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u n i v e r s i t y o f g eo r g i a p r e s s
books for fall | winter 2015
table of contents
catalog
highlights
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the vegan studies project | Wright, Laura
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landscapes for the people | Davis, Ren and Helen
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preserving family recipes | Frey, Valerie J.
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without regard to sex, race, or color | Feiler, Andrew
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the outcast majority | Sommers, Marc
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selling the serengeti | Gardner, Benjamin
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let us now praise famous gullies | Sutter, Paul S.
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a boy from georgia | Jordan, Hamilton
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after montaigne | Lazar, David, and Patrick Madden, eds.
The greatest landscape photographer
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mot | Einsten, Sarah
you’ve never heard of in Landscapes
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my unsentimental education | Monroe, Debra
for the People
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on the outskirts of normal | Monroe, Debra
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invisible sisters | Handler, Jessica
19
beyond katrina | Trethewey, Natasha
A moving, photographic account of
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the suicide club | Graham, Toni
a historically black college in
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better than war | Vossoughi, Siamak
Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color
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monograph | Berry, Simeon
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southern tufts | Callahan, Ashley
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memories of the mansion | Deal, Sandra D., Jennifer W. Dickey, and Catherine M. Lewis
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snakes of the southeast | Gibbons, Whit, and Mike Dorcas
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minerals of georgia | Cook, Robert B., and Julian C. Gray
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weaving alliances with other women | Usner, Daniel H.
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privateers of the americas | Head, David
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the mulatta concubine | Ze Winters, Lisa
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finding charity’s folk | Millward, Jessica
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gender and the jubilee | Romeo, Sharon
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international cooperation on wmd nonproliferation | Knopf, Jeffrey, ed.
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precarious worlds | Meehan, Katie, and Kendra Strauss, eds.
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territories of poverty | Roy, Ananya, and Emma Shaw Crane, eds.
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spaces of danger | Merrill, Heather, and Lisa M. Hoffman, eds.
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pain, pride, and politics | Amarasingam, Amarnath
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mapping region in early american writing | Watts, Edward, Keri Holt, and John Funchion
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university press of north georgia
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backlist
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order form
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sales information
High fashion origins from the
Deep South in Southern Tufts
Explore Georgia through its native
gems and jewels in Minerals of Georgia
Cover image: Vegetarian Vampires,
Remedios Varo Uranga, from the private
collection of Ms. Anna Alexandra Gruen
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The foundational text for the nascent
field of vegan studies
the vegan studies project
Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror
Laura Wright
Foreword by Carol J. Adams
“Combining personal narratives and gender studies
with ecofeminism and pop culture, The Vegan
Studies Project offers a brilliant analysis of the
impact of vegans and veganism on America’s
cultural landscape. Laura Wright’s argument for a
new field of vegan studies rings true, and this book
will be the foundational text.”—Hal Herzog, author
of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat:
Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight about Animals
“Studies like Wright’s—more than anything else—
show how the vegan and vegetarian label and
identity are a millstone and a barrier that hinders
wider society’s willingness to engage seriously
with the rights and wrongs of producing, killing,
and eating so many animals. If our strategy is to
lessen the harm wreaked on the animals with
which humans share this planet, perhaps the
strongest lesson we can draw from this work is to
step aside from the vegan and vegetarian identity.”
—Tristram Stuart, author of The Bloodless
Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from
1600 to Modern Times.
october
6 x 9 | 232 pp.
17 b&w images
paper, $28.95t/$37.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4856-8
hardback, $74.95y/$100 cad | 978-0-8203-4855-1
ebook available
paper
This inescapably controversial study envisions, defines, and theorizes an area
that Laura Wright calls vegan studies. We have an abundance of texts on vegans
and veganism including works of advocacy, literary and popular fiction, film and
television, and cookbooks, yet until now, there has been no study that examines the
social and cultural discourses shaping our perceptions of veganism as an identity
category and social practice.
Ranging widely across contemporary American society and culture, Wright
unpacks the loaded category of vegan identity. She examines the mainstream
discourse surrounding and connecting animal rights to (or omitting animal rights
from) veganism. Her specific focus is on the construction and depiction of the
vegan body—both male and female—as a contested site manifest in contemporary
works of literature, popular cultural representations, advertising, and new media.
At the same time, Wright looks at critical animal studies, human-animal studies,
posthumanism, and ecofeminism as theoretical frameworks that inform vegan
studies (even as they differ from it).
The vegan body, says Wright, threatens the status quo in terms of what we eat,
wear, and purchase—and also in how vegans choose not to participate in many
aspects of the mechanisms undergirding mainstream culture. These threats are
acutely felt in light of post-9/11 anxieties over American strength and virility. A
discourse has emerged that seeks, among other things, to bully veganism out of
existence as it is poised to alter the dominant cultural mindset or, conversely, to
constitute the vegan body as an idealized paragon of health, beauty, and strength.
What better serves veganism is exemplified by Wright’s study: openness, debate,
inquiry, and analysis.
laura wright is head of the English Department at Western Carolina University. Her books include Wilderness into Civilized Shapes:
Reading the Postcolonial Environment (Georgia).
Photo by
Ashley T. Evans
also of interest
animals and why
they matter
Mary Midgley
paper, $20.95s
978-0-8203-2041-0
nature and madness
Paul Shepard
Foreword by C. L. Rawlins
paper, $25.95s
978-0-8203-1980-3
ebook available
hardback
animal studies / american studies | 3
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Rediscovering a master of photography who
documented our nation’s natural treasures
landscapes for the people
George Alexander Grant, First Chief
Photographer of the National Park Service
Ren and Helen Davis
Foreword by Timothy Davis
“The national park idea owes a tremendous debt
to the photographers who captured the beauty of
America’s most special places, ultimately inspiring
people to push for their protection. William Henry
Jackson, Carleton Watkins, and Ansel Adams are
the best known, but now Ren and Helen Davis
finally give George Grant the attention he so
richly deserves. Millions of people have seen his
work without knowing his name or his story. The
centennial of the National Park Service serves as
good reason to rectify that.”—Dayton Duncan,
producer of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
“For more than two decades, George A. Grant
traveled throughout this land, producing superb
images of America’s most iconic scenery and
historic sites, including those of the ancient
past. Although little known to the public, Grant
belongs in the pantheon of this country’s great
landscape photographers, such as William Henry
Jackson and Ansel Adams. This is Grant’s first full
biography, with a gallery of his photographs—for
enjoyment by your fireside or in the classroom.”
—Richard West Sellars, author of Preserving Nature
in the National Parks: A History
George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape
photography. Just as they did the work of his contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward
Weston, Eliot Porter, and others, millions of people viewed Grant’s photographs;
unlike those contemporaries, few even knew Grant’s name. Landscapes for the
People shares his story through his remarkable images and a compelling biography
profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and an unsurpassed love of the natural
and historic places that Americans chose to preserve.
A Pennsylvania native, Grant was introduced to the parks during the summer
of 1922 and resolved to make parks work and photography his life. Seven years
later, he received his dream job and spent the next quarter century visiting the
four corners of the country to produce images in more than one hundred national
parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, and other locations. He was there
to visually document the dramatic expansion of the National Park Service during
the New Deal, including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Grant’s images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for
composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in their finest
light are comparable to those of his more widely known contemporaries. Nearly
fifty years after his death, and in concert with the 2016 centennial of the National
Park Service, it is fitting that George Grant’s photography be introduced to a new
generation of Americans.
ren davis’s travel writing and photography have appeared
in such places as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia
Magazine, and Atlanta Magazine.
Photo by Nelson Davis
helen davis taught for nearly thirty years in public and
private schools. The Davises are coauthors of several books
including Georgia Walks and Atlanta Walks. They live
in Atlanta.
also of interest
september
10 x 9 | 280 pp.
207 duotones
hardback, $39.95t/$51.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4841-4
A Friends Fund Publication
atlanta’s oakland
cemetery
An Illustrated History and Guide
Ren and Helen Davis
With an introduction by
Timothy J. Crimmins
paper, $24.95t
978-0-8203-4313-6
mound sites of the
ancient south
A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms
Eric E. Bowne
Foreword by Charles M. Hudson
paper, $29.95t
978-0-8203-4498-0
ebook available
history / photography | 5
un iversity o f g eo rg i a pr es s | fa ll & wi nt e r 2 01 5
A step-by-step guide for the family food genealogist
preserving family recipes
How to Save and Celebrate Your Food Traditions
Valerie J. Frey
“The history of families, of communities, of
cultures has a lot to do with what they eat. Rarely
do we document the repast, but Valerie J. Frey is
aiming to patch that loss with Preserving Family
Recipes. She is teaching us to preserve the recipes
of our ancestors. It is an important read for the
future and past of our food.”—Hugh Acheson,
author of A New Turn in the South: Southern Flavors
Reinvented for Your Kitchen
“If you have ever been overwhelmed by the task of
researching, analyzing, organizing, and preserving
family recipes, you probably have longed for a
trained archivist to take charge! Well, one finally
has in this exhaustive and delightful work by
educator/archivist Valerie J. Frey, who expertly
guides readers step-by-step to create family
cookbooks, heirloom recipe collections, and
food-related oral histories and, most important,
shows how to protect historic family recipes,
recollections, papers, and artifacts for future
generations to enjoy and savor.”—Marcie Cohen
Ferris, author of The Edible South: The Power of
Food and the Making of an American Region
Heirloom dishes and family food traditions are rich sources of nostalgia and
provide vivid ways to learn about our families’ past, yet they can be problematic.
Many family recipes and food traditions are never documented in written or photographic form, existing only as unwritten know-how and lore that vanishes when a
cook dies. Even when recipes are written down, they often fail to give the tricks and
tips that would allow another cook to accurately replicate the dish. Unfortunately,
recipes are also often damaged as we plunk Grandma’s handwritten cards on the
countertop next to a steaming pot or a spattering mixer, shortening their lives.
This book is a guide for gathering, adjusting, supplementing, and safely preserving family recipes and for interviewing relatives, collecting oral histories, and
conducting kitchen visits to document family food traditions from the everyday
to special occasions. It blends commonsense tips with sound archival principles,
helping you achieve effective results while avoiding unnecessary pitfalls. Chapters are also dedicated to unfamiliar regional or ethnic cooking challenges, as well
as to working with recipes that are “orphans,” surrogates, or terribly outdated.
Whether you simply want to save a few accurate recipes, help yesterday’s foodways evolve so they are relevant for today’s table, or create an extensive family
cookbook, this guidebook will help you to savor your memories.
valerie j. frey is a writer, archivist, and an educational consultant.
She lives in Athens, Georgia.
Photo by
Amberlee Fletcher,
Lilac Lens Photography
also of interest
november
8 x 9 | 320 pp.
150 b&w images
paper, $26.95t/$35.50 cad | 978-0-8203-3063-1
6 | foodways
the southern foodways
alliance community
cookbook
Edited by Sara Roahen
and John T. Edge
Foreword by Alton Brown
paper, $24.95t
978-0-8203-4858-2
nathalie dupree’s
southern memories
Recipes and Reminiscences
Nathalie Dupree
Photographs by Tom Eckerle
paper, $25.95t
978-0-8203-2601-6
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A photographic meditation on an
embattled historically black college
without regard to
sex, race, or color
The Past, Present, and Future of
One Historically Black College
Photographs by Andrew Feiler
With Essays by Robert E. James, Pellom McDaniels III,
Amalia K. Amaki, and Loretta Parham
“Andrew Feiler’s photographs of the stilled campus
of Morris Brown College conjure a haunting story
that invites important dialogue on race, progress,
and opportunity in America.”—Brett Abbott,
Keough Family Curator of Photography and head
of collections, High Museum of Art
“Andrew Feiler’s photographs put into perspective
Morris Brown College’s great legacy and history;
they give a glimpse of what once was and, more
importantly, offer a vision of what can be. The
photographs convey a sense of rough edges, of
incompleteness, reminding me of an unpolished
stone. They inspire me to want to make a
difference, and I hope they will motivate others
to be a part of our transformation.”
—Stanley Pritchett, eighteenth president of
Morris Brown College
This gathering of sixty images, along with the essays that frame them, gives us a
new way to think about the too often troubled status of historically black colleges
and universities (HBCUs). The bell in the clock tower at Atlanta’s Morris Brown
College bears an inscription about the ideal of educational access, that it be “without regard to sex, race, or color.” Yet most of the Morris Brown campus has lain
silent for more than a decade. Established in 1881, it was all but shut down in 2002
after years of fiscal hardship were capped by a mismanagement scandal. Pride still
runs high among its alumni, however, and its current leadership vows to revive the
school. Meanwhile, as Andrew Feiler’s stirring photos show, Morris Brown is literally falling apart.
In the spirit of those photographers who have documented the physical decline
of our valued institutions—from small family farms to entire cities—Feiler points
his lens at one embattled place and dares us to look away. Aiming to “open minds,
trigger emotion, stimulate discussion, and, perhaps, prompt action,” his images
project a new layer of meaning onto the Morris Brown story. We see classrooms,
dorms, gym facilities, and other spaces no longer alive with students, faculty, and
staff but rather mired in a state of uncertainty where hopes of normality’s return
mutely battle a host of unwelcome alternate futures. We see how time passes
without regard for academic years, regular maintenance cycles, or the other
comings and goings that would ordinarily call attention to the leaks, invading
animals, acts of vandalism, and other forces working to peel the paint from Morris Brown’s walls, buckle its floors, and molder its furnishings. We see garbage
piling up alongside sports trophies, scientific equipment, and other vestiges of
the prouder past we would rather remember.
andrew feiler, a fifth-generation Georgian, is an award-winning photographer
whose work has been featured in museums, galleries, and magazines and is in a number of private collections. His photography is focused on the contemporary complexities of the American South. More of his photography can be seen at andrewfeiler.com.
robert e. james is a Morris Brown College alumnus, a former member of the Morris
Brown board of trustees, and president of Carver State Bank in Savannah, Georgia.
october
10 x 10 | 112 pp.
60 color and 10 b&w photos
hardback, $32.95t/$42.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4867-4
A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication
Published in association with the
Georgia Humanities Council
pellom mcdaniels iii is faculty curator of African American Collections at Emory
University’s Woodruff Library and an assistant professor of African American studies.
He is the author of The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy.
amalia k. amaki is an artist, writer, curator, and critic who has served as professor of art history and visual studies at Spelman College, University of North Georgia,
University of Delaware, and University of Alabama. She is the author of (with Andrea
Barnwell Brownlee) Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy.
loretta parham is CEO of Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff Library.
photography / higher education | 9
Youth exclusion and development
in war-affected Africa
the outcast majority
War, Development, and Youth in Africa
Marc Sommers
The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and
others to think about three commanding contemporary issues—war, development,
and youth—in new ways. The starting point is the following irony: while African
youth are demographically dominant, many act as if they are members of an outcast
minority. The irony directly informs young people’s lives in war-affected Africa,
where differences separating the priorities of youth and those of international
agencies are especially prominent.
Drawing on interviews with development experts and young people, Marc
Sommers shines a light on this gap and offers guidance on how to close it. He begins with a comprehensive consideration of forces that shape and propel the lives
of African youth today, particularly those experiencing or emerging from war.
They are contrasted with forces that influence and constrain the international
development aid enterprise. The book concludes with a framework for making
development policies and practices significantly more relevant and effective for
youth in areas affected by African wars and other places where vast and vibrant
youth populations reside.
marc sommers is an internationally recognized youth expert with
Photo by Luke Kelly
december
6 x 9 | 256 pp.
11 b&w photos, 2 diagrams, 2 tables, 1 map
paper, $26.95s usd/$35.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4885-8
hardback, $74.95y/$100.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4884-1
ebook available
paper
research experience in over twenty war-affected countries. He has
provided analysis and technical advice to policy institutes, donor
and United Nations agencies, and NGOs. He also is the author of
seven previous books, including Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the
Struggle for Adulthood (Georgia), which received an Honorable
Mention for the African Studies Association’s Bethwell A. Ogot Book
Prize, Islands of Education: Schooling, Civil War, and the Southern
Sudanese (1983–2004), and Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in
Urban Tanzania, which received the Margaret Mead Award.
also of interest
hardback
10 | international relations / human rights
stuck
Rwandan Youth and the
Struggle for Adulthood
Marc Sommers
paper, $22.95s
978-0-8203-3891-0
the lost boys of sudan
An American Story of the
Refugee Experience
Mark Bixler
paper, $20.95t
978-0-8203-2883-6
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Safari tourism and the struggle over markets, land
rights, and culture in northern Tanzania
selling the serengeti
The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
Benjamin Gardner
Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern
Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and biggame-hunting companies. It looks at two major discourses and policies surrounding biodiversity conservation, the championing of community-based conservation
and the neoliberal focus on private investment in tourism, and their profound effect
on Maasai culture and livelihoods. This ethnographic study explores how these
changing social and economic relationships and forces remake the terms through
which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. The book highlights how these new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the
process remake cultural belonging and citizenship.
Benjamin Gardner’s experiences in Tanzania began during a study abroad trip
in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in
Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis
and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and
neoliberal development around the Serengeti.
benjamin gardner is an associate professor in the School of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell, where he teaches global studies, cultural studies, and
environmental studies. He is also the chair of the African Studies
Program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
at the University of Washington.
Photo courtesy
of the author
february
6 x 9 | 256 pp.
12 b&w photos, 6 maps
paper, $25.95s/$33.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4508-6
hardback, $79.95y/$105.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4507-9
ebook available
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
paper
also in the series
silent violence
rethinking the south
african crisis
Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony
Gillian Hart
paper, $24.95s
978-0-8203-4717-2
ebook available
Food, Famine, and Peasantry
in Northern Nigeria
Michael J. Watts
paper, $39.95s
978-0-8203-4445-4
hardback
africa / geography / tourism | 11
The ‘Little Grand Canyon’ and its
lessons for environmental history
let us now praise famous gullies
Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
Paul S. Sutter
“Paul Sutter finds in these thousand acres of
backwoods Georgia a powerful and complicated
story of humans on the land. He is a wonderful
storyteller, but more, he digs deeply into the past
to explain how and why this place became both a
‘park’ and a ‘horrible example’ of soil erosion. This
is one of the finest local environmental histories
we have, and it offers important insights for all of
us today.”—Donald Worster, author of A Passion
for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,”
preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming
practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results
of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed
a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to
have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural.
At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental
reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly
southern, land abuse.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger
history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight
the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of
soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book
is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating
nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence
Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.
paul s. sutter is an associate professor of history at University of
“In this sweeping and powerful environmental
study, Paul Sutter uses Georgia’s Providence
Canyon both as a cautionary tale of erosion
and the opportunity to explore soil science,
geology, southern farming practices, misguided
experts, and boosters’ fantasies of marketing the
mammoth gulley as a lesser Grand Canyon.”
—Pete Daniel, author of Toxic Drift: Pesticides
and Health in the Post–World War II South
december
6 x 9 | 280 pp.
hardback, $34.95t/$45.95 cad | 978-0-8203-3401-1
ebook available
Environmental History and the American South
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book
12 | environment / conservation
Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight
against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement.
Photo by
Kelli Guinn
also of interest
drifting into darien
A Personal and Natural History
of the Altamaha River
Janisse Ray
paper, $18.95t
978-0-8203-4532-1
marsh mud and
mummichogs
An Intimate Natural History
of Coastal Georgia
Evelyn B. Sherr
hardback, $26.95t
978-0-8203-4767-7
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A coming-of-age memoir by of one of
our great political strategists
a boy from georgia
Coming of Age in the Segregated South
Hamilton Jordan
Edited by Kathleen Jordan
Foreword by President Jimmy Carter
“Hamilton Jordan was a whip-smart advisor, a great
writer, and someone with whom I shared a warm
and candid friendship. He witnessed the formation
of the civil rights agenda in real time and made it a
personal mission to break down racial barriers in
hiring staff in the governor’s office and the White
House. Hamilton’s reflections on his southern
heritage are honest, witty, and as important
now as ever before.”—Dr. Andrew Young, former
Georgia congressman and U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations
“This is a delightful and inspiring coming-of-age
story brimming with funny anecdotes, family
mysteries, and political intrigue, but it is much
more than one raconteur’s personal report of how
the scales fell from his eyes. Through Hamilton’s
stories of his maturation, it is possible, finally,
to trace the evolution of a species—the white,
southern male—from the muck of Jim Crowism
to the embrace of the progressive spirit that is the
South’s salvation.”—Hank Klibanoff, coauthor of
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle,
and the Awakening of a Nation
october
6 x 9 | 232 pp.
36 b&w photos
hardback, $32.95t/$42.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4889-6
ebook available
A Bradley Hale Fund for
Southern Studies Publication
When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he left behind a
mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade.
Jordan’s daughter, Kathleen—with the help of her brothers and mother—took up
the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia—the result of this
posthumous father-daughter collaboration—chronicles Hamilton Jordan’s childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and intellectual development as he
gradually discovers the complicated legacies of racism, religious intolerance, and
southern politics, and affords his readers an intimate view of the state’s wheelers
and dealers.
Jordan’s middle-class childhood was bucolic in some ways and traumatizing
in others. As Georgia politicians battled civil rights leaders, a young Hamilton
straddled the uncomfortable line between the southern establishment to which
he belonged and the movement in which he believed. Fortunate enough to grow
up in a family that had considerable political clout within Georgia, Jordan went
into politics to put his ideals to work. Eventually he became a key aide to Jimmy
Carter and was the architect of Carter’s stunning victory in the presidential
campaign of 1976; Jordan later served as Carter’s chief of staff. Clear eyed about
the triumphs and tragedies of Jordan’s beloved home state and region, A Boy
from Georgia tells the story of a remarkable life in a voice that is witty, vivid, and
honest.
hamilton jordan (1944–2008) was chief of staff under President Jimmy Carter
from 1979 to 1980. He was key advisor and strategist for Carter’s successful presidential campaign in 1976, and—at the age of twenty-six—Jordan designed and spearheaded Carter’s successful gubernatorial campaign in 1970.
kathleen jordan is Hamilton Jordan’s daughter and a television producer and
writer living in Los Angeles.
also of interest
dixie lullaby
A Story of Music, Race, and
New Beginnings in a New South
Mark Kemp
paper, $23.95t
978-0-8203-2872-0
white girl
A Story of School Desegregation
Clara Silverstein
paper, $18.95t
978-0-8203-4509-3
ebook available
memoir / race relations | 13
A tribute to the master of the essay
after montaigne
Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
Edited by David Lazar and Patrick Madden
“With the originality of its approach, its
impressive assortment of contributors, and the
editors’ experience and knowledge of the form,
After Montaigne is a significant contribution to the
study, teaching, and writing of the contemporary
essay.”—Michael Steinberg, founding editor,
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
“Imagine the dinner party: not just Montaigne
but many Montaignes resurrected in these
brilliant essays by twenty-eight of today’s most
inventive writers. The table is crowded, enlivened
by the paradoxical warmth of Montaigne’s
detachment and by the parry and thrust of
ideas, often tantamount to a kind of quiet eros.
It’s a dinner full of random appetites, the kind
of party we leave knowing ourselves a little less,
which might mean a little better. What a feast
this collection is. It satisfies a hunger—intellect
meeting empathy—that enlarges us.”—Barbara
Hurd, author of Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal
Shifts and What Remains
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How
to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After
Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—
aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and
writers to their stylistic forebear.
Though it’s been over four hundred years since he began writing his essays,
Montaigne’s writing is still fresh, and his use of the form as a means of selfexploration in the world around him reads as innovative—even by modern standards. He is, simply put, the writer to whom all essayists are indebted. Each contributor has chosen one of Montaigne’s 107 essays and has written his/her own
essay of the same title and on the same theme, using a quote from Montaigne’s
essay as an epigraph. The overall effect is akin to a covers album, with each writer
offering his or her own interpretation and stylistic verve to Montaigne’s themes
in ways that both reinforce and challenge the French writer’s prose, ideas, and
forms. Featuring a who’s who of contemporary essayists, After Montaigne offers a
startling engagement with Montaigne and the essay form while also pointing the
way to the genre’s potential new directions.
david lazar is a professor in the Nonfiction
Program at Columbia College Chicago and the editor of the journal Hotel Amerika. His books include
Occasional Desire, The Body of Brooklyn, and Truth
in Nonfiction.
patrick madden is an associate professor of
Photo courtesy of
the editor
Photo courtesy of
the editor
English at Brigham Young University and author
of Quotidiana and Sublime Physick. His work has
appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine,
Fourth Genre, and the Best Creative Nonfiction and
Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies.
contributors
september
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1 b&w photo
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Marcia Aldrich
Chris Arthur
Robert Atwan
Barrie Jean Borich
Mary Cappello
Steven Church
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Danielle Cadena Deulen
Brian Doyle
Lina M. Ferreira C. V.
Vivian Gornick
Robin Hemley
Wayne Koestenbaum
Shannon Lakanen
David Lazar
E. J. Levy
Phillip Lopate
Bret Lott
Patrick Madden
Desirae Matherly
Maggie Nelson
José Orduña
Elena Passarello
Lia Purpura
Kristen Radtke
Amy Lee Scott
Jerald Walker
Nicole Walker
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A memoir of sharing vulnerability,
unlikely friendships, and letting go
mot
A Memoir
Sarah Einstein
Winner of the Association of Writers & Writing
Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
Selected by John Philip Santos
“Sarah Einstein is a natural storyteller, and her
careful portrait of her mentally ill, homeless friend
Mot is unflinching. Mot: A Memoir is heartbreaking
yet at times gently funny and always delivered
with immense, startling compassion. An entirely
captivating work of literary nonfiction.”
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Dear Mister Essay
Writer Guy
“Struggling in her marriage and as director of a
drop-in center for adults with mental illness, the
author meets a delusional, sixty-five-year-old
homeless man. A moving, fully human portrait of
the surprising companionship that grows between
them, Mot shows us that to save others is to save
ourselves.”—Marcia Aldrich, author of Companion
to an Untold Story
september
5.5 x 8.5 | 168 pp.
hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4820-9
ebook available
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Award for Creative Nonfiction
At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an
attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not
tough enough for her job managing a local drop-in center for adults with mental illness and that her new marriage is already faltering. Just as she reaches her breaking point, she meets Mot, a homeless veteran who lives a life dictated by frightening
delusion. She is drawn to the brilliant ways he has found to lead his own difficult
life; traveling to Romania to get his teeth fixed because the United States doesn’t offer dental care to the indigent, teaching himself to use computers in public libraries,
and even taking university classes while living out of doors.
Mot: A Memoir is the story of their unlikely friendship and explores what we
can, and cannot, do for a person we love. In unsparing prose and with a sharp eye
for detail, Einstein brings the reader into the world of Mot’s delusions and illuminates a life that would otherwise be hidden from us.
sarah einstein is a doctoral candidate in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. Her
work has appeared in journals such as The Sun, Ninth Letter, PANK, and Fringe and
has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the prose editor for Stirring: A Literary
Collection and a special topics editor for Brevity.
also in the series
study in perfect
Sarah Gorham
hardback, $24.95t
978-0-8203-4712-7
surrendered child
A Birth Mother’s Journey
Karen Salyer McElmurray
paper, $20.95t
978-0-8203-2823-2
ebook available
memoir / creative nonfiction | 15
crux
The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
Named for intersections and for the heart of the matter, this series will publish literary nonfiction by diverse writers working in a variety of
modes, including personal and lyric essay, memoir, cultural meditation, and literary journalism. Books are intended for general readers, including writers, teachers of writing, and students, and will be both intelligent and accessible. Engagement with the world, dedication to craft,
precision, and playfulness with form and language are valued. As the series develops it will include non-American writers and experiences.
“I’m gratified to be part of this new
publishing opportunity. The series
will build on UGA Press’s success
and reputation publishing the
Association of Writers & Writing
Programs (AWP) Creative Nonfiction contest winners since 1986, as
well as nonfiction anthologies and
craft books. Georgia combines the
intellectual reputation of a major
university press with savvy promotion in the digital age, and we
intend to reach smart readers who
like to be entertained, in the widest
sense.”—John Griswold,
series editor
series editor
john griswold is assistant professor in the
MFA program at McNeese State University,
Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is the author of A
Democracy of Ghosts; Herrin: The Brief History of
an Infamous American City; and Pirates You Don’t
Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined
Life: Collected Essays (Georgia). He has written
extensively at Inside Higher Ed and McSweeney’s
Internet Tendency as Oronte Churm.
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series advisory board
Dan Gunn
Pam Houston
Phillip Lopate
Dinty W. Moore
Lia Purpura
Patricia Smith
Ned Stuckey-French
For more information,
contact John Griswold at
[email protected] or
visit the Crux series page
at our website,
www.ugapress.org.
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A smart and lyrical take on the
isolation that occurs when people
switch social classes quickly
my unsentimental education
A Memoir by Debra Monroe
“This picaresque memoir of a woman with brains
and desires (not always operating in unison) is
a joy. It tracks a runaway life with consummate
control and aphoristic wit.”—Phillip Lopate
“Debra Monroe is a terrifically acute observer of
the two worlds of women: her mother’s generation
corseted in sexual and familial constraints; her
own, in which lovers and addresses shift with
the wind. She is able, in other words, to make
just as many mistakes, only different ones. My
Unsentimental Education . . . raises a dozen
potent questions about what has changed for a
generation of women not so much disillusioned
as unillusioned about what it means to ‘live like a
man.’”—Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart
A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe
leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but
naive, she vaults over class barriers but never quite leaves her past behind. When
it comes to men, she’s still blue collar. Negotiating the world of dating, Monroe
pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a woman ambivalent about her
newfound status as “liberated.”
Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life
can be. If Joan Didion advises us “to keep on nodding terms with the people we
used to be,” Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she
might have become but didn’t. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working-class girl ends up far
from where she began.
debra monroe teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State
University. She is the author of several books, including The Source
of Trouble (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award) and most
recently On the Outskirts of Normal.
Photo by
Suzanne Reiss
“Through a series of near pratfalls and sheer
acrobatic strength, Debra Monroe integrates
the schisms of ‘taught’ identity—a bumpy, if
not bumptious, education shared by many, a
charismatic story at once wildly entertaining,
buoyant, and wise.”—Melissa Pritchard, author
of Palmerino
also of interest
october
5.5 x 8.5 | 256 pp.
hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4874-2
ebook available
Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
ghostbread
Sonja Livingston
paper, $18.95t
978-0-8203-3687-9
ebook available
devotion
A Memoir
Miriam Levine
paper, $22.95t
978-0-8203-3986-3
memoir | 17
A white single mother, a black
daughter, and a small Texas town
on the outskirts
of normal
november
5.5 x 8.5 | 224 pp.
2 b&w photos
paper, $18.95t/$24.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4911-4
ebook available
A Memoir by Debra Monroe
“Monroe doesn’t waste
time justifying her family to
others—her care and cleareyed focus on her daughter
make their own argument. It’s
absolutely clear this is the
life she chose.”—Amy Benfer,
Barnes & Noble Review
After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an
abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after
several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated
that her dream is coming true, Monroe faces trials that befall her not just as a single mother but as a
white mother of a black child. In On the Outskirts of Normal, two-time National Book Award nominee
Monroe’s heart creaks “like china with hairline cracks” each time a racist comment rolls their way or
stares linger a little too long in their direction. Though she and her daughter face serious undiagnosed
illnesses leading to innumerable, painful doctor visits, Monroe remains steadfast in her dedication to
Marie and their small but tight family.
Reading On the Outskirts of Normal at times feels like driving through an unwieldy thunderstorm
at night on the unlit country roads that snake their way to Monroe’s house in the woods; readers will
feel her exhaustion but will be buoyed by her ever-present faith and fiery love. Pulitzer Prize winner
Madeleine Blais writes that On the Outskirts of Normal is the “real deal: both a literary triumph and a
triumph of the heart.”
debra monroe teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University. She is the author of several
books, including The Source of Trouble (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award).
new in paperback
One daughter’s moving account of
illness, death, and the dissolution
of her family
september
6 x 9 | 272 pp.
8 b&w images
paper, $20.95t/$27.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4892-6
ebook available
invisible sisters
A Memoir
Jessica Handler
“[T]his clear-eyed, candid
work portrays the immense
emotional toll that two
daughters’ illnesses take on
a family living in Atlanta.”
—Publishers Weekly
When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia.
To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter, Sarah, had been born with a rare, fatal blood disorder, it was an unimaginable verdict. Struck
by the unlikelihood of siblings sick with diametrically opposed illnesses, the medical community
labeled the Handlers’ situation a bizarre coincidence. To their mother, the girls’ unlikely diagnoses
constituted a reverse miracle—the sort no one wishes for. By the time she was nine years old, Jessica
had begun to introduce herself as the “well sibling.”
Deeply moving and exquisitely written, Invisible Sisters is an extraordinary story of coming of
age as the odd one out—as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to the South to
participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as the healthy sister among sick, and eventually, as the only sister left standing. In a book that is as hard to forget as it is to put down, Handler
captures the devastating effects of illness and death on a family and the triumphant account of
one woman’s enduring journey to step out of the shadow of loss to find herself anew.
jessica handler teaches creative writing in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Braving the Fire:
A Guide to Writing about Grief and Loss. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity.com, More Magazine,
Chattahoochee Review, Tin House, and Ars Medica.
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Updated with a new epilogue, the former
U.S. Poet Laureate’s portrait of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast region
beyond katrina
A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Natasha Trethewey
Tenth Anniversary Edition
“Within this book’s quiet thoughts lies a powerful
story of things long gone that will never come
back. What is lost can only be captured by
memory. And Trethewey’s prose captures memory
with poetic precision.”—W. Ralph Eubanks,
National Public Radio’s All Things Considered
“By looking at the vast devastation with sober and
poetic eyes, Trethewey has written a hauntingly
beautiful book.”—Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal
Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by
Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport
started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently
published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina,
Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters,
poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for
her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years
that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been
made and the challenges that still exist.
natasha trethewey was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 2012–14. She is the author of four
collections of poetry: Thrall, Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia,
and Native Guard, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
She is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative
Writing at Emory University.
Photo by
Nancy Crampton
“Heartfelt, righteous, humane, Beyond Katrina richly
deserves to become one of the indispensible
Katrina books.”—Mobile Press-Register
“Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf
Coast is more about the storm’s sociological and
psychological results for the Coast and its people,
North Gulfport in particular, than its physical
damage. But it’s seldom about generalizations.
. . . This is a powerful, sometimes painful, book
that gets underneath comfortable memories—
wherever the reader lives.”
—Biloxi and South Mississippi SunHerald
also of interest
august
5.5 x 8.5 | 160 pp.
12 b&w photos
paper, $19.95t/$25.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4902-2
the cruel country
Judith Ortiz Cofer
hardback, $24.95t
978-0-8203-4763-9
ebook available
the riots
Danielle Cadena Deulen
paper, $18.95t
978-0-8203-4438-6
ebook available
memoir | 19
Stories about lives taken and
lives left behind
the suicide club
Stories by Toni Graham
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
“These are sad, smart, and wickedly witty stories.
Graham’s lost souls, uneasy in their skin and in
their circumstances, linked by grief, demonstrate
the way the tectonic shift of a loved one’s suicide
sends out aftershocks for years. Get to know the
members of the Suicide Club; they feel real to
the core.”—Kim Addonizio, author of The Palace
of Illusions
“Graham’s people seek solace in ways grim, odd,
desperate, and even hilarious; they are at all times
the wretched ghosts of the ones they’ve lost
yet cannot escape. And somehow we love them,
grieve with them, as Graham does not allow us to
escape this, either. She is a writer of extraordinary,
incisive courage, sparing her characters and her
readers nothing. No mercy, but all heart.”
—Brad Watson, author of Aliens in the Prime of
Their Lives
The people in these eight interlaced stories are “bound together by the worst sort
of grief,” the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life.
Wednesday evenings in Hope Springs, Oklahoma, offer the usual middleAmerican options: TV, rec league sports, eating out, and church. For Slater, Holly,
and SueAnn, it is the night their suicide survivors group meets. They once felt little
else in common, aside from a curiosity about Jane, the group facilitator, but now
they understand how deeply they need each other.
SueAnn mourns for her son, who hanged himself. Slater is left impotent by
the loss of his father, who deliberately overdosed on pills and alcohol. Holly can’t
let go of her boyfriend, who shot himself. But if suicide has stolen their capacity
to laugh, it has honed their sense of absurdity. Even in the darkest undertones of
what her characters think and say, Toni Graham reveals a piercingly funny cast,
short on patience with themselves and the incongruous pieties of daily life in
the Heartland.
If they weren’t already Hope Springs outsiders, suicide has made sure of it.
Failing to fit in, they try to change, if only for themselves: Holly joins an online
dating service; SueAnn works on her vocabulary; Slater gets liposuction. They
keep moving forward and backward and, when their paths cross outside of their
regular Wednesday meetings, sometimes a little sideways.
toni graham, a native of San Francisco, teaches creative writing at
Oklahoma State University, where she serves as editor in chief and
fiction editor for the Cimarron Review. She is the author of two short
story collections: Waiting for Elvis, winner of the John Gardner
Book Award, and The Daiquiri Girls, winner of the Grace Paley
Prize in Short Fiction.
Photo by Anthony Hart
also in the series
september
5.5 x 8.5 | 152 pp.
hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4850-6
ebook available
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
20 | fiction / short stories
bright shards of
someplace else
Stories by Monica McFawn
hardback, $24.95t
978-0-8203-4687-8
ebook available
faulty predictions
Stories by Karin Lin-Greenberg
hardback, $24.95t
978-0-8203-4686-1
ebook available
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Stories about Iranian Americans and their
effort to never give up in their search for peace
better than war
Stories by Siamak Vossoughi
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
“Siamak Vossoughi’s quiet but powerful stories
capture the intricacy and profundity of the Iranian
American experience. His characters are people
just like us, struggling to make sense of an often
confusing world. Their inherent decency, delicacy
of feeling, and desire for understanding are what
define them and what make this big-hearted
collection so special. Better Than War marks the
debut of a thoughtful and important new literary
voice.”—Anita Amirrezvani, author of The Blood of
Flowers and Equal of the Sun
“Siamak Vossoughi’s stories reveal an unjaded
sense of wonder, which I have not witnessed in
any writer since William Saroyan. The characters
here act to better our ethical impulses and open
our eyes to the possible goodnesses in the world.
Vossoughi’s compassionately realized appeal is
to make vulnerable our communities—Iranian,
American, and others: ‘all of whom deserve every
moment of life before them, knowing somewhere
that each of them is better than war, and not
needing any vision of war to remind them.’”
—Benjamin Hollander, author of In the
House Un-American
The stories in Better Than War encompass narratives from a diverse set of Iranian
immigrants, many searching for a balance between memories of their homeland and their new American culture. The everyday life of each character subtly
reflects viewpoints that are simultaneously Iranian and American, of all ages and
circumstances. These stories deal with family, friends, relationships, urban life,
prison, school, and adolescence. They also contain powerful messages about what
people want, need, and deserve as citizens and human beings. For instance, in the
story “Better Than War” a young Iranian boy must overcome the fear of asking an
American girl on a date. His friend tells him there is no shame in pouring your heart
out to someone you like. The boy must realize that expressing emotion and sorrow
is worth the embarrassment because it shows loved ones that you are better than
hatred—and especially better than war.
All Iranian immigrants, young or old, carry with them a vivid past in their
contemporary life. These histories help provide perspective, thankfulness, and
virtue to their families and friends. Vossoughi’s Better Than War is about growing
up, coming of age, and raising children in America while still remembering the
importance of retaining Iranian pride.
siamak vossoughi was born in Tehran and grew up in London,
Photo by
Walter Kitundu
Orange County, and Seattle. He graduated from the University of
Washington and has lived in San Francisco since then. Along with
writing, he works as a tutor and substitute teacher. Some of his writing has appeared in Faultline, Fourteen Hills, Prick of the Spindle,
The Rumpus, Missouri Review, and Washington Square. He is also
the recipient of the 2013 Very Short Fiction Award from Glimmer
Train. He is currently writing a novel.
also in the series
september
5.5 x 8.5 | 148 pp.
hardback, $24.95t/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4853-7
ebook available
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
the invisibles
love, in theory
Stories by Hugh Sheehy
paper, $19.95t
978-0-8203-4828-5
ebook available
Ten Stories
E. J. Levy
paper, $19.95t
978-0-8203-4827-8
ebook available
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One poet’s primary research on all things
love—the erotic, the domestic, its glory, and
its accompanying rage
monograph
Poems by Simeon Berry
Selected by Denise Duhamel
Written in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose
poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to
the explosive as it dissects the Gordian knot of a marriage’s intellectual, sexual, and
domestic lives. Invoking Raymond Chandler, Pythagoras, Joan Didion, and Virginia
Woolf as presiding spirits, Simeon Berry curates the negative space of each wry
tableau, destabilizing the high seriousness of every lyric aside and slipping quantum uncertainty into the stark lineaments of loss.
“If you enjoyed Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and Eula Biss’s
The Balloonists, you will love Berry’s Monograph—
obsessive, prismed, wise, shameless—a whole
treatise of desire formatted into tiny succulent
prose poems or lyrical fictions or bites or bits or
installments or glances or confessions: a collage
of lovely and disturbing threads. I simply could not
put it down.”—Maureen Seaton, author of Fibonacci
Batman: New and Selected Poems, 1991–2011
simeon berry has been an associate editor for Ploughshares and
won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and
a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters. His first book, Ampersand Revisited, was selected for the 2013
National Poetry Series. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Photo by Fritz Ward
“With Monograph, Simeon Berry has found a new and
compelling way of doing what presents, rather slyly,
as autobiography. By turns acerbic, self-mocking,
and gently witty, this book is made of lucid, startling
sequences of squibs, or tabs, of narrative fragments
about sex, love, family, books, and writing. Mostly
what I wanted to do in this blurb was quote my
favorite bits—look at this, look at this—but there are
too many of them. Smart detail, sudden skids, Big
Questions, casual idiomatic precision: Monograph
has all of these, but I think it’s the quality of Berry’s
attention that is most arresting of all. A book of wit
and heart.”—Daisy Fried, author of My Brother Is
Getting Arrested Again
also in the series
september
5.5 x 8.5 | 96 pp.
paper, $16.95t/$22.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4845-2
ebook available
The National Poetry Series
22 | poetry
what ridiculous
things we could ask
of each other
Poems by Jeffrey Schultz
Selected by Kevin Young
paper, $16.95t
978-0-8203-4721-9
the cloud that contained
the lightning
Poems by Cynthia Lowen
Selected by Nikky Finney
paper, $16.95t
978-0-8203-4564-2
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Peacock kimonos, shrimp capes, and Roy
Rogers robes—southern tufted garments
on the national fashion scene
southern tufts
The Regional Origins and National Craze
for Chenille Fashion
Ashley Callahan
Foreword by Madelyn Shaw
“Callahan has brought us an engaging,
little-known part of American textile history.
This profusely illustrated book will have us all
longing again for the comfort of a chenille
robe.”—Philis Alvic, author of Weavers of
the Southern Highlands
“Southern Tufts is appealing on many levels.
Callahan blends the folksy topic of chenille and
roadside America with the Colonial Revival to
create a real contribution to textile history.”
—Pamela A. Parmal, curator of textile and
fashion arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Callahan’s handling of this material is masterful.
She braids the different threads of gender,
race, class, business, and regional culture into
one integrated narrative and, in the process,
thoroughly contextualizes the objects and their
origin and production. Southern Tufts emerges as
the definitive study on this genre.”—Dale Couch,
curator of decorative arts, Georgia Museum of Art
december
7 x 9 | 256 pp.
171 color and b&w images, 1 diagram, 2 maps
hardback, $39.95t/$51.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4516-1
This project was made possible, in part, by the
generosity of the Brown-Whitworth Foundation;
the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Inc.;
the Harry and Helen Saul Foundation;
Norville Industries; and Shaw Industries
Southern Tufts is the first book to highlight the garments produced by northwestern Georgia’s tufted textile industry. Though best known now for its production of carpet, in the early twentieth century the region was revered for its handtufted candlewick bedspreads, products that grew out of the Southern Appalachian
Craft Revival and appealed to the vogue for Colonial Revival–style household
goods. Soon after the bedspreads became popular, enterprising women began
creating hand-tufted garments, including candlewick kimonos in the 1920s and
candlewick dresses in the early 1930s. By the late 1930s, large companies offered
machine-produced chenille beach capes, jackets, and robes. In the 1940s and 1950s,
chenille robes became an American fashion staple. At the end of the century,
interest in chenille fashion revived, fueled by nostalgia and an interest in
recycling vintage materials.
Chenille bedspreads, bathrobes, and accessories hung for sale both in roadside
souvenir shops, especially along the Dixie Highway, and in department stores
all over the nation. Callahan tells the story of chenille fashion and its connections to stylistic trends, automobile tourism, industrial developments, and U.S.
history. The well-researched and heavily illustrated text presents a broad history
of tufted textiles, as well as sections highlighting individual craftspeople and
manufacturers involved with the production of chenille fashion.
Photo by
Annelies Mondi
ashley callahan has an MA in the history of American decorative arts from Parsons School of Design and the Cooper-Hewitt,
Smithsonian Institution, and a BA in art history from the University
of the South. Callahan, an independent scholar and former curator
of decorative arts at the Georgia Museum of Art, is the author of
Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas, Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz, and Enchanting
Modern: Ilonka Karasz.
also of interest
red, white, and black
make blue
Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial
South Carolina Life
Andrea Feeser
paper, $24.95t
978-0-8203-4553-6
ebook available
faith in bikinis
Politics and Leisure in the Coastal
South since the Civil War
Anthony J. Stanonis
paper, $24.95s
978-0-8203-4733-2
ebook available
fashion | 23
All homes have a story to tell, and the Georgia
Governor’s Mansion is no exception
memories of the mansion
The Story of Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion
Sandra D. Deal, Jennifer W. Dickey, and Catherine M. Lewis
“In this meticulously researched history of
Georgia’s executive mansion, the authors
wonderfully illuminate the intertwining stories of
its caretakers, the state’s first families, and the
people of Georgia. Surely, it will become a model
of its kind.”—Jamil Zainaldin, President, Georgia
Humanities Council
Designed by Atlanta architect A. Thomas Bradbury and opened in 1968, the mansion has been home to eight first families and houses a distinguished collection of
American art and antiques. Often called “the people’s house,” the mansion is always
on display, always serving the public. Memories of the Mansion tells the story of the
Georgia Governor’s Mansion—what preceded it and how it came to be as well as the
stories of the people who have lived and worked here since its opening in 1968.
The authors worked closely with the former first families (Maddox, Carter,
Busbee, Harris, Miller, Barnes, Perdue, and Deal) to capture behind-the-scenes
anecdotes of what life was like in the state’s most public house. This richly illustrated book not only documents this extraordinary place and the people who have
lived and worked here, but it will also help ensure the preservation of this historic
resource so that it may continue to serve the state and its people.
sandra d. deal is the first lady of Georgia.
jennifer w. dickey is the coordinator of public history and
associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University.
catherine m. lewis is the assistant vice president of Museums, Archives and
Rare Books and a professor of history at Kennesaw State University.
“This book engages readers in a way that helps
them experience fifty years of Georgia political
personalities as they promoted our state on the
magnificent set that is our Governor’s Mansion.
More than that, despite the first families’ disparate
backgrounds, politics, and personalities, this book
highlights the connection of common awe and
responsibility they all have felt while performing
their roles in the fishbowl of the Governor’s
Mansion.”—Sheffield Hale, President and CEO,
Atlanta History Center
Opposite page: photo by Christopher Oquendo
also of interest
october
9 x 12 | 240 pp.
247 color and b&w photos
hardback, $39.95t/$51.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4859-9
Published in cooperation with the University of
Georgia Libraries and Kennesaw State University
24 | georgia history / architecture
democracy restored
courthouses of georgia
A History of the Georgia
State Capitol
Timothy J. Crimmins and
Anne H. Farrisee
Featuring photographs
by Diane Kirkland
hardback, $41.95t
978-0-8203-2911-6
Association County
Commissioners of Georgia
paper, $34.95t
978-0-8203-4688-5
More than 25,000 copies sold
snakes of the southeast
Revised Edition
Whit Gibbons and Mike Dorcas
“Makes an eloquent case for the environmental
importance of these slithery denizens of field,
forest, swamp and backyard . . . The poisonous
snakes evoke the most interest, of course, and
the authors do a good job of debunking the
many lurid myths that enshroud these vipers.”
—Mobile Register
Fifty-three kinds of snakes can be found in the Southeast, almost half of all species
native to North America. Filled with more than 300 color photographs and written by two renowned herpetologists, this new edition is the most comprehensive
authoritative guide to the snakes of the region.
At the heart of the book are its heavily illustrated, fact-filled descriptions of
each snake species. Also included is a wealth of general information about the
importance of snake conservation and the biology, diversity, habitats, and ecology
of snakes. Find useful information about the interactions of humans and snakes:
species that are likely to be found near houses, snakes as pets, what to do in case
of a snakebite, and more.
The revised edition of Snakes of the Southeast includes new photos, the latest
research findings, new species discoveries, and the most current geographic
range maps. Clearly written, cleanly designed, and fun to use, this guide promotes
a better understanding of the conservation of this fascinating but often maligned
group of animals.
features:
“A treasure to anyone having an interest in
becoming a herpetologist . . . The photographs
will attract every herpetologist, as they are fit
in perfect context, and mostly never seen in
publications before. Certainly the price will
make it highly affordable for both the novice
and professional herpetologist.”—Bulletin of the
Maryland Herpetological Society
• Conservation-oriented approach
• Over 300 color photographs, including many new images for this edition
• New distribution maps for 53 species of snakes
• New accounts of invasive snakes of the Southeast
• Clear descriptions of each species, including differences in the
appearance of young and mature snakes
• Size charts, key identifiers (scales, body shape, patterns, and color), descriptions of habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding,
reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation
whit gibbons is a professor of ecology at the Uni-
versity of Georgia and the head of the Environmental
Outreach and Education Program at the Savannah
River Ecology Laboratory. He is the coauthor, with
Kurt Buhlmann and Tracey Tuberville, of Turtles of the
Southeast (Georgia).
Photo courtesy of the authors
mike dorcas, a biologist at Davidson College, is author
of A Guide to the Snakes of North Carolina and coauthor
of The Frogs and Toads of North Carolina.
also of interest
october
7.5 x 10 | 280 pp.
335 color photos, 1 table, 178 maps
paper, $28.95t/$37.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4901-5
26 | nature
frogs and toads
of the southeast
invasive pythons
in the united states
Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons
paper, $27.95t
978-0-8203-2922-2
Ecology of an Introduced Predator
Mike Dorcas and
John D. Willson
Foreword by Whit Gibbons
paper, $25.95t
978-0-8203-3835-4
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The definitive guide to
Georgia mineralogy
minerals of georgia
Their Properties and Occurrences
Robert B. Cook and Julian C. Gray
Edited by Jose Santamaria
Minerals of Georgia presents an illustrated, alphabetized record of every mineral
(or mineral group) identified in the state. Under each entry is a county-by-county
listing of every occurrence known, including both widespread species and obscure
ones. In addition to economically important mineral deposits, this volume covers
various mineral localities within the state that are well known among professional
mineralogists, mineral collectors, and rockhounds as the source of outstanding
study, display, and lapidary material.
Illustrated with over 150 color photographs this guide provides the most
current listings and descriptions of mineral occurrences and mining activities
documented in Georgia over the past 150 years.
Minerals of Georgia will be invaluable to the mineralogist, collector, and
researcher with its definitive and updated listings of the distribution and specific
localities of a mineral, the mineral’s association and geologic setting, and the varied mineralogy of a particular county or mineral district. Even the casual reader
will gain a better appreciation of Georgia’s diverse mineral treasures.
robert b. cook is a professor emeritus of the
Department of Geology and Geography at
Auburn University.
julian c. gray is executive director of the Rice
Northwestern Museum of Rocks and Minerals in
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Julian C. Gray and Jose Santamaria
Photos by Steven Anthony Smith
jose santamaria is executive director of the
Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.
also of interest
february
6 x 9 | 360 pp.
167 color photos, 3 tables, 1 map
paper, $32.95s/$42.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4558-1
georgia’s amazing coast
Natural Wonders from
Alligators to Zoeas
David Bryant and George Davidson
Illustrated by Charlotte Ingram
paper, $17.95t
978-0-8203-2533-0
field guide to the rare
plants of georgia
Linda G. Chafin
Featuring photographs by
Hugh and Carol Nourse
Illustrations by Jean C. Putnam Hancock
paper, $34.95t
978-0-9779621-0-5
geology / nature | 27
Friendships that broke down barriers between
Native American and Anglo American women
weaving alliances
with other women
Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South
Daniel H. Usner
River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally
admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874–1946) sustained with two non-Native women
at different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point into the lives of
American Indians in the segregated South.
Mary Bradford (1869–1954) and Caroline Dormon (1888–1971) were not
only friends of Christine Paul; they were also patrons who helped connect Paul
and other Chitimacha weavers with buyers for their work. Daniel H. Usner uses
Paul’s letters to Bradford and Dormon to reveal how Indian women, as mediators between their own communities and surrounding outsiders, often drew on
accumulated authority and experience in multicultural negotiation to forge new
relationships with non-Indian women.
Bradford’s initial interest in Paul was philanthropic, while Dormon’s was anthropological. Both certainly admired the artistry of Chitimacha baskets. For her
part, Paul saw in Bradford and Dormon opportunities to promote her basketry
tradition and expand a network of outsiders sympathetic to her tribe’s vulnerability on many fronts. As Usner explores these friendships, he touches on a range of
factors that may have shaped them, including class differences, racial attitudes,
and shared ideals of womanhood. The result is an engaging story of American
Indian livelihood, identity, and self-determination.
daniel h. usner is the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History at
Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Indian Work: Language and
Livelihood in Native American History; Indians, Settlers, and Slaves
in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before
1783; and American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and
Economic Histories.
Photo by
Rhonda S. Usner
october
6 x 9 | 136 pp.
7 b&w photos
paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4849-0
hardback, $69.95y/$95.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4848-3
ebook available
also in the series
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
paper
hardback
28 | native american studies / women’s studies
a late encounter
with the civil war
Michael Kreyling
paper, $19.95s
978-0-8203-4657-1
ebook available
becoming confederates
Paths to a New National Loyalty
Gary W. Gallagher
paper, $19.95s
978-0-8203-4540-6
ebook available
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The lucrative, extralegal business
of privateering as a window into the
Atlantic World
privateers of the americas
Spanish American Privateering from the
United States in the Early Republic
David Head
Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from
the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and
conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence
from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, there is no comparable
work. Because privateering further complicated international dealings during the
already tumultuous Age of Revolution, the book also offers a new perspective on the
diplomatic and Atlantic history of the early American republic.
Seafarers living in the United States secured commissions from Spanish
American nations, attacked Spanish vessels, and returned to sell their captured
cargoes (which sometimes included slaves) from bases in Baltimore, New
Orleans, and Galveston and on Amelia Island. Privateers sold millions of dollars
of goods to untold numbers of ordinary Americans. Their collective enterprise
involved more than a hundred vessels and thousands of people—not only ships’
crews but investors, merchants, suppliers, and others. They angered foreign diplomats, worried American officials, and muddied U.S. foreign relations.
David Head looks at how Spanish American privateering worked and who
engaged in it; how the U.S. government responded; how privateers and their supporters evaded or exploited laws and international relations; what motivated men
to choose this line of work; and ultimately, what it meant to them to sail for the
new republics of Spanish America. His findings broaden our understanding of the
experience of being an American in a wider world.
david head is an assistant professor of history at Spring Hill College in
Mobile, Alabama.
october
6 x 9 | 224 pp.
8 b&w photos, 3 tables, 2 maps
paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4864-3
hardback, $64.95y/$85.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4400-3
ebook available
Early American Places
paper
also in the series
natchez country
Indians, Colonists, and
the Landscapes of Race
in French Louisiana
George Edward Milne
paper, $26.95s
978-0-8203-4750-9
ebook available
slavery, childhood, and
abolition in jamaica, 1788–1838
Colleen A. Vasconcellos
paper, $24.95s
978-0-8203-4805-6
ebook available
hardback
history | 29
Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and
concepts of race and gender of the African
diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade
the mulatta concubine
Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire
in the Black Transatlantic
Lisa Ze Winters
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly
depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their
sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and
dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta
Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic, Lisa
Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the
figure’s centrality to the practices and production of diaspora.
Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and
remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the
book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint
Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political
petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her
daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers’ narratives, ethnographies,
and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze
Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how
free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom,
and produced their own diasporic identities.
lisa ze winters is an associate professor of English and
Africana studies at Wayne State University.
Photo by
M.J. Murwaka
january
6 x 9 | 248 pp.
8 b&w photos
hardback, $59.95s/$80.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4896-4
ebook available
Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Published in cooperation with the Library
Company of Philadelphia’s Program in
African American History
30 | history / women’s studies
also in the series
almost free
to live an antislavery life
A Story about Family and
Race in Antebellum Virginia
Eva Sheppard Wolf
paper, $19.95s
978-0-8203-3230-7
ebook available
Personal Politics and the Antebellum
Black Middle Class
Erica L. Ball
paper, $22.95s
978-0-8203-4350-1
ebook available
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How slavery, freedom, and liberation
were intertwined in the experiences of
African American women
finding charity’s folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Jessica Millward
“Digging deeply into the county court records of
Maryland, the author presents a remarkable picture of
how some enslaved women, including Charity Folks,
acquired their freedom. In doing so, she broadens our
perspective on female slaves, African American family
relationships, and free blacks. Thoroughly versed
in a broad literature, she authoritatively discusses a
wide range of related topics, including interracial sex,
violence, rape, and the relationship between enslaved
women’s bodies, freedom suits, and manumission
laws.”—Loren Schweninger, Elizabeth Rosenthal
Professor Emeritus of History, University of North
Carolina, Greensboro
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women
who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to
historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and
numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward
skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a
new means of using biography as a historical genre.
Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a
single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery
and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such
as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive
capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding
loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise
free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries
between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty,
equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications
for African American women’s future interactions with the state.
jessica millward is an assistant professor of history at the University of
California, Irvine.
“Bold and daring in both chronology and content. With
incredible new sources, Jessica Millward recovers the
lives of African American women in rural Maryland,
courageously tackling the complexities of emancipation
in early America. Finding Charity’s Folk makes an
essential contribution to African American women’s
history and to the narrative of American freedom.”
—Erica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
december
6 x 9 | 152 pp.
5 b&w photos, 2 diagrams, 1 table
paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4878-0
hardback, $49.95y/$64.95 cad | 978-0-8203-3108-9
ebook available
Published in cooperation with the Library
Company of Philadelphia’s Program in
African American History
paper
also in the series
diplomacy in
black and white
John Adams, Toussaint Louverture,
and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Ronald Angelo Johnson
paper, $24.95s
978-0-8203-4769-1
ebook available
eighty-eight years
The Long Death of Slavery in
the United States, 1777–1865
Patrick Rael
paper, $32.95s
978-0-8203-4839-1
ebook available
hardback
african american studies / history | 31
How the civil rights activism of African
American women shaped the story of the
wartime collapse of slavery
gender and the jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of
Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Sharon Romeo
“This is a landmark book. Rather than simply
resulting from the work of lawmakers who
ratified the Fourteenth Amendment during
Reconstruction, the concept of ‘citizenship’
emerged out of the innumerable actions
carried out by African Americans in the
slaveholding states during the Civil War.
Romeo shows that in war-torn Missouri,
black women petitioned Union officers for
their freedom, filed lawsuits against their
former owners in military courts, and
claimed widows’ pensions after the deaths
of their veteran husbands. By documenting
black women’s activism in a state where the
Emancipation Proclamation did not even
apply, Romeo forces us to reexamine precisely
how and why constitutional and legal change
occurred during this period.”
—Timothy Huebner, Irma O. Sternberg
Professor of History, Rhodes College
Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the
Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African
American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of
St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered
paths to freedom and citizenship.
During the turbulent years of the Civil War crisis, African American women
asserted their vision of freedom through a multitude of strategies. They took concerns ordinarily under the jurisdiction of civil courts, such as assault and child
custody, and transformed them into military matters. African American women
petitioned military police for “free papers”; testified against former owners; fled
to contraband camps; and “joined the army” with their male relatives, serving as
cooks, laundresses, and nurses.
Freedwomen, and even enslaved women, used military courts to lodge complaints against employers and former masters, sought legal recognition of their
marriages, and claimed pensions as the widows of war veterans. Through military venues, African American women in a state where the institution of slavery
remained unmolested by the Emancipation Proclamation, demonstrated a claim
on citizenship rights well before they would be guaranteed through the establishment of the Fourteenth Amendment. The litigating slave women of antebellum
St. Louis, and the female activists of the Civil War period, left a rich legal heritage
to those who would continue the struggle for civil rights in the postbellum era.
sharon romeo is an assistant professor of history and classics at the University
of Alberta.
also in the series
january
6 x 9 | 256 pp.
17 b&w images, 2 diagrams, 2 tables
hardback, $59.95y/$80.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4801-8
ebook available
Studies in the Legal History of the South
32 | legal history / african american studies
james mchenry,
forgotten federalist
Karen E. Robbins
hardback, $34.95s
978-0-8203-4563-5
ebook available
the long, lingering shadow
Slavery, Race, and Law in the
American Hemisphere
Robert J. Cottrol
paper, $24.95s
978-0-8203-4431-7
ebook available
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Traces how countries are building new
forms of cooperation to address dangers
posed by weapons proliferation
international cooperation
on wmd nonproliferation
Edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf
International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction
(WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states
have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various
worldwide export-control regimes and nuclear security summit meetings initiated
by U.S. president Barack Obama. Many of these additional nonproliferation arrangements are less formal and have fewer members than the global treaties.
International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation calls attention to the
emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation
treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well
the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together.
Collectively, the essayists show that states have added new forms of international
cooperation to combat WMD proliferation for multiple reasons, including the
need to address new problems and the entrepreneurial activities of key state
leaders. Despite the complications created by the existence of so many different
cooperative arrangements, this collection shows the world is witnessing a process of building cooperation that is leading to greater levels of activity in support
of norms against WMD and terrorism.
jeffrey w. knopf is a professor and program chair of Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Photo courtesy
of the author
contributors
february
6 x 9 | 344 pp.
4 diagrams, 6 tables
hardback, $64.95s/$85.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4527-7
ebook available
Studies in Security and International Affairs
Emma Belcher
Wyn Q. Bowen
Gavin Cameron
Francesca Giovannini
Michael Hamel-Green
Alan Heyes
Scott A. Jones
Togzhan Kassenova
Jeffrey W. Knopf
Alan J. Kuperman
Sara Z. Kutchesfahani
Tanya Ogilvie-White
David Santoro
Elizabeth Turpen
international studies | 33
A rigorous, gendered perspective on
how inequality is perpetuated
precarious worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Edited by Katie Meehan and Kendra Strauss
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory
gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The
volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges
posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, nonhuman materialities,
and diverse economies.
Reflecting and expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography,
with additional cross-disciplinary contributions from sociologists and political
scientists, Precarious Worlds explores the productive possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical lens, and an analytical framework for what
Geraldine Pratt has called “a vigorous, materialist transnational feminism.”
katie meehan is assistant professor of geography at
the University of Oregon.
kendra strauss is assistant professor in the Labour
Studies Program at Simon Fraser University and an associate member of the Department of Geography.
Photo courtesy
of the author
Photo by
Simon Fraser University
Photo Services
contributors
november
6 x 9 | 200 pp.
5 tables
paper, $24.95s/$32.50 cad | 978-0-8203-4882-7
hardback, $69.95y/$95.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4881-0
ebook available
paper
34 | geography
hardback
Kate Bezanson
Susan Braedley
Jessie H. Clark
Kelly Dombroski
Rosalind Fredericks
Andrew Gorman-Murray
Cindi Katz
Meg Luxton
Brian Marks
Sallie A. Marston
Katie Meehan
Katharyne Mitchell
Oona Morrow
Brenda Parker
Barbara Ellen Smith
Kendra Strauss
Jamie Winders
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Toward a new, transnational agenda
of poverty scholarship
territories of poverty
Rethinking North and South
Edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies
through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions
that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty
is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of
poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well
as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina
New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized.
In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development
and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation
of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent,
rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile
money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for
justice and social transformation.
ananya roy is professor of city and regional planning
and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice
at the University of California, Berkeley.
emma shaw crane is a doctoral student in Ameri-
Photo courtesy
of the author
Photo by
Christie Goshe
can studies in the Department of Social and Cultural
Analysis at New York University. She was previously
a research fellow at the Blum Center for Developing
Economies at the University of California, Berkeley.
contributors
november
6 x 9 | 336 pp.
8 b&w photos, 2 tables
paper, $29.95s/$38.95 cad | 978-0-8203-4843-8
hardback, $85.95y/$120.00 cad | 978-0-8203-4842-1
ebook available
paper
Somaya Abdelgany
Vincanne Adams
Hiba Bou Akar
Teddy Cruz
Luis Flores
Alyosha Goldstein
Christina Gossmann
Akhil Gupta
Ju Hui Judy Han
Michael B. Katz
Erica Kohl-Arenas
Anh-Thi Le
Bill Maurer
Jamie Peck
Rebecca Peters
Ananya Roy
Stuart Schrader
Emma Shaw Crane
Nik Theodore
Stephanie Ullrich
Loïc Wacquant
hardback
geography | 35
Understanding the forms of power
shaping our lives
spaces of danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Edited by Heather Merrill and Lisa M. Hoffman
Foreword by Paul Rabinow
“This impressive and rich collection of essays
explores the legacies and potentials of Allan
Pred’s unique critical cultural geography,
resulting in very innovative approaches to the
analysis of space, time, and power. The book is
transdisciplinary in the best sense of the word,
moving between a wide range of contemporary
conflicts, from militant Muslim groups in
Nigeria and the Shanghai World Expo to
European racisms and the cultural and political
logics of drone attacks.”—Orvar Lofgren,
coeditor of Managing Overflow
in Affluent Societies
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep
critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist
approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and
reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural
and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a
previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin’s idea of “moments of danger.”
The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activist
Anders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor Party youth gathering and
bombed a government building, killing and injuring many. Breivik had publicly
and forthrightly declared war against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted
these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that painted
Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away from analysis of the
resurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms in which he was immersed.
The Breivik case is merely one of the most visible recent examples, say editors
Heather Merrill and Lisa Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting—for
example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in Germany,
an art gallery exhibit in South Africa—this volume peels back layers of “situated
practices and their associated meaning and power relations.” Spaces of Danger
offers analytical and conceptual tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the
taken-for-granted and make visible and legible that which is silenced.
heather merrill is a human geographer and associate professor of Africana studies at Hamilton College.
lisa m. hoffman is a cultural anthropologist and
associate professor of urban studies at the University of
Washington Tacoma.
Photo by
Nancy L. Ford
Photo by
Cody Char
contributors
december
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hardback
Derek Gregory
Gillian Hart
Lisa M. Hoffman
Cindi Katz
Shiloh Krupar
Heather Merrill
Katharyne Mitchell
Gunnar Olsson
Trevor Paglen
Damani J. Partridge
Nancy Postero
Paul Rabinow
Richard Walker
Michael J. Watts
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How Tamils in Canada responded to
armed conflict back home in Sri Lanka
pain, pride, and politics
Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan
Tamil Diaspora in Canada
Amarnath Amarasingam
“Amarasingam’s impressive, clearly written
study provides, at once, a fascinating account
of the complex politics of the Sri Lankan
Tamil community in Canada and a significant
reappraisal of diaspora theory.”
—Mark P. Whitaker, author of Learning
Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a
Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka
“Written from the perspective of a critical
insider, this engaging book helps us to make
sense of the fractious complexity of Tamil
diaspora politics since the defeat of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. Its
innovative angle on diaspora as a social
movement points to ways of understanding
how and why diasporas have become such
important players on the global scene.”
—Nicholas Van Hear, Centre on Migration,
Policy and Society at the University of Oxford
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case
study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between
December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions
of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil movement was
being crushed by the Sri Lankan armed forces and revises currently accepted
analytical frameworks relating to diasporic communities. This book adds to our
understanding of a particular diasporic group, while contributing to the theoretical
literature in the area.
Throughout, Amarasingam argues that transnational diasporic mobilization
is at times determined and driven as much by internal organizational and communal developments as by events in their countries of origin, a phenomenon
that has received relatively little attention in the scholarly literature. His work
provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which a separatist sociopolitical
movement beginning in Sri Lanka is carried forward, altered, and adapted by the
diaspora and the struggles that are involved in this process.
amarnath amarasingam is the Social Science and Humanities
Photo courtesy
of the author
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow in the
Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University, professor of
religion at Wilfrid Laurier University, and lecturer at the University
of Waterloo. He is the editor of The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on
the Real Impacts of Fake News and Religion and the New Atheism: A
Critical Appraisal.
also in the series
september
6 x 9 | 248 pp.
1 diagram, 8 tables
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geographical
diversions
Tibetan Trade,
Global Transactions
Tina Harris
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The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District
and the Reshaping of a Global City
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
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Drawing attention to the geographical
and literary diversity of American writers
before the Civil War
mapping region in
early american writing
Edited by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion
Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how
early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors
reconsider the various roles regions—imagined politically, economically, racially,
and figuratively—played in the formation of American communities, both real
and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some
literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole,
they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how
diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as
occupying the American landscape.
Focusing on place-specific, local writing published before 1860, Mapping
Region in Early American Writing examines a period often overlooked in studies
of regional literature in America. More than simply offering a prehistory of regionalist writing, these essays offer new ways of theorizing and studying regional
spaces in the United States as it grew from a union of disparate colonies along the
eastern seaboard into an industrialized nation on the verge of overseas empire
building. They also seek to amplify lost voices of diverse narratives from minority, frontier, and outsider groups alongside their more well-known counterparts
in a time when America’s landscapes and communities were constantly evolving.
edward watts is professor of English
at Michigan State University.
keri holt is associate professor of
English at Utah State University.
Photo courtesy
of the editor
Photo courtesy
of the editor
Photo by
Wasif Khan
john funchion is assistant professor
of English and American Studies at the
University of Miami.
contributors
november
6 x 9 | 320 pp.
1 b&w photo, 1 map
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Harry Brown
Andy Doolen
Duncan Faherty
John Funchion
Robert Gunn
Keri Holt
William V. Lombardi
Janet Neary
Hollis Robbins
Jennifer Schell
Martha Schoolman
Steven W. Thomas
Edward Watts
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turn back
before baghdad
Laurence Jolidon
laurence jolidon passed away in August 2002,
yet his legacy as an outstanding war reporter
continues to influence the world of journalism.
He served as a war correspondent on the ground
during the Persian Gulf Wars. Before his death, he
was the spokesperson for the NATO Peace Stabilization Force. He is also known for his book Last
Seen Alive: The Search for Missing POWs from
the Korean War, first published under his imprint
Ink-Slinger Press in 1995.
august
6 x 9 | 520 pp.
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In the early morning hours of January 12, 1991, telephones rang in the rooms of a dozen
or so newspaper and wire service reporters at the Dhahran International, the Meridian,
and other hotels in Eastern Saudi Arabia.
War with the regime of Saddam Hussein over the oil province of Kuwait had become
inevitable. The calls, telling the reporters to grab their gear and meet military public
affairs officers in hotel lobbies, triggered the first media pools dispatched to cover Operation Desert Storm. For both the military and journalists, the pool system was viewed
with misgivings. It was seen by many on both sides as the best of several bad options for
reporting the coming war to the American people and the world.
Historians and casual readers will find here vivid texture of that unique time, the
atmospherics of an era already fading from the American consciousness of MREs and
yellow ribbons and all the attendant color and drama of American and British expeditionary troops in the hundreds of thousands transported to the exotic wastes of Arabia.
Jolidon’s work captures an important moment that will be studied by historians who
examine the role of the media in wartime and relations between the military and civilian reporters. Whatever history’s final judgment on the utility of the pool system, it is
undeniable that the relationship between the Pentagon and the press has not been the
same since.
secrets of
the forest
The Magic and Mystery of
Plants and the Art of Survival
Mark Warren
mark warren provides survival training
at Medicine Bow, a wilderness school in
the north Georgia mountains. As a premed
student who majored in chemistry, he was
introduced to the chemicals assembled in
and extracted from plants. Later, as a naturalist, he has shared his knowledge with
thousands of students, from preschoolers to
octogenarians. This unique book includes
the survival knowledge, tips, and activities that Warren has collected over half a
century of survivalist teaching.
september
6 x 9 | 320 pp.
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978-1-940771-20-5
As a survival book and guide, Secrets of the Forest shows you how to explore “the
real world” and to come to know it as your home. That “real world”—whether
it be forest, field, swamp, prairie, or desert—is waiting for you to return to your
primordial roots. In entering this “real world,” you will encounter the same kinds
of wild places as the ancients who invented and practiced these skills of survival.
True, the environment might now be modified by human encroachment or by
alien plants that have made their way into your area, but—with some exceptions—
it generally comprises the same biodiversity of flora and fauna as found in ancient
times. And surviving in this “real world” will pluck the atavistic string deep inside
your marrow.
university press of north georgia | 39
Previously announced
bombay in the
age of disco
City, Community, Life
Tinaz Pavri
tinaz pavri was born in Mumbai, India,
and came to the United States to pursue her
graduate studies. She is a professor of political science at Spelman College, where she also
directs the Asian Studies Program. Her areas
of expertise include global security, conflict
resolution, and international political economy.
She lives in Atlanta with her family.
new publication date :
february 2015
6 x 9 | 108 pp.
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By the early nineties, India’s economy had taken its first faltering steps toward liberalization, and globalization’s reach had found and touched significant swathes of its
society. The decades-long postindependence era of Nehru and Gandhi was finally and
firmly over, and Bombay had become Mumbai. Bombay in the Age of Disco is a personal
and historically powerful memoir that weaves together the experiences and aspirations of a young girl and a city on the cusp of this transformation. Tinaz Pavri captures
Bombay’s preglobal guise as the city moves inexorably toward the dizzying sea change
that comes after she leaves its shores.
This book is a moving, lovingly etched remembrance of a city and its people that
molded the author into the person she became, nurtured her dreams, taught her
its wisdom, and held in its arms her friends, family, and community. It gives us an
insight into the life of Bombay’s Parsis, Persian-descended refugees who became
wound through centuries into the fabric of the city’s life. Pavri’s memoir is a keenly
observed, affecting, and often humorous account of India’s changing social structure,
economy, and politics over the last several decades, giving voice to the last of its preglobal generation. Readers will be as enthralled by Pavri’s family, friends, and community as they will be by the city’s momentous challenges and regenerating charm.
Previously announced
traveler’s rest
and the tugaloo
crossroads
Robert Eldridge Bouwman
robert eldridge bouwman was born in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1948. He attended
Florida Presbyterian College and completed
his graduate studies in history at Emory
University, where he received his PhD in 1975.
Bouwman worked as a freelance historian,
during which time he researched and wrote
Traveler’s Rest and the Tugaloo Crossroads. He
has taught at Piedmont College, Gainesville
State College, Kennesaw State University, and
the University of North Georgia, where he
teaches today.
new publication date :
april 2015
5.5 x 8.5 | 192 pp.
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978-1-940771-14-4
On Georgia Highway 123, amid the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, stands
Traveler’s Rest Historic Site. The house stands within two miles of the site of
Old Tugaloo Town, an important Cherokee village. It is situated on a crossroads
at the southern end of the Great Wagon Road, down which a wave of EuropeanAmerican migration poured to fill the land east of the Appalachians in the mideighteenth century. Its history encompasses the Cherokees, migration, frontier
war, and gold rush; it includes the development of Traveler’s Rest as a stagecoach
inn/tavern into its long years as a plantation center; through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the gradual decline of land and family is taken to the present century,
where Traveler’s Rest becomes the physical embodiment of history transfigured
into legend. The history of Traveler’s Rest is the history of a people and a heritage,
reflected in the structure that developed with the years.
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announced in spring 2015
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