19th centuryamericanstudies
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BlackGun,SilverStar
TheLifeandLegendofFrontierMarshalBass
Reeves
ArtT.Burton
"[Burton's]yearsofresearchresultedinaremarkable storyofanOldWestgiant,onewhoarguablywasthe bestinhisbusiness."—TrueWest
InthisneweditionofthebiographyofBassReeves, whowasformerlyenslavedandthenservedasa peaceofficerinandaroundlatenineteenth-century IndianTerritory,ArtBurtontracesReeves’spresence incontemporarynationalmediaandinpopular modernmedia.
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
Series:RaceandEthnicityintheAmericanWest September202232photos,2maps,index416pp
9781496233424 £19.99 PB now£13.99
FriendlyEnemies
SoldierFraternizationthroughouttheAmerican CivilWar
LaurenK.Thompson
Thompsonanalyzestherelationsandfraternization ofAmericansoldiersonopposingsidesoftheCivil Warandarguesthattheserelationsrepresented commonsoldiers’effortstofightthewarontheir ownterms.FriendlyEnemiesrevealsthatsoldiers constructedaspacetolessenhostilitiesandmake theirdailylivesmoremanageable.
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
Series:StudiesinWar,Society,andtheMilitary January20234photographs,8illustrations,index240pp
9781496233394 £25.99 PB now£18.19
TheGardenPolitic GlobalPlantsandBotanicalNationalismin Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica MaryKuhn
TheGardenPolitic arguesthatbotanicalpracticesand discourseshelped19th-centuryAmericansengage pressingquestionsofrace,gender,settler colonialism,andliberalsubjectivity.Intheearly republic,ideasofbioticdistinctivenesshelpedfuel narrativesofAmericanexceptionalism.Bythe nineteenthcentury,however,theseideasand narrativeswereunsettledbytheunprecedented scaleatwhichtheUnitedStatesandEuropean empiresprospectedforvaluableplantsand exchangedthemacrosstheglobe.
NEWYORKUNIVERSITYPRESS
Series:AmericaandtheLong19thCentury
February20234b&willus.288pp
9781479820153 £25.99 PB now£18.19
ContinentinCrisis
TheU.S.CivilWarinNorthAmerica
EditedbyBrianSchoen,JewelL.Spangler &FrankTowers
Writtenbyleadinghistoriansofthe19thcentury,this bookfocusesontheU.S.CivilWar.Itseeksto understandAmerica’smid-nineteenth-centurycrisis inworldhistory.ThisvolumefocusesonNorth America,BritishCanada,andsovereignindigenous statesintheWest.Thiscontinentalperspective highlightstheuncertaintyoftheperiodwhenthe fateofoldnationsandpossibilitiesfornewones weretrulyupforgrabs.
FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS
Series:ReconstructingAmerica
January20233b&willus.272pp
9781531501297 £29.99 PB now£20.99
Smitten Sex,Gender,andtheContestforSoulsinthe SecondGreatAwakening
RodneyHessinger
HessingerexamineshowtheSecondGreat Awakeningdisruptedgendernorms.Theinternal migrationofAmericanscreatedripeconditionsfor religiouscompetition.Duringthistimeofreligious ferment,religiousseekerscouldplaythemissionary ortheconvert.Openingtheirownheartstonew religiousimpulses,somereligiousvisionariesoffered radicaldispensationsincludingvisionsofhowGod wantedthemtoreordersexandgender.
CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESS
December202215b&whalftones228pp
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TheRepublicShallBeKeptClean HowSettlerColonialViolenceShapedAntileft Repression
TariqD.Khan
ThecolonizingwarsagainstNativeAmericans createdthetemplateforanticommunistrepressionin theUnitedStates.TariqD.Khan’sanalysisreveals bloodshedandclasswarasfoundationalaspectsof capitalistdominationandvitalelementsofthe nation’slonghistoryofinternalrepressionandsocial control.Khanshowshowthestatewieldedthe tactics,weapons,myths,andideologyrefinedin America’scolonizingwarstorepressanarchists,labor unions,andahostofotherslabeledasalien,multiracial,multi-ethnicurbanrabble.Therulingclassesconsideredradicalsofall stripestobeanticolonialinsurgents.AsKhanchartsthedecadesofredscares thatbeganinthe1840s,herevealshowcapitalistsandgovernmentusedmuchpracticedcounterinsurgencyrhetoricandtacticsagainstthemovementsthey perceivedandvilifiedas“anarchist.”
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
September20232b&wphotos288pp
9780252087431 £25.99 PB now£18.19
AFailedVisionofEmpire
TheCollapseofManifestDestiny,1845–1872
DanielJ.Burge
DanielJ.Burgeexaminesthebeliefinmanifestdestiny overthenineteenthcenturybyanalyzingcontested momentsinthecontinentalexpansionoftheUnited States,arguingthattheideologywasultimately unsuccessful.BurgerevealshowAmericansdebated thewisdomofexpansion,challengedexpansionists, anddisagreedoverwhattheboundariesoftheUnited Statesshouldlooklike.
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
May202215illus.,index268pp
9781496228079 £54.00 HB now£37.80
JewishSoldiersintheCivilWar
TheUnionArmy
AdamD.Mendelsohn
Offersanengagingaccountoftheexperiencesof JewishsoldiersintheUnionArmyduringtheCivil War.WhatwasitliketobeaJewinLincoln’sarmies? TheUnionarmywasasdiverseastheembattled nationitsoughttopreserve,almostoneUnionsoldier infourwasbornabroad.Yetthoughscholarshave parsedthetrialsandtriumphsofmanyintheUnion ranks,theyhaveremainedlargelysilentonthe everydayexperiencesofthelargestnon-Christian minoritytohaveserved.
NEWYORKUNIVERSITYPRESS
January202360colorillus.320pp
9781479812233 £29.99 HB now£20.99
TheNorthernHomeFrontduringthe CivilWar
PaulA.Cimbala&RandallM.Miller
BasedonrecentscholarshipanddeepresearchThe NorthernHomeFrontduringtheCivilWaristhefirst fullnarrativehistoryandanalysisofthenorthern homefrontinalmostaquarter-century.Thisbook lookscloselyatpeople’sresponsestowar’sdemands, whetherinsupportingtheUnioncauseoropposingit, anditmeasuresthewaysthewartransformedsociety andeconomyorsimplyreconfirmedideasand reinforcedpracticesalreadyunderway.
FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS
CultureandMoneyintheNineteenth Century AbstractingEconomics
EditedbyDanielBivona&MarleneTromp
Groundedinliterarystudiesandspanningthe Americas,India,England,andScotland,thisbook explorestherelationshipbetweeneconomicconcepts andcultureintheperiod,focusingonhoweconomic tropeswereabstractedintootherdiscoursesinfields asdiverseasevolutionaryscience,business,and literarynarrative.
OHIOUNIVERSITYPRESS
September2023240pp 9780821426067 £27.99 PB now£19.59
MaryAnnShaddCary
TheBlackPressandProtestintheNineteenth Century,NewEdition
JaneRhodes
Partofthesmallfreeblackelitewhousedtheir educationandlimitedfreedomstofightfortheendof slaveryandracialoppression,ShaddCaryisbest knownasthefirstAfricanAmericanwomantopublish andeditanewspaperinNorthAmerica.Buther importancedoesnotstopthere.Shewasanactive participantinmanyofthesocialandpolitical movementsthatinfluencednineteenthcentury abolition,blackemigrationandnationalism,women's rights,andtemperance.
INDIANAUNIVERSITYPRESS
September202317b&wphotos318pp
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TheOldIronRoad AnEpicofRails,Roads,andtheUrgetoGoWest
DavidHawardBain
BetweentheMissouriRiverandtheGoldenGate, theyretracedtheentirerouteofthefirst transcontinentalrailroadandlargestretchesofthe OregonandCaliforniatrails,andtheequallycolorful oldLincolnHighway.Followingvanishedironrailsand wagonwheelruts,bumpingdownbackroadsand mainstreets,theydiscoveredthedeep,restless, uniquelyAmericanspiritofadventurethatconnects ourpasttoourpresent.
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
Series:TheNorth'sCivilWar
February202319b&willus.262pp
9781531501938 £25.99 PB now£18.19
KnowingHimbyHeart
AfricanAmericansobAbrahamLincoln
EditedbyFredLeeHordandMatthewD.
Norman
FrederickHordandMatthewD.Norman'santhology exploresthecomplexnatureofviewsonLincoln throughthewritingsandthoughtofFrederick Douglass,IdaB.Wells-Barnett,MaryMcLeod Bethune,ThurgoodMarshall,MalcolmX,Gwendolyn Brooks,BarbaraJeanneFields,BarackObama,and dozensofothers.Theselectionsmovefromspeeches toletterstobookexcerpts,mappingthechanging contoursofthebond--emotionalandintellectual-betweenLincolnandBlackAmericansoverthespanof150years.
UNIVERSITYOFILLINOISPRESS
October2022576pp
9780252044687 £36.00 HB now£25.20
September202239photos,1map,index470pp
9781496230485 £25.99 PB now£18.19
OutHereonOurOwn
AnOralHistoryofanAmericanBoomtown J.J.Anselmi
OutHereonOurOwn tellsthestoryofRockSprings, Wyoming,aminingboomtownwithahistoryofbrutal racialviolence,widespreadaddiction,prostitution, andastaggeringlyhighper-capitasuiciderate—yeta placethathasprovedremarkablyresilient.Anselmi stitchestogetheranarrayoforiginalinterviewswith peoplewho’veseenthosethingsfirsthand,tracingthe boom-busttrajectoryofatownknownforits corruption,vice,andviolence.
UNIVERSITYOFNEBRASKAPRESS
October2022192pp
9781496232328 £18.99 HB now£13.29