BAAS - 2020 - American Studies

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Whose Detroit?

Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City HEATHER ANN THOMPSON

Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. With deft attention to the historical background and to the dramatic struggles of Detroit's residents, and with a new prologue that argues for the ways in which the War on Crime and mass incarceration also devastated the Motor City over time, Thompson has written a biography of an entire nation at a time of crisis.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2017 20 halftones 304pp 9781501709210 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham

Dances in Literature and Cinema

Hannah Durkin

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Hannah Durkin investigates Baker and Dunham's films and writings to shed new light on their legacies as transatlantic artists and civil rights figures, paying particular attention to the ways dancing bodies function as ever-changing signifiers and de-stabilizing transmitters of cultural identity.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS August 2019 272pp 9780252084454 £20.99 PB now £14.69

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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. Popular Black History in Postwar America E. JAMES WEST

From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. It also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and inhouse historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, E. James West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS January 2020 208pp 9780252084980 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Rude Democracy

Civility and Incivility in American Politics SUSAN HERBST

Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to how uncivil we should be. In the 2010 edition of Rude Democracy, Susan Herbst explored the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as we do, and how we can create a more civil national culture. She used the examples of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama to illustrate her case. She also examined how young people come to form their own attitudes about civility and political argument. In a new preface for this 2020 paperback edition, the author connects her book to our current highly contentious politics and what it means for the future of democratic argument.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 220pp 9781439903360 £10.99 PB now £7.69

100 Years of Women’s Suffrage A University of Illinois Press Anthology COMPILED BY DAWN DURANTE,

INTRODUCTION BY NANCY A. HEWITT

This book commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the suffrage movement and women’s voting. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the selections illuminate the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women to gain, and use, the vote.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS November 2019 266pp 9780252084744 £19.99 PB now £13.99

A War Born Family

African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War KORI A. GRAVES

Drawing on extensive research in black newspapers and magazines, interviews with African American soldiers, and case notes about African American adoptive families, Graves demonstrates how the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights led child welfare agencies to reevaluate African American men and women as suitable adoptive parents, advancing the cause of Korean transnational adoption.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 328pp 9781479872329 £37.00 HB now £25.90

Abe’s Youth

Shaping the Future President WILLIAM BARTELT & JOSH CLAYBOURN In 1920 a group of historians known as

the Lincoln Inquiry were determined to give Lincoln’s formative years their due.

Abe’s Youth takes a look into their writings, which focus on Lincoln’s life between 7 and 21 years of age. These authors shed light on how Lincoln’s experiences growing up influenced the man he became.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 20 b&w illus., 2 maps 320pp 9780253043917 £54.00 HB now £37.80

African Kings and Black Slaves

Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic HERMAN L. BENNETT

Bennett examines early modern African-European encounters, arguing that these were not solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. She asks how Europeans and Africans configured sovereignty, polities, and subject status, and offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves’ experiences.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: The Early Modern Americas February 2020 240pp 9780812224627 £16.99 PB now £11.89

Against Sustainability Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis MICHELLE NEELY

Responds to the twenty-first century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings of antebellum and

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contemporary writers, this book demonstrates that some of our most vaunted strategies to address ecological crisis in fact perpetuate environmental degradation.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 224pp 9780823288205 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Alaska

An American Colony STEPHEN W. HAYCOX

An updated classic. Haycox surveys Alaska’s cultural, political, economic, and environmental past, examining its contemporary landscape and setting the region in a broader, global context.

Tracing Alaska’s transformation from the early postcontact period to the modern era, Haycox explores the everevolving relationship between Native Alaskans and the settlers and institutions dominating the area.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS March 2020 39 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 chart 424pp 9780295746852 £26.99 PB now £18.89

America’s Last Great Newspaper War

The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town MIKE JACCARINO

Jaccarino recounts the story of America’s last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post. This story is a fromthe-trenches view of each newspaper’s runners and photographers who would stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid arch rivals.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 336pp 9780823287383 £22.99 HB now £16.09

American Fatherhood

A History JÜRGEN MARTSCHUKAT, TRANSLATED

BY PETRA GOEDDE

American Unemployment

Past, Present, and Future FRANK STRICKER

The nuclear family has been endlessly praised as the bedrock of American society, even though there has rarely been a time in history when a majority of Americans lived in such families. This book deconstructs the myth of the nuclear family by presenting the rich diversity of family lives in American history from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 352pp 9781479892273 £37.00 HB now £25.90

American Unemployment aims to set the record straight on misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths about the history of unemployment that remain a mystery to many Americans. Written for noneconomists, it is a history and primer on vital economic topics that also provides a roadmap to better jobs and economic security.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS June 2020 296pp 9780252085024 £14.99 PB now £10.49

American Political Development and the Trump Presidency

An Archive of Taste

EDITED BY ZACHARY CALLEN & PHILIP ROCCO

American Political Development and the Trump Presidency assesses Trump’s potential impact on democratic institutions and analyses how these institutions—including and especially the executive branch—have developed over time. The book examines the intersecting evolution of political parties, racial ideologies, and governing mechanisms. It also considers how interactions among a range of institutions result in the shifting of power and authority in American politics.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law March 2020 4 illus. 288pp 9780812252088 £44.00 HB now £30.80

Race and Eating in the Early United States LAUREN F. KLEIN

The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature. Shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States.

Reframes the philosophical work of food and its meaning.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS May 2020 21 232pp 9781517905095 £19.99 PB now £13.99

Arab Routes

Pathways to Syrian California SARAH GUALTIERI

Arab Routes uncovers the stories of the Syrian American community, one both Arabized and Latinized, to reveal important cross-border and multiethnic solidarities in Syrian

California. Gualtieri counters a longheld stereotype of Arabs as outsiders and underscores their longstanding place in American culture and in interethnic coalitions, past and present.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity November 2019 224pp 9781503610859 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Archiving an Epidemic

Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde ROBB HERNÁNDEZ

Archiving an Epidemic catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s, and onto the remnants and legacies of these artists in the current moment.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sexual Cultures November 2019 60 black and white illustrations, 12 Illustrations, color 320pp 9781479820832 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Art Wars

The Politics of Taste in NineteenthCentury New York RACHEL N. KLEIN

From the Antebellum Era through the Gilded Age, New York City’s leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. Art Wars examines three protracted battles that linked art institutions and disputes about taste to major social and political struggles of the nineteenth century.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: America in the Nineteenth Century June 2020 40 illus. 312pp 9780812251944 £44.00 HB now £30.80

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Back to America

Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement WILLIAM H. WESTERMEYER

Banned

Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA

Back to America is one of the few ethnographies of local activist groups within the Tea Party Movement.

Westermeyer explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as well as collective political identity formation and how both contribute to the success of the wider movement.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Anthropology of Contemporary North America November 2019 234pp 9781496217592 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Within days of taking office, President Donald J. Trump published or announced changes to immigration law and policy. Banned examines the tool of discretion, or the choice a government has to protect, detain, or deport immigrants, and describes how the Trump administration has wielded this tool in creating and executing its immigration policy.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2019 216pp 9781479857463 £23.99 HB now £16.79

Bank Notes and Shinplasters

Beckoning Frontiers

In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic’s chaotic bank note system. He demonstrates that the shift to federally authorized paper money in the civil war era eliminated the public’s need for detailed financial knowledge.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: American Business, Politics, and Society June 2020 28 illus. 264pp 9780812252248 £26.99 HB now £18.89

EDITED BY LYNN HOUZE & JEREMY M. JOHNSTON, AFTERWORD BY BETTY JANE GERBER, FOREWORD BY ALAN K. SIMPSON & PETER K. SIMPSON

The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic JOSHUA R. GREENBERG

The Memoir of a Wyoming Entrepreneur GEORGE W. T. BECK,

Beckoning Frontiers is a new perspective on the overall history of economic development of the late nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury American West through the personal insight of George W. T. Beck.

This definitive edition of Beck’s memoir offers readers a rare perspective of how community boosters cooperated with political leaders and wealthy financiers.

BISON BOOKS Series: The Papers of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody June 2020 19 photos, 2 illus, index 432pp 9781496220455 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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Beside You in Time

Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century ELIZABETH FREEMAN

Beside You in Time expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS September 2019 240pp 9781478006350 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Beyond the New Deal Order

U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession EDITED BY GARY GERSTLE, NELSON LICHTENSTEIN & ALICE O’CONNOR

In Beyond the New Deal Order, contributors bring fresh perspectives to the historic meaning and significance of the New Deal coalition from the standpoint of the early twenty-first century. The volume asks if a new order will emerge from the economic, ideological, institutional, and electoral currents shaping politics today.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America December 2019 2 illus. 416pp 9780812251739 £40.00 HB now £28.00

Beyond the Politics of the Border Land, Border Closet Water Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970s EDITED BY JONATHAN BELL

A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide C. J. ALVAREZ

Beyond the Politics of the Closet features essays by historians whose work on LGBT history delves into the decades between the mid-1970s and the millennium, a period in which the relationship between activist networks, the state, capitalism, and political parties became infinitely more complicated. The book examines the crucial relationship between sexuality, race, and class, highlighting gay rights politics and activism.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS March 2020 280pp 9780812251852 £40.00 HB now £28.00

From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twentyfirst century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects and border building that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS October 2019 32 photos, 2 illustrations, 21 maps 312pp 9781477319000 £36.00 HB now £25.20

Border Citizens

A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America EDITED BY HOLLY M. KARIBO & GEORGE T. DÍAZ

The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona ERIC V. MEEKS, FOREWORD BY PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK

Border Citizens explores how the racial classification and identities of the diverse indigenous, mestizo, and EuroAmerican residents of Arizona’s borderlands evolved as the region was politically and economically incorporated into the United States.

Eric V. Meeks provides a detailed and insightful look at one hundred years of politics, culture, and racial identity in Arizona.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS January 2020 20 b&w photos, 6 maps 416pp 9781477319659 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Border Policing

An extensive history examining how North American nations have tried (and often failed) to police their borders, Border Policing presents diverse scholarly perspectives on attempts to regulate people and goods at borders, as well as on the ways that individuals and communities have navigated, contested, and evaded such regulation.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS April 2020 7 b&w images, 6 maps 304pp 9781477320679 £36.00 HB now £25.20

Campaigns of Knowledge

U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan MALINI JOHAR SCHUELLER

The creation of a new school system in the Philippines in 1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan speaks to a singular vision of America as savior.

Schueller contrapuntally reads statesanctioned proclamations, educational agendas, and school textbooks alongside political cartoons, novels, short stories, and films to demonstrate how the U.S. tutelary project was rerouted, appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Asian American History & Culture November 2019 324pp 9781439918562 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Captives of Liberty

Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution T. COLE JONES

In Captives of Liberty, T. Cole Jones contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound impact on the character and consequences of the American Revolution. This book not only provides the first comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America’s political revolution and the war waged to secure it.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Early American Studies November 2019 11 illus. 336pp 9780812251692 £32.00 HB now £22.40

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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC

Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life PAULA C. AUSTIN

Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during the 1930s. Paula C. Austin draws on previously unstudied archival material to present black poor and working class young people as thinkers, theorists, critics, and commentators.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 208pp 9781479808113 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Communists and Community

Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941-1956 RYAN S. PETTENGILL

Communists and Community seeks to reframe the traditional chronology of the Communist Party in the United States as a means to better understand the change that occurred in community activism in the mid-twentieth century.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 282pp 9781439919057 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial

Congressional Lawsuits and the Separation of Powers JASMINE FARRIER

In an original assessment of all three branches, Jasmine Farrier reveals a new way in which the American federal system is broken. Turning away from

the partisan narratives of everyday politics, Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial diagnoses the deeper and bipartisan nature of imbalance of power that undermines public deliberation and accountability, especially on war powers.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 198pp 9781501747106 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Contested Bodies

Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica SASHA TURNER

Contested Bodies explores how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children.

Examining the struggles for control over biological reproduction, Turner shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work, the care of slaves, and the development of their culture.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Early American Studies July 2019 10 illus. 328pp 9780812224603 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Contingent Citizens

Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture EDITED BY SPENCER W. MCBRIDE, BRENT M. ROGERS & KEITH A. EREKSON

Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in the ways Americans have perceived the Latterday Saints since the 1830s.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 2 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings 312pp 9781501749544 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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Crisis!

When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule CEDRIC DE LEON

In this book, Cedric de Leon analyzes two pivotal crises in the American twoparty system: the first resulting in the demise of the Whig party and secession of eleven southern states in 1861, and the present crisis splintering the Democratic and Republican parties and leading to the election of Donald Trump. Recasting these stories through the actions of political parties, de Leon draws unsettling parallels in the political maneuvering that ultimately causes once-dominant political parties to lose the people's consent to rule.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 232pp 9781503603554 £21.99 HB now £15.39

Crossing Empires

Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain EDITED BY KRISTIN L. HOGANSON & JAY SEXTON

Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context as a way to grasp the power relations that shape imperial formations.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions January 2020 9 illustrations 360pp 9781478006947 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Death at the Edges of Empire

Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921 SHANNON BONTRAGER

Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I. He links the cultural and political history of American war dead to explore the transatlantic and transpacific contexts of America’s imperial ambitions.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military February 2020 28 photographs, 2 appendixes, index 432pp 9781496201843 £50.00 HB now £35.00

Dismantlings

Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies MATT TIERNEY

Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims about technology in the Long Seventies, the decade and a half before 1980. Matt Tierney explores wide-ranging ideas from science fiction, avant-garde literatures, feminist and anti-racist activism, and indigenous eco-philosophy that may yet challenge machines of war, control, and oppression.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 232pp 9781501746413 £28.99 HB now £20.29

Dust to Dust

A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York ALLAN AMANIK

Dust to Dust offers a three-hundredyear history of Jewish life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish cemeteries as his subject matter, Allan Amanik follows the ways that Jewish New Yorkers have planned for death and burial from their earliest arrival in New Amsterdam to the twentieth century.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History February 2020 272pp 9781479800803 £33.00 HB now £23.10

Educated for Freedom

Empire’s Labor

The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars ADAM MOORE

A dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics.

Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire’s Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who perform jobs such as truck drivers and administrative assistants at bases located in warzones in the Middle East and Africa.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 3 b&w halftones, 6 maps, 3 charts 264pp 9781501742170 £15.99 PB now £11.19

The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Everything Man The Form and Function of Paul Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Robeson Change a Nation SHANA L. REDMOND ANNA MAE DUANE

In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile.

Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 240pp 9781479847471 £23.99 HB now £16.79

From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentiethcentury’s greatest icons and polymaths.

In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson’s continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS Series: Refiguring American Music January 2020 21 illustrations 208pp 9781478006619 £19.99 PB now £13.99

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Fear Itself

The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America CHRISTOPHER D. BADER, JOSEPH O. BAKER, L. EDWARD DAY & ANN GORDON

Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears— which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 19 black and white illustrations 200pp 9781479869817 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Fifth Chinese Daughter JADE SNOW WONG

INTRODUCTION BY LESLIE BOW ILLUSTRATED BY KATHRYN UHL

Originally published in 1950 and cited as an influence by prominent Chinese American writers such as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, Fifth Chinese Daughter is a foundational work in Asian American literature. This new edition includes the original illustrations by Kathryn Uhl and features an introduction by Leslie Bow, who critically examines the changing reception and enduring legacy of the book.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Series: Classics of Asian American Literature December 2019 33 b&w illus. 288pp 9780295745909 £16.99 PB now £11.89

Fire in the Big House

America’s Deadliest Prison Disaster MITCHEL P. ROTH

Roth explores the lives of prisoners and others as well as the political and social circumstances of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire in this first comprehensive account of a tragedy whose circumstances— violent unrest, overcrowding, poorly trained and underpaid guards, unsanitary conditions, inadequate food—will be familiar to prison watchdogs today.

OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 320pp 9780821423837 £22.99 HB now £16.09

First Ladies of the Republic

Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role JEANNE E. ABRAMS

America’s first First Ladies—Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison—had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks new ground by examining their lives as a group.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 12 black and white illustrations 328pp 9781479890507 £14.99 PB now £10.49

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From Manassas to Appomattox

Memoirs of the Civil War in America JAMES LONGSTREET, EDITED BY JAMES I. ROBERTSON, JR. FOREWORD BY CHRISTIAN KELLER

An invaluable firsthand account of life during the Civil War, From Manassas to Appomattox is the memior of Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet, the principle subordinate under General Robert E. Lee. An introduction and notes by prominent historian James I. Robertson Jr. and a new foreword by Christian Keller offer insight into the impact of Longstreet’s career on American history.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 774pp 9780253047069 £19.99 PB now £13.99

Frottage

Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora KEGURO MACHARIA

In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sexual Cultures December 2019 224pp 9781479865017 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Graphic News

How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism AMANDA FRISKEN

Examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events changed the public’s consumption of the news.

Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy enabled newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: History of Communication March 2020 292pp 9780252084836 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Haiku History

The American Saga Three Lines at a Time H. W. BRANDS

For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States in the form of haikus. This history book like no other injects both fun and poetry into the story of America—three lines at a time.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS May 2020 8 illustrations 148pp 9781477320327 £16.99 HB now £11.89

Herndon on Lincoln Letters WILLIAM H. HERNDON,

EDITED BY DOUGLAS L. WILSON & RODNEY O. DAVIS

As Herndon’s biographer David Donald said, “To understand Herndon’s own

rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters.” A trove of primary source material, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and scholars of a towering American figure and his times.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center August 2019 408pp 9780252084805 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Historic Real Estate

Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States WHITNEY MARTINKO

Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling US pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic sites as permanent features of the new nation’s landscape.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Early American Studies February 2020 11 color, 31 b/w illus. 328pp 9780812252095 £32.00 HB now £22.40

How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 THOMAS C. HUBKA

Reveals the transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, shown through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes. These improvements were intertwined with the acquisition of entirely new mechanical conveniences, new types of rooms, patterns of domestic life, and innovations—from public utilities and kitchen appliances to remodeled and multi-unit housing.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture July 2020 148 320pp 9780816693016 £33.00 PB now £23.10

In Pursuit of Knowledge

Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America KABRIA BAUMGARTNER

Argues that African American girls and women strategized, organized, wrote, and protested for equal school rights— not just for themselves, but for all.

Their activism gave rise to a new vision of womanhood: the purposeful woman, who was learned, active, resilient, and forward-thinking.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Early American Places December 2019 320pp 9781479823116 £27.99 HB now £19.59

In the Mean Time

Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition ERIN MURRAH-MANDRIL

Taking a cue from Latina/o and borderlands spatial theories, MurrahMandril argues that time, like space, is a socially constructed, ideologically charged medium of power in the Southwest. This book draws on literature, autobiography, political documents, and historical narratives composed between 1870 and 1940 to examine the way U.S. colonization altered time in the borderlands.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Postwestern Horizons April 2020 Index 186pp 9781496211828 £41.00 HB now £28.70

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In This Land of Plenty Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics BENJAMIN TALTON

When Congressman Mickey Leland died in 1989, he was a forty-four-yearold, charismatic, black, radical American. This book presents Leland as the personification of international radicalism and examines African Americans’ successes and failures in radically influencing U.S. foreign policy toward Global South countries.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America August 2019 8 illus. 328pp 9780812251470 £36.00 HB now £25.20

Japanese American Millennials

Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity EDITED BY MICHAEL OMI, DANA Y. NAKANO & JEFFREY YAMASHITA

Whereas most scholarship on Japanese Americans looks at historical case studies or the 1.5 generation assimilating, this pioneering anthology, Japanese American Millennials, captures the experiences, perspectives, and aspirations of Asian Americans born between 1980 and 2000. The editors and contributors present multiple perspectives on who Japanese Americans are and how they think about notions of community and culture.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Asian American History & Culture October 2019 324pp 9781439918258 £32.00 PB now £22.40

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society

Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825 AVIVA BEN-UR

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname. Home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas, most of Iberian origin, they enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, could enter any trade, owned plantations and slaves, and even had a say in colonial governance.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: The Early Modern Americas May 2020 21 illus. 392pp 9780812252118 £44.00 HB now £30.80

Labor in the Time of Trump

EDITED BY JASMINE KERRISSEY, EVE WEINBAUM, CLARE HAMMONDS, TOM JURAVICH & DAN CLAWSON

While President Trump’s election in 2016 may have been a wakeup call for labor and the Left, the underlying processes behind this shift to the right have been building for at least forty years. This book critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working–class movement.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 270pp 9781501746604 £19.99 PB now £13.99

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Laid Waste!

The Culture of Exploitation in Early America JOHN LAURITZ LARSON

How did we come to endanger the very future of life on Earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American “culture of exploitation” that has left us without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Early American Studies December 2019 312pp 9780812251845 £32.00 HB now £22.40

Latinx Environmentalisms

Place, Justice, and the Decolonial EDITED BY SARAH D. WALD, DAVID J. VAZQUEZ, PRISCILLA SOLIS YBARRA, & SARAH JAQUETTE RAY, FOREWORD BY LAURA PULIDO AFTERWORD BY STACY ALAIMO

The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the editors and contributors to Latinx Environmentalisms map the ways Latinx cultural texts integrate environmental concerns with questions of social and political justice.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 366pp 9781439916674 £32.00 PB now £22.40

Lessons from Walden

Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy BOB PEPPERMAN TAYLOR

Lessons from Walden pesents a wideranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Henry David Thoreau’s thought in Walden and Civil Disobedience. As Bob Pepperman Taylor says in his introduction, "Walden is a central American text for addressing two of the central crises of our time: the increasingly alarming threats we now face to democratic norms, practices, and political institutions, and the perhaps even more alarming environmental dangers confronting us."

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS March 2020 240pp 9780268107338 £22.99 HB now £16.09

Little Italy in the Great War Philadelphia’s Italians on the Battlefield and Home Front RICHARD N. JULIANI

The Great War challenged all who were touched by it. Italian immigrants, torn between their country of origin and country of relocation, confronted political allegiances that forced them to consider the meaning and relevance of Americanization. Juliani focuses on Philadelphia’s Italian community to understand how this vibrant immigrant population reacted to the war as they were adjusting to life in an American city that was ambivalent toward them.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 342pp 9781439918784 £29.99 PB now £20.99

Living the California Dream

African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era ALISON ROSE JEFFERSON

Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era. This book presents the overlooked local stories that are foundational to the national narrative of mass movement to open recreational accommodations to all Americans and to the long freedom rights struggle.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS January 2020 25 photographs, 8 illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table, index 366pp 9781496201300 £45.00 HB now £31.50

Making the Unipolar Moment

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order HAL BRANDS

This title weaves together the key threads of global change and U.S. policy from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, examining the Cold War struggle with Moscow, the rise of a more integrated and globalized world economy, the rapid advance of human rights and democracy, and the emergence of new global challenges like Islamic extremism and international terrorism.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2019 480pp 9781501747069 £19.99 PB now £13.99

Migrant Citizenship

Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program VERONICA MARTINEZ-MATSUDA

Political discourse on farmworkers’ rights is dominated by the view that migrant workers are not entitled to better protections because they are “noncitizens,” either as immigrants or transients. Between 1935–1946, however, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) intervened dramatically on behalf of migrant families.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America June 2020 21 illus. 376pp 9780812252293 £32.00 HB now £22.40

Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy EDWARD E. CURTIS IV

Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. This volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social equals.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 200pp 9781479811441 £20.99 PB now £14.69

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News Parade

The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle JOSEPH CLARK

News Parade looks at the conflicted US relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel. The book focuses on the sound newsreel of the 1930s and 1940s, arguing that it represents a crucial moment in the development of a spectacular society where media representations of reality became more fully integrated into commodity culture.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS May 2020 21 280pp 9781517903688 £20.99 PB now £14.69

No Useless Mouth

Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution RACHEL B. HERRMANN

In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 5 b&w halftones 308pp 9781501716119 £19.99 PB now £13.99

None of the Above

Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada JOEL THIESSEN & SARAH WILKINS-LAFLAMME

None of the Above asserts that a growing divide between religious and nonreligious populations could

engender a greater distance in moral and political values and behaviors.

Provocative and insightful, this book tackles issues of coexistence, religious tolerance, and spirituality, as American and Canadian society approaches a more secular future.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Secular Studies April 2020 14 t / 30 figs 272pp 9781479860807 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Orozco’s American Epic

Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race MARY K. COFFEY

Orozco's American Epic examines José Clemente Orozco’s mural cycle Epic of American Civilization, which indicts history as complicit in colonial violence and questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS February 2020 100 color illustrations 384pp 9781478002987 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Our Voices, Our Histories

Asian American and Pacific Islander Women EDITED BY SHIRLEY HUNE & GAIL M. NOMURA

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 19 b&w illus 520pp

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Outriders

Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West REBECCA SCOFIELD

Outriders explores the histories of rodeo communities on the margins, from female bronc-riders in the 1910s and 1920s and prisoner cowboys in Texas in the mid-twentieth century to all-black rodeos in the 1960s and 1970s and gay rodeoers in the late twentieth century.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS October 2019 15 b&w illus. 264pp 9780295746777 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Parkchester

A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity JEFFREY S. GUROCK

In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community called Parkchester in the East Bronx, New York. In this bucolic environment within Gotham, the Irish and Italian Catholics, white Protestants and Jews lived together rather harmoniously. Gurock explains how and why a “get along” spirit prevailed in Parkchester and marked a turning point in ethnic relations in the city.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 304pp 9781479896707 £23.99 HB now £16.79

Playing Politics with Natural Disaster

Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA TIMOTHY W. KNEELAND

Explains how the political decisions by local, state, and federal officials shaped state and national disaster policy and continues to hamper preparedness and response to this day.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 24 b&w halftones 248pp 9781501748530 £28.99 HB now £20.29

Pleasure in the News

African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press KIM GALLON

Discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics offering everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. Redefines the significance of black press in African American history and advancement.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: New Black Studies Series May 2020 216pp 9780252085093 £19.99 PB now £13.99

Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan

Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers ASHLEY E. NICKELS

Nickels addresses the ways residents, groups, and organizations were able to participate politically—or not—during municipal takeovers of the city of Flint, Michigan in 2002 and 2011.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 252pp

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Progressive Dystopia

Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco SAVANNAH SHANGE

Traces the afterlives of slavery as lived in a progressive high school set in postgentrification San Francisco, showing how despite the school’s sincere antiracism activism, it unintentionally perpetuated antiblackness through various practices.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS November 2019 4 illustrations 232pp 9781478006688 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Progressivism

The Strange History of a Radical Idea BRADLEY C. S. WATSON, FOREWORD BY CHARLES R. KESLER

Represents the author’s study of American progressivism. Synthesizes the history of the idea and presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophicalpolitical phenomenon, examining how and with what consequences the discipline of history came to accept and propagate it.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS February 2020 260pp 9780268106973 £37.00 HB now £25.90

Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century EDITED BY JAMES L. PERRY,

FOREWORD BY PAUL A. VOLCKER

Featuring essays from thought leaders in public administration, this book offers insights into the governance

challenges facing the nation—from diminished capacity to the failure to meet expectations for reform—and recommendations for how civic institutions and leaders might respond.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS May 2020 7 illus. 312pp 9780812252040 £56.00 HB now £39.20

Racism Postrace

EDITED BY ROOPALI MUKHERJEE, SARAH BANET-WEISER & HERMAN GRAY

Contributors theorize and examine the persistent concept of post-race in examples ranging from Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” to public policy debates, showing how proclamations of a post-racial society can normalize modes of racism and obscure structural antiblackness.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS June 2019 11 illustrations 352pp 9781478001805 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Reencounters

On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique CRYSTAL MUN-HYE BAIK

Reecounters shifts the focus of the Korean War from the extraordinary to the ordinary. Baik assembles an interdisciplinary archive of diasporic memory works including oral history projects, time-based performances, and video installations that activate reencounters with the Korean War. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Asian American History & Culture November 2019 236pp 9781439918999 £26.99 PB now £18.89

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Remaking North American Sovereignty

State Transformation in the 1860s EDITED BY JEWEL L. SPANGLER & FRANK TOWERS, SERIES EDITED BY ANDREW L. SLAP

Brings together distinguished experts on the histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United States to re-evaluate the political transformation of the 1860s in light of the global turn in 19th century historiography.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Reconstructing America April 2020 288pp 9780823288441 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Remaking the Republic

Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship CHRISTOPHER JAMES BONNER

Remaking the Republic chronicles the various ways African Americans from a wide range of social positions throughout the North attempted to give meaning to American citizenship over the course of the nineteenth century. Examines newpsapers, state and national conventions, public protest meetings, legal cases, and fugitive slave rescues.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: America in the Nineteenth Century March 2020 11 illus. 272pp 9780812252064 £26.99 HB now £18.89

Risking Immeasurable Harm

Immigration Restriction and U.S.Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932

BENJAMIN C. MONTOYA Relevant to current debates about immigration and the role of restrictions in inter-American diplomacy, Risking Immeasurable Harm demonstrates the correlation of immigration restriction and diplomacy, the ways racism can affect diplomatic relations, and how domestic immigration policy can have international consequences.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS April 2020 9 tables, 1 graph, index 342pp 9781496201294 £45.00 HB now £31.50

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse

Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization ROBERT F. ZEIDEL

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who comprised many of their workforces.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 306pp 9781501748318 £41.00 HB now £28.70

Rock of Ages

Subcultural Religious Identity and Public Opinion among Young Evangelicals JEREMIAH J. CASTLE

Evangelicals and Republicans have been powerful—and active—allies in American politics since the 1970s. But as public opinions have changed, are young evangelicals’ political identities and attitudes on key issues changing too? And if so, why? In Rock of Ages, Jeremiah Castle answers these

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questions to understand their important implications for American politics and society.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics August 2019 240pp 9781439917220 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Rough Draft

Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance AMY J. RUTENBERG

Draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2019 10 b&w halftones 276pp 9781501739583 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Runaway Genres

The Global Afterlives of Slavery YOGITA GOYAL

Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The postblack satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora of writers all are woven into Goyal’s argument for the slave narrative as a new world literary genre.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 280pp 9781479832712 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Sacred Men

Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam KEITH L. CAMACHO

Keith L. Camacho examines the U.S. Navy’s war crimes tribunal in Guam between 1944 and 1949 which tried members of Guam’s indigenous Chamorro community and Japanese nationals and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS Series: Global and Insurgent Legalities November 2019 20 illustrations 312pp 9781478006343 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film EDITED BY ALLYSON NADIA FIELD & MARSHA GORDON

The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, church films, and other forms of noncommercial filmmaking throughout the twentieth century.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS November 2019 134 illustrations 456pp 9781478004769 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Selling Antislavery

Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America TERESA A. GODDU

Featuring more than 75 illustrations, Selling Antislavery offers a thorough case study of the role of reform

movements in the rise of mass media and argues for abolition’s central importance to the shaping of antebellum middle-class culture UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Material Texts April 2020 78 illus. 344pp 9780812251999 £44.00 HB now £30.80

Set the World on Fire

Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom KEISHA N. BLAIN

Highlights the black nationalist women who fought for national and transnational black liberation from the early to mid-twentieth century. Keisha N. Blain explores the flexibility, adaptability, and experimentation of black women leaders who demanded equal recognition and participation in global civil society.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America June 2019 15 illus. 264pp 9780812224597 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law Why Structural Racism Persists NATSU TAYLOR SAITO

A timely analysis of structural racism at the intersection of law and colonialism.

Noting the grim racial realities still confronting communities of color, and how they have not been alleviated by constitutional guarantees of equal protection, this book suggests that settler colonial theory provides a more coherent understanding of what causes and what can help remediate racial disparities.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Citizenship and Migration in the

Americas March 2020 368pp 9780814723944 £50.00 HB now £35.00

Shelter from the Machine Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism JASON G. STRANGE

Shows where homesteaders fit, and don’t fit, within contemporary America.

Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS March 2020 328pp 9780252084898 £17.99 PB now £12.59

Skimmed

Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice ANDREA FREEMAN

Skimmed tells the heartbreaking story of America’s first identical quadruplets, their rise to fame and use as advertising symbols, and the damage done to them and generations of African American families. Freeman invites readers into the history of how feeding America’s youngest citizens is awash in social, legal, and cultural inequalities.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 304pp 9781503601123 £21.99 HB now £15.39

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Smell Detectives

An Olfactory History of NineteenthCentury Urban America MELANIE A. KIECHLE FOREWORD BY PAUL S. SUTTER, SERIES EDITED BY PAUL S. SUTTER

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenthcentury Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books August 2019 35 illus. 352pp 9780295746104 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Speaking with the Dead in Early America ERIK R. SEEMAN

In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, Erik Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead, from Elizabethan England to the midnineteenth-century United States.

Through prodigious research and careful analysis, he boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Early American Studies November 2019 25 illus. 344pp 9780812251531 £32.00 HB now £22.40

Spiritual Socialists

Religion and the American Left VANEESA COOK

Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion

problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls “spiritual socialism.” She tells her story through an eclectic group of activists whose lives and works span the twentieth century.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS October 2019 272pp 9780812251654 £40.00 HB now £28.00

Struggle for Justice

Four Decades of Civil Rights Photography DON CARLETON

Bringing together the Briscoe Center for American History’s exhibitions pieces in book form, Struggle for Justice honors the photographers who were willing to put their privilege on the line to document the discrimination of others and by doing so, help to galvanize public support for the civil rights movement.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS May 2020 65 color and b&w photos 156pp 9781477321140 £36.00 HB now £25.20

Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror NICOLE NGUYEN

Drawing on an interpretive qualitative study, Suspect Communities is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. government’s “countering violent extremism” (CVE) program that has arisen in major cities across the United States since 2011.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS December 2019 5 b&w illustrations 312pp 9781517906405 £20.99 PB now £14.69

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Teaching Western American Literature

BRADY HARRISON & RANDI LYNN TANGLEN

Teaching Western American Literature reflects the cutting edge of western American literary study, featuring diverse approaches allied with women’s, gender, queer, environmental, disability, and indigenous studies and providing instructors with entrée into classrooms of leading scholars in the field.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Postwestern Horizons June 2020 4 tables, index 336pp 9781496220387 £23.99 PB now £16.79

The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 INGRID DINEEN-WIMBERLY

An examination of generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, The Allure of Blackness among MixedRace Americans, 1862–1916 overturns the “passing” trope that has dominated much Americanist scholarship and social thought about the relationship between race and social and political transformation in Black America.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies October 2019 7 photographs, 3 illustrations, index 318pp 9781496205070 £50.00 HB now £35.00

The American Midwest in The Art of Occupation Crime and Governance in Film and Literature Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism ADAM R. OCHONICKY

Adam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest’s symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, this book examines Midwestern film and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 23 b&w illus. 272pp 9780253045973 £24.99 PB now £17.49

The American Passport in Turkey

National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism OZLEM ALTAN-OLCAY & EVREN BALTA

Ozlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta demonstrate how U.S. global power manifests in the desires people have for U.S. citizenship, even when they do not live in the United States. Based on interviews with more than one hundred individuals, The American Passport in Turkey captures the transnationalized relationship between inequality and citizenship regimes.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism May 2020 240pp 9780812252156 £48.00 HB now £33.60

American-Controlled Germany, 1944–1949 THOMAS J. KEHOE

The literature describing social conditions during the post-World War II Allied occupation of Germany has been divided between seemingly irreconcilable assertions of prolonged criminal chaos and narratives of strict martial rule that precluded crime.

Thomas J. Kehoe takes a different view on this history, addressing this divergence through an extensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between military government and social order.

OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: War and Society in North America October 2019 382pp 9780821423820 £64.00 HB now £44.80

The Battles of Germantown

Effective Public History in America DAVID W. YOUNG

Known as America's most historic neighborhood, the Germantown section of Philadelphia (established in 1683) has distinguished itself by using public history initiatives to forge community. The Battles of Germantown considers what these efforts can tell us about public history's practice and purpose in the United States.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: History and the Public September 2019 286pp 9781439915554 £22.99 PB now £16.09

The Content of Our Caricature

African American Comic Art and The Battle of Negro Fort Political Belonging The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave REBECCA WANZO Rebecca Wanzo traces the history of Community racial caricature and the ways that MATTHEW J. CLAVIN Black cartoonists have turned this

In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. This book places the violent expansion of slavery where it belongs, at the center of the history of the early American republic.

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visual grammar on its head. She reveals the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice and have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Postmillennial Pop April 2020 69 hts / 6 page color insert 256pp 9781479889587 £22.99 PB now £16.09

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The Employee

A Political History JEAN-CHRISTIAN VINEL

The Employee examines how American businesses dominated and influenced labor law as they pushed for an evernarrower definition of “employee” and maneuvered to exclude workers from the right to organize. Jean-Christian Vinel sheds historical light on contemporary struggles for economic democracy and political power in the workplace.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America April 2020 304pp 9780812224689 £18.99 PB now £13.29

The Grass Shall Grow

The Great Migration and the Democratic Party

Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century KENESHIA N. GRANT

This book frames the Great Migration as an important economic and social event that also had serious political consequences. It lays the groundwork for ways of thinking about the contemporary impact of Black migration on American politics.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 202pp 9781439917466 £20.99 PB now £14.69

The Greek Orthodox Church in America

Helen Post Photographs the Native A Modern History American West ALEXANDER KITROEFF In this deep history, Alexander Kitroeff MICK GIDLEY

The Grass Shall Grow is a succinct introduction to the work and world of Helen M. Post (1907–79), who took thousands of photographs of Native Americans during a brief period of intense activity in the early years of World War II. Although Post has been largely forgotten, she was a talented photographer who worked on Indian reservations throughout the West and captured images that are both striking and informative. Mick Gidley recounts Post’s career, tracking the arc of her professional reputation.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS February 2020 76 photographs, 4 figures 184pp 9781496216205 £41.00 HB now £28.70

shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies June 2020 330pp 9781501749919 £23.99 PB now £16.79

The Hypocritical Hegemon

How the United States Shapes Global Rules against Tax Evasion and Avoidance LUKAS HAKELBERG

Lukas Hakelberg takes a close look at how US domestic politics affects and

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determines the course of global tax policy. Through an examination of recent international efforts to crack down on offshore tax havens and the role the US has played, Hakelberg uncovers how a seemingly innocuous technical addition to US law has had enormous impact around the world, particularly for individuals and corporations aiming to avoid and evade taxation.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Cornell Studies in Money March 2020 2 charts 210pp 9781501748011 £17.99 PB now £12.59

The Imperial Church

Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire KATHERINE D. MORAN

Through a fascinating discussion of religion’s role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: The United States in the World May 2020 11 b&w halftones 330pp 9781501748813 £40.00 HB now £28.00

The Kosher Capones

A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters JOE KRAUS

The fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zuckie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s “Jewish wing.”

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 15 b&w halftones 240pp 9781501747311 £20.99 HB now £14.69

The Last Card

EDITED BY TIMOTHY ANDREWS SAYLE, JEFFREY A. ENGEL, HAL BRANDS & WILLIAM INBODEN

The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse in 2007.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2019 4 maps, 2 charts 416pp 9781501715181 £27.99 HB now £19.59

The Moral Project of Childhood

Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children’s Consumer Culture DANIEL THOMAS COOK

Throughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, Daniel

Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the “child” as a moral project.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 256pp 9781479810260 £23.99 PB now £16.79

The Picky Eagle

How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion RICHARD W. MAASS

The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 1 map, 2 charts 312pp 9781501748752 £33.00 HB now £23.10

The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery EDITED BY GWEN BERGNER & ZITA NUNES

This special issue interrogates the plantation as a form, logic, and technology that continues to produce inequalities. The contributors rethink the necro- and biopolitics of plantation slavery, uncovering laborers’ strategies of self-determination, affiliation, and communication in spite of the plantation’s mechanisms of control.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS August 2019 230pp 9781478005186 £10.99 PB now £7.69

The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law

Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s MASUMI IZUMI

The Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention. Masumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study, The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Asian American History & Culture September 2019 274pp 9781439917244 £55.00 HB now £38.50

The Settlers’ Empire

Colonialism and State Formation in America’s Old Northwest BETHEL SALER

The Settlers’ Empire examines the peculiar status of the young United States as a postcolonial republic with its own domestic empire by looking at where these dual political responsibilities inevitably collided—in the federal project of early state formation and its joint colonial rules over Euroamericans and diverse Indian nations.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Early American Studies July 2019 12 illus. 392pp 9780812224610 £22.99 PB now £16.09

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The Toughest Gun Control Law in the Nation The Unfulfilled Promise of New York’s SAFE Act JAMES B. JACOBS & ZOE FUHR

A month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, New York State passed, with record speed, the first and most comprehensive state post-Sandy Hook gun control law.

James B. Jacobs and Zoe Fuhr ask whether the 2013 SAFE Act —hailed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as “the nation’s toughest gun control law” – has lived up to its promise.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 304pp 9781479835614 £24.99 HB now £17.49

The United States of India Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction MANAN DESAI

The United States of India shows how Indian and American writers in the United States played a key role in the development of anticolonial thought in the years during and immediately following the First World War. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Asian American History & Culture March 2020 284pp 9781439918906 £26.99 PB now £18.89

The Vanishing Tradition Perspectives on American Conservatism EDITED BY PAUL GOTTFRIED

This anthology provides a timely critical overview of the American conservative movement. The contributors take on subjects that other commentators have either not noticed or have been fearful

to discuss.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2020 246pp 9781501749858 £17.99 PB now £12.59

The World That Fear Made Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America JASON T. SHARPLES

In dozens of slave conspiracy scares in North American and the Caribbean, colonists terrorized and killed slaves whom they accused of planning to take over the colony. Jason T. Sharples explains the deep origins and historical triggers of these incidents and argues that conspiracy scares bound society together through shared fear.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Early American Studies June 2020 27 illus. 365pp 9780812252194 £36.00 HB now £25.20

Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena EDITED BY CHAR MILLER & CLAY S. JENKINSON

Theodore Roosevelt’s scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life. Drawing on an array of approaches—biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political—Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena analyzes the different elements of Roosevelt’s manifold encounters with the great outdoors.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS February 2020 31 photographs, 5 illustrations, index 264pp 9781496213143 £19.99 PB now £13.99

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To Bring the Good News to All Nations

Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations LAUREN FRANCES TUREK

Utilizing archival materials from both religious and government sources in the United States, Guatemala, and South Africa, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: The United States in the World May 2020 12 b&w halftones 312pp 9781501748912 £40.00 HB now £28.00

Transportation and the American People H. ROGER GRANT

Transportation is the unsung hero in America’s story. Stagecoaches, waterways, canals, railways, busses, and airplanes revolutionized much more than just the way people got around; they transformed the economic, political, and social aspects of everyday life. In Transportation and the American People, renowned historian H. Roger Grant tells the story of American transportation.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Railroads Past and Present October 2019 40 b&w illus. 264pp 9780253043306 £33.00 HB now £23.10

Uncounted

The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America GILDA R. DANIELS

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot box in the form of stricter voter ID requirements, meritless claims of rigged elections, and baseless accusations of voter fraud. Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 272pp 9781479862351 £24.99 HB now £17.49

Uniquely Okinawan

Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation COURTNEY A. SHORT

Uniquely Okinawan explores how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension February 2020 272pp 9780823287727 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Walker Evans

No Politics STEPHANIE SCHWARTZ

In Walker Evans: No Politics, Stephanie Schwartz challenges us to engage with what it might mean, in the 1930s and

at the height of the Great Depression, to refuse to work politically.

Historicizing documentary, this book reimagines Evans and his legacy—the complexities of claiming “No Politics.”

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS June 2020 100 b&w photos 320pp 9781477320624 £36.00 HB now £25.20

We Are Worth Fighting For

A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 JOSHUA M. MYERS

We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Black Power January 2020 288pp 9781479811755 £24.99 HB now £17.49

We Who Work the West

Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature KIARA KHARPERTIAN, EDITED BY CARLO ROTELLA & CHRISTOPHER P. WILSON

We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Kiara Kharpertian provides a panoramic look at literary renderings of both individual labor and the epochal transformations of central institutions of a modernizing West.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Postwestern Horizons June 2020 Index 288pp 9781496208842 £52.00 HB now £36.40

Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community

A Giving Heritage DANIEL C. SWAN & JIM COOLEY

Explores how gift exchange, motivated by the values of generosity and hospitality, serves as a critical component in the preservation and perpetuation of Osage society. Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley collaborate with members of the Osage Nation to discuss this foundational cultural practice over two centuries and in multiple social contexts.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Material Vernaculars October 2019 120 color illus. 320pp 9780253043023 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Welcome to the Neighborhood

An Anthology of American Coexistence EDITED BY SARAH GREEN, FOREWORD

BY DAVID BAKER

How to live with difference is a defining worry in contemporary America. In this enormously rich resource for the classroom and for anyone interested in reflecting on what it means to be American today, poets, fiction writers, and essayists, with open minds and nuance, ask what it means to be neighbors.

OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 268pp 9780804012171 £18.99 PB now £13.29

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