, courtrooms, public housing, schools,
and hospitals, laying claim to an unprecedented array of government benefits
and services. With these resources came new constraints, as public officials
frequently responded to women’s efforts by limiting benefits and attempting
to control their personal lives. Scathing public narratives about women’s
“dependency” and their children’s “illegitimacy” placed African American
women and public institutions at the center of the growing opposition to black
migration and civil rights in northern U.S. cities. Countering stereotypes
that have long plagued public debate, Levenstein offers a new paradigm for
understanding postwar U.S. history.
—Tera W. Hunter, author of
To ‘Joy My Freedom:
Southern Black Women’s Lives
and Labors After the Civil War
320 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4, 22 illus., 12 tables, 4 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index
islamic studies | anthropology
Isma’ili Modern
Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community
jonah steinberg
New possibilities for identity and community in a global age
“
This is a fascinating and
unrivaled account of transnational
Isma’ilism. Steinberg admirably
brings together globalization
theories and fascinating
ethnographic material to
produce a rich narrative of
this interesting community.
It will be the most important
account of contemporary
Isma’ilism yet published.
“
—Faisal Devji, author of
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity:
Militant Islam and Global Politics
The Isma’ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi’i Islam, form a community that is
intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness
of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand
ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as
well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Isma’ili Muslims and the development of their remarkable and expansive twenty-first-century global structures.
Led by a charismatic European-based hereditary Imam, Prince Karim Aga
Khan IV, global Isma’ili organizations make available an astonishing array of
services—social, economic, political, and religious—to some three to five million
subjects stretching from Afghanistan to England, from Pakistan to Tanzania.
Steinberg argues that this intricate and highly integrated network enables a new
kind of shared identity and citizenship, one that goes well beyond the sense of
community maintained by other diasporic populations. Of note in this process is
the rapid assimilation in the postcolonial period of once-isolated societies into
the intensively centralized Isma'ili structure. Also remarkable is the Isma’ilis’ selfpresentation, contrary to common characterizations of Islam in the mass media,
as a Muslim society that is broadly sympathetic to capitalist systems, opposed
to fundamentalism, and distinctly modern in orientation. Steinberg’s unique
journey into remote mountain regions highlights today’s rapidly shifting
meanings of citizenship, faith, and identity and reveals their global scale.
jonah steinberg is assistant professor of anthropology at the University
of Vermont.
Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3407-7, $59.95x Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8078-7165-2, $24.95s Paper
german history | sociology
Christmas in Germany
A Cultural History
joe perry
How Christmas was celebrated, constructed, and transformed over time
For poets, priests, and politicians—and especially ordinary Germans—in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family
gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large.
German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice
rituals of pagan “Teutonic” tribes, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, and
the age-old customs that defined German character. Yet, as Joe Perry argues,
Germans also used these annual celebrations to contest the deepest values that
held the German community together: faith, family, and love, certainly, but also
civic responsibility, material prosperity, and national belonging.
This richly illustrated volume explores the invention, evolution, and politicization of Germany’s favorite national holiday. According to Perry, Christmas
played a crucial role in public politics, as revealed in the militarization of “War
Christmas” during World War I and World War II, the Nazification of Christmas
by the Third Reich, and the political manipulation of Christmas during the Cold
War. Perry offers a close analysis of the impact of consumer culture on popular
celebration and the conflicts created as religious, commercial, and political
authorities sought to control the holiday’s meaning. By unpacking the intimate
links between domestic celebration, popular piety, consumer desires, and
political ideology, Perry concludes that family festivity was central in the
making and remaking of public national identities.
joe perry is associate professor of modern German and European history at
Georgia State University.
September 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-3364-3, $49.95s Cloth
“
Covering nearly two
centuries of Germany history,
Joe Perry analyzes the ways
various groups constructed
and contested the Christmas
holiday, a central element of
modern German experience
and identity. This is an
outstanding work, impressive
in its scope and breadth, the
depth and range of its research,
and the richness and relevance
of its analysis. It is crisply
written, absorbing, and
exhaustively researched.
“
—Paul Lerner, author of
Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry
and the Politics of Trauma
in Germany, 1890–1939
Gifts around the Christmas Tree, lithograph circa 1875.
(© bpk Berlin 2009/Dietmar Katz)
women’s studies | religious studies
biography | literary studies
New in Paperback!
New in Paperback!
New Women of the Old Faith
Walker Percy Remembered
Gender and American Catholicism in
the Progressive Era
A Portrait in the Words of Those
Who Knew Him
kathleen sprows cummings
david horace harwell
Finding room for female power within a
religious patriarchy
Alternate Selection of The Readers’ Subscription
American Catholic women
rarely surface as protagonists
in histories of the United States.
Offering a new perspective,
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
places Catholic women at the
forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era:
the emergence of the “New
Woman” and Catholics’ struggle
to define their place in American
culture. Cummings highlights
four women: Chicago-based
journalist Margaret Buchanan Sullivan; Sister Julia
McGroarty, SND, founder of Trinity College in
Washington, D.C., one of the first Catholic women’s
colleges; Philadelphia educator Sister Assisium McEvoy,
SSJ; and Katherine Eleanor Conway, a Boston editor,
public figure, and antisuffragist. Cummings uses each
woman’s story to explore how debates over Catholic
identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of
American gender roles.
“A timely, enlightening book—required reading for those
who wish to understand the religious landscape of the
Progressive Era and the historical background of today’s
culture wars. Highly recommended.”
—Choice
k athleen sprows cummings is assistant professor
of American studies and associate director of the Cushwa
Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University
of Notre Dame.
August 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7152-2, $22.95s Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3249-3, $45.00s Cloth (2009)
Family, friends, and neighbors talk about the
southern writer
Walker Percy (1916–1990),
the reclusive southern author
most famous for his 1961 novel
The Moviegoer, spent much
of his adult life in Covington,
Louisiana. In the spirit of traditional southern storytelling,
this biography of Percy takes its
shape from 13 candid interviews
with his family, close friends,
and acquaintances. We get to
know Percy through his life
long friend Shelby Foote, Percy’s
brothers LeRoy and Phin, his former priest, his housekeeper, and former teachers, among others—all in
their own words. Through the interviews, readers learn
intimate details of Percy’s writing process; his interaction
with community members of different ethnic, religious,
and socioeconomic backgrounds; and his commitment
to civil rights issues. What emerges is a multidimensional
portrait of Percy as a man, a friend, and a family member.
“An unpretentiously excellent collection of interviews,
valuable for its insights not only into Percy but into recent
life in the Deep South.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“These conversations not only shed light on a great
American author, but also plunge readers into the rhythms
of folksy Southern storytelling. Percy fans will relish this
small jewel of a book.”
—Publishers Weekly
david hor ace harwell is assistant professor of
English at the College of the Bahamas in Freeport, Bahamas.
August 2010
ISBN 978-0-8078-7153-9, $18.00t Paper
ISBN 978-0-8078-3039-0, $24.95t Cloth (2006)
200 pp., 51⁄4 x 81⁄2, bibl., index
spanish literature | literary studies
Los ‘Trionfi’ de Petrarca
comentados en catalán
north carolina
The Good Government Man
una edición de los manuscritos 534 de la
biblioteca nacional de París y del Ateneu
de Barcelona
edited by roxana recio
The complete late medieval Catalan translation
This is the first complete edition of an anonymous late
medieval Catalan translation of Italian writer Bernardo
Illicino’s commentary on Petrarch’s Triumphs. The introduction to this volume raises interesting questions about
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author index of new titles for fall | winter 2010-2011
26 Adams, Way Up North in Louisville
34 Andrews, Blackness in the White
Nation
21 Bérubé, Coming Out Under Fire
1 Brooke, Columbia Rising
13 Butchart, Schooling the Freed People
14 Christensen, The Paradox of Tar Heel
Politics
39 Cohen, Braceros
49 Covington, Good Government Man
48 Cummings, New Women of the Old
Faith
33 Curwood, Stormy Weather
12 de la Peña, Empty Pleasures
31 Drescher, Econocide
25 Ethridge, From Chicaza to Chickasaw
9 Eubanks, Literary Trails of the North
Carolina Piedmont
28 Ferris, Matzoh Ball Gumbo
38 Gamboa, Santa
15 Gill, The Latino Migration Experience
in North Carolina
44 Gruber, Books and the British Army in
the Age of the American Revolution
24 Harmon, Rich Indians
2 Harrold, Border War
48 Harwell, Walker Percy Remembered
43 Hicks, Talk with You Like a Woman
29 Jackson, The New Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture
23 Jordan, White Over Black
11 Kirkendall, Paulo Freire and the Cold
War Politics of Literacy
37 Leavitt, Make Room for Daddy
45 Levenstein, A Movement Without
Marches
21 Lewis, Prescription for Heterosexuality
7 Lucas, Carolina Basketball
27 Marshall, Creating a Confederate
Kentucky
42 Martin & Nicholas, Native Americans,
Christianity, and the Reshaping of
the American Religious Landscape
17 Masur, An Example for All the Land
40 Mathieu, North of the Color Line
16 McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision
for War
23 McDonnell, The Politics of War
49 McKinney, Mapping the Social Body
22 Merchant, Ecological Revolutions
19 Miles, The House on Diamond Hill
36 Oriard, Brand NFL
10 Palmer, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics
of Power
8 Peeler & Winstead, NC State
Basketball
39 Perales, Smeltertown
47 Perry, Christmas in Germany
3 Rable, God’s Almost Chosen Peoples
32 Raiford, Imprisoned in a Luminous
Glare
49 Recio, Los ‘Trionfi’ de Petrarca
comentados en catalán
43 Robertson, Hearts Beating for Liberty
35 Rogers, The Deepest Wounds
42 Round, Removable Type
28 Rudisill, Fruitcake
4 Shapiro, A Chosen Path
18 Sharpless, Cooking in Other Women’s
Kitchens
6 Simpson & Taylor, The Coasts of
Carolina
20 Stein, Sexual Injustice
46 Steinberg, Isma’ili Modern
5 Thorp & Goldstein, Engines of
Innovation
37 Ulanski, The Gulf Stream
16 Varon, Disunion!
41 Warren, The Quest for Citizenship
44 Whitley, American Bards
30 Williams, Torchbearers of Democracy
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