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University Press of Kansas

About the University Press of Kansas

The press publishes work on American politics (including the presidency, American political thought, and public policy), military history and intelligence studies, American history (especially political, cultural, intellectual, and western), environmental policy and history, American studies, film studies, law and legal history, Native American studies, and books about Kansas and the Midwest. Our books have reached a wide audience both inside and outside the academy and have been recognized for their contributions to important scholarly and public debates. kansaspress.ku.edu

The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Volume 2 Into the Multiverse

NICHOLAS CARNES AND LILLY J. GOREN, EDITORS

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) moved on from the Thanos storyline, it became more political than ever—both on screen and off.

Editors Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren are back with a new volume of essays exploring the political worlds within and outside of the MCU, authored by leading experts on politics, philosophy, and popular culture. This second volume tackles the sprawling narratives in the MCU's Phase 4, the movies, TV shows, and related content released in 2021 and 2022. During Phase 4, Marvel Studios released films at an unprecedented pace: seven in just two years, including titles like Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Eternals, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Phase 4 also marked the start of the MCU’s move into streaming television, with shows like WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight.

Like The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Volume 1: The Infinity Saga, this is another indispensable guide to understanding how the MCU—a fundamental aspect of American pop culture—has a profound and complex relationship with American political life.

Nicholas Carnes is professor of public policy at Duke University. Lilly J. Goren is professor of political science at Carroll University.

August 2025

384 pages

Graphic Novel/Politics and Government/ Cultural and Media Studies

Rights: World

Reopening Watergate

An Insider's Account of Why Nixon Lost

DAVID M. DORSEN

Written by assistant chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, Reopening Watergate is an eye-opening reassessment of the Watergate scandal and an essential text for understanding this infamous political moment.

David M. Dorsen focuses on important aspects of the story of Watergate that have not received substantial—or, in some cases, any—publicity. The evidence amassed by Dorsen demonstrates that some of the most prominent people involved in pursuing Watergate had inappropriate ex parte contacts with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Dorsen lays out compelling evidence for the inept legal representation given to President Richard M. Nixon.

Reopening Watergate draws on overlooked and ignored sources, including interviews by the Nixon Presidential Library, and the notes of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein housed at the University of Texas at Austin. Dorsen shows that with competent and conscientious lawyers and advisors in the last year of his presidency, Nixon might have been able to survive his full term as president, instead of resigning, mired in shame and scandal.

David M. Dorsen was Assistant Chief Counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee under Sen. Sam Ervin and Chief Counsel Samuel Dash. In addition to an esteemed career in private practice, he is the author of the award-winning Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era and The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions

November 2025

328 pages

History/Military and Defence Strategy Rights: World

Framing the First World War

How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

MICHAEL P.M. FINCH, AIMÉE FOX,

AND DAVID G. MORGAN-OWEN, EDITORS

The character of the conflict that erupted in 1914 defied the expectations of many political leaders and military analysts. In Framing the First World War, a team of leading scholars explore the gulf between imagined warfare and the realities of battle. By doing so, they investigate how the military forces that contested the First World War framed the conflict they were involved in and how those perspectives shaped and influenced the ways in which they sought to understand, conduct, and respond to the war.

Improving our appreciation of how commanders saw the world around them and their views on the war, the contributors to Framing the First World War work towards a fuller historical appraisal of how military figures understood the war, moving beyond a purely military analysis to incorporate broader cultural and social topics, including education, medicine, politics, and law.

Michael P. M. Finch is the author of Making Makers: The Past, the Present, and the Study of War Aimée Fox is the author of Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918 David G. Morgan-Owen is the author of The Fear of Invasion: Strategy, Politics, and British War Planning, 1880-1914

The Trump First Term

Appraisals and Aftermath

JULIA AZARI, BERT A. ROCKMAN, AND ANDREW RUDALEVIGE, EDITORS

In November 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become the forty-fifth president of the United States, thereby bringing an end to the political power of one family and, in retrospect, beginning the era of his own family’s dominance. At times, Trump’s presidency posed new, sometimes unprecedented, challenges to the constitutional order, while in other respects he continued the trajectory toward greater executive power that had been decades in the making.

The nation’s leading scholars of the American presidency assess Donald J. Trump’s first term—what many assumed would be his only term, following his loss to Joe Biden in 2020. Divided into five parts, the authors examine Trump’s first four years in terms of electoral politics, public politics, national institutions, and policy outcomes, with a final section placing Trump in the context of the larger story of American politics.

This volume will be the definitive scholarly resource on Trump’s first term for years to come.

Julia Azari is the author of Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History Bert A. Rockman is co-author of In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive Andrew Rudalevige is the author By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power

Conspirator in Chief

The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency

STEPHEN F. KNOTT

The land of the free and the home of the brave has also been the den of false rumors and conspiratorial claims about one’s political enemies—not merely by rank-and-file Americans but also by our most powerful and consequential elected leaders.

Conspirator in Chief is a tour through the Hall of Shame in American politics. Thomas Jefferson used surrogates to spread false claims about Alexander Hamilton in order to destroy his political influence. Andrew Jackson publicly defamed abolitionists and spread his own “Big Lie” about the 1824 election being stolen from him. Andrew Johnson spread false accusations about the Radical Republicans and made spurious claims about the dangers of a coming Black supremacy. Woodrow Wilson continued Johnson’s racist and conspiratorial interpretation of American history.

Knott does more than show how low American presidents have gone. He also illuminates an alternative track record in which presidents took the high road. Conspirator in Chief is a sobering reminder of the power of a president’s words and the damage they can do, but it is also a reminder that words can heal and repair as well.

Stephen F. Knott is the author of many books, including The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal.

April 2026

Politics and Government Rights: World

May 2026

Politics and Government/Society and Culture Rights: World

April 2026

Politics and Government

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April 2026

History/Nuclear Weapons/Media Studies

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Executive Privilege

Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability, Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated MARK J. ROZELL AND MITCHEL A. SOLLENBERGER

Executive Privilege is widely considered the best in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power.

The expanded fifth edition picks up where the fourth edition left off in 2019, with President Donald Trump’s bold assertion of a “protective executive privilege” that recognizes no balancing powers against the executive branch. In addition to an expanded analysis of the battle over the Mueller Report, the controversy surrounding the citizenship question on the 2020 census, and the White House security clearances dispute, new sections examine the conflict over the report on steel and aluminum tariffs and the investigation into missing presidential records stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, some of which were marked as classified.

Mark J. Rozell and Mitchel A. Sollenberger have also added a new chapter on President Joe Biden which recounts how he handled former President Trump’s executive privilege claims during the January 6th investigation, while also managing the controversy surrounding his own classified documents dispute.

With its thorough and authoritative analysis of the many controversies regarding presidential privilege and accountability, Executive Privilege remains an essential resource.

Mark J. Rozell is the coauthor of The Unitary Executive Theory: A Danger to Constitutional Government Mitchel A. Sollenberger is the author of The President Shall Nominate: How Congress Trumps Executive Power

Doom Town, USA

The Nevada Test Site as Ground Zero of 1950s American Culture

JOHN WILLS

In March 1953 and May 1955, government officials released nuclear bombs on two model towns at Nevada Test Site, the continental nuclear test facility during the Cold War. These so-called “Doom Towns“ were designed to illustrate in the most vivid way possible what might happen to a “typical American home” caught in a Soviet atomic blast. The Doom Towns literally brought the Cold War home.

The two Doom Towns of Operation Doorstep (1953) and Operation Cue (1955) were a media spectacle and a cultural flashpoint, attracting corporate sponsors, drawing in atomic tourists, and generating new consumer products.

Doom Town became an unusual but effective banner for corporate and consumer life in the 1950s. But these homegrown Hiroshimas also contributed to a broader culture of catastrophe and fear in the late 1950s. Concerns over Communist invasion, Soviet spies, and ICBM missiles coalesced in the Nevada desert, framing a national culture of anxiety.

Doom Town, USA is an eye-opening tour guide of one of the most bizarre and uniquely American places in history.

John Wills is Professor of American Media and Culture at the University of Kent. He is the author of several books, including Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest At Diablo Canyon and Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Misfire

British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II

BRIAN P. FARRELL

In December 1941 the issue in the East during World War II was whether or not the Japanese could drive the Western Allies out of Southeast Asia before the Allies could reinforce strongly enough to prevent it. Consequently, the British Army organized, trained, and specifically equipped special-forces combat units to operate independently, for long periods of time if necessary, physically separated from the main forces in the field. British Army special-forces units were usually directed to carry out two broad but often closely related missions: provide direct assistance to main force operations; and harass enemy movements, lines of supply, and communications.

In Misfire, Brian Farrell analyzes how and why the British Army developed special forces in the early years of World War II; what uses it made of them; and the role that special and irregular forces played in defending Malaya and Singapore against Japanese invasion, from prewar preparations to capitulation in February 1942. Farrell’s examination of the use of special and irregular forces helps us understand both the Malayan campaign and wider efforts to defend Southeast Asia as well as what that campaign tells us about the evolution of such forces in the British and Empire armies.

Brian P. Farrell is author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore. He is professor of history at the National University of Singapore. He is the Deputy Regional Coordinator for Asia Pacific for the Society for Military History.

Spetsnaz

A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces

TOR BUKKVOLL

In Spetsnaz, Tor Bukkvoll presents the first in-depth history of the Soviet and, later, Russian special operations forces from their establishment until today. He focuses on three broad topics: Soviet and later Russian thinking on the use of special operations forces; the actual process of constructing these forces and how this was facilitated or hampered by other agencies of the Soviet and Russian states; and the use of these forces in combat.

Bukkvoll uses a variety of sources, but the most important are the recollections of former spetsnaz soldiers and officers themselves, which allow an understanding of the history of these forces as the men of spetsnaz see and have seen it. Bukkvoll also draws upon observations and judgments from other parts of the Soviet and Russian militaries, from a number of KGB sources, and from independent Russian experts and journalists.

Spetsnaz is essential reading for anyone interested in special operations forces or Russian military history.

Tor Bukkvoll is senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment in Kjeller, Norway. He is the author of Ukraine and European Security. A specialist in Russian and Ukrainian security and defense policies, Bukkvoll has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford and the Naval Postgraduate School.

368 pages

Military History/Second World War Rights: World

December 2024

306 pages

Special and Elite Forces/Military History/ European History Rights: World

November 2025

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December 2024

224 pages

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The Hidden Cost of Freedom

The Untold Story of the CIA's Secret Funding System, 1941-1962

BRAD L. FISHER

In The Hidden Cost of Freedom, author Brad Fisher presents a comprehensive narrative of the origin and early development of the CIA’s clandestine financial system, beginning with the establishment of the Office of Strategic Services’ Special Funds Branch during World War II. Fisher documents the controversial legislative history of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 from the standpoint of the CIA, the General Accounting Office, and congressional insiders, and describes the act’s role in the transformation of the CIA’s financial administration into a global enterprise for financing its foreign intelligence activities. Finally, he brings to light the story of his grandfather, Edwin Lyle Fisher, who had a major role in the postwar establishment of the CIA’s funding system as the GAO’s legal liaison to the CIA.

While the existence of the CIA’s clandestine funding is no secret, Fisher’s book is the first to trace its development and to show how the CIA’s covert financial system was allowed to develop in a democracy devoted to checks and balances.

A Tale of Two Fronts

A German Soldier’s Journey through World War I HANS SCHILLER

EDITED BY FREDERIC KROME AND GREGORY LOVING

TRANSLATED BY KARIN WAGNER

FOREWORD BY BRIAN K. FELTMAN

Hans Schiller was a seventeen-year-old student in Bromberg, Prussia, when World War I broke out in August 1914. From 1915 to 1917, Schiller saw action in what is now Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. After the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 and Russia’s withdrawal from the war, Schiller was transferred to the Western Front. He arrived in time for Germany’s last great offensive in the west. After the German retreat and Armistice, Schiller reentered military service in the Freikorps, German mercenary groups fighting in former German territory in Eastern Europe, where the conflict dragged on even after the Treaty of Versailles.

A Tale of Two Fronts provides a vivid first-person account of German army life during World War I.

Karin Wagner is CEO, founder, and executive director of the Neigh Savers Foundation, a horse rescue organization in California. Frederic Krome is professor of history, University of Cincinnati Clermont College, author of The Jewish Hospital and Cincinnati Jews in Medicine, and editor of Fighting the Future War: An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914–1945 Gregory Loving is professor of philosophy, University of Cincinnati Clermont College. Brian K. Feltman is the author of The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond

Brad L. Fisher is a senior research scientist at Science Systems Applications, Inc.

1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times

The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times ROSS BENES

As journalist Ross Benes shows, the end of the ’90s was a banner year for low culture. This was the heyday of Jerry Springer, Jenna Jameson, and Vince McMahon, among many others.

During its New Year’s Eve countdown, MTV entered 1999 with Limp Bizkit covering Prince’s famous anthem to the new year. The highlights of the lowlights continued when WCW and WWE drew 35 million American viewers each week with sex appeal and stories about insurrections. Insane Clown Posse emerged from the underground with a Woodstock set and platinum records about magic and murder. Beanie Babies and Pokémon so thoroughly seized the wallets and imagination of collectors that they created speculative investment bubbles that anticipated the faddish obsession over nonfungible tokens (NFTs). The trashy talk show Jerry Springer became daytime TV’s most-watched program. Donald Trump even explored a potential presidential nomination with the Reform Party in 1999 and wanted his running mate to be Oprah Winfrey, whose own talk show would make Dr. Oz a household name.

Benes shows us how so many of the strangest features of culture in 1999 predicted and influenced American life today. 1999 is not just a nostalgic look at the past. It is also a window into our contentious present.

Ross Benes is a journalist, market research analyst, and author. His previous books include Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold and Turned On: A Mind-Blowing Investigation into How Sex Has Shaped Our World

Beyond Black Hawk Down

Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995 JONATHAN CARROLL

On October 3, 1993 two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, and in the ensuing Battle of Mogadishu eighteen Americans and hundreds of Somalis were killed. But very few appreciate that this was just one day in a two-and-a-half-year operation—the most ambitious attempt in history to rebuild a nation. The United States sought to show the world that the UN could rebuild a country, but the intervention in Somalia was plagued with political infighting, policy mismatch, confusion, and fatal assumptions.

In Beyond Black Hawk Down, Jonathan Carroll provides the first scholarly military history of the entire intervention, from its early and largely successful humanitarian phase in 1992 to the ultimate withdrawal of UN forces in 1995. Carroll dispels the myths and misunderstandings surrounding one of the most infamous episodes of the 1990s to present a new interpretation of events, most notably by including the Somali perspective, to argue what went so wrong in Somalia, and more importantly, why.

Jonathan Carroll is a former officer in the Irish Defence Forces who earned a PhD from Texas A&M University. He is an associate professor of military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

April 2025

296 pages Society and Culture/Television: Reality Shows Rights: World

June 2025

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History/African History

Armies Afloat

How the Development of Amphibious Operations in Europe Helped Win World War II

JOHN M. CURATOLA

American forces storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous moments in US military history. But behind this iconic assault is the long-overlooked history of learning and innovation. Significantly, the amphibious forces taken ashore that day were overwhelmingly army soldiers, with sailors and airmen in support. Before the army could launch such an endeavor, however, it had to learn how to conduct amphibious operations against a contested shore.

Creating this capability required a concerted, deliberate effort. Involving an extensive joint endeavor of air, naval, and ground forces, amphibious assault strategy developed over the course of four years. In Armies Afloat, John Curatola leads readers through the US Army’s amphibious development and capabilities by examining six components: command relationships, ship-to-shore movement, naval surface fire support, air support, beachhead establishment, and logistics and communication. The men, material, processes, and coordination involved in developing such a large-scale amphibious capability was something truly new in warfare.

John M. Curatola is Samuel Zemurray-Stone Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum and served as a Marine Corps officer for twenty-two years. He is the author of Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow: The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945–1950

February 2025

366 pages

Military History/General and World History/ Military and Defence Strategy Rights: World

War Underground

A History of Military Mining in Siege Warfare EARL

J. HESS

From as early as ancient Greek, Roman, and Chinese warfare to the battles of World War I, military mining was an essential component of siege warfare. Armies have tunneled underneath castle walls, dug trenches across no-man’s-land, and engineered confusing defensive countermines. These tactics for assaulting enemy fortifications and positions by creating underground access have adapted to changes in warfare, technology, geography, and culture. While its use diminished after 1918, when speed and movement took precedence over capturing strongpoints, military mining remains a viable strategy still deployed to this day. In this first book-length study of the subject, renowned military historian Earl Hess now fully addresses the topic of military mining from its earliest origins to the twenty-first century.

War Underground, offers a sweeping study of the use of offensive and defensive military mining in more than 300 sieges from around the world and across almost three millennia. The result is an impressively broad and comprehensive treatment of the grand history of military mining.

Earl J. Hess is the author of thirty-six books, including Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield

When Titans Clashed

How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Revised and Expanded Edition

DAVID M. GLANTZ AND JONATHAN M. HOUSE

Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, much of it the authors’ own work, this new edition maintains the 1995 original’s distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union.

In 1941 the German blitzkrieg had blasted the Red Army back to Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the Germany Army and put an end to Hitler’s imperial designs. Drawing on the massive and unprecedented release of Soviet archival documents in recent decades, David Glantz, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and noted military historian Jonathan House expand and elaborate our picture of the Soviet war effort.

Rafts of newly available official directives, orders, and reports reveal the true nature and extraordinary scale of Soviet military operations. Their work gives us new insight into Stalin's political motivation and Adolf Hitler’s role as warlord, as well as a better understanding of the human and economic costs of the war—for both the Soviet Union and Germany.

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on numerous volumes of military history, including The Stalingrad Trilogy and The Battle of Kursk

Zhukov's Greatest Defeat

The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942

DAVID M. GLANTZ

David Glantz offers the first definitive account of a forgotten catastrophe, detailing the major events of Operation Mars. Using neglected sources in both German and Russian archives, he reconstructs the historical context of Mars and reviews the entire operation from High Command to platoon level.

Orchestrated and led by Marshal Georgi Kostantinovich Zhukov, one of the Soviet Union's great military heroes, the twin operations Mars and Uranus formed the centerpiece of Soviet strategic efforts in the fall of 1942. Launched in tandem with Operation Uranus, the successful counteroffensive at Stalingrad, Mars proved a monumental setback. Fought in bad weather and on impossible terrain, the ambitious offensive faltered despite spectacular initial success in some sectors.

Illuminating the painful progress of Operation Mars with vivid battle scenes and numerous maps and illustrations, Glantz presents Mars as a major failure of Zhukov's renowned command.

For three grueling weeks, Operation Mars was one of the most tragic and agonizing episodes in Soviet military history. Glantz's reconstruction of that failed offensive fills a major gap in our knowledge of World War II.

David M. Glantz is the author of When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (with Jonathan M. House) and Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War

October 2015

576 pages

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April 1999

432 pages

Second World War/Military History/Military and Defence Strategy

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October 1999

508 pages

Second World War/European History/Military History

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November 2002

684 pages

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The Battle of Kursk

DAVID M. GLANTZ AND JONATHAN M. HOUSE

David Glantz and Jonathan House offer the definitive work on the Battle of Kursk.

Drawing on both German and Soviet sources, Glantz and House separate myth from fact to show what really happened at Kursk and how it affected the outcome of the war. Their access to newly released Soviet archival material adds unprecedented detail to what is known about this legendary conflict.

The Battle of Kursk takes readers behind Soviet lines for the first time to discover what the Red Army knew about the plans for Hitler's offensive (Operation Citadel), relive tank warfare and hand-to-hand combat, and learn how the tide of battle turned. Its vivid portrayals of fighting in all critical sectors place the famous tank battle in its proper context.

The Battle of Kursk finally gets its due in this dramatic retelling of the confrontation that marked the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front and brought Hitler's blitzkrieg to a crashing halt.

David M. Glantz is the author of When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (with Jonathan M. House). Jonathan M. House is the author of Towards Combined Arms Warfare: A Survey of Twentieth-Century Tactics, Doctrine, and Organization

The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944

DAVID M. GLANTZ

Leningrad was as much a symbolic target as it was a strategic one for Adolf Hitler, who fully expected the birthplace of the Russian Revolution to be reduced to rubble quickly and with ease. The Red Army’s ferocious defense of the city, however, made that impossible. Glantz’s richly detailed history shows how battles and campaigns were conceived, engaged, and resolved—including a half dozen or more “forgotten battles” that took place during the blockade.

Glantz reconstructs the border battles of June and July 1941; the little-known battles to liberate southern Leningrad oblast, including the battles for Luga, Narva, Pskov, and Ostrov; and the liberation of northern Leningrad oblast, comprising the Vyborg operation and failed attempts to invade Finland. He explains how these battles shaped the struggle for Leningrad and how they impacted other theaters of operation along the Eastern Front.

Glantz also provides insights into conditions within the city, adding new details to the horrors of the siege; sheds new light on partisan warfare in the countryside surrounding Leningrad; and corrects errors found in earlier works, revealing among other things the fate of those Soviet commanders who were purged or repressed because of their poor performance in battle.

David M. Glantz ’s many books include The Battle of Kursk, and When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

Stalingrad

DAVID M. GLANTZ AND JONATHAN M. HOUSE

An abridged edition of the five volume Stalingrad Trilogy.

Praise for The Stalingrad Trilogy:

"David Glantz has done something that very few historians achieve. He has redefined an entire major subject: The Russo-German War of 1941—1945. His exploration of newly available Russian archive records has made him an unrivaled master of Soviet sources. His command of German material is no less comprehensive. Add to this perceptive insight and balanced judgment, and the result is a series of seminal and massive volumes that come as close as possible to ‘telling it like it was.’ Glantz has done some of his best work with Jonathan House. The Stalingrad Trilogy is the definitive account of World War II’s turning point.”— World War II

“Undoubtedly, the best researched narrative of Soviet-German battle during the period. . . . Thorough, informative, scrupulously accurate, and told with remarkable precision and reliability.”—Journal of Military History

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on all five volumes of the Stalingrad Trilogy, as well as on the books When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and The Battle of Kursk

To the Gates of Stalingrad

Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume I

DAVID M. GLANTZ WITH JONATHAN M. HOUSE

The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale—a campaign that was both a turning point in World War II and a lasting symbol of that war’s power and devastation.

This first volume in Glantz’s masterly trilogy draws on previously unseen or neglected sources to provide the definitive account of the opening phase of this iconic Eastern Front campaign. Glantz has combed daily official records from both sides—including the Red Army General Staff, the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the German Sixth Army, and the Soviet 62nd Army—to produce a work of unparalleled detail and fresh interpretations. Jonathan House, an authority on twentieth-century warfare, adds further insight and context.

This fresh, eye-opening account and the subsequent companion volumes—on the actual battle for the city itself and the successful Soviet counteroffensive that followed—will dramatically revise and expand our understanding of what remains a military campaign for the ages.

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on all five volumes of the Stalingrad Trilogy, as well as on the books When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and The Battle of Kursk

July 2019

640 pages

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April 2009

678 pages

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Second World War/Military History/Military and Defence Strategy

April 2014

680 pages

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Armageddon in Stalingrad

September-November 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2

DAVID M. GLANTZ WITH JONATHAN M. HOUSE

Armageddon in Stalingrad continues David Glantz and Jonathan House’s bold new look at this most iconic military campaign of the Eastern Front and Hitler’s first great strategic defeat. While the first volume in their trilogy described battles that took the German army to the gates of Stalingrad, this next one focuses on the inferno of combat that decimated the city itself.

Previous accounts of the battle are far less accurate, having relied on Soviet military memoirs plagued by error and cloaked in secrecy. Glantz and House have plumbed previously unexploited sources—including the archives of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) and the records of the Soviet 62nd and German Sixth Armies—to provide unprecedented detail and fresh interpretations of this apocalyptic campaign. They allow the authors to reconstruct the fighting hour by hour, street by street, and even building by building and reveal how Soviet defenders established killing zones throughout the city and repeatedly ambushed German spearheads.

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on all five volumes of the Stalingrad Trilogy, as well as on the books When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and The Battle of Kursk

Endgame at Stalingrad

Book One: November 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3

DAVID M. GLANTZ WITH JONATHAN M. HOUSE

In Book One of the third volume of his acclaimed Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz offers the definitive account of the beginning of the end of one of the most infamous battles of the Second World War, and one of the most costly in lives and treasure in the annals of history.

In Volume Three, Book One, we see the ultimate consequences of the Germans’ overreach and the gathering force of the Red Army’s massive manpower and increasingly sophisticated command. After failing repeatedly to find and exploit the weaknesses in Axis defenses, Stalin and the Stavka (High Command) finally seized their chance in mid-November of 1942 by launching a bold and devastating counteroffensive, Operation Uranus.

Glantz draws a detailed and vivid account of how, in Operation Uranus, the Red Army’s three fronts defeated and largely destroyed two Romanian armies and encircled the German Sixth Army and half of the German Fourth Panzer Army in the Stalingrad pocket—turning the Germans’ world on its head.

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on all five volumes of the Stalingrad Trilogy, as well as on the books When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and The Battle of Kursk

Endgame at Stalingrad

Book Two: December 1942 - February 1943, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3

DAVID M. GLANTZ WITH JONATHAN M. HOUSE

In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history of one of the most infamous battles of World War Two, the Stalingrad campaign that signaled Germany’s failure on the Eastern Front and marked a turning point in the war.

Drawing on materials previously unavailable or believed lost, Glantz gives a closely observed account of the final ten weeks of Germany’s ill-fated Stalingrad campaign. This book completes a vivid and detailed picture of the Axis defeat that would prove decisive as a catastrophe from which Germany and its Wehrmacht could never recover.

This concluding chapter, relating events even more steeped in myth than those that came before, takes on controversial questions about why Operation Uranus succeeded and the German relief attempts failed, whether the Sixth Army could have escaped encirclement or been rescued, and who, finally was most responsible for its ultimate defeat. The answers Glantz provides, embedded in a fully-realized account of the endgame at Stalingrad, make this book the last word on one of history’s epic clashes.

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House have collaborated on all five volumes of the Stalingrad Trilogy, as well as on the books When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler and The Battle of Kursk

In Deadly Combat

A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front

GOTTLOB HERBERT BIDERMANN

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY DEREK S. ZUMBRO

A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In Deadly Combat conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front. It offers a ground soldier’s perspective on life and death on the front lines, providing revealing new information concerning day-to-day operations and German army life.

Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war in the Courland Pocket. He shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape.

Translator Derek Zumbro has rendered Bidermann’s memoir into a compelling narrative that retains the author's powerful style.

Gottlob Herbert Bidermann, who served in the 132nd Infantry Division, is retired from a career in the textile industry and currently resides in southern Germany. Derek S. Zumbro, a retired Navy SEAL officer and resident of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. His translations have been widely used in books and documentaries, and he is currently working on a translation of the wartime experiences of a former aide to Field Marshall Walter Model.

June 2014

768 pages

Second World War/European History Rights: World

July 2000

344 pages

Second World War/European History/ Biography: historical, political and military Rights: World

November 2002

352 pages

Roman Catholicism/Espionage and secret services/Military History

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Spies in the Vatican

Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust

DAVID ALVAREZ

Reviewing the pontificates of ten popes—from Pius VII, Napoleon’s nemesis, to Pius XII, maligned by some as “Hitler’s pope”—David Alvarez provides the first history of the intelligence operations and covert activities that reached the highest levels of the Vatican. Populated with world leaders, both famous and infamous, and a rogue’s gallery of professional spies, fallen priests, and mercenary informants, his work casts a bright light into the darker corners of papal history and international diplomacy, a light that often sparkles with a witty appreciation of the foibles of the espionage trade.

Based on diplomatic and intelligence records in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, the United States, and the Vatican, Spies in the Vatican reveals that the Papacy often was hindered by its inability to collect timely and relevant intelligence and that it made little effort to improve its intelligence capabilities after 1870. Challenging the long-held notion that the pope is the world’s best-informed leader, Alvarez illuminates not only the inner workings of the Vatican but also the global events in which it was inextricably involved.

David Alvarez is a professor of politics at Saint Mary’s College of California. He is the author of Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930–1945, and coauthor, with Robert Graham, S.J., of Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage against the Vatican, 1939–1945

Death of the Wehrmacht

The German Campaigns of 1942

ROBERT M. CITINO

Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/ German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler’s expansionist ambitions. He examines every major campaign and battle in the Russian and North African theaters throughout the year to assess how a military geared to quick and decisive victories coped when the tide turned against it.

Citino also reconstructs the German generals’ view of the war and illuminates the multiple contingencies that might have produced more favorable results. In addition, he cites the fatal extreme aggressiveness of German commanders like Erwin Rommel and assesses how the German system of command and its commitment to the “independence of subordinate commanders” suffered under the thumb of Hitler and chief of staff General Franz Halder.

More than the turning point of a war, 1942 marked the death of a very old and traditional pattern of warmaking. Blending masterly research with a gripping narrative, Citino’s remarkable work provides a fresh and revealing look at how one of history’s most powerful armies began to founder in its quest for world domination.

Robert M. Citino’s many books include the multi-award-winning The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943

The Wehrmacht's Last Stand

The German Campaigns of 1944-1945

ROBERT M. CITINO

In this gripping account of German military campaigns during the final phase of World War II, Citino charts the inevitable path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a “war of movement” inexorably led to Nazi Germany’s defeat.

The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or “death ride,” from January 1944—with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine—until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino’s previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army’s strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II.

Robert M. Citino’s many books include the multi-award-winning The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 and Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942

The Wehrmacht Retreats

Fighting a Lost War, 1943

ROBERT M. CITINO

Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare.

Citino offers fresh, vivid, and detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein’s great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy.

Citino contends that virtually every flawed German decision—to defend Tunis, to attack at Kursk and then call off the offensive, to abandon Sicily, to defend Italy high up the boot and then down much closer to the toe—had strong supporters among the army’s officer corps.

Ultimately, Citino produces a grim portrait of the German officer corps, dispelling the longstanding tendency to blame every bad decision on Hitler. Filled with telling vignettes and sharp portraits and copiously documented, The Wehrmacht Retreats is a dramatic and fastpaced narrative that will engage military historians and general readers alike.

Robert M. Citino is the author of eight books, including Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 andThe German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich

November 2017

632 pages

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March 2012

440 pages

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April 2002

312 pages

History of the Americas/Espionage and Secret Services/Asian History

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March 2003

240 pages

Military History/International Relations/Asian History

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The CIA's Secret War in Tibet

KENNETH CONBOY AND JAMES MORRISON

Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reveal how America's Central Intelligence Agency encouraged Tibet’s revolt against China—and eventually came to control its fledgling resistance movement.

The CIA’s Secret War in Tibet takes readers from training camps in the Colorado Rockies to the scene of clandestine operations in the Himalayas, chronicling the agency’s help in securing the Dalai Lama’s safe passage to India and subsequent initiation of one of the most remote covert campaigns of the Cold War. Conboy and Morrison provide previously unreported details about secret missions undertaken in extraordinarily harsh conditions.

Conboy and Morrison take pains to tell the story from all perspectives, particularly that of the former Tibetan guerrillas, many of whom have gone on record here for the first time. The authors also tell how Tibet led America and India to become secret partners over the course of several presidential administrations and cite dozens of Indian and Tibetan intelligence documents directly related to these covert operations.

Kenneth Conboy is a former policy analyst and deputy director at the Asian Studies Center in Washington, D.C. and the author of Spies and Commandos. The late James Morrison was a thirty-year Army veteran and the last training officer for the CIA-sponsored Unity project. He coauthored numerous books with Conboy, including Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos.

Spies in the Himalayas

Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs

M. S. KOHLI AND KENNETH CONBOY

After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, the CIA knew it needed more information on China’s growing nuclear capability but had few ways of peeking behind the Bamboo Curtain.

The solution to this intelligence dilemma was a joint American-Indian effort to plant a nuclear-powered sensing device on a high Himalayan peak in order to listen into China and monitor its missile launches.

Spies in the Himalayas details of the death-defying expeditions sanctioned by U.S. and Indian intelligence, telling the story of clandestine climbs and hair-raising exploits. Led by legendary Indian mountaineer Mohan S. Kohli, conqueror of Everest, the mission was beset by hazardous climbs, weather delays, aborted attempts, and even missing radioactive materials that may or may not still pose a contamination threat to Indian rivers.

Spies in the Himalayas provides an inside look at a CIA mission from participants who weren’t agency employees, drawing on diaries from several of the climbers to offer impressions not usually recorded in covert operations.

M. S. Kohli’s books include Mountaineering in India and The Himalayas. Kenneth Conboy is a former policy analyst and deputy director at the Heritage Foundation whose other books include The CIA's Secret War in Tibet and Spies and Commandos

Vietnam

The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975

JOHN PRADOS

John Prados takes a fresh look at both the war and the debates about it to produce a reassessment of one of our nation's most tragic episodes. Drawing upon several decades of research—including recently declassified documents, newly available presidential tapes, and a wide range of Vietnamese and other international sources—Prados’s magisterial account weaves together multiple perspectives across an epic-sized canvas where domestic politics, ideologies, nations, and militaries all collide.

Prados shows how—from the Truman through the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations—American leaders consistently ignored or misunderstood the realities in Southeast Asia and passed up every opportunity to avoid war in the first place or avoid becoming ever more mired in it after it began.

By turns engaging narrative history, compelling analytic treatise, and moving personal account, Prados’s magnum opus challenges previous authors and should rightfully take its place as the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and accurate one-volume account of the war.

John Prados was a senior fellow of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. His numerous books include William Colby and the CIA: The Secret Wars of a Controversial Spymaster and The Hidden History of the Vietnam War

Inside Hitler's High Command

GEOFFREY

P. MEGARGEE

Megargee argues the German high command was much more flawed than many have suspected or acknowledged. Inside Hitler’s High Command reveals that while Hitler was the central figure in many military decisions, his generals were equal partners in Germany’s catastrophic defeat.

Megargee exposes the structure, processes, and personalities that governed the Third Reich’s military decision making and shows how Germany’s presumed battlefield superiority was undermined by poor strategic and operational planning at the highest levels. His “a week in the life” chapter puts the high command under a magnifying glass to reveal its inner workings during the fierce fighting on the Russian Front in December 1941.

Megargee also offers new insights into the high command crises of 1938 and shows how German general staff made fatal mistakes in their planning for Operation Barbarossa in 1941. In the final assessment, observes Megargee, the generals’ strategic ideas were no better than Hitler’s and often worse. Heinz Guderian, Franz Halder, and the rest were as guilty of self-deception as their Fuhrer, believing that innate German superiority and strength of will were enough to overcome nearly any obstacle.

Geoffrey P. Megargee was a research associate at the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century in Arlington, Virginia.

April 2009

696 pages

Military history: post-WW2 conflicts/History of the Americas/Asian History Rights: World

June 2000

352 pages

Second World War/European History/Military History Rights: World

February 2021

504 pages

Biography and non-fiction prose/History of the Americas/Conspiracy Theories

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September 2009

344 pages

Second World War/Military History/Military and Defence Strategy

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Last Second in Dallas

JOSIAH THOMPSON

Josiah Thompson reveals major new forensic discoveries since the year 2000 that overturn previously accepted “facts” about the Kennedy assassination. Together they provide what no previous book on the assassination has done—incontrovertible proof that JFK was killed in a crossfire.

Last Second in Dallas is not a conspiracy book. No theory of who did it is offered or discussed. Among the discoveries: The test showing that all recovered bullet fragments came from Oswald’s rifle was mistaken. Several fragments could have come from bullets of any manufacturer and any caliber. The sudden two-inch forward movement of the president’s head in the Zapruder film just before his head explodes is revealed to be an optical illusion caused by the movement of Zapruder’s camera. This leaves without further challenge clear evidence that this shot came from a specific location to the right front of the limousine. Detailed analysis of film frames matched by the newly validated acoustic evidence show a second shot struck the president’s head from behind less than a second later.

Profusely illustrated, Last Second in Dallas features dozens of archive photographs, including Zapruder film frames reproduced at the highest clarity ever published.

Josiah Thompson investigated numerous high-profile murder cases during his thirty-five-year career specializing in criminal defense. Thompson's publications include a memoir about his jump from professor to detective, Gumshoe

Japan's Imperial Army

Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945

EDWARD J. DREA

This first comprehensive English-language history of the Japanese army traces its origins, evolution, and impact as an engine of the country’s regional and global ambitions and as a catalyst for the militarization of the Japanese homeland from mid-nineteenth-century incursions through the end of World War II. Demonstrating his mastery of Japanese-language sources, Drea explains how the Japanese style of warfare, burnished by samurai legends, shaped the army, narrowed its options, influenced its decisions, and made it the institution that conquered most of Asia.

Drea recounts how Japan devoted an inordinate amount of its treasury toward modernizing, professionalizing, and training its army—which grew larger, more powerful, and politically more influential with each passing decade. Along the way, it produced an efficient military schooling system, a well-organized active duty and reserve force, a professional officer corps that thought in terms of regional threat, and well-trained soldiers armed with appropriate weapons.

Encompassing doctrine, strategy, weaponry, and civil-military relations, Drea’s expert study also captures the dominant personalities who shaped the imperial army, from Yamagata Aritomo, an incisive geopolitical strategist, to Anami Korechika, who exhorted the troops to fight to the death during the final days of World War II.

Edward J. Drea is the author of MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan and In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Japanese Imperial Army

The University of the West Indies Press

About The University of the West Indies Press

The University of the West Indies Press is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher of books and journals in sixteen academic disciplines. It is particularly well known for its work in Caribbean history, Caribbean cultural studies, Caribbean literature, gender studies, education and political science. Founded in 1992, the press has over 500 books and journals in print. Its journals and books are peer-reviewed and approved by an editorial committee composed of local and international scholars.

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Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change

PATRICIA NORTHOVER, RICHARD L. BERNAL, HAMID A. GHANY, AND NATALIE DIETRICH JONES, EDITORS

Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change explores the conflicts, tensions and contradictions abounding in order to reimagine Caribbean futures and reorder economic, social, political and environmental practices and policies to address the wellbeing of all. Based on the contributions of an interdisciplinary collection of scholars and policy analysts, this publication assesses the dominant tensions in contemporary international geopolitics and examines the multidimensional fault lines in Caribbean vulnerability.

Patricia Northover, PhD, is a development economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona. Richard L. Bernal, PhD, is the former Ambassador to the USA and Organization of American States and Professor of Practice at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, as well as former Pro Vice-Chancellor, Global Affairs at The University of the West Indies. Hamid Ghany is Professor of Constitutional Affairs and Parliamentary Studies and former SALISES Director, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. Natalie Dietrich Jones is Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona.

August 2025

438 pages

Economics/Political Science

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September 2024

256 pages

Caribbean Cultural Studies/Social Sciences

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170 pages

Economics/Political Science Rights: World

Island Cultures and Festivals A

Creative Ecosystem

EVANGELIA PAPOUTSAKI AND SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH, EDITORS

A timely contribution to the corpus of island studies scholarship, this collection centres key components of island cultural studies. It emerges from the jointly organized 15th International Small Island Cultures (ISIC) conference staged at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus (2018), and contains selected papers that shine a spotlight on the rich cultural field of island music, art festivals and the creative ecosystem in which they find support. With an interdisciplinary focus, this volume also aims at promoting a critical research agenda for island studies in general. This edited collection is a must read for cultural enthusiasts, students and researchers, as well as entertainment and industry professionals.

Evangelia Papoutsaki is SICRI co-convenor and executive editor of ePress at Unitec Auckland. Formerly, she was an associate professor at the University of Central Asia and UNESCO PNG chair for Freedom of Expression. Sonjah Stanley Niaah, a Jamaican scholar and cultural activist, specializes in dancehall and Black Atlantic performance geographies. She earned the first PhD in cultural studies from the University of the West Indies, Mona. She was the director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit.

Don Dada

Assessing the Socio-economic and Political Power of Jamaica's Mafia Bosses

DAMION KEITH BLAKE

In Don Dada: Assessing the Socio-economic and Political Power of Jamaica's Mafia Bosses, Damion Blake takes on a controversial subject: the Jamaican don.

With revelatory insight, Don Dada explores the major roles dons play in their communities and how the activities of these non-state criminal actors have influenced the governance process. Focusing on communities in the downtown metropolitan area of Kingston, the capital city, the book investigates the evolution of the don from the 1960s to the present and their roles of security/protection, social welfare, partisan mobilization, and law and order. Blake contends that dons have emerged as embedded governing authorities in Jamaican garrisons based on the socio-economic and political roles they carry out and puts forward a peace-building model to dissolve the power of dons and their gangs in Jamaica's marginal communities.

Damion Keith Blake is Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies in the Department of International and Global Studies at Elon University.

Richie Richardson

DENSIL A. WILLIAMS

Densil A. Williams explores the life and career of Sir Richard Benjamin Richardson, affectionately known as Richie, in this captivating biography. Richie, who began from modest beginnings in Five Islands Village, Antigua, rose to international cricket stardom. The book traces his evolution from a skilled footballer and hotel bartender to a dominant cricket player, and later a successful businessman and philanthropist. It showcases how Richie’s early hardships, including his father’s death, shaped his indomitable spirit and the leadership skills that would later define his illustrious career.

Densil A. Williams is professor of international business at UWI. He has published five books, written over seventy articles in academic journals and refereed academic conferences. He is the recipient of numerous research awards as well as a Commonwealth Scholar, a Lome IV Scholar, a Jamaica Government Exhibition Scholar and a Jamaica Four Mills Scholar.

September 2024

92 pages

Biography/Memoir

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In Misreable Slavery

Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86

DOUGLAS HALL

Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in 1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his daily activities and his observations of life around him. These diaries, about 10,000 pages, were deposited in the Lincolnshire Archives. They contain a rich chronicle of plantation life – its people, social life, agricultural techniques, medicinal remedies and relations between slaves and their owners.

Douglas Hall, Professor Emeritus of History, has had a long and distinguished career at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, in the Departments of Economics (1959-61) and History (1961-81). He retired in 1981. Among his many publications are Free Jamaica 1838-186 (1959); Five of the Leewards 18341870 (1971); and Grace, Kennedy and Company Ltd. A Story of Jamaican Enterprise (1993).

August 1999

348 pages

Caribbean History/History

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May 1994

316 pages

Caribbean History/History

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June 2020

268 pages

Gender Studies/Social Science

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Slave Society in the Danish West Indies

St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix

NEVILLE A.T. HALL

B.W. HIGMAN, EDITOR

Slave Society in the Danish West Indies provides a rich account of the development and destruction of slavery in St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, the Caribbean islands which today comprise the United States Virgin Islands. It sees slavery as fundamental to the entire fabric of colonial society and pays particular attention to the political and social life of the whites and freedmen in interaction with the slaves.

Neville A.T. Hall was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and General Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. He died in 1986. B.W. Higman is Emeritus Professor of History, University of the West Indies, and Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University.

Beyond Homophobia

Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean

MOJI ANDERSON AND ERIN C. MACLEOD, EDITORS

Beyond Homophobia combines a variety of academic disciplines with poetry and prose. Its contributions move from cyberspace to the dancehall, from literary analysis to ethnographic research, from pedagogical to methodological concerns, and from thoughts on the past to ideas about the future. The collection presents a range of perspectives on and techniques with which to interrogate notions of identity, sexualities, victimhood, agency, activism, fluidity, fixity, visibility, invisibility, class, homophobia, coming out, belonging and spirituality.

By illuminating the lives, experiences, and research of and about the queer anglophone Caribbean, this volume represents a concerted attempt to move Beyond Homophobia

Moji Anderson is Senior Lecturer, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is co-founder of Beyond Homophobia. Erin C. MacLeod teaches at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada, and has also served as a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her books include Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (NYU Press) and Let Us Start With Africa: Foundations of Rastafari Scholarship (UWI Press) with co-editor Jahlani Niaah.

Obeah, Race and Racism

Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination

EUGENIA O'NEAL

In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O’Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. The triangular trade in guns and baubles, enslaved Africans and gold, sugar and cotton was mirrored by a similar intellectual trade borne in the reports, accounts and stories that fed the perceptions and prejudices of everyone involved in the slave trade and no subject was more fascinating and disconcerting to Europeans than the religious beliefs of the people they had enslaved. Indeed, African magic made its own triangular voyage; starting from Africa, Obeah crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, then journeyed back across the ocean, in the form of traveller’s narratives and plantation reports, to Great Britain where it was incorporated into the plots of scores of books and stories which went on to shape and form the world view of explorers and colonial officials in Britain’s far-flung empire.

Eugenia O’Neal is an independent writer and researcher. Originally from Tortola, British Virgin Islands, she now lives in Grenada.

How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean

A Reparation Response to Europe's Legacy of Plunder and Poverty HILARY MCD. BECKLES

“The modern Caribbean economy was invented, structured and managed by European states for one purpose: to achieve maximum wealth extraction to fuel and sustain their national financial, commercial and industrial transformation.” So begins How Britain Underdeveloped the Caribbean: A Reparation Response to Europe’s Legacy of Plunder and Poverty as Hilary McD. Beckles continues the groundbreaking work he began in Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide.

Hilary McD. Beckles is Professor of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies. His many publications include Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide;  A Nation Imagined: The First West Indies Test Tour, 1928; and  Freedoms Won: Emancipation, Identity and Nationhood in the Caribbean

January 2020

440 pages

Caribbean Cultural Studies/Social Sciences Rights: World

November 2021

292 pages

Caribbean History/History Rights: World

ReggaeStories

Jamaican Musical Legends and Cultural Legacies

DONNA P. HOPE, EDITOR

ReggaeStories provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary intellectual contributions in Jamaican reggae to trace Jamaican popular music in new geographical locales and then returns home to contemporary dancehall posturing. The contributors to this collection incorporate a range of approaches that includes cultural studies, musicological analysis, lyrical analysis and historical contextualization.

ReggaeStories spans several important and connected points in the debates around adoption and adaptation of Jamaican popular music and culture in different cultural and geographical contexts and extends the discussion on how these musical and cultural forms have been transformed or retained in differing localities.

Donna P. Hope is Senior Lecturer, Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her publications include Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica and Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall

The University of Oklahoma Press

About The University of Oklahoma Press

During its more than ninety years of continuous operation, The University of Oklahoma Press has gained international recognition as an outstanding publisher of scholarly literature. It was the first university press established in the Southwest, and the fourth in the western half of the United States.

Building on the foundation laid by our previous directors, OU Press continues its dedication to the publication of outstanding scholarly works. The major goal of the Press is to strengthen its position as a preeminent publisher of books about the American West and Native Americans, while expanding its program in other scholarly disciplines, including classical studies, military history, political science, and natural science.

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Blood Vessels

Vigilante Violence in the American West

PATRICK T. HOEHNE

Blood Vessels reveals the web of human movement, exchange, and collision that bound together seemingly unrelated incidents of extralegal violent action. Exposing the direct human connections linking these episodes, Patrick T. Hoehne reframes the prevailing understanding of both the individual incidents of violent action and the larger history of vigilante violence in the antebellum United States. Hoehne’s focus on the human mechanics behind vigilante violence offers a window into the efforts of nineteenth-century Americans to challenge, uphold, twist, and reimagine the law and their relationship to it. Lawmen became lynchers, and horse thieves remade themselves as sheriffs. The result, as the book shows, was a growing willingness of Americans to engage in extralegal violence, even to the extreme of killing their enemies.

Blood Vessels looks past the regional exceptionalism of previous scholarship and carefully considers how violence flowed from the American Middle West into the West during this period. These rapid transformations of society represent a deeply human history, one with implications for our understanding of not only the violent incidents themselves, but the very mechanics behind vigilante violence in the nineteenth-century United States.

Patrick T. Hoehne is a historian of violence in the nineteenth-century United States.

February 2026

314 pages

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April 2026

194 pages

Distance, Open & Online Education/Higher Education: Administration/Education: Teaching Rights: World

The Joyful Online Teacher

Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes

FLOWER DARBY

The happier the teacher, the better the learning experience—for instructor and student alike. With this equation at its core, The Joyful Online Teacher provides practical guidance for making distance learning infinitely more enjoyable and effective, and for improving the online teaching experience in asynchronous classes that often take place in Learning Management Systems (LMSs). A leading voice on online education, Flower Darby draws on the sciences of learning, emotion, and motivation, three decades of her own teaching, extensive research on online student experience, and the stories of joyful online teachers to present concrete tips for making online teaching more rewarding. The key, Darby suggests, is learning to love teaching online. To that end, her book offers instructors accessible, inspiring, common-sense hacks for connecting with students, finding passion, navigating the structural inequities of higher ed, and more—all with a focus on building rapport and relationships, the central ingredients of happiness and satisfaction. These time-tested strategies and hard-won insights promise to help online teachers find meaning, purpose, and, yes, joy in their work—and, consequently, to fulfill the enormous, largely untapped potential of online education.

Flower Darby is Associate Director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri. She is coauthor of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

The Opposite of Cheating Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI

TRICIA BERTRAM GALLANT AND DAVID A. RETTINGER

In these days of an ever-expanding internet, generative AI, and term paper mills, students may find it too easy and tempting not to cheat, and teachers may think they can’t keep up. What’s needed, and what Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger offer in this timely book, is a new approach—one that works with the realities of the twenty-first century, not just to protect academic integrity but also to maximize opportunities for students to learn. The Opposite of Cheating presents a positive, forward-looking, research-backed vision for what classroom integrity can look like in the GenAI era, both in cyberspace and on campus. Bertram Gallant and Rettinger provide practical suggestions to help faculty revise the conversation around integrity, refocus classes and students on learning, reconsider the structure and goals of assessment, and generally reframe our response to cheating. At the core of this strategy is a call for teachers, academic staff, institutional leaders, and administrators to rethink how we “show up” for students, and to reinforce and fully support quality teaching, learning, and assessment.

Tricia Bertram Gallant is Director of Academic Integrity and the Triton Testing Center at the University of California, San Diego. David A. Rettinger is Applied Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in Psychology at the University of Tulsa. Bertram Gallant and Rettinger coedited Cheating Academic Integrity: Lessons from 30 Years of Research.

Ethanol

A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels

JEFFREY T. MANUEL AND THOMAS D. ROGERS

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? Tracing the little-known history of this promising and contentious fuel, this book reveals the transnational nature of ethanol's development by its two biggest producers, the U.S. and Brazil. By drawing the connections between the shifting fortunes of ethanol in these two countries, the book presents the first full picture of the long history of this renewable fuel that from the beginning offered an imperfect alternative to oil. Brazil patterned its mid-century development on the U.S. model, adopting an automobile- and highway-focused transportation system and a fossil fuel-intensive agricultural sector. U.S. policymakers in turn took note when Brazil responded to the 1970s oil shocks by distributing ethanol nationwide, replacing half of its gasoline consumption. In the 2000s, the nations' leaders worked together to dramatically expand ethanol production. Today, as a new generation of biofuels meant to power aviation and fight climate change again connects Brazilian and U.S. ethanol, Manuel and Rogers explain how the fuel's future, like its history, is complicated by technical, scientific, economic, and social questions—about how to calculate carbon emissions, agricultural land use, national security and sovereignty, and the balance between government regulation and market forces. Understanding the future of biofuels demands a reckoning with this extensive, shared history—a reckoning that Manuel and Rogers's far-reaching, deeply researched book brings into view.

Jeffrey T. Manuel is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Taconite Dreams: The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915-2000 Thomas D. Rogers is Professor of History at Emory University and the author of Agriculture’s Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil’s Green Revolution

October 2025

300 pages

U.S. History/South American History/ Technology & Engineering: Power Resources/Technology & Engineering: Environmental Rights: World excluding Portuguese

Black Wests

Reshaping Race and Place in

Popular Culture

SARA GALLAGHER

The story of settlers in the American West, with its tales of cowboys, prospectors, and frontiersmen, is often overwhelmingly white. Black Wests brings to light the pivotal and largely overlooked contributions of Black Americans to the western narrative. Tracing Black Western storytelling through a range of media across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sara Gallagher offers a unique perspective on the Black Western—its history, its critical texts and moments in print and cinema, and the singular experiences of Black creators in the American West. Significantly, different media presented particular opportunities, and particular limitations, for Black creators. Gallagher explores how visual mediums, especially film, played a vital role in countering negative portrayals of Black characters in popular Western cinema. In this light, she examines the likes of Oscar Micheaux, a homesteader-turned visionary film director, and Herb Jeffries, the famed singer whose role as the Black “singing cowboy” earned him stardom in Hollywood. Her reading encompasses the well-known—like Nat Love, legendary cowboy whose life has become an enduring symbol of the Black American West; Pauline Hopkins, a journalist and novelist whose works introduced Black America to the dime Western; and the lesser known, such as Jennie Carter, a frontierswoman who wrote about her experience in California. Concluding with a nod to modern artists like Beyoncé and Lil Nas X, Black Wests illustrates how this imaginative form continues to flourish. An enlightening and entertaining journey through the history of the Black Western, Gallagher's work restores Black storytelling to its critical place in the making of the American West in popular culture.

Sara Gallagher is Professor in Liberal Studies at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario.

Making Each Other Laugh

Contemporary Arapaho

Storytelling

ANDREW COWELL

Native American oral storytelling traditions have been widely documented and appreciated, but they are often associated with the past, pre-contact times, and ancient legends. Less attention has been given to the way this tradition continues to exist in the present, with new stories being created to respond to the modern world. Making Each Other Laugh provides unique insight into contemporary Northern Arapaho stories, told in the Arapaho language, and into the social and cultural milieu of the stories. It also provides invaluable insight into the rich humor of modern Arapaho stories and life. These stories—from roughly the 1990s through the 2010s—are a rich source of Arapaho wisdom and values, often imparted in a singularly comical fashion. Appearing here in both Arapaho and English, they are also a virtual dictionary of the Arapaho language, featuring many rare and complex words that can only be understood in the storytelling context. This volume presents these stories in sequences, as they were actually told in social interactions among Native speakers. Structured this way, the anthology maintains the true nature of the Arapaho story sequence as a single, collaborative artistic and social performance. In critical chapters, Andrew Cowell focuses on how the stories emerge, how narrators negotiate what comes next and who will tell it, and how the genres and themes of the stories relate to each other. He also explores the ways such modern stories employ genres that have evolved from traditional models while adapting new content and styles over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Largely humorous, sometimes hilarious, often centered on encounters with Euro-American society and technology, the stories in Making Each Other Laugh bear witness to the continuing vitality of Native American oral traditions.

Andrew Cowell is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has written numerous books, including Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers: A Bilingual Anthology

October 2025

298 pages

Linguistics/Native American History/Language Arts & Disciplines: Study & Teaching Rights: World

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Native American History/U.S. History: 19th century/Southwest U.S. History Rights: World

A History of the Cherokee Nation

RACHEL CAROLINE EATON

EDITED BY DAVID BERRY, MARTHA BERRY, AND PATRICIA DAWSON

Written shortly before her death in 1938, Rachel Caroline Eaton’s A History of the Cherokee Nation is the celebrated Cherokee historian’s magnum opus—and a work whose grounding in Cherokee tradition and perspective makes it unique in the annals of American history. The book spans the years from pre-contact to what Eaton feared would be the Cherokee Nation’s demise after allotment and Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Its later chapters chronicle post-Civil War events that Eaton herself witnessed. Published here for the first time, this book is at once rigorously researched and documented and deeply indebted to Cherokee methods of storytelling and transmitting knowledge. Eaton’s history of her people is accompanied by a tribute, introduction, and copious notes by the editors to provide guidance and context for today’s readers.

Once deemed “too pro-Cherokee” for publication, the book now stands as a powerful testament to the tenacity of the Cherokee spirit, the endurance of the Cherokee Nation’s history, culture, and tradition, and the significance of the Native voice in the American story.

Rachel Caroline Eaton (Cherokee Nation; 1869–1938) was a historian, educator, and Cherokee intellectual. Dave Berry worked as a newspaper editor and managing editor for 44 years. Martha Berry (Cherokee Nation) is Eaton’s grandniece. She is a beadwork artist and was named a “Cherokee National Treasure.” Patricia Dawson (Cherokee Nation), is Eaton’s great-great-great niece. She is Assistant Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College.

October 2025

230 pages

Indigenous History: Contact, European Invasion & Exploration/Modern Indigenous History/Modern History: 19th Century Rights: World

Mormon Settler Colonialism

Inventing the Lamanite

ELISE BOXER

According to the Book of Mormon, dissent wracked the Hebrew prophet Lehi’s family after they traveled to the Americas around 600 BC. A son, Laman, led rebellious followers who became “Lamanites,” cursed by God with a “skin of blackness.” In the nineteenth century, Joseph Smith, the first prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his followers believed Indigenous peoples to be Lamanite descendants, living in a degraded state because they no longer followed God’s commandments. In Mormon Settler Colonialism, Elise Boxer investigates the racializing ideologies perpetuated about Indigenous peoples as a result of their categorization by Mormon doctrine as Lamanites. Boxer uses a theoretical framework of settler colonialism—in which settlers dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands and identity—to explore how the Mormon church has used religious doctrine to define and construct Indigeneity.

Although the idea of the Lamanite is foundational to Mormon discourse, the formation and dissemination of this constructed identity has not been examined in broader terms of colonialism and the cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples. This provocative book deepens the intersection of Mormonism, race (Indigeneity), and colonialism in a critical and necessary direction.

Elise Boxer is Assistant Professor of History and Coordinator of Native American Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Arizona State University.

Projecting America

The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood PATRICK ADAMSON

In the mid-1920s, the heyday of silent film, the epic Western swept Hollywood and the nation. Movie moguls sought to add gravitas to their output with the productions—films they argued offered American audiences authentic history and lessons in citizenship at a time when Hollywood faced criticism for its movies’ morals and star scandals. Initially extremely popular, these now nearly forgotten Westerns were hailed by the movie industry’s proponents and critics alike for their “authentic” reconstruction of America’s nineteenth-century frontier period and the social benefits in portraying historical episodes foundational to American identity to the melting pot of moviegoers. In Projecting America, the first-ever book on these silent epic Westerns, Patrick Adamson demonstrates how these films indelibly impacted the genre, historical filmmaking, and Hollywood, inviting audiences to accept uncritical visions of Manifest Destiny as accurate history.

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and punctuating his argument with film stills and intertitles, Adamson introduces readers to a variety of epic Westerns. These movies not only represent an important chapter in film history but also collectively illustrate how American identity was formed and the motion picture medium was used as a vehicle for mass historical and cultural education.

Patrick Adamson is Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews.

When Montana Outraced the East

The Reign of Western Thoroughbreds, 1886–1900 CATHARINE MELIN-MOSER

In Gilded Age Montana, three former frontiersmen turned from speculation in minerals to speculation in Thoroughbred horses. The rest is horse racing history . . . or would be if the story had ever been written. When Montana Outraced the East retrieves the largely forgotten late nineteenth-century golden age of the Montana Thoroughbred industry, when Montana horses won some of the biggest prizes in American horse racing, confounding national sportswriters and threatening to reshape the balance of power within America’s oldest sport.

Where one observer saw "verist madness" in the enterprise, another sports journalist foresaw a not-too-distant day when Montana would "rival the worlds of old Yorkshire and the BlueGrass region of Kentucky in the fame and celebrity of its racehorses." And indeed, in due time the Montana horsemen were fielding equine stars. Catharine Melin-Moser recreates the thrilling era when, through the shrewd foresight, hustle, and luck that had made them millionaires, Montana entrepreneurs made a lasting mark on American horse racing. In telling their story, her book restores a significant and thoroughly captivating chapter to American Thoroughbred racing history.

Catharine Melin-Moser is a writer and independent historian. Her Western history articles have appeared in journals and magazines. She writes from her home in the Judith Mountains of central Montana.

September 2025

268 pages

U.S. History: 20th century/West U.S. History Rights: World

April 2025

312 pages

West U.S. History/Sports & Recreation: Horse Racing Rights: World

African American & Black History/Political Science: Civil Rights/Social Science: African American & Black Studies Rights: World

October 2024

176 pages

Horror Fiction/Indigenous Fiction/Short Stories/Indigenous History/Southwest U.S. History

Rights: World

Tulsa, 2021

A Massacre's Centennial and a Nation's Reckoning

RANDY KREHBIEL

2021: As the centennial of one of the nation’s worst race massacres approached, citizens of Tulsa faced the prospect with hope and dread. Hope that the anniversary would show Tulsa had changed since that day in 1921, when a white mob left the city’s thriving African American Greenwood neighborhood a smoldering ruin. Dread that Tulsa’s faults would be exposed as never before, its racism reinforced rather than mitigated. The anniversary—in the wake of COVID-19, a combustible presidential visit, and a nationwide explosion of racial tension— was even more fraught than expected. An extraordinary account of a city under inordinate pressure, Tulsa, 2021 offers a deeply informed, behind-the-scenes view of how Tulsans and Americans met that moment of crisis, and what the experience can tell us about racial politics today.

Randy Krehbiel brings a seasoned reporter’s keen eye and an insider’s understanding to the story of a city contending with racial and urban stresses that are both unique to Oklahoma and indicative of larger trends. The conflicts he uncovers were not split entirely along racial lines, but often revolved around the power of political messaging to shape public opinion.

Randy Krehbiel has been a reporter for the Tulsa World since 1979 and now covers political and governmental affairs in Oklahoma and the United States. He is the author of Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre

The Bone Picker

Native Stories, Alternate Histories

DEVON

A. MIHESUAH

Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him.

The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities, scary and mysterious, who lurk behind every page of this spine-tingling collection of Native fiction, written by award-winning Choctaw author Devon A. Mihesuah. As a Choctaw citizen, with deep ties to Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Mihesuah grew up hearing the stories of her ancestors. In the tradition of Native storytelling, she spins tales that move back and forth fluidly across time.

Devon A. Mihesuah, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center at the University of Kansas. She has served as Editor of the American Indian Quarterly and is the author of numerous award-winning books, including Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero; Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1887

The Garza War in South Texas

A Military History, 1890–1893

THOMAS TY SMITH

South Texas and northern Mexico formed a seedbed of revolt in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, two decades after he had launched his own successful revolution from South Texas, Mexican president Porfirio Díaz faced a cross-border insurgency intent on toppling his government. In the first detailed military history of the Garza War, Thomas Ty Smith reveals how an armed insurrection against a foreign government, conducted on American soil, drew the US Army into a uniquely complex conflict whose repercussions would be felt on both sides of the US-Mexico border for generations to come.

Though not intended as a direct threat to the United States, the insurgency, in using Texas as a staging area, threatened US neutrality laws, forcing the United States to honor its treaty obligations to the Porfirio Díaz government in Mexico City—a proposition further complicated by the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prevented soldiers from acting as law enforcement. Smith describes how what began as a measured and somewhat limited effort by the United States to enforce the Neutrality Act in Texas eventually escalated into an all-out shooting war between the army and the Garzistas, elevating the counterinsurgency campaign into the highest military, diplomatic, and political echelons of both America and Mexico.

Thomas Ty Smith, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, is the author of The Old Army in the Big Bend of Texas: The Last Cavalry Frontier, 1911–1921

The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy

San Francisco’s Fight for a Yosemite Water Supply

DONALD C. JACKSON

The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is widely seen as a watershed event in American environmental history. Passionately opposed by naturalist John Muir and his ardent supporters, the massive undertaking succeeded largely through the efforts of John R. Freeman, one of the most important, influential, and politically adroit engineers of the Progressive Era. Donald C. Jackson focuses on Freeman to offer a nuanced account of how the City of San Francisco won the right to transform the bucolic valley into a municipal water supply reservoir that, a century later, continues to serve millions of Bay Area residents. Jackson draws on a wealth of correspondence, reports, and other documents, including congressional records, to highlight Freeman's contention that the Hetch Hetchy project would not just provide copious quantities of water and power, but would also enhance the Sierra Nevada environment and increase tourist access to the northern reaches of the national park.

Portraying Freeman for the first time in all his provocative complexity, The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy is at once a deeply researched, richly detailed biography and social history and a compelling reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in US environmental culture.

Donald C. Jackson, Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, is the author of Building the Ultimate Dam

November 2023

182 pages

History: Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions/ Southwest U.S. History/Military History: Guerrilla Warfare Rights: World

August 2025

372 pages

West U.S. History/Biography & Autobiography: Cultural & Regional/Technology & Engineering: Water Supply Rights: World

Color Coded

Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016 WALTER NUGENT

The now–staunchly red state of Texas was deep blue in 1950 and had virtually no functioning Republican Party. California, on the other hand, was reliably red. Today, both states have jumped to the opposite end of the political spectrum. Texas is one of the most conservative states, while California has become one of today’s most liberal bastions. These are the most dramatic cases, but notable shifts in voting patterns have occurred throughout the western states in recent decades—shifts so varied and complex that they have, until now, eluded the attention focused on the drastic examples of the South and Northeast. Bringing clarity to the remarkably mixed yet poorly understood map of America’s red, blue, and purple western half, Color Coded presents the first comprehensive history of political change and stability in the region between 1950 and 2016.

Consulting official voting results of more than 5,300 state and national elections, as well as newspaper reports, oral histories, public documents, and other sources, Nugent reveals the ever-shifting patterns that have defined western politics in modern times. Geography, culture, history, political trajectories, and the charisma of key political actors have all played their part in these changes—and will, Nugent asserts, continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Walter Nugent (1935-2021) was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent publications include Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansionism (Vintage, 2009), and Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009).

October 2018

pages Political Science: History & Theory/West U.S. History

How America Lost Its Mind

The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy

THOMAS E. PATTERSON

Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. We don’t have to search far for the forces that are misleading us and tearing us apart: politicians for whom division is a strategy; talk show hosts who have made an industry of outrage; news outlets that wield conflict as a marketing tool; and partisan organizations and foreign agents who spew disinformation to advance a cause, make a buck, or simply amuse themselves. The consequences are severe. How America Lost Its Mind maps a political landscape convulsed with distrust, gridlock, brinksmanship, petty feuding, and deceptive messaging.

As dire as this picture is, and as unlikely as immediate relief might be, Thomas E. Patterson sees a way forward and underscores its urgency. A call to action, his book encourages us to wrest institutional power from ideologues and disruptors and entrust it to sensible citizens and leaders, to restore our commitment to mutual tolerance and restraint, to cleanse the Internet of fake news and disinformation, and to demand a steady supply of trustworthy and relevant information from our news sources.

Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of numerous articles and award-winning books, including Informing the News and The Vanishing Voter

July 2021 208 pages

Political Science: Political Parties/Political Science: Civics & Citizenship/Political Science: American Government, Legislative Branch Rights: World

June 2016

248 pages

Political Science: Political Process/Political Science: Political Ideologies, Democracy Rights: World

Do Facts Matter?

Information and Misinformation in American Politics

JENNIFER L. HOCHSCHILD AND KATHERINE LEVINE EINSTEIN

A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?

Analyzing the use, nonuse, and misuse of facts in various cases—such as the call to impeach Bill Clinton, the response to global warming, Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the case for invading Iraq, beliefs about Barack Obama’s birthplace and religion, and the Affordable Care Act—Hochschild and Einstein argue persuasively that errors of commission (that is, acting on falsehoods) are even more troublesome than errors of omission. While citizens’ inability or unwillingness to use the facts they know in their political decision making may be frustrating, their acquisition and use of incorrect “knowledge” pose a far greater threat to a democratic political system.

Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Katherine Levine Einstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University.

The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare

MAX G. MANWARING

FOREWORD

BY

JOHN T. FISHEL

AFTERWORD BY EDWIN G. CORR

The third volume of a trilogy by Max G. Manwaring continues the arguments the author presented in Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime and Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries. Using case studies, Manwaring outlines vital survival lessons for leaders and organizations concerned with national security in our contemporary world. The insurgencies Manwaring describes span the globe. Beginning with conflicts in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and El Salvador in the 1980s, he goes on to cover the Shining Path and its resurgence in Peru, Al Qaeda in Spain, popular militias in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil, the Russian youth group Nashi, and drugs and politics in Guatemala, as well as cyber warfare.

Manwaring’s multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring global security now and in the future. It combines military and police efforts with politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The challenge he presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy perspectives into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into strategic victories.

Max G. Manwaring is Professor of Military Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. Edwin G. Corr is a former U.S. Ambassador. John T. Fishel is Professor Emeritus at the National Defense University.

The Power of Money in Congressional Campaigns, 1880–2006

DAVID C.W. PARKER

The Power of Money in Congressional Campaigns examines the historical development of party, interest-group, and candidate power in the American congressional election process. Parker takes a broad view of the electoral terrain, considering both primary and general elections, and discerns distinct patterns emerging during the twentieth century. He proposes a new theoretical model based on the need for candidates to accumulate enough financing and reputation to compete successfully, showing the importance of the rules governing this process.

Analyzing case studies of elections over more than a century, Parker argues that campaign behavior boils down to the determination to gather the resources needed to win. He shows that changes in electoral rules over time have affected the strategies candidates and parties use to accumulate campaign resources. He also suggests how the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 may influence the relationships among political actors and affect the quality of democratic discourse.

David C.W. Parker is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a retired professor of political science at Montana State University. He is also the author of Battle of the Big Sky: Representation and Politics of Place in Race for U.S. Senate

August 2012

228 pages

Military History: Strategy/Political Science: Security/Military Law Rights: World

March 2025

304 pages U.S. History Rights: World

The University of North Carolina Press

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The University of North Carolina Press, a nonprofit publisher of both scholarly and general-interest books and journals, operates simultaneously in a business environment and in the world of scholarship and ideas. The Press advances the University’s triple mission of teaching, research, and public service by publishing first-rate books and journals for students, scholars, and general readers. The Press has earned a distinguished reputation by publishing excellent work from the nation’s leading scholars, writers, and intellectuals and by presenting that work effectively to wide-ranging audiences.

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Prince's Minneapolis

A Biography of Sound and Place

RASHAD SHABAZZ

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Want to Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn't reconcile how Prince's funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince's signature fusion of funk, R&B, rock, punk, and new wave, did not emerge from a vacuum. The place and space of Minneapolis shaped the musical ecosystem that made Prince famous, and, in turn, a complex array of social forces shaped the city’s soundscape.

An expert on place, race, and culture, Rashad Shabazz reveals the history of the Minneapolis Sound, Prince, and his beloved city. More than a biography of Prince, this is a biography of the city and soundscape from which Prince emerged. Shabazz traces the history of the Minneapolis Sound alongside the city’s history, from colonial contact through periods of Indigenous removal, white settlement, mass migration, industrialization, music education, suburbanization, and systemic racism. This history, combined with the exceptional talent cultivated in Minneapolis’s small Black communities, gave rise to a groundbreaking genre, the otherworldly legend that was Prince, and music that captivated the world.

Rashad Shabazz is associate professor of Geography and African & African American studies at Arizona State University.

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless

What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival

MARIA PINTO

Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers.

Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history, and every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal, ecological, ancestral, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful, perplexing, delicious, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom's awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people, especially those on the margins, for survival, pleasure, revelation, and revolution.

Maria Pinto is a Boston-area writer, mycophile, and educator who was born in Jamaica and grew up in South Florida.

Thy Will Be Done

George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

JOHN GARRISON MARKS

In January 2025, President Trump issued an executive order for the US Semiquincentennial Commission to plan for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The highly partisan Task Force 250 is crafting a narrative that celebrates the military, monuments, and the men who broke the shackles of colonialism to create a free nation, above all George Washington. The president enslaved hundreds of men, women, and children at Mount Vernon, but stipulated that they were to be emancipated upon his death. While it is easy to see how Washington the Emancipator fits into Task Force 250’s story, Washington the Enslaver is also part of counternarratives that began after his death and gained force over generations.

Historian John Garrison Marks explores how pro-slavery advocates, abolitionists, educators, preservationists, politicians, and others have struggled with, selectively remembered, and weaponized Washington’s status as both enslaver and emancipator. Weaving historical research with analysis of contemporary culture, Marks reveals how our understanding of Washington has changed over time and illuminates how our relationship with the past has always been linked to the political and cultural movements of the present.

John Garrison Marks is Vice President of Research and Engagement at the American Association for State and Local History.

April 2026

288 pages

History Rights: World

October 2025

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Intrepid Girls

The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA

AMY ERDMAN FARRELL

When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of sisterhood, a rising sense of confidence, adventure, and—best of all—lifelong friendship when she joined a Girl Scout troop. Decades later, award-winning author Farrell returns to those formative experiences to explore the complicated and surprising history of the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Drawing from extensive archival research, visits to iconic Girl Scout sites around the world, and vivid personal reflections, Farrell uncovers the Girl Scouts intricate history, revealing how the organization has shaped the lives of more than 50 million girls and women since its founding in 1912. For anyone who has ever worn a uniform or wondered about the hidden history behind this iconic American institution, Intrepid Girls will surprise, inspire, and challenge what we think we know about the Girl Scouts.

Amy Erdman Farrell is professor of American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and the James Hope Caldwell Memorial Chair of American Culture at Dickinson College.

August 2025

360 pages

World

Canal Dreamers

The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions JESSICA M. LEPLER

In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As Spanish American nations declared independence and new canals intensified US expansion and British industrialization, many imagined the construction of an interoceanic canal as predestined. With dreams substituting for data, an international cast of politicians, lawyers, philosophers, and capitalists sent competing agents on a race to transform Lake Nicaragua, the San Juan River, and the terra incognita of Central American forests into the world's first global waterway.

Jessica M. Lepler tells the captivating story of this global journey in Canal Dreamers. Although the idea of literally changing the world by connecting the oceans proved too revolutionary for the Age of Revolution, the quest itself changed history. Canal dreams prompted political transformations, financial crisis, recognition of new countries, concern about climate change, and more. Full of adventure, corruption, far-reaching consequences, and present-day parallels, Lepler's absorbing narrative cuts through two centuries, revealing that dreams do not need to come true to make history.

Jessica Lepler is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.

The Fate of the Americas

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War

RENATA KELLER

Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground—a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout Latin America. This first hemispheric examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how leaders and ordinary citizens throughout the region experienced it, revealing that, had the missiles been activated, millions of people across Latin America would have been at grave risk.

Traversing the region from the Southern Cone to Central America, Renata Keller describes the deadly riots that shook Bolivia when news of the Cuban Missile Crisis broke, the naval quarantine that members of Argentina's armed forces formed around Cuba, the pro-Castro demonstrations organized by Nicaraguan students, and much more. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources from around the world, The Fate of the Americas demonstrates that even at the brink of destruction, Latin Americans played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.

Renata Keller is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Sex and the Office

A History of Gender, Power, and Desire, Second Edition

JULIE BEREBITSKY

This transformative book examines men's and women's changing attitudes toward sex and gender in the workplace. Between 1870 and 1970, white-collar office work became the leading form of employment for American women. As more women took office jobs, men and women workers attempted to make sense of this new environment where the workplace became a site of gendered power negotiations: Emotional and sexual desires entangled with "rational" operating procedures.

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including government reports, scandal papers, memoirs, and advice literature, Julie Berebitsky describes how women perceived and responded to male desire and discrimination. She also offers keen insight into how popular media—cartoons, advertisements, and a wide array of fictional accounts—represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances in the workplace.

This edition includes a foreword that brings Berebitsky's work into the present, where the Trump presidencies, MeToo movement, and global pandemic provide striking illustrations of the book's enduring relevance. An afterword reflects on Berebitsky's lasting impact as a feminist, teacher, and scholar in the fields of labor history and women's studies.

Julie Berebitsky (1962–2023) was professor of history and founding director of the women’s and gender studies program at Sewanee.

October 2025

336 pages

History

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October 2025

392 pages

History

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Chasing Bandits

America's Long War on Terror

MICHAEL E. NEAGLE

While the war on terror has been America's largest and most publicized attempt to root out foreign enemies this century, the quest to identify and destroy real or imagined threats has long been a part of US history. Indeed, since the onset of the United States' overseas empire at the dawn of the twentieth century, it has pursued enemies in places of strategic interest around the globe: the remote islands of the Philippines, the US southern border, hemispheric hot spots in Central and South America, and the Middle East.

The common depiction of these foes—private actors who did not formally represent their countries—has maintained a remarkable consistency over time. The only difference is that enemies who used to be called "bandits" are now referred to as "terrorists." Connoting an illegitimacy of both cause and means, the widespread use of such terms also has served to blunt deeper considerations of US foreign engagements. Drawing on six case studies, Michael E. Neagle spotlights the commonalities of how the United States has leveraged popular understandings of "bandits" to justify incursions abroad as well as rally popular and political support at home.

E. Neagle is professor of history at Nichols College.

August 2025

258 pages

Dictatorship Across Borders

Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War

MILA BURNS

This book offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean coup, highlighting Brazil's pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of South America during the Cold War. Shifting the focus from the United States to interregional dynamics, Mila Burns argues that Brazil was instrumental in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the establishment of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Drawing on original documents, interviews, and newly accessible archives, particularly from the Brazilian Truth Commission, Burns reveals Brazil's covert involvement in the coup, providing weapons, intelligence, and even torturers to anti-Allende forces. She also explores the resistance networks formed by Brazilian exiles in Chile. Burns's impeccable research— combining history, anthropology, and political science—makes Dictatorship across Borders a vital addition to Cold War studies, reshaping how we understand power and resistance in South America.

Mila Burns is associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College, and of History at The CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies.

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Caught in the Current

Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980

IRVIN IBARGÜEN

Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a "flow" of immigrants, a "flood" of documented and undocumented workers, a "dam" that has broken. Scholars, journalists, and novelists often tell this story from a south-to-north perspective, emphasizing Mexican migration to the United States, and the American response to the influx of people crossing its borders.

In Caught in the Current, Irvin Ibargüen offers a Mexico-centered history of migration in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on Mexican periodicals and archival sources, he explores how the Mexican state sought to manage US-bound migration. Ibargüen examines Mexico's efforts to blunt migration's impact on its economy, social order, and reputation, at times even aiming to restrict the flow of migrants. As a transnational history, the book highlights how Mexico's policies to moderate out-migration were contested by both the United States and migrants themselves, dooming them to fail. Ultimately, Caught in the Current reveals how both countries manipulated the border to impose control over a phenomenon that quickly escaped legal and political boundaries.

Irvin Ibargüen is assistant professor of history at New York University.

Mexican Watchdogs

The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s ANDREW PAXMAN

In the first narrative history in English of Mexico's contemporary press, Andrew Paxman recounts the evolution of print media between the 1980s and the present. From widespread subservience toward authority to playing a watchdog role as the country democratized, Mexico's media underwent drastic changes in its roles and functions.

Paxman also traces how the media responded to outright state hostility and major threats to its existence, including a war on drugs that made Mexico the riskiest country for reporters outside a combat zone, a decline in revenue as readers and advertisers migrated to the internet, and a partial return to government cooptation. Based on interviews with 180 current and former journalists and extensive research in newspaper libraries, Mexican Watchdogs interweaves critical analysis with the stories of key reporters, editors, and publishers as well as the trajectories of Mexico's leading print and on-line media.

Andrew Paxman is research professor of history and journalism at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico.

October 2025

272 pages

History

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October 2025

384 pages

History

Rights: World

Roads to Prosperity and Ruin

Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatán

FERNANDO ARMSTRONG-FUMERO

In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Pisté, gateway to the famed Chichén Itzá archeological site, would be circumvented by the Tren Maya commuter rail megaproject, depriving it of steady tourist traffic. Instead of ruminating with frustration, locals set to work on negotiations with the state and federal governments. Generations of experience taught them that pragmatic engagement with political parties was essential in turning into opportunity projects with the potential to kill the local economy.

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero situates the Tren Maya in a long history of economic development on the Yucatán Peninsula beginning in the 1930s. Drawing together archival research and decades of ethnographic work, Armstrong-Fumero develops the concept of negative infrastructure to show how industrial investments configure rural economic futures as well as how communities seek to mitigate the harms from projects designed to benefit other regions. Recognizing their life-changing potential, rural Maya Yucatecans recast infrastructural projects as new possibilities for inclusion, agency, and resistance as participants in formal state and economic structures.

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero is associate professor of anthropology at Smith College.

January 2026

304 pages

Ongoing Return

Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine

RANA BARAKAT

For Palestinian scholar Rana Barakat, the experience of place is guided by the stories and memories of her grandmother, who was among the 750,000 people forcibly displaced in 1948 by the newly formed Israeli government. Since then, the violence of settler colonialism has prevented the return of Palestinian refugees, including those from Lifta, her family's ancestral village. In the present, the settler state of Israel seems to control the fate of the remaining structures in Lifta, enforcing so-called development plans that limit access and leave the valley appearing frozen in time. By gathering stories from family and community members alongside archival sources and lived experience in the West Bank under Israeli occupation, however, Barakat reveals the way storytelling provides a form of ongoing return to a once-thriving village and to Palestine itself.

One of the first books to position Palestinian studies within Indigenous studies, Barakat offers a rich perspective on Palestinian history and lives today. Embedded in a deeply personal journey, Ongoing Return takes the reader through the past via the present and dares to imagine futures for Palestine and its people.

Rana Barakat is associate professor of history at Birzeit University and director of the Birzeit University Museum.

City of Lyrics

Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early Modern Delhi

NATHAN L. M. TABOR

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the mushāʿirah is a global phenomenon, as audiences in the millions convene in person and online for hours of poetic performance. Tracing these modern gatherings back to their origins, Nathan L. M. Tabor introduces readers to the popular emergence of the mushāʿirah in eighteenth-century Delhi. Scores of poets composed two-line lyric poems, called ġhazals, that they muttered, sang, shouted, and spat out in contentious salon spaces across India's largest metropolis. Delhi's mushāʿirahs circulated lyrics, satires, and songs for both common and elite poets, who traded and assessed words like an urban commodity that defined hierarchy, taste, and notions of delight.

Via poets' verse exchanges and the histories they wrote about Dehli's literary scene, City of Lyrics reconstructs the social networks the mushāʿirahs produced. By understanding the roots of this uniquely Islamic literary practice, readers will also gain insight into global popular culture today, which increasingly takes shape according to tastes and values from the Muslim world yet is enjoyed by wide audiences comprised of both Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Nathan L. M. Tabor is assistant professor of history at Western Michigan University.

Atlantic Crescent

Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora ALAINA M. MORGAN

In the period between the twentieth century's two world wars, Black and Muslim people from the United States, South Asia, and the Caribbean collided across an expansive diasporic geography. As these people and their ideas came into contact, they reignited the practice of Islam among people of African descent living in the United States and the Anglophone Caribbean and prompted them to adopt new understandings of their place in the world. As the freedom dreams of these diasporic communities met the realities and limitations of colonialism and race in the Atlantic world, Islam presented new strategies for combating oppression and introduced new allies in the struggle.

Envisioning the geography and significance of this encounter within what she calls the Atlantic Crescent, Alaina M. Morgan draws on an expansive archive to show how Black and Muslim people imagined, understood, and acted on their religious and racial identities. Morgan reveals how her subjects' overlapping diasporic encounters with Islam led to varied local adaptation as well as common ground to pursue liberation from racial subjugation and white supremacy.

Alaina M. Morgan is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California.

October 2025

352 pages

Religion Rights: World

July 2025

pages

World

The Secret World of Shugendō

Sacred Mountains and the Search for Meaning in Post-Disaster Japan

SHAYNE A. P. DAHL

In this compelling narrative of discovery set in Japan's remote Dewa Sanzan mountain range, Shayne A. P. Dahl describes Shugendō, a secretive religious tradition that combines aspects of Shinto, Buddhism, and mountain worship. As a participant-observer, Dahl invites readers into the practices of contemporary ascetics who see the sacred mountains as wombs within which cycles of life, death, and rebirth can be harnessed for the sake of personal transformation and existential realization. As Dahl argues, immersion in Shugendō provides ascetics and pilgrims with an escape from capitalist modernity and an avenue for self-reflection in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster near Fukushima in March 2011.

Immersing readers in the intimate and hidden dimensions of Shugendō, Dahl sheds light on how practitioners sustain their traditions in the face of modern temptations and tensions within their religious communities. Filled with insight into Shugendō’s contribution to Japanese cultural identity, this book offers groundbreaking perspective on the intersections of ecology, disaster, religion, the human condition, and death.

Shayne A. P. Dahl is an anthropologist who earned his doctorate at the University of Toronto and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University, McMaster University, and the University of Lethbridge.

University of Nebraska Press

About University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press extends the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service by promoting, publishing, and disseminating works of intellectual and cultural significance and enduring value.

The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is the largest university press between Chicago and California. It publishes scholarly and general-interest books (with more than 5,000 titles in print and an additional 150 new titles released each year) and journals (with more than 30 different journals published each year) in topics ranging from anthropology and literary criticism to history and sports. In addition to the Nebraska imprint, the Press also publishes books under Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books imprints and publishes the books of The Jewish Publication Society. The Journals division produces the publications of Nebraska Extension, a division of the University of Nebraska’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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Between the Wires

The Janowska Camp and Holocaust in Lviv WAITMAN WADE BEORN

Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, Janowska remains one of the least-known sites of the Holocaust, despite being one of the deadliest. Simultaneously a prison, a slave labor camp, a transit camp to the gas chambers, and an extermination site, this hybrid camp played a complex role in the Holocaust.

Based on extensive archival research, Between the Wires explores the evolution and the connection to Lviv of this rare urban camp. Waitman Wade Beorn reveals the exceptional brutality of the SS staff alongside an almost unimaginable will to survive among prisoners facing horrendous suffering, whose resistance included an armed uprising. This integrated chronicle of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders follows the history of the camp into the postwar era, including attempts to bring its criminals to justice.

Waitman Wade Beorn is an associate professor of history at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, UK.

April 2026

400 pages

Jewish History and Culture/Holocaust/World War II/Europe

Rights: World

October 2025

164 pages

Cultural Criticism/Film/Ecology/Philosophy Rights: World

The Earth Is Evil

STEVEN SWARBRICK

The Earth Is Evil examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles. Steven Swarbrick maintains that psychoanalysis does not simply help us integrate our desires into a constituency of multispecies actors. Instead, psychoanalysis destitutes our fantasies of ecological and psychic wholeness. That destitution, he argues, is the unconscious source of our enjoyment. Exploring films by Lars von Trier, Kelly Reichardt, Daniel Kwan, and Daniel Scheinert, among others, and intervening in trenchant debates about negativity and desire, Swarbrick urges a return to the existentialist subject of lack against the flattening of subjectivity by ecocriticism. The Earth Is Evil is a vigorous attempt to construct a leftist environmental movement in dialogue with the most radical currents of critical theory.

Steven Swarbrick is an associate professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton and coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction

A People Destroyed

New Research on the Roma Genocide, 1941-1945

ANTON WEISS-WENDT, EDITOR

A People Destroyed features the most recent work on the Roma genocide in Europe during World War II. Despite the murder of a substantial part of the Romani population in various countries and occupied territories, it took historians more than half a century to collect enough evidence to establish the fact of genocide. Even today the public remains largely unaware of the extent of suffering that the Nazis and some of their allies inflicted on the Roma.

A People Destroyed shows that the Nazis most consistently murdered Roma in the German-speaking countries and the occupied Soviet territories, while Fascist Croatia attempted its own “Final Solution of the Gypsy Question.” The history of persecution that Roma people endured in Europe laid the foundation for the Nazi policy of extermination.

Anton Weiss-Wendt and the contributors to the volume, who come from nine different countries, build on existing Holocaust scholarship in their discussion of policy implementation, racial ideology, and the shared experiences of Jews and Roma. Meticulously analyzing diverse primary sources such as perpetrator documents and war crimes trial records, witness testimonies, population data, and contemporaneous newspaper reports and oral interviews, A People Destroyed provides a comprehensive overview of the destruction while focusing on the individual experiences of the victims.

Anton Weiss-Wendt is a research professor at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies in Oslo.

The January Children

SAFIA ELHILLO

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.” What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one’s own land.

The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan’s history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani—an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.

No longer content to accept manmade borders, Elhillo navigates a new and reimagined world. Maintaining a sense of wonder in multiple landscapes and mindscapes of perpetually shifting values, she leads the reader through a postcolonial narrative that is equally terrifying and tender, melancholy and defiant.

Safia Elhillo's work has appeared in several journals and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. She is the author of The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles

Dictionary of Narratology

Revised Edition

GERALD PRINCE

History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in novels, cartoons, or case studies.

Indispensable to writers, critics, and scholars in many fields, A Dictionary of Narratology provides quick and reliable access to terms and concepts that are defined, illustrated, and cross-referenced. All entries are keyed to articles or books in which the terms originated or are exemplified. This revised edition contains additional entries and updates some existing ones.

Gerald Prince is a professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Narrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction (Nebraska 1992).

March 2017

90 pages

Poetry/Africa

Rights: World, excluding Spanish and Norwegian

December 2003

140 pages

Literary Criticism/Reference

Rights: World, excluding Japanese

Narrative across Media

The Languages of Storytelling

MARIE-LAURE RYAN, EDITOR

Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media.

Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, Narrative across Media is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.

Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar. She is the author of Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media and Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

October 2019

240 pages

Memoir/Middle East/Women, Gender & Sexuality

Rights: World

From Miniskirt to Hijab

A Girl in Revolutionary Iran JACQUELINE SAPER

Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community—primarily the disparate religions and cultures.

In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Seemingly overnight she went from living a carefree life of wearing miniskirts and attending high school to listening to fanatic diatribes, forced to wear the hijab, and hiding in the basement as Iraqi bombs fell over the city. She eventually fled to the United States in 1987 with her husband and children after, in part, witnessing her six-year-old daughter’s indoctrination into radical Islamic politics at school. At the heart of Saper’s story is a harrowing and instructive tale of how extremist ideologies seized a Westernized, affluent country and transformed it into a fundamentalist Islamic society.

Jacqueline Saper is a CPA, educator, translator, and public speaker. An expert on Iranian subject matter, her opinion columns and articles regularly appear in national and international publications.

Blue Helmet

My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan

EDWARD H. CARPENTER

Blue Helmet: My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan tells the story of a country, a conflict, and the institution of peacekeeping through the eyes of a senior American military officer working on the ground in one of the most dangerous countries on the planet. South Sudan is rich in natural resources, and its fertile soil could make it the breadbasket of East Africa. Yet it remains the poorest and most corrupt country in the region, plagued by disease, famine, and ethnic strife. Abductions, sexual violence, death, and displacement affect tens of thousands of people each year.

Edward H. Carpenter pulls the reader into his world, allowing them to experience the powerful, poignant realities of being a peacekeeper in South Sudan. In the process, the author reveals how the United Nations really conducts its missions: what it tolerates and how it often falls short of achieving the aims of its charter—equal rights, justice, and economic advancement for all people, with the use of armed forces limited to serving those common interests by keeping the peace and preventing the scourge of war. It is a story that is eye-opening, unsettling, and always compelling.

Global leaders may fairly claim that they have done everything they can to help South Sudan help itself: they’ve dispatched thousands of peacekeepers and provided billions of dollars in aid. So why is the UN still struggling to fulfill its mandate to protect civilians and safeguard the delivery of humanitarian assistance? What could be done better? Bringing the reader to the forefront of action, Blue Helmet answers these questions and raises others about how modern peacekeeping missions are organized and overseen, shedding light on some of the contradictions at the heart of peacekeeping.

Edward H. Carpenter is a retired lieutenant colonel, a veteran of America’s “Long Wars” who served in the U.S. Army and Marines for a total of twenty-nine years, from Afghanistan to Japan, Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. He has written for the Washington Post and is the author of Steven Pressfield’s “The Warrior Ethos”: One Marine Officer’s Critique and Counterpoint. Carpenter is the founder of the nonprofit organization World Without War, to which he is donating his royalties from Blue Helmet

March 2025

408 pages

Memoir/Military History/Africa/World & National Affairs

Rights: World

Fuji Fire

Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy CHAS HENRY

On October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy-three people, thirteen of them fatally. The Marine Corps commandant, a veteran of combat in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, was stunned as he met scores of horribly burned survivors. “Having witnessed a lot of bad things, ugly things,” the general declared, “none can compare to that experience.” And yet this 1979 catastrophe on the slopes of Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji remains all but forgotten except by those directly affected.

Now, the fruits of Chas Henry’s exhaustive four-year, two-continent investigation provide insight into what many have called the U.S. Marine Corps’ worst-ever peacetime disaster. Fuji Fire shares the compelling and intimate stories of heartbreak and inspiration forged by these events while bringing to light new, critical analyses of the incident’s causes and effects.

Chas Henry served as an active-duty U.S. Marine from 1976 to 1996, rising in rank from private to captain. He trained at Camp Fuji nineteen months before the Fuji fire and was decorated for his actions in combat during the 1991 Gulf War. After military service he embarked on an award-winning career in international journalism, reporting on matters of global security, intelligence, and military veterans. June 2025 325 pages

Military History/Military Studies/History/Asia/ Japan

Rights: World

April 2009

296 pages

Native Studies/Dakotas/Sioux/Women in the West/Fiction

Rights: World, excluding German and French

Waterlily

New Edition

ELLA CARA DELORIA

When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family’s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria’s tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people.

Waterlily, published after Deloria’s death and generally viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse into the daily life of the nineteenth-century Sioux.

This new Bison Books edition features an introduction by Susan Gardner and an index.

Ella Cara Deloria (1889–1971) was born on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota and grew up in a prominent family on the Standing Rock reservation during a disruptive time in her tribe’s history. She studied at Columbia University with Franz Boas and became an ethnologist.

Blue Tattoo

The Life of Olive Oatman

MARGOT MIFFLIN

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society. She became an instant celebrity, but the price of fame was high and the pain of her ruptured childhood lasted a lifetime.

Based on historical records, including letters and diaries of Oatman’s friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life from her childhood in Illinois—including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society—to her later years as a wealthy banker’s wife in Texas.

Oatman’s story has since become legend, inspiring artworks, fiction, film, radio plays, and even an episode of Death Valley Days starring Ronald Reagan. Its themes, from the perils of religious utopianism to the permeable border between civilization and savagery, are deeply rooted in the American psyche. Oatman’s blue tattoo was a cultural symbol that evoked both the imprint of her Mohave past and the lingering scars of westward expansion. It also served as a reminder of her deepest secret, fully explored here for the first time: she never wanted to go home.

Margot Mifflin is an author and journalist who writes about women, art, and contemporary culture. She is a professor in the English Department of Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and directs the Arts and Culture program at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she also teaches.

April 2009

288 pages

Biography & Autobiography/American West/ Women in the West/Native Studies/ Mormon Rights: World

June 2025

340 pages

Bible/Bible Studies/Jewish Studies/Spirituality Rights: World, excluding Hebrew

Planting Seeds of the Divine

Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your Spiritual Practice

YISCAH SMITH

Experiencing deep personal fulfillment, happiness, and sustenance comes from feeling connected to our authentic selves, which involves building an ongoing relationship with the Divine Presence within us, says author Yiscah Smith. Quite organically, then, we may begin sensing the Divine in our interactions with other people. This is because, for each of us, “our essence, as a creation by God, is God.

Planting Seeds of the Divine elucidates how Judaism’s sacred texts can provide the foundation for the “end destination” of experiencing intimate encounters with the Divine Presence within—the God-consciousness that so many of us find elusive. Imagining ourselves as spiritual gardeners, we can cultivate our unique gardens with seeds centered on middot (emotional dispositions, character traits, spiritual sensitivities). Each seed corresponds to an aspirational Torah commentary, consisting of a selected Torah verse linked to one of the middot, a summary of the biblical text preceding the verse, classical commentaries, teachings of Hasidic and Neo-Hasidic masters and the author, and step-by-step experiential practices to help us internalize the middot and encounter the Divine.

Each seed contributes to the garden’s beauty—the beauty of the self in God-consciousness— which hopefully blossoms into a magnificent garden of the soul

Yiscah Smith is a thought leader and spiritual activist committed to empowering and ennobling others in the spiritual practice of encountering the Divine spark within and beyond. She is the founder of Conscious Community Nachlaot, an alternative prayer space in Jerusalem. Her Authentic Jewish Living with Yiscah podcast episodes are available on platforms such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

August 2024

400 pages

Jewish History and Culture/Ethics/Philosophy Rights: World, excluding Hebrew

The Triumph of Life

A Narrative Theology of Judaism IRVING (YITZ) GREENBERG

The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s magnum opus—a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journey through modernity, the Holocaust, the creation of Israel, and the birth of Judaism’s next era.

Greenberg describes Judaism’s utopian vision of a world created by a God who loves life, who invites humans to live on the side of life, and who enables the forces of life to triumph over death. The Bible proclaims our mission of tikkun olam, repairing the world, such that every human image of God is sustained in the fullness of our dignity. To achieve this ideal, Judaism offers the method of covenant—a realistic, personal, incremental partnership between God and humanity across generations in which human beings grow ever more responsible for world repair.

Greenberg calls on us to redirect humanity’s unprecedented power in modernity to overcome poverty, oppression, inequality, sickness, and war. The work of covenant requires an ethic of power—one that advances life collaboratively and at a human pace—so that the Jewish people and all humanity can bring the world toward the triumph of life.

Rabbi Irving Greenberg is a preeminent Jewish thinker, theologian, activist, president of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advancement of Jewish Life, and senior scholar in residence at Hadar.

University of Georgia Press

About University of Georgia Press

Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University’s place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world.

The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state. We currently publish 60–70 new books a year and have a long history of publishing significant scholarship (in fields such as Atlantic World and American history, American literature, African American studies, American studies, Southern studies, environmental studies, geography, urban studies, international affairs, and security studies), creative and literary works in conjunction with major literary competitions and series, and books about the state and the region for general readers.

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Olive Growing in Palestine

Stories of Everyday Forms of Resistance JUMAN SIMAAN

Olive Growing in Palestine highlights the daily forms of resistance olive farmers practice to counter the structures of the military occupation, apartheid and settler-colonialism affecting their daily activities related to olive growing. It offers a translation of olive farmers’ meaningful daily activities and their values to disrupt Eurocentric disciplines concerned with people’s daily lives, their health and well-being, their communities, self-determination, and flourishing. The book focuses on a collection of values, knowledges and means of actions from the daily lives of Palestinian fellahin (small-scale farmers): Sutra (doing for being), ‘Awna (doing for belonging), and Sumud (doing for belonging and becoming).

Juman Simaan (he/him) is an associate professor of occupational therapy at Edinburgh Napier University. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Occupational Science and works with his local communities in Palestine and Scotland (where he currently lives) on issues of social justice, food sovereignty, and land rights.

March 2026

192 pages

Palestine

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Emotional Filipinos

The American Myth of the “Lazy Native” and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines

GEORGE BAYLON RADICS

Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the “Lazy Native” and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines approaches the rise of Islamic “terrorism” and xenophobia not as the political model on failed states, but by using the novel approach of examining emotions as a driving force behind social action, particularly in the context of the Philippines—a nation currently experiencing the longest-running Muslim-Christian conflict in the modern world and an increasingly anti-Western populist government. By documenting the role of emotions in the Philippines from the American colonial period to the present, this book blurs the line between American colonizer and Muslim-Filipino “terrorist,” highlighting the lasting effects of America’s footprint in Southeast Asia. At the same time, the book delves deep into the causes of emotionally driven actions in order to humanize history, bring out the personal, and draw connections between past and present.

George Babylon Radics is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His articles have been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Journal of Human Rights, Current Sociology, and the Philippine Sociological Review. His work involves the judicial system, notions of justice, human rights, minorities, and comparative legal studies.

Finding Sarah and Mary

May 2026

312 pages

Family history, tracing ancestors/Memoirs Rights: World

Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up JACQUELINE JONES ROYSTER

Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling History in Middle Georgia from the Ground Up is a narrative about the ancestral history of the author. Combining memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history we follow a 40-year journey of discovery. Jones Royster weaves and re-weaves data and details corralled from multiple sources, and anchors the narrative with two women, Sarah Ashe (c. 1740-1820), a maternal ancestor, and Mary Craddock Wilson (1825-1907), a paternal ancestor. She recounts how she discovered each of them; profiles their lives in time and space; and traces their family connections—through the generations of family, both before and after them. Readers will take away a clearer, more truthful, and perhaps more inspiring view of who citizens of the nation really are and have always been—even when some of them—by law, policy, and practice—have been ignored and left out of our American story.

Jacqueline Jones Royster is professor emerita at The Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery

WILLIAM A. MORGAN

Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a smallscale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by both contemporary and current scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slavery—a paradigm that obscures the full measure of diversity in this region and era. Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, author William A. Morgan suggests an alternative or competing narrative in understanding both Cuban and Atlantic slavery in this period.

William A. Morgan is a professor of history at Lone Star College. His research has been awarded a Lydia Cabrera Fellowship from the Conference on Latin American History, a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society, two Mellon/ACLS Faculty Fellowships, and a Folger Research Fellowship. He is the author of A Brief History of Cuba and his work has appeared in Slavery & Abolition, Colonial Latin American Review, and Agricultural History

June 2026

312 pages

Slavery and abolition of slavery

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Black Montmartre in the Jazz Age

ROBERT TOMLINSON

In Jazz Age Montmartre, African American musicians arrived in response to a demand for American dance rhythms. Hallowed entertainment venues acquired jazz orchestras, and a plethora of clubs sprang up in the narrow streets around the rue Pigalle and the rue Fontaine, creating a jazz-fueled dance culture. On this self-contained island in Paris, far from their racist homeland, these performers established an imperfect utopia. In Black Montmartre in the Jazz Age, Robert Tomlinson guides readers down these streets and into clubs and theaters in an effort to reveal what this unique neighborhood looked like to the Black Americans who were forced to search abroad for their American Dream. Black Montmartre in the Jazz Age provides a focused and detailed narrative, undeveloped in previous studies, that depicts the decline of the clannish white “society dancings” of the rue Caumartin and the parallel rise of Black-owned and -managed clubs in Pigalle.

Robert Tomlinson is a Jamaican American artist and scholar of French literature. He is a professor emeritus in the French and Italian Department at Emory University. He has also written two previous books, Exiles: A Poem with Original Woodcuts and La Fête Galante: Watteau et Marivaux. He currently lives in Paris. February 2026

280 pages

European history, c. 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)

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October 2025

368 pages

Autobiography

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September 2025

198 pages

Law and society/sociology of law

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Driven

A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN TOM JOHNSON

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today’s conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in this deeply personal autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson’s storied career in public service and journalism spans the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, where he was an eyewitness to painful negotiations on Vietnam and notified the president that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, through the executive leadership of the LA Times and, finally, Ted Turner’s upstart CNN in Atlanta. From his perspective “inside the room,” Johnson provides eyewitness accounts of LBJ’s triumphs and failings as well as an on-the-ground view of the achievements and shortfalls of late twentieth-century American journalism. With more than eight decades behind him, Driven is not just Johnson’s look at the past but a chance for his story to offer guidance about finding balance in an uncertain future.

Tom Johnson served as CEO of two of America’s most respected news organizations, the Los Angeles Times and CNN. Johnson lives in Atlanta with his wife, Edwina.

Enforcing Order on the Border

Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas

ERIC GAMINO

Enforcing Order on the Border offers a personal, ethnographic examination of Gamino’s life as a resident of the RGV coupled with his experience as a police officer for two different police departments in the region. Gamino reveals how the concept of race functions within a predominantly Latino-origin community. Gamino provides a unique perspective on how the concept of race in a predominantly Latino-origin community complicates intraracial/ intraethnic relations on the South Texas–Mexico borderlands.

Eric Gamino is an associate professor of criminology and justice studies at California State University, Northridge.

Conservation in Common

Managing Wildlife and Sustaining Community on the Maasai Steppe

JUSTIN RAYCRAFT

Wildlife conservation in Tanzania is fraught with conflicts between the state, international organizations, private investors, and local communities over the rights to rangeland resources and the benefit streams associated with safari tourism. This book takes up the question of how a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania’s Tarangire ecosystem is viewed from the bottom up by the people who are directly affected by its implementation. Based on historically grounded ethnographic research, Justin Raycraft documents a shift in local attitudes toward Randilen WMA—from fear and protest to widespread support. Conservation in Common makes a much-needed intervention in critical political ecology literature by providing the first account of a conservation area in Tanzania that serves the interests of its local community, thereby making the case that protecting wildlife habitat and safeguarding human well-being are not mutually exclusive activities.

Justin Raycraft is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. He received his PhD from McGill University and has been carrying out ethnographic research on the human dimensions of conservation in Tanzania since 2014.

December 2025

224 pages

Passport to Citizenship

Finding America by Living Abroad ARTHUR N. DUNNING

Passport to Citizenship narrates how Arthur N. Dunning, born deep in rural South Alabama and the grandson of people born into slavery, evolved from a provincial, angry Black teenager who was very much a product of his time into a more thoughtful person capable of leading colleges and universities in the American South. And then, the burden of accumulated trauma inflicted by the racial caste system he came of age under in Alabama melted away left him free to grapple with and come to terms with it. When outside of the United States, Dunning felt free to wander unfamiliar neighborhoods, eat different foods, speak with foreign people, and analyze his experiences without having to look over his shoulder—literally and figuratively. By seeing himself and his country through other people’s eyes, experiencing the rich and ancient traditions of nations around the world, Dunning ended up, like James Baldwin, a new man in a new world, a person curious about the human condition.

Arthur N. Dunning is a veteran administrator, scholar, and lecturer with a distinguished track record in higher education in Alabama and Georgia. He is the author of Unreconciled: Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South

June 2026

160 pages

Autobiography: historical, political and military

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Texas Tech University Press

About Texas Tech University Press

Texas Tech University Press (TTU Press) has been the book publishing arm of Texas Tech University since 1971 and a member of the Association of American University Presses since 1987. The mission of TTU Press is to disseminate the fruits of original research by publishing rigorously peer-reviewed works that compel scholarly exchange and that entertain and enlighten the university’s broadest constituency throughout the state, the nation, and the world. TTU Press publishes 15-20 new titles each year and has approximately 450 titles in print. In addition to a diverse list of nonfiction titles focused on the history and culture of Texas, the Great Plains, and the American West, the Press publishes in the areas of natural history, border studies, and peace and conflict studies. Additionally, the Press publishes select titles in literary genres ranging from biography and memoir to young adult and children’s titles. It also publishes the annual winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry.

As a university press, we make available works of scholarship and literature that might otherwise not be published. We have a large list in topics showcasing and investigating West Texas, a historically underserved region. Our imprint extends the reach of Texas Tech University both nationally and globally. We promote books and literary culture in our Lubbock community through author events and outreach engagement opportunities.

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Water

Poems and Drawings

SUSAN BRIND MORROW

Water is a collection of poetry, watercolors, and pen-and-ink drawings from poet and author Susan Brind Morrow. Water is the organizing concept; it is also the urtext of the artistic process, the window between the natural world and our representations of it.

The interplay between the media creates a unique reading experience that will appeal to readers of poetry and art books. Morrow’s award-winning work on Egyptian poetry and religious texts manifests here in transcriptions of hieroglyphs and accompanying ink drawings.

Water is a unique ars poetica from one of our most singular contemporary American voices.

Susan Brind Morrow has written extensively on the origins of written language in metaphor drawn from the natural world. She is the author of The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert, Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World, and The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts

December 2023

64 pages

Poetry: Animals & Nature/Poetry: Places/ American Poetry

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Images in the River

The Life and Work of Waring Cuney

CYNTHIA DAVIS AND VERNER D. MITCHELL

The poet William Waring Cuney (1906–1976) was born and raised in Washington, DC, just a few blocks from Howard University where three generations of his family studied. Despite his privileged upbringing among the city’s Black elite, Cuney embraced his family’s passionate commitment to racial uplift and civil rights. Cuney published in all the major Harlem Renaissance journals and anthologies alongside the luminaries of the period, many of whom were good friends.

Through 100 of his best poems, many never before collected or published, and a detailed biographical monograph, Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring Cuney introduces readers to a newly recovered Harlem Renaissance poet.

Cynthia Davis is a professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas. Her research and teaching interests include African American Modernism, African American military history, and the Black Arts Movement. Verner D. Mitchell is a professor of African American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Memphis. His research and teaching interests include the Harlem Renaissance, Black women writers, African Americans in the military, and the Black Arts Movement.

January 2024

368 pages

African American & Black Literary Collections

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November 2025

160 pages

Nature Essays/Women's Biography & Autobiography

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August 2025

224 pages

Cooking: Indigenous Food of the Americas/ Cooking: Vegetarian/Cooking: Southwestern U.S.

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Drinking Wild Water Essays

AMY M. HALE

Amy M. Hale is writing love letters again. As she did in her previous award-winning books, she is writing to the universe, to individuals, to the land, to change, to work, and even, at times, to who she is becoming as she writes, rides, and hikes over the land.

Washed up on the shores of this strange, wonderful, horrible time, this time of examination and caution and shifting sands, Hale’s ride-along writing brings the reader to her unusual home and her out-of-time work as one of the few working cowboys of this age.

Drinking Wild Water is Hale’s invitation to a land-given perspective that allows readers to reexamine contemporary life from a vantage point available to vanishingly few.

Amy M. Hale is the author of Ordinary Skin and Rightful Place, the 2012 WILLA winner for creative nonfiction and Foreword Reviews Book of the Year for essays. She is also the author of Winter of Beauty and The Story Is the Thing. Hale cowboys for Spider Ranch in Yavapai County, Arizona, and performs poetry, speaking to groups all over the country.

The Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cookbook

ADÁN MEDRANO

In 15,000-year-old archaeological sites throughout Texas and Northeastern Mexico, records left by Coahuiltecan, Karankawa, Apache, and other Indigenous communities tell stories about their food practices, the roots of Texas Mexican cuisine. Author and chef Adán Medrano, a Coahuiltecan descendant, made it his life’s work to document these food practices and the stories they narrate. In The Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cookbook, he honors the plant-based cooking history, traditions, and knowledge that make up the comida casera (home cooking) of today’s Texas Mexican community.

Each of the 90 kitchen-tested recipes includes detailed cooking instructions intended for contemporary home cooks. The book provides explanations of the origins of iconic ingredients like squash, cactus, mesquite, and sunflowers, as well as more recent, post-Conquest ingredients like watermelon, rice, and cauliflower. Texas ancestors ate pecans and black walnuts, along with acorns, grapes, berries, seeds, and tubers.

Home cooks of all levels can discover and reclaim ancient ingredients and simple techniques in this volume and come away with deeper knowledge of the agricultural systems that belie our current foodways.

Adán Medrano is a chef, author, and Coahuiltecan descendant who researches and presents traditional Indigenous food practices that form the roots of Texas Mexican cuisine.

Texas Red

RED STEAGALL, WITH JIM JENNINGS

I've been there before

And I'll try it again

But any fool knows

That there's no way to win

Those lyrics have been sung by Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, and George Strait; even Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis have performed an arrangement of “Here We Go Again.”

This legendary song, and a host of other hits, were written by Russell Don “Red” Steagall. He has released twenty-three albums. He has performed for President Reagan and other heads of state and has made three tours to the Middle East, East Asia, Europe, Australia, and South America. This is in addition to his dabbling in acting and hosting radio and TV programs.

Red Steagall’s entertainment career has covered a period of more than half a century and has spanned the globe from Australia to the Middle East, South America, and the Far East. He has performed for heads of state including President Reagan at the White House in 1983. He then became a music industry executive in Hollywood and has spent the last nearly sixty years as a recording artist, songwriter, and television and motion picture personality. He currently ranches outside Fort Worth, Texas. Jim Jennings lives in Amarillo, Texas, and is the retired executive director of publications for the American Quarter Horse Association. He writes the scripts for Red Steagall Is Somewhere West of Wall Street and has written the books Best Remudas and They Still Ride Good Horses

November 2024

224 pages

Biography & Autobiography: Entertainment & Performing Arts/Biography & Autobiography: Military/Southwest U.S. History

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July 2024

256 pages

Technology & Engineering: Television & Video/ Social Science: Media Studies/Southwest U.S. History

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Inside the Well

The Midland, Texas Rescue of Baby Jessica LANCE

LUNSFORD

On October 14, 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well, igniting a 56-hour sprint to free her. The oil boomtown of Midland, Texas, supplied a ragtag crew of rescuers. Firemen, policemen, roofing contractors, oil drillers, mining engineers, cowpokes, and nosy neighbors all worked together, improvising their way to the story’s happy conclusion: when paramedics hoisted Baby Jessica into the limelight.

Lunsford’s gripping firsthand narrative documents not just the play-by-play action of the rescue itself but also the lives of the rescuers, their triumph, and, for some, their ultimate tragedy. Bolstered by recollection, exclusive interviews, and deep local knowledge, Inside the Well is the definitive book on a West Texas story that became a twentieth-century media phenomenon.

Lance Lunsford is a native of Midland, Texas, and currently serves as senior partner at Groundswell Health, a company he co-founded in Austin, Texas, focusing on strategic communication and marketing for healthcare organizations and their public affairs and marketing needs. As a young reporter, he worked in the newsroom of the Midland Reporter-Telegram

Going to Seed

Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work

KATE J. NEVILLE

In a time of urgent environmental change, pressing social injustice, and ever-advancing technologies and global connections, we often respond with acceleration—a speeding up and scaling up of our strategies to counter the damage and destruction around us.

But what if we take the seeds as a starting point: what might we learn about work, sustainability, and relationships on this beleaguered planet if we slowed down, stepped back, and held off?

Going to Seed explores questions of idleness, considering the labor both of humans and the myriad other inhabitants of the world. Drawing on science, literature, poetry, and personal observation, these winding and sometimes playful essays pay attention to the exertions and activities of the other-than-human lives that are usually excluded from our built and settled spaces, asking whose work and what kinds of work are needed for a more just future for all.

Kate J. Neville is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, where she studies global resource politics, energy transitions and technologies, and community resistance. When not in the city, Kate can be found in an off-grid cabin in the woods.

Our Connected Lives

Caring for Cancer Patients in Rural Texas

FAZLUR RAHMAN

Fazlur Rahman could never have imagined that his medical career would unfold in remote West Texas and that he would be a pioneer oncologist for a vast region. Over a 35-year career, Rahman poured himself into not just taking care of his patients’ challenging medical needs but learning from them and getting to know their lives, their families, and the circumstances that made each patient unique.

He narrates the instructive stories of five cancer patients: surviving against all odds; walking a long path with cancer and negotiating the steps of every day.

These compassionate tales are a blend of storytelling, cancer science, and Rahman’s personal reflections and struggles in making medical decisions that treat a patient as a whole person, not just as a person with a disease.

Fazlur Rahman was born and brought up in what is now Bangladesh. He is an adjunct professor of biology (medical humanities and ethics) at Angelo State University, a senior trustee of Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and an advisory council member of the Charles E. Cheever Jr. Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

The Wound is the Place the Light Enters

HOWARD NORMAN

The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn’t know would be the final evening and morning he spent with his dear friend Jake Berthot. In that single evening is the entire world of their relationship and the story of a unique artistic figure of the twentieth century. After the controversial exhibit of his “Red Paintings,” painter Jake Berthot (1939–2014) moved his studio from New York City to a small town upstate. There he began an exploration of landscape—predominantly trees—which he drew and painted almost exclusively until his death from leukemia at age 75. Berthot was often referred to as a “painter’s painter,” a description he disliked.

A “pastiche of inimitable farewells” (W. S. Merwin), this story has all the intimate forms of memory: letters, conversation, and anecdote, woven together in a narratively inventive, courageous, and deeply affecting portrait of friendship.

Howard Norman is the author of novels, memoirs, and books for children. Twice a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction, he received the Lannan Award in Literature.

October 2024

248 pages

Medical Biography & Autobiography/ Oncology/Terminal Care Rights: World

September 2024

120 pages

Memoirs/Biography & Autobiography: Artists, Architects, Photographers/Family & Relationships: Friendship Rights: World

Lucky Bodies Essays

MARIANNE JAY ERHARDT

A mother is a myth, a figure, a body. Through a series of essays spanning the political to the personal, Lucky Bodies reckons with motherhood. Marianne Jay Erhardt’s striking debut takes inventory of what we demand and withhold from mothers, and what counts as care. Plucking stars from the constellation of stories that have shaped her own emergence as a mother, she explores fables, family, religion, fairy tales, television, mythology, and games, all with exceptional wit and empathy.

Throughout Lucky Bodies, Erhardt establishes herself as a memoiric cultural critic, imagining how we might make and inhabit stories that cultivate an ethic of care.

Marianne Jay Erhardt is the author of Lucky Bodies, winner of the Iron Horse Prize. Her writing appears in Orion, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Electric Literature, and Conjunctions, and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the North Carolina Arts Council, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaches writing at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, where she lives with her lovely family. March

Essays/Motherhood/Women's Biographies & Autobiographies

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April 2025

256 pages

Biography & Autobiography: Editors, Journalists, Publishers/Women's Biography & Autobiography/History: Vietnam War Rights: World

Girls Don't

A Woman's War in Vietnam INETTE MILLER

The year is 1970; the war in Vietnam is five years from over. The women’s movement is newly resurgent, and feminists are summarily reviled as “libbers.” Inette Miller is one year out of college—a reporter for a small-town newspaper. Her boyfriend gets drafted and is issued orders to Vietnam. Within their few remaining days together, Inette marries her US Army private, determined to accompany him to war.

As one of the rare woman war correspondents in Vietnam and the only one also married to an Army soldier, Miller’s experience was pathbreaking. Girls Don’t shines a light on the conflicting motives that drive an ambitious woman of that era and illustrates the schizophrenic struggle between the forces of powerful feminist ideology and the contrarian forces of the world as it was.

Inette Miller is the author of three previous books. She was an award-winning national and international journalist for twenty years, serving as a war correspondent for Time magazine in Vietnam and Cambodia, and later working as a Capitol Hill and State Department reporter. She is the recipient of Associated Press awards for journalism and has received Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowships.

Hair

A Lai Mỹ Memoir JADE HIDLE

Jade Hidle grew up tweezing her mother’s hairs. As the distance between them grew, she began pulling her own. Born in the shadow of mixed-race Vietnamese children deemed bụi đời (“dust of life”), she struggled to find belonging in her family’s cultures. Her yearning for acceptance propelled her to search for her identity in ghosts, Hollywood stars, punk music, teachers and students, tattoo artists, and a string of therapists. Through these fluctuating relationships that dented and defined her mixed Vietnamese American identity, Jade wrestled with her cultural inheritance.

Hair: A Lai Mỹ Memoir is a story of how breaking cycles is an ongoing process of becoming a daughter and mother. It is a story that tells us that healing is possible.

Jade Hidle is a Vietnamese-Irish-Norwegian writer and educator. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Her travel chapbook, The Return to Viet Nam, was published by Transcurrent Press in 2016, and her work has also been in Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, Craft Literary, among other journals. She was also a featured writer on the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network’s diacritics.org. You can follow her work at www.jadehidle.com or on Instagram @jadethidle.

March 2025

256 pages

Asian & Asian American Biography & Autobiography/Memoirs/Women's Biography & Autobiography

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October 2025

280 pages

Political Biography & Autobiography/ Asian & Asian American Biography & Autobiography/History: Vietname War Rights: World

The White Pebble

Madame Nhu's Memoirs

TUONG VU, EDITOR

No other Vietnamese family in modern time had such an intense involvement in high politics and public affairs as the Ngô-Đìnhs. Through the tenure of President Ngô-Đình Diệm of the Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963), this family helped shape Vietnamese history in numerous ways. President Diệm’s rule in South Vietnam was perceived by many to be authoritarian and nepotistic, but it is important for historians in general and for anyone interested in Vietnamese history in particular to learn more about his family members who played such important roles in his government. How did they see themselves, their country, and their compatriots? How did each member of the family think of others? How did they view the family’s role in history?

This book not only provides a unique account of Madame Nhu and the Ngô-Đình family by its members but also illuminates politics in Republican Vietnam and its relationship with the United States

Tuong Vu is Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, where he has taught since 2008. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University and the National University of Singapore. He is the director of the US-Vietnam Research Center based at the Global Studies Institute, University of Oregon.

Gypsy Alibi

A Gonzo Memoir BOB LIVINGSTON

Born in San Antonio and raised in Lubbock, Bob Livingston drank from the same West Texas water that nourished musicians like Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines, and others who were surfing the wake of Buddy Holly, Sonny Curtis, and the Crickets. He made his way to Austin and installed himself among the progenitors of the Cosmic Cowboy movement, who played outlaw country music and broke the rules (and the laws) that didn’t suit them.

Gypsy Alibi is Cosmic Bob’s origin story, but it also tells a tale of how music traverses the planet. Traveling since the ’80s as a Global Music Ambassador for the US State Department, Livingston has taken Texas music as far afield as India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Africa, Vietnam, and the Middle East.

Gypsy Alibi captures the life of a working musician, its flights of (and fights with) creative genius. Livingston’s romping narrative also serves as a gonzo travelogue that traces the spread and reception of uniquely Texan culture across the globe.

Bob Livingston toured and recorded with visionary misfits like Jerry Jeff Walker, Murphey, the Lost Gonzo Band and Ray Wylie Hubbard.

September 2025

424 pages

Southwest U.S. History/Biography & Autobiography: Music/Music: Country & Bluegrass Rights: World