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The Inconvenient Journalist A Memoir Dusko Doder with Louise Br anson

In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died. The CIA at first dismissed the reporting, saying that "Doder must be smoking pot." When Soviet authorities confirmed Andropov's death, journalists and intelligence officials questioned how a lone reporter could scoop the multibillion-dollar US spy agency. The stage was set for Cold War-style revenge against the star journalist, and that long night at the teletype machine in Moscow became a pivotal moment in Doder's life. After emigrating to the United States from Yugoslavia in 1956, Doder committed himself to the journalist's mission. He knew that reporting the truth could come at a price, something driven home by his years of covering Soviet dissidents and watching his Washington Post colleagues break the Watergate story. Still, he was not prepared for a cloaked act of reprisal from the CIA. Taking aim at Doder, the CIA insinuated a story into Time magazine suggesting that he had been coopted by the KGB. Doder's professional world collapsed and his personal life was shaken as he fought Time in court. In The Inconvenient Journalist, Doder reflects on this attempt to destroy his reputation, his dedication to reporting the truth, and the vital but precarious role of the free press today. The Inconvenient Journalist is a powerful human story and a must-read for all concerned about freedom of the press and truthful reporting. Dusko Doder is a former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post. He is the author of The Firebird Affair and other books. Louise Br anson is a former Moscow correspondent for the London Sunday Times and a former editorial writer for USA TODAY. She is the coauthor of Gorbachev and Milosevic.

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"The Inconvenient Journalist is a riveting appraisal of a journalist's life. Dusko Doder worked fiendishly hard reporting what the Soviets didn't want Americans to know. The price Doder paid for those truths is estimated with passion in these pages."—Craig R. Whitney, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times and author of Spy Trader "The Inconvenient Journalist is a thriller from the opening sentence to the closing words. This story of how the CIA apparently tried to destroy the career of a Washington Post foreign correspondent is a cautionary tale, told by Dusko Doder with honesty and courage.""—Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief of USA TODAY and author of Madam Speaker "Dusko Doder, during his journalistic career, witnessed epoch-shaping events from the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia to the violent breakup of his native Yugoslavia. The Inconvenient Journalist is a beautifully written memoir—a magical combination of spy thriller, love story, and historical drama. A bravura performance, both on and off the page!"—Michael Dobbs, former Washington Post correspondent and author of King Richard

Empire of the Air The Men Who Made Radio Tom Lewis

Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries— Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff— whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak. Empire of the Air is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation. Tom Lewis is Professor Emeritus of English at Skidmore College. His most recent book is Washington. In addition to his numerous books, he has written and produced award-winning documentary films for Florentine Films and public television. He lives in Maine.

"Lewis's book, which relates the civil wars between the principal figures in the invention and development of radio, is an achievement in its own right: finely detailed, engagingly written, and unexpectedly dramatic."—Boston Globe "[Lewis] has all of the skills and instincts of a historian, a gift for clear description of complex technologies and a real passion for detail."—Los Angeles Times "A compelling tale that takes readers back to another era and shows us how our lives were transformed forever."—Washington Post "The lives of the two innovative technologists (Lee DeForest and Edwin Armstrong) and the entrepreneur (David Sarnoff) whose work led to the success of radio provide the basis for this well-researched and superbly written volume."—Publishers' Weekly

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"Empire of the Air is indispensable for anyone curious about the beginnings of broadcasting and there is more than enough personal drama and social and political history to make the book entertaining and informative for the general reader."—Globe & Mail

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Chained to History Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 Steven J. Br ady

In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story of America's place in the world in the years prior to the calamitous Civil War. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the military, economic, and moral lines of the diplomatic challenges of attempting to manage, on the global stage, the actuality of human servitude in a country dedicated to human freedom. Chained to History shows how slavery was interwoven with America's foreign relations and affected policy controversies ranging from trade to extradition treaties to military alliances. Brady highlights the limitations placed on American policymakers who, working in an international context increasingly supportive of abolition, were severely constrained regarding the formulation and execution of preferred policy. Policymakers were bound to the slave interest based in the Democratic Party and the tortured state of domestic politics bore heavily on the conduct of foreign affairs. As international powers not only abolished the slave trade but banned human servitude as such, the American position became untenable. From the Age of Revolutions through the American Civil War, slavery was a constant factor in shaping US relations with the Atlantic World and beyond. Chained to History addresses this critical topic in its complete scope and shows the immoral practice of human bondage to have informed how the United States re-entered the community of nations after 1865. Steven J. Br ady is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The George Washington University. He is author of Eisenhower and Adenauer.

"Chained to History sheds new light on the international and diplomatic dimensions of slavery from the Revolution through the Civil War. This deeply researched and clearly argued study shows why slavery belongs at the center of our understanding of early US foreign relations."—Jay Sexton, University of Missouri, author of A Nation Forged by Crisis "Steven J. Brady's work situates American slavery at the heart of US diplomatic history. Chained to History> is a deeply researched examination of how the fear of limitations to, or possible eradication of, the institution of slavery shaped nearly every aspect of early American foreign relations."—Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College, author of Force and Freedom "Steven J. Brady's skillful synthesis re-centers slavery in the career of US foreign relations from the Revolution to emancipation in the 1860s. Highly readable, Chained to History leaves no doubt that slavery shaped the United States abroad almost as thoroughly as it did at home."—Amy S. Greenberg, The Pennsylvania State University, author of A Wicked War

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Flying Camelot The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia Michael W. Hankins

Flying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debates about aircraft superiority went public—and these were not uncontested discussions. Michael W. Hankins delves deep into the fighter pilot culture that gave rise to both designs, showing how a small but vocal group of pilots, engineers, and analysts in the Department of Defense weaponized their own culture to affect technological development and larger political change. The design and advancement of the F-15 and F-16 reflected this group's nostalgic desire to recapture the best of World War I air combat. Known as the "Fighter Mafia," and later growing into the media savvy political powerhouse "Reform Movement," it believed that American weapons systems were too complicated and expensive, and thus vulnerable. The group's leader was Colonel John Boyd, a contentious former fighter pilot heralded as a messianic figure by many in its ranks. He and his group advocated for a shift in focus from the multi-role interceptors the Air Force had designed in the early Cold War towards specialized air-to-air combat dogfighters. Their influence stretched beyond design and into larger politicized debates about US national security, debates that still resonate today. A biography of fighter pilot culture and the nostalgia that drove decision-making, Flying Camelot deftly engages both popular culture and archives to animate the movement that shook the foundations of the Pentagon and Congress. Michael W. Hankins is the Curator of US Air Force History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Follow him on Twitter @Hankenstien.

BATTLEGROUNDS: CORNELL STUDIES IN MILITARY HISTORY

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"Forget 'The Right Stuff,' this is the Real Stuff. Equal parts cultural, technological, societal, and military history, Flying Camelot is a brilliant and illuminating account of fighter pilot culture and the development of governmental weapons systems."—Brian D. Laslie, NORAD and US Northern Command, author of Air Power's Lost Cause "Both exceptional and eloquent, Flying Camelot tells the story of the transformation of the air superiority mission, vis-à-vis strategic bombardment, during the Vietnam era."—Roger D. Launius, Former Chief Historian of NASA, author of Apollo's Legacy "Michael W. Hankins weaves a vast literature into a coherent and entertaining narrative on fighter plane development, the cult surrounding fighter pilots, and the so-called military reform movement."—Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University, author of Elvis's Army

Catching up with Michael W. Hankins What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

“Riccioni and his 'fighter mafia' allies were passionate about their causes.”

There’s a story that’s hilarious to me, about Col. Everest Riccioni going to give a briefing to General John Meyer, the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force at the time, and one of the top aces from World War II. Against the advice of other staff officers, immediately after the briefing started, Riccioni implied that Meyer didn’t know anything about air-to-air combat and was promptly thrown out of the office. Riccioni and his “fighter mafia” allies were passionate about their causes, which worked both for and against them sometimes. What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now?

perspective on his career. How do you wish you could change the field? The most important thing is to continue to ask new and interesting questions about the past to help us understand ourselves. The field has been doing that well in two main ways that I hope to help it continue in: First, bringing in a more diverse group of scholars. There are more women and people of color in the field than ever before, although there’s much room to grow there. Secondly, broadening the topics we look at and connecting/collaborating with more fields, like histories of technology, sociology, culture, international relations, politics, economics, and many more.

When I started, I had never heard of Col. John Boyd and had no idea how much of a lightning rod he was in Air Force history. I’ve come to find out just how much some people love him and others despise him. I had no idea I was tackling such a divisive topic. He’s very important and he is loved for a reason, but I also think it’s a good time to reevaluate him, which is something I try to do—placing Boyd in a larger context and giving a new

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Left in the Center The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy Daniel Soyer

Daniel Soyer's history of the Liberal Party of New York State, Left in the Center, shows the surprising relationship between Democratic Socialism and mainstream American politics. Beginning in 1944 and lasting until 2002, the Liberal Party offered voters an ideological seal of approval and played the role of strategic kingmaker in the electoral politics of New York State. The party helped elect presidents, governors, senators, and mayors, and its platform reflected its founders' social democratic principles. In practical politics, the Liberal Party's power resided in its capacity to steer votes to preferred Democrats or Republicans with a reasonable chance of victory. This uneasy balance between principle and pragmatism, which ultimately proved impossible to maintain, is at the heart of the dramatic political story presented in Left in the Center. The Liberal Party, the longest-lived of New York's small parties, began as a means for anti-Communist social democrats to have an impact on the politics and policy of New York City, Albany, and Washington, DC. It provided a political voice for labor activists, independent liberals, and pragmatic social democrats. Although the party devolved into what some saw as a cynical patronage machine, it remained a model for third-party power and for New York's influential Conservative and, later, the Working Families parties. With an active period ranging from the successful senatorial career of Jacob Javits to the mayoralties of John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani, the Liberal Party effectively shaped the politics and policy of New York. The practical gains and political cost of that complicated trade-off is at the heart of Left in the Center. Daniel Soyer is Professor of History at Fordham University. He is co-author or editor of several books, including The Emerging Metropolis.

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"Daniel Soyer's encyclopedic study of the Liberal Party contains this provocative lesson: third parties should not become more powerful than the grassroots community movements from which they evolved. Soyer also clearly shows that racism repeatedly defeated limited rubrics of social progress. Left in the Center is a crucial contribution to the history of New York City, coming at the perfect time."—Sarah Schulman, College of Staten Island, author of Let the Record Show "Based on the author's thorough excavation of historical records, Left in the Center chronicles the rise and fall of the once powerful Liberal Party. A compelling examination of third parties in New York."— Anthony Maniscalco, City University of New York, author of Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution "Well-written and comprehensive, Left in the Center is an authoritative history of a major, enduring third-party movement in the Empire State. Daniel Soyer artfully weaves together diverse narratives of New York politicians and activists, shedding light on the city's broader ethnic politics."—Robert Chiles, University of Maryland, author of The Revolution of '28

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Red Dynamite Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America Carl R. Weinberg

In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral and even bestial social, sexual, and political behavior. The "fruits" of subscribing to Darwinism were, in their minds, a dangerous rearrangement of God-given standards and the unsettling of traditional hierarchies of power. Despite claiming to focus exclusively on science and religion, creationists were practicing politics. Their anticommunist campaign, often infused with conspiracy theory, gained power from the fact that the Marxist founders, the early Bolshevik leaders, and their American allies were staunch evolutionists. Using the Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a starting point, Red Dynamite traces the politically explosive union of Darwinism and communism over the next century. Across those years, social evolution was the primary target of creationists, and their "ideas have consequences" strategy instilled fear that shaped the contours of America's culture wars. By taking the anticommunist arguments of creationists seriously, Weinberg reveals a neglected dimension of antievolutionism and illuminates a source of the creationist movement's continuing strength. Thanks to generous funding from Indiana University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories. Carl R. Weinberg is Adjunct Associate Professor of History and Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion. Follow him on Twitter @Euclid585.

"In this smart and engaging book, Carl R. Weinberg masterfully shows how mid-twentieth-century Christian conservatives succeeded in demonizing Darwin. Convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral behavior, conservatives defended what they considered to be God-given hierarchies of power. Understanding this historical moment provides necessary insight into contemporary American politics."—Matthew A. Sutton, Washington State University, author of Double Crossed "If you thought you understood the Scopes trial and the battle over evolution, think again. Carl R. Weinberg's richly textured account in Red Dynamite explodes all simplistic understandings of these early culture wars and embeds them in the broader history of American political and labor movements."—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Apostles of Reason

RELIGION AND AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE

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Scientific Americans Invention, Technology, and National Identity Susan Br anson

In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American cultural independence from Europe and America's nation building in the early republic and antebellum eras. This engaging tour of ordinary citizens' scientific education and practices charts the development of nationalism and national identity alongside roads, rails, and machines. Scientific Americans shows how informal scientific education provided by almanacs, public lectures, and demonstrations, along with the financial encouragement of early scientific societies, generated an enthusiasm for the application of science and technology to civic, commercial, and domestic improvements. Not only that—Americans were excited and intrigued by the practicality of innovation. Bringing together science and wonder, Branson charts how innovations from mechanical clocks to steam engines informed the creation and expansion of the American nation. From the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations to the fate of the Amistad captives, Scientific Americans illuminates how the promotion and celebration of discoveries, inventions, and technologies articulated Americans' earliest ambitions, as well as prejudices, throughout the first American century. Susan Br anson is Professor of History at Syracuse University. She is author of These Fiery Frenchified Dames and Dangerous to Know.

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"Scientific Americans is entertaining and energetic. In grand style Susan Branson shows us how ordinary Americans of the early republic were avid consumers of science and technology."—Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University, author of Inventing Disaster "From hot-air balloons to perpetual-motion machines, Susan Branson take us on a delightful tour of the technological marvels of the nineteenth century. More importantly, Scientific Americans offers us a smart analysis of the ways popular amazement translated into the shaping of American national identity. It's a wise and lively book."—Gregory Nobles, Georgia Tech, author of John James Audubon "Scientific Americans reveals a scientific culture that was neither elite nor intellectually rigorous but rather a raucous amalgam of excitement, wonder, ambition, and opportunism. Susan Branson recasts the making of national identity in the nineteenth century as the triumph of the people's enlightenment."—Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University, author of Luxurious Citizens

Spaces of Enslavement A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York Andrea C. Mosterman

In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of racialized spatial control held much in common with the southern plantation societies. In the 1620s, Dutch colonial settlers brought slavery to the banks of the Hudson River and founded communities from New Amsterdam in the south to Beverwijck near the terminus of the navigable river. When Dutch power in North America collapsed and the colony came under English control in 1664, Dutch descendants continued to rely on enslaved labor. Until 1827, when slavery was abolished in New York State, slavery expanded in the region, with all free New Yorkers benefitting from that servitude. Mosterman describes how the movements of enslaved persons were controlled in homes and in public spaces such as workshops, courts, and churches. She addresses how enslaved people responded to regimes of control by escaping from or modifying these spaces so as to expand their activities within them. Through a close analysis of homes, churches, and public spaces, Mosterman shows that, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the region's Dutch communities were engaged in a daily struggle with Black New Yorkers who found ways to claim freedom and resist oppression. Spaces of Enslavement writes a critical and overdue chapter on the place of slavery and resistance in the colony and young state of New York.

"Spaces of Enslavement is clearly written, lucid, and compelling. Andrea C. Mosterman makes an essential contribution to the scholarship on early Black New York, and offers an argument about space and enslavement that will be relevant to scholars of slavery throughout the Atlantic World."—Susanah Shaw Romney, New York University, author of New Netherland Connections "Andrea C. Mosterman's argument about public and personal spaces among the Afro-Dutch in New Netherland and New York expands our understanding of slavery in the North. Drawing on Dutch language and Dutch Reformed sources, Spaces of Enslavement exceeds current work on African American interactions with the Dutch."— Graham Hodges, Colgate University, author of Black New Jersey

Andrea C. Mosterman is Associate Professor of Atlantic History and Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History at the University of New Orleans. Mosterman's articles have appeared in, among others, The Journal of African History and Early American Studies.

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Wilsonian Visions The Williamstown Institute of Politics and American Internationalism after the First World War James McAllister

In Wilsonian Visions, James McAllister recovers the history of the most influential forum of American liberal internationalism in the immediate aftermath of the First World War: The Williamstown Institute of Politics. Established in 1921 by Harry A. Garfield, the president of Williams College, the Institute was dedicated to promoting an informed perspective on world politics even as the United States, still gathering itself after World War I, retreated from the Wilsonian vision of active involvement in European political affairs. Located on the Williams campus in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, the Institute's annual summer session of lectures and roundtables attracted scholars, diplomats, and peace activists from around the world. Newspapers and press services reported the proceedings and controversies of the Institute to an American public divided over fundamental questions about US involvement in the world. In an era where the institutions of liberal internationalism were just taking shape, Garfield's institutional model was rapidly emulated by colleges and universities across the US. McAllister narrates the career of the Institute, tracing its roots back to the tragedy of the First World War and Garfield's disappointment in America's failure to join the League of Nations. He also shows the Progressive Era origins of the Institute and the importance of the political and intellectual relationship formed between Garfield and Wilson at Princeton University in the early 1900s. Drawing on new and previously unexamined archival materials, Wilsonian Visions restores the Institute to its rightful status in the intellectual history of US foreign relations and shows it to be a formative institution as the country transitioned from domestic isolation to global engagement. James McAllister is the Fred Greene Third Century Professor of Political Science at Williams College and the author of No Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943–1954.

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"In this thoughtful book, James McAllister explores a key moment when academics and practitioners wrestled with questions of great currency: war, disarmament, imperialism, and international cooperation among them. The questions that animated the discussions at the Williamstown Institute of Politics continue to shape our public life today."—Katherine A. S. Sibley, Saint Joseph's University, editor of A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover "James McAllister's eminently readable and deeply researched account of the career of Harry Garfield, the Institute of Politics's founder and moving spirit, throws light on the origins as well as on the continuing influence of Wilsonianism in interwar America."— John A. Thompson, Cambridge University, author of A Sense of Power "Wilsonian Visions provides an overdue and necessary exploration of the interwar Institute of Politics (IOP) at Williams College. With no similar work on the topic, it fills an important niche that assures it will connect with other research on the interwar years, internationalism, and US political life."—David Ekbladh, Tufts University, author of The Great American Mission

Faith in Freedom Propaganda, Presidential Politics, and the Making of an American Religion Andrew R. Polk

In Faith in Freedom, Andrew R. Polk argues that the American civil religion so many have identified as indigenous to the founding ideology was, in fact, the result of a strategic campaign of religious propaganda. Far from being the natural result of the nation's religious underpinning or the later spiritual machinations of conservative Protestants, American civil religion and the resultant "Christian nationalism" of today were crafted by secular elites in the middle of the twentieth century. Polk's genealogy of the national motto, "In God We Trust," revises the very meaning of the contemporary American nation. Polk shows how Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, working with politicians, advertising executives, and military public relations experts, exploited denominational religious affiliations and beliefs in order to unite Americans during the Second World War and, then, the early Cold War. Armed opposition to the Soviet Union was coupled with militant support for free economic markets, local control of education and housing, and liberties of speech and worship. These preferences were cultivated by state actors so as to support a set of right-wing positions including anti-communism, the Jim Crow status quo, and limited taxation and regulation. Faith in Freedom is a pioneering work of American religious history. By assessing the ideas, policies, and actions of three US Presidents and their White House staff, Polk sheds light on the origins of the ideological, religious, and partisan divides that describe the American polity today. Andrew R. Polk is Associate Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

"Faith in Freedom offers of a broad overview of the religious revivals of the 1930s-1950s and their political origins, chronicling an important story of mid-twentieth century religion and politics."—Mark Edwards, Spring Arbor University, author of The Right of the Protestant Left "American Presidents, currying popular support, appeal to religiosity. Is that cynicism or shrewdness? Andrew R. Polk takes discussions of religion and politics in new directions. After reading Faith in Freedom one discerns an 'American theology' crafted by Mad Men who never stepped inside a religious institution."—Raymond J. Haberski, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, author of Evangelization to the Heart "Andrew R. Polk offers a new look at a pivotal period in American political history, and a fresh perspective on the relationships among religion, politics, and media. Faith in Freedom is an important read for scholars interested in how these areas intersect."—Julia Azari, Marquette University, author of Delivering the People's Message

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Developing Mission Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China Joseph W. Ho

In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space—tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. He is coeditor of War and Occupation in China.

"Developing Mission is a finely textured study of US missionary practices in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Joseph W. Ho artfully uses photography and film to elucidate the influence of Christian expansionism and its place in the modern world. A wonderful read."—Hiroshi Kitamura, College of William & Mary, author of Screening Enlightenment "Weaving the history of technology and culture together with the history of cross-cultural/religious encounters, Joseph W. Ho tells a great story. Developing Mission sheds new light on the literature of the history of US missionaries in China."—Motoe Sasaki, Hosei University, author of Redemption and Revolution

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD

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The Reagan Moment America and the World in the 1980s edited by Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles

In The Reagan Moment, the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had lasting effects on international relations: The United States went from a creditor to a debtor nation; democracy crested in East Asia and returned to Latin America; the People's Republic of China moved to privatize, decentralize, and open its economy; Osama bin Laden founded Al Qaeda; and relations between Washington and Moscow thawed en route to the Soviet Union's dissolution. The Reagan Moment places US foreign relations into global context by examining the economic, international, and ideational relationships that bound Washington to the wider world. Editors Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles bring together a cohort of scholars with fresh insights from untapped and declassified global sources to recast Reagan's pivotal years in power. Contributors: Seth Anziska, James Cameron, Elizabeth Charles, Susan Colbourn, Michael De Groot, Stephanie Freeman, Christopher Fuller, Flavia Gasbarri, Mathias Haeussler, William Inboden, Mark Atwood Lawrence, Elisabeth Mariko Leake, Melvyn P. Leffler, Evan D. McCormick, Jennifer Miller, David Painter, Robert Rakove, William Michael Schmidli, Sarah Snyder, Lauren Frances Turek, James Wilson

Jonathan R. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the US Air War College. Follow him on Twitter @JRHunTx. Simon Miles is Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is author of Engaging the Evil Empire.

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"The Reagan Moment is the authoritative text on the world Ronald Reagan's administration played a part in making. It covers all of the policies, people, and places of this crucial era. This book is impressive."—Timothy Andrews Sayle, University of Toronto, author of Enduring Alliance "The Reagan Moment showcases the work of a rising generation of scholars born not long before the Berlin Wall fell. With diverse eyes, the authors contributing to this compelling volume encourage us to take a new look at these critical years in the 1980s."—Jason Parker, Texas A&M University, author of Hearts, Minds, Voices "Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles have gathered a stimulating collection of essays, from a new generation of US historians, on Ronald Reagan's policies across all regions of the world."—Kristina Spohr, London School of Economics, author of Post Wall, Post Square

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Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War Henry Richard Ma ar III

In Freeze!, Henry Richard Maar III chronicles the rise of the transformative and transnational Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Amid an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement emerged sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world. The solution for the arms race that the Campaign proposed: a bilateral freeze on the building, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons on the part of two superpowers of the US and the USSR. That simple but powerful proposition stirred popular sentiment and provoked protest in the streets and on screen from New York City to London to Berlin. Movie stars and scholars, bishops and reverends, governors and congress members, and, ultimately, US President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev took a stand for or against the Freeze proposal. With the Reagan administration so openly discussing the prospect of winnable and survivable nuclear warfare like never before, the Freeze movement forcefully translated decades of private fears into public action. Drawing upon extensive archival research in recently declassified materials, Maar illuminates how the Freeze campaign demonstrated the power and importance of grassroots peace activism in all levels of society. The Freeze movement played an instrumental role in shaping public opinion and American politics, helping establish the conditions that would bring the Cold War to an end. Henry Richard Ma ar III is Lecturer in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and California State University, Northridge. Follow him on Twitter @HMaar.

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"Rigorous and compelling, Freeze! excavates the history of the nuclear freeze movement in its political, social, and cultural dimensions. Henry Richard Maar III clearly shows the impact of the movement on electoral politics, Congress, and elements of American policy-making."—Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin, author of The Impossible Presidency "Freeze! deftly explores one of the most influential peace campaigns of the Cold War. Henry Richard Maar III successfully embeds the story of the Freeze campaign within the larger history of US diplomacy, politics, and the mass culture of nuclear weaponry during the 1970s and 1980s."—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of War against War "Freeze! is a deeply researched, tightly written political history. Henry Richard Maar III shows how a grassroots movement that, on the surface, failed in its aim of a complete nuclear freeze, transformed political and diplomatic discussions and helped end the Cold War."—Amy J. Rutenberg, Iowa State University, author of Rough Draft

An American Brothel Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Amanda Boczar

In An American Brothel, Amanda Boczar considers sexual encounters between American servicemen and civilians throughout the Vietnam War, and she places those fraught and sometime violent meetings in the context of the US military and diplomatic campaigns. In 1966, US Senator J. William Fulbright declared that "Saigon has become an American brothel." Concerned that, as US military involvement in Vietnam increased so, too, had prostitution, black market economies, and a drug trade fueled by American dollars, Fulbright decried an arrogance of power on the part of Americans and the corrosive effects unchecked immorality could have on Vietnam as well as on the war effort. The symbol, at home and abroad, of the sweeping social and cultural changes was often the South Vietnamese bar girl. As the war progressed, peaking in 1968 with more than half a million troops engaged, the behavior of soldiers off the battlefield started to impact the conflict more broadly. Beyond the brothel, shocking revelations of rapes and the increase in marriage applications complicated how the South Vietnamese and American allies cooperated and managed social behavior. Strictures on how soldiers conducted themselves during rest and relaxation time away from battle further eroded morale of disaffected servicemen. The South Vietnamese were loath to loosen moral restrictions and feared deleterious influence of a permissive western culture on their society. From the consensual to the coerced, sexual encounters shaped the Vietnam War. Boczar shows that these encounters— sometimes facilitated and sometimes banned by the US military command—restructured the South Vietnamese economy, captivated international attention, dictated military policies, and hung over diplomatic relations during and after the war.

"Fascinating and compelling, An American Brothel gives voice to two underrepresented actors in the Vietnam War story: the RVN government and ordinary South Vietnamese women. Amanda Boczar offers a new and interesting periodization of Vietnam War history."—Heather Marie Stur, University of Southern Mississippi, author of Beyond Combat "Amanda Boczar offers new, groundbreaking insights into the experience of the Viet Nam War. An American Brothel shows how sexuality and intimacy between Vietnamese and Americans shaped US-Viet Nam relations, from policy to everyday life."—Judy TzuChun Wu, University of California, Irvine, author of Radicals on the Road

Amanda Boczar is Manager, Library Operations at University of South Florida Libraries, Tampa Special Collections. She holds a PhD in Diplomatic History from the University of Kentucky. Follow her on Twitter @amandaboczar. THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD

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Helping Soldiers Heal How the US Army Created a Learning Mental Health Care System Jayak anth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany

Helping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike. Jayakanth Srinivasan and Christopher Ivany provide a unique insider-outsider perspective as key participants in the process, sharing how they confronted the challenges firsthand and helped craft and guide the unfolding change. The Army's system was being overwhelmed with mental health problems among soldiers and their family members, impeding combat readiness. The key to the transformation was to apply the tenets of "learning" health care systems. Building a learning health care system is hard; building a learning mental health care system is even harder. As Helping Soldiers Heal recounts, the Army overcame the barriers to success, and its experience is full of lessons for any health care system seeking to transform. Jayak anth Srinivasan is Research Associate Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy. He is the coauthor of Beyond the Lean Revolution. Follow him on Twitter @jk_srini. Colonel (Ret.) Christopher Ivany, a clinician and researcher, spearheaded the Army's transformation of its mental health care system between 2013 and 2017, headed innovation for the Defense Health Agency, and is now a senior executive with a civilian behavioral health system.

ILR PRESS THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF HEALTH CARE WORK

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"Helping Soldiers Heal is a candid and at times brutally honest look at how the Army mental health care system sought to transform itself to meet the mental and behavior health care needs of service members and their families during the longest war in US history. Readers, both in and outside of academia, deserve to learn from this part of history."—Carl Castro, University of Southern California

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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure The Sad History of American Business Schools Steven Conn

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn's Nothing Succeeds Like Failure examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them. Beginning with founding of the Wharton School in 1881, Conn measures these schools' aspirations against their actual accomplishments and tells the full and disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations, and educational mistakes. Conn then poses a set of crucial questions about the role and function of American business schools. The results aren't pretty. Posing a set of crucial questions about the function of American business schools, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is pugnacious and controversial. Deeply researched and fun to read, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure argues that the impressive façades of business school buildings resemble nothing so much as collegiate versions of Oz. Conn pulls back the curtain to reveal a story of failure to meet the expectations of the public, their missions, their graduates, and their own lofty aspirations of producing moral and ethical business leaders.

"Conn's overall position on B-School failures is clear . . . few have done so using a historical lens so rich in anecdote."—Times Higher Education "Steven Conn is a respected historian, and Nothing Succeeds Like Failure deserves high praise."—Choice "Conn draws upon his scholarly skills to tell this story with a light touch. A lively choice for readers who are skeptical of the claims of business schools to train leaders with an ethical perspective."—Library Journal "Historian Steven Conn has produced a gleeful roast of the American business school."—History of Education Quarterly

Steven Conn is W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University. He is author of numerous books, including, most recently, Americans against the City.

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Thomas Mann’s War Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters Tobias Boes WINNER OF THE DAAD/GSA BOOK PRIZE

In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having f led his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters. Tobias Boes is Associate Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Formative Fictions. Follow him on Twitter @tobiasboes.

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"Boes's exhaustive, meticulous survey should come to represent an exemplar for scholarship seeking to document the lasting significance of an author's work."—Publishers Weekly "Boes's superb account is based on extensive archival research, including Mann's personal letters, as well as keen assessments of his novels."—The National Interest "Thomas Mann's War is important and timely. It is a reminder that literature is one of the first things to come under attack when authoritarianism takes hold, something for which there is ample evidence in our present moment, from China to Russia, from Turkey to Saudi Arabia."—The Wall Street Journal

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Thomas Mann and the Fate of Democracy in the Age of World War II

Tobias Boes

lthough we rarely remember it today, the American intervention in World War II was hardly driven by an idealistic desire to spread freedom and democracy throughout the world. Without the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States might well not have entered the conflict at all. In fact, American society during the years immediately prior to 1941 was deeply divided about its role in a changing world order. Did the democratic constitution of the United States, along with its immigrant heritage, saddle it with a moral obligation to combat authoritarianism abroad? Or would it be better to continue the policy of isolationism that had governed U.S. foreign policy for much of its history? This was the time of Father Coughlin’s anti-Semitic radio-addressed and of mass rallies by the isolationist America First Committee. But it was also the time of courageous interventions by outspoken public figures, such as the journalist Dorothy Thompson or the polymath Lewis Mumford. At times, the contrast was direct and dramatic. On September 25, 1938, for example, almost 30,000 people assembled in New York’s Madison Square Garden to protest the impending Munich Agreement, and to urge the U.S. government not to surrender Czechoslovakia to the Nazis. Less than half a year later, an equivalent number of American Nazi supporters came together in the very same venue, raising their arms in the Hitler salute and parading swastika banners in front of a giant portrait of George Washington. My book, Thomas Mann’s War, focuses on a chapter from this larger history that has so far received very little attention in the United States: the anti-fascist activities of the Nobel-prize winning novelist Thomas Mann, who arrived in America as an exile from Nazi Germany in 1938. For much of his career, Mann had been celebrated on this continent in an unpolitical fashion, as simply “the Greatest Living Man of Letters.” During the period from 1938 to 1945, however, he was acclaimed as “Hitler’s Most Intimate Enemy.” He gave speeches in front of capacity crowds all over the country. He published essays and letters to the editor of major newspapers. He recorded radio broadcasts. And he met with President Roosevelt, won the acclaim of cabinet officials and Supreme Court Justices, and testified in front of Congress. These activities have so far received comparatively little attention in part because their impact is difficult

to quantify. No policies were changed, and no armies were launched, on account of Mann’s interventions. But Mann knew that his proper task was not to spur direct action. Instead, he took it to be his mission to help overcome democracy’s biggest weakness: the fact that it does not inspire the same devotion that totalitarian ideologies do. What mattered most about his speeches thus wasn’t their content, but their symbolic character, and the fact that they brought ordinary Americans together in a celebration of freedom and equality. This strikes me as a remarkably prescient lesson also for the present day, in which enthusiasm for democratic institutions is once again in global decline. The example of Thomas Mann is prescient in other ways as well. He was celebrated in America in no small part because he was regarded as a spokesperson for the German cultural tradition, and thus as a legitimate competitor to the propaganda apparatus of the Nazis. This is something that we still do today: when countries at the other end of the world move to the center of U.S. foreign policy, we turn to artists in the hopes that they might tell us what the situation there is really like. Whenever we read an essay or open letter by Salman Rushdie on Modi’s India, or by Elif Shafak on Erdogan’s Turkey, we thus engage with literary authors in a way that was largely pioneered by Thomas Mann.

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Saved at the Seawall Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift Jessica DuLong foreword by Mitchell Zuckoff

Saved at the Seawall is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered stranded commuters, residents, and visitors out of harm's way. Even before the US Coast Guard called for "all available boats," tugs, ferries, dinner boats, and other vessels had sped to the rescue from points all across New York Harbor. In less than nine hours, captains and crews transported nearly half a million people from Manhattan. Anchored in eyewitness accounts and written by a mariner who served at Ground Zero, Saved at the Seawall weaves together the personal stories of people rescued that day with those of the mariners who saved them. DuLong describes the inner workings of New York Harbor and reveals the collaborative power of its close-knit community. Her chronicle of those crucial hours, when hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, highlights how resourcefulness and basic human goodness triumphed over turmoil on one of America's darkest days. Initially published as Dust to Deliverance, this edition, released in time for the twentieth anniversary, contains new updates: a preface by DuLong and a foreword by Mitchell Zuckoff. Jessica DuLong is a journalist, historian, book collaborator, and ghostwriter, as well as chief engineer, emerita of the retired 1931 New York City fireboat, John J. Harvey. Her first book, My River Chronicles, won an American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award for Memoir. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, CNN.com, Newsweek International, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, Newsday, and Maritime Reporter and Engineering News.

"The details are palpable, and told with skill."—tugster: a waterblog "Saved at the Seawall is more than a book about September 11. It is a story of work, New York Harbor, and how the skills and mindsets that mariners developed over many years were summoned up on a terrible morning."—New Books Network "DuLong's carefully researched book chronicles the response from the water and the evacuation efforts as 'boat crews evacuated an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 civilians in less than nine hours,' making it the largest water evacuation in history. DuLong focuses on eyewitness accounts with an unfiltered writing style that captures the quick decision-making required while in the middle of sensory overload, chaos, and devastation."— Hippocampus Magazine

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Catching up withJessica Dulong What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

"Early recordings captured the fresh pain expressed in pinched or raspy voices."

Time creates distance from the raw emotion unleashed by disasters. This can make it difficult to document, after the fact, the shock and horror of historical events like the cascade of catastrophe that unfolded in Manhattan on September 11. I could hear that distance in recordings made in the immediate aftermath versus years later. Early recordings captured the fresh pain expressed in pinched or raspy voices. Some people raced through their words while others had slowed, almost slurred speech. In later recordings, those same individuals sounded more relaxed, yet somewhat muted. It was clear through the telling who had and had not recounted their stories many times before What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now? I wish I’d known earlier that if traditional narrative methodologies don’t serve your story, it can help to consider your readers’ ability to spot constellations in a sky full of stars. Through reporting and writing

Saved at the Seawall, I stitched together characters, exposition, and scenes to reveal a panoramic event in all its complexity. Inspired by pointillist painting, I came to see the stories I was sharing as a constellation with each individual mariner or survivor as a single point of light. By tuning in to readers’ needs and questions, I took advantage of the mind’s capacity to blend thematically linked details into a full, sweeping story. How do you wish you could change the field? Years ago, I attended a history conference in New York State. I was surprised to discover how many fascinating-sounding talks wound up being dry presentations stripped of all the elements of a good story. The story is what I love about history and I wish that the craft of narrative was a more integral part of the field. This would help grant greater public access to all the gloriously detailed minutiae and the complex, thoughtful analyses of the past. Instead, too many enchanting truths discovered through years or even decades of dedicated research remains siloed in academia rather than accessible to a wider audience.

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Legendary Real Estate: Stuyvesant Town Daniel R. Garodnick

uring my twelve years as a member of the New York City Council, I had the occasion to represent 160,000 Manhattanites at City Hall, to engage residents of all corners of New York City as a candidate for Speaker of the Council in 2013, and to explore substantive areas that ranged from tenants rights to consumer protections and police reforms. But no issue or challenge quite compared to the battle that we fought to save Stuyvesant Town. Built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as housing for veterans returning from World War II, Stuyvesant Town, and Peter Cooper Village is the largest rental community in the United States and home to about 30,000 mostly middle-class people on the East Side of Manhattan. For nearly sixty years it had stood as a beacon for middle-income New Yorkers, a place to enjoy a stable and affordable life in the heart of Manhattan. Under the care of “Mother Met,” as Met Life was known to tenants, with stable and affordable rents, it was a quiet enclave designed to resemble suburban living, where people could safely raise their kids. Then, in July 2006, at the height of the real estate boom, Met Life announced that it would put it all up for sale. Their marketing materials emphasized the opportunity for a new owner to transform the drab and nondescript buildings into a luxury enclave. In October 2006, bidders from across the globe participated in a white-hot auction that bid the property over $5 billion dollars, billions more than what experts had been predicting. When the dust settled in October 2006, Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock emerged as the winners, paying a record-shattering $5.4 billion in a deal that would go down in the books as the largest residential real estate transaction in American history. Unfortunately, a sale of this magnitude could only be justified with a business plan that would seek to drive up rents and drive out existing tenants. Almost immediately, our fears were confirmed. Tishman Speyer had borrowed $4.4 billion to buy Stuy Town and had to find a way to generate more revenue from the property to pay back their enormous debts. In short, this deal did not pencil out unless they got the people who paid the lowest rents out of their units, and fast. Over the course of a decade, the newly-energized Tenants Association and I used every ounce of leverage that we could find. We assembled our own competitive BEHIND THE BOOK

bid to buy the property on behalf of the tenants themselves—and did it twice. We defended the interests of residents who found themselves subject to legal claims, we litigated and won the biggest tenant victory in the New York Court of Appeals in a generation, and we were courted by nearly all of the major real estate players across the globe. Ultimately we put ourselves in a position to strike a deal that would preserve thousands of units as affordable housing for the next generation. How did the tenants of Stuy Town get from a place where tenants were being threatened with eviction to a place where the largest real estate entities in the world were fighting to join forces with us? This is the story of a community with a history of activism banding together to fight back against corporate greed and excess, and how the real estate world concluded that working with the tenants would yield a better outcome than fighting with them. The negotiations played out both in public and in private over many years, and the process was often choppy and sometimes bitterly contentious. The result was an extraordinary outcome for middle-class New Yorkers.

Saving Stuyvesant Town How One Community Defeated the Worst Real Estate Deal in History Daniel R. Garodnick

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From city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class community defeated the largest residential real estate deal in American history. Lifetime Stuy Town resident and former City Councilman Dan Garodnick recounts how his neighbors stood up to mammoth real estate interests and successfully fought to save their homes, delivering New York City's biggest-ever affordable housing preservation win. In 2006, Garodnick found himself engaged in an unexpected battle. Stuyvesant Town was built for World War II veterans by MetLife, in partnership with the City. Two generations removed, MetLife announced that it would sell Stuy Town to the highest bidder. Garodnick and his neighbors sprang into action. Battle lines formed with real estate titans like Tishman Speyer and BlackRock facing an organized coalition of residents, who made a competing bid to buy the property themselves. Tripped-up by an over-leveraged deal, the collapse of the American housing market, and a novel lawsuit brought by tenants, the real estate interests collapsed, and the tenants stood ready to take charge and shape the future of their community. The result was a once-in-a-generation win for tenants and an extraordinary outcome for middle-class New Yorkers. Garodnick's colorful and heartfelt account of this crucial moment in New York City history shows how creative problem solving, determination, and brute force politics can be marshalled for the public good. The nine-year struggle to save Stuyvesant Town by these residents is an inspiration to everyone who is committed to ensuring that New York remains a livable, affordable, and economically diverse city. Daniel R. Garodnick is the former New York City Council Member representing the East Side of Manhattan. He now serves as President & CEO of Riverside Park Conservancy. Follow him on Twitter @dangarodnick.

"Saving Stuyvesant Town is the inspiring story of how one middle-class community fought back, against all odds, to resist corporate excess and delivered an incredible result for New York City. Stuyvesant Town's future is tied to the future of New York, and Dan Garodnick's book is a must-read."—Chuck Schumer, US Senator "A must-read for all New Yorkers interested in our current housing affordability challenges. Dan Garodnick describes the ongoing activism at Stuy Town and inspires readers to fight for affordable housing, to push to end racial segregation, and to ensure there's a permanent place in NYC for working families."—Christie Peale, CEO & Executive Director, Center for New York City Neighborhoods "Saving Stuyvesant Town is a New York story and a story of American cities. Dan Garodnick is a street fighter for a place that all New Yorkers can call home, and for a city where we're all in it together."—Janette Sadik-Khan, author of Streetfight

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Pursuing respect in the Cannibal Isles Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji Nancy Shoemaker

WINNER OF THE JOHN LYMAN BOOK AWARD

Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States inf luence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference. Nanc y Shoemaker of the University of Connecticut is a historian of Native American history. Her books include A Strange Likeness, Native American Whalemen and the World, and an edited collection of historical documents and oral histories called Living with Whales. While investigating whaling history, she broadened her interests to include the history of the US in the world, especially in the Pacific.

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"Full of colorful and detailed stories, this study reveals the personal motivations that propelled 19th-century American expansions in the Pacific world. It is an excellent supplement to existing scholarship."—Choice "Shoemaker is a master at microhistory. Delving into ship logs, captains' journals, merchant reports, and consul papers, Shoemaker recreates the voyages and passengers embarking to Fiji in the mid-nineteenth century."—Diplomatic History "In her fascinating new book, Nancy Shoemaker reveals how Americans' activities on Fiji had the cumulative effect of extending the global reach of American capitalism and cultural imperialism."—The New England Quarterly "Now one of our most daring and interesting historians of indigenous peoples and colonialism asks how the pursuit of respect helped propel US expansion into the Pacific. Nancy Shoemaker's answers pry open the personal motivations that helped power a world of transformation and trauma in the nineteenth century. An engrossing, elegant, and important book."—Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley johno

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A Wild Idea How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks Br ad Edmondson

A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North Country's environmental movement started among a small group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame multiple obstacles to "save" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes, and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition from local landowners who insisted that private property is private. A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich, exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were "saved," and also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion. Br ad Edmondson is the author of Environmental Affairs in New York State, Ice Cream Social, and Postwar Cornell. Visit bradedmondson.com for more information.

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"Edmondson has told his complicated story well. He writes clearly, shows a grasp of broad swaths of information and opinion, and capably explains how the various players evolved in their thinking. A Wild Idea merits the attention of everyone deeply interested in the Adirondack region."—Adirondack Daily Enterprise "Brad Edmondson's thoroughly researched book details the difficult process behind the enactment of this law."—Albany Times Union "Brad Edmondson, the author of A Wild Idea, published to coincide with the anniversary of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's signing of the APA bill on June 25, 1971, reminds us how broadly popular environmentalism was in the early 70s, unifying a nation still fractured along generational, cultural and political fault lines."—The Lake George Mirror "A Wild Idea is essential reading for anyone interested in how human beings can coexist in reasonable harmony with our natural world."—Adirondack Explorer

Catching up with Brad Edmondson What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

“I came to historical writing through journalism, not academia.”

In 1971, Louis Papparazzo wanted to build a 7,000-unit development in the middle of the wild Adirondack Park. He hired a graduate student to write an environmental impact statement. The EIS was an untested idea, and Papparazzo probably didn’t know or care what he would say. George Davis didn’t want to see the development built, but he needed the money. Davis’s survey of Papparazzo’s land tested the method he would use a year later, when he lead a team that made detailed maps of the six-million-acre park. His research powered the largest regional land use plan ever enacted, and in 1973, the new Adirondack Park Agency cancelled Papparazzo’s plans. What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now?

newspapers, also known as “morgues,” are usually far better than microfilm, which is often spotty and illegible. Morgues can also contain reporters’ notes and other one-of-a-kind goodies. If you’re making a deep dive into a local subject and you can get to a newspaper morgue, go there first. How do you wish you could change the field? I came to historical writing through journalism, not academia. I’d like to see less theory and more story. The first thing they teach you in a newsroom is “show, don’t tell.” In other words, the best way for a writer to communicate a big idea is to tell a story that brings the idea to life. I would change the field by encouraging young historians to develop the skills of reporters and use evidence to support their theoretical constructs. Imaginative research and great sources yield far better material than does mere intellectual brilliance.

I knew that journalism is often called “the first draft of history.” But I didn’t know that a newspaper’s house archives are often the best source for detailed information about a local topic. The clipping files maintained by local

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Follies in America A History of Garden and Park Architecture Kerry Dean Carso

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations. Kerry Dean Carso is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature. Follow her on Twitter @kerrydeancarso.

"Clearly written and persuasive, Follies in America broadens and illuminates our understanding of architecture by bringing together literature and the arts. This book is full of memorable anecdotes about things that are generally overlooked but all around us."—Francis Kowsky, SUNY Buffalo State College, author of Country, Park, and City "Kerry Dean Carso digs below the surface whimsy of nineteenth century American follies, identifying the various meanings the ubiquitous structures have embodied. Interdisciplinary in scope, Follies in America reveals the serious role the ostensibly useless buildings have played in contemporary social and cultural discourses on urbanization, industrialization, and what it means to be American."—Sara A. Butler, Roger Williams University, co-author of University of Virginia: The Campus Guides "Follies in America deepens our appreciation of seemingly incidental structures erected in the American landscape from the earliest days of the nation."—Michael Olmert, University of Maryland, author of Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies

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Architectural Follies Help Us Enjoy Nature

Kerry Dean Carso

ecently, people have spent more time outdoors exploring nature as a safe activity during the pandemic, including such pursuits as hiking and gardening. Architecture often accentuates our experience of nature: for instance, gazebos and prospect towers frame the view and guide us to lookout points with particularly fine scenery. Perhaps we give little thought to these diminutive buildings, but as human marks upon the landscape, they have a fascinating history and can tell us a great deal if we look a bit closer. My illustrated book, Follies in America, examines an understudied building type, the architectural folly. Follies are small-scale buildings that are non-essential in that they do little more than ornament a landscape and provide a view (they are often referred to as “belvederes” for this reason). Follies originated in eighteenth-century England where aristocrats built temples, towers, summerhouses (today known as gazebos), and sham ruins to lead viewers through the landscape through a series of views. These follies were historicized and were meant to spark reverie about the passage of time. With its democratic founding principles, the United States might seem an unlikely place to find follies. But my research led me to discover that this building type was very popular in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century America, especially as a symbol of gentility. Having a folly on your property suggested you had the leisure time to enjoy it. A particularly elaborate folly suggested great wealth. A single building sparked my interest in looking for American follies: Kingfisher Tower in Cooperstown, New York, designed by the architect Henry Hardenbergh in 1876 for Edward Clark, who made his fortune with the Singer Manufacturing Company. When I first saw this little medievalized tower on Otsego Lake, it reminded me of the follies that ornament the famous landscape gardens of Stowe and Stourhead in England. Now featured on the cover of my book, Kingfisher Tower inspired me to look for other nineteenth-century follies in America (and I found a lot of them!). Not all are extant, of course, so I relied on nineteenth-century photographs, prints, paintings, architectural drawings, and written descriptions to uncover their stories. Even before the pandemic, a resurgence of interest in follies took shape in the late twentieth century with the advent of postmodernism in architectural design. Follies

can be idiosyncratic and even eccentric, and their playful nature appealed to architectural sensibilities bored by the orthodox tenets of high modernism. In recent years, folly exhibitions have taken place at Olana, the historic house museum of famed Hudson River School artist Frederic Church; Storm King Art Center, featuring the follies of contemporary artist Mark Dion; and the Winterthur Museum, among others (my recent exhibition review details the latter two). Follies have made appearances in film and television, including Downton Abbey. And follies—fun, fantastic, and inherently photogenic—make perfect backdrops for selfies in the age of Instagram. In other words, the interest in follies shows no evidence of slowing down. So, get out there and enjoy the views. Follies will show the way.

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Oil Money Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of US Empire, 1967–1988 David M. Wight

In Oil Money, David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East–US relations during the 1970s and 1980s: the transformation of the US global empire by Middle East petrodollars. During these two decades, American, Arab, and Iranian elites reconstituted the primary role of the Middle East within the global system of US power from a supplier of cheap crude oil to a source of abundant petrodollars, the revenues earned from the export of oil. In the 1970s, the United States and allied monarchies, including the House of Pahlavi in Iran and the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia, utilized petrodollars to undertake myriad joint initiatives for mutual economic and geopolitical benefit. These petrodollar projects were often unprecedented in scope and included multibillion-dollar development projects, arms sales, purchases of US Treasury securities, and funds for the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Although petrodollar ties often augmented the power of the United States and its Middle East allies, Wight argues they also fostered economic disruptions and state-sponsored violence that drove many Americans, Arabs, and Iranians to resist Middle East–US interdependence, most dramatically during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Deftly integrating diplomatic, transnational, economic, and cultural analysis, Wight utilizes extensive declassified records from the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations, the IMF, the World Bank, Saddam Hussein's regime, and private collections to make plain the political economy of US power. Oil Money is an expansive yet judicious investigation of the wide-ranging and contradictory effects of petrodollars on Middle East–US relations and the geopolitics of globalization. David M. Wight is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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"Oil Money offers a rich, thorough and sophisticated description of how petrodollar interdependence has shaped and transformed modern international relations, global capitalism and U.S. hegemony, or as Wight prefers to call it, the American "cooperative empire." [I]t provides us with a fundamental introduction to one of the driving forces behind today's world and its many contradictions."—The Washington Post "Covering new ground in describing US foreign policy, David M. Wight examines the cultural and political meanings that different parties attached to economic change. The ways that Oil Money contextualizes economic inequality is of central importance in the aftermath of Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring."—Nathan J. Citino, Rice University, author of Envisioning the Arab Future "David M. Wight's conclusions help us understand more fully the embroilment of the United States in the Middle East during the last decades of the twentieth century. In Oil Money, Wight deftly presents a rich and compelling history."—Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley, author of A Superpower Transformed

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The Ends of Modernization Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era David Johnson Lee

The Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights protection, neoliberalism, and sustainability. Using archival material, newspapers, literature, and interviews with historical actors in countries across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, Lee demonstrates how conf lict between the United States and Nicaragua shaped larger international development policy and transformed the Cold War. In Nicaragua, the backlash to modernization took the form of the Sandinista Revolution which ousted President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in July 1979. In the wake of the earlier reconstruction of Managua after the devastating 1972 earthquake and instigated by the revolutionary shift of power in the city, the Sandinista Revolution incited radical changes that challenged the frankly ideological and economic motivations of modernization. In response to threats to its ideological dominance regionally and globally, the United States began to promote new paradigms of development built around human rights, entrepreneurial internationalism, indigenous rights, and sustainable development. Lee traces the ways Nicaraguans made their country central to the contest over development ideals beginning in the 1960s, transforming how political and economic development were imagined worldwide. By illustrating how ideas about ecology and sustainable development became linked to geopolitical conflict during and after the Cold War, The Ends of Modernization provides a history of the late Cold War that connects the contest between the two then-prevailing superpowers to trends that shape our present, globalized, multipolar world. David Johnson Lee teaches US and Latin American history in Philadelphia.

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"Well written and effectively organized, The Ends of Modernization offers an enlightening view of the evolution of US modernization theory and policy in the second half of the twentieth century. David Johnson Lee makes a valuable contribution to his field."— Thomas F. O'Brien, University of Houston, author of The Making of the Americas "In The Ends of Modernization, David Johnson Lee convincingly argues that the Sandinista revolution offers an excellent case through which to examine and complicate the history of ideologies of development. Lee is a creative thinker with a writer's sensitivity to the nuances of language."—Max Paul Friedman, American University, author of Rethinking Anti-Americanism

Catching up with David Johnson Lee What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

“The field of history is not alone in facing a massive crisis in academic precarity.”

The first time I traveled to Nicaragua to do research, I stumbled upon an exhibition commemorating Managua’s earthquake in 1972. Dozens of people were gathered in the city’s mall around images of the old city that had been wrecked by the disaster, reminiscing about places that were still alive in popular memory. I went on to research more deeply into the process of reconstruction and discovered that the earthquake was not solely responsible for destroying the old city. The country’s dictator and international aid agencies had in fact completed the destruction, using the reconstruction process to deepen authoritarian control in the country. These themes of historical memory, disaster, and power all came to shape my thinking as I expanded my research into Nicaragua’s place in the history of international development. What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now? I sometimes wish that I had known the dimensions my book would take, as it expanded from an investigation of Managua’s earthquake and its aftermath,

so that I could have better prepared for the work involved. It became a study of the transformation of theories and practices international development spurred by the relationship between Nicaragua and the United States, from the 1960s until the present. I am also grateful that I was unaware of these dimensions when I started, as the scope of the book grew organically from asking questions I could never have anticipated that grew out of archival research, interviews, and experiences all over Latin America and the United States. How do you wish you could change the field? The field of History is not alone in facing a massive crisis in academic precarity. However, living through the series of calamities that constitute our present, it is disturbing to know that we are losing a generation’s worth of scholars and scholarship that could help us understand the present and future in light of the past. I wish that more scholars had the resources and support necessary to continue the vital work that is necessary now more than ever.

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Resisting Independence Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic Br ad A. Jones

In Resisting Independence, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities—New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland—Jones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies. Jones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting task—to refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation's claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the beliefs and ideals that framed their loyalty to the Crown and previously drew together Britain's vast Atlantic empire. Resisting Independence describes the formation and spread of this new transatlantic ideology of Loyalism. Loyal subjects in North America and across the Atlantic viewed the American Revolution as a dangerous and violent social rebellion and emerged from twenty years of conflict more devoted to a balanced, representative British monarchy and, crucially, more determined to defend their rights as British subjects. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, as their former countrymen struggled to build a new nation, these loyal Britons remained convinced of the strength and resilience of their nation and empire and their place within it. Br ad A. Jones is Professor of History at California State University, Fresno.

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"The indispensable contribution of Resisting Independence is its deft mapping of a Loyalist ideology in Glasgow, Halifax, Kingston, and New York City that sparked disagreements over the meaning of Loyalism itself. Brad A. Jones's argument challenges readers to think more precisely about the act of proclaiming allegiance in the Revolutionary Atlantic."— Rachel Herrmann, Cardiff University, author of No Useless Mouth "Resisting Independence is a truly original book. By considering a loyalism that connected New York City, Glasgow, Kingston, and Halifax, Brad A. Jones deftly shows the important parallels between loyalist politics in the thirteen colonies with the politics of British America and Scotland."—Andrew O'Shaughnessy, University of Virginia, author of The Men Who Lost America

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Stranger Citizens Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic John McNelis O'Keefe

Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative time, lawmakers attempted to shape citizenship and the place of immigrants in the new nation, while granting the national government new powers such as deportation. John McNelis O'Keefe argues that despite the challenges of public and official hostility that they faced in the late 1700s and early 1800s, migrant groups worked through lobbying, engagement with government officials, and public protest to create forms of citizenship that worked for them. This push was made not only by white men immigrating from Europe; immigrants of color were able to secure footholds of rights and citizenship, while migrant women asserted legal independence, challenging traditional notions of women's subordination. Stranger Citizens emphasizes the making of citizenship from the perspectives of migrants themselves, and demonstrates the rich varieties and understandings of citizenship and personhood exercised by foreign migrants and refugees. O'Keefe boldly reverses the top-down model wherein citizenship was constructed only by political leaders and the courts. Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other Open Access repositories.

"John McNelis O'Keefe considers the experiences and activities of migrant populations, and reveals their bottom-up efforts to mold policies and laws to their own advantage. Migrants played an important but previously overlooked role in the changing nature of citizenship. O'Keefe's focus in Stranger Citizens is as valuable as it is fascinating."— Robert W. T. Martin, Hamilton College, author of Government by Dissent "Stranger Citizens offers a history of some of the most pressing issues facing the United States today: who can be a citizen, and who decides? Focusing on the early American republic, O'Keefe emphasizes the federal government's role in defining the rights of citizens and non-citizens."—Johann Neem, Western Washington University, author of Creating a Nation of Joiners

John McNelis O'Keefe is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University-Chillicothe. Follow him on Twitter @johnokdc.

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The Currency of Empire Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America Jonathan Barth

In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other Open Access repositories. Jonathan Barth is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. He has published in numerous journals including William & Mary Quarterly and New England Quarterly.

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"Jonathan Barth deftly uses the words of England's treatise writers and policy makers to illuminate the central role of silver and gold in making seventeenth-century empires. His clear and compelling narrative in The Currency of Empire shows that getting and investing money triggered struggles for political power, state security, and conquests abroad."—Cathy Matson, Director, Program in Early American Economy and Society "The Currency of Empire fills a significant gap in the literature. Jonathan Barth's book offers a compelling new and important interpretation of currency in trans-Atlantic economies at the end of the 17th century that is deeply researched, well focused, and persuasive."—Farley Grubb, University of Delaware, author of German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709–1920 "Well-written, engaging, and startling, The Currency of Empire takes a new and insightful approach to the study of currency issues in early America and the development of an imperial state in British America."—Trevor Burnard, University of Hull, author of Jamaica in the Age of Revolution

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Catching up with Jonathan Barth What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

“One of my broader aims in this book is to modeal a new way of doing monetary history.”

There are several great anecdotes in this book of colonial resistance to laws against smuggling and piracy. Smuggling and toleration of piracy was immensely attractive because it allowed for more coin to circulate within the colony. For instance, in Boston in 1684, the imperial customs collector alleged that the wealthiest merchant in the city, Samuel Shrimpton, threatened “to have my Brains beat out or a stab for seizing” a pirate ship laden with gold and silver coin. Also in Boston, in 1693, the governor, Sir William Phips, and a throng of fifty men laid “violent hands” on the customs collector for seizing an illegal sloop, “pushing and dragging him [the customs collector] about the wharfe… striking him severall blows” with a cane, and with “Barbarous Language threatening to beat him until he broke all his bones.”

and labor that goes into publishing a book: not only on the research and writing end, but also on the production end. It is a massive endeavor! How do you wish you could change the field? One of my broader aims in this book is to model a new way of doing monetary history, one that moves beyond numismatics and strictly quantitative inquiry by appealing to the humanities’ preference for qualitative analysis. Studies of money and finance, historically, have fallen under the jurisdiction of economics, often couched in jargon. I hope to show—through this case study of the seventeenth century—that money greatly matters in history, that currency is deeply embedded into the political and cultural fabric of society. Money deserves a more prominent seat at the historians’ table.

What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now? This is my first book. I did not realize when I first started the immense time

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Fulfilling the Sacred Trust The UN Campaign for International Accountability for Dependent Territories in the Era of Decolonization Mary Ann Heiss

Fulfilling the Sacred Trust explores the implementation of international accountability for dependent territories under the United Nations during the early Cold War era. Although the Western nations that drafted the UN Charter saw the organization as a means of maintaining the international status quo they controlled, newly independent nations saw the UN as an instrument of decolonization and an agent of change disrupting global political norms. Mary Ann Heiss documents the unprecedented process through which these new nations came to wrest control of the United Nations from the World War II victors that founded it, allowing the UN to become a vehicle for global reform. Heiss examines the consequences of these early changes on the global political landscape in the midst of heightened international tensions playing out in Europe, the developing world, and the UN General Assembly. She puts this anti-colonial advocacy for accountability into perspective by making connections between the campaign for international accountability in the United Nations and other postwar international reform efforts such as the anti-apartheid movement, Pan-Africanism, the NonAligned Movement, and the drive for global human rights. Chronicling the combative history of this campaign, Fulfilling the Sacred Trust details the global impact of the larger UN reformist effort. Heiss demonstrates the unintended impact of decolonization on the United Nations and its agenda, as well as the shift in global influence from the developed to the developing world. Mary Ann Heiss is Associate Professor at Kent State University. She is author of Empire and Nationhood.

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"Fulfilling the Sacred Trust constitutes a precise, serious, and rigorous intervention in a very prominent field of inquiry at present, the history of international organizations and global governance. I can't think of a better portrayal of what actually happens on the UN's higher levels of debate and diplomacy."—Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia, author of Mecca of Revolution "Mary Ann Heiss has written a genuinely terrific examination of trusteeship and colonialism, illuminating the complex and contested struggle between United States, Great Britain, and the UN's new members after World War II. Her book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand the Cold War and decolonization."—Ryan Irwin, SUNY Albany, author of Gordian Knot

Catching up with Mary Ann Heiss What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

“I must leave it to others to tell that side of the decolonization story."

I’m not sure I would describe it as an anecdote, but I distinctly recall the moment when, while perusing the UN General Assembly agendas for the chronological span of my book (1945-1963), it became clear to me what a wonderful lens the UNGA is for following international option on just about any topic in postwar world history. Race, gender, the environment, natural resources, even outer space, can all be studied by following how the GA dealt with them.

that side of the decolonization story. How do you wish you could change the field? I do hope my book helps to confirm the legitimacy of studying sites of soft power like the UN General Assembly. Because UNGA resolutions carry no force of law and can be ignored without penalty, they’re often dismissed as unimportant. I hope my book demonstrates the folly of such thinking by making it clear that those resolutions are important ref lections of world opinion.

What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now? I wish I had had a better sense when I started this research of the role that organizations like NATO and the European Community played when it came to the sorts of colonial questions addressed in my book. Although neither organization exerted much inf luence on UN policy, they both took stands on issues relevant to the United Nations’ handling of decolonization. Unfortunately, my appreciation of the importance of those organizations’ positions came late in the day, and I must leave it to others to tell

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Catching up with Michael A. Barnhart

“This book is a guide for instructors who want to try using simulations as teaching tools."

What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

How do you wish you could change the field?

My work on this book brought back childhood memories. My interest in history came from my early fascination with wargames, which I discovered in a Woolworth’s department store for the then-impossibly expensive sum of five dollars. Many chores and one Christmas later, I had my prize.

I hope that many teachers who have had little or no interest in military history, or who consider the field as nothing more than “drums and bugles,” will rethink the usefulness of using the lessons of conf lict and cooperation—keys to any military organization—in their teaching even on non-military subjects.

What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now? The book is a guide for instructors who want to try using simulations as teaching tools. So the hardest part in writing it was getting the balance right, not so tightly focused on my own experience as to be unhelpful, but not so broad as to be little better than bromides and boilerplate.

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Can You Beat Churchill? Teaching History through Simulations Michael A. Barnhart

How do you get students to engage in a historical episode or era? How do you bring the immediacy and contingency of history to life? Michael A. Barnhart shares the secret to his award-winning success in the classroom with Can You Beat Churchill?, which encourages role-playing for immersive teaching and learning. Combating the declining enrollment in humanities classes, this innovative approach reminds us how critical learning skills are transmitted to students: by reactivating their curiosity and problem-solving abilities. Barnhart provides advice and procedures, both for the use of off-the-shelf commercial simulations and for the instructor who wishes to custom design a simulation from scratch. These reenactments allow students to step into the past, requiring them to think and act in ways historical figures might have. Students must make crucial or dramatic decisions, though these decisions need not align with the historical record. In doing so, they learn, through action and strategic consideration, the impact of real individuals and groups of people on the course of history. There is a quiet revolution underway in how history is taught to undergraduates. Can You Beat Churchill? hopes to make it a noisy one.

"Can You Beat Churchill? offers an invaluable road map for creating historical simulations for the college classroom, demonstrating the choices, pitfalls, and stop signs that every game author needs to consider."—Mary Jane Treacy, Simmons University, author of Greenwich Village, 1913 "Both an argument and a how-to manual, Can You Beat Churchill? is a forthright and robust effort to extend a new pedagogical approach into broad swatches of the liberal arts curriculum."—Mark C. Carnes, Barnard College, author of Minds on Fire

Michael A. Barnhart is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Japan and the World since 1868 and Japan Prepares for Total War.

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Strike the Hammer The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970 L aur a Warren Hill

On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the Hammer examines the unrest—rebellion by the city's Black community, rampant police brutality—that would radically change the trajectory of the Civil Rights movement. After overcoming a violent response by State Police, the fight for justice, in an upstate town rooted in black power movements, was reborn. That resurgence owed much to years of organizing and resistance in the community. Laura Warren Hill examines Rochester's long Civil Rights history and, drawing extensively on oral accounts of the northern, urban community, offers rich and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition. Augmenting oral testimonies with records from the NAACP, SCLC, and the local FIGHT, Strike the Hammer paints a compelling picture of the foundations for the movement. Now, especially, this story of struggle for justice and resistance to inequality resonates. Hill leads us to consider the social, political, and economic environment more than fifty years ago and how that founding generation of activists left its mark on present-day Rochester. L aur a Warren Hill is Associate Professor of History at Bloomfield College. She is the co-editor of The Business of Black Power and has published in Journal for the Study of Radicalism and Journal of African American History. Follow her on Twitter @Mohojolo.

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Pursuing Truth How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland Mary J. Oates

In Pursuing Truth, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life. Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes these critical pedagogical practices by focusing on Notre Dame of Maryland University, formerly known as the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the first Catholic college in the United States to award female students four-year degrees. The sisters and laywomen on the faculty and in the administration at Notre Dame of Maryland persevered in their work while facing challenges from the establishment of the Catholic Church, mainline Protestant churches, and secular institutions. Pursuing Truth presents the stories of the institution's female founders, administrators, and professors whose labors led it through phases of diversification. The pattern of institutional development regarding the place of religious identity, gender and sexuality, and race that Oates finds at Notre Dame of Maryland is a paradigmatic story of change in US higher education. Similarly representative is her account of the school's effort, from the late 1960s to the present, to maintain its identity as a women's liberal arts college.

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Thanks to generous funding from the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other Open Access repositories. Mary J. Oates is Research Professor Emerita of Economics at Regis College and author of The Catholic Philanthropic Tradition in America.

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Saving the Overlooked Continent American Protestant Missions in Western Europe, 1940–1975 Hans Kr abbendam

Among a wide spectrum of American Protestants, the horrors of World War II triggered grave concern for Europe's religious future. They promptly mobilised resources to revive Europe's Christian foundation. Saving the Overlooked Continent reconstructs this surprising redirection of Western missions. For the first time, Europe became the recipient of America's missionary enterprise. The American missionary impulse matched the military, economic, and political programs of the US, all of which positioned the United States to become Europe's dominant partner and point of cultural reference. One result was the importation of the internal conflicts that vexed American Protestants theological—tensions between modernists and traditionalists, and organisational competition between established churches and independent parachurch associations. Europe was offered a new slate of options that sparked civic and ecclesiastical responses. But behind these contending religious networks lay a considerable overlap of goals and means based on a shared missionary trajectory. By the mid-1960s, most Protestant American agencies admitted that the expectation of a religious revival had been too optimistic despite their initiatives having led to an integration of Europe in the global evangelical network. The agencies reconsidered their assumptions and redefined their strategies. The initial opposition between inclusive and exclusive approaches abated, and the path opened to a sustained cooperation among once-fierce opponents. Hans Kr abbendam is Director of the Catholic Documentation Centre at the Radboud University and scholar of US religious history.

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Under the Strain of Color Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry Gabriel N. Mendes

In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, a New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. Mendes shows the clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes to a growing body of scholarship that highlights the interlocking relationships among biomedicine, institutional racism, structural violence, and community health activism. Gabriel N. Mendes is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of California, San Diego.

"Under the Strain of Color is a much-needed addition to the historiography of race and psychiatry in the USA. Mendes has artfully crafted what should become the standard account of this remarkable, short-lived, Cold War–era medical institution. A slim volume that is jargon-free and as entertaining as a novel, I can see it widening the audience for both medical humanities and the history of psychiatry."—History of Psychiatry "Mendes' narrative has serious contemporary analogues. It is a cautonary tale about how and why minority communities fail to gain assistance for their needs asthey define them."—Journal of Religious Health "This well-researched, easy to read text is compelling, providing a comprehensible overview of the relationship between racism and the psychiatric profession in the midcentury US."—Choice

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American Catholic The Politics of Faith During the Cold War D. G. Hart

American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did Roman Catholics shift from being perceived as un-American to emerging as the most vocal defenders of the United States as the standard bearer in world history for political liberty and economic prosperity? D. G. Hart charts the development of the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and American conservatism, and shows how these two seemingly antagonistic ideological groups became intertwined in advancing a certain brand of domestic and international politics. Contrary to the standard narrative, Roman Catholics were some of the most assertive political conservatives directly after World War II, and their brand of politics became one of the most influential means by which Roman Catholicism came to terms with American secular society. It did so precisely as bishops determined the church needed to update its teaching about its place in the modern world. Catholics grappled with political conservatism long before the supposed rightward turn at the time of the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Hart follows the course of political conservatism from John F. Kennedy, the first and only Roman Catholic president of the United States, to George W. Bush, and describes the evolution of the church and its influence on American politics. By tracing the roots of Roman Catholic politicism in American culture, Hart argues that Roman Catholicism's adaptation to the modern world, whether in the United States or worldwide, was as remarkable as its achievement remains uncertain. In the case of Roman Catholicism, the effects of religion on American politics and political conservatism are indisputable. D. G. Hart is Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He is the author of Damning Words and Calvinism. Follow him on Twitter @Oldlife.

"Hart observes that Catholic conservatism got its voice in the 1960s: William F. Buckley, Brent Bozell, and then later Michael Novak, John Neuhaus, and finally George Weigel made Catholicism truly American."—Choice "American Catholic explores in greater depth how the Catholic and political strands of history are intertwined, and I think it is especially important and notable that D.G. Hart, a historian who is not among the 'usual suspects' working on US Catholic history, takes on this task."—James McCartin, author of Prayers of the Faithful "The story of midcentury American political life is to a surprising extent the story—or stories—of a handful of brilliantly original Catholic writers and thinkers. They're all vibrantly present in D. G. Hart's important and illuminating book and so are the arguments, debates, and quarrels that continue to shape our country's clash of ideologies and faiths."—Sam Tanenhaus, author of Death of Conservatism

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Cry of Murder on Broadway A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York Julie Miller

In Cry of Murder on Broadway, Julie Miller shows how a woman's desperate attempt at murder came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic and social upheaval and expanding expectations for equal rights. On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the steps of the new and luxurious Astor House Hotel. Agitated and distraught, Norman had followed Ballard down Broadway before confronting him at the door to the hotel. Taking out a folding knife, she stabbed him, just missing his heart. Ballard survived the attack, and the trial that followed created a sensation. Newspapers in New York and beyond followed the case eagerly, and crowds filled the courtroom every day. The prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child championed Norman and later included her story in her fiction and her writing on women's rights. The would-be murderer also attracted the support of politicians, journalists, and legal and moral reformers who saw her story as a vehicle to change the law as it related to "seduction" and to advocate for the rights of workers. Cry of Murder on Broadway describes how New Yorkers, besotted with the drama of the courtroom and the lurid stories of the penny press, followed the trial for entertainment. Throughout all this, Norman gained the sympathy of New Yorkers, in particular the jury, which acquitted her in less than ten minutes. Miller deftly weaves together Norman's story to show how, in one violent moment, she expressed all the anger that the women of the emerging movement for women's rights would soon express in words. Julie Miller is the author of Abandoned. She taught in the history department at Hunter College, City University of New York, before moving to Washington, DC.

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A Midwestern Day of the Dead Zachary Jack

ach time I pass the “Elvis Lives!” curbside shrine on the Lincoln Highway in Clarence, Iowa, I’m reminded of the artistry of our homegrown Day of the Dead. On Main, the King’s albums, spray-painted platinum, pinwheel above the killer fins of a Pink Cadillac. Mind you, it’s not just Elvis and Marilyn, those resident souls of Middle America’s Heartbreak Hotels, to whom we pay our respects each November, but also to our own, those we lay to rest with whatever personal effects promise to survive the coming winter—seed-corn cap, sewing needle, worry stone. This year, as Halloween, All Saints’ Day, and the Day of the Dead culminate a grim election season, I’m reminded of the damaging double standard directed at our homegrown Midwestern Gothic. For decades, rural and small-town Americans have quietly endured downin-the-mouth cultural representations of them as, in effect, Yesterday’s People—human embodiments of the rusty, dusty Mobil Oil and Coca-Cola signs kept alive in the antiquaries on which today’s gentrified Pickers depend. And yet despite our native talent for recognizing the fragility of things, for conserving, for marking pasts and passings, rural Midwesterners are consistently labeled Debby Downers, irredeemable nostalgics, and cultural dinosaurs. To hear the nation’s cognoscenti tell it, we’re wild-eyed and willful hold-outs preferring Rip Van Winkle sleep over the excitations of being culturally woke. Despite the widespread culture-shaming of us for our alleged obsession with the past, our sincere veneration of ancestors who’ve passed on to the “other side,” and yet guide us still, makes us exceptionally alive. I’ve spent November nights deep in the rural cementerios of Michoacán, Mexico, feeling right at home, as the blessed Dead are honored in a ritual known as the “wake of the deceased.” At the Torneos de Calaveras or “tournaments of the skulls,” the good people of Patzcuaro, Mexico, pay poetic tribute to their kin with dark humor that would suit Garrison Keillor’s Lake Woebegone or Grant Wood’s American Gothic. In rural Mexico, fatalism is elevated to folkway. It is a funereal art kept alive without shame or sinister association with cultural conservatism. In fact, throughout Latin America fatalism as artful and authentic as we practice it here gets cheered, yet coastal Americans often condemn our version as darkly déclassé—the Way of the BEHIND THE BOOK

Gray and Aged living out their interminable days in the cultural and political purgatory they call Flyover Country. The value we assign our blithe spirits can be seen in the privileged position we grant our necropolises—not swept to the side as they are in the so-called Places-ofthe-Now, but plunked down on the main road into town, occupying the kind of prime real estate urban planners might reserve for Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Such placement requires that we pass our dearly departed each day on the way to and from gas and groceries, joy and sadness mixing there with the hard shock of memory, mixing with the mundane to-do lists of the living. Such tangible emotions fly in the face of hurtful regional stereotypes that depict us as woefully repressed and wholly unfeeling. In an age of cultural sensitivity whose time has come, is it not possible for a steadfast-in-death people to have as our calling card not joie de vivre but sens-de-morte? This is what it means to live out the truth in the phrase: the haunt of home. We erect roadside staves and lay out benefit spreads for elders recently passed, for the martyred young on their crosses who will never have a highway named after them nor steal a warm kiss beneath frozen blankets. For them we don our coveralls and overboots and eat soup, our elbows resting heavily on fold-out tables in the afterlife of some community center or high school gymnasium. Our coming together to eat and bow our heads is a prayer for safe passage, for the inextinguishable thing that warms us here, together.

The Haunt of Home A Journey through America's Heartland Zachary Michael Jack

What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourish in many of the nation's most far-flung and forgotten places. The Haunt of Home introduces us to a cast of real-life Midwestern characters grappling with the Gothic in their own lives, from promising young professionals debating the perennial "Should I stay or should I go" dilemma, to recent émigrés and entrepreneurs seeking personal reinvention, to faithful boosters determined to keep their communities alive despite the odds. In The Haunt of Home Zachary Michael Jack considers the many ways a region's abiding spirit shapes the ethos of a land and its people, offering portraits of others who, like himself, are determined to live out the unique promise and predicament of the Gothic. Zachary Michael Jack is an award-winning author of many books, including, most recently Country Views and Wish You Were Here. Jack is Professor of English at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, a seventh-generation Iowan, and a member of the board of directors for the Midwestern History Association.

"This story of fatalism on the prairie is seamlessly grounded in references to American art, literature, and movies and to communal fatalism in classical literature. In this way, Zachary Jack's experiences become universal, extending far beyond Middle America."—James Ballowe, author of A Man of Salt and Trees "Often beautiful and insightful."—Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City "Whether interviewing an Illinois casketmaker, an Iowa pastry chef, a retired Kansas banker, his farmer father, or just himself, Jack touches on the universal experience of exploring alternatives while understanding ourselves. He suggests we avoid abstract, distant, and often urban agendas, and preserve the home places which ultimately define us."—David Pichaske, author of Bones of Bricks and Mortar "Jack makes a persuasive and elegant argument for the Middle American Gothic, detailed by writers and artists native to the region."—Maurice Manning, author of Railsplitter

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Engaging the Evil Empire Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War Simon Miles

In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities. The received wisdom in diplomatic circles is that the beginning of the end of the Cold War came from changing policy preferences and that President Reagan in particular opted for a more conciliatory and less bellicose diplomatic approach. In reality, Miles clearly demonstrates, Reagan and ranking officials in the National Security Council had determined that the United States enjoyed a strategic margin of error that permitted it to engage Moscow overtly. As US grand strategy developed, so did that of the Soviet Union. Engaging the Evil Empire covers five critical years of Cold War history when Soviet leaders tried to reduce tensions between the two nations in order to gain economic breathing room and, to ensure domestic political stability, prioritize expenditures on butter over those on guns. Miles's bold narrative shifts the focus of Cold War historians away from exclusive attention on Washington by focusing on the years of back-channel communiqués and internal strategy debates in Moscow as well as Prague and East Berlin. Simon Miles is Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

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Shredding Paper The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry Michael G. Hill ard

From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the industry eventually slid toward failure. What happened? Shredding Paper unwraps the changing US political economy since 1960, uncovers how the paper industry defined and interacted with labor relations, and peels away the layers of history that encompassed the rise and fall of Maine's mighty paper industry. Michael G. Hillard deconstructs the paper industry's unusual technological and economic histories. For a century, the story of the nation's most widely read glossy magazines and card stock was one of capitalism, work, accommodation, and struggle. Local paper companies in Maine dominated the political landscape, controlling economic, workplace, land use, and water use policies. Hillard examines the many contributing factors surrounding how Maine became a paper powerhouse and then shows how it lost that position to changing times and foreign interests. Through a retelling of labor relations and worker experiences from the late nineteenth century up until the late 1990s, Hillard highlights how national conglomerates began absorbing family-owned companies over time, which were subject to Wall Street demands for greater short-term profits after 1980. This new political economy impacted the economy of the entire state and destroyed Maine's once-vaunted paper industry. Shredding Paper truthfully and transparently tells the great and grim story of blue-collar workers and their families and analyzes how paper workers formulated a "folk" version of capitalism's history in their industry. Ultimately, Hillard offers a telling example of the demise of big industry in the United States. Michael G. Hill ard is Professor of Economics at the University of South Maine.

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The Greek Fire American-Ottoman Relations and Democratic Fervor in the Age of Revolutions Maureen Connors Santelli

The Greek Fire examines the United States' early global influence as the f ledgling nation that inserted itself in conf licts that were oceans away. Maureen Connors Santelli focuses on the American fascination with and involvement in the Greek Revolution in the 1820s and 1830s. That nationalist movement incited an American philhellenic movement that pushed the borders of US interests into the eastern Mediterranean and infused a global perspective into domestic conversations concerning freedom and reform. Perceiving strong cultural, intellectual, and racial ties with Greece, American men and women identified Greece as the seedbed of American democracy and a crucial source of American values. From Maryland to Missouri and Maine to Georgia, grassroots organizations sent men, money, and supplies to aid the Greeks. Defending the modern Greeks from Turkish slavery and oppression was an issue on which northerners and southerners agreed. Philhellenes, often led by women, joined efforts with benevolence and missionary groups and together they promoted humanitarianism, education reform, and evangelism. Public pressure on the US Congress, however, did not result in intervention on behalf of the Greeks. Commercial interests convinced US officials, who wished to cultivate commercial ties with the Ottomans, to remain out of the conflict. The Greek Fire analyzes the role of Americans in the Greek Revolution and the aftermath of US involvement. In doing so, Santelli revises understandings of US involvement in foreign affairs, and she shows how diplomacy developed at the same time as Americans were learning what it meant to be a country, and what that country stood for. Maureen Connors Santelli is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Virginia Community College. Follow her on Twitter @MECSantelli.

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"Highly recommended."—Choice "The Greek Fire is an excellent example of the growing 'global' turn in history of the early republic, and also makes an important contribution to our understanding of the rise of international humanitarianism. Clearly written and well-researched, it deserves a wide readership."—W. Caleb McDaniel, Rice University, author of The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery "The Greek Fire offers a fascinating look at American philhellenism. As with the French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions, the Greek Revolution became an occasion for Americans to reinterpret the legacy of their own revolution. Santelli reveals how the Greek Revolution prompted all Americans to think anew about what it meant to be an American on the world stage and to reexamine domestic political issues including slavery and women's rights from a new angle."—Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University, author of Christian Imperialism

The Struggle for Freedom and Reform: The Legacy of the Greek Revolution Maureen Connors Santelli

Greece will celebrate the bicentennial of its revolution in 2021. While the importance of this anniversary is well known to the Greeks and the Greek diaspora, most Americans are unfamiliar with the role this event played in the United States’ own struggle with freedom and reform. For generations, Americans have fought for a more complete realization of American freedom, democracy, and inclusion. Most recently, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have triggered outrage over the treatment and status of African Americans. The life work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Congressman John Lewis has inspired Americans to continue efforts at guaranteeing equal rights for all. And the ongoing presence of Pro-Confederate monuments within American communities has reignited debates regarding the legacy of slavery in the United States. The legacy of the Greek Revolution intersects with these current battles, sharing a common goal of more completely realizing the promises made in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Greece’s nine-year-long struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire began in 1821. Early Americans proudly thought of themselves as philhellenes, lovers of ancient Greek democracy and culture who supported an independent modern Greece. Citizens of the United States viewed the Greeks as slaves to the Ottoman Turks and desired to assist them with throwing off the Turkish yoke. American newspapers reported on the Turkish enslavement of Greek civilians, especially women, which prompted enthusiastic support from various reform groups. American philhellenes believed they would act as Greece’s secret weapon in their fight for freedom —like modern Greek Fire. As the philhellenic movement in the United States gained momentum, abolitionists pointed out the inherent hypocrisy in supporting the end of slavery abroad while continuing to allow for its existence within their own borders. David Walker, an African American abolitionist, was one of the first to criticize Americans for their condemnation of slavery in the Ottoman Empire while perpetuating its practice within the United States. Other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass would similarly draw connections between Greek and African slavery, using the momentum of the philhellenic movement to expand support for abolition.

Women especially concerned themselves with Greek independence, inserting themselves into conversations regarding humanitarianism and reform. The plight of Greek women and their children prompted efforts at collecting aid for Greek civilians. Female Greek aid societies provided monetary support and funds for education to Greek refugees as well as the construction of schools in Greece. Female education reformers such as Emma Willard held that that the way a nation educated its women revealed how civilized that society was as a whole. In addition to lobbying for female education in the United States, Willard and her supporters helped to provide education to hundreds of Greek children. The status of women in Greece also became infused with the rhetoric of the early women’s rights movement. Lucy Stone Blackwell, for example, began her career as an abolitionist, but after viewing Hiram Powers’ famous statue, The Greek Slave, she converted to supporting both the freedom of slaves as well as women. More than an important anniversary for modern Greeks, the legacy of the Greek Revolution is an American story that links early American and modern conversations regarding reform. The struggle for equal rights for all Americans, however, is not typically connected with the early nineteenth century. The treatment of African Americans at the hands of police and the persisting presence of monuments that eulogize the pro-slavery Confederacy has become central to the most recent arguments regarding the shortcomings of American freedom, democracy, and inclusion in our time. As I argue in my book, The Greek Fire, the legacy of the Greek Revolution transcends its moment in early American history and should be commemorated as part of the long struggle for freedom and reform in the United States.

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Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America Theresa Keeley

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In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns, Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conf lict within the framework of U.S. foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan administration. She challenges the preponderance of scholarship on the administration that stresses the inf luence of evangelical Protestants on foreign policy toward Latin America. Especially in the case of U.S. engagement in El Salvador and Nicaragua, Keeley argues, the bitter debate between U.S. and Central American Catholics over the direction of the Catholic Church shaped President Reagan's foreign policy. The flash point for these intra-Catholic disputes was the December 1980 political murder of four American Catholic missionaries in El Salvador. Liberal Catholics described nuns and priests in Central America who worked to combat structural inequality as human rights advocates living out the Gospel's spirit. Conservative Catholics saw them as agents of class conflict who furthered the so-called Gospel according to Karl Marx. The debate was an old one among Catholics, but, as Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns contends, it intensified as conservative, anticommunist Catholics played instrumental roles in crafting U.S. policy to fund the Salvadoran government and the Nicaraguan Contras. Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns describes the religious actors as human rights advocates and, against prevailing understandings of the fundamentally secular activism related to human rights, highlights religion-inspired activism during the Cold War. In charting the rightward development of American Catholicism, Keeley provides a new chapter in the history of U.S. diplomacy and shows how domestic issues such as contraception and abortion joined with foreign policy matters to shift Catholic laity toward Republican principles at home and abroad. Theresa Keeley is Assistant Professor of U.S. and the World at the University of Louisville.

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"Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns is a fascinating study which places the messiness of religion at its center and illuminates the Catholic dimensions of U.S. policy towards Central America. For scholars of Catholicism, it offers insights into how to study lived religion and gender, as well as how to consider liberation theology in the American context. It is a thought-provoking work, inviting us to grapple with the significance of religion to this particular historical moment."—H-DIPLO "I'd been waiting years for a book like this. In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns Theresa Keeley provides an enormously important take on the Central American conflict and its impact. Her precise snapshots of what socially engaged Christianity really looked like in the 1970s and 1980s are invaluable."— Virginia Garrard, University of Texas, co-author of Latin America and the Modern World "In an innovative analysis that integrates U.S. foreign relations, religion, gender, and competing ideas about development, Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns convincingly demonstrates the centrality of intra-Catholic debates in shaping U.S. policy toward Central America during the Cold War."—William Michael Schmidli, Leiden University, author of The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere

Catching up with Theresa Keeley What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

I gained a better understanding of women and how they viewed their roles as missioners."

Most of my archival trips involve long hours pouring over documents, taking brief breaks to eat alone, and then retiring to a hotel only to repeat the process again the next day. I leave the trip exhausted. One archival visit, however, was different. At Maryknoll, Sister Teresa picked me up from the train station. She arranged for me to stay in a guest room, she made a welcome sign for me, and she left me treats, including homemade cookies. I was her guest—the niece of a “dear friend”—she explained to the other sisters as she escorted me around the Motherhouse. She introduced me during meals and even showed me how to save a seat so that I would not lose my spot while getting food. She arranged for me to meet sisters, especially those who lived in Latin America or who knew the four women who were murdered in El Salvador in December 1980. Each day at the archives, I read about the Maryknoll Sisters. Then, at meals, I often found myself sitting with these same women. They shared their feelings about their time as missioners and the broader political context in which they lived. My time at Maryknoll changed the way I understood the archival documents because

I gained a better understanding of the women and how they viewed their roles as missioners, especially vis-à-vis the governments in the countries in which they served. What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now? My initial response is to say that I wish I knew how long it would take. Truthfully, I wish I had known that I would feel a sense of uneasiness writing about people who are still living or who died not that long ago. As the book’s publication date neared, I wondered, would it have been easier to write about someone like Benjamin Franklin or even Julius Caesar? This project began as a research paper I wrote for myself and a small group. Now, it is out in the world. I have spoken to dozens of people over the last decade about their experiences. Some of them are no longer alive. My hope is that readers will conclude I have accurately represented multiple points of view.

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Principles in Power Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy Vanessa Walker

Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United States government in order to explain the rise of anti-interventionist human rights policies uniquely critical of U.S. power during the Cold War. Walker shows that the new human rights policies of the 1970s were based on a complex dynamic of domestic and foreign considerations that was rife with tensions between the seats of power in the United States and Latin America, and the growing activist movement that sought to reform them. By addressing the development of U.S. diplomacy and politics alongside that of activist networks, especially in Chile and Argentina, Walker shows that Latin America was central to the policy assumptions that shaped the Carter administration's foreign policy agenda. The coup that ousted the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, sparked new human rights advocacy as a direct result of U.S. policies that supported authoritarian regimes in the name of Cold War security interests. From 1973 onward, the attention of Washington and capitals around the globe turned to Latin America as the testing ground for the viability of a new paradigm for U.S. power. This approach, oriented around human rights, required collaboration among activists and state officials in places as diverse as Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Washington, DC. Principles in Power tells the complicated story of the potentials and limits of partnership between government and nongovernment actors. Analyzing how different groups deployed human rights language to reform domestic and international power, Walker explores the multiple and often conflicting purposes of U.S. human rights policy. Vanessa Walker is the Morgan Assistant Professor of Diplomatic History at Amherst College.

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"Principles in Power advances our understanding of human rights and US foreign relations in the late Cold War. Weaving together a broad cast of characters, including policymakers, diplomats, and transnational advocates, Vanessa Walker's insight illuminates the struggle between efforts to reform Cold War policies at home and improve human rights conditions abroad."—William Schmidli, Leiden University, author of The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere "Vanessa Walker carefully unravels the complex interactions among activists, Congress, and the executive branch to show how human rights policy was made under three very different presidencies. An important book that helps us understand the strengths and limits of efforts to create a moral foreign policy."—Barbara J. Keys, Durham University, author of Reclaiming American Virtue

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Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who can rap it best. Lawyers and legal scholars, recognizing the way the musical speaks to some of our most complicated constitutional issues, have embraced Alexander Hamilton as the trendiest historical face in American civics. Hamilton and the Law offers a revealing look into the legal community's response to the musical, which continues to resonate in a country still deeply divided about the reach of the law. A star-powered cast of legal minds—from two former U.S. solicitors general to leading commentators on culture and society—contribute brief and engaging magazine-style articles to this lively book. Intellectual property scholars share their thoughts on Hamilton's inventive use of other sources, while family law scholars explore domestic violence. Critical race experts consider how Hamilton furthers our understanding of law and race, while authorities on the Second Amendment discuss the language of the Constitution's most contested passage. Legal scholars moonlighting as musicians discuss how the musical lifts history and law out of dusty archives and onto the public stage. This collection of minds, inspired by the phenomenon of the musical and the Constitutional Convention of 1787, urges us to heed Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Founding Fathers and to create something new, daring, and different. Lisa A. Tucker is Associate Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University and author of the novel Called On, as well as eleven books for children. She has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, People, Time, and NBC Nightly News.

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"Deeply researched, crisply composed, and highly engaging, this is arguably the best introductory survey available on witchcraft in the early modern English Atlantic. A work of synthesis and innovative scholarship, it will be of interest to neophytes and experts alike."—Choice "Displaying deep knowledge of recent scholarship in cases from both sides of the Atlantic, Paul B. Moyer's study illuminates crucial issues such as the relationship of diabolic and malefic conceptions of witchcraft, the role of gender in witchcraft accusations, and the distinguishing characteristics of witch panics. Detestable and Wicked Arts significantly expands our understanding of the always intriguing topic of New England witchcraft."—Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University, author of 1774 "Providing excellent analysis and insights on New England witchcraft, Paul B. Moyer adds an astute and sorely needed English Atlantic perspective to the field."—Emerson W. Baker, Salem State University, author of A Storm of Witchcraft

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Catching up with Oliver Charbonneau What’s your favorite anecdote from your research for this book?

"Writing the book was a crash course in reading through, around, and against the monolithic archival narratives."

I enjoyed exploring the documents on the relationship between the Ottoman official Wajih al-Kilani and the US colonial administrator John Park Finley. The book details it at length, but, in shortened form, the story involves an American military officer who fostered connections in Constantinople in order to reform Islamic practices in the Southern Philippines. The encounter highlights the global constitution of the US empire in the early twentieth century and suggests the value of looking beyond a colony/metropole binary. What do you wish you had known when you started writing your book, that you know now? I wish I had been more aware of the many challenges presented by the colonial constitution of the archives, particularly in terms of spaces (Mindanao/Sulu) that have been doubly marginalized in overlapping colonial and national discourses. Writing the book was a crash course in reading through, around, and against monolithic archival narratives and continuously broadening the sources I drew from to improve representation. It

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was challenging throughout and taught me a lot that I plan to build on in future projects. How do you wish you could change the field? I hope my work brings more recognition to the United States as an “empire among empires” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both in terms of its settler-colonial and overseas manifestations. In particular, I’d like to see the historiography of the US empire more deeply linked to developments in the European/Japanese/Ottoman empires during the period. Beyond this, I hope the book creates openings for new scholarship on colonialism in the Southern Philippines and, more broadly, generates discussions about the ways that regions are historiographically peripheralized.

Civilizational Imperatives Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World Oliver Charbonneau

In Civilizational Imperatives, Oliver Charbonneau reveals the little-known history of the United States' colonization of the Philippines' Muslim South in the early twentieth century. Often referred to as Moroland, the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao were sites of intense US engagement and laboratories of colonial modernity during an age of global imperialism. Exploring the complex relationship between colonizer and colonized from the late nineteenth century until the eve of the Second World War, Charbonneau argues that American power in the Islamic Philippines rested upon a transformative vision of colonial rule. Civilization, protection, and instruction became watchwords for US military officers and civilian administrators, who enacted fantasies of racial reform among the diverse societies of the region. Violence saturated their efforts to remake indigenous politics and culture, embedding itself into governance strategies used across four decades. Although it took place on the edges of the Philippine colonial state, this fraught civilizing mission did not occur in isolation. It shared structural and ideological connections to US settler conquest in North America and also borrowed liberally from European and Islamic empires. These circuits of cultural, political, and institutional exchange— accessed by colonial and anticolonial actors alike—gave empire in the Southern Philippines its hybrid character. Civilizational Imperatives is a story of colonization and connection, reaching across nations and empires in its examination of a Southeast Asian space under US sovereignty. It presents an innovative new portrait of the American empire's global dimensions and the many ways they shaped the colonial encounter in the Southern Philippines.

"Civilizational Imperatives is the best book that has ever been written about the Southern Philippines. Charbonneau brings a nuanced local knowledge of geography, language, culture, and religion to help us understand the region and its Muslim residents, while also connecting that story to big themes in Asian, Pacific, and world history."—Christopher Capozzola, MIT, author of Bound by War "Oliver Charbonneau has crafted the most comprehensive study so far of the American colonial experience among the Muslims in the southern Philippine island of Mindano."— Patricio N. Abinales, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, author of Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao Narrative

Oliver Charbonneau is Lecturer in American History at the University of Glasgow. Follow him on Twitter @olaferr.

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The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century A Comparative History Martin Crot t y, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele

What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they recognized—or not—by their governments and fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain an elevated postwar status? In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union, China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable policies. The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support. The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future: comparative veteran studies. Martin Crot t y is Associate Professor of History at the University of Queensland and author of Making the Australian Male. Neil J. Diamant is the Walter E. Beach '56 Chair in Political Science and Professor of Asian Law and Society at Dickinson College. He is author of Revolutionizing the Family and Embattled Glory.

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Mark Edele is the Hansen Chair in History at the University of Melbourne and author of, among others, Debates on Stalinism and The Soviet Union. Follow him on Twitter @EdeleMark.

Cinema and the Cultural War US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network Sangjoon Lee

Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously global and regional approach when analyzing the region's film cultures and industries. New economic conditions in the Asian region and shared postwar experiences among the early cinema entrepreneurs were influenced by Cold War politics, US cultural diplomacy, and intensified cultural flows during the 1950s and 1960s. By taking a closer look at the cultural realities of this tumultuous period, Lee comprehensively reconstructs Asian film history in light of the international relationships forged, broken, and re-established as the influence of the non-aligned movement grew across the Cold War. Lee elucidates how motion picture executives, creative personnel, policy makers, and intellectuals in East and Southeast Asia aspired to industrialize their Hollywood-inspired system in order to expand the market and raise the competitiveness of their cultural products. Cinema and the Cultural Cold War demonstrates that the emergence of the first intensive postwar film producers' network in Asia was, in large part, the offspring of Cold War cultural politics and the product of American hegemony. Film festivals that took place in cities as diverse as Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur were annual showcases of cinematic talent as well as opportunities for the Central Intelligence Agency to establish and maintain cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the United States and Asia during the Cold War. Cinema and the Cultural Cold War reanimates this almost-forgotten history of cinema and the film industry in Asia. Sangjoon Lee is Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. He is editor of Rediscovering Korean Cinema.

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"Cinema and the Cultural Cold War expertly utilizes rich archival material to tell a compelling story about cinema in Asia during the Cold War that describes the complexity of the film business and the myriad risks and failures. Read alongside other works such as Day and Liem (2010) and Shaw (2007), Lee's study is ground-breaking. It is a book for researchers and film historians, but also a highly readable story about the history of Cold War cinema."—South East Asia Research "Sangjoon Lee has written an exciting and well-conceived book that makes a compelling case that the dominance of national film industry studies within film and cultural studies has led to the neglect of a fascinating and highly significant transregional network of producers, directors, writers and journalists."—Penny Von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World "Cinema and the Cultural Cold War is an original and impressive study. It uncovers the truly transnational interplay of filmmakers, studio heads, and policy strategists in East and Southeast Asia during the height of the Cold War."—Hiroshi Kitamura, author of Screening Enlightenment

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Crafting History Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy Albena Yaneva

What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a classification scheme is produced, how models and drawings are preserved, and how born-digital material battles time and technology obsolescence. We follow the work of conservators, librarians, cataloguers, digital archivists, museum technicians, curators, and architects, and we capture archiving in its mundane and practical course. Based on ethnographic observation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and interviews with a range of practitioners, including Álvaro Siza and Peter Eisenman, Albena Yaneva traces archiving through the daily work and care of all its participants, scrutinizing their variable ontology, scale, and politics. Yaneva addresses the strategies practicing architects employ to envisage an archive-based future and tells a story about how architectural collections are crafted so as to form the epistemological basis of architectural history. Albena Yaneva is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester and Lise Meitner Visiting Chair at Lund. She is author of several books, including, most recently, Five Ways to Make Architecture Political.

"It is a book you want to hold in your hands and keep in your collection after reading."—Arkitekturkultur "Overall, this is a rich and detailed study which is clearly of value to students of architecture, architectural history, anthropology and archival science. There is also something here for the museum scholar: the book points to the epistemic nature of collecting and, through its granular study of the processes that act upon and form these collections, reveals the interventions and mediations of individuals in the shaping of knowledge. For those working in and researching all types of collecting and memory institutions there is much here that can inform and provide new insights into how such work forms the basis of learning, scholarship and research."—Museum and Society "Crafting History offers a much-needed analysis of what an archive does, and of what relations it is composed. Yaneva's writing is intelligent and accessible, introducing new methodologies for approaching the archive while telling compelling stories along the way."—Hélène Frichot, University of Melbourne, author of Creative Ecologies

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Ideal Minds Raising Consciousness in the Antisocial Seventies Michael Tr ask

Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls "neo-idealism" as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews. In a heterodox intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, Ideal Minds mixes ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical economics, and the sociology of religion. Trask also delves into the decade's more esoteric branches of learning, including Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic channeling, and neo-Malthusianism. Through this investigation, Trask argues that a dramatic inflation in the value of consciousness and autonomy beginning in the 1970s accompanied a growing argument about the state's inability to safeguard such values. Ultimately, the thinkers Trask analyzes—John Rawls, Arne Naess, L. Ron Hubbard, Hal Lindsey, Philip Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Edward Abbey, William Burroughs, John Irving, and James Merrill—found alternatives to statism in conditions that would lend intellectual support to the consolidation of these concepts in the radical free market ideologies of the 1980s.

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Michael Tr ask is the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Cruising Modernism and Camp Sites.

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Heaven’s Interpreters Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America Ashley Reed

In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice. Attending to modes of being and believing in works by Augusta Jane Evans, Harriet Jacobs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner, Reed illuminates how these writers infused the secular space of fiction with religious ideas and debates, imagining new possibilities for women's individual agency and collective action.

"Heaven's Interpreters is a vital contribution to the growing field of feminist studies of the secular. Ashley Reed challenges scholars to take seriously women's religious agency and shows how doing so allows us to analyze, and not simply reinforce, the assumptions of liberalism."—Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois, author of The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories. Ashley Reed is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech. Follow her on Twitter @AshleyKReed.

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Chicago’s Industrial Decline The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975 Robert Lewis

In Chicago's Industrial Decline Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn blighted property into modern industrial sites. At the same time, a more powerful coalition sought to adapt the urban fabric to appeal to middle-class consumption and residential living. As Lewis shows, the two aims were never well integrated, and the result was on-going disinvestment and the inexorable decline of Chicago's industrial space. By the 1950s, Lewis argues, it was evident that the early incarnation of the growth machine had failed to maintain Chicago's economic center in industry. Although larger economic and social forces—specifically, competition for business and for residential development from the suburbs in the Chicagoland region and across the whole United States—played a role in the city's industrial decline, Lewis stresses the deep incoherence of post-WWII economic policy and urban planning that hoped to square the circle by supporting both heavy industry and middleto upper-class amenities in downtown Chicago. Robert Lewis is Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Chicago Made, Calculating Property Relations, and Manufacturing Montreal.

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"Deeply researched, richly detailed, insightfully conceived, and cogently argued, Chicago's Industrial Decline makes an original, important contribution to urban, planning, and industrial history"—Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania, author of Engineering Philadelphia "Chicago's Industrial Decline provides a fresh look at industrial decline in Chicago and an introduction to further study across the industrial Midwest."—Dominic A. Pacyga, Columbia College Chicago, author of Chicago

Embattled River The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism David Schuyler

In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern environmentalism in the United States. Writing fifty-five years after Consolidated Edison announced plans to construct a pumped storage power plant at Storm King Mountain, Schuyler recounts how a loose coalition of activists took on corporate capitalism and defended the river. As Schuyler shows, the environmental victories on the Hudson had broad impact. In the state at the heart of the story, the immediate result was the creation in 1970 of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to monitor, investigate, and litigate cases of pollution. At the national level, the environmental ferment in the Hudson Valley that Schuyler so richly describes contributed directly to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, and the creation of the Superfund in 1980 to fund the cleanup of toxic-dumping sites. With these legal and regulatory means, the contest between environmental advocates and corporate power has continued well into the twenty-first century. Indeed, as Embattled River shows, the past is prologue. The struggle to control the uses and maintain the ecological health of the Hudson River persists and the stories of the pioneering advocates told by Schuyler provide lessons, reminders, and inspiration for today's activists. David Schuyler was Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College. Schuyler is author of numerous books, including the award-winning Sanctified Landscape.

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"Places the Hudson at the center of the larger movement to preserve what is left of America the beautiful. Packed with details about the river's recent environmental history."—Lancaster Online "Exhaustively researched. A serious storyteller who plays by the stringent rules of the historian, Schuyler expertly weaves his many strands into a 360-degree view."—Hudson Valley One "Anyone interested in the Hudson River Valley—even those who think themselves well-versed in these topics—will find something of value in this well-researched and nicely written book. Perhaps most valuable is Schuyler's reminder that rivers have the potential to bind together disparate places and diverse individuals in powerful environmental coalitions."—The Hudson River Valley Review "Embattled River fills a historiographical niche by bringing the Hudson Valley's regional history of environmentalist action up to the present. Overall, Schuyler's writing is both clear and accessible, and the relatively short chapter lengths make Embattled River a pleasure to read."—Environmental History

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The Military Enlightenment War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon Christ y Pichichero

The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice. Christ y Pichichero is Assistant Professor of French at George Mason University.

"Pichichero's fascinating book surveys efforts to create a more rational, humane system of military discipline, to articulate rules of war to protect wounded soldiers and noncombatants, and to regenerate French society through the promotion of the virtues of heroism and patriotism through all strata of society."—Choice "Christy Pichichero's work significantly changes our understanding of the French Enlightenment's relationship with war."—HSoz-u-Kult redaktion "Pichichero traces the fervent debates in French society about how best to wage war during the eighteenth century. The Military Enlightenment is a tour de force and deserves a broad readership."—H-War "Provide[s] fascinating new perspectives on the cultural history of war in the early modern period."—The American Historical Review "Pichichero has produced a nuanced work of military, intellectual and cultural history."— The English Historical Review

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They Will Have Their Game Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic Kenneth Cohen WINNER OF THE SHEAR BOOK PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC

In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished correspondence, and material and visual evidence, Cohen demonstrates how investors, participants, and professional managers and performers from all sorts of backgrounds saw these "sporting" activities as stages for securing economic and political advantage over others. They Will Have Their Game tracks the evolution of this fight for power from 1760 to 1860, showing how its roots in masculine competition and risk-taking gradually developed gendered and racial limits and then spread from leisure activities to the consideration of elections as "races" and business as a "game." The result reorients the standard narrative about the rise of commercial popular culture to question the influence of ideas such as "gentility" and "respectability," and to put men like P. T. Barnum at the end instead of the beginning of the process, unveiling a new take on the creation of the white male republic of the early nineteenth century in which sporting activities lie at the center and not the margins of economic and political history. Kenneth Cohen is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Delaware

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"In this highly readable scholarly work, Cohen offers a descriptive study in power and hierarchy in American society from 1750 to 1860 and the evolving role of 'sporting culture' in their expression. Well-chosen and well-placed reproductions of period artwork illustrate socialization between social groups and the exclusionary divides that increasingly restricted participation by women, black slaves, and freemen."—Choice "They Will Have Their Game offers a compelling description of the process by which sporting culture emerged in eastern North America. . . . political and cultural historians should read it, and they should do so with care."—William & Mary Quarterly "The book is gracefully written, and a large number of well-chosen illustrations add to the narrative. They Will Have Their Game has many strengths. Perhaps most impressive is the research, especially in letters and legal records, which captures a level of detail I would not have thought possible."—Journal of the Early Republic

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To Kill Nations American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction Edward A. K apl an

In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950–1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy. Kaplan throws into question both the inevitability and preferability of the strategic doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural, institutional, and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they could win a nuclear war and the cold institutional logic of the suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for the marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of ballistic missiles. Edward K apl an is Associate Professor at the Army War College. He is coeditor of Atlas for Introduction to Military History and editor of High Flight.

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"In To Kill Nations Edward Kaplan describesa long process of evolution and adaptation as U.S. political and military leaders grappled with integrating nuclear weapons into national defense after World War II. Strikingly, he sees not a sudden revolution but a gradual process of incremental changes in military preparedness policy and action."—Journal of American History "There are many other studies of weapons development and Eisenhower and Kennedy's approaches to national defense. The great strength of Kaplan's is his tracing of the evolution of US policy in response to perceived Soviet capabilities. He astutely demonstrates how the Berlin and Cuban missile crises exposed the drawbacks of preparing primarily for an atomic war with the Soviet Union.To Kill Nations will enlighten readers seeking an intelligent overview of the evolution of airpower strategy in the first twenty-five years of the Cold War as well as, more specifically, President Eisenhower's New Look security policy and Robert McNamara's influence on national security strategy during the Kennedy administration."—Michigan War Studies Review

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Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate Rodney A. Smoll a

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the "summer of hate." Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights. Smolla has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia's law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity's initiation rituals included gang rape. Smolla has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses. Well before the tiki torches cast their ominous shadows across the nation, the city of Charlottesville sought to relocate the Unite the Right rally; Smolla was approached to represent the alt-right groups. Though he declined, he came to wonder what his history of advocacy had wrought. Feeling unsettlingly complicit, he joined the Charlottesville Task Force, and he realized that the events that transpired there had meaning and resonance far beyond a singular time and place. Why, he wonders, has one of our foundational rights created a land in which such tragic clashes happen all too frequently? Rodney A. Smoll a is Dean and Professor of Law at the Delaware Law School of Widener University and is the author of numerous books, including The Constitution Goes to College, Deliberate Intent, and Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt. He is a nationally known scholar and writer and has presented oral argument in state and federal courts across the country.

"It's hard to imagine a mayor or police chief who—in planning for the arrival of controversial figures—wouldn't profit from Smolla's account of the cascade of missteps in Charlottesville."—Kirkus Reviews "Smolla's book is a remarkable examination of the intersection of history, law, speech, violence, and hate. It may be the definitive work on what can be wrought by hate speech and, in the face of that, why free speech remains important."—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "This book is dazzling in its interweaving of such a rich tapestry of information and analysis, told in the form of mesmerizing stories. This book should be read by everyone from Supreme Court Justices to high school students."—Nadine Strossen, Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, author of HATE

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Last Subway The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City Philip Mark Plotch

Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. He explains how a series of uninformed and self-serving elected officials have fostered false expectations about the city's ability to adequately maintain and significantly expand its transit system. Since the 1920s, New Yorkers have been promised a Second Avenue subway. When the first of four planned phases opened on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 2017, subway service improved for tens of thousands of people. Riders have been delighted with the clean, quiet, and spacious new stations. Yet these types of accomplishments will not be repeated unless New Yorkers learn from their century-long struggle. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects. However, it is also a cautionary tale for cities. Plotch reveals how false promises, redirected funds and political ambitions have derailed subway improvements. Given the ridiculously high cost of building new subways in New York and their lengthy construction period, the Second Avenue subway (if it is ever completed) will be the last subway built in New York for generations to come. Philip Mark Plotch is an associate professor of political science and director of the Master of Public Administration program at Saint Peter's University. He has served as Director of World Trade Center Redevelopment and Special Projects at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and manager of planning and policy at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Plotch is the award-winning author of Politics Across the Hudson. Follow him on Twitter @profplotch. THREE HILLS

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"Last Subway is two books in one. On one level, it tells the story of a specific project: the decades-long effort to build a subway under Second Avenue in New York City. At a second level, it illustrates the challenges facing planners everywhere as they seek to build major public works in a country increasingly sceptical of the costs – financial and otherwise – of such megaprojects. The book succeeds impressively at both tasks, making it instructive reading for those who would understand why America struggles to build big things."—Transport Reviews "He has written this fascinating book called Last Subway I really like the way your book opens the window on the MTA in a way that loops in the casual reader in addition to the transit expert."—The Bond Buyer Podcast "In this highly recommended work, Plotch ably leads the reader through the tortured and convoluted history of the effort to build a Second Avenue subway. In Last Subway, Plotch unravels the twisted strands of state and local politics, municipal financing, and special interest groups to tell a compelling story."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago, second edition Robert G. Spinney

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city—from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the twenty-first century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called "the wild-garlic place" burgeon into one of the world's largest and most sophisticated cities? What is the real story behind the Great Chicago Fire? What aspects of American industry exploded with the bomb in Haymarket Square? Could the gritty blue-collar hometown of Al Capone become a visionary global city? A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the key people, moments, and special places—from Fort Dearborn to Cabrini-Green, Marquette to Mayor Daley, the Union Stock Yards to the Chicago Bulls—that make this incredible city one of the best places in the world.

"Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining and illuminating detail."— Publishers Weekly "A much-needed, brief yet comprehensive analytical history of Chicago."—Journal of Illinois History

Robert G. Spinney is Professor of History at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia. He is author of World War II in Nashville.

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The History of Starved Rock Mark Walczynski

The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bluff in 1673 through to 1911, when Starved Rock became the centerpiece of Illinois' second state park. Mark Walczynski pulls together stories and insights from the language, geology, geography, anthropology, archaeology, biology, and agriculture of the park to provide readers with an understanding of both the human and natural history of Starved Rock, and to put it into context with the larger history of the American Midwest. Mark Walczynski is Park Historian for the Starved Rock Foundation located at Starved Rock State Park, Utica, Illinois.

"Mark Walczynski has written 'the' history of Starved Rock not 'a' history of this place. The distinction is worth noting because the author has produced an exhaustively researched historyand because he takes care to distinguish the past as informed by the historical record from the body of lore associated with Starved Rock."—The Annals of Iowa "For those who want to know more about the fascinating history of Starved Rock, here's the book they've been looking for."—Robert Michael Morrissey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, author of Empire by Collaboration "An accurate, deeply-researched, labor of love, Walcyzinski's nearly unique format chronicles an utterly unique place. The reader, perspective immutably linked to the living stone edifice itself, stands watch while the stories of a beloved place and voices of its intertwining peoples flow past."—Duane Esarey, Dickson Mounds, Illinois State Musem

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The Comstocks of Cornell—The Definitive Autobiography Anna Botsford Comstock edited by K aren Penders St. Cl air

The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by the naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and that of her husband, the entomologist John Henry Comstock—both prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. In this twenty-first-century edition, Karen Penders St. Clair restores the author's voice by reconstructing the entire manuscript as Anna Comstock wrote it—and thereby preserves Comstock's memories of the personal and professional lives of the couple as she originally intended. The book includes an epilogue documenting the Comstocks' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, this book is an essential part of the history of both Cornell University and its press. K aren Penders St. Cl air is an independent researcher and holds a position in the School of Integrated Plant Science and Horticulture at Cornell University.

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"Currently an independent scholar based in Rochester, New York, St. Clair hopes the upcoming volume will give readers a better sense of what Anna was truly like, beyond the familiar tropes of her status as Cornell's first female professor, a leading scientific illustrator, and an early advocate of nature education."—Cornell Alumni Magazine "Anna Botsford Comstock's voice has been returned to her in this carefully edited and amended edition of her memoir of her husband John Comstock, her observations of life around her, and of Cornell University during its early days. Anna Comstock was Cornell student, scientific illustrator, wife, mother of Nature Studies, Cornell faculty woman, and one of the three most admired female citizens of the world she inhabited. Her words return us to a different world and are worth attending."—Carol Kammen, Tompkins County Historian "Karen Penders St. Clair's masterful recovery of Anna Botsford Comstock's personal voice corrects a historical injustice. It also bestows a gift to us all as we hear and learn from a woman of great warmth and wisdom in her full humanity."—Scott J. Peters, Cornell University

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Silent Serial Sensations The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema Barbar a Tepa Lupack

The first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, Silent Serial Sensations offers a fascinating account of the dynamic early film industry. As Barbara Tepa Lupack demonstrates, the Wharton brothers were behind some of the most profitable and influential productions of the era, including The Exploits of Elaine and The Mysteries of Myra, which starred such popular performers as Pearl White, Irene Castle, Francis X. Bushman, and Lionel Barrymore. Working from the independent film studio they established in Ithaca, New York, Ted and Leo turned their adopted town into "Hollywood on Cayuga." By interweaving contemporary events and incorporating technological and scientific innovations, the Whartons expanded the possibilities of the popular serial motion picture and defined many of its conventions. A number of the sensational techniques and character types they introduced are still being employed by directors and producers a century later. New York State Public Scholar (2015–2018) and Senior Fellow at the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies (2014 & 2018), Barbar a Tepa Lupack is former Professor of English at St. John's University and Wayne State College and academic dean at SUNY. She has written extensively on American film, literature, and culture. Her most recent books on silent film include Early Race Filmmaking in America and the award-winning Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking.

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"Lupack writes lucidly and with engagement as she champions her subject. Silent Serial Sensations casts new light on the formative years of American filmmaking."—Shepherd Express "Lupack's account is especially adept at placing the Whartons in the context of the movie industry's rapid evolution. [She] reminds us of the modern impulses at work in early film production, provides a glimpse of the first 'empowered' women of the screen, and shows how current film has adapted prior techniques. Overall, the book is a model of solid historical research, clearly written, and tellingly tied to the broader story of American film."—Technology & Culture "The rise and fall of the Wharton Brothers acts rather well as a microcosm for the rapid changes in the American film industry during the 1910s, and the book takes the necessary space to put their achievements in the context of the film world at the time and within society in general. Barbara Tepa Lupack's spotlight on the Wharton brothers makes for an entertaining read, and the book is a fine addition to the existing literature not only on silent serials of the 1910s but also on filmmaking of the period as a whole."—Early Popular Visual Culture

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Kissinger and Latin America Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy Stephen G. R abe

In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G. Rabe analyzes U.S. policies toward Latin America during a critical period of the Cold War. Except for the issue of Chile under Salvador Allende, historians have largely ignored inter-American relations during the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Rabe also offers a way of adding to and challenging the prevailing historiography on one of the most preeminent policymakers in the history of U.S. foreign relations. Scholarly studies on Henry Kissinger and his policies between 1969 and 1977 have tended to survey Kissinger's approach to the world, with an emphasis on initiatives toward the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and the struggle to extricate the United States from the Vietnam conf lict. Kissinger and Latin America offers something new—analyzing U.S. policies toward a distinct region of the world during Kissinger's career as national security adviser and secretary of state. Rabe further challenges the notion that Henry Kissinger dismissed relations with the southern neighbors. The energetic Kissinger devoted more time and effort to Latin America than any of his predecessors—or successors—who served as the national security adviser or secretary of state during the Cold War era. He waged war against Salvador Allende and successfully destabilized a government in Bolivia. He resolved nettlesome issues with Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela. He launched critical initiatives with Panama and Cuba. Kissinger also bolstered and coddled murderous military dictators who trampled on basic human rights. South American military dictators whom Kissinger favored committed international terrorism in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.

"Stephen Rabe's most recent contribution represents something of a return to form . . . Rabe's book illuminates the contradictory nature of foreign policy during the Kissinger years."—H-DIPLO "By incorporating new archival materials, Kissinger and Latin America deepens our understanding of US-Latin American relations during the Nixon and Ford Administrations."—William Michael Schmidli, Leiden University, author of The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere "In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G. Rabe proves tough but fair. He pulls no punches against Kissinger's vicious support for dictators. Yet Rabe also appreciates the former Secretary of State's open-mindedness on issues ranging from economics to the Panama Canal."—Alan McPherson, Temple University, author of Ghosts of Sheridan Circle

Stephen G. R abe is Ashbel Smith Professor of History emeritus at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has written or edited twelve books, including The Killing Zone, John F. Kennedy, and U.S. Intervention in British Guiana.

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Playing Politics with Natural Disaster Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA Timothy W. Kneel and

Hurricane Agnes struck the United States in June of 1972, just months before a pivotal election and at the dawn of the deindustrialization period across the Northeast. The response by local, state, and national officials had long-term consequences for all Americans. President Richard Nixon used the tragedy for political gain by delivering a generous relief package to the key states of New York and Pennsylvania in a bid to win over voters. After his landslide reelection in 1972, Nixon cut benefits for disaster victims and then passed legislation to push responsibility for disaster preparation and mitigation on to states and localities. The impact led to the rise of emergency management and inspired the development of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With a particular focus on events in New York and Pennsylvania, Timothy W. Kneeland narrates how local, state, and federal authorities responded to the immediate crisis of Hurricane Agnes and managed the long-term recovery. The impact of Agnes was horrific, as the storm left 122 people dead, forced tens of thousands into homelessness, and caused billions of dollars in damage from Florida to New York. In its aftermath, local officials and leaders directed disaster relief funds to rebuild their shattered cities and reshaped future disaster policies. Playing Politics with Natural Disaster explains how the political decisions by local, state, and federal officials shaped state and national disaster policy and continues to influence emergency preparedness and response to this day. Timothy W. Kneel and is Professor and Chair of History and Political Science at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, and the author of several other books, including Pushbutton Psychiatry, Today's Social Issues, and Buffalo Blizzard of 1977. Follow him on Twitter @CPH_Naz.

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"Playing Politics with Natural Disaster shows why Hurricane Agnes was a turning point from an era of ad hoc disaster response to an increasingly professionalized and bureaucratized endeavor."—Patrick Roberts, Virginia Tech, and author of Disasters and the American State "This outstanding book shows that debates over the nature of disaster relief and the role of the federal government are not new. Timothy W. Kneeland's painstaking retelling of the effects of Hurricane Agnes is a significant contribution to understanding how disasters can yield policy changes."— Thomas Birkland, North Carolina State University, author of After Disaster and Lessons of Disaster "Timothy W. Kneeland's Playing Politics with Natural Disaster is much more than a well-researched, definitive account about one of America's most devastating natural disasters. It's a cautionary tale of the potentially brutal personal toll political gamesmanship can levy on our communities."— Brian Frey, writer and producer of the PBS documentary, Agnes

The Greek Orthodox Church in America A Modern History Alex ander Kitroeff

In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American. Alex ander Kitroeff is Professor of History at Haverford College. He is author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt. Follow him on Twitter @Kitro1908.

"Kitroeff has provided the best outline of the entire history of the Greek Orthodox Church in the United States."—Theofanis G. Stavrou, Professor of History, University of Minnesota "Kitroeff relies on ethnohistoric particulars to skillfully interweave them with wider contexts and craft a larger story of national and international significance. Although the focus is on a particular ethnoreligious group, the net is cast wide to connect this group with American politics, intra-religious developments (Eastern Orthodoxy, the World Council of Churches), and transnational institutions."—Yiorgos Anagnostou, Director of the Modern Greek Program, Ohio State University

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The Imperial Church Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire K atherine D. Mor an

Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors. Moran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries: the Jesuit Jacques Marquette in the Midwest, the Franciscan Junípero Serra in Southern California, and the Spanish friars in the Philippines. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of US national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire. The Imperial Church connects Catholic history and the history of US empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself. K atherine D. Mor an is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD

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"Moran takes up a task under which other historians of American Catholicism have long labored: turning American historical memory away from East Coast Colonial hegemony and, instead, calling attention to other parts of North America that came to have a formative influence on the American national psyche before and during the American Revolution. Succeeding brilliantly in illustrating this sorely needed contribution to the field, Moran's landmark text is a must read for scholarly audiences."—Choice "Katherine Moran has written a landmark book that opens a new era in the historiography of American religion and empir. To a field that long has been eager for new frames and methods of integrating Catholicism into American history—in such a way as to show Catholics as a constituent component of that history, rather than a community of individuals simply living within a Protestant civil society—The Imperial Church is a gift."— US Catholic Historian "The Imperial Church is terrific: smart analysis and superb research combine to make an important new argument with significance for both US and modern Catholic history."—John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame, author of American Jesuits and the World

To Bring the Good News to All Nations Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations L auren Fr ances Turek

When American evangelicals f locked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late–Cold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and inf luence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism. Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies—Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union—reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century. L auren Fr ances Turek is Assistant Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Follow her on Twitter @laurenfturek.

"This work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and US foreign policy."—Choice "To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a thoughtful, lucidly written study of how activist networks are built and exert influence at the nexus of international and domestic politics. The book adeptly treats conservative evangelicals and their beliefs with sensitivity even while still evaluating them critically, providing a model for other scholars interested in similar topics."—Passport "Lauren Frances Turek's 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the inspirations, aims, and achievements of the movement."—First Things "Well researched, insightful, and solidly documented, To Bring Good News to All Nations is a significant scholarly achievement."—International Journal of Frontier Missiology

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD

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The Gathering Storm Eduardo Frei's Revolution in Liberty and Chile's Cold War Sebastián Hurtado-Torres

In this novel take on diplomatic history, Sebastián Hurtado-Torres examines the involvement of the United States in Chile during the Eduardo Frei administration (1964–1970) and shows how the engagement between the two nations deepened the process of political polarization in Chile. At the heart of The Gathering Storm is a description of the partnership between Frei's government and that of Lyndon B. Johnson. Both leaders considered modernization to be integral to political and economic development, and the US Embassy in Santiago was recognized by all parties to be the center of this modernizing agenda and the practical work of the Alliance for Progress (AFP). Hurtado-Torres portrays the diplomatic and economic relationship between Chile and the United States in a manner that departs from the most militant and conservative interpretations of US foreign policy toward Latin America. By focusing on the active participation of agents of US foreign policy—particularly those associated with the AFP—and not secret operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency, Hurtado-Torres offers a fresh narrative about a critical period in Chilean political history and a new understanding of the ways and means through which the foreign policy of the United States was carried out. Sebastián Hurtado-Torres is Assistant Professor in the Instituto de Historia at Universidad San Sebastián. Follow him on Twitter @delaestacion.

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"Hurtado-Torres offers a sophisticated reinterpretation of U.S.-Chilean relations in the 1960s prior to the 1970 election of the leftist Salvador Allende."—Foreign Affairs "Complete with notes, this work would be a valuable addition to academic libraries with collections on Latin America."—Choice "The major contribution of Sebastián Hurtado-Torres's The Gathering Storm is to trace the very frank, aboveboard roles that US diplomats played in supporting the Christian Democratic government of Eduardo Frei Montalva and the eager collaboration of many Christian Democrats (as well as other political leaders) with US objectives. This book usefully combines traditional diplomatic history with a forensic history of Chile's political parties to make three related observations and arguments. This valuable political history is crucial reading for students of modern Chile and Latin American politics."—Hispanic American Historical Review

Freedom Incorporated Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization Colleen Woods

In this broad historical account, Colleen Woods demonstrates how, in the mid-twentieth century Philippines, US policymakers and Filipino elites promoted the islands as a model colony. In the wake of World War II, as the decolonization movement strengthened, those same political actors pivoted and, after Philippine independence in 1946, lauded the archipelago as a successful postcolonial democracy. Officials at Malacañang Palace and the White House touted the 1946 signing of the liberating Treaty of Manila as a testament to the US commitment to the liberation of colonized people and celebrated it under the moniker of Philippine–American Friendship Day. Despite elite propaganda, from the early 1930s to late 1950s, radical movements in the Philippines highlighted US hegemony over the new Republic of the Philippines and, in so doing, threatened American efforts to separate the US from sordid histories of empire, imperialism, and the colonial racial order. Woods finds that in order to justify US intervention in an ostensibly independent Philippine nation, anticommunist Filipinos and their American allies transformed local political struggles in the Philippines into sites of resistance against global communist revolution. By linking political struggles over local resources, like the Hukbalahap Rebellion in central Luzon, to a war against communism, American and Filipino anticommunists legitimized the use of violence as a means to capture and contain alternative forms of political, economic, and social organization. Placing the post-World War II history of anticommunism in the Philippines within a larger imperial framework, in Freedom Incorporated Woods illustrates how American and Filipino intelligence agents, military officials, paramilitaries, state bureaucrats, academics, and entrepreneurs mobilized anticommunist politics to contain challenges to elite rule in the Philippines.

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"Woods presents a complex revisionist history of the relationship between the US and the Philippines during the early decades of the Cold War. This thoroughly researched monograph shines a light on the ambiguities of American anti-imperialist ideology and rhetoric in a polarized Cold War world."—Choice "Colleen Woods compellingly answers the question of how US colonization and decolonization of the Philippines shaped its response to the broader decolonization of European empires after 1945. Freedom Incorporated makes an important contribution to the literature on the United States and the Cold War, and in particular on US-Southeast Asian relations after 1945."—Bradley Simpson, University of Connecticut, author of Economists with Guns

Colleen Woods is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in, LABOR, The Journal of Contemporary History, and A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations.

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Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization Robert F. Zeidel

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict to an "alien" presence supplements nativism—a sociocultural negativity toward foreign-born residents—as a reason for Americans' dislike and distrust of immigrants. And in the era of American industrialization, employers both relied on immigrants to meet their growing labor needs and blamed them for the frequently violent workplace contentions of the time. Through a sweeping narrative, Zeidel uncovers the connection of immigrants to radical "isms" that gave rise to widespread notions of alien subversives whose presence threatened America's domestic tranquility and the well-being of its residents. Employers, rather than looking at their own practices for causes of workplace conflict, wontedly attributed strikes and other unrest to aliens who either spread pernicious "foreign" doctrines or fell victim to their siren messages. These characterizations transcended nationality or ethnic group, applying at different times to all foreign-born workers. Zeidel concludes that, ironically, stigmatizing immigrants as subversives contributed to the passage of the Quota Acts, which effectively stemmed the flow of wanted foreign workers. Postwar employers argued for preserving America's traditional open door, but the negativity that they had assigned to foreign workers contributed to its closing. Robert F. Zeidel is Professor of History and Associate Dean at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He is the author of Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics.

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"Zeidel presents a detailed account of a great swath of American society whose dynamics remain pertinent today. Recommended."—Choice "Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse reveals important points about ethno-racial class relations as central to the dynamics of both workplaces and of attitudes and policies towards immigrants in the industrialized US. There is no comparable existing work."—David Roediger, University of Kansas, author of Class, Race, and Marxism "Robert F. Zeidel offers a sweeping history of immigrants and industrialization in an age of immense change. This book shows us that immigrant workers have had hopes, dreams, and points of view that shaped our economy and culture."—Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University, author of Inventing the Immigration Problem

Contingent Citizens Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture edited by Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, and Keith A. Erekson

Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the 1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality—the editors and contributors place Mormons in larger American histories of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that the political support of the Latter-day Saints has proven, at critical junctures, valuable to other political groups. The willingness of Americans to accept Latter-day Saints as full participants in the United States political system has ranged over time and been impelled by political expediency, granting Mormons in the United States an ambiguous status, contingent on changing political needs and perceptions. Contributors: Matthew C. Godfrey, Church History Library; Amy S. Greenberg, Penn State University; J. B. Haws, Brigham Young University; Adam Jortner, Auburn University; Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University; Patrick Q. Mason, Claremont Graduate University; Benjamin E. Park, Sam Houston State University; Thomas Richards, Jr., Springside Chestnut Hill Academy; Natalie Rose, Michigan State University; Stephen Eliot Smith, University of Otago; Rachel St. John, University of California Davis

Spencer W. McBride is Historian and Documentary Editor at the Joseph Smith Papers, and is author of Pulpit and Nation. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerWMcBride. Brent M. Rogers is Associate Managing Historian with the Joseph Smith Papers, and the author of Unpopul ar Sovereignt y. Follow him on Twitter @brentrogers2121. Keith A. Erekson is an author, teacher, and public historian who serves as director of the Church History Library. Follow him @KeithAErekson.

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"Contingent Citizens is an excellent addition to the canon of Mormon studies and its transcending beyond the Americanization model sets the contours of future scholarly investigation of Latter-day Saint political history for the next generation."—Journal of Mormon History "Contingent Citizens has a lot to offer readers who are not well versed in Mormon history, as well as those who are. Instead of periodic "Mormon Moments" in which the peculiarities of Mormonism are discussed, debated, and quickly forgotten, the message of Contingent Citizens is that the Latter-day Saint experience should be understood as an illustrative example of a religious group deeply embedded in American society and politics."—Journal of Church and State "This book edited by McBride, Rogers, and Erekson makes an important contribution to understanding the place of Mormonism in US history."—Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University, author of Corporate Spirit

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The Picky Eagle How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion Richard W. Ma ass

The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the U.S. rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. Maass argues that U.S. ambitions were selective from the start. By presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the decision-making of U.S. leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. U.S. presidents, secretaries, and congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new territories would affect their domestic political influence and their goals for their country. These leaders were particularly sensitive to annexation's domestic costs where xenophobia interacted with their commitment to democracy: rather than grant political representation to a large alien population or subject it to a long-term imperial regime, they regularly avoided both of these perceived bad options by rejecting annexation. As a result, U.S. leaders often declined even profitable opportunities for territorial expansion, and they renounced the practice entirely once no desirable targets remained. In addition to offering an updated history of the foundations of U.S. territorial expansion, The Picky Eagle adds important nuance to previous theories of great-power expansion, with implications for our understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Richard W. Ma ass is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and Geography at Old Dominion University. Follow him on Twitter @richardmaass.

"The Picky Eagle poses important and provocative questions about the history of territorial expansion, annexation, and imperialism—and its future. The theoretical approach is original, capturing the American case better than any other work in political science."—Scott Silverstone, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, author of From Hitler's Germany to Saddam's Iraq "In this sweeping, engaging account, Richard Maass makes the compelling case that the U.S. appetite for annexation was often tempered by a reluctance to absorb culturally different populations or those who would side with domestic political opponents."— Peter Liberman, author of Does Conquest Pay? "Impressively researched and persuasively argued, Richard Maass's The Picky Eagle takes a fresh look at the forces driving American expansionism and offers new and intriguing answers to the often overlooked question of why the nation did not annex additional territory. Highly recommended for historians and political scientists."—George Herring, University of Kentucky, author of From Colony to Superpower

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Semi-Civilized The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Michael C. Hawkins

Semi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. Michael C. Hawkins examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked historical episode. By reviving and contextualizing Moro participation in the exposition, Hawkins challenges the typical manifestations of empire drawn from the fair and delivers a nuanced and textured vision of the nature of American imperial discourse. In Semi-Civilized Hawkins argues that the Moro display provided a distinctive liminal space in the dialectical relationship between civilization and savagery at the fair. The Moros offered a transcultural bridge. Through their official yet nondescript designation as "semi-civilized," they undermined and mediated the various binaries structuring the exposition. As Hawkins demonstrates, this mediation represented an unexpectedly welcomed challenge to the binary logic and discomfort of the display. As Semi-Civilized shows, the Moro display was collaborative, and the Moros exercised unexpected agency by negotiating how the display was both structured and interpreted by the public. Fairgoers were actively seeking an extraordinary experience. Exhibit organizers framed it, but ultimately the Moros provided it. And therein lay a tremendous amount of power. Michael C. Hawkins is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Creighton University. He is author of Making Moros.

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"Offering a nuanced view of the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, Hawkins brings the latest theoretical analysis and academic works to bear in a convincing study that undercuts a strict binary between the savage and the civilized."—Paul Rodell, Georgia Southern University, author of Culture and Customs of the Philippines "Semi-Civilized examines one of the earliest populations of Muslim Americans and the most prominent period when Muslim Moros in the Philippines spent time in the United States. There has not been a critical assessment of the Moro villages at the important 1904 World's Fair, and this book promises to bring such study into the scholarly record."—Timothy Marr, University of North Carolina, author of The Cultural Roots of American Islamicis

Undermining Racial Justice How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality Mat thew Johnson

Over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, often a key talking point in national debates about racial justice thanks to the contentious Gratz v. Bollinger 2003 Supreme Court case, Johnson argues that UM leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. Despite knowing that racial disparities would likely continue, Johnson demonstrates that these administrators improbably saw themselves as champions of racial equity. What Johnson contends in Undermining Racial Justice is not that good intentions resulted in unforeseen negative consequences, but that the people who created and maintained racial inequities at premier institutions of higher education across the United States firmly believed they had good intentions in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. The case of the University of Michigan fits into a broader pattern at elite colleges and universities and is a cautionary tale for all in higher education. As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide. Mat thew Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. Follow him on Twitter @matthist83.

"If I were asked to identify a single book published in 2020 that profoundly changed the way I look at higher education, it would be Matthew Johnson's Undermining Racial Justice."—Inside Higher Ed "Undermining Racial Justice is a well-researched analysis of the admissions policies at the University of Michigan. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, published work, and material that is in the public domain, Matthew Johnson has authored an important book."—Lisa M. Stulberg, New York University, author of Race, Schools, and Hope "This book effectively and powerfully shows a major public university struggling to fully embrace a major responsibility—and the continual efforts of student activists and supportive elites to bring about real change and the full promise of public education."— John Skrentny, University of California, author of After Civil Rights

HISTORIES OF AMERICAN EDUCATION

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Creating the Suburban School Advantage Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis John L . Rury

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas City, a region representative of trends elsewhere. While big-city districts once were widely seen as superior and attracted families seeking the best educational opportunities for their children, suburban school systems grew rapidly in the post–World War II era as middle-class and more affluent families moved to those communities. As Rury relates, at the same time, economically dislocated African Americans migrated from the South to center-city neighborhoods, testing the capacity of urban institutions. As demographic trends drove this urban-suburban divide, a suburban ethos of localism contributed to the socioeconomic exclusion that became a hallmark of outlying school systems. School districts located wholly or partly within the municipal boundaries of Kansas City, Missouri, make for revealing cases that illuminate our understanding of these national patterns. As Rury demonstrates, struggles to achieve greater educational equity and desegregation in urban centers contributed to so-called white flight and what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan considered to be a crisis of urban education in 1965. Despite the often valiant efforts made to serve inner city children and bolster urban school districts, this exodus, Rury cogently argues, created a new metropolitan educational hierarchy—a mirror image of the urban-centric model that had prevailed before World War II. John L . Rury is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) History at the University of Kansas. He is an author or editor of ten other books on the history of education, including Education and Social Change and Urban Education in the United States

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"Creating the Suburban School Advantage provides the reader with a detailed, interesting, thoughtful, and disturbing picture of an American city and surrounding suburbs to help us understand who, what, where, why, and how metropolitan inequality developed after World War II."—Journal of Urban Affairs "Creating the Suburban School Advantage makes an important contribution to the history of education. With few exceptions, accounts of postwar schooling in the United States have focused almost exclusively on the 'rise and fall' of large urban systems. As Rury demonstrates in meticulous detail [about Kansas City], the flip side of urban decline was suburban growth, and now a synthetic account connects these mutually constitutive processes."—History of Education Quarterly

Moral Commerce Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy Julie L . Holcomb

How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce. Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers’ complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black. The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement’s historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers. Julie L . Holcomb is Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at Baylor University. She is the editor of Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers.

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"Moral Commerce will appeal to a broad range of readers, from students in upper division undergraduate college courses to graduate students to informed readers in general. This account should certainly be read by every scholar of both American and British antislavery, black nationalism, African recolonization, and social reform movements."—H-Pennsylvania "In this important, scholarly and highly detailed new book, Julie L. Holcomb carefully examines how the Free Produce Movement took shape: its history, scope and remit, successes, failures, key players and complex organisation. The combination of broader brushstrokes and fine detail, drawn from a wealth of primary sources, will provide fascinating reading for both specialist and non-specialist readerships."—Quaker Studies "The most carefully contextualized, thorough history of the "free-produce" movement, which boycotted goods made by slave labor and pushed to market free-labor-made products, persuasively argues for the historical importance of the free-produce minority within the minority of abolitionists."—Journal of American History

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Suffrage reconstructed Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era L aur a E. Free

The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as "male." In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed considers how and why the amendment's authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional f loor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction. Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment's language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men's right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women's rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for the first time as the Amendment was being drafted. To prevent women's inadvertent enfranchisement, and to incorporate formerly disfranchised black men into the voting polity, the Fourteenth Amendment's congressional authors turned to gender to define the new American voter. Faced with this exclusion some woman suffragists, most notably Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned to rhetorical racism in order to mount a campaign against sex as a determinant of one's capacity to vote. Stanton's actions caused a rift with Frederick Douglass and a schism in the fledgling woman suffrage movement. By integrating gender analysis and political history, Suffrage Reconstructed offers a new interpretation of the Civil War–era remaking of American democracy, placing African American activists and women's rights advocates at the heart of nineteenth-century American conversations about public policy, civil rights, and the franchise. L aur a E. Free is Associate Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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"The author depicts work by suffragists to turn voters against the (Fifteenth) amendment by using the racist language and stereotyping of the day, denigrating the very former slaves they had fought so hard to free. In doing so, they attempted to achieve voting rights for themselves by denying the same right to others. Free's book is an informative and sometimes shocking study of a little-known Reconstruction drama."—Choice "This book invites historians of the rise of American democracy to engage in dialogue with historians of woman suffrage. It is an invitation to be heeded."—Journal of American History "A decisive study of the evolution of American suffrage rights in the ante- and immediate post-bellum era(s), Laura Free's Suffrage Reconstructed makes significant contributions to the field of American intellectual history.... A wide audience of scholars, particularly African American and women's and gender historians would benefit from reading this text, as well as scholars interested in the political history of New York State."—New York History

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The One-Way Street of Integration Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities Edward G. Goetz

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities.

The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts. Edward G. Goetz is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely, including, most recently, New Deal Ruins.

"A courageous work in that Goetz confronts a difficult debate head on. Goetz gives clear guidance about what he believes to be the way forward."—Journal of Planning Education and Research "Should stimulate debate."—Choice "Professor Goetz's sweeping indictment of the well-intentioned effort to advance racial integration deserves thoughtful consideration; it should inspire wide-ranging debate."—The Metropole "Goetz has presented compelling arguments for his position on locating subsidized housing, favoring the community development movement."—Journal of Urban Affairs "Goetz has written an important and timely book. Beyond its substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on American urban policy, infinitely more important is its potential to aid in the ongoing struggle against racial injustice and American white supremacy—something needed now perhaps more than ever."—Shelterforce

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