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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY

Dissent

The history of an American Idea RALPH YOUNG The United States is a nation founded on the promise and power of dissent.

In this stunningly comprehensive volume, Ralph Young shows us its history. “[An] expansive and...impressive account...[Young] excels in story-telling mode.”

Popmatters 2015 • 640 Pages • Cloth • $39.95

Age in America

The Colonial Era to the Present Edited by CORINNE T. FIELD and NICHOLAS L. SYRET “…reveals the fundamental ways of understanding what age means, why it is important, and how this category has changed over time.”

Paula S. Fass, author of Children of a New World 2015 • 352 Pages • Paper • $28.00

Buying a Bride

An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches MARCIA A. ZUG There have always been mail-order brides in America—but we haven’t always thought about them in the same ways. Buying A Bride uncovers this history and shows us how mailorder marriage empowers women and should be protected and even encouraged.

2016 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $30.00

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At Home in Nineteenth-Century America A Documentary History

AMY G. RICHTER “...masterfully provides a superb overview...targeted particularly for college students and general readers.”

Choice 2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Health in the City

Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930 TANYA HART Hart challenges traditional ideas of early urban black health care, revealing that even the most wellmeaning public health programs may inadvertently reinforce perceptions of inferiority that they were created to fix.

In the Culture, Labor, History series 2015 • 336 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

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Angel Patriots

The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America ALEXANDER T. RILEY “A profound and thoughtprovoking study, Angel Patriots unveils how, in the wake of 9/11, America mourned much more than the loss of life.”

Daily American 2015 • 352 Pages • Paper • $30.00

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As Long as We Both Shall Love

The White Wedding in Postwar America KAREN M. DUNAK “For readers interested in recent developments in American wedding practices, this volume has much to offer.”

American Historical Review 2016 • 254 Pages • Paper • $28.00

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Naked

A Cultural History of American Nudism BRIAN HOFFMAN “Hoffman’s book ably traces the ideological development of the American nudism movement from its health-and-fitness beginning to the more politically charged movement it became in the 1960s and 1970s.… An original, wellresearched study.”

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Plucked

2015 • 336 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

A History of Hair Removal REBECCA M. HERZIG “Herzig unites anthropology, sociology, history and psychology in this gripping study... Plucked is an important work, not least because it is so very readable.”

Times Higher Education Supplement In the Biopolitics series 2015 • 280 Pages • Cloth • $29.95

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ETHNIC HISTORY

This Muslim American Life

Dispatches From the War on Terror MOUSTATA BAYOUMI “Fascinating...the author’s narrative places the predicament of Arabs and Muslims in today’s America in a broader historical and sociocultural framework. This engrossing book challenges the entrenched... stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims.”

Library Journal 2015 • 304 Pages • Paper • $19.95

An Unlikely Union

A Great Conspiracy against Our Race

The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians PAUL MOSES “In this lively history...Moses looks at Irish and Italian expressions of religion, social customs, and family life; access to political power; competition for jobs; and cultural forces that shaped their images.”

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Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century PETER G. VELLON “[A] concise yet thoroughly researched book. . . An important contribution to Italian American studies specifically and immigrant and racial history in general.”

Choice In the Culture, Labor, History Series 2014 • 192 Pages • Cloth • $45.00

2015 • 368 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Clean and White

Gowanus

A History of Environmental Racism in the United States CARL A. ZIMRING “Offers a significant and startling new perspective on... ideals of cleanliness, notions of environmental propriety, and definitions of whiteness...brings much needed insight to our ongoing national debate about race and justice.”

Robin Nagle, author of Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York

Brooklyn’s Curious Canal JOSEPH ALEXIOU “In Gowanus, Joseph Alexiou handles this complicated waterway’s history with admirable finesse, dogged research, and an enthusiasm as infectious as his subject.”

Brooklyn Magazine 2015 • 400 Pages • Cloth • $29.95

2016 • 288 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY How We Remember the American Revolution ANDREW M. SCHOCKET “This populist study of recent speeches, films and published works reveals the many uses of America’s founding ideals...delves into recent Constitutional Supreme Court battles and the formation of the Minutemen and Tea Party movements. Organized, accessible history for everyone.”

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Revolutionary Medicine

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Fighting over the Founders

The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health JEANNE E. ABRAMS “Revolutionary Medicine...is a readable and eye-opening account.

We know so much about the Founders, but we rarely pause to think just how difficult ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ can be when you lack a good doctor or science-based care.”

The Wall Street Journal 2015 • 314 Pages • Paper • $26.00

2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $30.00

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WOMEN’S HISTORY

Women in Early America

Edited by THOMAS A. FOSTER “Women in Early America, an ambitious series of eleven essays edited by Thomas A. Foster, offers a more compelling version of early America and its heroines.”

Alana Shilling-Janoff, Times Literary Supplement Instructor’s guide available

2015 • 320 Pages • Paper • $28.00

A History of the Feminist Women’s Health Movement JENNIFER NELSON “An extensively researched book, focusing on the struggle for feminists to make women’s health a priority, to reach out to those in need of health care, and to integrate women friendly policies and provide care to those who have very little access to it.”

Metapsychology

Rebels at the Bar

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More Than Medicine

The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers JILL NORGREN “[A] conscientious history of the country’s first female lawyers...The women who went first — whose stories Norgren so capably tells — matter deeply to the ones who came after.”

The Washington Post 2016 • 286 Pages • Paper • $25.00

2015 • 280 Pages • Paper • $26.00

MILITARY HISTORY The American Citizen as Solider, 1775-1861 RICARDO A. HERRERA “Herrera has produced an important volume addressing the relationship of civilians and soldiers during the period from the American Revolution to the beginning of the Civil War.” Choice In the Warfare and Culture Series 2015 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation

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For Liberty and the Republic

The Americans who Fought the Korean War MELINDA L. PASH “This book is the best, but also about the first, comprehensive study of American veterans of the Korean War. Clear and concise writing, sharp exposition, and keen sensitivity to issues of race, gender and class will make this book useful in the classroom.”

The Journal of American History 2014 • 349 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Edited by BETH BAILEY and RICHARD H. IMMERMAN Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan begins to come to grips with the period when America became enmeshed in a succession of “low intensity” conflicts in the Middle East.

“An impressive compendium...that provides a wide spectrum of perspectives on how and why the world has changed so dramatically since 11 September 2001.”

General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army (Ret) 2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $30.00

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IN THE EARLY

AMERICAN PLACES

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The Early American Places series focuses on the history of North America from contact to the Mexican War, locating historical developments in the specific places where they occurred and were contested. Though these developments often involved far-flung parts of the world, they were experienced in particular communities—the local places where people lived, worked, and made sense of their changing worlds. By restricting its focus to smaller geographic scales, but stressing that towns, colonies, and regions were part of much larger networks, Early American Places will combine up-to-date scholarly sophistication with an emphasis on local particularities and trajectories.

Unfreedom

Caribbean Crossing

Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston JARED R. HARDESTY Hardesty examines the lived experience of slaves in eighteenthcentury Boston, and argues we should understand slavery as part of a continuum of unfreedom.

Unfreedom tells the story of how marginalized peoples engrained themselves in the very fabric of colonial American society.

African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement SARAH FANNING “Most know about the ‘return to Africa’ movement among free blacks in the US. Fewer know about the slave rebellion against French colonial masters…Fanning provides the first comprehensive account of this forgotten chapter in US and African American history.””

Choice 2015 • 192 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

2016 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Against Wind and Tide

Dark Work

The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement OUSMANE K. POWERGREENE “Against Wind and Tide is a fine contribution to the story of African colonization movements in early American history.”

The Journal of American History

CHRISTY CLARK-PUJARA Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island.

2016 • 224 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

2014 • 304 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Four Steeples over the City Streets

2014 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Faithful Bodies

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Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations KYLE T. BULTHUIS “Bulthuis thoroughly merges US religious history with the history of New York City from the Colonial era through the early republic...A timely reminder of the contingent nature of history and the strategic role that religion played in the New York City urban landscape.”

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2015 • 288 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

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Empire at the Periphery

Insatiable Appetites

Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World KELLY L. WATSON “Readers won’t look at imperial discourses of ‘civilization’ and ‘savagery’ in quite the same way after consuming and digesting this wide-ranging history.”

Thomas A. Foster, DePaul University

Performing Religion and Race in the Puritan Atlantic HEATHER M. KOPELSON “Offers an innovative and muchneeded look into the creation of racial identities in the colonial Atlantic. Faithful Bodies ought to excite future scholars as they consider analyzing the nexus of racial identities and religious ideologies in the colonial worlds.”

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British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 CHRISTIAN J. KOOT “Koot deals in a fresh and convincing manner and in an accessible style with Anglo-Dutch trade in the western Atlantic world, leaving no stone unturned.”

Wim Klooster, author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World 2015 • 312 Pages • Paper • $25.00

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POLITICAL HISTORY

Obama’s Guantánamo

Stories from an Enduring Prison Edited by JONATHAN HAFETZ Obama’s Guantánamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison describes President Obama’s failure to close America’s enduring offshore detention center, as he had promised to do within his first year in office, and the costs of that failure for those imprisoned there. These stories demonstrate all that is wrong with Stories from Stories an from anthe prison and the importance of maintaining a commitment to human Enduring Prison Enduring Prison rights even in times of insecurity.

OBAMA’S OBAMA’S OBAMA’S GUANTÁNAMO GUANTÁNAMO GUANTÁNAMO Stories from an Enduring Prison

Jonathan Hafetz

July 2016 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $30.00

Jonathan Hafetz Hafetz EDITED BY Jonathan

Revoking Citizenship

The Twilight of Social Conservatism

Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror BEN HERZOG “Herzog’s contribution to the growing debate over membership in our polity is important for its reminder that citizenship has historically been contingent in the United States...[It] will induce the reader to rethink the nature of citizenship in our democracy.”

California Lawyer

American Culture Wars in the Obama Era JOHN DOMBRINK Despite many Americans’ triumphant proclamations that Barack Obama’s elections signified a post-partisan, post-racial society, it seems that the United States is more divided than ever. The conservative backlash seen during Obama’s presidency is indicative not of a rising social conservative force in society, but of a waning one.

In the Citizenship and Migration in the Americas Series 2015 • 216 Pages • Cloth • $49.00

2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $27.00

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination PAUL R. LAWRIE Lawrie charts the history of race Forging a Laboring Race management, building on recent work in African American, labor, and disability history to analyze The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination how ideas of race, work, and the “fit” or “unfit” body informed the political economy of early Paul R.D. Lawrie twentieth-century industrial America. lawrie comps.indd 3

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2016 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $50.00

Ghosts of Jim Crow

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Forging a Laboring Race

Ending Racism in Post-Racial America F. M. HIGGINBOTHAM “Legal-scholar Higginbotham addresses the legacy of America’s racial past and its impact on race equity today. What he wants is a new conversation on race that acknowledges the old paradigm of whites at the top and blacks at the bottom of a racial hierarchy.”

Booklist Online 2015 • 352 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Instructor’s guide available The Story of the American Maroons SYLVIANE A. DIOUF “With impressive research and vivid prose, Diouf directs our attention to maroons within the United States.

From the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia to the frontier regions of Louisiana, she shows fugitive slaves managed to survive without fleeing to the North. An important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance.”

Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 2016 • 403 Pages • Paper • $18.00

Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper—CLR James Book Award, National Council of Book Studies

We Will Shoot Back

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Slavery’s Exiles

Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement AKINYELE OMOWALE UMOJA “Umoja challenges the notion that the classic civil rights movement in the southern US was always a nonviolent movement. He provides new information and interpretations, which are a welcome contribution to knowledge and an appreciated addition to the history of the civil rights movement.”

Choice 2014 • 351 Pages • Paper • $23.00

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

The Race Whisperer

Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race MELANYE T. PRICE Price analyzes the manner in which Barack Obama uses race strategically to engage with and win the loyalty of potential supporters.

Ultimately, Price argues for a more complex reading of race in the age the Race WhispeReR of Obama, breaking new ground in barack obama and the the study of race and politics, public political uses of race opinion, and political campaigns.

Melanye T. Price

2016 • 224 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Black Women’s Christian Activism

Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb BETTY L. ADAMS Adams examines the oft-overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth of northern suburbs in the first half of the twentieth century. As this book makes clear, religion made a key difference in the lives and activism of ordinary black women who lived, worked, and worshiped on the margin during this tumultuous time.

2016 • 240 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

Black Mosaic

Picture Freedom

Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century JASMINE N. COBB Through an analysis of popular culture of the period, Cobb explores the earliest illustrations of free Blacks and reveals the complicated route toward a vision of African American citizenship.

2015 • 288 Pages • Paper • $27.00

The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity CANDIS W. SMITH Smith explores the numerous ways in which the expanding and rapidly changing demographics of Black communities in the United States call into question the very foundations of political identity providing a groundbreaking study about the state of race, identity, and politics in an ever-changing America 2014 • 320 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Brooklyn’s Promised Land

The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York JUDITH WELLMAN “In Brooklyn’s Promised Land, Judith Wellman…reanimates this black nationalist enclave in the borough’s eastern Beford Hills, which by the Civil War had more than 500 residents.”

The New York Times 2014 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

Managing Inequality

Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit KAREN R. MILLER Managing Inequality shows that our current racial system—where raceneutral language coincides with extreme racial inequalities—has a history that is deeply embedded in contemporary governmental systems and political economies.

2014 • 352 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

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Reframing Randolph

Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph ANDREW E. KERSTEN and CLARENCE LANG The authors of Reframing Randolph have taken Randolph’s dusty portrait down from the wall to reexamine and reframe it, allowing scholars to regard him in new, and often competing, lights, achieving a combination of synthetic and critical reappraisal.

2015 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $52.00

Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?

Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era SHANNON KING King argues that Harlemites’ mobilization for community rights raised the black community’s racial consciousness and established Harlem’s political culture. By studying community politics, King makes visible the hidden stirrings of a social movement deeply invested in a Black Harlem.

In the Culture, Labor, History Series 2015 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $49.00

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

The Counter-Revolution of 1776

Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America GERALD HORNE “Horne returns with insights about the American Revolution that fracture even more some comforting myths about the Founding Fathers…Clear and sometimes-passionate prose shows us the persistent nastiness underlying our founding narrative.”

Kirkus 2014 • 363 Pages • Cloth • $39.00

African & American

West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America MARILYN HALTER and VIOLET SHOWERS JOHSON African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. It explores issues of cultural identity formation and socioeconomic incorporation among this new West African diaspora.

2014 • 352 Pages • Paper • $26.00

Negro Comrades of the Crown

African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation GERALD HORNE “Horne’s work provides readers with a new framework to imagine diplomatic relationships between world powers in the nineteenth century, something especially important as historians begin to blend racial, cultural, and social history with diplomatic history.”

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Sisters in the Struggle

African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement Edited by BETTYE COLLIERTHOMAS and V.P. FRANKLIN “The quality of each individual essay makes Sisters in the Struggle stand out as an unusual anthology, one whose total sum is actually more than its parts.”

Journal of American History

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Servants of Allah

African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary Edition SLYVIANE A. DIOUF Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas.

This 15th anniversary edition has been updated to include new materials and analysis, a review of developments in the field, prospects for new research, and new illustrations.

Want to Start a Revolution?

Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle Edited by DAYO F. GORE, JEANNE THEOHARIS and KOMOZI WOODARD “As the editors and contributors of this volume convincingly insist, we must reconsider what we think we know of civil rights, black power activism, and post-World War II feminism.”

Journal of American History 2009 • 370 Pages • Paper • $27.00

2013 • 351 Pages • Paper • $25.00

Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

Black in Latin America HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. “An entertaining alternative to the chronologically framed textbook... in a folksy vernacular [the book] recounts a great range of historical events and actors, offering a wonderful level of detail without overly challenging the novice audience.”

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Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association

Bloody Lowndes

Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES “Jeffries has produced an important work that will unquestionably reshape the debate over the origins and legacy of the civil rights and black power movements for years to come.”

Journal of American History 2010 • 372 Pages • Paper • $25.00

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LEGAL HISTORY

The Presidents and the Constitution A Living History Edited by KEN GORMLEY

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“Gormley and his impressive roster of collaborators have abundantly delivered on the promise of this book’s title. The balance between presidential power and presidential accountability is indeed a living history.…[This] brisk and readable survey of 44 presidencies puts present-day controversies in context and shows how living history isn’t about legal abstraction—it is about ambition, conflict, and the consequences and limits of presidential power.”

John Harris, Politico 2016 • 672 Pages • Cloth • $45.00

Wedlocked

Making Race in the Courtroom

The Perils of Marriage Equality KATHERINE FRANKE “Franke aligns struggles for gay marriage rights with African Americans’ first access to the right to marry, smartly exposing the malleable line between intimacy and the untouchable.”

Patricia J. Williams, author of the column “Diary of a Mad Law Professor” for The Nation

The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans KENNETH R. ASLAKSON Making Race in the Courtroom argues that race is best understood not as a category, but as a process.

It seeks to demonstrate the role of free people of African-descent, interacting within the courts, in this process.

2014 • 272 Pages • Cloth • $49.00

In the Sexual Cultures Series 2015 • 288 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

Mea Culpa

At Home in Two Countries

Lessons on Law and Regret from U.S. History STEVEN W. BENDER “Bender, through the prism of regret for policies enacted as a result of dehumanization of particular groups, presents an admirable intersectional synthesis of current and past legal marginalization.”

Choice

The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship PETER J. SPIRO At Home in Two Countries charts the history of dual citizenship from strong disfavor to general acceptance. This book explains why dual citizenship was once so reviled, why it is a fact of life after globalization, and why it should be embraced today.

2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

In the Citizen and Migration in the Americas Series 2016 • 208 Pages • Cloth • $40.00

Trotskyists on Trial

American Founding Son

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Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR DONNA T. HAVERTY-STACKE Trotskyists on Trial explores the implications of the case for organized labor and civil liberties in wartime and postwar America.

The central issue of how Americans have tolerated or suppressed dissent during moments of national crisis is not only important to our understanding of the past, but also remains a pressing concern in the post-9/11 world.

John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment GERARD N. MAGLIOCCA “Gerard Magliocca has done nearly as much as anyone could to resurrect John Bingham, and he has succeeded in making Bingham come alive as an important political player in the Civil War era. [H]e has certainly restored Bingham to a rightful place in Civil War political and legal history.”

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RELIGIOUS HISTORY

The Production of American Religious Freedom

Border Medicine

A Transcultural History of American Curanderismo BRETT HENDRICKSON Border Medicine examines the ongoing evolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. The book tracks curanderismo’s expansion from Mexican American communities to Anglo and multiethnic contexts.

FINBARR CURTIS Americans love religious freedom.

Few agree, however, about what they mean by either “religion” or “freedom.” Finbarr Curtis challenges both concepts and gives a sweeping history of the concepts of religious freedom from the 19th century to the present.

In the North American Religions Series 2014 • 256 Pages • Paper • $24.00

In the North American Religions Series 2016 • 240 Pages • Paper • $28.00

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The Bahá’ís of America

Pillars of Cloud and Fire

The Growth of a Religious Movement MIKE MCMULLEN American Bahá’ís have been remarkably successful in attracting a diverse membership, and over half of their congregations today are multiracial. This level of diversity is unique among all religious groups in the United States. Mike McMullen traces the hard work of the Bahá’ís’ leadership and congregants to achieve their high level of diversity and manage to grow so successfully in America.

The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation HERBERT R. MARBURY In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation.

Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time.

For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom

2015 • 288 Pages • Paper • $27.00

In the Religion and Social Transformation Series 2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $26.00

AWARD-WINNING RELIGIOUS HISTORY Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Winner, 2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the Catholic Press Association

Building the Old Time Religion

Preaching on Wax

In the Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Series 2014 • 240 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era

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The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion LERONE A. MARTIN “In the early half of the 20th century, many black preachers discovered a new tool—the phonograph.

Sermons recorded on vinyl (or, at first, wax) enabled them to reach beyond their local churches…In Preaching on Wax, Lerone A. Martin illuminates this little-known chapter in American cultural history.”

Publishers Weekly

PRISCILLA POPE-LEVISON “In her book, Pope-Levison explores the role of women evangelists as institution builders of evangelic enterprises, churches and denominations, religious training schools and benevolence ministries...

Pope-Levinson utilizes an ecumenical approach in exploring religious institutions built by women during the Progressive Era.” Pneuma 2015 • 280 Pages • Paper • $25.00

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Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History

Winner of the 2015 Smith/Wynkoop Book Award presented by the Wesleyan Theological Society

Called to Serve

Mississippi Praying

Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 CAROLYN R. DUPONT “Carolyn Renee Dupont’s examination of Mississippi white evangelicals’ fervent support of segregation during the 1950s and 1960s offers historians a fresh interpretation of the confounding paradox of God-fearing whites condoning and even participating in massive resistance.”

The Journal of Southern History

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MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS “McGuinness culls wide-ranging historical evidence...and perspective with her collective story of many communities across the United States, beginning with the Ursuline sisters in New Orleans in 1727...This is a comprehensive, objective, and readable contribution to a subject of growing interest despite fewer numbers of sisters.”

Library Journal 2014 • 272 Pages • Paper • $25.00

2015 • 303 Pages • Paper • $27.00

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JEWISH HISTORY Winner of the 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council

The Rag Race

How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire ADAM D. MENDELSOHN “An inquiry into the wellspring of modern Jewish economic success, [The Rag Race] attends to the origins of the garment industry, poking around in the dusty, and often little-known, corners of a global exchange based on kinship and the Jewish collective...The Rag Race is a remarkable achievement, a testament to the vitality of the historical imagination.”

Jewish Review of Books In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History 2015 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

Pastrami on Rye

Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust

An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli TED MERWIN “Combining a flair for anecdote with exhaustive research, Merwin has produced an exuberantly readable history of delis...The very success of Jewish delicatessens led inevitably to cultural assimilation for Jews and to appreciative acceptance by Gentiles, and the delicatessen became indisputably an American institution.”

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A History of Nuns in America

2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $26.95

MICHAEL J. BAZYLER and FRANK M. TUERKHEIMER “Few of these trials are widely remembered. Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, by legal scholars Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, is thus especially welcome. . . . Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have made a good start.”

Richard J. Evans, New York Review of Books 2015 • 384 Pages • Paper • $28.00

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City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York A 3-volume set

Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award (National Jewish Book Council)

Haven of Liberty

New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865 HOWARD B. ROCK Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions.

Overcoming significant barriers, these courageous men and women laid the foundations for one of the world’s foremost Jewish cities.

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2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Emerging Metropolis

New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 ANNIE POLLAND and DANIEL SOYER Emerging Metropolis tells the story of New York’s emergence as the greatest Jewish city of all time, tracing immigrants’ economic, social, religious, political, and cultural adaptation between 1840 and 1920. This meticulously researched volume shows how Jews wove their ambitions and aspirations—for freedom, security, and material prosperity—into the very fabric and physical landscape of the city.

2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Jews in Gotham

New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010 JEFFREY S. GUROCK Jews in Gotham follows the Jewish saga in ever-changing New York City from the end of the First World War into the first decade of the new millennium. This lively portrait details the complex dynamics that caused Jews to persist, abandon, or be left behind in their neighborhoods during critical moments of the past century.

2015 • 368 Pages • Paper • $24.00

The Public Professor

How to Use Your Research to Change the World M. V. LEE BADGETT The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for.

The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research and knowledge to change the world. Written for both new and experienced scholars and drawing on examples and advice from the lives of influential academics, the book provides the skills, resources, and tools to put ideas into action.

2016 • 256 Pages • Paper • $24.00

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The Crime of All Crimes

Toward a Criminology of Genocide NICOLE RAFTER Nicole Rafter takes an innovative approach to the study of genocide by comparing eight diverse genocides through the lens of criminal behavior. A sweeping and innovative investigation into the most tragic of events in the modern world, this remarkable book will fundamentally change how we think about genocide in the present day.

2016 • 320 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

Confronting Black Jacobins The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic GERALD HORNE The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. Horne surveys the reaction in the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti and the failed attempt by the United States to annex it in the 1870s.

From Monthly Review Press 2015 • 416 Pages • Paper • $25.00

Gülen

The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World

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JOSHUA D. HENDRICK “Hendrick deserves to be commended for analyzing the Gülen movement in a comprehensive fashion. The book, written in an engaging style, covers diverse issues...This timely book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Gülen movement.”

Middle East Journal 2014 • 304 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Reconstructing Lenin An Intellectual Biography

TAMÁS KRAUSZ, translated by BALINT BETHLENFALVY Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century.

This rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thoughts never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective.

Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a movement.

From Monthly Review Press 2015 • 544 Pages • Paper • $34.00

Modern Albania

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From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe FRED C. ABRAHAMS “Assiduously researched, compulsively readable...Albania is a country filled with wily, resourceful, worldly, funny, and fatalistic people, and with their many contributions Abrahams’s narrative is as darkly farcical as it is tragic.”

Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles Review of Books

Death in the Shape of a Young Girl

Women’s Political Violence in the Red Army Faction PATRICIA MELZER “Clearly written and convincingly argued, the book makes original contributions to both feminist theory and the history and interpretation of the RAF.” Choice In the Gender and Political Violence series 2015 • 352 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

2015 • 384 Pages • Paper • $25.00

China, The United States, and the Future of Central Asia U.S.-China Relations, Volume I Edited by DAVID B. DENOON The first of a three-volume series on the interaction of the US and China in different regions of the world, this book is a wide-ranging look from noted scholars at a vital part of the world which is likely to receive more attention and face greater instability as NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan.

2015 • 464 Pages • Paper • $35.00

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From the Land of Shadows

War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora KHATHARYA UM From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma.

Khatharya Um follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history.

2015 • 272 Pages • Paper • $28.00

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Filipino Studies

Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora Edited by MARTIN F. MANALANSAN and AUGUSTO ESPIRITU Philippine studies has recently come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora.

2016 • 464 Pages • Paper • $30.00

Making the Empire Work

Labor and United States Imperialism Edited by DANIEL E. BENDER and JANA K. LIPMAN Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States Empire. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. Empire visible. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.

Contemporary Israel

New Insights and Scholarship Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn

Contemporary Israel New Insights and Scholarship

Jewish Studies in the TwentyT First Century

Edited by FREDERICK E. GREENSPAHN The contradicting views of modern Israel are the subject of this book.

This book does not seek not to resolve either the country’s internal debates or its struggle with the Arab world, but to present a sample of contemporary scholars’ discoveries and discussions about modern Israel in an accessible way.

In the Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century series 2016 • 320 Pages • Paper • $30.00

In the Shadow of Zion

Promised Lands Before Israel ADAM L. ROVNER “Rovner makes a valuable contribution to the almost forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement….In well-crafted chapters, Rovner tells the story of the efforts of the territorialists to find a Jewish home in such places of Angola, Madagascar, Tasmania, and Suriname.”

Choice 2014 • 352 Pages • Cloth • $35.00

2015 • 384 Pages • Paper • $35.00

Atlas of the Irish Revolution

An Oasis City

By NICOLA ARAVECCHIA, ROGER S. BAGNALL, RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE, PAOLA DAVOLI, OLAF E. KAPER and SUSANNA MCFADDEN Amheida was an oasis communities.

Located in the western part of the Dakhla Oasis, it was an important regional center, reaching a peak in the Roman period before being abandoned. This book presents these aspects of the city’s existence and its close ties to the Nile valley in an accessible and richly illustrated fashion.

Edited by JOHN CROWLEY, MIKE MURPHY and DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL A chronological and thematically organized treatment of the period serves as the core of the Atlas Atlas, enhanced by over 400 color illustrations, maps and photographs. This academic tour de force animates the period for anyone with a connection to or interest in Irish history.

2016 • 750 Pages • Cloth • $75.00

In the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World series 2016 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $55.00

Transpacific Antiracism

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Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa YUICHIRO ONISHI “Yuichiro Onishi’s Transpacific Antiracism is a unique and valuable contribution to the scholarship on Afro-Asian relations…there are things that Onishi does that few have done before.”

American Studies 2014 • 254 Pages • Paper • $24.00

Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 19451955 EDITED BY SEÁN HAND AND STEVEN T. KATZ Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 offers new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades following the end of World War II. In the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series 2015 • 256 Pages • Cloth • $45.00

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The Houses of History

A critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory Edited by ANNA GREEN and KATHLEEN TROUP The Houses of History provides a comprehensive introduction to the twelve schools of thought, which have had the greatest influence on the study of history in the twentieth century. Comprehensive and accessible to undergraduates, The Houses of History is ideally suited to classroom use.

1999 • 352 Pages • Paper • $27.00

World History in Documents, 2nd Edition A Comparative Reader

White Cargo The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America DON JORDAN and MICHAEL WALSH “This vividly written book tells the tale from both sides of the Atlantic . . . Jordan and Walsh offer an explanation of how the structures of slavery—black or white—were entwined in the roots of American society.”

New York Times Book Review 2008 • 320 Pages • Paper • $27.00

Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History National and International Perspectives

Edited by PETER N. STEARNS World events have changed as rapidly as the field of world history itself. Stearns pays particular attention to global processes throughout history. The book also covers key events that have altered world history since the publication of the first edition, including terrorism, global consumerism, and environmental issues.

Edited by PETER N. STEARNS, PETER SEIXAS, and SAM WINEBURG “The 22 useful and engaging essays in this book represent leading work in the scholarship of teaching and learning related to history...

Hopefully these essays will do much to bridge the gap between historians, teacher educators, and teachers.”

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Revolutions in the Atlantic World A Comparative History

WIM KLOOSTER “It adds much to the growing literature on Atlantic revolutions and will be invaluable for teachers of the American Revolution who wish to add a comparative dimension to their courses.”

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The Historians’ Paradox The Study of History in Our Time PETER CHARLES HOFFER “A rattlingly good read...

[S]trongly recommend[ed]…in any teaching context where students of history are being asked to reflect philosophically upon the nature of their subject.”

American Historical Review 2010 • 226 Pages • Paper • $25.00

2009 • 247 Pages • Paper • $25.00

The World War I Reader

Edited by MICHAEL S. NEIBERG “. . . [A] valuable text to introduce students to the broad parameters of World War I. Students whose intellectual appetites are whetted by this collection will appreciate the extensive list of books matched to each category at the end of the book.”

The Journal of Military History 2006 • 416 Pages • Paper • $28.00

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue SAMUEL R. DELANY “In a provocative and persuasively argued cri de coeur against New York City’s gentrification and the redevelopment of Times Square in the name of ‘family values and safety,’ …this bracing and wellcalibrated blend of journalism, personal history and cultural criticism will challenge readers of every persuasion.”

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