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history / united states The Accidental Slaveowner Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family Mark Auslander “In 1844, a dispute over ownership of an enslaved woman named Catherine Boyd split the American Methodist Church, a fateful step on the road to secession and Civil War. In this beautiful, haunting book, Mark Auslander peels back the layers of history, memory, and myth that have grown up around ‘Miss Kitty,’ taking us to the heart of our nation’s conflicted racial past and present.”—James T. Campbell, author of Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005

endeavor.”—North Carolina Historical Review “A remarkable collection of essays . . .

Accessibly written . . . Undergraduates will appreciate the accessibility of the essays. General audiences will enjoy the breadth of topics and the lack of daunting academic folderol. . . .

The American South in the Twentieth Century serves as a useful and elegant reminder of the fascinating, vibrant century just past while at the same time providing a useful reminder that the south is still changing even as its historiography does as well.”—History: Reviews of New Books 2005 • 322 p. • 6 x 9 38 photos; 4 diagrams; 1 table PB • 9780820327716 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

“A powerful reminder of the way our studies of the past can foster important new dialogues in the present.”

—Journal of Southern History

Edited by Philip Morgan “A sustained, thoughtful balance of the history, culture, and people of this region.”—Journal of Southern History “All of the essays are well crafted, and several of them, particularly those by Vincent Carretta, Betty Wood, and Michael A. Gomez, are by themselves worth the price of the volume . . . This book greatly deepens our understanding of the life and culture of lowcountry blacks and is essential reading for all interested in the African experience in early America.”—Journal of American History 2011 • 320 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 53 b&w photos and 3 figures; 1 table PB • 9780820343075 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

The American South in the Twentieth Century Edited by Craig S. Pascoe, Karen Trahan Leathem, and Andy Ambrose “Adeptly weaves interconnected histories into the larger regional and national narratives . . . As the United States moves, arguably, toward a national culture, distinct regions and cultures undergo identity crises. The South is no exception. Therefore, southern historians must keep abreast of the shifting themes in the field.

The American South in the Twentieth Century is an essential tool in that

2008 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 2 figures; 2 maps; 13 tables PB • 9780820330235 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Edited by John B. Boles

2011 • 376 p. • 6 x 9 11 b&w photos, 12 figures HC • 9780820340425 • $76.95 your price: $30.78

The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee

“McMichael does a good job of describing the operations and end of twenty-five years of Spanish rule in West Florida. He uses a rich variety of archival sources to illustrate and establish his key points. This is bottom-up history that takes into account theoretical themes but is ever on the search for concrete evidence on which to base the more abstract claims. Others would do well to imitate his work.”

—Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History

“Clearly demonstrates the power that involving the public in one’s own history can have. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice

African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry

of interpretations and the nuanced understandings of American slavery will certainly benefit scholars for years to come.”—Journal of Southern History

America’s Corporal James Tanner in War and Peace James Marten “America’s Corporal is a fascinating look at one of the Union army’s most remarkable veterans. Following Tanner from his enlistment as an enthusiastic seventeen-year-old, through his debilitating double-amputation, and on to his rise as a prominent figure in veterans’ affairs, James Marten chronicles a story at once extraordinary and exceedingly representative of the Civil War generation.”—Caroline E. Janney, author of Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation “Elegantly written and wellresearched . . . Marten’s outstanding biography of this fascinating figure demonstrates that Tanner was more than symbolic of Gilded Age corruption.”—Journal of American History 2014 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos PB • 9780820343211 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

In these highly personal essays, both pioneering and promising young scholars discuss their work and interests as they recall how the circumstances of their upbringing and education steered them toward religious history.

“Confession is good for the soul.

Herein, it’s also revealing of history and historiography. These autobiographical reflections remind us, too, how much the personal informs scholarship. We all might fess up to that fact, as these good people do, and offer more honest reflections of ourselves and the history we write.”—Virginia Magazine of History and Biography “A superb compilation. These personal essays represent history at its best via the autobiographical model, and the anthology will become a classic for others to emulate.”—Journal of Appalachian Studies 2001 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820322971 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Before the New Deal Social Welfare in the South, 1830–1930 Edited by Elna C. Green

Andrew McMichael

“This stimulating collection of ten essays by younger scholars deepens our understanding of the complex interplay of race, gender, and class in the southern past, and it makes a persuasive case for paying attention to regional variations in American social welfare history.”—H-Childhood

“Offers exceptionally well written, interesting, and innovative approaches that promise to breathe new interpretive life into what many may consider an old topic . . . As one of the stronger anthologies in the field published in recent years, this collection will be useful to specialists and students alike . . . The range

1999 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 9 figures PB • 9780820321141 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

Atlantic Loyalties Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810

“A welcome addition to a literature that for too long has ignored the South, to the detriment of our understanding of American social welfare history.”

—Journal of American History

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Black Woman Reformer Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism Sarah L. Silkey “Whatever the title may suggest, this book is not so much about Ida B. Wells as about the transmission of ideas, of British perceptions of American mobbing and their response to her work on the one side, and the way defenders of the South and lynch law tried to counter that reaction overseas. . . . No student of the least gilded part of America’s Gilded Age or of English conscience in an equally dark age of overseas empire, should overlook this impressive book.”—Civil War Book Review “Using Ida B. Wells, Mississippi-born civil rights activist and anti-lynching crusader, as a central figure, Silkey gives readers a compelling understanding of Wells’s anti-lynching campaigns, including her two tours of England in the 1890s, which provides an understanding of the persuasive context on lynching as presented to British reformers.”—Choice

labor of love and is significant not only for students and scholars of World War II, but also for those interested in the wider American historical experience.”—American Historical Review “A valuable study about American civilians interned in the Philippines by the Japanese during the Pacific war.

Cogan’s Captured is part of a slowly growing historiography on Americans taken prisoner by the Japanese during the war, and she is to be commended for completing a more comprehensive study of civilian internees than has heretofore been attempted.”—Journal of American History 2000 • 384 p. • 6 x 9 10 b&w photos, 2 illus.

HC • 9780820321172 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

James C. Cobb “A useful tonic for those who have grown tired of the down on Brown crowd of historians and other academics whose chorus of despair amounts to a din of negativity. . . . Responds to the criticism over Brown with insight, cleverness, and powerful historical argument . . . For anyone interested in southern historiography, this book offers a look at the thoughts of a leading practitioner and his take on the major themes of southern history. . . . This book is a good brief look at the issue of southern identity, where it came from and where it is headed. . . . Highly recommended, and will certainly leave the reader wanting to explore the subject even more.”

—H-Net “A direct challenge by one of the South’s leading historians to recent critics of the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous 1954 decision and the Civil Rights Movement which followed. . . . A compelling book that offers much food for thought.”

—Journal of African American History 2005 • 102 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 HC • 9780820324982 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Captured The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941–1945 Frances B. Cogan “Cogan has given us a truly remarkable and important book. Her work is a

The Global Evolution of a New South City Edited by William Graves and Heather A. Smith “Taken as a whole, this edited volume is an invaluable guide to understanding Charlotte, and more generally the growth and transformation experienced by cities in the Sunbelt.”

—Choice “Recommended for all urban geographers, economists, and historians interested in the modern South. It would also be useful reading for southern politicians still struggling to make up their minds about the meaning and cultural cost of embracing modernity.”—Journal of American History 2012 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 37 b&w photos; 10 maps PB • 9780820343082 • $27.95 your price: $11.18

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up Local Struggles, a National Movement

2015 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820345574 • $49.95 your price: $24.97

The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity

Charlotte, NC

Edited by Emilye Crosby

Cause at Heart A Former Communist Remembers Junius Irving Scales and Richard Nickson With a new foreword by Vernon Burton and James R. Barrett “Moving and memorable . . . It is the voice of a decent, idealistic man who spent eighteen years of his life in the Communist Party doing everything up to serving as district organizer for several Southern states, including North Carolina. And we don’t hear a false note: he is telling us the truth, as he reveals his illusions and delusions, his weaknesses and his strengths, his passionate belief in his party and the Soviet Union, and all the nagging doubts as well. He spares us nothing. . . . An interesting document that helps to explain in no small measure the tragic attraction the strange and hydra-headed American Communist Party held for the many decent human beings who passed through its revolving doors.”—New York Times Book Review “Historians of the period will find useful descriptions here of the party’s role in organizing, civil rights work and the war effort, of cadre training, sectarian infighting and, not least, of Scales’s own U.S. government-produced show trial.”—The Nation 2005 • 480 p. • 6 x 9 13 b&w photos PB • 9780820327853 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

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“This collection identifies the damage the master narrative causes to contemporary understandings of race, racism, social justice, and white privilege and challenges the assumptions, misunderstandings, and myths that endure despite the recent growth of movement scholarship.”—Journal of American History “Provides the single most compelling interpretation of the African American freedom struggle in the South yet produced. National in scope, deep and concrete, empirical and analytical, clear and accessible, this collection clarifies virtually all the crucial scholarly debates while furnishing engaging examples for students and general readers. Crosby shows us a historic movement as deep as it is long, rooted in the black South, but speaking to the whole world.”—Timothy B. Tyson, author of Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power 2011 • 510 p. • 6 x 9 26 b&w photos, 11 illus.

PB • 9780820338651 • $32.95 your price: $16.47

The Civil Rights Reader American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation Edited by Julie Buckner Armstrong Amy Schmidt, Associate Editor This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Including works by some of the most influential writers to engage issues of race and social justice, including James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, and Nikki Giovanni.

history / united states 3 “A superb anthology that insightfully captures the link between art and society. An important contribution to both the cultural and the literary history of the enduring African American freedom struggle, this volume showcases an impressive range of literary works that freshly illuminates this powerful struggle.”—Waldo E. Martin, Jr., No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America

historical case study of how one U.S. company struggled to remain profitable in the face of interregional competition.”—American Historical Review

2009 • 392 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 PB • 9780820332253 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi

Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact

“His study is the first of a crucial organization that historians have previously neglected or ignored altogether. Yet Divine Agitators does much more than trace the development and detail the achievements of a single civil rights group. In examining the Delta Ministry’s post-1965 activities, Newman exposes the challenges and restrictions that faced the Mississippi black freedom struggle after federal legislation ended de jure segregation in the decade’s early years. . . . An indispensable contribution to existing civil rights scholarship.”—H-South

Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow Jennifer Jensen Wallach This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright.

“Wallach’s interdisciplinary training allows her to demonstrate how attention to language, symbolism, allegory, and other literary devices can uncover more historically relevant content in a memoir than a mere surface reading would allow. This is a well-written and well-argued response to a single question: How should historians handle literary memoirs as historical sources?”—Jennifer Ritterhouse, author of Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race

2006 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 22 b&w photos HC • 9780820326283 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Divine Agitators Mark Newman

“Newman’s study of the Delta Ministry is scrupulously researched and skillfully written. In exploring local organizing in the South in the later 1960s, he casts valuable light on areas of the movement currently understudied by historians.”—Journal of American Studies 2004 • 366 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 1 map PB • 9780820325323 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

“Singularly sensitive, well argued, and closely attuned to the many manifestations of southern rage.”—Journal of Southern History

Domesticating Foreign Struggles The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity Paola Gemme “The movement toward a comparative approach to American studies and its internationalization receives an important contribution from Gemme’s volume. . . . Gemme’s international and comparative perspective, combined with her clear, jargon-free prose, makes for stimulating and fascinating reading.”—American Historical Review “Gemme’s original, strongly argued, and clearly written study is a model of the transnational turn in American cultural studies. . . . This is stimulating, readable, well informed scholarship that opens new paths to understanding America’s national identity.”

—Catholic Historical Review 2012 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 13 b&w photos; 3 maps PB • 9780820343419 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845–1880 Bruce W. Eelman

A Common Thread Beth English

Doing Recent History

“A Common Thread weaves together the histories of labor, politics, and industrial development in a way that is both compelling and insightful. . . . A must-read for historians and scholars of contemporary labor and industrial development. Exceptionally wellwritten, this work deserves a place on the shelves of historians of labor and working-class history, the U.S. South, women’s and gender history, business and economic development alike.”

—H-Net: Southern Industry

On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

“A solid work that illustrates admirably the reasons behind the rise and fall of the textile industry in both the North and the South. . . . By deftly weaving together business, political, and labor history, English offers an

2012 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820343020 • $27.95 your price: $13.97

Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry

2008 • 192 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820330693 • $42.95 your price: $12.88

Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry

“Any historian who reads this collection of essays stands to gain something. . . . Potter and Romano open up the possibility that an all-encompassing methodology is no longer an option for historians. This collection encourages scholars to discard, once and for all, the notion that any history is absolute or completely objective and to recognize the interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity involved in doing recent history. ”—Oral History Review

Edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano “Promises a fair hearing to the historical problems and processes that shape our daily lives in the early twenty-first century, from the rise of new technologies and religious movements to the contested legacies of feminism and civil rights. . . . An important volume that will be usefully assigned in graduate seminars, particularly for students shaping original research projects on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”—Journal of American Culture

“In this well-researched case study, Eelman makes an important contribution to the historiography of the nineteenth-century South. If he has not relegated Genovese or Woodward to the dustbin of history, he has demonstrated that parts of their arguments need adjustment.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History “Like nearly all important books, Eelman’s study of entrepreneurial culture in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, defies easy classification. . . .

This is a complex and dense—in the best possible sense—book that engages in a number of important historical debates, and it should attract attention from many segments of the profession.”—H-Southern-Industry 2008 • 336 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 3 maps; 15 tables HC • 9780820330198 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

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Environmental Ethics and the Global Marketplace Edited by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer and Albert F. Ike Foreword by Andrew Young The contributors to Environmental Ethics and the Global Marketplace argue that the health of the environment is inextricably linked to the health of the economy, and economic strength depends on the preservation of environmental values.

1998 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820320151 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

Everybody Else Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America Sarah Potter “Broadly conceived, imaginatively researched, and eminently readable, Everybody Else provides a new narrative about ‘family values’ that highlights the aspirations of ordinary men and women, black and white, middle and working class, who found in children a motivating force for civic engagement, self-fulfillment, and racial justice. In providing a deep social history of the subjective embrace of children by couples without any or enough, Sarah Potter underscores how domesticity is never merely private but imbricated in larger social and cultural structures.”

—Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State “Everybody Else is a valuable work for scholars of American post-war social history or of domesticity, race, and gender. Potter makes full use of her rich source material to provide a unique perspective on the everyday lives of white and African American married couples and families in mid-twentieth-century Chicago, illuminating striking differences between classes, races, and genders.”—Journal of American History 2014 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 3 maps; 11 tables PB • 9780820344164 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Everybody Was Black Down There Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields Robert H. Woodrum “Adeptly analyzes the intersections of race, class, labor policy, technological change, and globalization in what has historically been not only one of the most dangerous industries in the United States, but also one of the most studied. . . . By placing race at the center of his analysis, however, Woodrum adds a new twist to the story of job loss, community abandonment, and deindustrialization. . . . Woodrum

presents a complex picture of race, class, and working-class identity, wherein interracial solidarity among the rank and file and the union’s commitment to a progressive social agenda ebbed and flowed.”—H-Net “A major new book for labor historians and for scholars of the ‘new southern history,’ Everybody Was Black Down There is a revealing examination of coal mining in Alabama from the New Deal to the present. . . . An eloquent account of black agency and activism in the southern labor movement . . .

This nuanced book updates the history of labor in the Alabama coalfields.”—Journal of American History 2007 • 328 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 10 b&w photos PB • 9780820328799 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

The Evolution of Southern Culture Edited by Numan V. Bartley The book brings together original, searching essays by nine of the nation’s most distinguished scholars— Immanuel Wallerstein, Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eric Foner, Nell Irvin Painter, George M. Frederickson, Joel Williamson, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown—to decipher the “enigma” of the region.

1988 • 168 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820310329 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

Faith in Bikinis Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South since the Civil War Anthony J. Stanonis “Faith in Bikinis is a story told in the context of the three major developments that helped shape what the coast became—the environmental movement, the civil rights movement, and the sexual revolution. . . . The result is a well-organized, well-written account that entertains as well as educates.”—North Carolina Historical Review “Stanonis carefully lays out his argument and punctuates it with examples as colorful as they are pertinent. Just as critically, Faith in Bikinis gives scholars a much-needed framework for understanding the seemingly bizarre contradictions of southern coastal culture, a place where a large pavilion in Myrtle Beach can host a female wrestling match on Saturday night and follow it up with a church service on Sunday morning.”—Journal of American History 2014 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820347332 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

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The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents From Truman to Obama David L. Holmes “Holmes, professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary (The Faiths of the Founding Fathers) examines the backgrounds of our presidents since WWII by delving into their families, the people who influenced their religious beliefs, and their patterns of attending Sunday worship. . . . It is well-researched reading for the reader who wants to know about the presidency.”—Publishers Weekly “A distinctive element of American politics is its unofficial yet vital link with religion. . . . Holmes shows the personal side of this dynamic by examining the faith lives and patterns of the twelve American presidents who served after WW II, from Truman to Obama. . . . It offers a number of illuminating insights into the private lives of these very public leaders.”—Choice 2014 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820346809 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Fathers of Conscience Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Bernie D. Jones “This book provides a wealth of information about conceptions of moral behavior, interracial sexual activity, and notions of family in the antebellum South. Jones has carefully mined trial court records to uncover the highly personal nature of these inheritance disputes. She has provided an insightful examination of slavery, manumission, freedom, and property rights that should have a broad appeal to scholars.”—Law and History Review “Provides a beautifully nuanced analysis of an extremely difficult topic, an area of law where the sexual exploitation made possible by slavery also had the potential to undermine the institution.”—Laura F. Edwards, author of The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary Sout 2009 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 4 b&w photos PB • 9780820332512 • $25.95 your price: $7.78 HC • 9780820329802 • $71.95 your price: $28.78

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Fight against Fear Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights Clive Webb “Webb’s research is both broad and deep. . . . [His] account is the fullest narrative that we have of what southern Jews would, could, and did do to help African-Americans.”—Reviews in American History “Fight against Fear adds muchneeded complexity to all too often hastily scripted depictions of southern Jewishness during the Civil Rights movement. Webb aims to demonstrate the diversity of southern Jewish action and reaction. . . . With Fight against Fear, both sides—repressive and embattled—receive their due.”

—Southern Cultures 2003 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 2 tables PB • 9780820325552 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

Free to Work Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880 James D. Schmidt “A nuanced picture of the ideological continuities that ran through labor law from 1815 through the Gilded Age.”—Journal of Southern History “Important . . . Its greatest strength lies in charting how jurists, social reformers, and political ideologues viewed the relationship between the state and labor markets.”—Journal of the Early Republic 1999 • 352 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820320342 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

in so many segments of American society.”—John Hope Franklin

well-written history.”—Florida Historical Quarterly

2006 • 454 p. • 5.625 x 8.75 18 photos PB • 9780820328218 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

2008 • 200 p. • 5.5 x 8 PB • 9780820330501 • $20.95 your price: $8.38

From Mounds to Megachurches

Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830–1915

Georgia’s Religious Heritage David S. Williams “[A] delightful survey . . . Williams’s organization is excellent. . . . The narrative is crisp, and his sources well chosen.”—Journal of Southern History “An excellent though brief survey of the pluralism of religion in Georgia from the early Indian mounds to the contemporary megachurches. . . . The author’s discussions of the Civil War, racism, anti-semitism, and the Koinonia commune make effective contributions to a broader understanding of religion in the South.”—Choice 2011 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 16 b&w photos PB • 9780820337838 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820 Betty Wood “A painstaking analysis of an almost forgotten region and its even more forgotten women . . . The book serves as an excellent reminder that any generalization about women’s lives or women’s attitudes should be approached with extreme caution.”

—Journal of the Early Republic “Adds significantly to the growing body of literature on the intersection of race, class, and gender in early America . . . Provides very useful historiographical references and tantalizing glimpses into female relationships in the lower South.”—Journal of Southern History 2000 • 116 p. • 5 x 8 HC • 9780820321837 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Georgia Odyssey Freedom Writer Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years Edited by Patricia Sullivan “Sullivan’s edition of Durr’s correspondence will find many uses in our classrooms, keeping alive the experiences and opinions of a remarkable witness to history, in her own inimitable words.”—Journal of Southern History “Virginia Durr was passionately honest about the South and disarmingly frank in her criticism of her beloved section. Nowhere is this more obvious than in her letters to so many people

James C. Cobb A lively survey of the state’s history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its current standing as an international business mecca, and from its long reign as the linchpin state of the Democratic Solid South to its current dominance by the Republican Party.

“An excellent window through which to take honest measure of the state.”

—Times Literary Supplement “Cobb’s book proves that state histories do not have to be the stuff of graduate student nightmares. Clear, fast-paced, and thoroughly engaging, it is the sort of work that reminds readers of the narrative power of

The Girl’s Own Edited by Claudia Nelson and Lynne Vallone “The diversity of sources cited in this book and its conclusion that ‘the Girl’ is ambiguous, a concept unable to be categorized, make it an important addition to the literature on nineteenth-century women.”—History of Education Quarterly “Collectively, the essays in this valuable book make a powerful case that the Victorian girl is an important subject for study, one that scholars should not overlook.”—Victorian Studies 2010 • 312 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820336954 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

Guten Tag, Y’all Globalization and the South Carolina Piedmont, 1950–2000 Marko Maunula “Maunula brings an understanding of international economics to this work and intertwines complex issues involving currency devaluation, international trade agreements, and federal policy into the narrative. The book is well situated into the literature of regional economic development.”

—H-Net (H-Southern-Industry) “Maunula is very good at connecting the Spartanburg industrial experience with the larger context involving shifting national patterns on trade and protectionism and the economic development policies of the state of South Carolina.”—Journal of Southern History 2009 • 176 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820329017 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

Henry Adams and the Southern Question Michael O’Brien “O’Brien brings formidable credentials to the task of analyzing the place of the South in the life and work of Henry Adams. . . . Opens fresh perspectives on Adam’s engagement of southern culture as well as the curious ways in which he occupied the South as a long-time resident of the nation’s capital.”—American Historical Review “O’Brien slides onto the shelves another accessible and compelling book worth a look by anyone interested in intellectual, cultural, or southern history.”—Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2007 • 216 p. • 5.5 x 9 14 b&w photos PB • 9780820329567 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

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Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880–1930 Steve Goodson “Goodson’s study of amusements in Atlanta during this period provides a fresh perspective on the city’s movement toward modernity. . . . The book is a major contribution to the history of amusements, the history of Atlanta, and the history of the New South.”

—Journal of Southern History “Goodson’s narrative illuminates southern popular culture in a detailed account missing from previous monographs on popular culture. By focusing on a southern city, Goodson does more than simply describe public amusements in the South. He demonstrates how historians must be cautious about assumptions regarding the development of mass culture. . . .

Goodson’s account of Atlanta and the rise of public amusements is a book that all readers interested in culture should read because it challenges previous assumptions about the evolution of entertainment.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2007 • 272 p. • 6 x 9 8 b&w photos PB • 9780820329307 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Hope and Danger in the New South City Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890–1940 Georgina Hickey “A careful, well-researched and incisive study of the role of working-class women in the shaping of Atlanta . . .

A fine study which brings the issue of gender fully into an understanding of Atlanta’s development.”—H-Net “Like Tera Hunter and Peggy Pascoe, Hickey nicely captures some of the resistance to reform that working-class women showed. . . . Hickey effectively portrays both black and white working women and reformers, pointing to moments of intersection and moments of difference between the races. Her story of working-class women and those concerned with them is an important addition to women’s history and urban history.”

—Journal of American History 2005 • 328 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 23 b&w photos PB • 9780820327723 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

James Habersham Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia Frank Lambert “Lambert’s masterful study of James Habersham (1715–1775) is a longoverdue assessment of one of colonial

Georgia’s principle tidewater grandees . . . Admirably organized and lucidly written, James Habersham does ample justice to its subject and richly details the era and the world in which he moved. This is impeccable life-writing, vivid, judicious, and balanced” —Journal of Southern History

as an active agent in the late 1970s conservative turn, even if he was not always an eager participant in developments he often could not control. . . .

Flippen’s work goes a long way toward clarifying Carter’s role in the rise of the Religious Right.”—Journal of Southern Religion

“Habersham’s importance in the commercial and political development of Georgia merits an in-depth study, and Lambert has produced a solid and very readable biography.”—Journal of American History

“Flippen’s rich analysis of these years details how the rise of secular humanism, the controversy surrounding Roe v. Wade, the feminist fight for the Equal Rights Amendment and reproductive rights, and the struggle for homosexual rights were seen by many religious Americans as evidence of cultural decay. . . . Scholars interested in presidential coalitional politics, the intersections of politics and religions, and contemporary history will find this an important and readable resource.”—Presidential Studies Quarterly

2012 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820343433 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

2011 • 456 p. • 6 x 9 20 b&w photos HC • 9780820337692 • $74.95 your price: $29.98

James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist Karen E. Robbins “This is an excellent political biography. More than that, it can serve as a model for anyone attempting a similar project. It is grounded in a thorough knowledge of the various McHenry manuscript collections and secondary works on Maryland and national politics of the period as well as the recent scholarship on race relations, the family, and class (in its eighteenth-century manifestation), especially the code of the gentleman.”—Journal of the Early Republic “To read Karen E. Robbins’s skillful biography of James McHenry is to follow the course of American independence and nation building from the perspective of an active participant in the key events of the revolutionary era. . . . One of the great strengths of this biography is that it restores to the reader a sense of contingency and how the mundane, the purely personal, and the great events of an era all blend together when viewed through one man’s eyes.”—Journal of Southern History 2013 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 10 b&w photos HC • 9780820345635 • $34.95 your price: $10.48

Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right J. Brooks Flippen “The strength of Flippen’s book—and what makes it an important contribution to the spate of recent works on the seventies—is that it casts Carter

John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America Volume 1: Selected Essays Edited by Morey Rothberg and Jacqueline Goggin Foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg, James H. Billington, and Don W. Wilson” The first volume in an ambitious documentary edition of Jameson’s public and private papers, contains essays representing Jameson’s own scholarly concerns, followed by documents that reflect his role as an advocate for public support of historical and humanistic research. Many of these writings appear in print here for the first time.

1993 • 464 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 1 b&w photo HC • 9780820314464 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

Volume 2: The Years of Growth, 1859–1905 Edited by Morey Rothberg Assistant Editors John Terry Chase and Frank Rives Millikan The second volume includes diary entries, published here in full for the first time, which cover virtually all of Jameson’s collegiate and graduate education and his early teaching career. Also included are letters and official reports that further trace Jameson’s emergence as a historian.

1996 • 416 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 15 b&w photos HC • 9780820317137 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

history / united states 7 Volume 3: The Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Library of Congress, 1905-1937 Edited by Morey Rothberg Assistant Editor Frank Rives Millikan Volume three highlights Jameson’s most important contributions as managing editor of the American Historical Review, director of the Department of Historical Research at the Carnegie Institution, and chief architect and promoter of both the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Archives.

2001 • 440 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 15 b&w photos HC • 9780820320397 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

Labor in the Modern South Edited by Glenn T. Eskew Embracing but moving beyond the traditional concerns of labor history, these nine original essays give a voice to workers underrepresented in the scholarship on labor in the twentieth-century South. They are filled with new insights into southerners’ concerns about workplace safety, access to training, job mobility, and worker solidarity.

“Highlights the centrality of gender and race to the latest scholarship on the twentieth-century southern working class.”—Arkansas Historical Quarterly

construed after the triumph of the corporate state in America.”—Journal of American History 2007 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820329130 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Liberating Sojourn Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform Edited by Alan J. Rice and Martin Crawford “Impressively explores significant issues resulting from Frederick Douglass’s 1845–47 visit to Britain, with the aim of establishing a ‘transatlantic trade in reform ideas’. . . . This collection is extremely rich in material, not only for re-evaluating the significance of Douglass’s visit abroad, but in reassessing the importance of a transatlantic dialogue characterized by considerations of gender, political and religious reform.”—European Journal of American Culture “An important marker in transnational scholarship about Douglass and antebellum reform . . . Provides the varied contexts for Douglass’s journey into international abolitionism.”

—Journal of American History 1999 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 6 photos PB • 9780820321295 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

2001 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820322605 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Democracy in American Public Discourse, 1880–1941

2006 • 344 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 29 b&w photos PB • 9780820328010 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Lines in the Sand Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750–1860 Timothy James Lockley “Lockley effectively demonstrates that interactions between nonslaveholding whites and blacks were complex, contradictory, and ambivalent, and that elites were not able to control such interactions as thoroughly as they might have wished. Lockley’s work is a valuable illustration of just how intimately whites and blacks lived together in the South under slavery and how their worlds constantly interpenetrated one another.”—Labor History “Drawing on an impressive assortment of primary sources, Lockley has done more than any other scholar to illuminate the broad range of relationships that existed between poor whites and African Americans during the era of slavery.”—Journal of American History

Lyddy A Tale of the Old South

Daria Frezza Translated by Martha King

“Deserves careful attention . . .

Presents a dynamic approach to how twentieth-century democracy was historically and theoretically

“Will do a great job of introducing students to a broad range of confinement accounts from the early period.”

—Early American Literature

2004 • 304 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 PB • 9780820325972 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

The Leader and the Crowd

“A brilliant work of scholarship . . .

Presents a strong original thesis as well as a masterly synthesis of the scholarship in its field. Of unflagging vigor and sinewy prose, it is a major contribution at the crossroads of intellectual history, politics, and cultural studies. . . . There is currently no work that covers this intellectual terrain with such comprehensiveness and argumentative strength. . . . Frezza shows how European crowd theory and American concepts of racial superiority, class, decadence, and race suicide made strange bedfellows, from academic journals to congressional hearings, as similarly grounded positions were taken by the Right and the Left to defend different policies.”

—Voices in Italian Americana

raises important questions about the relation of liberty to bondage in the New Republic. From its pages come voices we are likely never to forget.”

—Philip Gura, author of Jonathan Edwards: America’s Evangelical

Liberty’s Captives Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic Edited by Daniel E. Williams Associate Editors Christina Riley Brown, Salita S. Bryant, Dixon Bynum, and Randy Jasmine Consulting Editor Boyd Childress “In Liberty’s Captives Williams recovers a cache of treasure too long buried in popular print culture. Here we find the full text of prisoner-of-war narratives from the nation’s first two wars, as well as from its adventures on the Barbary Coast; pirate captivities and shipwreck narratives; and accounts of maritime impressment, among others. And as with his earlier Pillars of Salt, Williams not only proves a capable editor but places his material in the full frame of American cultural history. Finally, the book not only greatly enlarges our understanding of the term ‘captivity narrative’ but also

Eugenia Jones Bacon Introduction by Lucinda H. MacKethan Originally published in 1898, this blend of fiction and memoir looks through the eyes of a white plantation mistress at her family plantation, her marriage, slave life, and the destruction of the plantation economy that took place when Sherman’s army arrived in December 1864.

“Compelling both in terms of the narrative as fiction and of the historical context.”—Thadious M. Davis, author of Faulkner’s’Negro’ 1998 • 344 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 2 b&w photos PB • 9780820319674 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

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Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys The Fight against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South Claire Strom “Strom gives the reader a look, literally, through an enormous microscope and then slowly pulls back the lens. . . . This creative organization is one of the book’s strengths because it connects the environment, people, and politics in a way that many environmental histories claim to do, but few actually accomplish.”—Journal of Southern History “Historians interested in environmental history and the new South will find the well-researched Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys an important addition to the historiography. Despite the complicated science involved in tick eradication the work is accessible and timely, especially considering the issues surrounding the proper extent of federal power.

The narrative, with plenty of shotgun blasts and dynamite explosions alongside helpful maps, makes this work an engaging and worthwhile read.”

—Southwestern Historical Quarterly 2009 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 26 b&w photos; 4 maps HC • 9780820327495 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Making Freedom Pay North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865–1900 Sharon Ann Holt “Rich, imaginative, and suggestive . . . Simultaneously demonstrates the immense burdens that freedpeople shouldered in the pursuit of family and community development and the multifaceted and creative energies they brought to the tasks. . . . This small but fascinating book makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of black life in the postemancipation South.”—Journal of American History “Provides a wonderfully nuanced look at the actual lives of African American farmers over the course of the late nineteenth century.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2003 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 5 figures; 5 tables PB • 9780820324425 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

Making War, Making Women Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941–1945 Melissa A. McEuen “One might argue that not since Maureen Honey’s 1984 book, Creating Rosie the Riverter, has an author examined wartime femininity and its construction on such an all-encom-

passing scale. Making War, Making Women will appeal to serious students of gender, military, and consumer history alike.”—On Point: Journal of Army History “In this well-written, compelling book Melissa A. McEuen, a historian of photography, explores the connections between women, appearances, and power to illustrate the gendered meaning of patriotic duty during World War II.”—Journal of American History 2011 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 57 b&w photos PB • 9780820329055 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South Paul Harvey “Like a series of philosophical musings on the subject of southern religion. The text moves effortlessly among sources as diverse as antebellum proslavery literature, gospel music, primitivist art, and the writings of William Faulkner. . . . Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster is interesting throughout and well worth the read, especially for those interested in the multiplicity of ways white and black southerners envisioned their evangelical faith.”—North Carolina Historical Review “Paul Harvey’s compelling analysis of southern religious expression through the four historical literary archetypes of Moses, Jesus, the trickster, and Absalom . . . demonstrates once again the author’s inimitable grasp of the vagaries of southern religious history. . . . Narratives on religious toleration in early America and debates about church-state relations should not ignore the profound reflections Harvey brings to these complex and much analyzed topics.”—Journal of American History

“A work that has many merits . . .

Sweet’s book is successful on its own terms and has much to recommend it. . . . Negotiating for Georgia is a welcomed addition to the as-of-yet relatively small corpus of literature covering the early history of a much-overlooked colony.”—Journal of American History 2005 • 274 p. • 6 x 9 3 b&w photos; 5 maps HC • 9780820326757 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

The New Deal and Beyond Social Welfare in the South since 1930 Edited by Elna C. Green “Affirms regional distinctiveness while connecting the development of social welfare institutions in the South to the growth of the federal welfare state . . . The fascinating essays in this volume underscore how landmark social welfare programs crafted in Democratic congresses, in which conservative southerners still wielded considerable power, initiated meaningful change but also allowed the survival of regional differences.”

—Journal of American History “A valuable collection that succeeds in highlighting possible directions for further research . . . Most important, however, The New Deal and Beyond calls attention to the need for a broader reexamination of the state and local dimensions of the expansion of the twentieth-century American welfare state.”—Reviews in American History 2003 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 1 map; 1 table PB • 9780820324821 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

2013 • 200 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 8 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820345925 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Negotiating for Georgia British-Creek Relations in the Trustee Era, 1733–1752 Julie Anne Sweet “In revisiting Georgia’s founding and its impact on intercultural relations, Sweet updates standards interpretations and provides nuanced information lacking in past treatments of the region and era. . . . As a result, Negotiating for Georgia functions as an important interpretation of the region’s development based on a fusion of old and new theoretical bases. It is both a keen assessment of a locale often ignored by historians of the early southeast and a reminder of why certain traditional models of assessment obscure as much as they reveal.”—Florida Historical Quarterly

New Orleans after the Promises Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society Kent B. Germany “Meticulously researched . . . This balanced case study raises new questions about the outcome of the War on Poverty and the persistence of racial inequity in the twenty-first century. . . . This is a fine study that anyone concerned with racial justice in America should read.”—Journal of American History

history / united states 9 “This is a major contribution to the historiography of civil rights and postwar urban history. Well researched and provocative . . . Dense, nuanced, and at times overwhelmingly detailed, this fresh and invigorating study’s scope, range, and ambition are too wide for a short review, but the book will reward the patient reader and deserves the widest possible audience.”—American Historical Review 2007 • 488 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 14 b&w photos; 1 map; 5 tables PB • 9780820329000 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

One Name but Several Faces Variety in Popular Christian Denominations in Southern History Samuel S. Hill “A classic examination of the three major Protestant groups in the South: the Baptists, the ‘Christian’ and the ‘of God’ elements. . . . The flow of history concerning these prominent Protestant groups of the South makes for a dramatic story. Hill is in the tradition of Sydney E. Ahlstrom and Martin E. Marty, and his book is a small gem.”

—Florida Historical Quarterly “Understandable to the general reader . . . Yet it also offers suggestive insights that specialists in southern religion would do well to ponder.”—Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1996 • 144 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820317922 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Origins of the Dred Scott Case Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857 Austin Allen “Austin Allen has found a new and intriguing angle on the infamous Dred Scott case. . . . He explains relatively technical and obscure elements of early nineteenth-century law in an accessible and clear fashion. . . . This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Dred Scott case, and is quite valuable for anyone interested in the Supreme Court, law, and politics during the Jacksonian era.”—Civil War History “Allen has written a fine book: instructive, perceptive, and well researched . . . [It] will not be the last word on the subject, but, from this point forward, it must be part of any intelligent discussion.”—American Historical Review 2006 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820328423 • $28.95 your price: $14.47

Other Souths Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present Edited by Pippa Holloway “A useful teaching text and important intellectual piece. . . . From the public

political acts of lowcountry freedwomen to the discovery of the real John Henry, the interrogation of suspected lesbian educators, and the Latinization of the southern landscape, Other Souths uncovers the multiple layers of southern politics, rendering obsolete the divide between public and private or between grassroots politics and more formal electoral politics. In the process, the collection offers the possibilities of comparing big questions across time and place.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History “Prompts a rethinking of the place of the modern South in the nation in a way that the individual articles, when they first appeared, did not. . . .

As a whole, the collection confirms that the South has been and remains distinctive in its reactions to federal law but also that southerners have found themselves deeply and inextricably bound to national issues of economic development, social change, and demographic shifts.”—Journal of Southern History 2008 • 464 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 2 b&w photos; 4 tables PB • 9780820330525 • $32.95 your price: $13.18

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Penn Center A History Preserved Orville Vernon Burton with Wilbur Cross Foreword by Emory S. Campbell “One of the most critical aspects of this book is that it recounts the story of Penn Center from the diaries, writings, observations, and feelings of women teachers, activists, social workers, and midwives—highlighting the significant role women played throughout the course of the school’s history. . . . Their stories and the many others provided in this book about visitors such as Martin Luther King Jr. are informative and compelling. I positively recommend this book.”

—Journal of American History “What Burton and Cross have skillfully done is highlight the center during each stage of its development, from its creation as a school to assist formerly enslaved African Americans in making the adjustment from slavery to freedom, to its evolution into a space where visitors can celebrate Gullah culture and join in its efforts to uncover and embrace African roots. . . .

Without doubt, Penn Center will be a valuable book to readers interested in the black freedom struggle.” —Journal of Southern History 2014 • 232 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 42 b&w photos; 2 maps; 4 tables HC • 9780820326023 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

A People’s War on Poverty Urban Politics, Grassroots Activists, and the Struggle for Democracy in Houston, 1964–1976 Wesley G. Phelps “Wesley G. Phelps has written an engaging and informative case study . . . [I] recommend this work to both academic and general readers interested in American civil rights history. . . . Phelps has provided a valuable and significant contribution to the scholarship on America’s War on Poverty.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly “An important contribution to the growing historical literature about the antipoverty crusade at the local level.

The focus is on Houston, one of the most understudied cities in the South, and on the grassroots activists who fought there. . . . In addition to being an important piece of historical scholarship, this well-written book will easily find its way into college classes on the War on Poverty, the long civil rights movement, and the rise of late twentieth-century conservatism. It also takes its place in the growing and stimulating literature on post–World War II Texas.”—Journal of American History 2014 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos PB • 9780820346717 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784–1860 Eileen Ka-May Cheng “Anyone seeking knowledge of the historiography of the postrevolutionary and antebellum decades will wish to read this comprehensive, clearly written study.”—American Historical Review “This is a slim volume which packs quite the punch. Clearly written and free of cant, Cheng is clear-eyed about the place of her work in a broader discussion of American intellectual history. . . . Cheng has successfully uncovered the origins of American historical writing.”—American Nineteenth Century History 2011 • 376 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820338774 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

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The Politics of Whiteness Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South Michelle Brattain “This study takes working-class conservatism seriously and refuses to wave it away as false consciousness.

It offers a full account of the role of whiteness and white privilege in structuring such conservatism, and intriguing hints as to the role of local boosterism and gender politics in generating both quietism and activism.”

—David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

“An excellent overview of cultural unity that emerged from groups theologically at odds, showing when that consensus came apart and advising Protestants ‘not [to] aspire to run the show but to serve where they managed, to partner where they controlled, to cooperate where they directed.”

—Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2006 • 96 p. • 5 x 8 PB • 9780820328614 • $17.95 your price: $8.97

2004 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 4 photos; 1 table PB • 9780820326047 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880–1930

Pure Fire Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era Christopher B. Strain

“In Natalie J. Ring’s impressively researched and forcefully argued book, the “problem South” of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revealed how notions of regionalism, the nation’s growing empire, and the rise of the liberal state came to be intertwined during those years. . . . The Problem South is a breath of fresh air in the discussions of how to incorporate the South into Gilded Age and Progressive Era histories. . . .

The Problem South should change how we teach the Gilded Age, American empire, and the Progressive Era.” —Journal of American History

“Strain deserves praise for forcing historians to reconsider traditional interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement by putting self-defense at the center of the story . . . Christopher Strain has written an important study, which is likely to spur further work on this complex subject.”—Journal of African American History

“The Problem South works as a valuable corrective to the suggestion that southern social criticism in the early postbellum South was the domain of only a few famous iconoclasts. . . . Ring’s work suggests useful new directions in transnational southern studies that move well beyond simply pointing out evident affinities between the U.S. South and a global South.”

—Southern Studies

2005 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820326870 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism Martin E. Marty “We should appreciate this elegant expression of Marty’s insights and convictions, distilled from his long and distinguished career of reflecting on American Protestantism(s) and the pluralism that so deeply frames our twenty-first-century common life.”

—Journal of Religion

“For historians of the twentiethcentury South, this will likely be an important book, with essays suitable for classroom use as well as for their own research.”—Journal of American History

2006 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 19 b&w photos; 1 table HC • 9780820327082 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Natalie J. Ring

2012 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 10 b&w photos HC • 9780820329031 • $74.95 your price: $29.98

Edited by Richard Godden and Martin Crawford

“Strong collection of essays . . . Powerfully interdisciplinary, the chapters juxtapose work on photographs, the social history of poverty, fiction, and memoir in a successful effort to make the scholars see a more complicated picture of southern rural poverty in the first half of the twentieth century.”—Journal of Southern History

“A compelling, thoroughly researched monograph with a serious argument worth engaging.”—Journal of American History

The Problem South

Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939

“The book succeeds brilliantly in its combination of intellectual, cultural, and social history . . . this is an important book on an essential history . . . A useful and insightful teaching tool for courses on civil rights history.”

—Journal of American History

Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 Theda Perdue “Perdue offers amazingly detailed descriptions of the exhibits presented at the fair, walking readers through the sights and sounds of the attractions as fairgoers would have seen them in 1895, except with the addition of perceptive interpretations of the cultural significance of the displays.”—Journal of American History “Pays close attention to the marginalized voices and, in so doing, uncovers unexpected accounts of how many of these participants confronted and even subverted the racism they encountered.”—Journal of Southern History 2010 • 128 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 31 b&w photos; 1 table HC • 9780820334028 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Recollections of a Southern Daughter A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County Edited by Lucinda H. MacKethan In her memoir, Pond recalls life in antebellum Liberty County, Georgia, a time and place best known today through the letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family, published in the classic Children of Pride, and the letters and journals of the Roswell King, Fanny Kemble, and Joseph LeConte families.

1999 • 168 p. • 5.25 x 8.25 HC • 9780820320441 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

Religion and the American Nation Historiography and History John F. Wilson “For scholars new to the field, it is a crib sheet that concisely, accessibly explains the conversation they are joining in medias res. For others, it provides a larger framework within which to locate the more focused studies they are engaged in reading and writing about.”—H-AmRel “This slender volume is indispensable reading for graduate seminars in American religion . . . Students will be greatly assisted by Wilson’s expert tour of historiography.”—Religious Studies Review 2003 • 120 p. • 5 x 8 HC • 9780820322896 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

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Religious Diversity and American Religious History Studies in Traditions and Cultures Edited by Walter H. Conser Jr. and Sumner B. Twiss “Rarely are essays in an anthology of uniformly high quality; this collection is a delightful exception.”—Church History “This book comes along at the time time when ‘the center did not hold,’ when we are beginning to lose the ‘core denominations’ and ‘mainstream historians’ as a reference group. There is much fresh material here.”—Martin E. Marty 1998 • 328 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 PB • 9780820319186 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

political warfare, and economic sluggishness.”—EH-Net “Scribner’s well-constructed and thoughtful study . . . addresses Birmingham’s special circumstances and also places the city in the larger national context in which the policy and largesse of the U.S. government systematically transformed American cities.”—Journal of Southern History 2002 • 200 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820323282 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Revolutionizing Expectations Women’s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965–1980 Melissa Estes Blair “Melissa Blair’s research combines primary and secondary sources, making excellent use of interviews with activists and archival materials. The book is well researched, clearly organized, and persuasively argued.”—H-Socialisms

Remembering Medgar Evers Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement Minrose Gwin “Gwin’s examination of literature, music, memoir, and newspapers is presented in such a way that it seems to be a creative response itself.

Her central purpose to help society remember Medgar Evers is well communicated and her argument that Evers’ life in its aesthetical form serves as an inspiration for contemporary human rights struggles brings a unsung hero for civil rights a proper commemoration.”—Southern Historian “Remind[s] us how literary representations of the movement played, and continue to play, an important role in imagining alternative, and more just, political realities.”—Southern Literary Journal 2013 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 20 b&w photos PB • 9780820335643 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Renewing Birmingham Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929–1979 Christopher MacGregor Scribner “Scribner sets forth a new direction in the way we study the modern South and its relationship to the federal government. . . . Scribner has presented the readers with an illuminating study of how city boosters used federal grants in the face of racial tension,

“This study’s focus is on groups often overlooked by scholars of the feminist movement in areas not normally considered hotbeds of feminism. . . . Blair’s argument that scholars must look beyond a narrowly self-defined group of feminists when exploring women’s activism in the late twentieth century is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature that seeks to expand the definition of feminist activity.”—American Historical Review 2014 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 4 b&w photos PB • 9780820347134 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

The Root of All Evil The Protestant Clergy and the Economic Mind of the Old South Kenneth Moore Startup “A significant contribution to our understanding of the religious experience in the Old South and of the regional culture generally.”—Eugene D. Genovese “An engaging, focused examination of economic issues that preoccupied the Protestant clergy, primarily what they considered the root of all evil—mammonism; i.e., ‘avarice, covetousness and materialism.”—Civil War History 1997 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820319056 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

The Sacred Flame of Love Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia Christopher H. Owen “Owen interrelates other intraWesleyan forms of change such as the end of probationary membership, compulsory class meetings, and gender segregation in congregational seating with larger patterns of cultural

transformation. He deftly weaves into the story complicated social, political, and economic shifts—from Jeffersonian republicanism to Calhounian secession, from rural agriculturalism to early urbanization, from Reconstruction to Redemption, from the populist and prohibitionist movements to the legalization of Jim Crow, from the antebellum patriarchal family to the emergence of southern women’s activism. Few studies are so meticulously researched.”—Church History “Carefully crafted and researched . . . A welcome complement to the growing library of scholarly works on religion in the South.”—Journal of American History 1998 • 312 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820319636 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

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Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow Adele Oltman “Oltman acutely, and at times brilliantly, illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of black Christians and their churches from the rise of Jim Crow to the early years of the civil rights movement. This is an extremely valuable historical work, surely one of the best and most sophisticated studies in black religious history that has ever been done. It should be a landmark in the field.”—Paul Harvey, author of Freedom’s Coming: Religious Cultures and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War Through the Civil Rights Era “Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition describes an engrossing world of persistence and change within Savannah’s African American community in the 1920s and the 1930s. Oltman’s recovery of a fascinating union of business and religion, in rise and decline, illuminates the history of Savannah and underscores the complexities, opportunities, and tensions that typified early twentieth-century African American communities across the nation. Clearly written and skillfully researched, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition leaves indelible impressions of struggles that mattered to communities and individuals alike.”—Jon Butler, author of Awash in a Sea of Faith 2012 • 264 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 PB • 9780820341262 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

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Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island

Servants of the State

Southern Histories

Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce, 1933–1953

Public, Personal, and Sacred

Martha L. Keber

Margaret C. Rung

“Keber aims for a scholarly audience in this meticulously researched volume that abounds in detail and rests on documentation gleaned from repositories in France, South Africa, Mauritius, India, and Georgia. . . . Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton is a finely crafted history, and perhaps more impressive, a model of the way in which the historian dependent principally on public records may fashion a biography.”—History: Review of New Books

“Prodigiously researched . . . By weaving together managerial philosophies and labor practices, union politics, and worker’s actions, Rung has produced a well-crafted tapestry of federal employment.”—American Historical Review

“In Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton Martha L. Keber limns the fascinating life of Christophe Poulain DuBignon. . . . Historians who seek a greater understanding of the Atlantic maritime world and the ways in which the tumultuous and stormy events of the ‘age of revolution’ transformed the lives of those who lived through them will profit from this book. Indeed, Keber’s work will appeal to anyone interested in a good story, well told.”

—Journal of Southern History

2002 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 7 photos HC • 9780820323626 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

“An interesting study that traces the slow rise of pluralistic attitude in hiring and promotion procedures with the United States federal government.”—International Review of Administrative Sciences

Segregation The Inner Conflict in the South Robert Penn Warren Foreword by William Bedford Clark First published in 1956, Segregation is a collection of Robert Penn Warren’s informal conversations with southerners—taxi drivers, NAACP leaders, members of White Citizens groups, college students, preachers—in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

“An admirable and moving piece. . . .

To sensitive Southerners who read the book it will sound almost like a cry of anguish, as indeed it is.”—New York Times Book Review “It is doubtful that any other book has brought so sharply into focus the impact on the South of the court’s action. Here the region’s fears and hatreds stand out in vivid relief, as well as its nostalgic desires to maintain the best of its traditions in the face of indisputable, unaccepted knowledge that the past has irrevocably flown.”—Catholic World 1994 • 88 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820316703 • $16.95 your price: $8.47

“A vigorous and eloquent defense of the historian’s craft at a time when, and in a region where, ambiguity and nuance are seemingly anathema . . .

Without resorting to any deep theory about historical method or elusive truth, Goldfield offers a compelling defense of engaged scholarship that informs public policy on behalf of social justice.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History “This is a thoughtful little volume, densely packed with insights and observations. . . . Historians should read this, to remind themselves of their importance to contemporary public policy. All historians are in some part ‘public historians.’ Goldfield urges us to act the part.”—Journal of Southern Religion 2003 • 140 p. • 5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820325613 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

State Parties and National Politics North Carolina, 1815–1861 Thomas E. Jeffrey

2002 • 320 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 11 photos; 5 maps HC • 9780820323602 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

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Slavery and Freedom in Savannah Edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry “A compelling portrait of a city whose identity was predicated upon slaveries and freedoms, all of them contested and complicated by larger patterns in the history of the South (the slave trade, the Civil War, the institution of Jim Crow), yet all of them inflected by local circumstances. . . . There is no question that the editors and contributors succeed in their aim of offering a deeper, more complete story about Savannah’s pre-1940s racial past.”

—Slavery and Abolition

“Jeffrey is particularly impressive in linking the new coalitions of the Jacksonian era to their Federalist and Republican antecedents. . . . An important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century political history.”—Journal of American History “A definitive study of North Carolina politics . . . This important work will prove useful to historians of antebellum politics and indispensable to scholars of the Old North State.”

—American Historical Review 2012 • 440 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820339399 • $31.95 your price: $9.58

Striking Beauties Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930–2000

“With a focus on black life in the context of elite and powerful families in Savannah . . . critical lessons are learned about the harsh reality of the transatlantic slave trade and those who profited from, defended, and advanced it, as well as those whose very bodies made it possible, are unmasked. This volume draws from key and relevant sources on the Revolutionary era, the transatlantic slave trade, slavery, the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.”—Journal of Southern History

Michelle Haberland

2014 • 288 p. • 8 x 8 58 b&w photos; 3 maps; 7 tables PB • 9780820344102 • $34.95 your price: $17.47

“Striking Beauties is impressively researched (enriched in particular by oral histories) and makes a compelling case for the importance of apparel workers to understanding labor, gen-

“Haberland touches on a number of interesting events and personalities concerned with working conditions, wage distributions, racial and gender inequities, consumerism, unionization, and labor disputes; thereby, the author entices readers to contemplate the interconnections between cultural and economic factors—not only as they pertain to the lives of women and their families, but also to the path and pace of regional development.”

—Choice

history / united states 13 der, race, and industrialization in the South.”—Journal of American History 2015 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 12 b&w photos; 10 diagrams; 2 tables PB • 9780820347424 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

This Business of Relief Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740–1940 Elna C. Green “Green’s book represents a maturation of the kind of local study that sparked a new approach to colonial history thirty or forty years ago. . . . Practitioners of current approaches, such as those that emphasize race and gender as the primary determinants of that policy, would be well advised to look at the insights afforded by emphasizing institutions and employing a broad chronological scope and a narrow geographical focus.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History “Green’s work is a provocative and combative piece of prodigious scholarship. . . . This book should be on the short list of every future course in welfare, urban, and Southern history.”

—History: Reviews of New Books 2003 • 362 p. • 6 x 9 11 b&w photos and 7 figures; 28 tables PB • 9780820325521 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Thomas Lanier Clingman Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains Thomas E. Jeffrey “A well researched and exhaustive account of an important figure in Appalachian history. . . . Despite the paucity of Clingman’s personal papers, the author extracts what must be every bit of factual information out of the existing public and private records.”—Appalachian Journal “A superb biography of one of the pivotal figures in southern antebellum politics.”—Journal of the Early Republic 1999 • 472 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 6 b&w illus.

HC • 9780820320236 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

To Build Our Lives Together Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875–1906 Allison Dorsey “Allison Dorsey’s deftly crafted history of the complex society black Atlantans created against the backdrop of a racial order of enforced subjugation is an important achievement. To Build Our Lives Together illuminates the independent agenda black people pursued in order to survive and thrive within the veil.”—Darlene Clark Hine, author of Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas

“Dorsey provides an excellent analysis of the formation of the black community in Atlanta, Georgia. . . . In this insightful study, Allison Dorsey makes use of a variety of sources, including archival materials and manuscripts, newspapers, and government documents, to provide a full documentation of this period in this city. The study will be of value to the scholar as well as the general reader interested in the struggle of African Americans.”

—Journal of American Ethnic History 2004 • 242 p. • 6 x 9 19 b&w photos and 2 figures; 3 tables PB • 9780820326191 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745–1756) as Cultural Performance Wilson Somerville “The methodological concern with performance leads to some impressive explication of the sources, in which particular phrases and oblique details become entry points into a dense portrait of one community and its relationship to larger historical forces.

Through a wealth of sophisticated textual analysis, Somerville suggests the degree to which the ‘public sphere’ emerged as a grass-roots phenomenon, articulated in the word sand gestures of particular individuals engaged in the actual practice of culture.”

—Journal of American History 1996 • 248 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820318226 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

The Unemployed People’s Movement Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929–1941 James J. Lorence “This is a book for everyone seriously interested in southern, labor, and radical history.”—Paul Buhle, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left “Lorence gives a rich and honest portrait of the complexity, contradictions, struggles, achievements, and limitations of the unemployed people’s movement . . . Lorence’s monograph is a remarkable feat of research, a model case study of a movement deserving careful historical attention.”—North Carolina Historical Review 2009 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 1 table HC • 9780820330457 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

Up from the Mudsills of Hell The Farmers’ Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870–1915 Connie L. Lester “This is a well-written, carefully researched, solidly documented, intellectually sophisticated study of Tennessee’s agrarian communities.

. . . This is an excellent and welcome study of Tennessee agrarianism, which no doubt will earn for itself a prominent place on our list of sources.”—American Historical Review “There is much to admire in this book.

The research . . . is impressive indeed, and the extended chronological and organizational focus is welcome and valuable . . . This book effectively demonstrates the perseverance, complexity, and periodic effectiveness of farm protest movements. It is a significant contribution to a new crop of scholarship on rural history generally, and readers of this journal will particularly appreciate its bridging the sometimes artificial boundary between the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.”—Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2006 • 336 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 6 b&w photos; 5 maps; 5 tables HC • 9780820327624 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Upheaval in Charleston Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius “An eloquent and highly readable narrative history of the Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886.”—American Historical Review “An entertaining and well-documented local history . . .Williams and Hoffius tell a compelling story filled with intrigue, suspense, and scandal.”—Journal of Southern History “It’s not simply a meditation on the earthquake and recovery nor is it just the story of the murder of former News and Courier editor Frank Dawson. Rather, it’s a synthesis of these two events that, taken together, shed light on a city in a great state of flux: between the end of Reconstruction but before Jim Crow laws made clear that Southern blacks would be relegated to a lower rung.”—Charleston Post and Courier 2012 • 392 p. • 6 x 9 36 b&w photos; 2 maps PB • 9780820344218 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

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The Vital Past Writings on the Uses of History Edited by Stephen Vaughn “Vaughn has collected writings which examine the relation between and citizenship, the value of history as an aid to understanding the present and as a guide to the future, and the uses of history in the making of public policy. . . . There is much of value in the Vaughn collection. Historians can only applaud an effort to bring together more than thirty defenses of our discipline and put them between two covers.”—History Teacher “A stimulating collection of essays that helps to explain the value of history. . . . It is difficult to recommend only one or two essays from such a rich collection.”—Clio 1985 • 424 p. • 6 x 9.25 PB • 9780820307541 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

Ways of Wisdom Moral Education in the Early National Period Jean E. Friedman Including the diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus “A book that not only broadens and complicates our understanding of education during the American Enlightenment but also offers us a previously unpublished diary of a fascinating figure from early nineteenth-century America.”—Virginia Magazine of History and Biography “Friedman’s examination of the Mordecai family offers a set of complex and valuable interpretive paradigms.

She presents a fresh set of questions about a period too often straitjacketed by the republicanism-liberalism dichotomy and, in the case of gender history, the terminology of republican motherhood or womanhood.”

—American Literary History 2001 • 312 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820322520 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

What They Wished For American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960–2004 Lawrence J. McAndrews “Political and religious historians alike will benefit from this book packed with rich archival research.

Chapters provide thorough accounts of American Catholics’ relationship to particular presidents and offer new insights. . . . This is an indispensable book for understanding that tricky relationship.”—Journal of American History “McAndrews has offered an important contribution to historians’ efforts to understand the ways that the U.S. Catholic hierarchy has approached political questions on the national stage in the second half of the twen-

tieth century.”—American Historical Review 2013 • 520 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820346830 • $49.95 your price: $19.98

What Virtue There Is in Fire Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose Edwin T. Arnold “A provocative and groundbreaking study of one of the most important spectacle lynchings in American history. The only thing more impressive than Arnold’s scholarship is his courage. This story needed to be told, and it needed a bold and careful writer to tell it.”—Christopher Metress, editor of The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative “The author uses a variety of sources, including newspapers, oral interviews, and studies of cultural memory, which Arnold deftly weaves into a fascinating account. The richness and complexity of the Hose story is told through the opinions and pronouncements of a variety of contemporaries, from Rebecca Latimer Felton, a white women’s-rights activist who viewed lynching as perfectly justifiable to protect white women’s virtue, to Robert Charles, a black laborer in New Orleans, who advised ‘every negro to buy a rifle and keep it ready.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2012 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 15 b&w photos PB • 9780820340647 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Women’s Work, Men’s Work The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia Betty Wood “Draws upon and makes the most of the available evidence, notably slave narratives, plantation records, municipal archives, and newspapers.

And it presents its case in a clearly written, exceedingly well-organized combination of argument, evidence, and informed speculation.”

—American Historical Review “Clearly written and well-crafted . . .

Superbly reconstructs the informal slave economies of lowcountry Georgia. Hers is a convincing portrait that fills an important gap in our knowledge of bondspeoples’ lives.”—Journal of Southern History

War. While not a civil rights activist, he knew he was helping to break down racial barriers that had long confined African Americans to lower-skilled jobs.

“A complex history of one of the first African Americans employed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Marietta, Georgia, emerges from Working for Equality. . . . [It]nriches and adds nuance to our understanding of the daily personal struggles for equal rights in the corporate workplace.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2015 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 17 b&w photos HC • 9780820348001 • $44.95 your price: $17.98

history / civil war Becoming Confederates Paths to a New National Loyalty Gary W. Gallagher “Once again, Gary Gallagher, the master essayist on the Civil War, has given us wonderful food for thought on the nature of Confederate nationalism.

Through three cross-generational test cases—R. E. Lee, Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal Early—Gallagher penetrates the thicket of state versus national loyalty in the Confederacy and emerges with some fascinating insights about the nationalizing power of slavery and the war and the persistence of Confederate national sentiment in the postwar years.”—Joseph T. Glatthaar, author of Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee “These three powerful portraits, painted with bold strokes and evocative detail, bear the unmistakable marks of Gary Gallagher’s mastery of the historical craft. The decisions made by these men help us understand the decisions all white southerners faced in the era of the Civil War.” —Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863 2013 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 12 b&w photos PB • 9780820345406 • $20.95 your price: $8.38

1995 • 264 p. • HC • 9780820316673 • $46.95 your price: $23.47

Working for Equality The Narrative of Harry Hudson Edited by Randall L. Patton Foreword by Gavin Wright Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft’s Georgia facility, recalls his thirty-sixyear career that spanned the postwar civil rights movement and the Cold

Chickamauga A Battlefield History in Images Roger C. Linton A new and unique type of historical guide, this book features more than

history / civil war 15 one hundred photographs and illustrations of thirty key sites in and around the Chickamauga battlefield—the bloodiest engagement in the western theater of the Civil War. “Chickamauga is so detailed that it is hard to believe this battle only lasted for two days in September 1863. The work is strengthened by Linton’s firsthand knowledge of the battlefield. All Civil War enthusiasts and historians alike will eagerly read this book.”

—Tennessee Libraries “Linton couples his well-written accounts with extensive photographs, drawings, and maps. The photographs include historical and modern day shots of the battlefield and powerfully convey the reality of the Civil War.” —Appalachian Heritage 2004 • 156 p. • 11 x 8.5 103 b&w photos; 7 maps HC • 9780820325989 • $41.95 your price: $16.78

The Civil War in Georgia A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion Edited by John C. Inscoe “That the text is so seamless is a tribute to the strong hand of project editor John C. Inscoe, Professor of History at the University of Georgia and onetime editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly. . . . Those looking for a sophisticated, concise overview of Georgia’s role in the American Civil War . . . would do well to begin here.”

—Civil War Monitor “John C. Inscoe has skillfully edited and arranged seventy-three topics into three sections: ‘Prelude to War,’ ‘The War Years,’ and ‘The War’s Legacy.’

The result is a valuable resource that provides concise information on major social, political, and military events from the antebellum era through Reconstruction in the ‘Empire State of the South.”—Journal of Southern History 2011 • 312 p. • 6 x 9 25 b&w photos; 3 maps PB • 9780820339818 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Civil War Stories Catherine Clinton “Startling narrative essays on the everyday and extraordinary women, men, and children caught up in the turmoil. Throughout, she skillfully contrasts the perceptions of whites and blacks and offers insights into the social, cultural, political, and ideological aspects of the sectional conflict and its often divisive impact on families.”—Library Journal “A slim but engaging volume . . .

Written with multiple points of view and diverse interpretations, the book demonstrates anew the rewards of narrative history based on imagina-

tive research.”—Journal of Southern History 1998 • 144 p. • 5 x 8.5 10 b&w illus.

PB • 9780820320748 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

falling short of its goal of Confederate self-sufficiency and independence.”

—Blue and Gray Magazine 2014 • 450 p. • 10 x 10 893 color and 10 b&w photos; 4 diagrams HC • 9780820346854 • $49.95 your price: $19.98

The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier Edited by Giselle Roberts

Civil War Time Temporality and Identity in America, 1861–1865 Cheryl A. Wells “By defining battle time as a temporality that eroded the authority of God, nature, and the clock itself, Wells has written a book about the Civil War in which multiple and conflicting American timekeeping practices played crucial roles on and off the battlefield. By looking at various spaces—encampments, hospitals, homes, prisons, and battlefields—Wells depicts a war that in its battle-induced chaos put modernity on notice.”—Alexis McCrossen, author of Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday “This richly researched and well-written study adds to the historiography of ‘time scholars’ and further develops arguments by previous historians dedicated to symbols of modern societies. . . . Wells has put together an important work that investigates battle time and its subsequent aftermath.”—Civil War History 2012 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 6 b&w photos PB • 9780820343426 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Confederate Odyssey The George W. Wray Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta History Center Gordon L. Jones Images and information on more than six hundred of the rarest Confederate artifacts, including firearms, weapons, flags, uniforms, and accoutrements.

“There are many, many iconic items that are appealing to the reader. . . . It is a veritable encyclopedia on the arms of the Confederacy and would make for a wonderful addition to the library of the arms collector whether he is interested in the Civil War or the Confederacy.”—Arms Heritage Magazine “The Wray collection’s scope expresses in a material way the saga of the Confederacy, its strengths, innovative creativity, and its ultimate

“Readers and scholars interested in the post-Civil War South and in male-female relationships will find these letters both interesting and an important addition to what one hopes will be a growing collection of personal documents from this period of southern history.”—Civil War Book Review “Through recent works on other writers and journalists, such as Mary Bayard Clarke and Augusta Jane Evans, scholars are beginning to appreciate the rich literary legacy left behind by late-nineteenth-century southern women. Roberts’s work represents an important contribution to that ongoing effort.”—North Carolina Historical Review 2004 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 11 b&w photos HC • 9780820325910 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Crossroads of Conflict A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell “Superb . . . The commentary is concise and written with feeling. The book is an indispensable traveler’s companion.”—Brandon H. Beck, Director, McCormick Civil War Institute, Shenandoah University “Crossroads of Conflict will no doubt be a treasured possession for those who like to visit historic sites and potentially a boon to Georgia tourism.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2010 • 304 p. • 8.5 x 11 65 b&w and 190 color photos and images; 20 maps PB • 9780820337302 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

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Enemies of the Country New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South Edited by John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer “An important book. The work opens with an excellent introduction that provides an insightful historiography of Southern Unionism. . . . Adds significantly to our understanding of Southern Unionists in the American Civil War through sound scholarship, clear and effective writing, and thought provoking conclusions.”

—Journal of Military History “An important contribution to our understanding of Unionists in the South. The essays offer new and unique insights into the complex world of dissent during wartime, and of the sacrifices made to maintain those beliefs. The authors of these essays demonstrate that Unionist ideas and actions were extremely diverse, and depict persons who made remarkable choices in seemingly impossible situations . . . Highly recommended.”—Journal of Appalachian Studies 2004 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 13 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820326603 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

For Free Press and Equal Rights Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South Richard H. Abbott Edited by John W. Quist “Abbott’s work is thorough and groundbreaking, and should inspire further examination of the Republican press in individual states and more studies of individual editors.”—Civil War History “Thorough and readable . . . Those with an interest in nineteenth-century journalism can appreciate this comprehensive study regarding the Republican press in the South during Reconstruction. It establishes a sound historical context in which both white and black newspapers labored.”

—American Journalism 2004 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820325279 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

For God and Mammon Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1860 Gunja SenGupta “Well written and crafted, this book provides something for those interested in the Civil War and Kansas history, as well as for those scholars interested in the interaction of politics and religion and in how race and class formed a seamless web of oppression limiting the opportunities for African

Americans in the pre- and post-Civil War eras.”—Journal of American History “SenGupta’s book adds to the understanding of the interplay of evangelism and entrepreneurship in territorial Kansas. Her research is thorough, her knowledge of the appropriate literature impressive, and her style felicitous.”—Civil War History 1996 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 2 photos HC • 9780820317793 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Guarding Greensboro A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community G. Ward Hubbs “A well-thought-out study of how the Civil War fit into community life in the Alabama plantation belt.

This prodigiously researched book demonstrates how trauma solidified the white population, for better or worse.”—Michael Fitzgerald, author of Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890 “Hubbs has done a remarkable job. In his exploration of this small Alabama town and the role the volunteer military company played in fostering community identity, Hubbs underscores some of the powerful themes of the nineteenth-century Southern experience. . . . A compelling and useful addition to homefront literature.”

—Robert B. Gilpin, H-Net Civil War 2003 • 330 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 24 b&w photos, 12 figures; 2 maps HC • 9780820325057 • $36.95 your price: $11.08

Invisible Southerners Ethnicity in the Civil War Anne J. Bailey Foreword by Alan Downs “A lively introduction to ethnic and racial diversity during the Civil War era. In a work that nicely synthesizes existing scholarship and also presents new information, Bailey explains how German Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans all became part of the Confederate story.

For many Civil War buffs, this volume will be an eye-opener.”—George C. Rable, author of Fredericksburg!

Fredericksburg!

“With deft strokes, Bailey redraws the profile of the “southerner” during the Civil War era. . . . Bailey’s little book does much to suggest why it is important now to bring the outsiders into Civil War and southern history.”

—Journal of Southern History 2006 • 112 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820327570 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

A Late Encounter with the Civil War Michael Kreyling “Michael Kreyling offers a probing examination of the complex ways Americans have grappled with the memory and meaning of the Civil War. . . . No scholar with an interest in the war or the contours of American historical memory can afford to miss an encounter with this book.”—Civil War Book Review “Kreyling’s scrutiny of the counterfactual and historical fiction on the [Civil War] contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on the sesquicentennial by revealing how our present society commemorates America’s bloodiest conflict.”—American Historian 2014 • 128 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820346571 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Lens of War Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War Edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher Noted historians select and reflect upon a single iconic photograph from the Civil War. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental history.

“While many of the well-chosen images will be recognizable to even the casual Civil War scholar, there are a few obscure images presented as well.

It is also amazing to see how much information can be divulged from some seemingly simple images such as the dead horse of a general.”—Blue & Gray Magazine “Lens of War isn’t intended for coffee tables. . . . It is not so much a collection of Civil War photographs as a book about the insight photography brings to our understanding of the war. . . .

The photographs in Lens of War are doorways to lives long past; the words walk us through their worlds.”

—America’s Civil War Magazine “Illuminates not only how photographs shape our understandings and memories of the war, but also how we teach it, and how images—even in black and white—will always hold a special power the written world alone

books about georgia 17 simply cannot supply. With all of this in mind, the book is highly recommended to historians of photography and visual culture (it even includes a very helpful resource on Civil War photographic histories), but for historians of the Civil War it is—without question—a must read.”—Civil War Monitor

their clarity. Careful editing of the work of multiple diarists makes the end result a wonderfully detailed company history in the participants’ own words . . . A significant contribution to the study of the South, the Civil War, and the meaning and importance of community in historical context.”

—Georgia Historical Quarterly

2015 • 272 p. • Other 31 b&w photos HC • 9780820348100 • $32.95 your price: $16.47

“An excellent and unique contribution to the personal histories of the soldiers of the Civil War.”—Blue & Gray Magazine

Rich Man’s War

2003 • 464 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820325149 • $44.95 your price: $13.48

Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley David Williams “Not simply an extended essay on the causes of Confederate defeat. It is also a detailed history of a southern region at war.”—Journal of American History “A well-written account of an important region that significantly enriches a collective social portrait of Confederate home fronts across the diverse and complex wartime South.”—North Carolina Historical Review 1999 • 328 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 17 b&w photos; 1 map HC • 9780820320335 • $36.95 your price: $14.78

Sam Richards’s Civil War Diary A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front Samuel Pearce Richards Edited by Wendy Hamand Venet “Venet’s introduction, chapter introductions, and afterword succeed admirably in taking the reader inside Sam Richards’s world through discussions of his youth, his courtship, his religion, his avocations, his politics, and his complex family life.”—Thomas G. Dyer, author of Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta “We often forget, but there was an urban dimension to the Confederate experience. Sam Richards’s diary gives us a valuable insight to that facet of rebeldom. Many thanks to Wendy Venet for making it readily available.”—Richard M. McMurry, author of Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy 2009 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 10 photos, 1 figure HC • 9780820329994 • $36.95 your price: $18.47

Voices from Company D Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia Edited by G. Ward Hubbs “The strength of the journal entries, and thus of the book, is their thoroughness and, due to the educational background of some of the diarists,

Uga VI, Uga VII, Uga VIII, and Russ, the super sub—including an Uga VIII photo album that is sure to be a fan favorite.

“If I ever got in trouble down South, first thing I’d do is call Sonny Seiler. If I ever got bored, I’d ask Sonny to pull up a chair. Pick up Damn Good Dogs! and you’ll see what I mean. It’s a damn good read!”—John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 2011 • 280 p. • 10 x 10 525 b&w and color photos HC • 9780820340883 • $34.95 your price: $13.98

Weirding the War Stories from the Civil War’s Ragged Edges Edited by Stephen Berry “[Berry’s] manifesto-like introduction calls for new questions, new themes, and new topics that turn upside down what we think we know about the conflict. . . . The animating force behind these essays, and the books that will follow, is to nudge students, buffs, and popular audiences to replace the Civil War’s inspirational story with the darker version.”—Journal of Southern History “Overall, whether in soldier, civilian, or veteran studies, the future direction of the new military history emanates from Weirding the War.”—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2011 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820334134 • $74.95 your price: $22.48

books about georgia Anchored Yesterdays The Log Book of Savannah’s Voyage across a Georgia Century, in Ten Watches Elfrida De Renne Barrow and Laura Palmer Bell Afterword by William Harris Bragg When the first edition was published in 1923, Savannah had yet to become one of the South’s most picturesque and popular tourist sites. This new edition replicates the substance and charm of the privately printed original, chronicling the first one hundred years of coastal Georgia history.

2001 • 160 p. • 6.125 x 8 HC • 9780820322469 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

Jekyll Island’s Early Years From Prehistory through Reconstruction June Hall McCash “The writing style McCash utilizes in Jekyll Island’s Early Years is quite readable and makes her topic material available to not only historians wanting to find out more about the island, but also to the general reader. . . . well researched and documented . . .

McCash’s Jekyll Island’s Early Years is a solid piece of research on a rather obscure place within the larger framework of the American South.”

—Southern Historian “Penned by perhaps the preeminent authority on Jekyll Island, June Hall McCash’s Jekyll Island Early Years fills a void in the historiography of Georgia . . . McCash’s talents as a historian and writer shine. . . . McCash’s work is an invigorating narrative, impressive in both scope and detail. It is an admirable prequel to her earlier studies of Jekyll Island and more than satisfies the need for a scholarly examination of the island’s early years.”

—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2014 • 296 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 74 b&w photos PB • 9780820347387 • $28.95 your price: $14.47

Damn Good Dogs!

The Real Story of Uga, the University of Georgia’s Bulldog Mascots Sonny Seiler and Kent Hannon Lavishly illustrated with more than five hundred photos and images of memorabilia from the Seilers’ private collection, this edition features more than eighty new pages of material on

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Lowcountry Hurricanes Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore Walter J. Fraser Jr. “Fraser brings the unique perspective of viewing hurricane events and impacts as a historian, particularly in relation to environmental history. . . .

The book clearly connects how hurricanes affect the landscape with how they impact people, with references to many prominent people in Georgia and South Carolina history.”—Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society “A thorough and useful chronicle of tropical storms recorded along the Atlantic, ‘Lowcountry’ coast of Georgia and South Carolina since the latter decades of the seventeenth century. . . . Lowcountry Hurricanes is also just a plain old good read and will have appeal to anyone interested in the fascinating place of weather and climate in the region’s cultural history.”—Southeastern Geographer 2009 • 368 p. • 6 x 9.125 63 b&w photos; 1 map; 1 table PB • 9780820333335 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

The New Georgia Guide Georgia Humanities Council Arranged in a region-by-region format, The New Georgia Guide is filled with tours, essays, and more that combine history and contemporary observation on the state’s most compelling points of interest. A must-have for anyone seeking to know more about Georgia history through the pages of a guided tour.

“A yarn-spinning, gallus-snapping, barbecue-sniffing, language-loving, gator-wrestling, backroad-exploring travel companion. Part history, part folklore, part recipe book, part yellow pages, there will be few Georgia natives who aren’t educated or amused by some portion of it, and outsiders will find here a road map not only to the county seats but to the soul of Georgia.”—Melissa Fay Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock “Exhaustive . . . The New Georgia Guide is full of the campy Americana often missed by readers of Frommer’s and Fodor’s, the sort of information that can mean the difference between a mere trip and an adventure.”—New York Times 1996 • 816 p. • 5.5 x 9.25 85 b&w photos; 33 maps PB • 9780820317991 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County Frances Taliaferro Thomas Pictorial Research by Mary Levin Koch “A handsome guide to the history of Athens and Clarke County which takes a delightful turn from what

many have come to expect of local pictorial histories. It is at once two valuable resources: a smooth-flowing narrative description of a community’s development, and a pictorial documentation of that same community’s physical legacies.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly “This ‘portrait’ of a city and county is well-drawn. . . . The writing itself is solid, entertaining, and clear: the prose style is perfectly adapted to this straightforward history of a town that grows into a city.”—Georgia Journal 2009 • 376 p. • 8 x 10 50 color photos, 186 b&w photos PB • 9780820330440 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

“An underlying theme in this fairly eclectic collection is the evolving relationship between anthropologists and their subjects. This relationship has been a source of resentment for many American Indians who have seen it as the academic expression of European political and cultural domination. . . . Although the focus is on Southeastern tribes, each paper discusses important issues that should be of general interest, such as the role of tribally-controlled museums in cultural preservation.”—Tribal College Journal 2002 • 160 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820323558 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

native american studies Mound Sites of the Ancient South A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms Eric E. Bowne Foreword by Charles M. Hudson “Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms will go far in bringing the South’s pre-Columbian past into our historical imaginations. . . . As a guide, it is magnificent; but I predict the book will also have wide appeal in undergraduate courses and as a reference for many scholars and others interested in the precontact Southeast.”—Robbie Ethridge, author of From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mis sissippian World, 1540–1715 “Eric Bowne has produced an excellent guide to Mississippian archaeological parks in the eastern United States. The book places each site in context, while discussing what can be seen today. This book would be the basis for a great road trip!”—Marvin T. Smith, author of Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom “Features a most excellent bibliography and gorgeous graphics. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice 2013 • 272 p. • 7.5 x 10 92 color and 23 b&w photos; 20 maps PB • 9780820344980 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Southern Indians and Anthropologists Culture, Politics, and Identity Edited by Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach The contributors consider such issues as education, community development, funding, and the preservation of languages, sacred texts, oral traditions, and artifacts. They also offer personal insights into the pressures that can bear on working relationships between anthropologists and Native Americans.

Spirits of the Air Birds and American Indians in the South Shepard Krech III “This book is a masterpiece both of scholarship and of the bookbinders’ art. If you want to understand what birds meant to southeastern Indians, this is the book to read. . . . This is also an excellent book for teaching contemporary peoples about the birds that were once present in the region and why all of us should appreciate those that remain. This is a book that will be of interest to bird watchers and educated laypeople as well anthropologists, historians, native peoples, and ornithologists.”—Ethnohistory “This excellent, extremely wellresearched and beautifully illustrated ethno-ornithology explores the connection among Native Americans and birds in the American South. . . . This is an extraordinary piece of work.”

—Historical Geography “Simply put, Spirits of the Air is a remarkable book about birds and southern Indians. The amount of attention and detail put into the volume . . . demonstrates the beautiful result that can occur when the craft of bookmaking and scholarship are synthesized.”—Geographical Review “A lush volume, straddling genres and useful to a variety of historians.”

—Environmental History 2009 • 264 p. • 8 x 11 149 color photos, 32 b&w photos and illus., 2 maps; 2 maps HC • 9780820328157 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

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From a Far Country

Enterprising Women

Camisards and Huguenots in the Atlantic World

Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus “Unsettles many assumptions that even seasoned Atlantic World historians have harboured for generations . . .The text is exciting, entertaining, educational and eye-opening. It will most likely trigger academic debate and encourage Atlantic historians to take a second look at existing archival sources in order to support, disprove, or flesh out these stories presented.”

—Caribbean Quarterly “Enterprising Women offers a vital reassessment of the relationship among gender, race and power in the Atlantic World. . . . Candlin and Pybus argue that the commercial success of enterprising free women of color may be more common than scholars have believed.”—Journal of American History 2015 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820344553 • $49.95 your price: $24.97

Equiano, the African Biography of a Self-Made Man Vincent Carretta “A remarkable man has been blessed with a superbly qualified biographer.

Carretta knows more about Equiano than anyone alive, has carefully and respectfully edited his work, has boldly raised tantalizing questions about his origins, and has meticulously tracked down information about him that no one else has found.

This book will be the authoritative source about Equiano’s life for many years to come.”—Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves “A bold, daring, and meticulously researched re-creation of the life and times of the founding father of both the African and the African American literary traditions. Carretta’s superbly written biography—certain to generate considerable discussion and debate—will change how we conceive of the remarkable contributions of the most important black man in the eighteenth century. This is one of the most significant biographies published about a black author in a very long time.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Carretta has painstakingly recreated an extraordinary, self-made Atlantic creole in the context of his narrative and his larger eighteenth-century world.”—American Historical Review 2005 • 464 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 20 b&w photos; 7 maps HC • 9780820325712 • $41.95 your price: $16.78

Catharine Randall “A welcome addition to the small but growing body of scholarly work that examines the French Protestant experience from an Atlantic world perspective.”—Journal of American History “From a Far Country helps readers to appreciate the varied influences on the Huguenots of the Atlantic world while further dispelling the notion that Huguenots simply assimilated to the prevalent communities in which they found themselves.”

—The Historian 2011 • 186 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820338200 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Hearing History A Reader Edited by Mark M. Smith With twenty-one theoretical and practical essays on the history of sound and hearing in Europe and the United States, the book draws on historical approaches ranging from empiricism to postmodernism.

“The sum of the parts is worth more than the whole. The selections are so valuable in themselves that one need not join the editor in combat over the relative merits of hearing over seeing.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History “An excellent introduction to aural history showing not only a broad range of scholarly interests but also how research into sound and hearing can inform our understanding of the past . . . this densely packed volume provides an excellent introduction to the research in the history and meaning of sound.”—Journal of Southern History 2004 • 432 p. • 7 x 10 4 b&w photos; 2 tables PB • 9780820325835 • $34.95 your price: $13.98

into the open the manner in which the slave power and its inheritors have single-mindedly focused on celebratory cultural myths that function to diminish both white culpability and black outrage.

“Marcus Wood is the most distinctive voice talking about slavery in English.

In The Horrible Gift of Freedom, he combines intellectual mastery of diverse (and interdisciplinary) works with a remarkable assertiveness of style. The result is a book you won’t be able to ignore.”—James Walvin, author of The Trader, the Owner, the Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery “A haunting tour de force, Marcus Wood’s recent book The Horrible Gift of Freedom offers a provocative and challenging examination of dominant sites and sights of memory and representation vis-à-vis Atlantic slavery.”

—Journal of American Studies 2010 • 516 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 24 color photos, 147 b&w photos PB • 9780820334271 • $35.95 your price: $10.78

In Search of Brightest Africa Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884–1936 Jeannette Eileen Jones “With elegant prose, analytic precision, and archival depth, In Search of Brightest Africa forcefully pushes us beyond the enduring image of the Dark Continent. Jones persuasively demonstrates how little-known images and ideas about a ‘Brightest Africa’ were central to the American imagination as the country was making itself over as modern. The stories here of naturalists and environmentalists, Pan-Africanists and anti-imperialists, also tell us why Africa stays on our mind not just as a record of imperial pasts but also as a haunting yet hopeful recognition of possible global futures.”—Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago’s New Negroes “This study is a novel discussion of representations of Africa in the early twentieth century, and, if the thesis defended may seem surprising at first sight, the book convincingly makes its point and is a very good work of cultural history.”—American Historical Review 2010 • 260 p. • 6 x 9 9 b&w photos HC • 9780820333205 • $49.95 your price: $14.98

The Horrible Gift of Freedom Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation Marcus Wood By taking a new look at the role of the visual arts in promoting the “great emancipation swindle,” Wood brings

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Nations Divided

The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955–2000

America, Italy, and the Southern Question Don H. Doyle “A bold and successful demonstration of how one’s expertise can be put to the service of a historical culture attuned to the needs of the present, global age. . . . [A] gracious overview of the historical experiences of two nations—and their respective Souths—which, though so different in many regards, appear, in the end, not so far apart after all.”—Southern Cultures “There is much to recommed in Doyle’s new book. It is the first fulllength study to compare the creation of the American and Italian nations in the context of the growing historiography on the origins and meaning of modern nationalism. . . .Doyle provides a clear summary of much of the necessary background information a historian needs before embarking on the difficult task of comparision.”

—International History Review 2002 • 152 p. • 5 x 8 2 maps HC • 9780820323305 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

law and legal history Defending Constitutional Rights Frank M. Johnson Edited by Tony A. Freyer “Frank M. Johnson, for those too young to know, was one of the real heroes of the civil rights struggle. . . .

This is a very good and valuable book.

It affords real insights into the work of an important federal judge. This work, and the principles underpinning it, are admirably preserved and presented in Defending Constitutional Rights.”

—American Journal of Legal History “It is in this collection of Johnson’s writings, in Freyer’s lucid and adept introduction to each chapter, as well as in his extensive conclusion to the book, that the matter of Johnson’s conservatism is best explained and demonstrated. . . . This slim volume, with Freyer’s brief biographical sketch of Johnson at the beginning, would serve as a good overview and explanation of the judge’s life and legacy for both undergraduate and graduate students.”—Alabama Review 2001 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820322858 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

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Steven Harmon Wilson “A dense, richly detailed description of the competing interests at work in the Southern District of Texas during the last half of the twentieth century.”

—Justice System Journal

Elbert Parr Tuttle Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution Anne Emanuel “In her thorough and engaging biography of Tuttle, Georgia State University law professor Anne Emanuel has documented Tuttle’s extraordinary life. For those interested in America’s racial history and transformation, this book is a must— a tour de force, covering not just Tuttle but the often violent times he lived in.”—Nina Totenberg,

NPR.org “Emanuel’s fascinating and insightful portrait of Tuttle reminds us of the crucial although sometimes unheralded role federal judges played in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. . . . In using Tuttle’s compelling life story as the driving narrative, Emanuel manages to effectively explore the role and mechanics of the courts in the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the movement’s broader dimensions in the 1960s.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2014 • 440 p. • 6 x 9 51 b&w photos PB • 9780820347455 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

Gateway to Justice The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City Jennifer Trost “A painstakingly researched and lucidly written book that explores three largely unexamined areas in the history of the American juvenile system: the South, race relations, and juvenile dependency. It is a muchneeded and most welcome addition to the literature on progressive juvenile justice.”—David S. Tanenhaus, author of Juvenile Justice in the Making “There is much to admire in Gateway to Justice. Trost has provided readers with a deeper understanding of the development of child welfare services in the South. Scholars will be able to consult Trost’s in further contemplating the effects of the Progressive-Era reform on America’s cities.”

—Arkansas Historical Quarterly 2005 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 7 tables PB • 9780820326719 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

“A thoughtful and illuminating study . . . The book’s greatest strengths lie in its careful examination of individual litigations and in its overall picture of the district’s institutional evolution. . . .The Rise of Judicial Management is a thoughtful and instructive work that adds to our understanding of both the general role that the federal trial courts have played and the extent to which individual districts have their own distinctive characteristics and values as well as their own distinctive judges and dockets.”—Law and History Review 2003 • 576 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 2 figures; 3 tables HC • 9780820323633 • $66.95 your price: $20.08

Roman Law and Comparative Law Alan Watson Watson examines the ways in which Roman law influenced later legal systems and how comparative law explains the role of law in society. For example, he examines the structure of European legal systems, tort law in the French civil code, and differences between contract law in France and Germany.

“The Roman law chapters are descriptive, short, concise, and packed with information and interpretation, controversial whenever possible. . . . The section on comparative law represents Watson’s unique contribution to legal scholarship. . . . One cannot help but be delighted (nay, enchanted) with the boldness of Watson’s generalizations about comparative law and the support he marshalls for them.”—Law and History Review 1991 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820312613 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

Saving the Soul of Georgia Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights Maurice C. Daniels Foreword by Vernon E. Jordan Jr. “This compelling biography of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s chief attorney in Georgia during the 1950s and 1960s delivers on the promise of its title. . . . With his close attention to court proceedings, Daniels penetrates the often-dense tangle of legal procedures. . . . In Daniels’s hands, court proceedings come to life with

political science and political history 21 a narrative accessible to lawyers and nonlawyers alike. . . . The inclusion of twenty-seven carefully selected photographs further brings to life one of the best biographies of the civil rights era.”—Journal of American History “Daniels’s book make a point that needs emphasis: that embedded within the grassroots movements that now occupy much scholarly attention were thousands of everyday legal confrontations. . . . A well-researched account that explores much-neglected aspects of the history of the civil rights movement. From the grassroots to the apex of the movement, the author shows how scholars can move beyond the conventional narrative arcs of the freedom struggle, but how difficult it is, in the end, to escape their force.”

—American Historical Review 2013 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 21 b&w photos HC • 9780820345963 • $34.95 your price: $13.98

Signposts New Directions in Southern Legal History Edited by Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter “Constitutional and legal history converge comfortably in this welcome rethinking of the southern legal heritage. Signposts is a milestone in the emergence of a more encompassing vision of the legal and constitutional history of the South.”—William M. Wiecek, author of The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953 “Hadden and Minter have not only assembled a worthwhile collection of essays that each stand on their own but they have also helped generate new ways of thinking about southern legal history that are sure to yield similarly fascinating efforts in the future.”—Journal of American History

The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law Geoffrey MacCormack Throughout his study, MacCormack distinguishes between “official,” or penal and administrative, law, which emanated from the emperor to his officials, and “unofficial,” or customary, law, which developed in certain localities or among associations of merchants and traders.

1996 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820317229 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

The Trial of Democracy Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860–1910 Xi Wang “The Trial of Democracy covers this time period like no other work and provides a better context for discussion of Republican efforts to enfranchise African Americans.”—Michael Les Benedict, author of A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863–1869 “Extensively researched and well written. Wang utilizes published and unpublished government documents as well as diaries, letters, and personal papers to synthesize the debate between Republican liberals, conservatives, and moderates and their opponents over the suffrage and enforcement issues.”—Civil War History 2012 • 480 p. • 6 x 9 18 b&w photos PB • 9780820340845 • $32.95 your price: $16.47

David J. Bederman Part intellectual history and part contemporary review, The Spirit of International Law ranges across the series of cyclical processes and dialectics in international law over the past five centuries to assess its current prospects as a viable legal system.

“A perceptive work of integrity and sincerity.”—American Journal of International Law “Intellectually fresh and relevant . . .

Vast in its coverage . . . Enjoyably challenging.”—Yale Journal of International Law 2006 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820328737 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

“Tyrannicide is a short and easy read, and its concise descriptions of the history (economic, political, and legal) of slavery in Massachusetts and South Carolina both in the colonial and revolutionary periods make it ideals for any class exploring slavery and abolition in the era of the American Revolution.”—H-Net Reviews 2014 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 5 b&w photos; 1 map HC • 9780820338644 • $49.95 your price: $19.98

political science and political history Jimmy Carter, American Moralist Kenneth E. Morris “Written with humor, precision, and precocious hindsight.”—Washington Post Book World “This volume is a thorough examination of a man whose high ideals were shattered as president but who, like the Phoenix, rose from the ashes to realize his highest dreams. A book well worth reading-and studying.”

—Presidential Studies Quarterly 1997 • 448 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 32 b&w photos PB • 9780820319490 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

Politics in Georgia Second Edition Arnold Fleischmann and Carol Pierannunzi “The volume is an essential source of information for those wishing to understand Georgia politics. It is well organized, well written, and easy to read. The volume contains a wealth of current information and data about various aspects of Georgia politics, ranging from public opinion polls to government expenditures.”—Social Science Quarterly

2013 • 480 p. • 6 x 9 7 b&w photos, 4 figures; 1 table PB • 9780820344997 • $31.95 your price: $15.97

The Spirit of International Law

drama with exhaustive research in this rich and important study.”

—Douglas R. Egerton, author of Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America?

Tyrannicide Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts Emily Blanck “Sixty years before the Amistad case forced a nation to confront the vast gulf between its pretensions to liberty and the harsh reality of human bondage, a now-forgotten affair strained the tenuous bonds that held the young republic together. When the brig Tyrannicide captured thirty-four Carolina slaves who had escaped to a British privateer, the ensuing case raised troubling issues of what freedom meant in the postcolonial world.

Emily Blanck deftly combines high

“A solid introduction to the politics and government of the largest and most important state in the Deep South. Fleischmann and Pierannunzi identify important demographic, social, and economic changes in the state and analyze the consequences of these changes for the recent emergence of genuine two-party competition.”—Merle Black, co-author of The Rise of Southern Republicans 2007 • 392 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 19 figures; 41 tables PB • 9780820329079 • $28.95 your price: $8.68 HC • 9780820329062 • $76.95 your price: $23.08

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Prisons That Could Not Hold Barbara Deming Edited by Sky Vanderlinde Biographical Essay by Judith McDaniel Introduction by Grace Paley Photo Essays by Joan E. Biren Weaves together diary entries, letters, and interviews to provide a portrait of the evolution of an activist. The centerpiece is the acclaimed Prison Notes, a powerful account of the twenty-seven days Barbara Deming and thirty-five others spent in an Albany, Georgia, jail during their Canada-to-Cuba Walk for Peace in 1963 and 1964.

“A must for anyone trying to understand those off-beat individuals who are emerging as the ‘protestors’ of our time, who again and again . . . put their consciences against the given order.”—Choice “A graphic testimonial of the harrowing experiences of idealists.”—The Nation 1995 • 288 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 51 photos PB • 9780820317373 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

Prophet from Plains Jimmy Carter and His Legacy Frye Gaillard Foreword by David C. Carter “Gaillard quotes authoritative sources reporting that while some of Carter’s political failings were serious, there were indeed positive aspects of his presidency that have been overlooked and not given the weight they deserve.”—National Catholic Reporter “Gaillard’s engaging narrative presents a revisionist perspective of the legacy of Jimmy Carter’s presidential and postpresidential years. . . .

The profile that emerges is that of a complicated man of integrity, promise, and accomplishments. . . . A positive addition to the historiography of the Carter legacies.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2009 • 144 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820333328 • $19.95 your price: $9.97 HC • 9780820329147 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Testing the Limits George Armistead Smathers and Cold War America Brian Lewis Crispell Crispell incorporates lively anecdotes and personal descriptions, in addition to details culled from research in newspapers, interviews, and the archives of Kennedy, Johnson, Truman, and Smathers himself, to bring the largely unstudied senator to life.

“Skillfully uses anecdotal and personal descriptions to bring the senator and

those around him to life. . . . George Smathers is an important figure worthy of study, and Testing the Limits will fill a large gap in the historiography of Florida, the South, national politics, and the two decades after World War II.”—R. Hal Williams, coauthor of America: Past and Present 1999 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 8 b&w photos HC • 9780820321035 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

character and roles of its delegates, as well as Pierce’s little-known life.

2015 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 47 b&w photos HC • 9780820347721 • $44.95 your price: $22.47

international studies America and the Americas The United States in the Western Hemisphere Second Edition

Lester D. Langley “Langley is to be commended for seeking a new vantage point on Latin American–United States relations, one that grants a greater historical autonomy to Latin America and dispenses with the sterile insistence that the role of the United States is either the problemor the solution.”

—American Historical Review

Thomas Nast, Political Cartoonist Political Cartoonist John Chalmers Vinson More than 150 examples of Nast’s work, recreating the life and pattern of artistic development of the man who made the political cartoon a respected and powerful journalistic form. Nast also popularized the modern concepts of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam and created such symbols as the Democratic donkey, the Republican elephant, and the Tammany tiger.

“Thomas Nast was a pioneer of the editorial cartoon and one of the very best, in terms both of precision and caricaturing line and revealing political idea. Thomas Nast: Political Cartoonist is a superbly reproduced selection of Nast’s work, and shows what an art editorial cartooning can be.”—New York Times “Political cartoonists in the United States can look to Thomas Nast as the father of their art. His work was realistic, satiric, emotion-compelling and inventive all at once.”—Editor & Publisher 2014 • 176 p. • 8.5 x 10.5 10 b&w photos, 154 cartoons PB • 9780820346182 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

The Wisest Council in the World Restoring the Character Sketches by William Pierce of Georgia of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 John R. Vile Although widely quoted and cited, William Pierce’s sketches—until now—have never been analyzed or annotated in detail. John R. Vile’s study offers new insights into the workings of the convention and the

“An objective analysis in a smoothly written, jargon-free text, admirably filling a void in the literature. His approach also gives needed attention to cultural influences. Essential for all libraries.”—Library Journal 2010 • 360 p. • 6 x 9 1 map HC • 9780820328881 • $74.95 your price: $37.47

Arab Spring Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat Edited by I. William Zartman “Zartman’s collection is the work of a grand master at his best. I doubt that anyone else has the intellectual preparation and scope to undertake such a book as this one.”—Allen Keiswetter, Middle East Institute Scholar and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State “A great source for a historical reading of the Arab Spring”—HNet “Arab Spring deals capably with these years of democratic transition, serving, above all, to demonstrate the value of negotiation theory in understanding political transition.”—Quebec Journal of International Law 2015 • 496 p. • 6 x 9 3 diagrams; 4 tables PB • 9780820348254 • $32.95 your price: $13.18

Argentina and the United States An Alliance Contained David M. K. Sheinin “A masterful, insightful survey of two centuries of diplomatic, economic, and cultural interaction. . . . With his command of even the most recent secondary literature and exceptional archival research on three continents, he has produced a valuable synthesis of newer cultural trends with traditional diplomatic history. . . . There are a few scholars in every generation who

international studies 23 possess the range, expertise, and perspective to produce a truly first-rate survey, and Sheinin clearly falls within this elite group.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

Chile and the United States

“In his original and highly refreshing book, Sheinin succinctly and convincingly demonstrates that, contrary to the conventional interpretation, discord between these two countries is really the exception to what has been a surprisingly stable and cooperative bilateral relationship for the past two centuries. . . . A balanced and thoroughly researched narrative.”

—American Historical Review

“The history Sater has written will provoke readers, in the most positive sense, raising questions concerning the foundations of U.S.–Latin American policy, U.S.–Chilean relations, national myths, diplomatic blunders, and the frequent shoddiness of politics and foreign policy in the United States and in Chile.”—International History Review

2006 • 304 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820328096 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Bolivia and the United States A Limited Partnership Kenneth D. Lehman “This is an important contribution because for the first time it puts together the whole history of U.S.-Bolivian relations.”—Erick Langer, coeditor of The New Latin American Mission History “This book, more than any other study of its kind, uses a wealth of archival sources and secondary material. Lehman’s study is written in an exceptionally lucid style and it is a significant contribution to existing scholarship that will encourage others to continue examining the multifarious relations of the two hemispheric republics.”

—Hispanic American Historical Review 1999 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 2 maps PB • 9780820321165 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Central America and the United States The Search for Stability Thomas M. Leonard “Of the many studies recently published on United States–Central American relations, the present book is the first to undertake a systematic survey of the entire relationship from the beginningof independence to the present. It is concise and carefully written and it meets high standardsof objectivity. It achieves a nice chronological balance of events in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”

—The Americas “A well organized, clearly written history . . . Leonard constantly touches on significant aspects of social, political, and economic history and brings forth considerable new information.”

—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 1991 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 150 color and b&w photos PB • 9780820313214 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Empires in Conflict William F. Sater

“An interesting and significant contribution . . . Sater’s book, which is engagingly written, should be of considerable interest to anyone concerned with the history of republican Chile or with United States relations with Latin America.”—Pacific Historical Review 1991 • 336 p. • 6 x 9 1 map PB • 9780820312507 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

cochairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative “An excellent analysis of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC). . . . Schweitzer was the first executive director of the ISTC from 1992 to 1994. His unique perspective offers valuable insight into policies that facilitate international efforts to reduce proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

This book’s thirteen chapters cover the challenges as well as strategic successes of an organization caught amidst an array of political agendas, from xenophobic mistrust to a fear that noncorrupt business models may become the norm. . . . Recommended”—Choice 2013 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 16 b&w photos, 7 figures; 5 tables PB • 9780820344348 • $29.95 your price: $11.98 HC • 9780820338699 • $74.95 your price: $22.48

Colombia and the United States Hegemony and Interdependence Stephen J. Randall “Highly rewarding and refreshing . . . Specialists will find much new information and analysis, especially for the interwar years of this century. . . . Generalists will find, under a single cover, a survey that encompasses the entire period, 1810–1990.”—Journal of American History

Development, Security, and Aid

“Randall’s book is a significant contribution to the growing field of U.S. relations with the ‘middle level’ nations.

He suggests that, especially, since the 1930s, U.S.–Colombian relations have become a complex web of economic, military, political, and even cultural forces, which have drawn them closer together.”—Pacific Historical Review

Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development

1992 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 4 maps PB • 9780820314020 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

“Using the insights developed in recent work in critical geopolitics, this volume carefully reassesses the policy discourses and practical policies of USAID, showing how the larger canvass of geopolitics worked its way into American development funding and management. From the Marshall Plan through neoliberalism to contemporary concerns with fragile states, this very well-written volume traces the shifting geopolitical priorities of aid policy in its attempts to shape the world in line with American priorities.”—Simon Dalby, author of Security and Environmental Change

Containing Russia’s Nuclear Firebirds Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center Glenn E. Schweitzer “Glenn Schweitzer’s intimate knowledge of Russia’s scientific enterprise provides new insights as to how the International Science and Technology Center became a key component of the global effort to reduce the risks of proliferation of dual-use technologies. His personal interactions with scientists throughout Russia provide a treasure trove of information for policy officials and scholars who will reflect on the center’s accomplishments and the valuable lessons learned for the future.”—former Senator Sam Nunn,

Jamey Essex “An ambitious project that makes a significant contribution to critical development geography.”—Economic Geography

2013 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 1 b&w photo, 1 figure; 5 tables PB • 9780820344546 • $24.95 your price: $12.47 HC • 9780820342474 • $69.95 your price: $27.98

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The Dominican Republic and the United States From Imperialism to Transnationalism G. Pope Atkins and Larman C. Wilson “An excellent source of infomation and analysis. It is clearly writ ten and very well organized. The chapters follow a historical sequence, and each chapter is organized around major themes that defined the period.”—Hispanic American Historical Review “Atkins’ and Wilson’s scholarship is to be commended. This book is a valuable contribution to the literature as well as an instructive guide for students of U.S.–Latin American relations.”—The Americas 1998 • 312 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820319315 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Enduring Territorial Disputes Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, and Settlement Krista E. Wiegand “Why are disputes over seemingly worthless tracts of land often so difficult to resolve? Weigand resolves this puzzle by arguing—and demonstrating with careful case studies—that territorial issues can serve as leverage in relations between rivals, in order to extract concessions on other issues.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in the effects of territorial issues on international conflict.”

—Douglas M. Gibler, author of The Territorial Peace: Borders, State Development, and International Conflict “In this thoughtfully written book, Krista Wiegand argues that territorial disputes are often perpetuated because states link their territorial claims to other issues such as broader geo-strategic concerns, economic issues or migration. . . . Those interested not only in territorial disputes but also in issue linkage will find Wiegand’s well-crafted book a fruitful read.”—Mark Duckenfield, Political Studies Review

A Covenant with Power: America and World Order from Wilson to Reagan 1998 • 432 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820320168 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

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From Superpower to Besieged Global Power Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine Edited by Edward A. Kolodziej and Roger E. Kanet “This book comes at the right time, systematically dismantling a myth on which U.S. foreign policies have been based since the end of the cold war. The contributors offer in-depth analysis of the constraints for U.S. control over power projection to all relevant regions of the world. The collection rightly widens the definition of global power by one criterion that has become critical—the soft power of cultural and ideational impact used to shape the thinking and behavior of others. This clearly is the battlefield on which the United States lost most.”

—Heinrich Vogel, Duitsland-Instituut, University of Amsterdam “Assembling a team of sharp experts, tethering them to a clear frame of concepts and directions, and then carrying an informed evaluation of the position of the U.S. in a world it seeks to lead, Kolodziej and Kanet have produced a work that will shape and focus our debate as we head into the intellectual turmoil of the 2008 election.

This volume presents the worldview more clearly than the administration itself and then takes it apart with analytical acumen in a critique that both defenders and detractors will have to take into account.”—William Zartman, The Johns Hopkins University 2008 • 440 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 1 figure; 2 tables PB • 9780820330747 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Fragments of Our Time Memoirs of a Diplomat Martin J. Hillenbrand

“Adds considerably to our knowledge of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy.”—Lloyd C. Gardner, author of

“Whether it is the runaway use of drones, the lack of accountability of private security firms, or the invention of new categories like ‘postbellum’ ethics, the scope and significance of the Just War tradition has been trampled in recent U.S. thinking and policy.

Professors Gentry and Eckert and their contributors reassert it smartly, fairly, and often courageously in this volume. Every American ethicist, cleric, international-affairs expert, policymaker, and soldier should read this book.”—George A. Lopez, Hesburgh Chair in Peace Studies, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame 2014 • 200 p. • 6 x 9 2 tables PB • 9780820345604 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Norm Diffusion and HIV/AIDS Governance in Putin’s Russia and Mbeki’s South Africa Vlad Kravtsov Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin’s Russia and Mbeki’s South Africa have resulted in a set of unique ideas on the cardinal goals of the state.

This is the first book to explore how these consensual ideas have shaped health governance and impinged on norm diffusion processes.

2015 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 4 tables HC • 9780820347998 • $59.95 your price: $23.98

Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control Interests, Conflicts, and Justice Edited by Harald Müller and Carmen Wunderlich “Using an innovative intellectual framework of norms and justice, this volume brims with original insights about nuclear politics. The volume’s central message—that justice claims matter—deserves serious and widespread consideration.”—Maria Rost Rublee, Australian National University

2011 • 376 p. • 6 x 9 4 maps; 12 tables PB • 9780820339467 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

“A gracefully written diplomatic memoir by an important player in German-American relations.”

—Randall B. Woods, author of Dawning of the Cold War: The United States’ Quest for Order

past two decades, and this volume features fascinating, instructive pieces on such cutting-edge subjects as new weapons technologies, ‘postheroic warfare,’ and the aftermath of armed conflict. Interesting, important, and well composed.”—Brian Orend, author of The Morality of War

The Future of Just War New Critical Essays Edited by Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert “A solid and stimulating collection of essays that advances the state of the art of Just War theory. Interest in the justice of war has exploded over the

“This important volume demonstrates that moral considerations are not just rhetorical fig leaves that cover crass national interests regarding nuclear weapons policy. The authors show how ethical considerations permeate, often in subtle ways, both public debates and international negotiations about how to limit nuclear proliferation and encourage nuclear

international studies 25 disarmament.”—Scott D. Sagan, editor of Inside Nuclear South Asia 2013 • 400 p. • 6 x 9 2 tables; 2 tables PB • 9780820344232 • $31.95 your price: $12.78

Oil Sparks in the Amazon Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources Patricia I. Vásquez “Patricia I. Vasquez’s groundbreaking book does a superb job illuminating oil-related local conflicts in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Vásquez’s scrupulous and extensive research yielded invaluable insights that will be of great use to scholars and decision makers in both the public and private sectors. Her study is highly nuanced and admirably sensitive to the many complexities behind one of today’s most vexing challenges in much of Latin America.”—Michael Shifter, President, Inter-American Dialogue “Patricia Vasquez deploys her vast knowledge of the oil and gas industry to explore the potent mix of grievances and structural constraints that give rise to conflicts between investors and local communities over a host of environmental, social, cultural, and economic issues. Just as important, Vasquez identifies short- and longterm strategies for preventing or mitigating conflict in the hydrocarbons sector. This is an indispensable and pathbreaking book.”—Cynthia J. Arnson, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2014 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 1 b&w photo; 1 map; 5 tables PB • 9780820345628 • $24.95 your price: $9.98 60 HC • 9780820345611 • $79.95 your price: $31.98

Peru and the United States The Condor and the Eagle Lawrence A. Clayton “Readers unfamiliar with Peruvian–United States interactions will appreciate Clayton’s informative and balanced analysis.”—Journal of American History “Clayton has provided an excellent, highly sensitive survey. . . . Although the basic ground he covers is familiar to specialists, they will find many precious nuggest of new information scattered throughout the book, with the whole enriched by Clayton’s unique perspective.”—The Americas 1999 • 376 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820320250 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate Memories of Empire in a New Global Context Charles Horner “An important and carefully argued book that suggests new ways of looking at China’s modern history. . . .

In just two hundred pages and eleven crisply organized chapters, Horner manages to pack enough thought-provoking questions to keep his reader busy re-evaluating his or her views of China today.”—Asia Policy “This book connects China’s past, present, and future and places them in a larger, evolving context. Horner’s work is nothing short of a tour de force of world intellectual history as projected and contested on the canvas that is China.”—Naval War College Review

some sign only the Nonproliferation Treaty while others accept all of the subtreaties and agreements under the regime. The focus on the regime is a new approach that will make this book interesting to students and specialists alike.”—T. V. Paul, author of The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons “The literature on nuclear proliferation has focused on explaining why states ‘go nuclear,’ but there is a dearth of research on the nonproliferation policies of states that have renounced nuclear weapons. The purpose of this excellent volume is to fill that gap. This invaluable book makes an important contribution to the literature on nuclear nonproliferation.”—Choice 2014 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 8 tables HC • 9780820347295 • $59.95 your price: $23.98

2011 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820338781 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

Slaying the Nuclear Dragon Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro “We need this book. Ogilvie-White and Santoro provide a timely, comprehensive analysis of how current threats are driving disarmament activists and hard-nosed strategists towards a common agenda. Arms control is the new realism. Professors and policymakers will benefit from their detailed, country-by-country assessment of the trends and challenges in the new nuclear security agenda.”—Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund “Slaying the Nuclear Dragon highlights the ways that various actors in the international community diverge in their views of the feasibility and desirability of nuclear disarmament.

Ogilvie-White and Santoro present an innovative way to categorize these various national positions, and the contributors offer compelling analyses of the events and trends that shape attitudes toward nonproliferation.

The volume provides an insightful assessment of the complex issues that animate global nuclear disarmament efforts.”—James Wirtz, Dean and Professor, Naval Postgraduate School 2012 • 360 p. • 6 x 9 1 table PB • 9780820342467 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

State Behavior and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Edited by Jeffrey R. Fields “This is a valuable volume as it considers the questions of why different states view the nonproliferation regime differently and why

Stuck Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood Marc Sommers “Marc Sommers has written a remarkable book . . . The power of [his] study is that it shines a light on Rwanda’s youth bulge and highlights the negative sociopolitical and cultural impacts of failing to address the near-impossibility of becoming adults in contemporary Rwanda.”—African Studies Review “Marc Sommers’ account of the plight of Rwanda’s poor youth majority is in many respects a commandingly authoritative portrait of a looming calamity which contrasts sharply with other accounts of the dynamism and resourcefulness of African youth. . . .

Stuck is certainly an incisive and sophisticated account of the Rwandan state and policy environment.”

—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2012 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 18 b&w photos; 2 maps; 9 tables PB • 9780820338910 • $27.95 your price: $13.97 50 HC • 9780820338903 • $74.95 your price: $29.98

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Venezuela and the United States From Monroe’s Hemisphere to Petroleum’s Empire Judith Ewell “Ewell has a reputation for skillfully weaving accounts of daily life and the human element into Latin American history, and this book stands out in elaborating the ways the United States has influenced social and cultural tendencies in Venezuela over the last two centuries.”—Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs “Ewell’s volume is informative, readable, and balanced between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”

—International History Review 1996 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820317830 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Wars of Disruption and Resilience Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security Chris C. Demchak “Chris Demchak’s work offers a much needed, refreshing and holistic view on a new and worrisome front of conflict—the cyberfront. Drawing on a rich background in technology and security studies and illustrating her thoughts with telling stories, she manages the huge task to address the large variety of issues in this complex field and systematize them into one coherent and syncretic framework of cybered conflict and cyberpower. . . . With this large scope and the lucid insights into the contexts and conditions of cyberpower, Demchak’s book clearly distinguishes itself from its competitors and must be considered required reading for both the theory and practice of cybersecurity.”

—Sandro Gaycken, Freie Universität Berlin “Cyber warfare is already a reality of the twenty-first century and how actors continue to plan for it will do much to help distinguish winners from losers for decades to come. Demchak’s insights in Wars of Disruption and Resilience should be of critical salience for both academic analyses and policy-making that grapple with this rapidly changing and complex phenomenon.”—Thomas J. Volgy, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona 2011 • 304 p. • 6 x 9 10 figures; 1 table HC • 9780820338347 • $74.95 your price: $29.98

Women, Gender, and Terrorism Edited by Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry “With diverse case studies, unique first-person interviews, and thoughtful feminist analysis, the authors of

this volume offer a wealth of information on the motivations, strategies, and impacts of female militants. This work disrupts several age-old stereotypes associated with ‘what women do’ during war and social movements including the idea of the inherently peaceful and nurturing woman, and the assumption of females as perpetual victims of male violence.”

—Megan MacKenzie, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney and Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard University “Laura Sjoberg, Caron Gentry and their deeply informed contributors dismantle the exoticized stereotype of the woman terrorist by revealing the complex dynamics between women, ideas about femininity, insurgencies and violence. This provocative collection will be of genuine value to anyone trying to be smart about gender, conflict, media and political mobilization.”—Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War 2011 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 1 table PB • 9780820340388 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

latin american and caribbean studies Contentious Liberties American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834–1866 Gale L. Kenny “This book raises fascinating questions about how radical abolitionists focused on black independence had to adapt their mission given black Jamaicans’ own ideas and the economic realities of white land ownership.”—H-NET Reviews “In Contentious Liberties, Gale L. Kenny illuminates the difficulties American missionaries faced trying to convert former bondspeople to Anglo-American religion and culture in postemancipation Jamaica.”

—Journal of the Civil War Era “A welcome addition to the . . . literature on Christian missions in Jamaica . . . Kenny’s work on the AMA is a major contribution.”—American Historical Review 2010 • 212 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820333991 • $49.95 your price: $19.98

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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference Jenny Shaw “Jenny Shaw’s nuanced study illuminates how divisions originating in Europe— especially those that distinguished Irish Catholic servants from their English Protestant masters— shaped colonial society and ultimately the hierarchies of race that came to be the most important markers of difference. Shaw profitably lingers over the early period, when the early English Caribbean was in the process of becoming, and as a result she demonstrates that race and colonialism were negotiated, not preordained.”—Carla Gardina Pestana, author of Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World “A nuanced and fascinating account of how Irish Catholics shaped the emergence of racial hierarchy in the English Caribbean. With meticulous attention to the constraints and possibilities of everyday life, Shaw explores the way that early settlers marked and ranked social difference, finding that status distinctions were surprisingly malleable, even in a society overwhelmingly organized by slavery and race. Offering close readings of fresh sources, this is both an important study and an impressive feat of the informed imagination.”—Vincent Brown, author of The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery 2013 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 18 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820346625 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery Michael Craton and Gail Saunders “In ambition, scope, and generous intent, both this book and its companion volume stand out as a special kind of Caribbean history.”—American Historical Review “This is a rich work, with a capacity to illuminate many poorly understood corners of Bahamian history and to tell us much about the wider

geography and social sciences 27 Caribbean world . . . In achieving their objectives, Craton and Saunders make excellent use of a wide variety of source materials, from archaeology to more traditional documentary materials.”—Journal of American History

through a global lens. . . . A wellillustrated book written in a style that makes it accessible to student readers as well as faculty researchers.”

—Geographical Review 2006 • 168 p. • 6 x 9 2 b&w photos, 4 figures; 4 maps; 6 tables PB • 9780820328324 • $23.95 your price: $7.18 HC • 9780820328317 • $61.95 your price: $18.58

1999 • 496 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 23 b&w photos and 7 figures; 10 maps; 22 tables PB • 9780820321226 • $35.95 your price: $14.38

Liberals, Politics, and Power State Formation in NineteenthCentury Latin America Edited by Vincent Peloso and Barbara A. Tenenbaum Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of postindependence, this collection of essays draws attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals: idealistic visions and fiscal restraints.

It focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latinos who applied liberal ideology to the founding of new states.

“Taken together these essays significantly further our understanding of poitical as well as economic liberalism.”—The Americas 1996 • 320 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 PB • 9780820318004 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities Edited by Doris Y. Kadish “The material as a whole shows how very rich the subject area is and how much room there is for additional research. The historical events that underlie all of the essays in the volume are ably and succinctly retold by the editor, Doris Kadish, in her introduction. Her concise historical overview of slavery in the French West Indies narrates the complex unfolding of the slave revolts and the revolution in the French Caribbean.”—The Americas “A welcome step in ensuring the successful marriage of history and other disciplines.”—International History Review 2000 • 272 p. • 6 x 9 1 figure; 1 table HC • 9780820321660 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838

Communities and Capital

Colleen A. Vasconcellos

Edited by Thomas W. Collins and John D. Wingard

“Colleen Vasconcellos’s exploration of the shifting experiences of enslaved children, the most vulnerable section of the plantation population, manages to illuminate ways that successive ‘reforms’ impacted their lives. She offers a plantation-level perspective on the changing repercussions for individual enslaved households of the successive reform efforts, running from the first questioning of slavery in the mid-eighteenth century, through efforts to legislate reforms via individual colonial legislatures, to the colonial repercussions of the ending of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and then on to the transition from emancipation to ‘Full Free.’”

—James Robertson, University of West Indies, Mona “Well researched and elegantly written, Colleen Vasconcellos’s Slavery, Childhood and Abolition in Jamaica broadens Atlantic discussions of childhood by providing insights into the political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors that shaped enslaved children in the British Caribbean.”

—Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 2015 • 176 p. • 6 x 9 4 tables PB • 9780820348056 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

geography and social sciences Caribbean and Southern Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South Edited by Helen A. Regis “A very important and timely book.

It makes an excellent contribution to anthropology, Caribbean studies, and southern studies, as well as to African diaspora studies. Regis and her colleagues very successfully illustrate the ways in which the U.S. South has been historically and culturally linked to the Caribbean, calling for new discussions of transnationalism, hybridity, and creolization.”—Kimberly Eison Simmons, University of South Carolina “Caribbean and Southern is an important contribution to this ongoing project of investigating the U.S. South

Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization

“Without being strictly community studies or necessarily consistent in the definition of community employed, the studies in Communities and Capital provide valuable insights into the multitude of characteristics and tendencies of the intersection of local and global development. These collections are excellent for readers in globalization studies in that they contribute, empirically and theoretically, to breaking down the artificial divide between the industrialized and developing world. At the same time, they also contribute to the more precise delineation of local involvement in economic and social change, especially in terms of connections with shifts that have been described previously as being only broadly global in nature.”—Urban Affairs Review 2000 • 160 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820321738 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

Cultural Diversity in the U.S. South Anthropological Contributions to a Region in Transition Edited by Carole E. Hill and Patricia D. Beaver Multiculturalism in the South is more than black and white, as this collection of essays shows. From Native Americans to Latinos, from Indochinese to Jews, this volume follows minority immigration from its early history into the current era of globalization of the South.

“Has lessons for sociologists and their students which far transcend the South alone. No lesson is more important in this than echoing Dubois’s claim—of nearly 100 years ago—about the ‘problem of the color-line.’ This book shows just how incredibly complex ‘the color-line’ has become as we end one century and start a new one.”—Contemporary Sociology 1998 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820319667 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture A Reader Edited by John Storey A theoretical, analytical, and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies.

The readings cover the culture and civilization tradition, culturalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism, as well as current debates in the study of popular culture.

2006 • 680 p. • 6.8 x 9 PB • 9780820328492 • $40.95 your price: $12.28

Culture, Biology, and Sexuality Edited by David N. Suggs and Andrew W. Miracle Through articles dealing with the difficulties in obtaining observational data and the relationship between biological and cultural influences, the contributors seek to understand why anthropology has not been better able to integrate behavioral and ideological approaches.

1999 • 128 p. • 6 x 9 2 figures; 2 tables PB • 9780820320595 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

The Empires’ Edge

In Black and White

Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific

An Interpretation of the South

Sasha Davis

“Hammond was an exceedingly prolific writer, yet her career has gone largely unnoticed by historians. . . . To correct the general lack of recognition of Hammond’s historical contributions, Green has fortunately produced a meticulously edited volume of this compelling book, as well as a substantive and engaging biographical sketch of this important woman.”—Journal of Southern Religion

“Davis shines a much needed light on the implications of what has seemingly become a normalized dominance—reminding us that the U.S. has been the dominant military power across the island pacific region since 1898—and uncovers how this military omnipotence has affected the lives of those on islands deemed to be strategically useful by, and to, the U.S. military, and on these islands’ environments. . . . Davis deftly weaves complex geopolitical arguments through thick empirical research to unpack, unpick, and problematize the relationship of the U.S. military to these peoples and places, and the resistances that have grown up to its presence.”

—Geographical Review “A short review cannot do justice to Davis’ rich set of observations and reformulations of standard thinking on issues of militarization, the state, and Pacific islander experiences of mythic and physical violence. It will be a book many islanders will want to read, and which many college instructors will want to consider for their undergraduate or graduate social science courses on the Pacific Rim, politics, space, militarization and the environment.”—Island Studies Journal 2015 • 176 p. • 6 x 9 10 b&w photos; 3 maps PB • 9780820347356 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples Do, Die, or Get Along

What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family

A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns

Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy

Peter Crow “Offers an unprecedented oral history of space and time . . . Stands as an admirable effort in pushing the boundaries of narrative, oral history, and ethnography.”—Virginia Magazine of History and Biography “Do, Die, or Get Along makes a contribution to both the literature on the political economy of Appalachian America and our understanding of more general pathways to the industrialized world. The book flows smoothly (which is a credit to the editor), was a pleasure to read, and ought to be of interest to a wide variety of audiences, scholarly, and otherwise.”

—H-Southern-Industry 2007 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820328713 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

“Provides new insights into the labor force decisions of working mothers and will be of great use to any reader interested—academically or personally—in the debate surrounding work–life balance in the United States.”—Feminist Economics “An economist and an anthropologist teamed up to conduct hundreds of interviews for this insightful analysis of the ramifications of stepping off the career track to focus on motherhood.

The authors bolster their conclusions with a dazzling (and sometimes daunting) collection of statistics as well as thorough end notes and an impressive bibliography. Their scholarship is balanced by numerous personal stories that elevate the study beyond the miasma of the mommy wars.”—Booklist 2009 • 232 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 2 figures HC • 9780820331546 • $71.95 your price: $21.58

Lily Hardy Hammond Edited by Elna C. Green

“Lily Hammond’s In Black and White has been the starting point for historians working on race and gender in the South, but Hammond herself has remained a mystery . . . until now.

Green recaptures the lost context of social welfare and interracial work that animated Hammond’s book and gives us a sensitive account of her life.

Finally, Hammond gets her due, and students can discover the complex world of women’s interracial activism that the triumph of white supremacy in the early twentieth century erased.”—Glenda Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 2008 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820330624 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Latino Workers in the Contemporary South Edited by Arthur D. Murphy, Colleen Blanchard, and Jennifer A. Hill “Ethnic historians can find much useful data on a contemporary Latino migration pattern that is bringing change to a region where change has traditionally been slow and received with skepticism, if not hostility. This book should spark the interest of immigration historians in the nuevo South.”—Journal of American Ethnic History “A significant contribution toward understanding the sudden and unprecedented influx of Latinos into the American South.”—Journal of Appalachian Studies 2001 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820322797 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Edited by Alan P. Barr Huxley was a prolific essayist, and his writings put him at the center of intellectual debate in England during the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Barr’s edition fills a pressing chasm in history of science books, bringing together almost all of Huxley’s major nontechnical prose.

“Huxley, eminent Victorian, man of letters, and early defender of Dar-

geography and social sciences 29 winian principle, has all but vanished from print. This volume corrects the problem. . . . Barr’s superb biographical introduction provides keen insight into Huxley’s life and work.”—Virginia Quarterly Review “Huxley’s brilliant prose (which really does need the sort of attention that has been given, say, to Ruskin’s or to Carlyle’s) has shaped our understanding of his work and of the conditions of late-Victorian culture.”—Victorian Studies 1997 • 392 p. • 6 x 9 33 b&w photos HC • 9780820318646 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

Motoring The Highway Experience in America John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle “A comprehensive panorama of the American highway from the first auto tourists to recent road rage. In between is a bit of business history, a pinch of psychology, a dose of technology, and a full account of the architectural forms that created the current freeway suburbia. Motoring should serve as a guidebook to the history of the open road in American culture, wonderfully illustrated with authentic photos and advertisements.”—Arthur Krim, author of Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway “In their sixth collaboration, John Jakle and Keith Sculle offer a wide-ranging and readable synthesis of ‘motoring’ in the United States. . . .

As in their earlier works the authors deftly unpack the many symbols and themes that allowed ‘the fantasy of the open road [to take] on a life of its own’. . . . Their book aids both scholars and general enthusiasts in defining and then addressing . . . important yet volatile civic values.”—Journal of Illinois History

engagement and social movement activism across Tamil diasporas, so I am delighted to have encountered such an engaging and authoritative book on this subject. . . . The book contains some very interesting chapters and, importantly, has its own style and strength of argument, which goes beyond other eminent Tamil scholars’ studies.”—Ethnic and Racial Studies 2015 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 1 diagram; 8 tables PB • 9780820348131 • $27.95 your price: $11.18

The Politics of the Encounter Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization Andy Merrifield “Written in an accessible and lively prose, Merrifield’s book investigates the politics of the encounter by engaging in conversation with a cast of Marxist theorists from Engels to Lefebvre and from Althusser to Harvey and with various references to sci-fi, arts, and literature. . . . This volume is a timely contribution to the ongoing conversation about the future of cities and the practice of progressive politics on the global street.”

—Journal of Cultural Geography “Dip into any page of Merrifield’s idiosyncratic and learned commentary on urbanity and politics and you’ll take away memorable insights. Henri Lefebvre would surely have approved of this fulsome effort to extend and recalibrate his thoughts.”—Andrew Ross, author of Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City 2013 • 184 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820345307 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

2009 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 75 b&w photos PB • 9780820334158 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Pain, Pride, and Politics Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada Amarnath Amarasingam “Written from the perspective of a critical insider, this engaging book helps us to make sense of the fractious complexity of Tamil diaspora politics since the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. Its innovative angle on diaspora as a social movement points to ways of understanding how and why diasporas have become such important players on the global scene.” —Nicholas Van Hear, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford “Few studies have explored the phenomenon of diaspora political

The Politics of Urban Water Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam Kimberley Kinder “On the whole, this is a good book, easy to read, and useful to readers with an interest in urban regeneration, waterfront redevelopment, and of course, urban island studies. For readers with specific island studies interests this book provides data that is relevant to

islanding themes, and to the concept of island cities.”—Urban Island Studies 2015 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 8 b&w photos; 3 maps PB • 9780820347950 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Practical Research Methods for Media and Cultural Studies Making People Count Máire Messenger Davies and Nick Mosdell This book provides a simple guide to the process of conducting research in the humanities, with special reference to media and culture, from the planning stage, through the data gathering, to the analysis and interpretation of results: planning it, doing it, and understanding it.

2007 • 336 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 35 figures; 12 tables PB • 9780820329246 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

Rethinking the South African Crisis Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony Gillian Hart “Hart’s text is extremely important and courageous in the context of South Africa’s fiercely contested political discourse. Hart steps in front to contest existing understandings of the state, racial geographies, crisis, hegemony, and transition. Her attempt to challenge what exists is not only an academic intervention but also grounded in deep normative concerns about the trajectory of South African politics. . . . Hart’s contribution is a welcome addition to the ongoing challenge to make sense of the complicated field of South African politics.”

—Antipode “Rethinking the South African Crisis provides an insightful and muchneeded deconstructive lens for interpreting the increasing socioeconomic disparity in post-apartheid South Africa. . . . Hart deftly integrates nuanced critical understandings to rethink the present crisis . . . It is precisely her intimate knowledge, involvement, and investments in these places that lend a personalized touch often missing in academic projects.”

—Social and Cultural Geography 2014 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 5 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820347172 • $24.95 your price: $12.47 HC • 9780820347165 • $74.95 your price: $29.98

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Roppongi Crossing The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City Roman Adrian Cybriwsky “Drawing upon his years of experience living in and studying Tokyo, Cybriwsky’s ethnography of its Roppongi District offers the kind of keen insight into the area that most foreign observers are unable to provide. In the process, he vividly details the morality play that is in Roppongi and Tokyo, a daily balancing act pitting individualism versus groupism, defiance versus conformity, and internationalization versus Japaneseness.”—Journal of Urban Affairs “Cybriwsky offers important insights into the transition of a zone of liminality in the midst of a mega urban society.”—Journal of Historical Geography 2011 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 32 b&w photos; 5 maps HC • 9780820338316 • $74.95 your price: $22.48

Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners Representing Identity in Selected Souths Edited by Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter “Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners represents an important contribution because it places before us some critical assumptions and questions that contemporary scholars of culture, identity, community, and regional studies need to consider in the production of their scholarship for the twenty-first century.”—Journal of Southern Religion “Valuable as powerful evidence that there is no such thing as ‘the’ South— that instead there are many Souths, each with its own demographics, history, cultural traditions, processes of change and adaptation, and (indeed) internal racial, class and cultural variations.”—Journal of Appalachian Studies 2003 • 144 p. • 6 x 9 2 tables PB • 9780820324722 • $22.95 your price: $6.88

Some Far and Distant Place Jonathan S. Addleton Born in Pakistan to Baptist missionaries from rural Georgia, Addleton crossed the borders of race, culture, class, and religion from an early age.

This story combines family history, social observation, current events, and deeply personal commentary to tell an unusual coming-of-age tale that has much to do with the intersection of cultures.

“Splendid reminiscences . . . [Addleton’s] memories project a deeply mov-

ing warmth and kindness.”—Library Journal “Addleton does a fine job of recreating his childhood from a young boy’s perspective.”—Foreign Service Journal 2002 • 232 p. • 5.5 x 9 12 b&w photos; 1 table PB • 9780820324586 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Sprawling Places David Kolb “The central idea—to provide a critical analysis of new kinds of places, and to offer a defense of them against standard objections—is timely and interesting. Kolb makes effective use of the relevant philosophical and social science literature and provides numerous useful examples. Sprawling Places will find an audience among cultural theorists and analysts of popular culture, philosophers, architects, and urban designers and planners.”

—William J. Mitchell, author of Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City “Making better places involves more than just improving the architecture— it means being attentive to the social interactions, norms, and meanings generated by a given location. In Sprawling Places David Kolb employs this idea to help us assess and re-assess a variety of contemporary places, from theme parks to traditional suburbs to New Urbanist developments. . . . Theoretically rich yet highly engaging, Sprawling Places offers a fresh and surprisingly hopeful contribution to our understanding of suburban life.”—Thad Williamson, coauthor of Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era 2008 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 1 figure PB • 9780820329895 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

tionship between labor and capital throughout the US economy.”

—Journal of Historical Geography 2012 • 576 p. • 6 x 9 50 b&w photos, 3 figures; 5 maps; 6 tables PB • 9780820341767 • $32.95 your price: $13.18

art and architecture AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta Isabelle Gournay Photographs by Paul Beswick Foreword by Dana F. White Edited by Gerald W. Sams This guidebook surveys four hundred buildings within the Atlanta metropolitan area: from the stateliness of antebellum mansions to the art-deco charms of local diners. Published with the Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it combines historical, descriptive, and critical content with more than 250 photographs and maps.

“As any traveler knows, a good guidebook is a passport to discovery.

Even if you’ve lived here for years, the new AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta will probably turn a stroll into a historical, cultural, and aesthetic expedition. . . . The book’s pocket size makes it handy for those who plan to take the walking tours laid out within, but the quantity and size of the photos render it a perfect complement to armchair tours as well.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1992 • 365 p. • 5.375 x 9.25 230 b&w photos; 21 maps PB • 9780820314501 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

They Saved the Crops Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California Don Mitchell “Few people know the social and economic contours of California’s industrial agriculture landscape better than geographer Don Mitchell. And no one has written a more thorough, passionate, and critical history of the landscape’s “morphology” during the bracero era than Mitchell in his new book.”—Western Historical Quarterly “Mitchell achieves more than enough in They Saved the Crops to distinguish this book as the history of record for the Bracero program. As with his previous work, he focuses on our societal tendencies to conceal exploitation in our food system, and how these exploitative acts bleed into the relaDeadline approaching!

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The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta’s Scholar Architect Robert M. Craig “This is how America was designed!

A thoroughly captivating study of an architect who taught generations of students at Georgia Tech and built hundreds of houses in a variety of styles, churches, cathedrals, schools, Coca-Cola bottling plants, high rises, and many other buildings throughout the South. Beautifully illustrated with original drawings and vintage and new photographs.”—Richard Guy Wilson,

art and architecture 31 Commonwealth Professor and Chair of Architectural History at the University of Virginia “Robert Craig’s book, the first fulllength treatment of Smith’s practice, offers a vivid portrait of Smith’s creative production. . . . Will likely become a key resource for future research on the urban development of Atlanta and of the South.”—Journal of Southern History 2012 • 296 p. • 8.5 x 11 418 color and b&w photos HC • 9780820328980 • $60.00 your price: $24.00

Architecture of Middle Georgia The Oconee Area John Linley The middle Georgia area is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping survey remains one of the best books on the topic, covering primitive, Gothic, Greek Revival, and Victorian styles, and beyond.

“A comprehensive account of heretofore overlooked structures. The book is tightly organized, the buildings discussed individually with pertinent data tabulated at the end of each sub-regional section.”—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians “An important contribution to the history of the architecture of the South . . .

Each region of the South should have a similar volume.”—Journal of Southern History “A beautiful book, inside and out . . .

This work should and will have as great an appeal to the general public as to professional architects.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2014 • 208 p. • 10.5 x 12 314 b&w photos, 4 figures, 9 floor plans; 18 maps PB • 9780820346120 • $34.95 your price: $13.98

Common Houses in America’s Small Towns The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley John A. Jakle, Robert W. Bastian, and Douglas K. Meyer A geographical field guide to the American house. Based on an inventory of seventeen thousand homes in twenty sample cities from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, this book explores how Americans housed themselves in the 1980s.

“Overall the book’s valuable contributions to methodology, classification, and information far outweigh its few shortcomings. As an excellent classification and field guide, Common Houses should be consulted by all who study house types and distribution.”

—Indiana Magazine of History

“Represents an ambitious contribution to the ongoing study of the cultural landscapes in the eastern United States. The contribution rests not only in what this book attempts to achieve through its geographical and statistical methodologies, but also in the indirect way in which it identifies the limitations of certain modes of architectural fieldwork.”

—Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1989 • 254 p. • 8 x 10 121 b&w photos, 77 illus.; 82 diagrams PB • 9780820310749 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Courthouses of Georgia Association County Commissioners of Georgia Photographs by Greg Newington Text by George Justice Foreword by Ross King Introduction by Larry Walker The courthouses of Georgia’s 159 counties hold the keys to the history of individual families and entire communities alike. Internationally recognized photographer Greg Newington captures the prominence and character of these great structures, paying tribute to the community’s investment in preserving historic courthouses for future generations.

“Beautiful and informative reference source.”—Library Journal (Best Reference of 2014) “This is a delightful book for history buffs, fans of historic preservation and anyone interested in Georgia history.”—Northeast Georgia Living 2014 • 368 p. • 12 x 9 160 color photos; 10 maps HC • 9780820346885 • $34.95 your price: $17.47

Democracy Restored A History of the Georgia State Capitol Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee Featuring Photographs by Diane Kirkland “If the walls of the Capitol could talk, they’d tell tales of political drama, civil rights struggles, suffrage debates, renovation woes, and city milestones.

Unfortunately, they can’t — but Timothy J. Crimmins and Anne H. Farrisee can. The two coauthored Democracy Restored, a rich and important collection of historical information. . . . The book’s 190 fully illustrated pages are dense with facts.”—Atlanta Magazine “A striking, fully illustrated book . . .

The particular strength of this work lies in the authors’ approach to the many narrative threads that shape the history of the building. . . . Valuable to conservators and others interested in historic preservation . . . A well-

rounded history of the New South capitol.”—Public Historian 2007 • 200 p. • 9.5 x 12 105 color photos, 129 b&w photos HC • 9780820329116 • $41.95 your price: $20.97

Lamar Dodd A Retrospective Exhibition Lamar Dodd This volume of selected paintings by native Georgian Lamar Dodd was published to accompany a retrospective exhibition in 1970. Mainly works in oil, the ninety-three plates in this catalog range from the representational to the abstract, and chart Dodd’s powerful vision from 1929 to 1969.

1970 • 138 p. • 8 x 10 93 illus.

PB • 9780820303079 • $27.95 your price: $11.18

Marion Manley Miami’s First Woman Architect Catherine Lynn and Carie Penabad Foreword by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk “This fine monograph on Marion Manley (1893–1984) is long overdue, as is the assessment of her oeuvre within the history of Miami and Florida architecture.”—ARLIS/NA Reviews “A very important volume . . . Through their focus on Manley’s architectural production, Lynn and Penabad provide a new portrait of the city, its residents, their buildings, and activities.”—Journal of Architectural Education “Lynn and Penabad’s deeply researched and carefully constructed life-and-works study of Miami’s first woman architect, Marion I. Manley (1893–1984), is thus doubly welcome for recording the travails of a regional practitioner and for celebrating the fact that this architect designed buildings—and supervised their construction to her famously exacting standards—when her peers were all men.”—Journal of Southern History 2010 • 248 p. • 10 x 8 40 color illus., 70 b&w illus.

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An Ornament to the City Old Mobile Ironwork John S. Sledge Photography by Sheila Hagler “This celebration of the ironwork that graces the city of Mobile is a fine addition to the shelf of books on nineteenth-century cast-iron architecture in America. Well-researched and engagingly written. . . . Historic preservationists and especially fanciers of cast iron will welcome this appreciation of the ironwork of Mobile.

The careful account by historian and preservationist John Sledge, richly illustrated, with many contemporary photographs by Sheila Hagler, reminds us of what was lost—but also what was saved.”—Carol Gayle, author of CastIron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus “Unlike the more famous ironwork of New Orleans’s crowded French Quarter, Mobile’s balconies and verandas of ‘iron lace’ spread well beyond the core of the city, bejewelling whole treeshaded blocks of stately homes. Most of the ironwork is gone today. But a lot also remains. And in graceful prose, based on fresh research and accompanied by old images as well as lush new photographs, John Sledge recounts the entire saga of Mobile’s ironwork.

The saga includes some surprising twists and turns that will both delight and inform the reader.”—Robert Gamble, Chief Architectural Historian, Alabama Historical Commission 2006 • 128 p. • 11 x 11 80 duotone photos HC • 9780820327006 • $38.95 your price: $11.68

The Pillared City Greek Revival Mobile John S. Sledge Photography by Sheila Hagler A richly illustrated overview of the Greek Revival period in Mobile, Alabama (1825–70), when high style and vernacular columned buildings were erected on the city’s streets. Featuring more than fifty-five contemporary black-and-white photographs by Sheila Hagler and a rich array of historical images that capture the grace and allure of Mobile.

“It is always a pleasure to read something written by someone who knows what he is talking about, and when it comes to the architecture of Mobile, Sledge knows his stuff.”—Journal of Southern History 2009 • 184 p. • 8.5 x 11 87 b&w photos, 2 figures HC • 9780820330204 • $44.95 your price: $17.98

A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia F. N. Boney A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia guides the reader through the

entire campus, offering easy-to-follow maps, photographs, and histories of most structures, as well as information about former students, college life, and the city of Athens.

1989 • 104 p. • 6 x 9 68 b&w photos; 3 maps PB • 9780820310817 • $18.95 your price: $5.68

folklife and material culture Brothers in Clay The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery John A. Burrison “Beautifully designed, well written and illustrated, and comprehensive in scope, Brothers in Clay should stand for years to come as the definitive volume on Georgia’s exciting and diverse pottery traditions. It also sets a standard for state surveys that future studies will have to work hard to equal.”—Journal of American Folklore

ist, but his work is a true reflection of what he saw every day of his fisherman’s life on the southwest coast of Florida. The drawings and their captions are accompanied by his memoirs, edited by his granddaughter, journalist Betty Briggs. She uses a light hand, letting the essence of a Cracker’s life on the water come through.”

—Southern Cultures “Storter’s paintings are wonderful. . . .They have the sense of time and place about them that the best of the folk artists manage to incorporate in their deceptively simple images. . . . In his long life, Storter saw the degradation of the ‘glades and thecoast, and he wrote of it in a way that is both matterof-fact and deeply moving.”—Florida Times-Union 2007 • 160 p. • 10 x 8.5 118 color illus.; 1 map PB • 9780820330433 • $25.95 your price: $12.97

“A pioneering work . . . Burrison has provided a remarkably rich and full homage to some 400 Georgia potters.

Above all, he has delineated a true, living craft.”—Material Culture 2008 • 376 p. • 8.125 x 10 167 color and b&w photos PB • 9780820332208 • $37.95 your price: $18.97

Confederate Receipt Book A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times Introduction by E. Merton Coulter Originally published in 1863, this little book is a compilation of “receipts” to aid Southern households beset by shortages as the War Between the States raged on. These helpful hints first appeared in newspapers and other sources. Only five copies of that edition were known to exist a hundred years later.

1981 • 40 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 1 b&w photo PB • 9780820305615 • $14.95 your price: $7.47

Crackers in the Glade Life and Times in the Old Everglades Rob Storter Edited by Betty Savidge Briggs Foreword by Peter Matthiessen “A meaningful firsthand account of attitudes among a part of American culture during a time and in a location that have received less attention than many other geographical regions of the country. All of it has a simple charm . . . poignant reading.”—NPR’s Living on Earth “This charming book gives us Storter’s heartfelt, hand-drawn pictures of a Glades before pavement, pollution, and drainage. He was not a natural-

Georgia Quilts Piecing Together a History Edited by Anita Zaleski Weinraub “Better than fiction and more compelling than any history book, Georgia Quilts is a unique account of this state’s rich heritage. Culling through more than 9,000 quilts brought to the Georgia Quilt Project survey, the authors formed a book that is part history and part quilt education. Georgia Quilts is spectacular, with revealing stories and fine research.”—Merikay Waldvogel, author of Southern Quilts: Surviving Relics of the Civil War “It’s nice to see what was once dismissed as ‘women’s work’ finally getting its due. The once-humble quilt, now widely hailed as an art form, takes center stage in Georgia Quilts. With this lush 304-page tome, Georgia becomes the latest U.S. state to proudly claim a scholarly study of its quilts . . . Georgia Quilts offers more than quilts. It gives us the women who made them and 200 years of the Georgia in which they lived. It shows that so-called women’s work is as much a part of the fabric of our state’s heritage as wars and politics. Amen to that.”—Southern Living 2006 • 300 p. • 10.25 x 10 200 color and 65 b&w photos, 3 figures; 4 maps PB • 9780820328508 • $35.95 your price: $10.78

music 33 furniture, this new volume should provide renewed energy to this important area of study.”—Ashley Callahan, author of Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas 2006 • 256 p. • 8.5 x 11 172 color photos and 17 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820328058 • $40.95 your price: $20.47

The Serpent’s Tale Great and Noble Jar Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina Cinda K. Baldwin First published in 1993, this was the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and its history, including the methods used to throw, glaze, decorate, and fire the vessels.

Illustrated with nearly two hundred photographs, maps, and drawings, plus an index of potters.

“Adds significantly to our understanding of more than southern pottery. The history of this southern art is a history of southern people.”—Southern Quarterly “Baldwin has, like the potters of whom she writes, taken her raw material and crafted a useful and admirable work that will be of service for many years to come.”—Southern Cultures 2014 • 264 p. • 8.25 x 10.5 15 color and 177 b&w photos, 7 drawings; 10 maps PB • 9780820346168 • $39.95 your price: $15.98

Neat Pieces The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia Atlanta History Center With a new foreword by Deanne D. Levison An extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the “plain style” of furniture made and used by Georgians in the 1800s.

Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily. Today, this furniture is read by historians, folklorists, and others for clues into a past way of life.

“This edition of Neat Pieces makes the seminal research it presents available to a new generation of scholars and collectors. The new foreword by Deanne Levison provides an informative summary of the research leading up to the original publication and the influence it had on subsequent projects. Most importantly, color photographs are included, better documenting the remarkable surfaces and decorations present on the furniture carefully selected for inclusion in this publication. Just as the original Neat Pieces stimulated interest in and awareness of Georgia’s plain-style

Snakes in Folklore and Literature Edited by Gregory McNamee Here are some fifty diverse and unusual accounts of serpents from cultures across time and around the globe. Many selections are drawn from the rich oral traditions of peoples in every clime that supports reptiles, from the Akimel O’odham of North America to the Mensa Bet-Abrahe of Africa to the Mungkjan of Australia.

tales that once made the ‘main figure of the pattern.”—New York Times Book Review 2000 • 272 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 7 b&w illus.

PB • 9780820321868 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

music Been Here and Gone Frederic Ramsey Jr. This volume documents Ramsey’s journeys through the 1950s South, where he traveled in search of what might still remain of an original, authentic African American musical tradition. His images of a past way of life capture the deceptively poor landscapes and lives that gave birth to and sustained some of our most deeply felt music.

2000 • 160 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820322254 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

“A journey of profound love and a terrible urgency . . . an altogether lovely and loving book.”—Studs Terkel, Chicago Times

Shaping Traditions

“A vividly human documentary.”—Los Angeles Times

Folk Arts in a Changing South John A. Burrison Object and Gallery Photography by William F. Hull A complete catalog of the Atlanta History Center’s permanent folk art exhibition, this richly illustrated volume defines and documents the folk arts of the lower southeastern United States. The objects, crafting processes, and performances represented here illustrate the unique qualities of the community-learned traditional arts of the South.

2000 • 184 p. • 8 x 10 20 color and 103 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820321509 • $25.95 your price: $12.97

Tales from the Cloud Walking Country Marie Campbell Illustrated by Clare Leighton Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the “balladsingingest, tale-tellingest” residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths.

“She succeeds in integrating tales, tellers, and audience into a cultural pattern rare in books of this kind. The native background and language, rich in poetic idiom and imagery of mountain speech uncluttered by dialect spelling—add a whole new dimension and a local or modern twist to the Old World originals. . . . Books like [this] will be the chief repositories of the old ways and the olden, golden, and silver

“Strikingly honest and simple . . . Penetrate[s] into the heart of the blues.”

—Nat Hentoff, Esquire 2000 • 192 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 205 b&w photos PB • 9780820321950 • $22.95 your price: $6.88

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Bound for Shady Grove Steven Harvey Essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. Descriptions of music, hills, and people blend into a rich harmony as Harvey explores where music has taken him—where, in fact, music can take any of us.

“This wonderful volume is a first, a sensitively written personal reflection on the poetics and passions of mountain music. There have been studies, collections, and histories of Appalachian music, but now Steven Harvey, in essays attuned to the seasons of life and musical modes, has turned our attention to the complex ways in which fiddle tunes, ballads, and especially banjo picking can move heart and spirit.”—Art Rosenbaum “This collection of essays about the South and its music is well crafted, lyrical, written by a keen observer of humankind. . . . Throughout Bound for Shady Grove Harvey allows us to see that music offers more than a way to express our sorrow—it offers consolation and joy.”—Fourth Genre 2000 • 184 p. • 6 x 8 HC • 9780820321974 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

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But Is It Garbage?

On Rock and Trash Steven L. Hamelman “Hamelman modulates, transitions, contrasts moods, shifts tones, and uses complementary colors like a classic double-album set. The closest parallel to existing work is not some other book on musicology, but perhaps London Calling by the Clash.”—Allen Michie, Iowa State University “In But Is It Garbage?, Hamelman brilliantly explains the centrality of the trash trope to rock music aesthetics.

It’s a significant new approach, and the author’s rock ‘n’ roll sensibility will be refreshing not just to scholars of rock music and pop culture, but also to the serious fan.”—Thomas Kitts, coeditor of Living on a Thin Line: Crossing Aesthetic Borders with the Kinks 2004 • 266 p. • 6 x 9 1 figure PB • 9780820325873 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

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Folk Visions and Voices Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia Text, drawings, and paintings by Art Rosenbaum Photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum Musical transcriptions by Béla Foltin Jr. Foreword by Pete Seeger Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

“This book shows its editor in the roles of interviewer, interpreter of social-scientific data, annotator, discographer, and artist; he plays them all with great success. From the beginning of his artistic career, Rosenbaum has specialized in American folklife scenes. These paintings, depicting the lives and aspirations of the informants, give the collection an expressiveness we hardly meet in folksong books.”—Ethnomusicology “An outstanding documentation of some strong and persistent traditions, prepared with understanding and deep respect for folk music and its performers.”—Appalachian Journal 2013 • 260 p. • 10.25 x 8.25 4 color and 50 b&w photos and illus.

PB • 9780820346137 • $28.95 your price: $14.47

Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music?

Rose Thompson Edited by Charles Beaumont Foreword by John Stewart A remarkable collection of black folktales and photographs from rural Georgia. During the 1930s and 1940s Thompson worked as a home supervisor with the Farm Security Administration in middle Georgia.The book is illustrated with photographs taken by Thompson and WPA photographer Jack Delano.

“An artful celebration of lyrical folktales and remembrances of rural time past. This book is a visit home.”

—Georgia Journal “The gentle warmth of this little treasury will caress your heart like a visit from an old friend.”—Charlotte Observer 1999 • 128 p. • 6 x 8 48 b&w photos PB • 9780820321370 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

Millennium Folk American Folk Music since the Sixties Thomas R. Gruning This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. It offers a look at an understudied community, valuable for what it tells us about folk music, and for what folk in turn suggests about the wider culture’s hopes and apprehensions in a globalized marketplace.

Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World’s Peoples “A well researched, historically-oriented survey of one element of a larger shape-note singing tradition . . . It will appeal to those already interested in shape-note singing traditions and their revival and to those seeking a more contextual approach to the Sacred Harp’s history.”—Yearbook for Traditional Music 1997 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820319889 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

Real Punks Don’t Wear Black Music Writing by Frank Kogan The first book-length collection of his writing on music and culture, Real Punks Don’t Wear Black samples the best of thirty-plus years of essays, reviews, and rants, and also includes new bits written specifically for this edition.

“If Frank Kogan had assembled his writing a decade ago, by samizdat or whatever, it would be a cornerstone by now, read by every current and former teenage malcontent.”—Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York “If there’s a book which should make you want to write about (and think about) how you came to music and what you tried to use it for, this is it.”—Pitchfork 2006 • 368 p. • 6 x 9.25 4 figures PB • 9780820327549 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

“The subject itself is quite fascinating, and this book, which should appeal to scholars in American studies, ethnomusicology, and American music, as well as a more general audience, will no doubt fuel further debate about the very nature of folk music in a postmodern world.”—Kip Lornell, coauthor of The Life and Legend of Leadbelly 2006 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 2 figures PB • 9780820328300 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Public Worship, Private Faith Sacred Harp and American Folksong John Bealle With the tunebook The Sacred Harp as his focus, John Bealle surveys definitive moments in American musical history, from the lively singing schools of the New England Puritans to the nostalgic culture-writing era of the Great Depression to the post-World War II folksong revival.

“This superb book contains interdisciplinary scholarship of a high order.”

—Jeff Titon, coeditor of Worlds of

Shout Because You’re Free The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia Art Rosenbaum Photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum Musical transcripts and historical essay by Johann S. Buis Performed for the purpose of religious worship, the ring shout still survives in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Shout Because You’re Free incorporates oral history, first-person accounts, musical transcriptions, photographs, and drawings to vividly document this art form.

“An impressive body of work. . . .

This book should take its place as a

photography 35 significant presentation of grassroots African American song and culture.”

—Journal of American Folklore “This is a splendid addition to the growing literature documenting African cultural survivals in the South.”

—Southern Cultures 2013 • 232 p. • 7 x 9 18 b&w photos, 9 illus.

PB • 9780820346113 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Voices from the Mountains Guy Carawan and Candie Carawan Foreword by Gurney Norman A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs that tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. It focuses on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s.

“Speaks eloquently of the high cost in human, social, cultural, and ecological terms of fueling the nation’s industrial might, but it speaks equally of human hope and the dogged determination of a people.”—Louisville Courier-Journal “Portraits of the Appalachian people have been painted many times. The Carawans have come through with one of the most provocative . . . A beautiful book.”—Studs Terkel 1996 • 256 p. • 10.5 x 8.75 151 b&w photos, 52 songs PB • 9780820318820 • $27.95 your price: $11.18

Wake Up Dead Man Hard Labor and Southern Blues Collected and edited by Bruce Jackson Sixty-five work songs are gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South.

Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces are like no other folk music forms.

“A monument to a musical tradition that will soon disappear . . . Many of the early blues singers . . . served as callers on work gangs, and their music was certainly influenced by this experience.”—Journal of American Folklore “There is great beauty in the simple, honest outpouring of human spirit in the texts and melodies of these songs. . . . Jackson has done great service.”

—Ethnomusicology “A thorough, socially responsible, sensitive, and scholarly presentation.”

—American Anthropologist 1999 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 24 b&w photos, 65 songs PB • 9780820321585 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

Words and Music A History of Pop in the Shape of a City Paul Morley “After twenty pages, I was convinced that Words and Music was the best book about pop that I had ever read.

After 280 pages, I was at least convinced that it was the weirdest book about pop I had ever read. But that too is a kind of recommendation.”—The Guardian “Morley’s book manages to fascinate, bore, infuriate, provoke, amuse and stimulate: and he knows it. The book’s Napoleonic ambitions throw up an ultimately overwhelming succession of lists and genealogies, which paradoxically proves the impossibility of corralling all the music mentioned (let alone listening to it in one lifetime).

But it makes you want to try: which is why this book is at heart a passionate, irresistible encouragement to listen more, and to listen better.”—Sunday Times of London 2005 • 368 p. • PB • 9780820327051 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia Photographs and text by Barbara McKenzie Foreword by Robert Coles “McKenzie’s collection of photographs elicits all of the fascination, delight, repulsion, and puzzlement of one’s earliest encounters with Flannery O’Connor’s fiction. . . . These photographs . . . provide an entrance to the fiction which no reader or teacher of that fiction should be without.”

—Georgia Review “McKenzie has created a strong sense of place in this collection of her photographs, which includes scenes of small-town Georgia life as well as pictures of O’Connor and her family.

‘The South blossoms with every kind of complication and contradiction,’ O’Connor once said. Many of them are well documented here.”—Washington Post 2013 • 112 p. • 8 x 10 89 b&w photos PB • 9780820346144 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

photography Camera Man’s Journey Julian Dimock’s South Edited by Julian Dimock and Nina J. Root Foreword by Dori Sanders Preface by Cleveland L. Sellers Jr. Afterword by Leon F. Litwack A poignant collection of 150 photographs, set in the South early in the twentieth century, these photographs bridge a distance not only of time but also of contrasting attitudes and customs. Dimock, whose works appeared often in major travel and nature magazines, took the photographs in 1904–5.

“A rare and valuable collection . . .

Centered on a few towns in South Carolina, the images are noteworthy for their inherent moral frustration with social norms and their idiosyncratic portrayal of the dignity, power, and identity of African American fellow citizens during a time of horrific racial strife.”—DoubleTake “[Dimock’s] exacting eye and large format glass plates created prints so sharp you feel you can step into them.

Ex-slaves, servants, sharecroppers and their often-gleeful children come alive in their hard condition. We sense their great beauty, their vitality, their endurance. The essays about Dimock and this setting are fascinating.”

—Camera and Arts 2002 • 208 p. • 10 x 8.5 155 photos HC • 9780820324241 • $41.95 your price: $16.78

Generations in Black and White Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd Photographs by Carl Van Vechten This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists such as Richard Wright and Billie Holiday, took these photographs over the course of three decades.

Carl Van Vechten’s portrait style— formal, direct, and free of the extraneous—anticipated the celebrity photography of Richard Avedon and Andy Warhol.”—San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle “A visual and chronological history of the movers and shapers of the Harlem Renaissance. . . . A true history, and nonesuch other compilation exists.”

—Quarterly Black Review of Books 2014 • 200 p. • 8.25 x 10.75 83 b&w photos PB • 9780820346175 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

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One Family Vaughn Sills Foreword by Robert Coles

Jack London, Photographer Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Sara S. Hodson, and Philip Adam “Jack London is best known as a writer of red-blooded adventure tales.

But he was also a journalist, traveler, social activist—and prolific photographer . . . The breadth of this book shows how far London would go for a good story.”—Los Angeles Times “Jack London’s prose classics have overshadowed his camera work, but his photographs of London’s poor, the Russo-Japanese War, the San Francisco Earthquake, and ethnographic shots made during his voyages are all first class, too; and this masterful textand-plates volume provides overdue recognition of them.”—ForeWord 2010 • 288 p. • 10 x 11 230 duotones HC • 9780820329673 • $49.95 your price: $24.97

Oglethorpe’s Dream A Picture of Georgia Photographs by Diane Kirkland Text by David Bottoms “Showcases 300 of Diane’s most masterful frames. Through her lenses layered mountains, windswept coastlines, rushing rivers, nesting raptors, reflecting ponds, weathered barns, and other treasures come into focus.

These images remind us of who we are, where we’re from, and why we’re proud. Thoughtful text by Georgia’s poet laureate, David Bottoms, sprinkles the book.”—Southern Living “Oglethorpe’s Dream is the perfect book for true Georgians and those who aspire to become one. It combines the award-winning photography of Diane Kirkland with the powerful writing of Georgia’s poet Laureate, Macon native David Bottoms, to create a unity of landscape and history. Together these two capture the beauty of the state and the richness of its history.

This is a book to be treasured. It will adorn coffee tables and attract serious and casual readers for years.”—Macon Magazine 2001 • 192 p. • 9.75 x 9.75 HC • 9780820323435 • $36.95 your price: $11.08

From the thousands of images taken over the years on their front porches and in their homes and yards, Sills has selected 143 portraits documenting the daily lives of four generations of a large southern family and combined them with interviews, correspondence, and the heartfelt poems of Tina Toole Truelove.

“A very strong and compelling book, one that will make a sound contribution to photography, cultural studies, documentary studies, and regional studies.”—Tom Rankin, Executive Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University “An honest portrayal of daily life in the present-day rural South, seen through the life of a single family.”—Library Journal 2001 • 192 p. • 10.5 x 8.5 142 doutone photos HC • 9780820321998 • $36.95 your price: $18.47

Vanishing Georgia Photographs from the Vanishing Georgia Collection, Georgia Department of Archives and History Prints by George S. Whiteley IV Text by Sherry Konter The absorbing vintage photographs brought together in Vanishing Georgia recall life in the state from halfway through the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.

“Any Georgian—anyone—fascinated with the way we live our lives, and the occasions we choose to record, will appreciate this volume.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A major contribution in documenting Georgia’s history.”—Atlanta Historical Journal “An entertaining and informative historical resource . . . Turning the pages of Vanishing Georgia, one gets a real sense of a society in transition. . . .

Vanishing Georgia is a gem.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2002 • 240 p. • 10.875 x 8.375 210 duotone photos PB • 9780820324951 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

about American culinary history and culture, I was also pleased to find that these writings really challenged some of my most basic assumptions about why Southern cuisine exists as it does today.”—David Chang, chef/owner of Momofuku “Not all for the serious, scholarly or scientific . . . Cornbread Nation 6 also brings humor and humanity to what could ultimately be the best on-going collection of food writing in America today.”—Edible Memphis 2012 • 288 p. • 6 x 9.25 10 b&w photos PB • 9780820342610 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Cornbread Nation 7 The Best of Southern Food Writing Edited by Francis Lam General editor, John T. Edge “Cornbread Nation 7 is American regionalism at its finest. It’s a splendid collection of tales of Southerners traveling abroad, immigrants journeying to the South, and children of immigrants living in the South and then reflecting on their heritage.”

—PopMatters “‘Love’ and ‘home’ (including homes far from the South) show up more than once in this book, but please don’t fear Crock-Pots of sentimentality. The subject—this great complicated subject of Southern food, Southern food history and chefs, the habits and humor and rules that go in and around and behind our food—is here described and analyzed and eulogized by some of the South’s finest writers.”—Garden & Gun 2014 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820346663 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Craig Claiborne’s Southern Cooking Foreword by John T. Edge and Georgeanna Milam Craig Claiborne, world traveler, iconic New York Times food writer, and author of more than twenty cookbooks, was always a southerner at heart. This is the only one of Claiborne’s cookbooks to focus exclusively on the South. It was, he readily admitted, his most personal book.

Edited by Brett Anderson General editor, John T. Edge

“Claiborne admires a good story and a good meal. And his mostly nostalgic, comforting view of southern food is as it should be. Instead of creating stir-fries of collards or fried chicken calzones he sticks to the basics. . . .

Mr. Claiborne’s collection is one the Southern-starved cook will reach for-recipes that stand the test of time.”—New York Times

“This collection captures both the spirit and the history of Southern food culture. The breadth of this collection is inspiring. To be able to read Frederick Douglass next to Edward Behr and Michael Pollan is exciting to me. As someone who is passionate

“Secure in his cooking skill and native Southernness, Claiborne also concocts Southern-style food, like catfish fillets in white-wine sauce. From the traditional to the original, these lucid, flavorful recipes will be welcomed by Claiborne’s substantial following and

food and cooking Cornbread Nation 6 The Best of Southern Food Writing

education 37 by fans of regional American cooking.”—Publishers Weekly

type of contextual labor invested in by Israel.”—Journal of Southern History

2012 • 392 p. • 7.25 x 9.25 PB • 9780820343341 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

2004 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820326467 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

class piece of historical scholarship.”—Willard B. Gatewood, author of Black Americans and the White Man’s Burden, 1898–1903

Nathalie Dupree’s Southern Memories

1998 • 488 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 32 photos HC • 9780820319872 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

Recipes and Reminiscences

Let Them Eat Data

Photographs by Tom Eckerle “Nathalie Dupree writes about food like no one else—with warmth, passion, and an unmistakable style of her own—but nowhere is her voice clearer, or more irresistibly charming, than in this timeless classic.”—Damon Lee Fowler, author of Classical Southern Cooking “Rich with classic and modern recipes.

The pictures of the dishes are so beautiful, you might be tempted to take a bite out of the page.”—Library Journal 2004 • 224 p. • 7.375 x 10 100 photos PB • 9780820326016 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

education Athens, 1861–1865 As Seen Through Letters in the University of Georgia Libraries Edited by Kenneth Coleman This collection of letters written by natives of Athens, Georgia, who were in the upper and middle economic classes, will be of special interest to those who are curious about the domestic impact of the Civil War in the South.

“A picture of life on the home front during the Civil War in a small but important Georgia city—Athens . . . It might be any small town in Georgia or the South. They make fascinating reading.”—Savannah News-Press 1969 • 132 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820302539 • $22.95 your price: $9.18

Before Scopes Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870–1925 Charles A. Israel “Before Scopes is gracefully written and thoroughly researched. . . . This study deserves the attention of all who are interested in the role of religion in public education.”—Journal of the American Academy of Religion “Israel skillfully contexualizes the Scopes trial and, without neglecting the intellectual conflict involved, clearly demonstrates that the broader and more significant issue was control of public education in a democratic society. Before Scopes complements the growing literature that undermines the portrayal of southern religion as individualistic and otherworldly. It also demonstrates that future studies on fundamentalism in the South would benefits from the

How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability

Berry College A History Ouida Dickey and Doyle Mathis “The significant contribution of Berry College: A History is that it presents the detailed story of an understudied institution in an understudied institutional category—namely, small private liberal arts colleges in the South. The book also pays justifiable homage to an important figure, Martha Berry, and has a broader appeal to Appalachian studies.”—John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education “This is a splendid and attractive work . . . told with balance and perspective. Institutional successes and short-comings are dealt with frankly, but commitment to Berry’s mission by successive generations of the college community has maintained and enhanced the motto and hallmark of a Berry education. For colleges considering the preparation of their own historical volume, Berry College: A History, provides an excellent model.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly 2005 • 256 p. • 8 x 10 101 b&w photos HC • 9780820327587 • $41.95 your price: $16.78

A Clashing of the Soul John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century Leroy Davis Foreword by John Hope Franklin “The definitive account of Hope’s life . . . As well as analyzing the era’s educational and racial politics, Davis paints a rounded and convincing portrait of John Hope as a man, a husband, and a father. . . . This fine study convincingly demonstrates that John Hope was one of the most important southern black leaders between Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.” —Journal of American History “A deeply researched, sensitive, and balanced account of the extraordinary career of an individual whose life was spent in combating the malignant consequences of racism. It is a first-

“Once again, C. A. Bowers has provided an important, profound, and disturbing critique, this time of computer technology. . . . This book is certain to make tangible the discomfort many feel with new and rapidly changing technology and to infuriate the believers and profitmakers from the same technology.”—David Suzuki “Bowers forcefully dismisses the views of those who claim that talk of an ecological crisis is but a liberal ruse used to control the lives of others. . . .

Let Them Eat Data is a welcome relief from the hubris exhibited by such digital devotees as Bill Gates, who unabashedly proclaim computers to be an Open Sesame to a brighter future for all mankind.”—The Ecologist 2000 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820322308 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Marching in Step Masculinity, Citizenship, and The Citadel in PostWorld War II America Alexander Macaulay “Macaulay presents this astute account of South Carolina’s military college, The Citadel, within the framework of masculinity and shows how concerns over manliness fueled both the school’s leaders’ and its students’ ideologies and actions and reflected American, southern, and South Carolinian anxieties about the tumultuous social and cultural transformations that followed World War II. This is an authoritative institutional history based on Macaulay’s perceptive understanding of his alma mater.”

—American Historical Review “Much more than an institutional history, this book’s most significant contribution is to show how such a deeply gendered and racialized place responded to and helped shape American arguments about gender and citizenship.”—Journal of Southern History 2009 • 308 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos HC • 9780820326511 • $47.95 your price: $14.38

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Memories of a Georgia Teacher Fifty Years in the Classroom Martha Mizell Puckett Edited by Hoyle B. Puckett Sr. “Memories evokes the sense of community that was so pronounced in rural Georgia during the twentieth century. It captures the way education worked back then, when schooling was not guaranteed by the state, and when local communities were often left pretty much on their own to build and maintain schools, purchase school books, and even put up the teacher.”

—Robert Cohen, New York University “A delightful vignette of the southern past . . . The book would be a useful supplement to classes in southern, educational, or women’s history.”

—Journal of Southern History 2002 • 336 p. • 6 x 9 14 photos HC • 9780820322599 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875–1915 Joan Marie Johnson “Johnson’s engaging portrait of an influential group of women significantly deepens our insight into the female college experience and the new models of activist womanhood that helped shape the Progressive Era South.”—Journal of American History “Johnson’s reliance on primary sources and scrupulous use of selected secondary sources make Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges a real contribution to southern women’s history at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When Johnson concentrates on the special influences of southern life, the result is especially fascinating.”—North Carolina Historical Review 2010 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 16 b&w photos PB • 9780820334684 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

Through the Arch An Illustrated Guide to the University of Georgia Campus Larry B. Dendy Much more than a guide to campus landmarks, this volume contains a wealth of historical detail and cultural perspective that would be a useful tool for the UGA freshmen first-year experience. With a succinct and highly accessible approach, Dendy has created a valuable resource that would appeal to current students, alumni, and anyone interested in UGA’s campus and its place in Georgia history” —Georgia Library Quarterly “This stunning campus guide documents how our university has bal-

anced its commitment to preservation and its need for expansion. To discover this beautiful place where the old and the new, the historic and the unprecedented, stand side by side, begin here in these pages.”—Dr. M. Louise McBee, Vice President Emeritus for Academic Affairs 2013 • 224 p. • 7.5 x 9 113 color and 19 b&w photos; 6 maps PB • 9780820342481 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Torches of Light Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South Ann Short Chirhart “Chirhart’s narrative pulls the reader along convincingly and effortlessly . . . she does a fine job of showing the racial and gender tensions that complicate the efforts of reformers . . . Chirhart recounts her subjects’ lives with respect and warmth.”—H-Net “Chirhart has written an outstanding study of education, race, and reform in Georgia . . . Chirhart’s is a solid study of the plight of a state’s public school teachers, the culture they created, the reform they supported, and the long-term results of their individual and collective activism. It proves that the transformative power of education extended beyond the classroom and into southern society itself.”

—American Historical Review 2005 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 20 b&w photos; 2 maps PB • 9780820326696 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Curator of Photography and Head of Collections, High Museum of Art “The photos are jarring, a depiction of decay that clearly hints at once-proud spaces, filled with the buzz of learning and growing. . . . Most of all, you can feel the people missing from the photos – the ghosts of a student body that once laughed and learned and chased dreams down the now-empty halls.”

—Savannah Morning News 2015 • 112 p. • 10 x 10 60 color and 10 b&w photos HC • 9780820348674 • $32.95 your price: $13.18

biography and memoir Alone atop the Hill The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press Edited by Carol McCabe Booker Foreword by Simeon Booker “Highly recommended for scholars and general readers interested in the history of journalism, especially the black press, women in journalism, and the national press corps.”—Library Journal “Provides a fascinating timeline of history to enlighten a generation that takes it for granted that a black woman can be the most powerful media personality in the United States. . . .

A fantastic prologue for study of black-oriented journalistic work in Washington, D.C. . . . But perhaps the most important audience for the book is young black women who want, as their employment, the ability to question high authority—those who are not afraid to step into the spotlight and fight for inclusion in Washington’s boys club on their own terms as independent African Americans.”

—The Root 2015 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 27 b&w photos HC • 9780820347981 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color The Past, Present, and Future of One Historically Black College Photographs by Andrew Feiler Andrew Feiler’s sixty stirring images of Atlanta’s Morris Brown College and its physical decline, accompanied by the insightful essays that frame them, give us a new way to think about the too often troubled status of historically black colleges and universities.

“Andrew Feiler’s photographs of the stilled campus of Morris Brown College conjure a haunting story that invites important dialogue on race, progress, and opportunity in America.”—Brett Abbott, Keough Family

The Cruel Country Judith Ortiz Cofer In this richly textured, deeply moving, and lyrical memoir, Judith Cofer’s vivid and compelling writing style is at its best. This journey to her mother’s deathbed in Puerto Rico has released her to tell the truth within the truth.

“How do we deal with loss? What motivates us to reflect on transience?

Judith Ortiz Cofer offers some answers in her marvelous disquisition on pain in this her best book.”—Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words and editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature “Judith Ortiz Cofer has done it again: let us into her life and her heart, brilliantly. A must-read for anyone who has lost a parent or straddled two cultures, The Cruel Country is a

biography and memoir 39 wise and generous memoir of exile, love, and homecoming.”—Joy Castro, author of Island of Bones 2015 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820347639 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

De Renne Three Generations of a Georgia Family William Harris Bragg Bragg’s account of the De Renne family vividly records their achievements as it reconstructs their life at Wormsloe and follows them in their travels around the world. It provides glimpses into the dynamics and behavior of one of Georgia’s oldest and most prominent families and the evolution of the southern aristocracy.

“This mammoth work is full of wonderful material. The research that has gone into it is extraordinary. Students and friends of Georgia history, of the histories of libraries, printing, and collecting, of American and southern intellectual history, and of the history of the family will find much of interest.”—David Moltke-Hansen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1999 • 784 p. • 6 x 9 250 b&w illus.

HC • 9780820320892 • $56.95 your price: $17.08

Emblems of Conduct Donald Windham The simple, moving memoir of the Depression-era youth in Atlanta of novelist Donald Windham. Praised as “a masterpiece” by Georges Simenon, Windham’s tale is at once a portrait of a bygone era in Atlanta and a moving statement about the physical and spiritual need of youth to take risks.

“Fills a gap in available gay literature from the pre-Stonewall years. The crisp prose and quiet emotional power . . . endows the memoir with the resonance of an enduring work of creative nonfiction.”—Lambda Book Report “A moving and rewarding piece of creative writing . . . Here is a childhood written with such integrity and a feeling of fidelity to time and place that not merely southerners will feel a sense of recognition but all others as well.”—New York Times Book Review 1996 • 224 p. • 6 x 8.5 PB • 9780820318417 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

He Included Me The Autobiography of Sarah Rice Transcribed and Edited by Louise Westling “Sarah Rice, a thrice-married, often impoverished black school teacher in the segregated rural schools of the South, tells a compelling, instructive, and otherwise unavailable story. It provides insight into black women struggling with the world of black

males as well as with contemporary American society.”—Choice “In the oral history tradition of Theodore Rosengarten’s All God’s Dangers, which related the hardships of a black sharecropper in Alabama, Louise Westling’s He Included Me reconstructs the difficult but dignified life of a black woman in Alabama and Florida during a large part of the twentieth century. It’s a moving story that reveals a hidden corner of American life.”—New York Times 1989 • 200 p. • 6 x 9 15 b&w photos HC • 9780820311418 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

John Oliver Killens A Life of Black Literary Activism Keith Gilyard “Gilyard’s affection and admiration for his subject shine through his words without falling into hero worship. This book certainly deserves consideration for college Black Studies courses, as well as a place in any African American Studies library collection.”

—ForeWord Reviews “I congratulate Keith Gilyard for bringing to life, in the pages of this absorbing book, a figure of genuine importance who certainly deserves a full-scale biography.”—Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph Ellison: A Biography 2010 • 456 p. • 6 x 9 54 b&w photos HC • 9780820335131 • $45.95 your price: $13.78

Journeyman A Novel Erskine Caldwell Foreword by Edwin T. Arnold This novel introduces one of Caldwell’s most memorable characters: the philandering, murderous itinerant preacher, Semon Dye. Part allegory, part tall tale, and with a good measure of old frontier humor, Journeyman tells of this devilish stranger who mysteriously arrives in Rocky Comfort, Georgia, and nearly tears the small community apart.

“Perhaps we’re like New Yorkers who have never seen the Statue of Liberty—we forget the genius in our own backyard. Erskine Caldwell is one. . . .

No one more richly deserves a critical renaissance than this writer, whose laser eye and balanced wit bring life to his work.”—Southern Living 1996 • 216 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820318486 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

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A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia Sarah Gordon With consulting editor Craig Amason Photographs by Marcelina Martin Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O’Connor’s readers to the places where the great writer lived and worked—places whose features and details sometimes found their way into her fiction.

“One must be grateful to Sarah Gordon—one of America’s leading O’Connor scholars—for her Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia. Her study is comprehensive, constituting an in­depth exploration of the Georgia places that were central in O’Connor’s life. The book provides an intimate view of O’Connor’s world and a superb introduction for anyone unfamiliar with the author’s work.”—Georgia Review 2008 • 136 p. • 8.5 x 8 65 color photos, 26 b&w photos PB • 9780820327631 • $20.95 your price: $10.47

Marching through Georgia My Walk along Sherman’s Route Jerry Ellis With a new preface and afterword by the author In 1864 Sherman made Civil War history with his infamous March to the Sea across Georgia. More than a century later, Jerry Ellis set out along the same route in search of the past and his southern and Cherokee heritage. On his trek he confronts the contradictions and complexities of his native region as he reflects on his own.

“A book about seemingly ordinary people who do seemingly ordinary things, from drinking whisky to tending goats, that under Ellis’s deft stylistic touch and wry sense of humor become extraordinary.”—Publishers Weekly “Sheds new light on an important part of our history . . . We discover what it meant and still means to be a southerner.”—Library Journal 2002 • 328 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 1 map PB • 9780820324258 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

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Memory of a Large Christmas

The Politics of Change in Georgia

Lillian Smith

A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall

“This funny, warm, touching, beautifully written book should be read by families at Christmas time as Dickens’ Christmas Carol used to be.”—New York Times Book Review “Smith has recorded some of her southern memories so evokingly that for a while we are convinced she is writing of a childhood we shared with her. And she does it with the light touch of humor. . . . All the family traditions that make each Christmas part of a splendid recurring rhythm are here.”—Christian Science Monitor 1996 • 88 p. • 5 x 7.5 HC • 9780820318424 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Mujer frente al sol La creacion de una escritora Judith Ortiz Cofer Traducido por Elena Olazagasti-Segovia This is the Spanish-language edition of Cofer’s memoir, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer.

“Cofer writes with conviction and power, encouraging all who aspire to writing or creative endeavor to pursue their dream with energy and dedication.”—Library Journal 2005 • 152 p. • 5 x 7 PB • 9780820326740 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Pauline E. Hopkins A Literary Biography Hanna Wallinger Virtually unknown for most of the twentieth century, Pauline E. Hopkins (1859–1930) is one of the most interesting rediscoveries of recent African American literary history. This is the first study devoted to Hopkins’s life and her influential career as an editor, political writer, social critic, playwright, biographer, and fiction writer.

“The strength of this biography is that it portrays Pauline Hopkins as a writer who invented as many opportunities as she was denied.”—New England Quarterly “A long awaited and much needed resource for Hopkins scholars . . .

Extremely valuable . . . Wallinger has drawn a winning portrait of the author and has met a vital need in Hopkins scholarship.”—Legacy 2012 • 384 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos PB • 9780820343457 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Harold Paulk Henderson “Henderson meticulously examines Arnall’s rapid political rise and equally rapid fall. He is best in explaining the personal relationships between Arnall and other Georgia political figures that determined the state’s political boundaries from the 1930s through the 1950s . . . By comprehensive use of Georgia newspapers and oral interviews and by diligent scouring of relevant but scattered manuscript collections, Henderson also has overcome a serious shortage of surviving Arnall papers to provide a welcome contribution to recent Southern political history.”—Journal of American History “Excellent . . . This is bare-knuckles political drama from a time when politics was Georgia’s favorite game. And it is important; for it chronicles a time when our state underwent landmark changes that shaped what it would become.”—Atlanta JournalConstitution 1991 • 376 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 33 photos HC • 9780820313061 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

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The Pussycat of Prizefighting Tiger Flowers and the Politics of Black Celebrity Andrew M. Kaye “Situates Tiger Flowers—and the fighter’s career—into the debate over race and racial symbolism in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Andrew Kaye realizes that Flowers never stood alone in the minds of Americans who followed his career—that Flowers was only a part of the story that involved battle royals, Jack Johnson, Battling Siki, and the great—primarily white—debate over the role of the black man in America.

Kaye’s work has nuance, depth, and insight that ranges far beyond the career of Tiger Flowers.”—Randy Roberts, author of Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes “A canonical text of critical importance. . . . Through Kaye’s analysis, we come to understand not only the cultural significance of boxing as a public ritual of violence used to demonstrate male power-strength, aggressiveness and honor. Through the example of Tiger Flowers, we behold how boxing transformed and became a vehicle for African American men to transcend the brutality and disallowances of

an American that valued blackness within the context of subordination and control.”—Journal of Sport History 2007 • 232 p. • 5.75 x 8.6875 18 b&w photos PB • 9780820329109 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

Ralph Ellison Emergence of Genius Lawrence Jackson “A rich, meticulous biography . . . Jackson beautifully contextualizes Ellison, whether in Oklahoma, Alabama, or New York . . . While evoking each of Ellison’s environments brilliantly, Jackson also discusses the influence of The Waste Land on Ellison’s young mind. This kind of cultural and psychological insight makes for a very satisfying counterpart.”—New York Times Book Review “An amazing and sensitive and superb book, very much worthy of one of the twentieth century’s greats. Jackson has also given us a thorough and sharp analysis and assessment of Ellison’s work. Those of us who will be forever moved and educated by Ellison will always be appreciative of what Jackson has done. His book will stand, for a long time, as the definitive portrait and analysis of a man from whom so many writers are descended.”—Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World 2007 • 520 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 21 b&w photos PB • 9780820329932 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Remembering Heaven’s Face A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam John Balaban “Quite simply one of the most beautifully written books ever published about Vietnam.”—Chicago Sun “Remarkable . . . exceptionally well written and moving . . . Few other writers have evoked the physical world of South Vietnam as well as Balaban does in this book.”—USA Today 2002 • 336 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 18 photos PB • 9780820324159 • $25.95 your price: $12.97

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Shatter Me with Dawn A Celebration of Country Life Sally Russell Illustrations by Katie Ridley “An affectionate tribute to country life . . . Both humorous and spiritual in tone, these celebratory tales and lessons constitute a vivid tapestry of one woman’s ordinary and extraordinary experiences.”—Booklist “Everybody seems to be writing of the joys of country living lately, but Russell is the first in my experience who can share that joy. Every word on every page leapt out at me, drawing in my eye and making me catch my breath.”—BookWomen 2001 • 256 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820322988 • $32.95 your price: $9.88

Surrendered Child A Birth Mother’s Journey Karen Salyer McElmurray McElmurray’s raw, poignant account of her journey from her teen years— when she put her newborn child up for adoption—to adulthood and a desperate search for the son she never knew.

“Graceful, shocking, sensuous, and gritty, this book questions consequences. It ends at the beginning and begins at the end. A wonderful, almost unbearably honest book.”—Sheri Reynolds, The Rapture of Canaan “Riveting and disturbing, McElmurray’s poetic language and utter honesty lift this story into the realm of grace—finally, this dark memoir is an enlightening and redemptive work of art.”—Lee Smith 2006 • 272 p. • 5.5 x 7.5 22 b&w photos PB • 9780820328232 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

An Un-American Childhood Ann Kimmage

An exciting, well-written memoir.”

—Library Journal 1998 • 288 p. • 5.5 x 9 19 b&w photos PB • 9780820320786 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

The Voices of Robby Wilde Elizabeth Kytle Foreword by Robert Coles An engrossing, often disturbing, look into the inner life of a paranoid schizophrenic, The Voices of Robby Wilde has greatly advanced the popular understanding of mental illness since its first publication in 1987.

“Told not just with incisive knowledge but the deepest compassion and understanding.”—Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness “Extremely well-written. Robby’s striving to live and work a normal life despite his illness raises him from being a common man to a more lofty station.”—E. Fuller Torrey, author of Surviving Schizophrenia

“An important domestic biography of a particularly significant southern family, recording everything from foodways to entertainments, sports to child-rearing methods. It is also a new reference tool in Harris studies, providing a record and catalog of Harris’s domestic letters and a good balance to earlier Harris biographies.”

—American Literature 1993 • 584 p. • 6 x 9 27 photos HC • 9780820314808 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

1995 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820317151 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

Yesterday in the Hills Floyd C. Watkins and Charles Hubert Watkins Foreword by Calvin S. Brown Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region.

Here is folklore at its best—seen from the inside and mediated though the heart.

“Authentic, flavorful chapters about oldtime hill people of North Georgia, their backbreaking field work, their song and play, their courtship, their neighborly exchange of help with the chores, their homemade remedies for illness and homemade practically everything else, their humor and their individuality.”—Publishers Weekly

The thoughtful memoir of Ann Kimmage’s experiences as a child and young woman in communist Czechoslovakia and China. Informative and passionate, An Un-American Childhood provides a unique perspective on the lives of American communist expatriates.

2000 • 200 p. • PB • 9780820321936 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

“A powerful, moving, and poignant memoir of a most unusual life.”

—Ronald Radosh, author of The Rosenberg File

Joel Chandler Harris’s Letters to His Children: A Domestic Biography

“Kimmage’s riveting account of her unorthodox upbringing, marked by secrecy, forced adaptation to strange environments, and a constant flow of stimulating houseguests, gives the reader an unusual perspective on the ramifications of American antiCommunist policies in the 1950s. . . .

has compiled 280 of these invariably supportive, affectionate and often wise letters. Gossipy, occasionally coy, and laden with domestic minutiae, they trace Harris’s growing interest in Roman Catholicism and provide a broad portrait of his Southern life.”

—Publishers Weekly

diaries and letters Dearest Chums and Partners

Edited by Hugh T. Keenan Foreword by R. Bruce Bickley “Between 1890, when the last of his four sons and two daughters moved away from their childhood home in West End, Ga., and his death, Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) conducted a voluminous correspondence with his children. Keenan, an English professor at Georgia State,

The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary Edited by Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese “The publication of Philip Quaque’s correspondence is a major contribution to the growing literature on the writing of the African Diaspora—until recently thought to be a contradiction in terms. Carretta and Reese are model scholars in the field, digging deep to illuminate the cross-cultural currents not only of trade but also of religion and literacy, and how each buoyed yet challenged transatlantic slavery.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr. “The editors have done an extraordinary and important job of introducing Philip Quaque’s voice to a new generation of readers. They have set the bar very high for others preparing editions of the correspondence and writings of Quaque’s contemporaries in this period of fertile circum-Atlantic exchange.”—International Bulletin of Missionary Research 2012 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 3 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820343099 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

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Mary Telfair to Mary Few Selected Letters, 1802–1844 Edited by Betty Wood “Telfair’s ruminations on men (‘the Insipids’), marriage (‘married life requires a double portion of energy’), and motherhood (‘a very difficult task’) illuminate women’s reasons for remaining single, while her reflections on her daily activities suggest the rewards of single life. . . . Mary Telfair’s letters are a valuable—and now, thanks to editor Betty Wood, a readily accessible—source for those interested in learning about the daily lives and inner worlds of single women in the antebellum South.”—Journal of Southern History “The letters in this collection offer a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on the social and intellectual life of a wealthy southern woman in the first half of the nineteenth century. . . .

Wood’s introduction and annotations make these letters a terrific source for scholars and readers intersted in southern and women’s history.”

—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 • 368 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 2 figures HC • 9780820329208 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Roots and Ever Green The Selected Letters of Ina Dillard Russell Edited by Sally Russell When Ina Dillard Russell died in 1953, flags throughout Georgia were lowered to half-mast in honor of her dedication to her state, community, and family.

Roots and Ever Green is the engaging true story, told through her letters, of this remarkable woman’s life at the turn of the century in a dramatically changing South.

“A first hand account of a woman’s life during an important period in southern history and one for which we have surprisingly little material of this kind . . . A remarkable story that draws the reader into the fabric of a woman’s life and brings alive the values and commitments she honored.”

—Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, author of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South 1999 • 400 p. • 6 x 9 18 b&w photos HC • 9780820321387 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

Shared Histories Transatlantic Letters between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929–1966 Edited by Angela Potter “A vivid picture of two fascinating women who wrote candidly about their personal lives and the historical

events swirling about them.”—Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin “Their letters provide a rare example of correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during the Second World War, as well as a record of a particular class at a time of great change (1929–1966).

And they are entertaining.”—Times Literary Supplement 2006 • 424 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 26 b&w photos, 4 figures PB • 9780820328027 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

To Find My Own Peace Grace King in Her Journals, 1886–1910 Edited by Melissa Walker Heidari “This collection is immensely enriched by the meticulous editing of Melissa Heidari. Detailed endnotes provide important contextual and historical background. The introduction blends biography with literary history and places the journals within the context of turn-of-the-century life narratives of American women. Our understanding of Grace King and her time will be greatly enriched by this edition.”—Journal of Southern History “To Find My Own Peace reveals much about the complexities of gender, race, class, and region in post-Reconstruction New Orleans. Heidari succeeds marvelously in reaching her two-fold goal: contributing to the scholarship on King and providing insight into the culture of the New South. . . . As with King’s novels, short stories, and other writings, these journals, and Heidari’s editing of them, are invaluable for a better understanding of the turn-ofthe-century South, with all its rich complexity.”—H-SAWH

to help the reader understand them.

Bleser is thoroughly familiar with Maria Bryan’s social milieu and shares her knowledge fully yet unobtrusively.”—Journal of American History 1996 • 444 p. • 6 x 9 16 photos; 1 map HC • 9780820317274 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

essays and creative nonfiction American Wars, American Peace Notes from a Son of the Empire Philip D. Beidler “A superb piece of intellectual analysis—rigorous, caustic, poignant, bold in its thematic connections, both personal and historical in its scope, energetically written, and wholly convincing. There is no higher praise than to say that this book is a legitimate heir to the work of Paul Fussell and J. Glenn Gray.”—Tim O’Brien, author of July, July “This collection of essays by Philip Beidler is at once thoughtful and poignant, astonishing in the way that intelligent folks are irked and puzzled by clownish arrogance of our doofus national leaders, and ripe with the ironies that reverberate down to us, still, from our war in Vietnam. The writing is crisp and clean in the way of a master like George Orwell and helps us to cipher out the conundrums and contradictions of our modern American lives. Well done, Mr. Beidler. Tell us more.”—Larry Heinemann, author of Paco’s Story 2007 • 184 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820329697 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

2004 • 278 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos HC • 9780820325651 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Tokens of Affection The Letters of a Planter’s Daughter in the Old South Maria Bryan Edited by Carol K. Bleser All of the known letters written by Maria Bryan (1808–1844) of Mt. Zion, Georgia, to her sister Julia Bryan Cumming of Augusta. Spanning a period from the mid-1820s to the mid-1840s, the letters relate firsthand the daily affairs and concerns of a planter’s daughter on a moderately successful plantation.

“Chatty, thoughtful, and often charming . . . The richness of Maria’s letters is enhanced by Bleser’s careful editing.

Instead of a lengthy biographical introduction, Bleser provides running headings to the letters detailing movements of key family members, identifying important characters, and offering other information designed

Augury Philip Garrison Selected by Robert Atwan “These often profound essays . . . transform a physical landscape into a mindscape of odd discoveries, haunting juxtapositions, and shifting perceptual boundaries. . . . Garrison is in perfect control of his medium.”

—Publishers Weekly “At its best, as it is here, [the essay] is a kind of ruminative thinking on the page or writing as the reader watches, something akin to Georges Simenon’s

essays and creative nonfiction 43 feat of writing a novel in a Paris bookstore window.”—Chicago Tribune 2014 • 176 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820347479 • $18.95 your price: $7.58

Battlegrounds of Memory Clay Lewis “Battlegrounds of Memory has passionate intensity. It is an important and exciting book about family and self-acceptance.”—Steven Harvey, author of Lost in Translation “There is poetry and a touch of Proust in this fine memoir in which absence is at the heart of history.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1998 • 240 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820320090 • $31.95 your price: $9.58

Billy Watson’s Croker Sack Franklin Burroughs “An exquisitely wrought and unerringly graceful book.”—Jim Harrison “His essays evoke William Faulkner’s South and E. B. White’s farm. But Burroughs’s style is distinctly his own: always elegant, sometimes simple, plainly honest, and, perhaps most of all, completely authentic. . . . Burroughs is the kind of essayist whose vision transcends time and place. . . .

He writes of the stuff of life and does so with a grace and honesty that left me aching for more.”—Fourth Genre 1998 • 160 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 1 b&w illus.

PB • 9780820319995 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Campus Sexpot A Memoir David Carkeet “Hilarious, bizarre, intricate, poignant, piercing, startlingly honest, eyepoppingly funny, and ultimately, to the reader’s surprise and delight, a book not about lust but very much about love, mysterious and miraculous. A riveting book.”—Brian Doyle, author of Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies “Carkeet has a well-earned reputation as one of the funniest and most entertaining comic writers working today.

In Campus Sexpot, his first memoir, Carkeet turns his attention to smalltown America, to the strangeness and hilarity of SEX, and to the fascinating and beautifully observed contradictions that lie at the center of family life. Campus Sexpot is an addictive joy to read.”—John Dalton, author of Heaven Lake 2007 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8 PB • 9780820330136 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

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Cartographies Meditations on Travel Marjorie Agosín Translated and with an introduction

by Nancy Abraham Hall Prelude by Isabel Allende “One does not read as much as dreamily float through Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies, her tales of grand and shy cities, lovelorn landscapes. The world, in its many guises, is revealed inside out by the surprise and surety of her beautiful, fluid prose.”—Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love “Prague and Vienna, Budapest, Croatia, Rhodes, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Rome, Assisi, Ireland, London, Amsterdam-these are just some of the places that the author provides glimpses of in her poetic descriptions.

She has written a travel book that can also be enjoyed as short, isolated reflections in which individual scenes reverberate like private prayer.”

—Booklist

of Africa, we are near death, both the deaths of the hunted and sometimes also of the hunters.”—North Dakota Quarterly “This spring, two of America’s most sophisticated travel writers . . . [have written] up their own recent journeys through Africa. . . . In contrast to Paul Theroux, who is constantly checking the measure of other people’s reaction to him, James Kilgo writes with such unfettered curiosity that it erases his presence and puts the reader in his shoes. Who wouldn’t want to be high-stepping through the bush, peering at magnificent birds and bulls, falling asleep at night to the cries of hyenas? OK, perhaps not everyone.

But thanks to this book, we can be right there with him, while safely at home.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer 2007 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820330174 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

2007 • 160 p. • 5.375 x 7.5 PB • 9780820329529 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Chattooga Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River John Lane “Having previously explored the river, Lane returns to journey the entire length of it, describing its natural beauty and danger as well as pausing to view it through the prism of Dickey’s book. . . . Lane artfully applies his poetic sensibility to the river itself. . . .

Lane’s own writing and observations are good enough to stand outside of Dickey’s considerable shadow.”

—Publishers Weekly “Lane hikes alongside the Chattooga and kayaks down its waters. He explores the literature of the river and fishing and weaves in the history of the area. . . . Like all good nature writers, Lane adds his personal history to the natural history and human cultural history of the river.”—Rapid River 2005 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 9 1 map PB • 9780820327754 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Colors of Africa James Kilgo With illustrations by the author “Kilgo was an American hunter, writer, and professor with a lifelong curiosity about and interest in Africa that he was given an unexpected chance to satisfy near the end of his life. He seized the day, and eventually this chronicle was published posthumously. The knowledge of this timing gives the narrative an added poignancy in its reminder that in the midst of life, and especially the unique and glorious life of the hills and plains

Companion to an Untold Story Marcia Aldrich Selected by Susan Orlean “A wise reflection, both sympathetic and unflinching, on the life and death by suicide of the author’s friend. The book poses questions about suicide and the processes leading up to it and provides answers too . . . when they exist. Perhaps just as importantly, the book leaves unanswerable questions as such, accurately and creatively distilling the experiences of those bereaved by suicide.”—Thomas Joiner, author of Why People Die by Suicide The overall effect of [Companion to an Untold Story] is haunting, and the list of images and entries creates a sense that, like most lasting grief, this story will never end for the narrator. Strange and highly personal details . . . give the reader the feeling of standing with the narrator at the edge of Joel’s death and, like the narrator, trying to put the pieces together.”—Fourth Genre 2012 • 280 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 15 b&w photos; 1 table HC • 9780820343372 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

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Crossing Wildcat Ridge A Memoir of Nature and Healing Philip Lee Williams “A unique and beautiful work lying somewhere in the interstices between poetry and prose, between the scientist’s analysis and the mystic’s meditation. Within its fabric, two intertwine. . . . Williams strips reality to the bone and with the precision of a Zen master’s sword slices through to the immediacy of raw experience. . . .

His passion then invites the reader to slow down, see, hear, feel, and finally be, and in so being, be fulfilled.”

—Bloomsbury Review “Felicitous and affecting . . . Williams is definitely on to something in associating nature and healing.”

—Mississippi Quarterly 1999 • 240 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820320908 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

Dark Waves and Light Matter Essays Albert Goldbarth “Goldbarth belongs by rights to the company of America’s premiere literary essayists, somewhere between Annie Dillard and Foster Wallace.”

—Publishers Weekly “Goldbarth is as astonishing as an essayist as he is as a poet and novelist.”—Beloit Poetry Journal 1999 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820321264 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Deep Enough for Ivorybills James Kilgo “Kilgo’s powerful memoir does justice to the finest literature in the southern tradition. . . . The book is the latecoming-of-age journal of a mature man who, reviving his childhood fascination with the woods, projects himself back into the wild country as he reaches into his family’s past to understand its relationship to the land he hunts. . . . It should be consumed in small portions, a chapter or less at a time, and savored by the moment.”

—New York Times Book Review “Throughout this small, taut book, Kilgo’s feeling for the bottomland comes through in quiet, honest, and convincing language.”—Outside Magazine 1995 • 208 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 17 drawings PB • 9780820317601 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Devotion A novel based on the life of Winnie Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy Julia Oliver “Oliver seems the perfect author to capture the ethereal nature of Winnie Davis—once a living legacy, a complex

and talented woman almost eclipsed by her family and burdened with more history than she could bear. This novel about her is long overdue.”—Ruth Ann Coski, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia “This well-researched novel offers much detail of the era and profiles of historic personages.”—Kirkus Reviews 2008 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820332048 • $22.95 your price: $6.88

Dough A Memoir Mort Zachter “What if, after a life of struggle, you found out you were about to inherit several million dollars? Run to the Mercedes dealer? Call your travel agent? Call Paine Webber? Mort Zachter did none of the above. Mort turned first into an investigator, trying to unlock the mystery of how his modest, bread-selling family amassed a secret fortune. And then Mort turned into a writer, putting down the tale in this delightful and elegant book. Read it.

It will make you smile and see that sometimes good things happen to good people.”—Ari L. Goldman, author of Living a Year of Kaddish “Zachter charmingly portrays the changing Lower East Side. . . . Zachter never seems bitter, describing the discovery of his uncles’ secret hoard with such surpassing sweetness and affection that readers won’t dream of envying his newfound wealth . . .

A warm family narrative.”—Kirkus Reviews 2007 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 1 b&w photo HC • 9780820329345 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

“Ray, who danced nature writing into new and fertile terrain with An Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, introduces readers to one of the glories of the South, the Altamaha River. . . . Ray’s encompassing, gracefully informative homage to what the Nature Conservancy has designated as one of the ‘75 Last Great Places’ in the world is ecstatic and incensed.”—Booklist 2013 • 280 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 19 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820345321 • $20.95 your price: $10.47 HC • 9780820338156 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

A Field Guide for Immersion Writing Memoir, Journalism, and Travel Robin Hemley “A Field Guide for Immersion Writing is indispensable. In it, Robin Hemley is very funny but serious all the while.

He explains and defines and prompts and reports with great clarity, teaching and informing and urging as he entertains. The quotations and examples from accomplished writers are generous and just plain great, many of them from essays and articles and books I’ve missed, with lessons in the most unexpected places. ‘A good book is always about more than one thing,’ Robin says, and the Field Guide is a book about life as much as it’s about writing. I mean, it’s that important, whether you plan to write or not.”

—Bill Roorbach, author of Writing Life Stories and Contemporary Creative Nonfiction “This ‘field guide’ is exactly that: lessons for writers wishing to practice these forms. It brings principles of ethnographic methodologies into focus for writers not schooled in introductory anthropology. It is also an entertaining survey of contemporary writing. Hemley’s categorical approach serves to highlight similarities and (sometimes subtle) differences among these forms and the practices that create them.”—Choice 2012 • 192 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820342559 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

Drifting into Darien A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River Janisse Ray “Janisse Ray is, and has always been, the real authentic deal. She feels deeply about the land, the water, the life of this planet. She lives that conviction. And she is blessed with the gift to write about this earth in a way that touches us all. From one Georgia girl to another: Janisse, you and your work inspire me. Read her words. Be inspired.”—Tina McElroy Ansa, Novelist, Baby of the Family, Ugly Ways, Taking After Mudear

The Flatness and Other Landscapes Michael Martone “Michael Martone writes with deep affection for the ordinary. In his hands, the quotidian dreams of the American Heartland are transformed and quietly exalted.”—Louise Erdrich “As others have exalted America’s mountains and coasts, so Martone strives to pen a love song to his beloved, if flat, home. . . . He marks the Midwest with tales like thumbtacks, and in doing so not only calls attention to places that are ‘hidden in plain sight,’ but challenges his readers to think about the spaces between

essays and creative nonfiction 45 mappings, and the glittering stories waiting to be unearthed there.”

—Austin Chronicle 2003 • 184 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820324791 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Increase Lia Purpura “This powerful, crafted book is, at one level, a meditation on pregnancy and birth, on the giving and gathering of time. But at a deeper level it is a true and eloquent addition to the literature of self-knowledge. What makes this book so strong is that throughout its sustained, lyrical meditation we observe not just a child growing towards birth, but a self growing towards self-definition. This is an adventure in style and music that draws the reader in and offers surprises and truths at every turn.”

—Eavan Boland “Awe is one of many things a reader can gain from reading Increase. Here we are in the hands of an original-thinking Madonna, one who sees honeycombs in the playpen mesh and bathwater as a silver scarf. She reminds us that the miracle of birth is real to someone all the time, and that everyone, even the murderous terrorist on the evening news, started out as somebody’s baby.”—Fourth Genre

way it offers a glimpse into an entire culture—in this case the culture of belief. . . . The people Anderson writes about are divided between those who want to imprison God within their belief and those who do not. What Anderson captures is the journey from one view to the other, the toll it takes, and what remains once he reaches the other shore.”—Fourth Genre

outlets, Vann really does paint a sympathetic portrait of this shooter.”

—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews

“Charming, thoughtful debut memoir of a Baptist adolescent’s drift toward earthly temptation. . . . Anderson effectively employs a quiet Midwestern humor; his understanding of how transient pop culture can affect personal watersheds reinforces his incremental portrait of a young rocker tempted and transformed. Deeply concerned with discerning larger communities, his narrative is solidly rather than flashily written. . . . Unusual, worthy of consideration, and admirable for the spiritual questions it raises.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Legacy of Vietnam

2007 • 288 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820330129 • $22.95 your price: $6.88

2015 • 152 p. • Other PB • 9780820348407 • $18.95 your price: $7.58

Inheritance of Horses James Kilgo “This is mighty fine writing. . . . These essays are made of the real stuff of life, movingly portrayed, deeply touched with humor and dignity and sadness and, above all, the joy of life. There is great eloquence here.”—Larry Brown, author of Fay “This is not a book about a midlife crisis, but a book of self-reflection in the best sense, a way of noting down the details of the author’s world that makes us want to know more about the places he inhabits. There is a high value placed on storytelling here, and Mr. Kilgo’s writing reflects time spent retelling the adventures of the day back at the campfire in the evening.

But he has matched his marvelous ear for dialogue with a clean, direct style that is lyrical without becoming sentimental. . . . The obvious comparison is to Hemingway.”—New York Times Book Review 1995 • 160 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820317960 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Jesus Sound Explosion Mark Curtis Anderson “While we expect the details of a memoirist to be revealing of his or her own personal circumstances, Jesus Sound Explosion is remarkable for the

Last Day on Earth A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter David Vann On Valentine’s Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. David Vann, investigating for Esquire, gained full access to the entire 1,500 pages of the police files. The result: the most complete portrait we have of any school shooter.

“Vann’s look at Kazmierczak is unflinching and careful; he presents exceedingly well-organized research on the shooter, a fleshed-out play-byplay of his life from young adulthood up until the attack, replete with quotes from e-mails, papers, and chat messages that trace his slow descent from a troubled young man with promise into one quietly spiraling out of control.”—Boston Globe “Last Day on Earth is an intriguing read not only because it attempts to show some insight into a shooter’s mind, but also because the author, David Vann, looks to his own childhood as a parallel experience. . . . Foregoing the fear-mongering and sensationalizing of most media

2013 • 184 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820345345 • $18.95 your price: $5.68

Late Thoughts on an Old War Philip D. Beidler “Beidler led an armored cavalry platoon in Vietnam, where he certainly saw his share of action. In these thoughtful essays, he keeps trying to understand that war, even though most of the country no longer seems to care. . . . What people need to pay more attention to, Beidler contends, are the ideas of national destiny and exceptionalism that can lead us into disaster. . . . This interesting and well-argued book is strongly recommended for both public and academic libraries.”—Library Journal “A powerful and angry personal statement that expresses profound thoughts and misgivings not only about the aftermath of the US’s encounter with Vietnam but also about its current military and ideological direction in a post-9/11 world. . . . Beidler goes beyond critical commentary to speak with sensitivity and gravitas on how the strongest nation on the planet conducts its affairs.

Beidler aims at a perfect marriage between critical commentary and moral indignation and, at times, his voice takes on the cast of a Swift or Samuel Johnson. This sobering and illuminating work has application far beyond Vietnam War literature.”

—Choice 2007 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820330013 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Living to Prowl Sam Pickering “The art of the essay as delivered by Mr. Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.”—New York Times Book Review “Pickering takes up the stance of the congenial amateur, familiar with a great many things but expert in none, frank about the world’s convictions, enemy to pomposity, a representative man who enjoys without apology the pleasures of household and flesh.”

—Scott Russell Sanders “Pickering has all of Thurber’s humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White.

He writes with passion, wit, and a strange personal note of self-mockery; he is humanely educated, wise, and capable of a wide range of stylistic effects.”—Jay Parini 1998 • 192 p. • 5.25 x 8.25 1 illus.

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Lost in Translation Steven Harvey

the edges of the town and on the edges of the stories.”—Booklist

“The appeal of these personal essays lies in the eclectic choice of topics and the intriguing directions Harvey pursues. His skill with language brings a poetic sensibility to the insights that are revealed. His book will appeal to readers who enjoy the unexpected in an essay.”—Library Journal

1999 • 256 p. • 5.5 x 8 39 b&w photos HC • 9780820321004 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

“Harvey breathes lyricism and beauty into ordinary hours. He rummages time and place and arranges knickknacks so that the pages exhilarate.”

—Samuel Pickering Jr., author of The Blue Caterpillar and Other Essays

“This picaresque memoir of a woman with brains and desires (not always operating in unison) is a joy. It tracks a runaway life with consummate control and aphoristic wit.”—Phillip Lopate

1997 • 136 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820318905 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

“Debra Monroe’s blue-collar-toacademia memoir My Unsentimental Education is as well-written as it is wise.”—Austin Chronicle

Mot A Memoir Sarah Einstein Selected by John Phillip Santos “Sarah Einstein is a brave, compassionate writer, and in Mot, A Memoir, she honors a beautiful, honest friendship.”—Rain Taxi Review of Books “Beautifully written, Mot vividly evokes quotidian parking lots, campgrounds, and scenery and explores complicated, omnipresent moral questions about what it means to give, take, offer, need, and befriend in a way that will make it a reference point for me for years to come.”—The Rumpus 2015 • 168 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820348209 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Mountain Blood Will Baker Selected by Annie Dillard “Extraordinarily splendid writing. . . .

Mountain Blood captures the independent spirit and sensibility of the American West.”—Harper’s “Strong prose writing in the tradition of A River Runs Through It—writing which does not strain to be literary, but which instead evokes a vivid world of people and events.”—Annie Dillard 2014 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 15 b&w photos PB • 9780820347622 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

My Grandfather’s Finger Edward Swift Photographs by Lynn Lennon “Utterly beguiling. A work of charm, wit, honesty, and heart.”—Carole Maso, author of Defiance “The characters you meet in this book make Bailey White’s seem like everyday folks.”—Austin American-Statesman “Funny and poignant, this anecdotal memoir of a World War II childhood in an isolated hamlet in east Texas avoids nostalgia and reveals a darkness on

My Unsentimental Education Debra Monroe

2015 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820348742 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

On the Outskirts of Normal Forging a Family Against the Grain

Riding the Demon On the Road in West Africa Peter Chilson Selected by James Galvin “Bush taxi drivers have a sympathetic, if somewhat frazzled, advocate in Chilson. He documents the dreams and frustrations of these men (and a couple of women) and the battles waged by them and their Peugeot 504s against potholes, roadblocks, corruption, bad petrol, devils, and the lack of genuine spare parts.”—Times Literary Supplement “Chilson’s book, as vivid in places as a nightmare, has all the revelatory power of the early explorers’ narratives, with their shreds of myth and rumor snatched from the borders of terra incognita.”—New York Times Book Review 2015 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 1 map PB • 9780820347486 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Debra Monroe “Debra Monroe writes about the complications, and gifts, of transracial adoption.”—Salon “Should a middle-aged white woman with a history of failed relationships try to raise a black baby in small-town Texas? Author Monroe proves she’s got the right stuff. Candid about men, mothering, racism, and her own flaws, she shows that it’s possible to create something beautiful out of a tattered past.”—People 2015 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 2 b&w photos PB • 9780820349114 • $18.95 your price: $9.47

Pirates You Don’t Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life Collected Essays John Griswold “I generally feel indifference for books about writing by writers or anybody. But this one I unabashedly love, embrace, scribble in, underline, copy, quote out loud to my wife. I say without reservation, John Griswold is one of the best essayists inhabiting this land.”—Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul “What is immediately evident in Griswold’s work is a unique blending of high art and folksy comfort. His writing is as witty and insightful as anything David Sedaris creates, but it’s often presented through a hallof-mirrors structure that suggests a deep passion for Borges. . . . The book bubbles with heart and humor.”

—American Book Review 2014 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820346786 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

The Riots Danielle Cadena Deulen “There is general agreement that adverse childhood experiences leave permanent scars, but with a person as gifted as Danielle Cadena Deulen, the result is transformative for writer and reader alike. . . . Deulen poignantly and poetically relates the effects such experiences had on her, her family, and those around her. It is a sad, but beautiful, and, ultimately uplifting compilation.”—ForeWord Reviews “Danielle Cadena Deulen has hit her stride and shows no signs of slowing.

In a one-two punch, she has demonstrated her strength in prose and verse with recent successes in the awards circle. . . . One might think Deulen was born with a lucky streak, yet the linked essays in The Riots prove otherwise. . . . Throughout, Deulen seems both in charge of her determination yet powerless to change what life has allotted her. The result is a collection that encapsulates the awkwardness and discomfort of the author’s past, present, and future.”—Iowa Review 2013 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820344386 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

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The River Home A Return to the Carolina Low Country Franklin Burroughs “The hot-damnedest literary canoe trip since John Graves’ Goodbye to a River.”—John. G. Mitchell “The River Home is a wonderful book.

If you’re interested in South Carolina history in general or the human condition in particular, this trip down the Waccamaw is a must.”—South Carolina Historical Magazine 1998 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 16 illus.; 1 map PB • 9780820319988 • $20.95 your price: $6.28

Sleeping with One Eye Open Women Writers and the Art of Survival Edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer “Well-written . . . All the essays will be inspiring to both active and would-be artists.”—Booklist “Presents a wellspring of inspiration and encouragement for women who wrestle with satisfying their gift of word.”—ForeWord 1999 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 1 b&w illus.

PB • 9780820321530 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

guides us to a distant landscape of borders visible and invisible and of enriching change. Throughout, Hoffman is a superb tour guide: observant, knowledgeable, and deftly surprising in the connections he makes among the myriad small things he enables us to see.”—Elizabeth Dodd, author of Horizon’s Lens 2014 • 168 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820347578 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Solitary Goose Sydney Landon Plum “This is a careful and insight-filled account of an old and vexing question: how to make sense of the relationship between man and beast. It’s also quite a lovely book.”—Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future “In this delicately balanced story of one goose, Sydney Plum has crafted a thought-provoking essay exploring the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. I highly recommend it.”—David Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds 2009 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820334325 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Southern Odyssey Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson Edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor and Charles E. Modlin The pieces collected here present Anderson’s perceptive vision of the South, combining his love for the region with the fresh observations of an outsider. In more than forty selections of journalism and fiction, Anderson explores its people, problems, and natural splendor.

The Small Heart of Things Being at Home in a Beckoning World Julian Hoffman Selected by Terry Tempest Williams “Hoffman does not fail to find the magnificent in habitats both pristine and disturbed. Nature, for him, is everywhere and only waiting to be discovered and engaged. His essays crystallize these discoveries into experiences able to be shared between him and the reader using language rich in metaphor and lyricism.”—Terrain.org “‘To be at home in the world is to let ourselves be drawn into its embrace,’ writes Julian Hoffman in this sparkling, humane collection of essays.

Something similar can be said about reading his exquisite book—we’re drawn into the warmth and intimacy of his meditations. Part travel writing, part environmental witness, part celebration of the human spirit in the more-than-human world, this book

“Seldom given as much attention as they deserve, the archetypal Ohioan Anderson’s last sixteen years in and around Virginia are the focus of this helpfully introduced and unobtrusively annotated selection of essays. . . . These essays, all vintage Anderson in style and tone, help explain the last phase of a seminal American literary career.”—Library Journal 1997 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820318998 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Storyville, USA Dale Peterson The sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of nearly sixty small towns, as well as the zany stories behind them, guided by an AAA Road Atlas, expert local storytellers, and lots of curiosity. This comic and insightful work is a long, winding trip into the back roads of the country and a longer one into the hinterland of our own hearts.

“Only a talented writer with a good sense of humor would come up with an idea like this. Dale Peterson

encourages his research team—his children—not only to observe that which is in front of their eyes, but also to think about that which has gone. This book sounds a knell for the passing of so much that was of value in local cultures and local environments.

Buy Storyville, USA and you will laugh, you will feel sad, and you will be the wiser..”—Jane Goodall “Peterson has an appreciation for places off the beaten path and an eye for the minutiae of everyday life. . . . A warm father-child travelogue.”

—Booklist 2001 • 312 p. • 6 x 9 1 map PB • 9780820323039 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

Study in Perfect Sarah Gorham Selected by Bernard Cooper “This superb collection from Gorham, author of poetry collections (Bad Daughter) and Sarabande Books’s editor-in-chief, exemplifies the best in creative nonfiction. . . . The prose is simple—the very opposite of acrobatic—yet also surprising, fresh, and rhythmic. . . . No collection is perfect . . . but this book comes gloriously close.”—Publisher’s Weekly “As in poetry, Gorham’s essays maximize white space, incorporate imagery, make surprising leaps, and provide some of the best reading in the genre one could find. They are each entertaining, beautifully written, and possess what has been referred to as a built-in mechanism for provoking meditation.”—Antioch Review 2014 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820347127 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Themes for English B A Professor’s Education In and Out of Class J. D. Scrimgeour “Writing organizes life. J.D. Scrimgeour lays his life out like themes on a desk. Here a paper on teaching; there a paper on basketball—all the papers full and rich with wonder and thought, all the themes A’s, teaching and delighting, making readers ponder their own lives.”—Sam Pickering, author of Letters to a Teacher “Told in a humane and inviting fashion, Themes for English B gives us a poignant glimpse into the mind of a man fighting disillusionment with the ideals of the visionaries of the past and the privileges that brought him, a white Columbia graduate, to the halls of Salem State College where he teaches in Massachusetts.”—Robin Hemley, Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa 2006 • 160 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820328478 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

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Tip of the Iceberg Larry O’Connor “O’Connor skates between the lore of the frozen North and the lure of a family secret he’s driven to explore and expose.”—Wall Street Journal “A loving portrait of a boy, his family, and life in a cold Canadian town. It’s about dreams and memories and secrets that can’t stay secret forever.

It’s a slim book whose weight is in its details: precise intimate depictions of the author’s parents and of a town that springs to life in our minds as our memories of our own towns. . . . Should strike a resounding chord with readers of such memoirs as Russell Baker’s Growing Up and Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life.”—Booklist 2002 • 184 p. • 5.5 x 8 HC • 9780820323565 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

Ultra-Talk Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, And 17 Other Colossal Topics Of Conversation David Kirby “Ultra-Talk is one of the most deliciously unclassifiable books I’ve read in years. In seventeen zigzagging essays, David Kirby gives us a peek into his personal cabinet of wonders, where Johnny Cash rubs shoulders with Shakespeare and Saint Teresa casts her ecstatic shadow over the Talladega Superspeedway. The result is ultra-smart, ultra-fun, and tremendously enlightening.”—James Marcus, author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut “An index of half its length would make any culture-lover swoon, but Kirby possesses an extraordinary talent for collecting ideas, personalities, and physical details. And the essays themselves live up to the eclecticism promised by the index. . . . In the end, Kirby’s status as a poet powers him through this ambitious collection of tirades, elegies, and investigations. . . .

His genuine research and enthusiasm thoroughly wins us over.”—Verse 2007 • 280 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820329093 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Unconventions Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art Writings on Writing by Michael Martone “The author is certifiably unconventional—a young man who truly marches to the beat of a different drummer. . . . A splendid little handbook for writers that is like no other, one that suggests different ways of looking at matters pertaining to writing and different ways of thinking about them; stimulatingly unconventional.”—ForeWord

“Martone sees from acute angles, perceiving what others miss. . . . His stories contain life, served in generous helpings. Three pages of Martone’s writing feel as full of experience and detail as whole chapters of other authors’ work. . . . His methods in the classroom are intelligent and challenging, and they are everywhere realized in the essay collection Unconventions. . . . It records in book form just what a class with Martone can be like, what is at once so engaging and so demanding.”—Bookforum 2005 • 204 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820327792 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

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The Unequal Hours Moments of Being in the Natural World Linda Underhill “In these jewel-like essays, Underhill invites readers to practice the difficult art of stillness.”—Publishers Weekly

The Woods Stretched for Miles New Nature Writing from the South Edited by John Lane and Gerald Thurmond Essays about southern landscape and nature from nineteen writers with geographic or ancestral ties to the region. This remarkable group encompasses not only such well-known names as Wendell Berry and Rick Bass but also distinctive new voices, including Christopher Camuto, Susan Cerulean, and Eddy L. Harris.

“The Woods Stretched for Miles is by turns lively, enchanting, provocative, amusing. It will be a great gift, and a great anthology for classroom use.”

—ISLE “These writers are careful and accurate observers of both emotion and place. . . . The language is exceptional.”—Library Journal 1999 • 256 p. • PB • 9780820320885 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

nature and environment

“Illustrates the author’s close attention to nature as she describes the exquisite images and character of her hometown in rural western New York State, a community threatened by a toxic waste dump. . . . Underhill has developed a unique, calming rhythm of her own, describing meditations on the natural world.”—Library Journal 1999 • 160 p. • 5.25 x 8.25 HC • 9780820320403 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

Altamaha

Vanished Gardens

A River and Its Keeper

Finding Nature in Philadelphia

Photographs by James Holland Text by Dorinda G. Dallmeyer and Janisse Ray

Sharon White “Sharon White mixes memory and desire in this multi-layered exploration of the archeology of the gardens of old Philadelphia. Evocative, historical, and sensual all at once, her book reveals the former diversity and richness that lies beneath the contemporary city; you can almost smell the storied vegetation of some of America’s most important, now lost gardens.”—John Hanson Mitchell, author of The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston “A thorough and thoughtful look at the evolution of Philadelphia gardens . . . The chronology of the growth and later descent of gardens in the city will charm all, especially residents. Overall, White’s book is an insightful study in to the area’s environmental history and the fascinating life of one of the city’s most celebrated families.”

—South Philly Review 2011 • 216 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 1 photo PB • 9780820337821 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Formed by the confluence of the Ocmulgee and Oconee Rivers, the Altamaha is the largest free-flowing river on the East Coast and drains its third-largest watershed. In evocative photography and elegant prose, Altamaha captures the beauty of this river and offers a portrait of James Holland, who has become its improbable guardian.

“A stunning and captivating collection of photographs of the wildlife and habitat of the Altamaha River.”

—Sally Bethea, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper “This is a beautiful book about a beautiful place. Dallmeyer, Ray, and Holland tell the story of the Altamaha River, southeast Georgia’s extraordinary ecological gem, and in the process have given us something to admire and inspire.”—Albert G. Way, author of Conserving Southern Longleaf 2012 • 288 p. • 11 x 8.5

230 color photos; 2 maps PB • 9780820343129 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

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Always the Mountains David Rothenberg “Rothenberg’s mountain excursions are absolutely the best since Thoreau’s Katahdin and Muir’s The Mountains of California. His prose is effortless, yet anchored in granitic truth. Truly an inspiring alternative to the ‘peak bagging,’ heroic mountain climber tales that dominate the market. Every climber should read this book.”—Max Oelschlaeger, author of The Idea of Wilderness “Reading Always the Mountains is like hiking a trail with both friend and mentor, with every step a new discovery and subsequent, exciting conversation.”—Terrain

in Appalachian Wildflowers forces readers to consider wildflowers as parts of interacting communities or ecosystems. This brings home more strongly the conservation imperative.

The message that individual plants, as well as assemblages, need to be conserved for many reasons, including their known and potential benefits to humans, comes across very strongly in this book.”—Robert Wyatt, editor of Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction “This is an excellent guide for the vast majority of wildflowers one would encounter while botanizing in the rich Appalachian region.”—Wildlife Activist

2007 • 272 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820329536 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

2000 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 378 color photos, 2 figures; 1 map PB • 9780820321813 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia

The Art of Managing Longleaf

Edited by John B. Jensen, Carlos D. Camp, Whit Gibbons, and Matt J. Elliott The only comprehensive guide to the state’s diverse herpetofauna makes accessible a wealth of information about 170 species of frogs, salamanders, crocodilians, lizards, snakes, and turtles. Throughout, the book stresses conservation, documenting declines in individual species as well as losses of local and regional populations.

“An exquisite book . . . High-quality, clearly written, with an attractive layout . . . Has solid introductory information, detailed species descriptions, excellent range maps and color photographs, line drawings showing defining features, and a strong conservation message. There is an explanation as to how to use the species accounts which will be of value to the lay reader.”

—Herpetological Review 2008 • 600 p. • 7.5 x 10 478 color photos, 24 illus., 1 figure; 182 maps; 3 tables PB • 9780820331119 • $40.95 your price: $20.47

A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach Leon Neel, with Paul S. Sutter and Albert G. Way Afterword by Jerry F. Franklin “It is about the trees, but it also is about wildlife and the economics of lumbering. A bonus is a thirty-page photo essay section that illustrates and expands upon the text. Readers will find much to learn and admire in this work; it embraces more than directions for good forestry. In the end, it gives readers new eyes with which to see the ecological impacts of human actions.”—Choice “Herbert Stoddard and his acolyte Leon Neel made a revolution in forestry among the longleaf pines of Georgia’s Red Hills. More than applied scientists, they were artists and designers of genius, makers of ecologically balanced landscapes that were also gorgeous parks and hunters’ paradises. Now Paul Sutter, Bert Way, and especially Neel himself bring us the comprehensive narrative, which is not only enlightening but also irresistably charming.”—Jack Temple Kirby, author of Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South 2012 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 16 color and 10 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820344133 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

The Breeding Bird Atlas of Georgia

Appalachian Wildflowers Thomas E. Hemmerly “I like the idea of encouraging wildflower enthusiasts to consider the objects of their curiosity as something more than postage stamps to be identified and filed away and viewed in isolation. The approach

Edited by Todd M. Schneider, Giff Beaton, Timothy S. Keyes, and Nathan A. Klaus Foreword by Pierre Howard A comprehensive historical record of all free-ranging bird species known to be breeding in Georgia around the beginning of the new millennium.

The atlas profiles 182 species, from the sociable House Wren to the secretive Black Rail; from the thriving

Red-shouldered Hawk to the threatened Wilson’s Plover.

“Provides color pictures and a wealth of information about each bird—habitat, life history, distribution, population trends, interactions with humans, diets and threats facing it.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2010 • 520 p. • 8.5 x 11 204 color photos and 128 figures; 192 maps; 168 tables HC • 9780820328935 • $66.95 your price: $33.47

Chattahoochee River User’s Guide Joe Cook Traces the Chattahoochee’s 430-mile course through 200 color photographs, 32 maps, and detailed practical information about public access points, potential hazards, and camping facilities.

“No matter what your reasons are for picking up [this guide], you won’t be disappointed. You will be entertained with interesting facts and photos, and you will be impressed with Cook’s descriptive and invaluable information regarding every facet of the Chattahoochee River.”—Northeast Georgia Living “Serves not only as a handy guide to recreation on the Chattahoochee, but also a history book, an ecology lesson, and a love letter to Georgia’s longest and perhaps most well-known river. . . .

Cook’s appreciation for the Chattahoochee is evident and engaging, evoking vivid pictures of the living river that has something to appeal to all lovers of the outdoors, from kayakers to campers to the casual picnicker.

This book is appropriate for adult and young adult outdoorsmen/women alike.”—Georgia Library Quarterly 2014 • 248 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 200 color photos; 32 maps PB • 9780820346793 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

Chimpanzee Travels On and Off the Road in Africa Dale Peterson “Chimpanzee Travels is a lighthearted, deliciously amusing, but accurate story of Dale Peterson’s travels into the forests and byways of Africa in search of chimpanzees and the strange white apes who study them. Buy it now—you won’t regret it!”—Jane Goodall “Peterson cuts a swath through east, west, and central Africa. . . . And if you come along, you will be sure to meet some wild characters—not all of them chimps—have some chuckles, learn about animals, and reflect on the continent’s troubles.”—Boston Globe 2003 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 1 map PB • 9780820324890 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

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The Cincinnati Arch Learning from Nature in the City John Tallmadge “As Tallmadge points out, most urban people are blind to the wild around them simply because they don’t look for it and because they have not learned to see it. This is why I am so excited about Cincinnati Arch. We desperately (and I mean to use that word) need writing by urban people, writers whose audience is primarily urban people, and writers whose goal is to explore the immediate significance of nature to urban people.”

—Richard K. Nelson, author of Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America “This lustrous, continually deepening book, clearly the work of many years of observation and deep thought, is an insightful paean that reminds us that while it is thrilling to vacation in the wilderness, it is far more important to treasure everyday nature as manifest within ourselves and at our doorstep.”—Booklist

account. Emphasis is placed on Catesby’s travels in North America that led to his monumental volumes on the flora and fauna of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas. The book is an important addition to the library of the history of natural history of colonial America.”—William D. Anderson Jr., Grice Marine Biological Laboratory, College of Charleston “This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated work . . . will stand for many years as the best critical analysis of Catesby’s work, and of the groundbreaking natural science that his curiosity inspired.”—Nature 2015 • 456 p. • 8 x 11 237 color paintings, illus., and photos HC • 9780820347264 • $49.95 your price: $24.97

Common Birds of Coastal Georgia Ideal for amateur birders, nature enthusiasts, and visitors to the Atlantic coast, this guide presents one hundred three species of birds commonly seen on the beaches and in the marsh and inland areas of Georgia’s coastal region. Includes large color photos for easy identification.

2011 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 215 color photos; 1 map PB • 9780820338286 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Common Birds of Greater Atlanta Jim Wilson and Anselm Atkins Designed for beginning birders and nature enthusiasts alike, this easyto-use guide presents sixty-one of the most common species of birds in the greater Atlanta area and features one hundred twenty-five large color photographs throughout for immediate identification.

2011 • 160 p. • 6 x 9 125 color photos; 1 map PB • 9780820338255 • $18.95 your price: $9.47

The Curious Mister Catesby A “Truly Ingenious” Naturalist Explores New Worlds Edited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott “Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and artist, as well as his considerable accomplishments, is given new life in this well-written, multiauthored

1998 • 400 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820320076 • $23.95 your price: $9.58

Down to the Waterline Boundaries, Nature, and the Law in Florida Sara Warner The first book-length analysis of the OHWL (ordinary high water line) doctrine and its legal, technical, and cultural underpinnings.

“An informed and thoughtful analysis, which addresses many facets, cultural, technical, and legal, of the OHWL adeptly. . . . Warner comes across as a person with a deep appreciation for the landscape on which she writes.”

—Florida Historical Quarterly “Warner’s treatment of this incredibly complex topic is impressive for its meticulousness, its comprehensiveness, and its liveliness. . . . Down to the Waterline will unquestionably be my primary legal reference for all matters having to do with the OHWL.” —American Journal of Legal History

2004 • 240 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820326900 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Jim Wilson

“The single most accessible presentation of what is now known as ‘social ecology’ that has ever been written.”

—The Nation

Deep Cuba The Inside Story of an American Oceanographic Expedition Bill Belleville “Engaging . . . Environmental journalist and diver Belleville works hard to achieve a documentary-maker’s dream: exciting a broad public empathy for a place and its creatures.”

—Kirkus Reviews “Rank[s] with the best travel writing . . . Deep Cuba will appeal to a wide range of readers: armchair travelers, recreational divers, naturalists and anyone curious about Castro and the Caribbean’s largest island.”—Orlando Sentinel 2004 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 1 map PB • 9780820326207 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Divided Planet The Ecology of Rich and Poor Tom Athanasiou In this wide-ranging, grimly entertaining commentary on the environmental debate, Tom Athanasiou finds that the most urgent ecological crises are exacerbated, if not caused, by the planet’s division into “warring camps of rich and poor.” The bottom line, he concludes, is that there will be no sustainability without a large measure of justice.

“Corrosively witty . . . Dazlingly acerbic and informative.”—San Francisco Chronicle

2007 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 21 b&w photos; 1 map PB • 9780820330372 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Ethics and Environmental Policy Theory Meets Practice Edited by Frederick Ferré and Peter Hartel In this collection of essays, leading environmentalists and philosophers explore the relationship between environmental ethics and policy, both in theory and practice. The first section of the book focuses on four approaches to change in ethical theory: ecological science, feminist metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and holistic postmodern technology. In subsequent sections the contributors emphasize the need for nontraditional solutions and attempt to expand awareness of the most pressing practical problems. Among the topics discussed are the possibilities of real international cooperation, the inequitable but economically intractable issue of global gasses, the political and ethical challenges of city planning, and the growing evidence of fundamental inappropriateness in treating land as legal private property.

1994 • 304 p. • 6 x 9 3 b&w photos PB • 9780820316574 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

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Ethnoecology Knowledge, Resources, and Rights Edited by Ted L. Gragson and Ben G. Blount “A singularly important contribution to scholarship on human use of the environment, offering a welcome change from much of what passes for cultural anthropology today.

The studies represent ethnographic research that is carefully done, methodologically explicit, and engaged with real human behavior and cognition.

This volume is a powerful reminder that when freed from the opacity and nihilism of current theological fashions, cultural anthropologists can speak with lucidity to one of the most pressing scholarly and practical concerns of our time—human use of the environment.”—Mark Moberg, author of Myths of Ethnicity and Nation “A quick read; it is also a worthwhile one. . . . Ethnoecology is a valuable addition to the conversation on issues of social development and environmental change. Sociologists, particularly those interested in ecology, development policy, indigenous communities, and even linguistics, will likely find several of the discussions stimulating and catalysts for their own work.”—Contemporary Sociology 1999 • 184 p. • 6 x 9 17 figures PB • 9780820321288 • $23.95 your price: $9.58

Etowah River User’s Guide Joe Cook “An appealing and handy look at the biologically diverse and beautiful Etowah River in North Georgia.

Printed on waterproof paper, the book offers a fascinating history of the area and information valuable for novice or experienced paddlers as well as fishermen. It also will help explorers understand the threats facing the river and what steps can be taken to protect it for future generations.”—Georgia Water Trails News 2013 • 184 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 159 color photos; 17 maps PB • 9780820344638 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Favorite Wildflower Walks in Georgia Hugh Nourse and Carol Nourse This guide book depicts walks from each of Georgia’s four geographic regions: Cumberland Plateau/Ridge and Valley, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain. Along the way, native wildflowers, some rare and endangered, are identified through photos and descriptions. Includes directions, a trail map, and the best seasons to visit.

“Hugh and Carol Nourse have done it again! They have another hit on their hands . . . especially important and useful to novices who are just becom-

ing interested in wildflowers. . . . Every photograph is an absolutely stunning professional image that shows all the important characteristics of the plant of scene being shown. The book is highly recommended, and should be a part of everyone’s wildflower book collection.”—Tipularia: The Journal of the Georgia Botanical Society

the text as a field guide.”—J. Jeffery Isely, South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit 2005 • 480 p. • 8.5 x 11 202 color and 185 b&w photos, 2 figures; 100 maps; 18 tables HC • 9780820325354 • $44.95 your price: $22.47

“Anyone who loves Georgia will treasure this book, and wildflower lovers everywhere will appreciate this beautiful depiction of the state’s botanical diversity.”—Southwest Georgia Living 2007 • 208 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 120 color photos; 21 maps PB • 9780820328416 • $22.95 your price: $9.18

Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia Linda G. Chafin Featuring photographs by Hugh and Carol Nourse Illustrations by Jean C. Putnam Hancock “This book fills a void which has needed filling for a long time in Georgia. . . . This book comes very highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about Georgia’s plants. It is a very valuable resource for botanists, wildflower enthusiasts, teachers, students, land managers, and environmental policy makers.”

—Tipularia: The Journal of the Georgia Botanical Society

Frogs and Toads of the Southeast Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons “This superbly organized, easy-toread, accurate, comprehensive book will interest general readers and amateur and professional herpetologists.

Excellent color photographs/maps/ tables, glossary, further readings, and common names index. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “Good books provide fresh insight each time you pick them up. This is clearly true for the volume.”

—Southeastern Biology

“Each plant is well illustrated with one or more color photographs, as well as detailed botanical illustrations that clearly emphasize distinguishing characteristics.”—NativeSCAPE

2008 • 264 p. • 7.5 x 10 310 color photos; 43 maps PB • 9780820329222 • $27.95 your price: $13.97

2007 • 540 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 420 color photos, 200 illus.; 200 maps PB • 9780977962105 • $34.95 your price: $17.47

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Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin With Emphasis on the Savannah River Site Barton C. Marcy Jr., Dean E. Fletcher, F. Douglas Martin, Michael H. Paller, and Marcel J. M. Reichert Photographs by David E. Scott “The photographs are of excellent quality, and the species accounts are concise but informative.”

—Southeastern Naturalist “Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin is a superb reference.

It combines a wealth of scientific information on individual species with a background on fish assemblages in specific habitats. The keys are straightforward and easy to follow, and the individual species accounts are complete. Color plates are original, and most depict fish as they would appear at capture or in the wild. These true-to-life color photos are a valuable addition and improve the quality of

Georgia’s Amazing Coast David Bryant and George Davidson Illustrated by Charlotte Ingram Fun and learning come together in Georgia’s Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary.

“A fun book about our fascinating coastal wildlife.”—Southern Living 2003 • 112 p. • 7 x 7 100 color illus.

PB • 9780820325330 • $18.95 your price: $9.47

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Grounding Knowledge Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place Christopher J. Preston “The book will appeal especially to those interested in epistemology and in the philosophical reverberations of evolutionary biology. . . . Preston offers a perspective that is likely to surprise and challenge the diigent reader: the idea that human cognition is threatened by the decline of ecosystems.”—ISLE “[Grounding Knowledge] is engagingly written, and would be quite accessible to interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies or as a summary of diverse yet convergent areas of study. . . . Ultimately, the book is a call to treat human thought as materially grounded—in bodies, in social settings, and in uncultured particularities— rather than as artificially universal abstractions.”—Environmental Ethics 2003 • 184 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820324500 • $41.95 your price: $12.58

Had I the Wings The Friendship of Bachman and Audubon Jay Shuler Had I the Wings provides new insights into Audubon’s life and work and rescues from obscurity John Bachman’s contributions to American ornithology and mammalogy.

“Elegantly portrays an elegant friendship.”—Washington Times “Animates Audubon’s paintings from static images to social complexes of events and people.”—Journal of the Early Republic “A valuable addition to the naturalist’s library.”—Journal of Southern History 1998 • 252 p. • 6 x 9 8 b&w photos PB • 9780820320793 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Hey, Bug Doctor!

The Scoop on Insects in Georgia’s Homes and Gardens Jim Howell Jon Davies, Photo Editor “Highly recommended for anyone interested in making their first acquaintance with ‘bugs.’ Entertainingly written and bound to enlighten.”—Thomas Eisner, author of For Love of Insects “Hey, Bug Doctor! is a useful and fascinating exploration of insects. It gives us new appreciation of the six- and eight-legged creatures that share our southern heritage. Jim combines his scientific training with his southern upbringing to write an engaging look at the insects (and a few other buglike creatures) that surround us. He’s been chewed by chiggers and feasted on by fleas, but Jim brings a sense of

enthusiasm to each bug that bites him.

Insects, whether good, bad or beautiful, all intrigue him.”—Walter Reeves, host of Georgia Public Television’s Gardening in Georgia 2006 • 232 p. • 6 x 8 84 color photos PB • 9780820328041 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Hunting from Home A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge Mountains Christopher Camuto “Camuto is, pound for pound, word for word, the heavyweight champion of southern nature writing.”

—Bloomsbury Review “The mystery of connection lies at the heart of Hunting from Home. . . . The stealthy cadence of Camuto’s prose reveals glimpses of his effort to do justice to a place and way of life that often seem just beyond his reach; hunting becomes a metaphor of how to capture the natural within the self and on the page.”—New York Times Book Review

John Bachman Selected Writings on Science, Race, and Religion Edited by Gene Waddell “Waddell’s thoughtful selections from Bachman’s writings offer an excellent picture of a truly significant figure in the history of natural history, the defense of all human races as a single species, and the development of religion in the American South.”—Lester D. Stephens, author of Science, Race, and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists: 1815–1895 “Waddell . . . has skillfully compiled portions of Bachman’s writings on the title’s three topics (the bulk of the text includes his work in natural history) along with some of his personal correspondence, showing him to be scientific, thoughtful, and still well worth reading.”—Choice 2011 • 400 p. • 6 x 9 7 color illus.

HC • 9780820338187 • $44.95 your price: $17.98

2004 • 320 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 PB • 9780820326832 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

Invasive Pythons in the United States Ecology of an Introduced Predator Michael E. Dorcas and John D. Willson Foreword by Whit Gibbons “This meticulously researched and profusely illustrated work shines a spotlight on the dangers caused by introduction of non-native pythons into South Florida while providing a comprehensive account of what we know about the ecology of Burmese pythons, both in the United States and in their native range.”—Russell A. Mittermeier, former President, Conservation International, and former Vice President, International Union for Conservation of Nature “The amount of misinformation and hysteria surrounding the discovery of viable populations of large pythons has been mind-boggling. This text provides a serious, scientifically-valid overview of an important ecological problem and will be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of scientists and non-scientists alike.”—Richard Seige, Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University 2011 • 176 p. • 7.5 x 10 188 color photos and 7 figures; 8 maps; 1 table PB • 9780820338354 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

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Life on the Brink Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation Edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist “Life on the Brink courageously argues that intelligent and compassionate action in our world demands that we reduce our numbers as quickly and humanely as possible. Its urgent message should be widely read and acted upon.”—Bron Taylor, author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future “All of the diverse threats to biological diversity are ultimately caused by an increasing human population and a rising standard of living. In Life on the Brink, the authors ask us to consider that the major environmental, social, and economic problems of the world could be dealt with more easily if the human population stabilized or even began to shrink. This is a bold statement by leaders who are not afraid of speaking the truth about how to protect nature.”—Richard B. Primack, author of Essentials of Conservation Biology 2012 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 4 figures; 7 tables PB • 9780820343853 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

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Lizards and Crocodilians of the Southeast Whit Gibbons, Judy Greene, and Tony Mills This heavily illustrated, lively, and accessible guide covers twenty native and forty-one introduced species of lizards and crocodilians found in the Southeast. Information about distribution and habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation status.

2009 • 240 p. • 7.5 x 10 292 color photos; 20 maps PB • 9780820331584 • $27.95 your price: $13.97

Marsh Mud and Mummichogs An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia Evelyn B. Sherr This engaging and curiosity-rousing book blends scientific fact with a timely conservation message and anecdotes of a family’s encounters with nature. It is an invitingly readable guided tour of the flora, fauna, and landscape of the distinctive Georgia coast.

“Marsh Mud and Mummichogs is a motivating introduction to the natural history of coastal Georgia. It is perhaps the most in-depth yet friendly natural history that I have ever read, and the scope will expand the knowledge and understanding of everyone with an interest in the coast.”—Clay L. Montague, Associate Professor Emeritus of Ecology, University of Florida

The Oyster Question Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 Christine Keiner “An exciting contribution to both the history of science and environmental history. In this case study of the Maryland oyster fishery, Keiner does an excellent job of combining these two historical perspectives to shed new light on the depths of a problem that has challenged all of the American oyster states since the early nineteenth century. Through her analysis, Keiner effectively reframes how environmental historians have analyzed histories of common resources and provides a working model for integrating historical and ecological information to bridge the histories of science and environmental history.”

—Journal of the History of Biology “In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner adds depth and nuance to this more complex view of conservation.

Tracing the history of scientific research and the oyster fishery in Chesapeake Bay, she demonstrates how science and conservation must be understood as local phenomena that are shaped by specific environmental and social contexts.”—Isis 2009 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos; 2 maps HC • 9780820326986 • $52.95 your price: $26.47

Just in time for beachcombing season. . . . [North Carolina’s Amazing Coast] is ideal for families seeking to learn a little about nature during a beach visit.”—Wilmington Star-News “The illustrator, Charlotte Ingram, has a simple yet descriptive style of capturing the essence of each entry. . . . This fun book is a great addition to the library of a budding naturalist or a seasoned scientist whether they live along the coast or like to visit North Carolina.”

—The Naturalist 2013 • 112 p. • 7 x 7 100 color illus.

PB • 9780820345109 • $17.95 your price: $7.18

Peachtree Creek A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta’s Watershed David R. Kaufman “Kaufman’s original perspective, as a traveler along the urban creek that is now hidden to most Atlantans, helps connect the past to the present through facts, stories, and legends about this natural lifeline. This book will serve as an excellent tool to educate the community about the importance of our rivers and their tributaries throughout history and in the present time.”—Sally Bethea, former Executive Director of the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper “This is a beautiful account of a tenacious journey through space and time.

Kaufman has given an environmentalist’s testimony entwined intimately with a historical lesson about Atlanta’s development. He captures the tragedy and the poignancy of a watershed clinging to its identity within a civilization gone mindless. Read it to reawaken a sense of reverence and wonder for nature’s resilience.”—Ray Anderson, Chairman of Interface, Inc., and Executive Board member of the Georgia Conservancy

The Pond Lovers Gene Logsdon

North Carolina’s Amazing Coast David Bryant, George Davidson, Terri Kirby Hathaway, and Kathleen Angione Illustrated by Charlotte Ingram

2002 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 281 color photos, 2 figures; 1 map PB • 9780820323374 • $25.95 your price: $12.97

2007 • 232 p. • 10 x 9 73 color and 97 b&w photos; 8 maps HC • 9780820329291 • $36.95 your price: $14.78

2015 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 30 b&w photos; 1 map HC • 9780820347677 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

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guide as will patrons of public libraries in the region.”—International Hawkwatcher

Ozark Wildflowers Thomas E. Hemmerly “Attractive . . . The descriptions are brief but cover the basic size, shape, habitat, and time of flowering; quality and color reproduction of the photographs are uniformly very good. Although predominantly focused on native herbaceous plants, a number of trees and shrubs with showy flowers or fruit are included.

Short discussions of Ozark geography, the dominant ecosystem types, and a chapter on how to identify wildflowers precede the illustrated description section. . . . Will be very useful for novice naturalists, visitors to the region, and as an illustrated supplement to more technical floristic treatments.”

—Choice “Naturalists, botanists, and wildflower enthusiasts will welcome this useful

“In this charming collection, Logsdon explores the beauty and depths of the farm pond, how it can become the center of the universe for the social fabric of a family, providing recreation and a spot for reflection, and how it can become the center of the universe for sustainable agriculture, providing food, solar energy, and waste treatment.”—Mary Swander, author of Out of This World “With a naturalist’s eye for ecological balance and an old farmer’s practical instinct for how to maintain it, he leads readers on a word-built tour of these ‘biological magnets’ . . . Some passages build images that match the best in nature writing . . . This is an enjoyable book both for those who actually live in pond country, and for anyone who has ever dreamed of going back to the land.”—ForeWord Magazine 2007 • 176 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820329543 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

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Portrait of an Island Mildred Teal and John Teal When the authors moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to virtually undeveloped salt marshes, maritime forests, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and beaches.

Now a state game refuge and national estuarine sanctuary, Sapelo remains a special haven where humans and nature quietly and peacefully coexist.

“This engagingly unpretentious account of the island and what the authors found there is informative—and happily evokes the idyllic atmosphere of the place.”—Audubon Magazine

hero, Rosalie Edge—tragic, imperious, and obsessed.”—Doug Carlson, author of Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography “[An] insightful and very enjoyable biography . . . Activists today should recognize a principled and effective predecessor who pioneered the techniques and politics of postwar environmentalism.”—Environmental History 2009 • 376 p. • 6 x 9 24 b&w photos HC • 9780820333410 • $35.95 your price: $14.38

Remaking Wormsloe Plantation The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape

“This detailed study of Wormsloe Plantation in coastal Georgia reflects the macro-history of settlement, land development, and reinvention of the past in the coastal Deep South and, by extension, the constant and universal reinvention of the past. . . . Swanson, an authorized historian of Wormsloe, presents a history that includes all players, from humans to microbes. He reminds readers that history is never a snapshot of the past, but rather the top layer of fathomless strata of physical and psychological influences.”—Choice

Salamanders of the Southeast Joe Mitchell and Whit Gibbons Describing 102 species of salamanders occurring in the southeastern U.S., this volume includes more than 400 color photographs, 77 distribution maps, and sections on biology, worldwide diversity, identification, taxonomy, habitats, and conservation.

“Remaking Wormsloe Plantation connects this distinct Georgia place to the broader world, adding depth and nuance to the understanding of our own conceptions of nature and history.”—Southeastern Naturalist

“The authors suggest a number of ways in which landowners can manage their properties from the perspective of salamander habitat, including resources to guide in restoration of degraded areas. . . . The authors have presented a perfect circle of argument within the book’s covers: salamanders are in trouble. . . and this is what you can do to help them out of trouble.”

—Herpetological Review

2014 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 34 b&w photos; 6 maps PB • 9780820347448 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

2010 • 336 p. • 7.5 x 10 400 color photos; 200 maps PB • 9780820330358 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy

The Seasons of Cumberland Island

The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

Fred Whitehead

Dyana Z. Furmansky Foreword by Bill McKibben Afterword by Roland C. Clement “A product of extensive research, Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy, chronicles the many accomplishments of a remarkable person while it reveals the often-dramatic story of her life and sheds light on her times. What more can be asked of a biography? Furmansky reveals the early history of land preservation in America to be a story of intrigue, betrayal, anger, and, occasionally, victory. At the center stands a

2004 • 112 p. • 9 x 12 118 color photos; 1 map HC • 9780820324975 • $41.95 your price: $20.97

The State Botanical Garden of Georgia Carol Nourse and Hugh Nourse Foreword by Jeff Lewis These 145 spectacular color photographs celebrate nature’s cycles in a splendid and diverse southern garden. Each month for more than six years, Carol and Hugh Nourse have explored the paths and collections of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens, capturing the kaleidoscope of its seasons.

1997 • 184 p. • 5.25 x 8.25 32 illus.; 1 map PB • 9780820319612 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Drew A. Swanson Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

capture the drama and beauty of this remarkable landscape. There may be a more wonderful place in the National Park System than Cumberland, but I have yet to find it.”—Bloomsbury Review

Naturalist and photographer Fred Whitehead captures the unique allure of the island’s flora and fauna in 118 stunning full-color photographs that reveal the subtle but important effect of cyclical change on the island’s ecosystem.

“Fred Whitehead reminds readers why we must protect natural areas like Cumberland Island. . . . His knowledge and respect for the area are evident in his stunning photographs.”

—Blueplanet Quarterly “A lovely book . . . The photographs are simply stunning, and brilliantly

2001 • 144 p. • 8 x 9.75 145 color photos HC • 9780820323275 • $36.95 your price: $14.78

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Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and Golden Sharks Travels of a WaterBound Adventurer Bill Belleville “Belleville, travel writer, scuba diver, and boater, seems always to be wet or preparing to be wet. As his armchair companions, readers may stay dry, but the expressive and descriptive prose allows them to experience the discovery and excitement as if they were there themselves. . . . Belleville is an old-fashioned adventurer, excited by what he finds, seeking just for the joy of finding. He must also be a man of great charm as he seems able to coax the most arcane information from his local guides. . . . As a book to read at leisure, it is a fine treat.”—Booklist “Belleville is an expert diver whose wanderlust takes him to places few sane people would venture. . . . Yet such is Belleville’s talent that even when he ventures into relatively familiar territory, he brings an unfamiliar perspective, finding adventure and wonderment in little-seen corners of the natural world.”—Natural History 2004 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 19 b&w photos; 1 map HC • 9780820325927 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

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The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game Paul Shepard Foreword by George Sessions Shepard presents an account of human behavior and ecology in light of our past. In it, he contends that agriculture is responsible for our ecological decline and looks to the hunting and gathering lifestyle as a model more closely in tune with our essential nature.

“Much of what we value in contemporary thought about ‘nature and culture’ grew up in the seedbed of Paul Shepard’s thinking. . . . His writing is endlessly fascinating.”—Barry Lopez 1998 • 336 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820319810 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

turtle enthusiasts living anywhere in the U.S.”—Southeastern Naturalist 2008 • 264 p. • 7.5 x 10 415 color photos; 39 maps PB • 9780820329024 • $27.95 your price: $13.97

Vascular Flora of Georgia An Annotated Checklist Wilbur H. Duncan and John T. Kartesz An annotated list of 3,686 species, subspecies, varieties, and hybrids occurring in Georgia. The list is the result of Wilbur Duncan’s decades of work as a leading botanist in Georgia.

His exhaustive studies, coupled with the research of John Kartesz, make the taxonomical classifications of this listing valuable beyond the boundaries of the state.

1981 • 160 p. • 6 x 9 1 map PB • 9780820305387 • $23.95 your price: $9.58

Virgin Forest Meditations on History, Ecology, and Culture Eric Zencey

Thinking Animals Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence Paul Shepard Foreword by Max Oelschlaeger In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an “us or them” mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity’s evolution and exist at the core of our imagination.

“Paul Shepard is an exceptionally clear thinker who is also a lucid and exhilarating writer. . . . His work is valuable but very urgent, shining in the sun like the tip of the vast iceberg of knowlege and reflection that supports it.”—Peter Matthiessen 1998 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820319827 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Turtles of the Southeast Kurt Buhlmann, Tracey Tuberville, and Whit Gibbons Filled with more than two hundred color photographs and written with a special focus on conservation, this guide covers forty-five species of this nonthreatening, ancient lineage of long-lived reptiles. Fact-filled descriptions of each species and its habitat comprise the heart of the book.

“This very accessible, informative, and beautiful book will be appreciated by

“[Zencey] is a fine essayist with a graceful, quiet voice and a talent for putting some of the more vexing environmental questions of our time into perspective.”—Outside “In a time of rising ecological concern and interest Virgin Forest is a useful book to readers who are interested in the philosophical side of ecology, culture and history, and who want to understand the deeper forces behind moral ecology, before they study the more practical application of environmental history.”—Environment and History 2000 • 192 p. • 5.3125 x 8 PB • 9780820322001 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

A Voice for Earth American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter Edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran and A. James Wohlpart Brandon P. Hollingshead, Editorial Assistant Forewords by Homero Aridjis and Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by Kamla Chowdhry A collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter, which was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.

“Some of our finest writers here make vivid and real the aspirations embodied in the Earth Charter.

Efforts like this are our best hope for

the future—across national borders, but also across borders of mind and heart.”—Bill McKibben “The Earth Charter, arising from and inspired by the interconnectedness of all elements of our existence, is an urgent and essential concept in these times—indispensable, in fact, if ‘our land and life,’ as the Hopi call it, is to survive. A Voice for Earth is a wonderful compilation of responses to the challenges the Charter represents and extremely valuable on that account.”

—Peter Matthiessen 2008 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 9 19 b&w photos PB • 9780820332116 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Waist Deep in Black Water John Lane “Let this author take you away from the cacophony of the modern world to the wild places—eons-old settings that remain unchanged. . . . Lane’s collection of eighteen outdoor essays features exquisite descriptions that recall the beauty and mystery of the earth as it must have been in raw and unfettered times. . . . For those seeking escape from the crush of contemporary times, this book leads to sanctuary.”—Southern Living “The work of a deep soul . . . The many-sided graciousness of his prose reminds us that the past is not dead, and that ‘we don’t stand in a line. It’s more like a circle, and anyone at anytime can be the center.”—ISLE 2004 • 200 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820326214 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Walking in the Land of Many Gods Remembering Sacred Reason in Contemporary Environmental Literature A. James Wohlpart “This is an ambitious text that is perhaps best described as a work of eco-criticism, but like many environmental writers, Wohlpart is an interdisciplinary thinker who draws from multiple areas, especially including philosophy, anthropology, and American Indian literary and cultural studies.”—Nature + Culture “Any study informed by Heidegger’s philosophy is bound to appear a bit esoteric, but Wohlpart succeeds in keeping his explanations at an accessible level. . . . This coverage results in a fruitful and beneficial reading experience. Wohlpart establishes the optimal blend of theory and practice.”—Studies in American Culture 2013 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820345246 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

56 nature and environment so erudite, his sources so wide-ranging, that it is impossible not to read these essays and see old problems in new ways.”—Environmental History “Every encounter with Paul Shepard’s work challenges those of us who would envision sustainable lifeways to remember that the general good is the plea of the liar, the hypocrite, the scoundrel. The general good is Utopia, no place.”—Resurgence

Weeds of the Midwestern United States and Central Canada Edited by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice Principal photography by Arlyn W. Evans and Michael S. DeFelice “Overall, Weeds of the Midwestern United States and Central Canada is an excellent publication. It will be a valuable guide for plant identification to producers, homeowners, and weed professionals.”—Prairie Naturalist 2010 • 440 p. • 7.5 x 10 1423 color photos; 363 maps PB • 9780820335063 • $44.95 your price: $22.47

Weeds of the South Edited by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice

2009 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 36 b&w photos PB • 9780820333458 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Wilderness and the Heart Henry Bugbee’s Philosophy of Place, Presence, and Memory Edited by Edward F. Mooney “Henry Bugbee’s The Inward Morning is one of the most important American philosophical texts in the second half of the twentieth century. Wilderness and the Heart is a gathering of first-rate essays that establish the intellectual and cultural contexts environing Bugbee and his work. These essays capture the spirit of Bugbee’s philosophical journal and reveal, in a variety of directions, the contemporary significance of his work.”

—Douglas R. Anderson, author of Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture

“Weeds of the South is quite honestly the best publication of its type that I have seen. It brings together a superb combination of information on plant history, preferred habitat, North American distribution, and identification characteristics that is par excellence. The quality of the photographs alone makes this book well worth owning, and the key has been specifically created for those plants in this publication, making it well suited for anyone in the southeastern United States—David Shaw, President of the Weed Science Society of America

“In these essays, edited by Edward Mooney, Henry Bugbee’s philosophical themes have struck a resonating chord in thinkers as serious as they are diverse. I cannot remember reading material of this kind and finding it so meaningful, helpful, intelligent, and creatively pluralistic.”—John McDermott, author of Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and Philosophy of American Culture

“This book is a valuable resource not only for those that deal with agricultural weeds, but for land managers, students, professional botanists, and others interested in the growing problem of invasive species across the landscape.”—Castanea

Wildflowers of Georgia

2009 • 480 p. • 7.5 x 10 1,500 color photos and 12 illus.; 405 maps PB • 9780820330464 • $40.95 your price: $20.47

Where We Belong Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature Paul Shepard Edited by Florence Rose Shepard Foreword by Kenneth Helphand “Watching Shepard struggle to separate ideas about nature from the natural world—and, in the process, trace out the intricate connections between them—is enlightening. His essays are

1999 • 296 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 1 photo PB • 9780820320984 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Hugh Nourse and Carol Nourse Hugh and Carol Nourse traveled the state, finding and photographing wildflowers in their own habitats and in their best blooming seasons.

The 86 vividly detailed photographs presented in this large-format volume capture the diversity and splendor of these sometimes elusive plants, many of which are endangered by human activities.

“Wildflowers of Georgia is a book for everyone from the expert botanist to those unfamiliar with our state’s native plants. Through its publication, the authors will inspire in all of us a love for our native flora and a desire to protect and preserve it.”—Greater Atlanta Gardener “Eighty-five of the most beautiful photographs imaginable . . . The entire

book is a visual delight.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2000 • 120 p. • 9.75 x 9.75 85 color photos HC • 9780820321790 • $31.95 your price: $12.78

Wildflowers of the Eastern United States Wilbur H. Duncan and Marion B. Duncan Richly illustrated with over 600 color photographs, this guide describes more than 1,100 wildflowers that can be found east of the Mississippi—in our woods and parks, along mountain trails or dunes, and even floating in streams.

2005 • 416 p. • 6 x 9 631 color photos, 13 drawings; 1 map PB • 9780820327471 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

William Bartram, The Search for Nature’s Design Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings Edited by Thomas Hallock and Nancy E. Hoffmann “This is a beautiful book, lovingly produced for readers who adore William Bartram (1739–1823) as an artist, Romantic, naturalist, and gardener and painstakingly assembled by scholars who approach him from a variety of perspectives.”—Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography “Because the volume’s inclusion of correspondence, botanical materials, philosophical tracts, draft documents, and illustrations provides a richly multidimensional representation of Bartram’s experiences and achievements, William Bartram: The Search for Nature’s Design comes closer than any previous work on Bartram to showing us not only the whole career but also the whole person: the failed businessman, insecure son, devout Quaker, wilderness traveler, assiduous gardener, loyal friend, advisor and mentor, and tireless student of a natural world that he felt offered a continuing revelation of divinity. It is an ambitious book, impressive in both execution and presentation.”—ISLE 2010 • 520 p. • 7 x 10 96 color and 7 b&w photos; 2 maps; 1 table HC • 9780820328775 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

american studies American Afterlife Encounters in the Customs of Mourning Kate Sweeney “From cooling boards to cremationists, obituarists to embalmers, Kate Sweeney’s American Afterlife holds a mirror up to human mortality and

american studies 57 mortuary praxis and gives us a reading of the vital signs. Her book braces and emboldens our eschatological nerve—a reliable witness and wellwrought litany to last things and final details.”—Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade “Respectfully illuminating both the ludicrousness and the significance of mourning and its accompanying memorialization rituals, Sweeney reports the unsavory details alongside the poignancy of grief and sorrow.

Written with the grim wit and appreciation of investigative reporter Mary Roach, the author delivers informative history on the murky business of death. A considerate exploration of mourning, just haunting enough to attract those with a penchant for macabre oddities.”—Kirkus Reviews 2014 • 232 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 8 b&w photos HC • 9780820346007 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Finding Purple America

Screening a Lynching

The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies

The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television

Jon Smith

Matthew H. Bernstein

“Finding Purple America is one of the boldest and most insightful academic books I have read in years. Surveying a rich range of cultural phenomena— country music, Faulkner’s fiction, hipster fashion, literary theory, and more—Jon Smith demonstrates why the allegedly most backward part of the country has much to teach today’s practitioners of cultural studies. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.”—Harilaos Stecopoulos, author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898–1976

“Screening a Lynching examines four Hollywood treatments of the infamous Leo Frank affair. Equally enlightening on the motivations of the producers and directors behind each project—two for film, two for TV—and the actual facts of the case, the book takes as its deeper concern the inherent tension between creative license and historical accuracy in reality-based dramas. This is a rich topic, and Bernstein handles it with aplomb.”—Steve Oney, author of And the Dead Shall Rise

“Provocative and provoking on every page, Finding Purple America is not calculated to please; yet even in a book committed to ‘disrupting everyone’s enjoyment,’ Smith’s dazzling pop-culture readings and witty prose remain accessible, compelling, and—dare I say it?—entertaining throughout.”

—Jennifer Greeson, author of Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature 2013 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820345260 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

The Good War’s Greatest Hits World War II and American Remembering

The Dinner Party

Philip D. Beidler

Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970–2007

“Beidler’s book is right on target.

He offers much information that spothghts the role of media in the presentation (or preservation) of history. Motion pictures, television, books, drama, and even the VCR have redefined World War II. How did this happen? Where will it take us. What is next? Will we ever see a musical comedy about a horrific event committed by the nation that now brings us Toyota? The Good War’s Greatest Hits advances much insight.”—Film and History

Jane F. Gerhard “This is a beautifully written account of Judy Chicago’s iconic art installation The Dinner Party from its roots in early 1970s feminism and Womanhouse to its reception among the establishment art world and general public to its continuing ability to generate enthusiasm, life-changing perspectives, anger, and debate. With her nuanced and very engaging study, Jane Gerhard has added tremendously to our understanding of the complexities and power of popular feminism.”

—Amy Erdman Farrell, author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Power of Popular Feminism “Clearly written, incredibly well researched, and balanced in its analysis, Jane Gerhard’s retelling of the genesis of what is arguably the single most important work of feminist art and culture since its production provides readers with a detailed glimpse inside the coming to, and coming after of, Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party.”

—Journal of American Culture 2013 • 360 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos PB • 9780820344577 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

“Well-researched and written, Beidler’s book examines the production histories of wartime projects, examining how books and plays evolved into films, how stars were selected, and how the ‘myth’ was perpetuated. . . . All of the media of popular culture—books, plays, movies, newspapers, photographs, radio, phonograph, cartoons—played their part. The wartime information and entertainment industry became intertwined—and have remained so to this very day. Demonstrating this is one of the book’s achievements.”—Journal of American Culture 1998 • 248 p. • 6 x 9 22 photos HC • 9780820320014 • $41.95 your price: $12.58

“In this brilliant examination, Bernstein examines the racist thread that kept open the case and its treatments in the media. . . . Searching through daunting but uncommonly rich archival material, the author tracked court cases bent on uncovering new evidence for pardoning Frank. As a Jew in 1913 he loomed as guilty, yet as a white man his case plead for reopening (in prior years Americans had, on average, lynched more than 100 victims, most of them black). This book deserves the widest possible audience.”—Choice 2009 • 352 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 183 b&w photos PB • 9780820332390 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Selling Mrs. Consumer Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency Janice Williams Rutherford “Reviewing the literature of domestic science and biographies of many of the main figures working in domestic science during Frederick’s life, such as Ellen Swallow Richards and Isabel Bevier, Rutherford’s work is a welcome addition to the literature. . . . A very readable and thoroughly documented work.”—H-Women “Rutherford has made a useful contribution to the history of women, domesticity, and consumer culture.

She has portrayed the constraints, accomplishments, and shortcomings of Frederick’s life in a historically meaningful way that has profound and unsettling contemporary relevance.”

—Gastronomica 2003 • 290 p. • 6 x 9 14 b&w photos PB • 9780820324807 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

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58 american studies rate scholarship.”—Diane Roberts, author of The Myth of Aunt Jemima: White Women Representing Black Women 2001 • 272 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820322490 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown Uncle Tom Mania Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s Sarah Meer “Unique insights . . . Reflects the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that traveled back and forth between colonial and imperial worlds . . . Reveals the impact of cultural studies as a synthesizing force, traveling across multiple geographies of color in the late twentieth century and into multiple fields of intellectual production in this century.”—American Literature “This persuasively argued, carefully researched work offers a comprehensive account of the Anglo-American Uncle Tom phenomenon at its peak in the 1850s. . . . Not only does Meer manage to unearth rich nuggets of Tom mania from a thoroughly mined vein, but, more impressively, she offers fresh critical appraisals of this valuable cultural ore. . . . Uncle Tom Mania is tremendously readable and therefore ideally suited for the undergraduate classroom and even, perhaps, ambitious nonacademic reading groups.”—New England Quarterly 2005 • 340 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 15 figures PB • 9780820327372 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

literature and literary studies / united states Advancing Sisterhood?

Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction Sharon Monteith Examines how prevalent specific relationships between black and white women have become in the works of Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons, Connie Mae Fowler, Lane von Herzen, Ellen Gilchrist, Carol Dawson, and others.

“Monteith’s contemporary emphasis and her discussion of several books that have received scant treatment by other critics distinguish this volume. . . . Strongly recommended.”—Choice “Monteith’s study reads across race— still the great barrier in America—to elegantly explore transgressing friendships between black and white women. Advancing Sisterhood? is first-

Mark A. Sanders “Sanders’s exquisite formal precision in critiquing Brown’s three major collections, Southern Road, No Hiding Place, and The Last Ride of Wild Bill, all written between 1930 and 1937, showcases the poet’s revisionary hybridities of form, character, myth, and genre.”—American Literature “Makes a genuine contribution to the study of African American literature and culture by showing how crucial it is to deconstruct the terms we use in the study of literary works and writers.”—Jerry W. Ward Jr., editor of Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry 1999 • 232 p. • 6.23 x 9.21 HC • 9780820320502 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Agent of Empire William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature Brady Harrison Harrison’s account of the representations of Walker is a strong indictment of U.S. imperial policy in the late-twentieth century. . . . This is a provocative and stimulating study, of real relevance to those interested in the links between popular culture and foreign policy.”—H-LatAm “Well researched and intelligently argued. . . . The key to Brady Harrison’s captivating study, Agent of Empire, is a concept of ‘performative masculinity.’

For Harrison, Walker is the prototype of the mercenary romance in literature and film.”—American Studies 2004 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820325446 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Alone in the Dawn The Life of Adelaide Crapsey Karen Alkalay-Gut “Alkalay-Gut seeks to resurrect this silenced voice and to situate it in its historical and biographical context. As she does so, she succeeds in illuminating a significant poetic talent.”

—American Literature “This critical biography recovers the details of Crapsey’s life and gives sensitive, sympathetic attention to her poetry and poetic aims.”—American Studies “In Alone in the Dawn, Karen Alkalay-Gut unearths evidence of a

neglected poet, and it is we who are amazed.”—American Book Review 2008 • 396 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820332130 • $32.95 your price: $9.88

American Body Politics Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance Felipe Smith “A well realized book. Grounding his argument in a detailed description of the contexts influencing turn of the century African American literature, Felipe Smith demonstrates quite clearly how particular gender images emerge in association with specific social, political, and economic pressures.”—Craig H. Werner, author of Playing the Changes: From AfroModernism to the Jazz Impulse “An ambitious and thorough examination of race politics and society as reflected in African American literature.”—Negro History Bulletin 1998 • 416 p. • 6.47 x 9.59 HC • 9780820319339 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

American Childhood Essays on Children’s Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Anne Scott MacLeod “MacLeod has written some of the most intelligent criticism of children’s literature in the last two decades— including the fourteen graceful essays collected here.”—American Literature “MacLeod is an informed and empathetic historian and cultural critic. . . .

Underlying the keenly analytic essays is MacLeod’s own implicit morality—her pervasive tone of kindliness, of responsibility, of concern for the children. While not overtly polemical, MacLeod’s essays are instructive to the adult reader as lessons in perception and in imaginative empathy.”

—Horn Book Magazine 1996 • 256 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820318035 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

American Literary Environmentalism David Mazel “Mazel’s book should be read by everyone in the field, even if only to argtue with its premises. . . . Mazel’s forceful argument deserves a wide audience.”

—Contemporary Literature “American Literary Environmentalism will advance scholarship in the field of ecocriticism. Relevant, theoretically acute and concise, this slim volume frames wilderness as a discursive subject—as an ideology that has “materialized” wilderness in a politics of privilege—from Puritan

literature and literary studies / united states 59 New England to the first national parks.”—ISLE 2000 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820321806 • $46.95 your price: $23.47

America’s Darwin Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture Tina Gianquitto and Lydia Fisher “One reads these essays with a constantly renewed sense of the capaciousness of Darwin’s intellect, interested equally in the movements of earthworms and the reasons why humans bare their teeth.”—Reports of the National Center for Science Education “Tina Gianquitto and Lydia Fisher successfully chose essays from a wide range of disciplines, yet managed to thread the articles into a strong and coherent text. . . . America’s Darwin contributes to a deeper understanding of how specific reactions and interpretations were formed in connection to American culture.”—American Studies 2014 • 400 p. • 6 x 9 2 b&w photos, 4 figures; 2 maps PB • 9780820346755 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s “Georgia Scenes” Completed A Scholarly Text Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Edited by David Rachels “This edition provides without question the best available—and quite likely, the best possible—reading text of Georgia Scenes. . . .The wealth of material included here, along with the sound scholarly text Rachels has established, makes Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s ‘Georgia Scenes’ Completed an important contribution to the study of an important author.”

—Mississippi Quarterly “The texts are handled responsibly; emendation is light; no attempt is made to impose consistency in spelling; the apparatus is full and accurate.

Rachels’s introduction gives the best recent accout of Longstreet’s varied career. . . . Rachels has given us a worthy edition of Longstreet’s sketches, and a good model for future editors of this literature to follow.”—Southern Literary Journal 1998 • 422 p. • 6.5 x 9.25 PB • 9780820320199 • $31.95 your price: $15.97

The Bioregional Imagination Literature, Ecology, and Place Edited by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster

The Art and Life of Clarence Major Keith E. Byerman “Byerman provides a comprehensive introduction to Major’s career that succeeds by delving into lesser-known aspects of Major’s art, a process he alone was able to accomplish by gaining Major’s trust and being welcomed into his house—and his garage. The result will be appreciated by readers and used by scholars.”—Callaloo

“The editors elegantly illustrate the wide variety of practices occurring in communities all over the world that are bioregional in nature, while providing a succinct and lucid history of how the bioregional philosophy and movement has evolved. . . . For anyone working in ecocriticism, environmental writing, or bioregional sustainability, it promises to be of much value, reaching classic status in the bioregional literature canon.”

—Terrain.org “The Bioregional Imagination makes a valuable contribution to the Venn diagram field of ecocriticism, where literature, science, and yes, activism, can and should coexist.”—Science Magazine

“Byerman’s critical biography of an important innovator offers much insight into a large and complex body of work, and also considers how such innovations are resisted by both African American and general American literary history.”—American Literary Scholarship

2012 • 440 p. • 6 x 9 9 figures; 24 maps HC • 9780820341712 • $74.95 your price: $29.98

“A provocative, informative postracial bio-critical study that complements Bernard W. Bell’s Clarence Major and His Art.”—Journal of American Studies

Susan Neal Mayberry

2012 • 336 p. • 6 x 9 22 b&w images and 17 color plates HC • 9780820330556 • $34.95 your price: $10.48

Can’t I Love What I Criticize?

The Masculine and Morrison “Mayberry charts important new territory in Toni Morrison studies and African American masculinity studies with this original and daring analysis of the complicated, wide-spirited lives of Morrison’s male characters. . . . Mayberry’s unerring ability to tease out Morrison’s dense webs of ‘perpet-

ual possibility’ in the threatened lives of black men pushes conversations about race and gender in American culture to a new level. This is a book that Morrison readers and scholars will be consulting and responding to for years to come.”—Minrose Gwin, Author of The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space and Reading “Those searching for a comprehensive, sustained, nuanced examination of masculinity in Toni Morrison’s novels will welcome Mayberry’s Can’t I Love. The book is a brilliant and delightful engagement with masculinity in Morrison’s first eight novels.

It is, to borrow one reader’s adjective, a ‘fresh’ look at a recurring theme and an important issue in Morrison’s canon.”—African American Review 2007 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820329451 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

A Century of Early Ecocriticism Edited by David Mazel “David Mazel effectively challenges the impression that ecocritical approaches are of recent vintage, and succeeds admirably in his attempt to provide a ‘usable past’ for practicing ecocritics.”—Mississippi Quarterly “Mazel brings together influential scholars and nature writers from 1864 to 1964 whose ideas led to the now burgeoning academic field of ecocriticism. Mazel supplements these essays, written by authors such as D.H. Lawrence, Mary Woolley and Mark Van Doren, with informative and entertaining biographical information.

With questions ranging from ‘What does the wilderness have to teach us?’ to ‘How did animal stories help pave the way for animal rights?’ this book clarifies humanity’s constantly evolving relationship with nature.”

—Environmental Magazine 2001 • 376 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820322223 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Challenging Boundaries Gender and Periodization Edited by Joyce W. Warren and Margaret Dickie “Challenging Boundaries offers a fresh perspective on the problem of the boundaries set by conventional literary periods. . . . Skillfully edited

by Warren and Dickie, this collection pushes readers to question categories that typically limit the thoughtful analysis of American women writers.”—Legacy “Keenly relevant essays that speak to one of the most enduring—and provocative—critical issues in the study of literature.”—Linda Wagner-Martin, author of Flavored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family 2000 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820321240 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

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Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race “An important contribution to the study of a writer who is finally receiving his due.”—American Literary Realism

“Confluences profoundly historicizes our own contemporary, theoretical, and cultural moment of blackness as it maps the routes of previous discussions of black and colonial subjectivity that traveled the discrete paths represented by those distinct bodies of scholarship.”—American Literature

“An indispensable work of African American literary theory and criticism.”—Novel

2007 • 192 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820330266 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

“Particularly attentive to Chesnutt’s prescient insights about race, McWilliams argues that Chesnutt, with his interest in liminality and his modern conception of language, is most accurately located on the cusp of the twentieth century.”—American Literature

Conserving Words

Dean McWilliams

2002 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820324357 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Coming into Contact Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice Edited by Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Marshall, Daniel J. Philippon, and Adam W. Sweeting “Coming into Contact plays at the rich, diverse, productive edges of ecocritical theory and praxis as it effectively opens the field of literature-and-environment studies to dynamic new approaches and international literatures. . . . These essays boldly and assuredly take their place among those included in The Ecocriticism Reader and Beyond Nature Writing as they afford readers, writers, and scholars a deeper understanding of the contributions ecocriticism has made and is making to disciplines both inside and outside the humanities.”—Joni Adamson, Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus

How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement Daniel J. Philippon “Philippon shows in meticulous fashion how his five writer-activists played integral, complex roles in the development of these important organizations, and how often these people and their organizations interacted.”—ISLE “A valuable overview of the development of Progressive-era conservation and modern-day environmentalism . . . Conserving Words is an extremely valuable book for its case studies and for its thought-provoking Introduction and Conclusion.”—Science 2005 • 391 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 6 b&w photos, 2 figures PB • 9780820327594 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

2007 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820328867 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Myles Weber

John Cullen Gruesser “Confluences joins Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic in the first rank of books investigating African American literature’s place in the postcolonial tradition. Placing postcolonialism in dialogue with the major texts of African American literary theory, Gruesser provides a deft introduction to the major currents of postcolonial theory and makes a compelling case for postcolonialism as an appropriate touchstone for black criticism in the new century.”—Craig Werner, author of A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and the Soul of America

Converging Stories Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature Jeffrey Myers “The focus in Myers’s work on the nineteenth century is an important one indeed for ecocriticism and makes a sorely needed contribution to the field, especially as it recovers the notion of ‘ecocentricity’ as a stance that requires environmentalists to view social justice as inseparable from their traditional concerns. Converging Stories is flawlessly written, and therefore a pleasure to read.”—Joni Adamson, author of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place “This brief monograph packs a provocative interpretation of a body of important works frequently read in isolation, and in so doing, opens the whole of American nature writing to fruitful reconsideration.”—Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America Consuming Silences

Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic

2005 • 160 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820326993 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

2005 • 192 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820327440 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

“Introduces readers to a delicious smorgasbord of texts well beyond the canonical environmental writings.”

—Ecology

Confluences

enjoyable critical books I have read in some time. Refreshingly free of the jargon of literary criticism, Weber’s slim book is both theoretically savvy and delightfully accessible. Startling, challenging, and rewarding, Consuming Silences helps us rethink what we thought we knew about authors and literary consumers.”—Virginia Quarterly Review

T. Gregory Garvey

How We Read Authors Who Don’t Publish “This deliciously nasty study dissects why and how authors create ‘careers of silence,’ sustaining reputations for decades without publishing anything new. Weber takes as his starting point the poststructuralist contention that the author is dead and considers a seeming oxymoron: the silent author. . . . Clawing away layers of self-fashioning that often result in a cult of admiration for the ‘suspended author,’ Weber debunks the saga of Tillie Olsen’s ‘silences,’ Henry Roth’s ‘literary comeback,’ the stubborn reclusiveness of J. D. Salinger, and Ralph Ellison’s masterful invisibility.”—Paula Rabinowitz, author of Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism “A fresh and exciting study . . . Consuming Silences is one of the most

“The fundamental argument of Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America is significant and quite original. Garvey explores the nature of reform culture and public discourse in nineteenth-century America, basing his work on a very persuasive demonstration of the close connections between antebellum religious culture and the emerging culture of reform.”—David M. Robinson, author of Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism “Garvey’s book reminds us that sometimes rhetoric is the reality, that inherited traditions of speech, debate, and persuasion can shape decisively the political culture of a given era. The author accordingly offers to readers across several disciplines a rich and compelling examination of four key debates in antebellum America. . . .

This is a challenging, nuanced, and provocative book.”—American Historical Review 2010 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820335193 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

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Critical Fictions

The Crucible of Carolina

Sentiment and the American Market, 1780–1870

Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture

Joseph Fichtelberg

Edited by Michael Montgomery

“Critical Fictions overthrows the received wisdom that early American sentimental fiction was a form of resistance to the impersonal rationality of commerce. . . . Fichtelberg’s insightful study teaches us that there has never been a divorce between the desires that impel commerce and those that bind persons in imaginative communities.”—David Shields, editor of Early American Literature

“A significant contribution to the study of Gullah.”—Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

“By finding the analogy between the affective and the economic in unexpected places, Fichtelberg demonstrates that it permeated American culture. In a series of well-argued chapters, he productively interprets writings by Crevecoeur, Emerson, Whitman, Olaudah Equiano, Martha Meredith Read, Isaac Mitchell, and Nathaniel Coverly.”—American Literature 2003 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820324340 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

“A pleasure to read . . . Reveals the complex ways in which multiple cultures merge, and hints at the particular burden placed on the culture which is being forced to merge and yet survive.”—South Carolina Historical Magazine 2008 • 252 p. • 6 x 9 12 photos PB • 9780820331157 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

Daughter of the Swan Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty’s Fiction Gail L. Mortimer “Gail Mortimer’s book is an adventure itself for critic and lay reader alike.

The book is one of the most satisfying appraisals available of Ms. Welty’s work.”—South Atlantic Review “Mortimer skillfully presents new paradigms to help illuminate the complex and elusive fictional worlds of Eudora Welty.”—American Literature 1994 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820316338 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Daughters of the Great Depression Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s

Critical Memory Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America Houston A. Baker Jr. “What drives Critical Memory are Baker’s preciseness of prosaic organization, his ability to use and make personal references tropes for the collective condition, and his storytelling abilities.”—Multicultural Review “In these pages can be found, at least to this psychoanalytical eye, traces of the war within texts of Houston A. Baker Jr., a war that is waged in these and other volumes between differing African American male writers, between past and present, blackness and likability, black men and, silently, black women. When the shooting stops, it seems clear that Baker has set his course quite differently. Ellison and Washington have lost to Wright and King, as the more effective southern spokesmen to and for the black majority’s move toward modernity.”

—Southern Literary Journal 2001 • 96 p. • 5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820322407 • $41.95 your price: $12.58

Laura Hapke “Carefully researched and detailed . . .

Cultural constructions of gender roles continue to be powerfully affected by economic conditions. Hapke gives us a probing analysis of the way this process shaped the lives of Depression-era Americans.”—New York Times Book Review “A masterful integration of history and literature . . . This is a groundbreaking work, outstanding for its clarity, scope, exemplary scholarship, and wealth of fact and insight.”—Choice 1997 • 312 p. • 6 x 9.25 8 photos PB • 9780820319087 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Deep South Memory and Observation Erskine Caldwell Foreword by Guy Owen Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister’s son. It offers a rich mix of anecdotes, memories, interviews, and observations that point to what may be the true essence of southern spirituality.

“Many of the episodic stories could easily stand on their own, but it is the collage of characters and southern religions which makes the book so vivid.”—Religious Studies Review 1995 • 272 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820317168 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Disturbing Calculations The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912–2002 Melanie Benson Taylor “Benson uses numbers, or “calculations,” in texts ranging from early modernist to postmodern works to discern—in provocative and revealing ways—the relations and tensions of class, economy, and race. Among the more notable numerical images used to dispossess and marginalize people are William Faulkner’s “ledgers” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “gilded six bits.” Of particular value are Benson’s examinations of literary works by contemporary Native Americans in the South: e.g., the late Choctaw Cherokee novelist Louis Owens and Cherokee Appalachian poet Marilou Awiakta. These and the other works may reveal, as Benson notes, “the peril and promise of change.” . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice This study is both highly original and absolutely persuasive. In her analysis of how southern elites employ a language of mathematics and calculation to naturalize social hierarchies and maintain corrupt economies, Benson identifies what emerges irrepressibly as a central theme and tactic of southern culture. The wonder is that we hadn’t noticed it before.”—Scott Romine, author of The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction 2008 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820331126 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

A DuBose Heyward Reader Edited and with an Introduction by James M. Hutchisson DuBose Heyward (1885–1940) was a central figure in both the Charleston and the Southern Renaissance.

This volume acquaints readers with writings by Heyward that have been overshadowed by his play Porgy, and it also plumbs the complex sensibilities of the man behind that popular and enduring creation.

“The range of Heyward’s writing, traditionally overshadowed by Porgy, is given expansive treatment in A DuBose Heyward Reader.”—Charleston Post & Courier “This is a luscious sampling of fiction, poetry and essays from the famed author of Porgy.”—Sandlapper 2003 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 1 b&w photo PB • 9780820324852 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

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The Emerson Dilemma

Essays on Nature and Landscape

Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

Susan Fenimore Cooper Edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson Foreword by John Elder

Edited by T. Gregory Garvey “A collection of authoritative essays treating a subject that is timely and will spur discussion and lively debate on the nature and extent of Emerson’s reformist impulses.”—Ronald A. Bosco, University at Albany, State University of New York “The traditional image of Emerson is that of a remote intellectual—an individual drawn to the quiet retreat of his study where he is free to meditate and compose undisturbed by the intrusions of the practical world. This edited collection of eleven original essays challenges that notion. Each essay focuses on the relation between Emerson’s writings, sermons, and speeches and the social and political activism they engendered. What emerges is the image of Emerson putting his ideas into action.”—Choice 2001 • 294 p. • 6 x 9 15 b&w illus.

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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion John Cullen Gruesser “Looking at late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American writers’ responses to U.S. imperialist expansion abroad, Gruesser expands our understanding of African American literature of the period and also of U.S. history, showing that African American commitment to antiracism did not stop at the nation’s borders.

An important book for scholars and general readers alike.”—Elizabeth Ammons, author of Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet “Through his insightful analysis of both familiar and understudied texts, Gruesser makes critical interventions in the fields of African American literature, African American cultural history, and American Studies. . . . As The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home powerfully reveals, African Americans’ efforts to combat racial terror and disenfranchisement on American soil required a strategic— and often highly selective—engagement with U.S. expansionist projects in the Caribbean and the Pacific.”

—Journal of African American History 2012 • 168 p. • 6 x 9 1 figure PB • 9780820344065 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

“Essays is an excellent collection of Cooper’s work and recommended reading for environmental historians and those interested in nature writing.”—Environmental History

Empowering Words Outsiders and Authorship in Early America Karen A. Weyler “Weyler’s book delves deeply into literary and cultural studies as these intersect with the study of scribal and print history-all in an effort to uncover the methods used by cultural outsiders to access the literary cultural marketplace and find multiple audiences for their work. Her study provides us a fascinating glimpse of the cultural negotiations and renegotiations taking place during the eras of the American Revolution and the early Republic.”

—Carla Mulford, founding president of the Society of Early Americanists “Weyler gives a fascinating account of non-elites’ strategies—primarily collaborative writing and sponsorship by patrons and editors—to get their texts published during the radical expansion of American print culture from 1760 to 1815.”—American Studies 2013 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 18 b&w photos PB • 9780820343242 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Environmental Renaissance Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature Andrew McMurry “A major contribution (and corrective) to two fields: nineteenth-century American literary studies and an emerging ecocriticism. Indeed, McMurry’s reformulation of ecocritical thought is validated precisely because he is able to read Emerson and Thoreau in fresh ways, as early representatives, roughly and respectively, of reformist and deep ecological positions.”—Joseph Tabbi, author of Cognitive Fictions “Both challenging and erudite, McMurry’s call to arms pushes at the boundaries of environmental literature and demands a criticism that’s more relevant and effectual.”—Nature Pages 2003 • 288 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820325309 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

“These ten pieces, nine of which are reprinted for the first time since Cooper’s death, complement the famous Rural Hours (1850) by providing a record of the development of Cooper’s ideas on nature and nature writing.”

—American Literature 2002 • 168 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820324227 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

Eugene O’Neill’s Last Plays Separating Art from Autobiography Doris Alexander “The book is a bombshell. The lifetime of research that Professor Alexander has put into it explodes not only myths, but much of what is now taken to be the foundation of O’Neill studies as well. . . . It is a radical revision of O’Neill studies that shines a searchlight on fundamental problems that have interfered with our understanding of O’Neill.”—Eugene O’Neill Review “It is welcome because it foregrounds the necessity of reassessing the ways in which biography—in particular about O’Neill—is considered and canonized.”—Theatre Journal 2005 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 7 b&w photos HC • 9780820327099 • $46.95 your price: $23.47

Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835 Cedrick May “May’s book is an important achievement that corrects the tendency to dismiss or marginalize religion in the discussion of black resistance, while advancing the understanding of the intimate connection between the religious and the political. It offers an exceptional combination of historical, literary, political, and theological readings of canonical and virtually unknown writers.”—Katherine Clay Bassard, author of Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women’s Writing “May skillfully advances our knowledge of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African and African American writers and institution builders. Cogently contending that these writers have been ignored largely because their Black Christian piety has been discounted or misread,

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May shows how each spearheaded decisive movements for black liberation, education, and religious equality.

May tells an engrossing story of these authors’ intertextuality, underscoring that the ‘black transatlantic’ formed a small world and a powerful network.”—Joycelyn Moody, author of Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women 2008 • 168 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820327983 • $41.95 your price: $12.58

Fables of Subversion

Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy Edited by George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin

Faulkner and the Great Depression

Satire and the American Novel

Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics

Steven C. Weisenburger

Ted Atkinson

Drawing on more than thirty novels by nineteen writers, Fables of Subversion is both a survey of mid-twentieth century American fiction and a study of how these novels challenged the conventions of satire. Steven Weisenburger focuses on the rise of a radically subversive mode of satire from 1930 to 1980.

“A significant book . . . Atkinson’s study offers, on the whole, a balanced analysis and presents a thoughtful model for future studies. . . . At his best Atkinson places Faulkner firmly in the frightening and exhilarating context of our last century’s history and culture. In doing so, he shows just how relevant Faulkner remains for our own time.”—Studies in American Culture

“Weisenburger’s book is remarkably successful in its attempts both to construct a history of American satires from West and O’Connor through Gaddis and Pynchon and, by providing a map of these new satires, to open up a broader understanding of satire itself.”—Contemporary Literature 1995 • 336 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820316680 • $46.95 your price: $23.47

Fallen Forests Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 Karen L. Kilcup “Fallen Forests expands our sense of American literary engagement with the nonhuman world well beyond the established canon. . . . Kilcup identifies a more capacious tradition of ‘environmental literature’ whose primary project is not to foster ecological awareness but rather to work for environmental justice.”—Environment and History “Should be recommended as required reading for audiences interested in environmental justice, American women’s writing about nature, ecofeminism, and ecological literary criticism. Kilcup’s splendid work demonstrates how women’s rhetoric may help us to account for connections between human oppression and nature’s mistreatment in the context of classism, racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.”—Prose Studies 2013 • 512 p. • 6 x 9 25 b&w photos PB • 9780820345000 • $32.95 your price: $13.18

“A fine contribution to historicist and cultural studies scholarship on Faulkner’s work . . . Atkinson makes a convincing argument for re-evaluating Faulkner’s fiction between 1927 and 1941 in the context of dominant social and political debates going on at the time. . . . Atkinson’s book is a significant contribution both to Faulkner studies and to American studies more broadly. . . . Anybody interested in further understanding Faulkner, the history of the Depression, or the relationship between art and politics would find this very readable book both of interest and of value.”

—Mississippi Quarterly

“Slusser and Rabkin have performed a great service in bringing together sixteen fine essays on SF and armed conflict, including their own very thoughtful joint introduction and their own individual articles. It is a particularly valuable work because they have chosen essays which, for the most part, go beyond a straight-forward examination of clearly pacifist and warist texts.”—Science Fiction Studies 1993 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820315331 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

Flannery O’Connor The Obedient Imagination Sarah Gordon “A must-read for its undaunted exploration of critical questions most O’Connor scholars evade rather than plumb, including O’Connor’s possible racism, quasi-Manichaeanism, ambivalent depictions of women, denigration of human relationships, and creative grappling with the expectations of patriarchy.”—Virginia Quarterly Review “First-time readers as well as life-long scholars of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction will discover bold and urgent commentary in Gordon’s The Obedient Imagination, and this archival study— this water table of biography and literary criticism—should be a welcome addition both to personal and to university libraries.”—American Literature

2006 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820327501 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

2003 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 1 figure PB • 9780820325200 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Fiction’s Inexhaustible Voice

Flannery O’Connor

Speech and Writing in Faulkner

New Perspectives

Stephen M. Ross

Edited by Sura P. Rath and Mary Neff Shaw

“It is hard to imagine how such a work could ever be done more thoroughly.

As might have been anticipated from Professor Ross’s work on Faulkner over the last decade, this is a painstakingly observed set of readings, . . .

This substantial book will give readers significant matter for reflection.”— Modern Language Review “The structure of his stuydy is well-balanced, the content effectively effectively organized: employing standard theories of voice, each of the four chapters first richly defines a mode, then relates it to the particular works.”—American Literature 1991 • 204 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820313757 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

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Topics discussed include O’Connor’s early stories, her canonical status, the phenomenon of doubling, the feminist undertones of her stories’ grotesqueries, and her self-denial in life and art.

“Rath and Shaw have compiled a well argued collection. Most impressively, all of the essays manage to present readers with complicated literary theories in readable, fairly uncomplicated prose. . . . This collection offers us approaches to exciting, unexplored territories in O’Connor waiting to jolt us.”—Women’s Studies 1996 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820318042 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

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Flannery O’Connor’s South Robert Coles “[Coles] offers us a sensitive, acutely discerning examination of the attitudes, religious beliefs and intuitive psychological insights O’Connor brought to her work. . . . Anyone who has read O’Connor will appreciate Coles’s illumination of what he considers the main purpose of her storytelling: ‘showing the depth of God’s mysteries.”—Publishers Weekly “Dr. Coles enriches our appreciation of this remarkable writer and her milieu. The encounter with him, also, is no small part of the reward.”—Wall Street Journal 1993 • 200 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820315362 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

Foods of the Gods Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction Edited by Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and Eric S. Rabkin The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, including anthropology, film, and French, Russian, English, and medieval literature.

Ranging in their focus from shamans to cannibals, utopias to social Darwinism, muscle magazines to supermarket tabloids, the contributors discuss the theory and practice of science fictional eating.

1996 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820317472 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Forgiving the Boundaries

structural common ground of these three types of writing and places them in the larger system of mystery fiction that preceded and surrounds them.

“A pleasure to read, with Roth’s insights compelling and his style sharp and entertaining.”—College Literature 1995 • 304 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820316222 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Good Observers of Nature American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885

1995 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820316734 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Foul and Fair Play Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction Marty Roth The detective fiction genre, as Roth defines it, includes analytic detective fiction, hard-boiled detective fiction, and the spy thriller. Roth insists on the

The Green Breast of the New World Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction

“Provides a sweeping, historically contextualized view of women’s science writing in this period and, at the same time, presents a careful and detailed textual analysis of the written works of four specific, yet representative, women.”—Isis

“Westling’s eco-feminism is certainly persuasive, and she offers a refreshing reading, and reworking, of [such writers as] Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty.”—Journal of American Studies

“Gianquitto’s work brings important ecocritical attention to ‘home’ environments such as the backyard or the neighborhood forest, foregrounding the question, ‘What does it mean to be a ‘good observer’ . . . of the natural world?’—American Literature “[A] welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on nineteenth-century American women and their relationship to science and nature.”—Legacy 2007 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 8 b&w photos PB • 9780820329192 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

Louise H. Westling

“This book belongs on the shelf next to Kolodny’s The Lay of the Land and The Land Before Her, Slotkin’s Regeneration through Violence, Oelschlager’s The Idea of Wilderness, and Lewis’s The American Adam.”—American Literature 1998 • 224 p. • 6 x 9.25 PB • 9780820320809 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

Historical Fictions Hugh Kenner A variety of literary topics are addressed in forty-three lively, often humorous, and wonderfully informative essays.

“A Kenner idea floats gently on the mind, and he often strings together words as beautifully as the poets and novelists he is explicating.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Terry Caesar

“His study is the result of long and carerful thought about the literature of American vagrancy beyond the national borders. Forgiving the Boundaries is often stimulating in ways that will challenge others to undertake their own careful reading and thinking.”—American Literature

2013 • 272 p. • 6 x 9 5 b&w photos PB • 9780820345956 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

Tina Gianquitto

Home as Abroad in American Travel Writing The first major study of American writing about foreign travel. Considering travel memoirs and journals, guidebooks, and novels, Caesar applies ideological and postcolonial criticism to work published between Silliman’s Journal of Travels in England, Holland, and Scotland (1810) and Thomsen’s The Saddest Pleasure (1992).

Gravity’s Rainbow than most Pynchon readers, and we ourselves, have been willing to see’. Scholars from across the humanities would do well to consider the larger implications of the cultural analysis which leads them to their nuanced conclusion.”—American Studies

“Every page of Historical Fictions is instructive; but, even more important, all of it is exceptionally entertaining.”—Washington Post Book World 1995 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820317748 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Gravity’s Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger “There might be two other scholars somewhere in the world who understand Gravity’s Rainbow and its times more comprehensively or more deeply than Herman and Weisenburger, but if so, I don’t know who they are. . . . If you care anything for Pynchon and Gravity’s Rainbow, you’d better read this book.”—Brian McHale, author of Postmodernist Fiction “In short, this fascinating transnational and rigorously interdisciplinary collaboration by two preeminent Pynchon scholars offers readers a provocative look at a ‘much darker and more cynical (but not despairing)

Humor of the Old Southwest Edited by Hennig Cohen and William B. Dillingham One of the most entertaining genres of American literature is the bold, masculine, wildly exaggerated, and highly imaginative frontier humor of the Old Southwest, produced between 1835 and 1861. Cohen and Dillingham have tapped the wealth of this region to produce a collection that has become the standard anthology of Old Southwestern humor.

“The rich, ripe garden of the Old South humor is all here.”—Alabama Review 1994 • 536 p. • 6 x 9.25 PB • 9780820316055 • $32.95 your price: $16.47

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Hunger Overcome?

Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature Andrew Warnes “This book is an important text for literary scholars, as well as historians, interested in gaining a better understanding of the complex and varied depictions of food and hunger in African American literature. . . . The topics examined not only illuminate the human condition, but the literary and symbolic relationship between food and the written word.”—Journal of African American History “I relish the idea, more than two hundred years after Phillis Wheatley first published verses linking American liberty and black freedom, that the black pen can ultimately serve to liberate. In that, Warnes and I are truly in concert.”—Gastronomica 2004 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820325620 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets Interviews conducted and edited by Malin Pereira “The eight writers interviewed by Malin Pereira are key poets whose work is crucial in understanding how American poetry is one of the most dynamic literatures in the world. Each excellent interview gives fresh insight into the poet’s work and examines how this active generation of writers has gone beyond a specific black aesthetic to address racism and its politics in a universal manner.”—Bloomsbury Review “Pereira has conducted interviews with some of the most important— really essential—voices of postBlack Arts Movement poetry, and encouraged them to talk in unguarded ways about living the ‘poet’s life’ in an ever-evolving American racial landscape. Revealing, startling, and just downright fascinating, Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen will become an instant classic.”—Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of Outlandish Blues 2010 • 260 p. • 6 x 9 1 photo PB • 9780820337135 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs Edited by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren “In assembling ten excellent essays that together address all of Griggs’s novels and many of his nonfiction works, a valuable chronology of Griggs’s life and times, and a useful list of secondary sources, Warren and

Chakkalakal have fashioned a recovery project that makes a significant contribution to literary history more generally and. Indeed, in offering a rich accounting of this author’s life and works, the volume also, subtly but forcefully, asks us to meditate on the meaning of recovery, both in our scholarly writing and in the classroom.”—American Literary History “Chakkalakal and Warren have assembled a range of impressive contributions from both rising and established scholars of African American literature. Their rather considerable expertise on turn of the century Jim Crow culture and history makes the book accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with the strange and wonderful universe summoned in Griggs’s fiction.”—Journal of African American History 2013 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 2 b&w photos PB • 9780820345987 • $32.95 your price: $9.88

Listening to the Land Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape

Little Women A Family Romance Elizabeth Lennox Keyser “Keyser’s analysis is not polemical.

She prefers to reveal the ambiguities and conflicts that shape the story and avoids assigning absolute meanings. . . . Students who turn to this book, when writing a term paper or simply wanting a better grasp on the novel, will not find a plot summary and explanation of its “deeper” meaning.

Instead they’ll find Keyser’s expert delineation of the questions and contradictions that make Little Women a memorable novel. Teachers and critics will notice that because the analysis rejects easy answers in favor of openended inquiry, Little Women: A Family Romance is valuable pedagogically and critically. . . . [An] ideal example of how discerning feminist criticism can open up and make surprising again a text as culturally familiar as Little Women.”

—Children’s Literature 2000 • 160 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 5 photos, 5 figures PB • 9780820322803 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

Lee Schweninger “This is the best book on the land ethic of Native American writers.

Schweninger incisively describes the complexities of the concepts of Native Americans’ relationship to the land as depicted by both Natives and non-Natives. His perceptive analyses illuminate the works of Vine Deloria Jr.; Louise Erdrich; Linda Hogan; John Joseph Mathews; Louis Owens; N. Scott Momaday; and Gerald Vizenor.”—LaVonne Ruoff, University of Illinois, Chicago “Listening to the Land should be read by anyone desiring a deeper understanding of Native peoples’ relationship to place and the natural world. It argues that the environmental Indian stereotype is an inaccurate, oversimplified image that prevents real learning and real action.”—MELUS 2008 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820330594 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

The Literary Percys Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination Bertram Wyatt-Brown “In this often brilliant, always provocative book, Bertram Wyatt-Brown argues that the Percy family’s writers responded to the pain of tragic circumstances by creating a literature of imaginative resolutions. Based upon prodigious historical research, this interpretation employs the methods and principles of psychoanalysis and the author’s penetrating skills as a critic.”—Journal of Southern History 1994 • 128 p. • 5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820316659 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Little Women Abroad The Alcott Sisters’ Letters from Europe, 1870–1871 Louisa May Alcott and May Alcott Edited by Daniel Shealy “No scholar of his generation has added more to our understanding of Louisa May Alcott than Daniel Shealy.

In his brilliantly researched Little Women Abroad, he outdoes himself.

Casual readers will be delighted to share in the humor and exuberance of two irrepressible sisters as they explore the wonders of western Europe side by side.”—John Matteson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father “Little Women Abroad is a major contribution to Alcott studies . . .

In providing public access to May Alcott’s letters for the first time, the volume gives a voice to a woman artist whose accomplishments are becoming increasingly well appreciated.”— Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 2008 • 376 p. • 7 x 9 78 b&w photos and illus.; 1 map HC • 9780820330099 • $41.95 your price: $16.78

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Lonelier than God

Melville’s Later Novels

Neo-Segregation Narratives

Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile

William B. Dillingham

Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature

Randy Hendricks The wandering figure was ever present in Robert Penn Warren’s work. Randy Hendricks here explores the centrality of the theme of exile as a way of understanding Warren’s artistry, showing that the exile figure is both a key to Warren’s relation to much of twentieth-century Southern literature and an index to his growth as an artist.

“Hendricks has written one of the strongest books on Warren to date.

This is an indispensable addition to the ongoing discourse on Warren (and modern Southern writing generally), but it is also a model of readability and mature critical reflection. It is precisely the kind of criticism Warren himself practiced—when he was at his best.”—William Bedford Clark, author of The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren

“This is a mighty book. The last, longest, and most original of Dillingham’s trilogy on Melville, it treats the writing of Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence Man, and Billy Budd as ongoing episodes in Melville’s struggle to keep alive and sane . . . Dillingham’s focus on the process of self-discovery saves his interpretations from the smug moralism into which ethical psychological readings sometimes lapse. His productive thesis is richly supported by a close knowledge of the texts and their historical contexts.”

—Library Journal “Dillingham’s readings always send us back to Melville’s text for a closer look.”—Choice 1986 • 448 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820307992 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

Leland Krauth

Melville’s Art of Democracy Nancy Fredricks “Downplaying the darker aspects of Melville’s fictional world, such as its misogyny, Fredericks, by her exploration of Melville’s relationship to the Kantian sublime, nonetheless offers a fresh and compelling view of her subject, which confirms, particularly in the chapters on Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s status as one of America’s greatest writers.”—New England Quarterly 1995 • 168 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820316826 • $41.95 your price: $16.78

2010 • 212 p. • 6 x 9 4 b&w photos HC • 9780820335964 • $69.95 your price: $20.98

Introduction, interviews, and exercises by Barbara Shoup and Margaret-Love Denman

Six Literary Relations

2003 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820325408 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

“Neo-Segregation Narratives is an expansive and inventive work of scholarship, intrepid in its declaration of a new literary tradition. . . . Norman’s study leaves me reflecting on this intriguing suggestion that literature can achieve forms of ‘integration’ that continue to elude us in American life.”—Callaloo

Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process

Mark Twain & Company

“A fascinating account . . . Krauth makes it clear that his purpose is not to examine the life and works of Mark Twain ‘in the borad field of some particular literary fashion or movement, but in the narrower corridor of his personal acquaintanceship.’ . . . He accomplishes this goal convincingly and compellingly.”—Southern Review

“By defining key figures, practices, and comparative approaches, Neo-Segregation Narratives clarifies and validates the work of scholarship on the literature of the Civil Rights Movement.”—MELUS

Novel Ideas

2000 • 264 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820321783 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

“Krauth has the rare ability to write for both the masses (at least the Twainiac masses) and an academic audience. The book is extremely well-researched and eminently readable. It breaks ground, I think, in fusing Twain with the establishment of cross-cultural Victorian studies, and it does so with a flair often absent in academic writing.”—Mark Twain Forum

Brian Norman

My Dear Boy Carrie Hughes’s Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926–1938 Edited by Carmaletta M. Williams and John Edgar Tidwell Foreword by Nikky Finney “Draining, painful letters that are impossible to stop reading bring a new and indelible appreciation of Langston Hughes’s personal challenges as a young adult. Brilliant and carefully documented insights by the editors compel new readings of Hughes’s works that we mistakenly thought we already understood. The freshest book on Hughes I have seen in a while.”

—Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, author of Not So Simple: The “Simple” Stories by Langston Hughes “With meticulous scholarship and an unerring sense of biographical proportion, My Dear Boy opens the doors to otherwise unseen dimensions of Langston Hughes’s most long-lived and most intimate interpersonal bond, freeing us at one turn after another from the accumulated clichés and oversimplifications that have masked the inner and outer lives of one of our most complex and accomplished writers.”—John S. Wright, author of Shadowing Ralph Ellison 2013 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 13 b&w photos HC • 9780820345659 • $39.95 your price: $15.98

“Many texts exist on writing the short story, but there are few useful ones about its less predictable cousin, the novel. This valuable book includes general fiction principles but then expands to the particular testimony of contemporary authors discussing how they wrote their well-known novels.

The result for readers, writers, and writing teachers is not a cookbook but a bountiful literary feast.”—Doris Betts, author of Heading West “I’ve always loved this book and find it to be very useful when writing and revising my own novels. I’ve read nearly every novel-writing book out there, and this is the best by far.”

—Elizabeth Stuckey-French, coauthor of Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft 2009 • 344 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820332796 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

Partial Faiths Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison John A. McClure “Are you distressed by religious certainty and disturbed by secular dogmatism? Then this is the book for you. Through inspired readings of DeLillo, Pynchon, Morrison and others McClure charts post secular visions that transcend both regimes.

To receive his account is to see that we already participate in a noble movement larger than we had imagined.

This book is indispensable for our time.”—William E. Connolly, author of Pluralism “In the weakness, limit, and partiality of postsecular faith, John McClure has

literature and literary studies / united states 67 the courage to show us the residual supernaturalism and strength of religious life. . . . In McClure’s generous vision, and in the vision of the writers he engages, saints and angels and divine visitations can be embraced without condescension and without fundamentalism. McClure is a discerning reader, and his work here will change how we understand, and divide up, the landscape of contemporary fiction.”—Amy Hungerford, author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personfication 2007 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820330334 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

Passions for Nature Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation Rochelle L. Johnson “Passions for Nature turns the conventional wisdom about nature in mid-nineteenth-century America on its head. Rochelle Johnson argues persuasively that most of the era’s nature writing and art says more about culture than it does about nature, and her call for us to attend more closely to nature’s materiality comes at a crucial time. A bracing and original contribution to environmental studies.”

—Daniel J. Philippon, author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement “Passions for Nature is especially notable for its compelling defense of the neglected writings of Susan Fenimore Cooper, in the context of bold and inventive comparisons to the work of Emerson, Thoreau, and other better-known contemporaries.”—Lawrence Buell, author of The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination 2009 • 320 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 8 color photos, 9 b&w photos PB • 9780820332901 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Patterned Aimlessness Iris Murdoch’s Novels of the 1970s and 1980s Barbara Stevens Heusel “In many ways this is the work on Iris Murcoch for which we have been waiting, a sustained inquiry into the connection between her philosophy and fiction. . . . Heusel has a firm grasp on the philosophical dimension of Murdoch’s novels. . . . All in all, the work is indispensable to any student of Murdoch’s later fiction.”—South Atlantic Review 1995 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 6 b&w photos HC • 9780820317076 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Phillis Wheatley Biography of a Genius in Bondage Vincent Carretta This is the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784), who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman—of any race or background—to do so in America.

“This is a satisfying study of the ‘elusive’ Wheatley, fleshed out with succinct, discerning readings of the body of her work. . . . Especially noteworthy is the book’s attentiveness to Wheatley’s involvement in the production and promotion of her book, the contemporary responses to her work, and an unprecedented account of her marriage to the debt-ridden John Peters, whose death forced her into domestic service.”—Publishers Weekly “[Carretta’s] well researched narrative succeeds in bringing the ‘genius in bondage’ out of history’s shadows. . . .

Wheatley emerges from the pages of Carretta’s biography as a resourceful poet who played an active role in the production and distribution of her own writing on both sides of the Atlantic.”—Times Literary Supplement 2011 • 304 p. • 6 x 9 34 b&w photos; 1 map HC • 9780820333380 • $31.95 your price: $15.97

The Prestige of Violence American Fiction, 1962–2007 Sally Bachner “The Prestige of Violence is poised to become a major study of post–World War II US fiction. This is a remarkable account of how prominent fiction writers’ formal engagement with violence provides the terms by which otherwise very disparate works of fiction come in this period to be considered serious literature.”—Andrew Hoberek, author of The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post–World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work “The Prestige of Violence provides an in-depth and compelling examination of a crucial yet under-analyzed trend in American literature from the second half of the twentieth century.

Combining meticulous close readings of the literature with shrewd analyses of the historical and theoretical happenings that undergirded its practice, Bachner reveals how the so-called unrepresentability of violence in literary language counter-intuitively only elevated its prestige as a subject for literary representation.”—Abigail Cheever, author of Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post-World War II America 2011 • 184 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820339108 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Reading Essays An Invitation G. Douglas Atkins “Reading Essays is an important undertaking, a welcome and vital addition to the current literature on the essay, rightly opening that body of scholarship to non-specialists. There is no book like this one, composed of a resonantly ordered series of perceptive critical readings that, at their best, enact the elastic form they entertain.

The result is both learned and fresh, carrying forward the project of a ‘revitalized critical writing’ advocated in the author’s excellent earlier book, Estranging the Familiar.”—Lydia Fakundiny, editor of The Art of the Essay “In three decades of writing and pondering essays, I have been seeking a book that grasps the four-hundredyear history of this adventurous form, and that does so with the wit, suppleness, curiosity, and emotional and intellectual range one expects of the finest essays. And now here at last is such a book.”—Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe 2008 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820330303 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Reading for the Body The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985 Jay Watson “Certainly one of the most important books in Southern studies to appear in recent years. . . . Watson is a beautiful writer who has the uncanny ability to make the most difficult arguments surprisingly straightforward.”

—Southern Register “This work provides a powerful argument for using the body and as a methodological point of departure for southern studies. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice 2012 • 472 p. • 6 x 9 9 b&w photos PB • 9780820343389 • $31.95 your price: $12.78

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Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States Literature, Cinema, and Culture Stanley Corkin “Corkin undertakes an ambitious interdisciplinary project in which he demonstrates how works of the imagination that claim ‘realism’ and assert a material and social world already made also are implicated in the very making of that world.”—Journal of Popular Film and Television “[An] ambitious, thorough, and complex intellectual history examining the impact of the realist paradigm on the American experience.”—Film and History 1996 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820317304 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel John Russell Foreword by Neil D. Isaacs “Whereas previous studies have applied general techniques of literary criticism to prose works, Reciprocities creates a new characterization of exactly what a ‘nonfiction novel’ is.”

—Jerome Klinkowitz, author of Literary Disruptions “The borderline between fictional and non-fictional writing is one of the marches of literary criticism.

No one provides a finer survey of the field—from Dinesen to the travel books of Robert Byron—than Russell.

At the same time he develops with the greatest sensitivity a poetic for the non-fictional novel turning on humility before and sympathy with the events and persons described.”

—Alvin Kernan, Senior Advisor in the Humanities, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

way to think about our multiple roles.

What’s distinctive here is Gifford’s celebration of the multiplicity scholars generally experience as a dissonant avalanche of competing obligations, but that they could live as a unifying ecosystem of opportunities. Like Muir’s own Yosemite, readers can visit this book for many reasons and, whether on a short visit or a full expedition, come away enlightened.”

—Western American Literature 2006 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820327969 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Remembering James Agee Edited by David Madden and Jeffrey J. Folks Novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, film critic, and cult hero, James Agee was a man of many talents. This collection examines Agee’s achievements from the perspective of family members, friends, and contemporaries to create a multifaceted portrait of a dynamic and influential man.

“The relation between Agee’s romantic view of art, life, and religion . . . is eloquently summed up for us in this fascinating memoir.”—New Republic “Excellent. . . . A fine mosaic of a man who suceeded in life despite his ‘self destruct’ instinct.”—Journal of Popular Culture 1997 • 288 p. • 5.5 x 9 20 b&w photos HC • 9780820319131 • $34.95 your price: $10.48

Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice Terry Gifford “Reconnecting with John Muir is a fascinating look at the discourses of environment from the perspective of a British teacher, critic, mountaineer, and poet. Terry Gifford’s Muir is more interesting and varied than the Muir Americans have been creating: Gifford’s Muir is a Scot, writing in the context of a British tradition of aesthetics and mountaineering.”

—Michael P. Cohen, author of The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness “This book is a revolutionary effort to reimagine scholarly practice and the intellectual fruit of that toil. . . .

Reconnecting with John Muir offers professors a new and empowering

2003 • 260 p. • 6 x 9 26 b&w photos HC • 9780820325187 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Rethinking Social Realism African American Art and Literature, 1930–1953 Stacy I. Morgan Brilliantly set out . . . Morgan’s book takes the reader on a breathtaking journey into the works of diverse black artists, intellectuals, and writers who gave shape to a broad coalition and a loosely affiliated movement for social change . . . Written in a clear, easy-to-follow style, the book is well researched . . . Morgan has convincingly shown that black social realists of the era were collectively and effectively the racial memory (griots) through their paintings, poems, essays, and activism—African American Review “Rethinking Social Realism expands our understanding of social realism . . . Morgan’s multimedia approach gives us a much needed panoramic view . . . Morgan effectively and seamlessly navigates a dense array of artists and writers across several hundred pages . . . well written, intellectually thorough, and well illustrated . . . An exciting, exemplary new contribution that will be useful to scholars in African American literature as well as American studies.”—American Literature 2004 • 368 p. • 6 x 9 21 b&w photos PB • 9780820325798 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Re-Writing America

2000 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 1 figure HC • 9780820322025 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Reconnecting with John Muir

interested in the interrelationship of art, culture, race, and gender in the South and North during the early twentieth century.”—Southern Historian

Vietnam Authors in Their Generation Philip D. Beidler

Renaissance in Charleston Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900–1940 Edited by James M. Hutchisson and Harlan Greene “A fascinating book, important to our understanding of the literature and culture of the American South, well researched and filled with new and sometimes startling material. Until I read it I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know about what was going on in Charleston back then.”—Louis D. Rubin Jr., author of My Father’s People: A Family of Southern Jews “Insightful without becoming overbearing this work walks the fine line between scholarly and popular literature. Each essay builds upon each other without too much repetition, and the arguments are convincing.

This work is recommended for anyone

“Eloquent and detailed readings of some of the most acclaimed writers to have come out of the Vietnam War . . . An excellent overview of the literary styles and achievements that have developed from a group of writers whose literary efforts began, by and large, in response to that war. The text would also be useful to anyone seeking an introduction to the literary productions of the Vietnam War.”—Journal of American History “Beidler provides a thoughtful guide to the lasting work of the war’s leading novelists (Tim O’Brien, Philip Caputo, James Webb, Larry Heinemann, Winston Groom) and of those who wrote what he calls the literature of witness (Gloria Emerson, Frances FitzGerald, Robert Stone, Michael Herr).”—New York Times 1991 • 352 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820312644 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

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Righteous Violence

Scriptures for a Generation

Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance

What We Were Reading in the ‘60s

Larry J. Reynolds

“If you can or cannot remember the ‘60s, you will probably learn a lot, or be reminded of a lot, by taking this deja vu stroll down memory lane through the forest of “reading and writing” of the earlier dramatic period.”—Journal of American Culture

Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writers—Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.

“Larry Reynolds’s Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance opens up new territory in the study of Transcendentalism. . . . it exemplifies the strength and vigour of his fine study, which looks certain to become a key work in American Renaissance studies, and also invaluable to historians of slavery in nineteenth-century America.”—Year’s Work in English Studies “Reynolds’s chief strength is his ability to turn seemingly disparate writings, events, and political conversations into a coherent story of the complex nature of each thinker’s questions, doubts, and ambivalences about violence enacted in the name of social justice.”—New England Quarterly 2011 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 8 b&w photos PB • 9780820341408 • $29.95 your price: $11.98 HC • 9780820328256 • $74.95 your price: $29.98

Romancing the Vote Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920 Leslie Petty “Drawing on historical and cultural sources as well as the fictional work of several writers, Petty has written a study that successfully debunks the ‘separate spheres’ of male and female experience and provides important commentary about overlooked fiction.

Romancing the Vote is an illuminating new study of the activist heroine in late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century American literature.”

—Susan Belasco, coeditor of Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America “Leslie Petty’s Romancing the Vote artfully traces the development of American women’s activist feminist fiction from the subtle subversion of the sentimental romance to the middlebrow modernism of New Woman fiction. This book adds an important literary dimension to our understanding of American women’s political and reform history.”—Ellen Carol DuBois, coauthor of Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents 2006 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820328584 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Philip D. Beidler

Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority Keith Cartwright “Cartwright argues for a hermeneutics of inclusive reading practices of African diaspora literatures; a poetics of ‘swing’; a reading strategy that understands geographical, cultural, narrative, linguistic, spiritual, racial, and historical multiplicities not as unbridgeable differences but as similar acts of survival ethics by peoples of the African diaspora in the Caribbean, the Deep South of the United States, and the Bahamas. A brilliant, necessary, and refreshing resource for all universities offering graduate courses in African diaspora, Caribbean, and American literary and cultural studies.”—Dr. Dannabang Kuwabong, University of Puerto Rico “Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways is an excellent effort in theorizing and performing the links between the creole zones of the Caribbean, of the U.S. South, and of West Africa. The motifs of the sacred, the sublime, and the spiritual are called upon in order to demonstrate that the fragmentation and displacement experienced during diaspora and slavery created a unity that brings together these geographically discrete morsels.”—Valerie Loichot, author of Orphan Narratives and The Tropics Bite Back 2013 • 328 p. • 6 x 9

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PB • 9780820345994 • $29.95 your price: $8.98 HC • 9780820345369 • $79.95 your price: $31.98

Science Fiction and Market Realities Edited by Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and Eric S. Rabkin The modern marketplace of science fiction, and the relationship between art, culture, and commerce as reflected in works of science fiction, are the concerns of these original essays. The contributors offer a wealth of new perspectives and insights on the forces that both drive and hinder creativity and its commodification.

1996 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820317267 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

“Thoughtful and balanced commentaries . . . Provides not only an afficianado’s checklist of what describes as the period’s ‘scriptures,’ but a detailed map of the entire intellectual terrain.”—American Studies “Beidler cogently critiques ‘60s writers whose books challenged entrenched ideas of race, class, and gender.”—Publishers Weekly 1995 • 264 p. • 6.5 x 9.25 PB • 9780820317878 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Shades of Green Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770–1860 Ian Frederick Finseth “Finseth’s attention to the convergence of antebellum views of slavery and rising appreciation of the sociopolitical import of the natural world (what we have come nowadays to call ‘ecocriticism’) provides a unique and welcome new departure in the study of slavery and abolitionism.”—Eric J. Sundquist, author of Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820–1865 “Finseth’s book remains invaluable in its quest to reveal the neglected history of African American environmental thought and the myriad ways black writers and artists made nature a site of resistance to white supremacy. For anyone interested in these topics, Shades of Green is required reading.”

—Eighteenth-Century Studies 2011 • 360 p. • 6 x 9 8 color photos PB • 9780820337807 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

Shakespeare’s Tragic Perspective The Development of His Dramatic Technique Larry S. Champion “Comprehensive in scope and moderate in interpretations, the volume is an often illuminationg study of one aspect of Shakespeare’s growth as an artist.”—Shakespeare Studies “Will serve as a useful introduction to its subject.”—Shakespeare Quarterly “Champion’s text itself, although a little heavy in summaries of plot situations, is cautiously and mostly judiciously formulated.”—Comparative Drama 2012 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820338446 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

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South of Tradition

Stories with a Moral

Essays on African American Literature

Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia

Trudier Harris-Lopez

Michael E. Price

“Highlight[s] a scholarly career of originality and complex vision . . . A bold, comprehensive and ingenious volume that proves good theory is not always ‘high theory.’ . . . A mark of excellence that deserves the accolades it is sure to receive.”—Southern Literary Journal

“A solid piece of scholarship . . . The ideological purposes in paternalism, the changing racial climate, female patriotism, agricultural diversification, the New South modernization-the author analyzes all these subjects as significant influences on the literature of regional Georgia throughout the nineteenth century.”

—Choice

“The author does something rare among scholars: she revisits her past writing and, where appropriate, updates some of her views. . . . The critiques in this collection are jarring and enlightening because of their accuracy. Harris-Lopez’s approach to studying various African American literary forms is unique because she recognizes that growth is common to readers as well as writers.”—Choice 2002 • 248 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820324333 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

South to the Future An American Region in the Twenty-first Century Edited by Fred Hobson Until recently, the American South has often been treated in isolation by historians and literary critics. In these essays five scholars of southern history and literature evaluate elements of contemporary—and future— southern experience, including place, community, culture, class, gender, and racial roles.

“This book would be useful to general readers and scholars interested in Southern culture as it emerges in interdisciplinary moments.”

—Mississippi Quarterly 2002 • 120 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 HC • 9780820324111 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Southern Literature and Literary Theory Edited by Jefferson Humphries In this stimulating collection of essays, twenty scholars apply theoretical approaches to the fiction and poetry of southern writers ranging from Poe to Dickey, from Faulkner to Hurston and suggest the diversity of critical tools that can now be used to explore the literature and culture of the South.

1992 • 400 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820314860 • $32.95 your price: $9.88

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Southern Local Color Stories of Region, Race, and Gender Edited by Barbara C. Ewell and Pamela Glenn Menke With notes by Andrea Humphrey Conflict, exoticism, sensuality, eccentricity, and the sheer differences of the American South pervade this anthology, focusing on the nineteenth-century tradition of southern local color.

Thirty-one stories, spanning the 1870s through the early 1900s, represent some of the best southern fiction of the great flowering of local color writing.

“This collection of southem local color fiction successfully makes use of writers of differing backgrounds and experiences in orderto illustrate a more complete and thus complex unit of the works characterized by the southem local color genre. . . . The editors of this thorough and satisfying collection of eclectic authors have given a whole new generation of readers and scholars the opportunity to discover an era of American letters known as Southem Local Color.”

—Southern Studies 2002 • 392 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 1 figure PB • 9780820323176 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

A Southern Weave of Women Fiction of the Contemporary South Linda Tate One of the first sustained treatments of the generation of women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South and to situate southern literature within a multicultural context. Tate considers how women writers of the present generation reflect, expand, transform, and redefine long-standing notions of regional culture and womanhood.

“Tate unearths in these writers a distinctive, realistic narrative strategy that rejects postmodernist metafiction and redefines the role of the southern woman, who wrested power from the dominant (white, male, middle-class) culture. . . . A good introduction to a feminist reading of southern writers.”—Library Journal 1994 • 0 p. • 6 x 8.75 24 b&w photos HC • 9780820316147 • $40 your price: $12

“Stories with a Moral is a fine and fascinating work that caresses meaning out of sometimes obscure literary works, retelling the stories that nineteenth-century Georgians told about Georgia and explaining how they reflect social, economic, and political change during the time.”—Mart A. Stewart, author of What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920 2000 • 400 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820321325 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

Styles of Creation Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds Edited by George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin “An excellent collection of articles, perhaps the best ever on SF in general.”—Science Fiction Studies “The articles in this collection are uniformaly strong; they present a perception of literature of the fantastic that is often neglected in critical circles.”—Utopian Studies 1993 • 280 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820314556 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Susan Fenimore Cooper New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works Edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson Foreword by Lawrence Buell “Though it has taken over a century, the world, at least the world of literature, is beginning to make something of both Rural Hours and Susan Fenimore Cooper’s important position in American letters. [New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works] is to be commended for its range of diverse inquiries into Cooper’s life and work.

Certainly, it will encourage old and new readers of Cooper to expand and deepen their scholarship, and perhaps encourage a reassessment of all of those scribbling women of the nineteenth century buried in footnotes and reduced to brief abridgements.”—New York History “These well-written and wellresearched essays place Cooper in her familial, historical, and cultural contexts to offer new insights into her

literature and literary studies / united states 71 achievements as a writer and thinker.

The introduction provides a helpful overview of Cooper’s literary career, and scholars will find useful the two appendixes—chronological lists of Cooper’s published work and her known letters and manuscripts. The reader comes away from the book with a new appreciation of Cooper’s importance as a nineteenth-century nature writer and a new understanding of how her work looks ahead to contemporary environmental concerns and modes of observation.”—Choice

J. Rivero’s response, valuable and insightful.”—South Atlantic Review

writers to move beyond the pattern of betrayal.”—Southern Literary Journal

2000 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 3 figures PB • 9780820322278 • $25.95 your price: $12.97

2003 • 240 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820325781 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Thoreauvian Modernities

Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century

2001 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820323268 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

“What a wonderful idea, to bring together top scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to consider how Thoreau spoke to his own time and how he speaks to ours! Thoreau turns out to be an endlessly fruitful source for new ideas and insights regarding modernity. American readers may find the Europeans’ reflections on this quintessentially American writer particularly interesting—although the Americans’ essays also provide many valuable new insights. I highly recommend Thoreauvian Modernities.”

—Philip Cafaro, author of Thoreau’s Living Ethics: Walden and the Pursuit of Virtue

Talking with Robert Penn Warren Edited by Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers, and Mary Louise Weaks “If twentieth-century American literature has a Renaissance man of letters, surely it is Robert Penn Warren. Author of that great novel, All the KIng’s Men; our first poet-laureate; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in both genres; important New Critic; renowned teacher at Yale—such are a few highlights of Warren’s career.

This collection of interviews offers anecdotes, facts and opinions about the writer’s oeuvre and the man’s life.”—Washington Post 1990 • 440 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820312200 • $32.95 your price: $13.18

Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon Edited by François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, and Michel Granger

“Several of the sixteen contributions present compelling new ideas on hotly debated topics in recent Thoreau scholarship, particularly regarding Thoreau’s intense preoccupation, in his later life, with recording the particularity of his natural surroundings. . . . An important addition to Thoreau scholarship for the way its contributors’ views overlap in the questions raised, and dramatically diverge in the interpretations offered.”

—Amerikastudien / American Studies 2013 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 4 b&w photos PB • 9780820344294 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

To Hell and Back Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel

Textual Studies and the Common Reader Essays on Editing Novels and Novelists Edited by Alexander Pettit Eleven original essays by editors of literary texts and theorists concerned about the implications of what such editors do. Authors discussed include Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

“A tremendously useful and enjoyable collection. Although each of the contributors is an experienced editor, the collection remains accessible to non-specialists. . . . Anyone who teaches fiction will find the essays, as well as Pettit’s introduction and Albert

Jeff Abernathy “Abernathy establishes the continued relevance of Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to life in the U.S. Abernathy shows that, though most readers find Twain’s conclusion unsatisfactory, our repeated efforts to renegotiate the relationship between black and white in our history and in our literature have yielded similarly unsatisfying results.”—College Literature “Abernathy’s To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel is without question one of the bravest forays into racial politics and literary production that has been written. . . .

To Hell and Back is an extraordinary book, well argued without being condescending and penetrating in its analysis without being vicious or petty. Abernathy has thrown down the gauntlet of racial crossing as it were and has challenged the South and its

The Trash Phenomenon

Stacey Olster “Adept at handling difference across cultures, pointing out the error in presumptions that ‘popular culture imported from abroad displaces an indigenous . . .folk culture’ and complicating the supposed totalizing effect of mass media, Olster provides a startling take on trash and the phenomenon of recycling as cultural and national identification.”—American Literature “To do scholarship of this kind demands a wide knowledge of historical factors, but also an ability to maintain a focus on the artwork so that readers may understand just how it functions in the larger process of society. In The Trash Phenomenon Stacey Olster does this brilliantly.”

—Jerome Klinkowitz 2003 • 294 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820325217 • $29.95 your price: $11.98

Traveling South Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity John D. Cox “Traveling South is a carefully argued book that provides many surprising insights into texts both familiar and forgotten. Cox deftly creates space for himself amid the established critical approaches to nationalism, slavery, domesticity, and travel writing; more importantly he is able to map out in a clear and straightforward manner the often subtle connections among these unwieldy issues.”—Studies in American Culture “In addition to providing a new perspective from which to explore southern social and cultural history, Cox makes his most significant contributions in Traveling South to the study of travel and American literature by attempting to broaden the scope of the genre of travel literature. . . . Cox’s use of a wide variety of scholarship facilitates his novel approach to the study of the antebellum South and American national identity. The arguments Cox makes in Traveling South are provocative and generally persuasive. The connection the author draws between American identity and that of the United States’ ‘internal other,’ the South, is most compelling and one that is too often overlooked by scholars.”—Southern Historian 2005 • 254 p. • 6 x 9 2 b&w photos HC • 9780820327655 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

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Walker Percy’s Search for Community John F. Desmond “Desmond makes a lucid argument that Percy saw the Christian incarnation—the ‘mixing up of body and spirit’—as central to overcoming the solitariness of consciousness and opening the possibility of community.”—Choice

Truman Capote A Literary Life at the Movies Tison Pugh “With thick paragraphs on every page, each chapter is its own academic essay, with enough content to be stretched into a full collegiate course.

This makes for dense reading but also opens many avenues of film and literature to explore as well. It’s a hefty book yet rich with insight into Capote’s literary and cinematic achievements.”

—Publishers Weekly “Pugh’s latest is the piece of film history that you didn’t even know that your library was missing. It’s a fascinating look at the effect of Truman Capote’s literature (In Cold Blood) and scriptwriting on film, sprinkled with allusions to his increasing cheekiness in regards to movies of his time (1924–84). . . . This book is not for those seeking a quick read or a photo-filled tome, but for a fresh perspective on the meeting of literature and film, look no further. . . . A must for anyone interested in seeing the connections between film adaptations and quintessential Capote literature.”—Library Journal 2014 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 25 b&w photos PB • 9780820346694 • $28.95 your price: $14.47 HC • 9780820346687 • $79.95 your price: $39.97

Visible Man The Life of Henry Dumas Jeffrey B. Leak “We need this work. Leak sets so much of the record straight and knows Dumas’s creative output thoroughly.

The best aspect of the book, though, is the amazing story with which Leak is working. This is an extremely rewarding read.”—Keith Gilyard, author of John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism “In this beautifully written biography of African American poet and fiction writer Henry Dumas (1934–68), Leak transports readers back to Depression-era rural Arkansas in the 1930s, the promise and excitement of Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, and the turbulent racial politics of the 1960s.”—Choice 2014 • 216 p. • 6 x 9 19 b&w photos HC • 9780820328706 • $39.95 your price: $19.97

“The most distinctive contribution to Percy scholarship in recent years . . . [Desmond] is an excellent reader of texts and gives due attention to traditional questions of structure, voice, character development, and so forth, while keeping his primary concern with the semiotic constitution of community at force. . . . Desmond bridges this gap convincingly, and the scholarly conversation will be better for it.”—Mississippi Quarterly 2010 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820335827 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

Walker Percy’s Voices Michael Kobre “Walker Percy’s Voices is a powerful, convincing, and ground-breaking study of Percy. . . . It is an important addition to Percy scholarship.”

—Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., author of The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor “Kobre delights in Percy’s texts, quoting passages at length and to good effect. And although he refers adequately to the considerable body of Percy scholarship, he does so with a deft touch that leaves the lines of his own argument intact. This book could serve as an excellent introduction to the novels.”—John D. Sykes, author of Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation

innumerable smaller ones. Addressing himself to the reciprocities between Southern literary history and the individual writers who make up that history, he has wonderful things to say about their interactions and their conversations with each other, their peers, and their forebears.”—Noel Polk, editor of Mississippi Quarterly 2007 • 296 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820330051 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

What Is a Book?

David Kirby “Gifted with a fluid historical sensibility and a quintessentially American openmindedness, Kirby writes with nimbleness and precision about Melville and James, Charles Wright and Richard Howard, and children who love to be read to. . . . Anchored by four sparkling ‘what is’ inquiries into the nature of the reader, the writer, the book, and the critic, this altogether enjoyable, enlightening, and reassuringly human collection radiantly celebrates our unceasing love and need for books.”—Booklist “Kirby has gathered seventeen essays so clear, so relevant, and far-reaching as to address all the major working parts of literature. Refreshingly witty, beautifully written, and accessible essays on topics that illustrate the nature of each of these ‘players’ in the literary enterprise. An important and useful book that is also surprisingly pleasurable and entertaining to read; highly recommended.”—Library Journal 2002 • 240 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820324784 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Wilderness into Civilized Shapes

2000 • 256 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820321400 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Reading the Postcolonial Environment

A Web of Words

“Wilderness into Civilized Shapes offers elegant readings of a diverse range of texts as the bedrock from which it is able to articulate significant complications and paradigm shifts to the field of ecocritical inquiry.

Wright’s conclusion . . . establishes just what is at stake politically and culturally in postcolonial ecocritical efforts. This is a fitting open-end to an excellent, expansive example of what can be accomplished in the field.”

—Safundi

The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Richard Gray “Gray’s marvelous study of what he calls ‘the great dialogue of Southern literature’—the conversations that Southern texts have with other texts, Southern and otherwise—is perhaps the best book ever written on Southern literature. It’s absolutely breathtaking, as wise as it is exciting, as penetrating as it is sweeping. I have no doubt that it is destined to stand alongside the best works of literary study, not merely of the literature of the South but of the literature of any period. It is flat-out stunning.”

—Robert Brinkmeyer, author of Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920–1945 “Richard Gray is writing at the top of his game, moving fluidly between the large picture of Southern writing and

Laura Wright

“[Wright] invites complex understandings of the relationship between textual representation of voice and subaltern subjectivity. . . . Her refusal to accept singular perspectives, both theoretical and analytic, reveals a desire to venerate the interconnectedness of peoples, species, and ecosystems.”—ISLE 2010 • 178 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820333960 • $69.95 your price: $34.97

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William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape Charles S. Aiken “Simultaneously an excellent cultural-historical geography of Mississippi and the South and perhaps the most grounded literary analysis of the work of Faulkner yet published.”—Journal of Historical Geography “Geographer Charles Aiken’s William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape is an in-depth study of the parallels and divergences of the north Mississippi of William Faulkner’s fiction and its real-world geographical counterpart.”—AAG Review of Books 2009 • 304 p. • 6 x 9 61 b&w photos; 27 maps; 2 tables HC • 9780820332192 • $36.95 your price: $18.47

William Wells Brown A Reader Edited by Ezra Greenspan “Though often sidelined in mainstream histories of the abolitionist movement (to say nothing of American history more generally), Brown has been returned to his proper place with Greenspan’s judicious and carefully annotated collection.”

—Louisiana History “This is an outstanding introduction to the literary William Wells Brown. In this comprehensive reader, Greenspan offers selections from all of Brown’s major writings, demonstrating Brown’s great skills as an autobiographer, travel writer, novelist, dramatist, lecturer, and historian.

With its excellent introduction and annotations, and skillfully chosen selections, the volume makes an essential contribution to our understanding of Brown and nineteenth-century African American literature.”—Robert S. Levine, author of Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism

an in-depth introduction, textual commentary, list of emendations, word-division, historical collation and biliographical descriptions, this edition of Peregrine Pickle is extensively researched and offers a thorough look at the novel’s evolution, reception and historical context.”—Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2014 • 992 p. • 6 x 9 34 b&w illus.

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The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias Smollett Edited by James G. Basker, Paul-Gabriel Boucé, and Nicole A. Seary Alexander Pettit, general editor; text edited by O M Brack Jr. This is the definitive scholarly edition of Smollett’s first novel, widely regarded as a masterpiece and a chief rival to Henry Fielding’s comic novel Tom Jones. Surging with verbal, sexual, and martial energy, The Adventures of Roderick Random opens a window on life, love, and war in the eighteenth century.

“This is certainly ‘the most elaborate scholarly edition of Roderick Random yet undertaken.’ . . . Smollett was a major talent who appealed to generations of readers and writers, and Roderick Random is up to the very best he ever produced.”—New Criterion 2012 • 680 p. • 6 x 9 27 b&w illus.

HC • 9780820321653 • $91.95 your price: $36.78

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Tobias Smollett Edited by John P. Zomchick and George S. Rousseau Text edited by O M Brack, Jr., and W. H. Keithley “There has not been a scholarly edition of Smollett’s The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle since James L. Clifford’s 1964 Oxford World Classics edition; this hole is now amply filled through the comprehensive work done

by John Zomchick and George Rousseau in their 2014 edition. Including

2014 • 432 p. • 6 x 9 7 b&w illus.

PB • 9780820346045 • $39.95 your price: $19.97 HC • 9780820318202 • $81.95 your price: $32.78

The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems A Critical Edition Edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant The publication of the Wellesley manuscript marks the first complete edition of fifty-three poems by the most significant woman poet of the Restoration and eighteenth century.

Anne Finch (1661–1720) wrote most of these poems in the last decade of her life, and they are essential to a complete evaluation of her work.

1998 • 256 p. • 5.5 x 9 HC • 9780820319957 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction Elizabeth Kraft In readings of five novels—Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote, Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle, and Fanny Burney’s Cecilia—Kraft explores the relationships among consciousness, character, and comic narrative.

“The author’s knowledge of her field is unassailable, her interpretations well-supported, her reasoning precise, and her style highly articulate.”

—South Atlantic Review 1992 • 224 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820313658 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Dylan Thomas

2008 • 488 p. • 6 x 9 6 b&w photos PB • 9780820332246 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

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to Louis XIV, and meant to teach him the proper way to rule.

An Original Language Barbara Hardy

The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon Translated by Tobias Smollett Introduction and notes by Leslie A. Chilton Text edited by O M Brack Jr. The first critical edition of Smollett’s 1776 translation of Bishop Fénelon’s 1699 “Mirror of Princes,” one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century, written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive

Thomas’s highly imaginative re-creation of forms and language intimately portrays his inner self and his time, earning him renown as one of the “great individualists of modern art.” In this contemplative study of works by Thomas, Hardy analyzes his regional identity, response to other writers, modernist style, subject matter, and use of language.

“A rewardingly concentrated account of the charged inventiveness of Thomas’s language.”—Years Work in English Studies 2000 • 168 p. • 5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820322070 • $29.95 your price: $14.97

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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett Introduction and notes by Thomas R. Preston Text edited by O M Brack Jr. Smollett’s last published novel and most celebrated work appeared in June 1771. This edition includes illustrations by George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson and is the first scholarly edition to feature a comprehensive introduction, exhaustive textual editing, and detailed notes that analyze the mass of allusions and references in the novel.

“This is the first really significant scholarly edition of the last-published novel by Smollett, which includes some wonderful illustrations. . . . Nothing seems to have been overlooked by Preston and Brack here in their efforts to present to the modern reader the most authoritative edition.”—Choice 1993 • 560 p. • 6 x 9 18 b&w illus.

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Founding Fictions Utopias in Early Modern England Amy Boesky A cultural history of utopian writing in early modern England, Founding Fictions traces the development of the genre from the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) through Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688). Boesky sees utopian literature rising alongside new social institutions that helped shape the modern English nation.

1997 • 248 p. • 5.5 x 9 16 b&w photos and illus.

HC • 9780820318325 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Translated by Tobias Smollett Introduction and notes by Martin C. Battestin Text edited by O M Brack Jr. “Battestin’s handsome edition for the University of Georgia Press Works of Tobias Smollett, supported by O M Brack’s meticulous squiring of the text, restores the book to its proper state, along with its magnificent series of illustrations by Francis Hayman. . . . His translation represents the closest engagement of any writer with a book that gave form and spirit to the British comic novel.”—Times Literary Suppplement “Another extraordinary translation of Cervante’s masterpiece . . . This edition, a product of superb critical and textual scholarship, goes back to Thursday, 25 February, 1755, to the publication of Don Quixote as translated by the novelist Tobias Smollett,

probably, in the good opinion and judgement of people of knowledge and authority, the finest rendering of Don Quixote in the English language. . . . In the absence of Harold Bloom, permit me, if you please, to blow the trumpet for the definitive English version and translation of a magnificent novel.”

—Hollins Critic 2003 • 992 p. • 6 x 9 35 b&w illus.

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Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves Seven Commentaries on Walter Map’s “Dissuasio Valerii” Edited by Traugott Lawler and Ralph Hanna Collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt

through her writing. This biography offers the most thoroughly researched account of the complex political and social causes of Yearsley’s exclusion from the annals of literature.

“An excellent resource from which romanticists can begin to offer a more thorough assessment of Yearsley’s place in English early romantic culture.”—Romanticism “In this literary biography, which seeks to provide both text and context, there is much of interest. If the aim of revisionary writing is to encourage the reader to return to the original, then Waldron has succeeded; may we have some Yearsley now, please.”—Gender and History 1996 • 360 p. • 6 x 9 5 photos HC • 9780820318011 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

In the second volume of Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves, readers of Chaucer get the fullest possible background for understanding his satire on antifeminism in the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” and the “Dissuasio Valerii” commentaries extend significantly our understanding of medieval attitudes, in general, toward women and marriage.

“These commentaries ‘extend significantly our understanding of medieval attitudes toward women and marriage’ and therefore of Chaucer’s attitudes in the Wife’s prologue and tale and elsewhere in his works. . . . An essential supplement to the primary texts in the first volume.”—Robert E. Lewis, Chaucer Library General Editor 2014 • 624 p. • 6.125 x 9.25

1 b&w photo, 2 figures HC • 9780820346106 • $89.95 your price: $26.98

Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves The Primary Texts Edited by Ralph Hanna III and Traugott Lawler Using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt The three medieval texts that make up Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves have formed a vital part of Chaucerian research for more than half a century.

They are integrated here for the first time in this volume.

1997 • 296 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820319209 • $74.95 your price: $22.48

Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753–1806 Mary Waldron Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who began her adult life as a milkwoman and later became the chief support of her family

Look to the Lady Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage Russ McDonald “No one interested in Shakespeare and the theater could fail to enjoy McDonald’s gracefully written and well-researched study of the careers of three of our greatest Shakespearean actresses. He tells their fascinating stories with a winning combination of anecdotal flair and critical perception.”—Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust “Sarah Siddons. Ellen Terry. Judi Dench. Names with which to conjure, and McDonald’s Look to the Lady does just that, bringing the three actors’ presences and performances into a celebratory dialogue. Interweaving biographical details, theater history, and cultural commentary, McDonald tells a fascinating story that not only recounts how each actor prepares a role but also maps a trajectory that draws all three performers and their performances together. Lucidly and elegantly written, Look to the Lady makes delightful reading”—Barbara Hodgdon, author of The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations 2005 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 18 b&w photos HC • 9780820325064 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

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Melusine of Lusignan Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France Edited by Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox Advancing a wealth of new material and fresh insight, the essays address the complex interplay of the conventions of medieval fictional, historical, and genealogical writing from a wide variety of critical perspectives.

Together, they offer a new, more comprehensive understanding of one of the most significant medieval literary works.

1996 • 312 p. • 5.5 x 9 HC • 9780820318233 • $46.95 your price: $23.47

Poems, Plays, and “The Briton” Tobias Smollett Introduction and notes by Byron Gassman Texts edited by O M Brack Jr. Assisted by Leslie A. Chilton The poems, plays, and political writings in this volume are essential to an understanding of Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In his introductions to the sections, Gassman traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions.

1993 • 592 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 15 b&w illus.

HC • 9780820314280 • $91.95 your price: $36.78

Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination The Collected Essays of O. B. Hardison Jr. Edited by Arthur F. Kinney

On Tarzan Alex Vernon As Alex Vernon looks at how and why we have accorded mythical, archetypal status to Tarzan, he takes stock of the Tarzan books, films, and comics as well as some of the many faux- and femme-Tarzan rip-offs, the toys and other tie-in products, the fanzines, and the appropriation of Tarzan’s image in the media.

“On Tarzan is an elegantly written foray into the cultural jungle that has grown up around Tarzan.”—Matt Cohen, editor of Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston “On Tarzan consistently lodges its analysis within the context of the time that these pop culture artifacts were produced. Tarzan plots revolve around cultural imperialism, American capitalism, miscegenation, problematic portrayals of ethnicity and gender, and orgies of violence replacing sexual love. While Vernon rigorously debates these controversies, he refrains from criticizing in the vein of 20–20 hindsight; he allows the texts to be seen in their natural, historical habitat.”

—Journal of Popular Culture 2008 • 240 p. • 6 x 9 8 b&w photos PB • 9780820332055 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

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Whether O. B. Hardison Jr. (1928– 1990) wrote about government’s responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design, his chosen form was the essay. These twenty-five selections showcase Hardison’s mastery of the essay’s power to instruct, persuade, and provoke.

1997 • 480 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 4 b&w photos HC • 9780820318196 • $51.95 your price: $15.58

Resonant Gaps Between Baudelaire and Wagner Margaret Miner Examines the ways in which Charles Baudelaire exploited certain powers of figurative language while writing on music, particularly that of Richard Wagner. Unlike many recent music/ literature studies, Margaret Miner focuses less on the possible convergences of text and music than on their productive distances and divergences.

“Provides a probing account of the relations between the musical and verbal arts as presented primarily in Baudelaire’s one piece of musical criticism: Richard Wagner et ‘Tannhauser’ à Paris. Miner convincingly shows how certain techniques of the Baudelairian text seek either to eradicate the distinction between the two arts or to profit from their differences. . . . The book deftly shows the rewards of interart studies and the merits of ‘keeping this path open for future listeners and readers.’”—South Atlantic Review 1995 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820317090 • $46.95 your price: $18.78

Sources of the Boece Edited by Tim William Machan With the assistance of A. J. Minnis Copies of all Chaucer’s sources for his translation: newly edited, complete, facing-page texts of the Vulgate Consolatio and Meun’s translation, along with relevant extracts from the commentaries of Nicholas Trevet and Remigius of Auxerre and collations from the larger Latin and French traditions.

“A milestone not only in Chaucer scholarship but also Boethian and Translation Studies. . . A wide range of medievalists will benefit greatly from this genuinely ground-breaking and illuminating book.”—Medium Aevum 2005 • 328 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 1 b&w photo HC • 9780820327600 • $81.95 your price: $24.58

Two Cities On Exile, History, and the Imagination Adam Zagajewski Translated by Lillian Vallee “A compelling and thought-provoking group of essays . . . As the parts of his life story begin to fall into place, an ironic and sad tapestry unrolls itself.

Yet he’s not all gloom and doom: he’s often funny, and his humility is a strong virtue.”—Booklist “While the absence of apocalypse suggests that Zagajewski has moved beyond the avant-garde, the incredible variety and intricacy of his prose make clear that he is still in the midst of his own quiet revolution.”—Dissent 2002 • 272 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 PB • 9780820324098 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

fiction After O’Connor Stories from Contemporary Georgia Edited by Hugh Ruppersburg Thirty stories written during the past fifteen years by authors who were born in Georgia or spent a significant part of their lives and careers in this state.

Embracing the social, cultural, and ethnic variety in today’s Georgia, After O’Connor both advances and helps redefine the great southern storytelling tradition.

“Flannery O’Connor is gone, but the legend of her work is burned on the hearts of writers everywhere. The pages in After O’Connor are powerful and do honor to the fierce vision that inspired them.”—Harry Crews 2003 • 392 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820325576 • $25.95 your price: $7.78

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All Set About with Fever Trees and Other Stories

Baby Sweet’s

Stories

Raymond Andrews Afterword by Philip Lee Williams Illustrations by Benny Andrews

Pam Durban “Throughout this collection the reader is privy to an uncanny visual intelligence . . . made hauntingly resonant by the careful examination of the emotional context.”—New York Times Book Review “An unusually satisfying collection . . . Durban is a storyteller who’s not afraid to put her feet up on the porch railing and linger.”

—Village Voice 1995 • 211 p. • 5.53 x 8.49 PB • 9780820317755 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

A Novel

“Stylish and funny, a pleasure to read . . . The novel is related as smoothly as a tale told on a back porch.”—New York Times Book Review “One reads Andrews for his raucous and robust humor, his really profound knowledge of the South, his ultimately accepting and benign vision—of a world in which blacks and whites sometimes hate and mistreat one another but ultimately arrive at an understanding—and most of all for the entertaining voice that tells the stories.”—Washington Post 1988 • 232 p. • 6 x 9 15 illus.

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Better Than War Stories Siamak Vossoughi

And Venus Is Blue Stories Mary Hood “Mary Hood is not a good writer, she is a great writer.”—Pat Conroy “Beautifully written, with regional characters who turn out to be universal.”—Los Angeles Times “A marvelous collection.”—New York Times 2001 • 304 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 PB • 9780820323084 • $25.95 your price: $12.97

Ate It Anyway Stories Ed Allen “Ed Allen writes in a rich, hearty style about middlebrow Americans living lives of spiritual and cultural improverishment. In case you missed my point, that’s three areas of value bound up together: wealth, mediocrity, and poverty. Would the reader expect the resulting brew to be a disaster? Far from it. Allen zeroes in on the particulars of our shared culture with a perspective that reminds me of nothing so much as the pop-influenced writing of the New Journalists of the late 1960s; the early work of Tom Wolfe comes to mind.”—Bloomsbury Review “In this collection of seventeen stories memory is potent, senses are sharp, and insight is keen. . . . What lingers are Allen’s succinct word pictures and vividly crystallized moments.”

—Booklist 2012 • 194 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820344409 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

“Vossoughi’s quiet but powerful stories capture the intricacy and profundity of the Iranian American experience. His characters are people just like us struggling to make sense of an often confusing world. Their inherent decency, delicacy of feeling, and desire for understanding are what defines them and what makes this big-hearted collection so special. Better Than War marks the debut of a thoughtful and important new literary voice.”—Anita Amirrezvani, author of The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun “Vossoughi is a writer with a lot to say, a voice we should listen to, because we might just learn something about what it means to live in a world where war is so commonplace, yet rarely takes place on American soil. . . These are stories that will stay with you, long after you have finished the last page.”

—Fourteen Hills 2015 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820348537 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Big Bend Stories Bill Roorbach “Roorbach is as raw and engaged a writer as you’ll ever read . . . He rivals James Baldwin in his ability to miraculously open up rivers of male sentiment.”—Los Angeles Weekly “Readers will gobble these beautifully wrought, affecting stories, wanting more. . . . Roorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.”

—Jay Parini 2014 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820347233 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Bright Shards of Someplace Else Stories Monica McFawn “McFawn’s debut employs different narrative voices to create something singular. . . . McFawn approaches each story differently, not as an author imposing a single voice on disparate narratives but as an artist listening to her characters and finding the particular voice each one requires. . . .

McFawn’s empathy is astounding. . . . The rarest kind of literary debut— unpredictable and moving.”—Kirkus Reviews “Bursts of insight illuminate these carefully crafted tales; McFawn somehow wrenches the deepest humanity out of even the most unlikable characters.”—Publishers Weekly 2014 • 176 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820346878 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Bright Skin A Novel Julia Peterkin Foreword by Theodore Rosengarten Julia Peterkin (1880–1961) pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the full dimensions of human consciousness.

“Bright Skin is an attractively written story . . . sympathetic and unsensational in style.”—Times Literary Supplement 1998 • 360 p. • 5.125 x 7.5 PB • 9780820319544 • $30.95 your price: $15.47

CAUTION Men in Trees Stories Darrell Spencer “Riveting and a guaranteed great read . . . belongs at the top of your reading list.”—High Plains Literary Review “Spencer writes stories about men.

Men who are men among men and lost among women. Men who feel useless, outmoded, impotent, and out of step . . . But men don’t speak of these things, any more than they speak of the heavy burden of love. ‘Why does everything have to be a competition?’ asks the wife of one protagonist. That question is at the heart of this award-winning collection.”—Booklist 2010 • 216 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820337067 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

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fiction 77 in the north Georgia mountains, A Circuit Rider’s Wife draws on the years Corra Harris accompanied her husband in his work as a Methodist missionary and the challenges and rewards of their mission.

Curled in the Bed of Love

Close-Ups

“Brady is a meticulous writer. Every word seems carefully chosen in order to trace the fine contours of her characters’ subtle and complex desires. . . . The grace of Brady’s writing is only enhanced by the dialogue between the characters.”—Women’s Review of Books

The Celestial Jukebox

Sandra Thompson

A Novel

“A deft and vivid account of the emotional stages in a woman’s life . . . All in all, a strong, sometimes devastating but ultimately hopeful collection by an exciting and gifted writer.”—The Nation

“Shearer has crafted a lyrical, floating world of an imagined Delta town that could not and does not exist, but perhaps should. . . . A must for readers of modern serious fiction; a joy to the ear; a return to beauty in literature.”

—Publishers Weekly “Shearer knows the blues, and she knows the Delta, but more importantly she knows the human heart.

The Celestial Jukebox will make you laugh, and it will make you cry, and more than once it will make you want to jump up and shout. If you doubted Shearer could fulfill the expectations aroused by her previous novel, The Wonder Book of the Air, get ready to marvel. This new book flies even higher.”—Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits 2006 • 448 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820328386 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Chicken Dreaming Corn A Novel Roy Hoffman “Read this novel to find, from Europe and the past, characters who represent some of the best aspects of our Southern heritage. A story of great appeal in prose lean and clean. Congratulations to Roy Hoffman for his fine work.”

—Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird “Like all great books, Chicken Dreaming Corn enriches the reader’s understanding of his own humanity and advocates our tolerance and love for one another. In bursts of generosity, with all their warts and shortcomings visible, the characters seize their own lives and a piece of the reader’s heart.

I only wish I could adequately express what a moving and fulfilling experience reading Chicken Dreaming Corn was for me.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife 2006 • 256 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820328164 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

“Rare and wonderful . . . In the merciless glare of L.A. hip or N.Y. trendy, Thompson’s women cast a cold eye, hesitate, hold their noses, and take the plunge.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2011 • 116 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820340821 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Copy Cats Stories David Crouse “The title . . . provides a sly hint at a unifying element in this clever collection. In Copy Cats, author Crouse imbues characters with a penchant for succumbing to the cat’s infamous curiosity. . . . While something like curiosity, or a hunch, loosely unite the stories in Copy Cats, as a collection they gather to create a deeper effect—something more like intuition.

Crouse’s characters possess a common spirit that inspires them to follow, and then to understand, something meaningful in their midst.”—Mid-American Review “Stark stories in which the bleak and the beautiful are tethered by tender, tenuous strings . . . The collection of seven stories and one novella effectively walks a tightrope between dark and light, the bleak and the bright . . . Crouse is gifted at crafting scenes that resonate in multiple ways. In the worlds he creates, nothing is black and white.”—Boston Phoenix 2010 • 252 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820337081 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

A Cry of Angels A Novel Jeff Fields Foreword by Terry Kay

A Novel

“Heartwarming . . . We find ourselves wondering why delightful novels like this aren’t written anymore, and grateful that this one has come along to fill the void.”—New York Times

Corra Harris Foreword by Grace Toney Edwards

“An authentic cry of American innocence . . . The author seizes the reader

A Circuit Rider’s Wife

A thinly veiled autobiographical account of one woman’s austere life

2006 • 392 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820328485 • $25.95 your price: $12.97

1998 • 344 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820320120 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Stories

Cynthia Shearer

with a southern gift for story-telling and never lets go.”—Time Magazine

Stories Catherine Brady

“It’s rare for a writer to explore with such subtlety and respect the curious sumbiosis of the needy and the needed as Brady does.”—New York Review of Books 2012 • 216 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820342207 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

D.J.’s Worst Enemy A Novel Robert Burch “Robert Burch writes with a sure touch and an instinctive understanding of boys in an unusually strong first-person narrative that can be read with pleasure by girls as well.”—New York Times Book Review “There is nothing bland about the regional picture of farming and peach-picking or about the portrayal of family relationships; rather, there is a striking vitality, due to D.J.’s keen perception and humor and his growth in appreciation of his family.”—Horn Book 1993 • 144 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820315546 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

The Dance Boots Stories Linda LeGarde Grover “Linda LeGarde Grover knows how to end a story—and manages to achieve both circularity and closure in each and every one. This is an impressive feat in and of itself, but for a collection of linked stories like The Dance Boots, which twist and tie and loop back on one another, the achievement is even more remarkable.”—ForeWord Reviews “With stunning sentences and other stylistic elements reminiscent of Hemingway, Wolfe, Tan and others, this collection dazzles with its complex characters, rustic settings, and authentic situations.”—Dark Sky Magazine 2010 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820335803 • $29.95 your price: $8.98

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Daughter of My People

The Fire in the Flint

A Novel

Walter White Foreword by R. Baxter Miller

James Kilgo “A beautifully crafted novel—a love story complex in its explorations of betrayal and sacrifice, and one that will not be forgotten. Kilgo’s southern landscape is so accurately and richly depicted, the sights and sounds, the smells and summer heat seem to rise from the page.”—Jill McCorkle, author of Carolina Moon “Finally, the truth about the post-Civil War South! Every line is a triumph.

Kilgo’s voice is honest and original.

He’s the novelist we’ve been waiting for.”—Janice Daugharty, author of Necessary Lies 2007 • 304 p. • 5.5 x 9.25 PB • 9780820329284 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

A Distant Flame A Novel Philip Lee Williams “A must-read . . . a moving and beautifully crafted story that leaves one with hope for humankind’s redemption.”

—Civil War Book Review “A powerful work that surely will become a classic of Civil War fiction.”—Robert K. Krick, author of Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain 2011 • 328 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820337869 • $22.95 your price: $6.88

The Edge of Marriage Stories Hester Kaplan “Reading these stories is like watching a window shatter in silence—we become mesmerized by the stark beauty of disintegration.”—New Yorker “Graceful, accomplished prose.”—New York Times Book Review “The Edge of Marriage introduces a remarkable new writer.”—Annie Dillard 2010 • 192 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820335179 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Evening Out Stories David Walton “Walton’s obvious affection for his characters, his dry, understated humor and his fine ear for the significant subtexts that lie beneath the banalities and half-sentences that intelligent people usually utter to one another give his better stories a gentle power.”—New York Times Book Review “Often whimsical but finally quite acute presentations of middle-class hopes and desperations.”—Alan Cheuse 2010 • 200 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820335155 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Eyesores Stories Eric Shade “In his remarkable, Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection, Shade takes us to Windfall, Pennsylvania, and gets the details exactly right. . . .

Shade captures perfectly the way in which it’s hard to leave your mistakes behind when you’re surrounded by people who remember when you made them.”—Booklist “Windfall, Pa., is the estranged sister city to Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. . . . After a few stories we too become fascinated with the stuck lives of Windfall. By the end, we’re like Shade and his characters in the way we feel about our own hometown. We both renounce it and fall in love with it forever.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2012 • 216 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820344447 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Faulty Predictions Stories Karin Lin-Greenberg “The ten luminous stories in Lin-Greenberg’s masterful collection are united by her examination of the various and devious ways people try to put things into perspective.”—Booklist “Some of the stories in Faulty Predictions have appeared previously in excellent literary journals, and it’s easy to see why: they range, colorfully and empathically, across a number of worlds and human predicaments.

Appealingly, the voices narrating them, whatever the point of view, share a winning, gentle, clear gravity.

These are stories you can easily enter and dwell in, but which not only shy away from the difficult—they head straight for it. . . . Faulty Predictions is a delightful debut, worth finding and savoring.”—Antioch Review 2014 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820346861 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

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Written by a lifelong champion of civil rights, this is the story of Kenneth Harper, a young black physician who, after having studied in the North in the early part of the twentieth century and believing the days of oppression for blacks in the South were waning, returns to his hometown of Central City in South Georgia to practice medicine.

“White has poured all that he knows, all that he has observed in years, all that he has dreamed and all that he has experienced, interpreting everything with his own passion and leaving art to take care of itself. The result is a stirring novel, beautifully and passionately written.”—The Nation 1996 • 312 p. • 5.5 x 8 PB • 9780820317427 • $28.95 your price: $14.47

The Flannery O’Connor Award Selected Stories Edited by Charles East A tribute to the art of the short story and an anthology of some of today’s most exciting writers, this tenth anniversary volume brings together one story from each of the first twenty-one winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

“Skillfully crafted, eclectic both in subject matter and narrative style, these tales by such emerging writers as Molly Giles, Salvatore La Puma, Tony Ardizzone and others testify to the durabilty of the genre. In the best of them, memory—whether tinged with loss or heightened by hope— enhances voice and confers the ring of truth.”—Publishers Weekly 1993 • 336 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820315249 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

Georgia Voices Volume1: Fiction Edited by Hugh Ruppersburg Containing thirty-nine stories and excerpts from novels, this first volume reveals a literary legacy as rich as any the country has produced. Humorous and tragic, nostalgic and cynical, romantic and realistic, the writings gathered here represent the full range of fiction that has emerged from the state’s talented writers.

1992 • 600 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820314334 • $34.95 your price: $10.48

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The Hard-Boiled Virgin

How Far She Went

The Invisibles

A Novel

Stories

Stories

Frances Newman Foreword by Anne Firor Scott

Mary Hood

Hugh Sheehy

“Melodies low and private as a lullaby’: these are what the country girl of ‘A Country Girl’ sings and are a fair description of Mary Hood’s writing at its best.”—New Yorker

“Fresh yet deeply knowing . . . In his flawless, fluid, droll, and suspenseful tales of deceptively routine lives, Sheehy dramatizes loneliness, terror, and loss with arresting restraint, focusing on the percussive aftermath of violence. A writer of evocative subtlety and uncanny power . . . Sheehy reveals what’s hidden in plain sight to clarion effect.”—Booklist (starred review)

First published in 1926, this somewhat avant-garde, semi-autobiographical novel is about Atlantan Katharine Faraday, who, after numerous anguishing relations with men, chooses a career and independence over marriage and motherhood.

1993 • 304 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820305264 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

“Stories clear and compact as ancient poetry, and shockingly shrewd about the mysteries of human sadness.”

—Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1992 • 136 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820314419 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Ice Age Stories Robert Anderson

The Hawk and the Sun A Novel Byron Herbert Reece Foreword by Hugh Ruppersburg Set in the small-town, pre-civil rights South, The Hawk and the Sun is the story of one day in the life of Dandelion, a physically impaired man who is the sole black resident in the town of Tilden.

“Reece . . . has written a clean-cut, stark, and sensitive novel. It is a dramatic poet’s novel, laid down in squares and blocks of light and color and lightlessness. . . . classic in form and machinelike in its work. . . . It is a cold and savage poem, a masked dumb show of human ignorance and violence.”—New York Times 1994 • 200 p. • 5.5 x 8 PB • 9780820316567 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

The Heart of a Distant Forest A Novel Philip Lee Williams “Despite its somber undertones, the novel resonates with a deeper joy and optimism. . . . An elegantly moving portrait of life’s dignity, even at death.”—Booklist “One sentence into the book and you’ve got lyric poetry; ‘Morning is rising in silence.’ Lovely. It gets even better with passages you underline for sheer beauty, delight, and wisdom.

Between these pages rests some of the best writing I’ve come across since Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, but in a very quiet and very different way and life and tone.”—Columbia State 2005 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820327907 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

“Finding a story collection like Ice Age was like rounding a corner in a museum and coming upon a roomful of Edward Hoppers. I was filled with a delightfully alternating current of strangeness and familiarity, and knew I was in the hands of an artist whose intelligence and yes, deftness, thrilled me. . . . An exceptional debut.”—Salon “Try to imagine a writer with equal parts Will Self, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett. Impossible? True.

But Anderson comes close with his absurd situations rendered through biting satire and each story inhabiting a surreal landscape . . . It’s a high-wire act that doesn’t always succeed in the ten stories of this Flannery O’Connor Award winner, but when it does, it’s just splendid.”—Booklist 2010 • 200 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820335148 • $23.95 your price: $9.58

The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men Stories Randy F. Nelson “These lightly absurd tales, recalling Barthelme in their elegance and T. C. Boyle in their inventiveness, trace some of the boundaries of human loneliness and need for connection. In these stories the natural and mechanical worlds clash again and again, and in that clash the author finds comedy and vibrant life.”—Erin McGraw, author of The Good Life: Stories “Nelson’s talent for irony does more than simply point out our cultural hypocrisy, it also elucidates our most personal dilemmas . . . Nelson is expert at crafting scenes of desperation resolved, zealotry succumbed to and disaffection upended—all while refusing to repeat instance, image or idea.”—San Francisco Chronicle 2012 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820344430 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

“Sheehy’s stories seem to glow in the dark, and reading them feels a little like watching fireflies light up at night. . . . Besides being engaging, Sheehy’s thrillers are original, warped additions to what can sometimes feel like an all-too-familiar and predictable genre. . . . Reading these stories feels almost like intruding—like finding oneself in the wrong place at the wrong time, or like opening a door that was supposed to stay closed.”—The Rumpus 2015 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820348285 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

The Law of the White Circle A Novel Thornwell Jacobs Foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage Supplementary readings by Paul Stephen Hudson, Walter White, and W. E. B. Du Bois “The lasting significance of Jacobs’s novella was not its critical and popular success—it enjoyed a measure of both—but its stark and concise encapsulation of a white worldview that today is, thankfully, seldom heard in public. By reading The Law of the White Circle, we can understand better the mind-set of the architects of Jim Crow as well as its defenders during the 1950s and 1960s.”

—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, from the foreword “This reprint of The Law of the White Circle offers a rare literary treatment of the 1906 Atlanta race riot, a tragic, seminal event in Atlanta’s history, yet one largely forgotten today. It illuminates racial sensibilities, attitudes, and etiquette at the time of the riot, as well as the literature of the period. The foreword and critical essay help place the work in context, as do the accompanying riot-related documents from W. E. B. Du Bois and Walter White. . . .

This work provides a distinctive lens into this terrible episode.”—Clifford M. Kuhn, Georgia State University 2006 • 164 p. • 5 x 8 3 b&w photos PB • 9780820328805 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

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Lessons from the Wolverine

been. Sensitive and poetic, DePew feels his characters’ pain and enables his audience to feel more acutely.”

—Library Journal

Barry Lopez Illustrated by Tom Pohrt

2013 • 146 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820344607 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

“Please tell that collaborative pair not to separate. They have a lifework to do together.”—Wallace Stegner

Men Working

“Read and respect this little, beautifully made and illustrated book.”

—North Dakota Quarterly “A rich example of contemporary mythmaking.”—Windy City Times 1997 • 32 p. • 4.5 x 8.5 13 color illus.

HC • 9780820319278 • $23.95 your price: $7.18

Living with Snakes Stories Daniel Curley “The quick, assured prose, the quirky characters, and the incidents depicted in the stories make it clear Curley is an experienced writer.”—Hollins Critic “There are twelve stories within this collection; ten are utter gems, glistening jewels, and two are pretty darned good. . . . All the stories in Curley’s collection are grotesque and very funny and explore what it is that motivates men and women to both love and hate each other.”—Short Story Review 2013 • 144 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820344416 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Love, in Theory Ten Stories E. J. Levy “A brilliant debut . . . Sad, funny, and always wise, Levy’s stories reveal truths about how we love and lose, trust and betray, with an intelligence that takes my breath away. I’ll be returning to these wonderful stories again and again.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail “Levy’s artful debut story collection finds varied characters—young and old, male and female—confronting the ornery manifestations and delusions of modern love. . . . Levy’s ten engaging stories speak to the sorcery of the heart.”—Booklist 2015 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820348278 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

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John Faulkner Foreword by Trent Watts

Malcolm Lowry’s La Mordida A Scholarly Edition Edited by Patrick A. McCarthy Patrick A. McCarthy’s edition of La Mordida is based on materials held in the Malcolm Lowry Archive at the University of British Columbia.

Its publication provides essential evidence for a balanced assessment of Lowry’s creative processes and his achievement as a writer.

1996 • 424 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 HC • 9780820317632 • $51.95 your price: $20.78

“No idealization, Men Working is the most human book that has been written about WPA workers, the saddest and the funniest.”—Time Magazine “The achievement of the book is the author’s complete lack of condescension toward his characters. Their moving story is simply and amusingly told, without diagnosis or prognosis, in the terms of their own bewildered lives.”—The Nation 1996 • 328 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820318271 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

The Necessary Grace to Fall Stories

McAfee County

Gina Ochsner

A Chronicle

“She is . . . a breath-taking acrobat with image and metaphor, dexterous with point of view. . . . She also reaches back to what matters most: myth, legend, and the healing power of storytelling. . . . The thing about Ochsner’s characters is that, though they most assuredly do stumble and fall, they also possess ‘the necessary grace’ to rise.”—North Dakota Quarterly

Mark Steadman Moving in and out of each other’s lives in profound, often shocking, ways, the men and women in these stories form a vibrant community not soon forgotten. Blend Yoknapatawpha and Lake Wobegon, add a twist of southern gothic, and you will have some idea of what is waiting for you right across the McAfee County line.

“Steadman bemuses, startles, lacerates, and strokes.”—Kirkus Reviews “Hilarious . . . Steadman has shown his sense of the comic but has shown his accomplishments as a literary artist as well.”—Charleston Post and Courier 1998 • 320 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820320144 • $26.95 your price: $8.08

The Melancholy of Departure Stories Alfred DePew “Lush and sophisticated. Heart and mind. Near and far-reaching. Stories that live longer than the duration of your reading them. Stories that live on after the book is closed. No fuller, finer fiction exists anywhere. This is literature. The gift.”—Carolyn Chute, author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine “A unique collection of short stories, all connected by themes of ending or loss and examining bittersweet, unsuccessful relationships. DePew’s characters find commitment, sadness, and loneliness in their heterosexual and homosexual liaisons, but too often no one shares their pain. They manage to survive alone, with just a hint of understanding how things might have

“With the sensitivity of poetry The Necessary Grace to Fall does what most of us avoid or cannot do: it explores death, which, looked at clearly and closely, is not, we learn, so much fearsome as it is profoundly peculiar. Death is the ultimate Other and the breakdown of illusion. These stories are a fresh apprehension of life. Gina Ochsner has given us a brave gift.”—Antietam Review 2009 • 192 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820334233 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Nervous Dancer Stories Carol Lee Lorenzo “Lorenzo creates a rich atmosphere and weaves a plot into each of the tales. They are beautifully written accounts of women grappling with difficult choices, the consequences of biology, and their (sometimes philandering) men.”—Library Journal “Lorenzo has a sharp and generous vision. . . . Nervous Dancer is a book full of pleasures for the ear and mind and heart.”—Atlanta JournalConstitution 2011 • 184 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820339955 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

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No Lie Like Love

Renfroe’s Christmas

Stories

A Novel

Paul Rawlins

Robert Burch

“Downbeat and filled with a yearning for the transforming power of love, these quiet, accomplished stories overflow with compassion.”—Booklist

“A gentle Christmas story, too merry to be sentimental but touched with sentiment. . . . The family scenes are natural and lively, the story giving a particularly pleasant picture of a rural community’s close-knit relationships.”—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“In eleven impeccably crafted, understated stories, Rawlins establishes as his home turf the psyche of the common man.”—Publishers Weekly 2012 • 184 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820339986 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Pale of Settlement Stories Margot Singer “Singer’s seasoned and deeply moving interlinked stories about politics, memory and identity read more like the work of a veteran novelist and add up to one of the most astonishing literary debuts in recent memory. . . .

With heartbreaking beauty, grace and wisdom, The Pale of Settlement offers us stories of the sort of penetrating novelistic depth rarely achieved in short fiction, recounting the forceful ways that the past, whether remote or near, urgently intrudes on the present.”—Miami Herald “Singer deftly sets larger political themes next to smaller personal ones, as the daily choices her characters make reflect the larger forces that have set those characters and their ancestor into motion. . . . The linked short stories that make up The Pale of Settlement work far better than a more conventional narrative would in telling the tale of Susan’s family.”

—Columbus Dispatch 2008 • 232 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820333311 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

The Piano Tuner Stories Peter Meinke “The Piano Tuner exhibits strong and consistent writing throughout.

Meinke’s poetic skill is evident in his ability to jar a reader with a single line. . . . He provides insight at arm’s length, asking not necessarily that the reader care about the characters yet almost forcing him to understand them.”

—Washington Post Book World “Meinke has a satiric eye, a mixture of black and droll humor, a compassion for misfits, a keen sense of the absurd, and an understanding of the myriad of forces moving the human head and heart.”—Studies in Short Fiction 1994 • 168 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820316451 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Please Come Back To Me Stories and a Novella Jessica Treadway “Most of Treadway’s prose is clear and searingly direct. She tells her stories without flash or florid embellishments. But the little insights and illuminating details are all the more vivid in their spare dryness. Instead of telling us what the characters are feeling, she shows us.”—Boston Globe “Each of the eight stories in this collection stands on its own, but together, this assemblage of portraits of strikingly raw humans provides a depth of feeling and detail that will keep the reader captivated and longing to observe these characters for just a bit longer.”—Bookslut 2012 • 256 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820342214 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

The Purchase of Order Stories Gail Galloway Adams “If there is a heaven, I’m sure Flannery O’Connor is in it, and if she’s looking down on Gail Galloway Adams right now, I’m sure she’s pleased.”

—Washington Post “Adams possesses the ability to convey the poignancy and drama found even in everyday things. . . . Each story is told with an enthralling mixture of sadness and wit.”—Southern Living 1995 • 160 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820317342 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Quarry Stories Harvey Grossinger “The five stories and one novella in Grossinger’s debut fiction collection center on Jewish-Americans who are haunted by persecutions imagined and real, including the Holocaust.

Grossinger displays a strong command of dramatics and a plaintive writing style suitable for taking on the most emotional of topics.”—Publishers Weekly “While focusing on failed fathers and the disruptions of family life, this well-written collection nevertheless hails the human spirit.”—Library Journal 2012 • 280 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820344423 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

“The rural regional quality of the story is strong, the details of church pageant and party are relayed with humor, and the conversations abound in briskness and poignancy.”—Horn Book 1993 • 56 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820315539 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee A Novel Raymond Andrews Foreword by Mary Hood Illustrations by Benny Andrews “Having settled Momma Rosiebelle (as she is generally known) on her deathbed, Mr. Andrews works his way through the lives of all her offspring— freckled and black, mousy and raffish, proud masters of everything from a mule to a motorcar to a pig that trees possums—as they troop and ramble along diverse routes to her bedside.

Mr. Andrews knows just how far to stretch this audience’s memory as he spins and weaves his colorful yarns.”

—New Yorker “Lord, Lord! Raymond Andrews has done it again.”—Chicago Sun-Times 1988 • 264 p. • 6 x 9 13 illus.

PB • 9780820309941 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Sabbath Creek A Novel Judson Mitcham “Scattered clues situate Judson Mitcham’s slender second novel in the mid-1990’s, but Sabbath Creek is a transcendent coming-of-age story that feels unshackled to any particular time. . . . This spare, lovely novel, while generous in humor, is anchored by sorrow and interspersed with portents of tragedy.”—New York Times Book Review “There are no throwaway passages in a novel by Judson Mitcham. Every scene matters, every character counts and every psychological insight is well-earned. And what is not said can be every bit as important as what is.”— Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2004 • 176 p. • 5.25 x 8 HC • 9780820325774 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

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The Sacrilege of Alan Kent Erskine Caldwell Foreword by Mary Hood Although an early work, The Sacrilege of Alan Kent shows readers the poetic economy, stark naturalism, and concern for the South’s poorest people that became the hallmarks of Erskine Caldwell’s later work.

1996 • 88 p. • 6 x 9.125 8 b&w illus.

HC • 9780820317892 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

lection.”—Dan Chaon, author of You Remind Me of Me

The Suicide Club

“These stories have none of the swirling pyrotechnic style of a David Foster Wallace or a Jim Shepard, two writers we may safely regard as the godfathers (or at least the eccentric uncles) of a generation of contemporary, American short-story writers. Instead, they rely on simple humanity drawn in straight, indelible lines.”—New York Times Book Review

Toni Graham

2013 • 232 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820345017 • $20.95 your price: $6.28

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Spit Baths Stories Greg Downs

The Send-Away Girl Stories Barbara Sutton “Sutton’s ten tales display an absolutely wild sense of humor, running the gamut from witty erudition to outright silliness. . . . Each story is made vivid by Sutton’s fierce intelligence, captivating dialogue, and unique scenarios. . . . Fresh and funny stories.”—Booklist “An extraordinary satisfaction results from encountering an author who writes in a way specific to one’s own time and place. The stories in Belmont resident Barbara Sutton’s fierce and funny debut collection, The Send-Away Girl, are of the present: the present time, this moment in the modern world, and the present place, Boston. Although her Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection will certainly appeal to audiences outside Boston, readers in town are in for a particular delight. . . . There are moments when the prose just shines.

Sutton finds an undeniable comedy in our darkest sorrows.”—Boston Phoenix 2009 • 216 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820334219 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Sorry I Worried You Stories Gary Fincke “Gary Fincke writes wonderfully quirky, unpredictable stories full of vivid characters and unforgettable details and moments. There’s a lovely, hilariously wry sense of humor at work here, but there’s also a truly heartfelt compassion for the lives of ordinary working folks—those little failures and triumphs that make a reader gasp in both recognition and wonder. This is a remarkable col-

“Downs’s prose is evocative and finely tuned to his gritty material, and his narratives illuminate his characters and their concerns while acknowledging that the social forces that inform both are impossible to explicate, not because they are too far outside the reader’s experience but, rather, because they are too close.”—Virginia Quarterly Review “Downs is gifted at presenting the tension that accompanies familial love—be it the bafflement those tied by blood feel at the depth of their attachment, or the anxiety those bound by choice feel when realizing affection alone may not hold them together.

His historical scope serves to enliven, not obscure, this uncertainty.”—San Francisco Chronicle 2012 • 192 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820342184 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven A Novel Karen Salyer McElmurray “McElmurray is a powerful writer, successful at rendering both the bleakness of lives lived without hope and the fleeting promise in single moments of recognition. Her mountains pass the test of durable literature.”—Women’s Review of Books “This is a story about real life, about people trying to finish things that cannot be finished, about trying to raise the dead, about trying to return mothers to their children and wives to their husbands. . . . But it is also a story about love, about how salvation can be located . . . in the human experience of love.”—Chicago Tribune 2004 • 300 p. • 5.5 x 9 PB • 9780820326672 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Stories “These are sad, smart, and wickedly witty stories. Graham’s lost souls, uneasy in their skin and in their circumstances, linked by grief, demonstrate the way the tectonic shift of a loved one’s suicide sends out aftershocks for years. Get to know the members of The Suicide Club; they feel real to the core.”—Kim Addonizio, author of The Palace of Illusions “This short book is powerful and the stories are moving, and it is a quick read. Toni Graham does an excellent job not making it a complete sob story, but showing that these people have lives; even if it is in the middle of Oklahoma.”—San Francisco Book Review 2015 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820348506 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Super America Stories Anne Panning “Family dynamics in all their messy complexity set a wealth of material before the gimlet eye of Anne Panning. . . . Panning writes with intelligence and humor, as well as a grasp of craft justly acknowledged here with the imprimatur of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.”—Boston Sunday Globe “The stories in Panning’s collection take the American Dream and examine every zit and pockmark on its dirty face. . . . The skewed perspectives of Panning’s narrators are as much engaging as they are disturbing.”

—Mid-American Review 2009 • 248 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820333472 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Tell Borges If You See Him Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism Peter LaSalle “Peter LaSalle has worked his way deep into the storytelling place. Serious, anomalous, his narratives are set into motion by the obsessions and perturbations of living. There is no model, no recipe—each world is uniquely known and irresistibly defined. Tell Borges If You See Him is a keeper collection.”—Sven Birkerts, author of Reading Life: Books for the Ages “Peter LaSalle writes about time that collides or implodes. Such collisions are never simply artful; rather, operating from inside his characters while still maintaining a sharp-eyed distance (even with first-person narratives), he dramatizes their complex dislocations—temporal, spatial, and emotional. LaSalle’s characters move about in a state that straddles waking and sleeping, but the emotions they

poetry and poetics 83 experience are real and run deep.”

—Georgia Review

brash spirit of the fledgling America in which it is set.”—Orlando Sentinel

chaplains understand ‘how grief can wear a person down.’”—Booklist

2012 • 272 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820342160 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

2001 • 512 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820323343 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

2013 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820345482 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Thieves I’ve Known

Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee

Youngblood

Stories

A Novel

Tom Kealey

Robert Burch

John Oliver Killens Foreword by Addison Gayle

“I’ve never gotten such a sense of place from a collection of stories that so spans the nation. Kealey’s characters are survivors, orphans spiritual and legal, living in an America where real joy and real struggle share an unmended fence with the realm of myth. This is a book of transit and transition, drives and conversations, wilderness and outskirts, all of it rendered with gorgeous humanity— and with such adroitness the sudden power of each conclusion takes the breath right out of me.”—Scott Hutchins, author of A Working Theory of Love

“As real and fresh as paint—New York Times Book Review

“A powerful collection, mythic in feel, Thieves I’ve Known is a book I’ve long anticipated from a writer I’ve long admired. I’m not alone. The Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott considers Kealey possibly his ‘favorite short story writer.’”—The Rumpus

“A wonderfully evocative debut collection . . . An understated, pitch-perfect prose style and a view of childhood . . . as dark and comic as it is moving.”

—Voice Literary Supplement

2013 • 208 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820345376 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Trouble in July A Novel

“The warmth of family relationships, the sound values, homely humor, and careful attention to period detail make this a story to join the ‘Little House’ books [and] the Lois Lenski regional stories.”—Library Journal 1990 • 152 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820311944 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

Useful Gifts Stories Carole L. Glickfeld

“When Ruthie Zimmer translates . . . the world of the deaf is not at all silent; it’s bursting with life and conversation.”—New York Times Book Review 2010 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820337074 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Erskine Caldwell Foreword by Bryant Simon “The South is a country of incredible extremes. . . . Caldwell is one of the best and fairest recorders of them.”

—Time “In language as simple, melodious, and disarming as the drawl of his outlandish characters, Caldwell depicts the bucolic tenderness and almost genial brutality that overtakes a Southern community.”—New Republic

The Viewing Room

The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset

“The vivid, powerful, and disturbing stories of The Viewing Room exhibit a deep caring about the preciousness of life and the strength of the bonds that can link us to one another.

When love and death are locked in intimate embrace, the only recourse for bystanders is compassion. Brave and honest, these stories whisper to the reader, ‘Take care, take care,’ and, ‘Help one another.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Adam & Eve

Philip Lee Williams “This raucous burlesque is great fun. . . . Capturing a vivid image of the bustling, historic seaport before and during the British occupation, this sweeping saga weaves a tapestry of the Colonial South. It’s graced with bawdy hilarity and its characters’ frequent contretemps.”—Publishers Weekly “Part family saga, part historical novel, part picaresque adventure and all grand burlesque, Jenny Dorset comically mirrors the exuberant,

“It has the power of the author’s passion. The novel of social protest . . . justifies itself when it is as moving as Youngblood and deals with so gross an evil.”—New York Times 2000 • 488 p. • PB • 9780820322018 • $28.95 your price: $11.58

poetry and poetics Across the Layers Poems Old and New Albert Goldbarth “Goldbarth is a poet of prodigious gifts—chief among them dazzling intelligence, a passion for language, and a positively Rabelaisian wit and erudition. Highly recommended.”

—Library Journal “Across the book’s many layers, Goldbarth takes us on his wandering, pointing out rare and weird trinkets.

His poems are like magic acts, dazzling us with the world’s exotica while reminding us that the amazement isn’t the point, that while we sat entranced, the real act was going on beneath our awareness.”—Chicago Review

1999 • 272 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820321059 • $20.95 your price: $8.38

A Novel

“Published originally on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954, Youngblood marked the beginning of a new era in African American literature, for it broke starkly with the Wright school and opened a path for those novelists, poets, and playwrights who comprised the Neo-Black Arts Movement—a movement that recognized John Oliver Killens as its spiritual father.”—Toni Cade Bambara

Stories Jacquelin Gorman

“Gorman’s nine, hard-hitting linked stories feature two likable hospital chaplains who minister in a Los Angeles hospital. . . . Loss, forgiveness, grace, and compassion fatigue are recurrent themes. Perhaps more profoundly than most, these caring

1993 • 218 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820315485 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

Allegory of the Supermarket Poems Stephanie Brown “Here’s a poetic voice calling out from a postmodern arcade, where ‘each day the sun shines steadily, no more than is necessary,’ toward a post-California arcadia, where ‘sacrifice, order and love’ take on frightening proportions.

Richocet off the culture with Stephanie Brown in this debut book, until each poem stops and you are thrown forward, back to your own humanity.

That’s where one of our voices says, ‘Most of all, I would have harmed the soldier whose job it was to kill me.”

—Jane Miller 1999 • 104 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820320687 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

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Anna, Washing Poems Ted Genoways “In Mr. Genoways’s hands the sonnet is pleasingly elastic. . . . Formally astute and emotionally resonant, Anna, Washing is a fine example of the historical narrative in lyric form.”

—Linda Bierds, author of First Hand “While in conversation with excellent books that have come before it—Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah, Ellen Voigt’s Kyrie, and A. Van Jordan’s Macnolia, for example—its framework, balance of thematic material, its scaffolding of form and elegantly shifting perspectives make it wholly original. Quite simply, a beautiful book.”—Natasha Trethewey, author of Native Guard 2008 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820332062 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Approximate Darling Poems Lee Upton “The world to which her poems permit access is defined in precise terms, her catalogs of flowers, for instance, echoing a scientific spareness. Yet for every Cattleya labiata, Upton gives us ‘the curved instep//intimate in its motion,’ and if ‘Green flowers are seldom appreciated,’ just listen to ‘The smooth Solomon’s seal/and Indian cucumber root,/the greently orchid//and the water pennywort./The common plantain.//The slender glasswort/speared and clustered as coral’—and look again.”—Virginia Quarterly Review 1996 • 104 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820318110 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Assembling the Shepherd Poems Tessa Rumsey “A compelling critique of culture and politics, a dazzling experiment in free verse form, and a dizzying, surreal representation of the voice of the mind.”—Jane Miller “Working through Tessa Rumsey’s Assembling the Shepherd becomes much like analyzing any Coltrane solo.

Taken as a whole, the creative output seems euphoric, nearly religious, but once inside the structural framework, one finds endlessly complicated patterns and ordered repetitions which give indication of a divining mind at work.”—Verse 1999 • 80 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820321684 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Book of Motion Poems Tung-Hui Hu “To read Tung-Hui Hu is to feel in the presence of a fresh, new voice.

He’s read his Tate and his Simic,

absorbed their intelligent strangeness and humor, then with great brio and precision has discovered how to go his own way. The Book of Motion is an exciting debut.”—Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Different Hours “The Book of Motion has a contained surreal style that deftly shapes a philosophical argument that somehow remains pure lyric.”—Los Angeles Times 2003 • 64 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820325682 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Bouquet of Hungers Poems Kyle G. Dargan “In his follow-up to his welcome debut, The Listening, Kyle Dargan goes even further, venturing both literally and metaphorically into the heart of America. Whether in a series of flashbacks or ‘post-soul papers,’ whether in a bus terminal or in taking on what’s terminally wrong with society, Dargan’s work leaves us hungry for more. Urgent, musically fierce, and poetically unique, Bouquet of Hungers heralds a fresh voice in American writing, as varied and vibrant as the country Dargan inhabits, critiques, and makes his own.”—Kevin Young, author of For the Confederate Dead 2007 • 112 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820330310 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Civilian Histories Poems Lee Upton “A moving exploration that forces readers to realize how many censoring forces compel them into various captivities of history.”—Boston Review 2000 • 104 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820321851 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

of mass destruction falling into the wrong hands gives the poems a deep resonance.”—Publishers Weekly “Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, was a pivotal and tragic figure in twentieth-century American life. No biographer in six hundred pages has come closer to understanding him—and the bomb— than does Cynthia Lowen in these subtle, resonant poems.”—Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb 2013 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820345642 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

A Crash of Rhinos Poems Paisley Rekdal “In A Crash of Rhinos reason and the uncensored disclosures of excited speech coexist with astonishing intensity. The American language seems suddenly, single-handedly revitalized. The poems are passionate, sexual, demonic. They are ceaselessly inventive. They are beautiful.”—Mark Strand 2000 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820322735 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Crossing to Sunlight Revisited New and Selected Poems Paul Zimmer “I turn again and again to Zimmer’s poetry to remind myself what the essence of all literary art is: the moment.”—Robert Olen Butler “Zimmer’s work is alone-truly unique-in its being recognizably different. He has had the genius to invent a style, and a whole imaginative outlook of his own, at a time when everyone thought it was impossible.”

—Hayden Carruth 2007 • 112 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820329444 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Cry of Oliver Hardy Poems Michael Heffernan

The Cloud That Contained the Lightning Poems Cynthia Lowen Selected by Nikky Finney “Lowen’s poems are expertly crafted and chiseled to a brittle, often stinging essence. . . . Reading this book against the contemporary backdrop of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster and worries about weapons

“The collection shows a keen handling of poetic forms. Heffernan demonstrates not only humor and wit but declares a willingness to fall flat on his face in the pursuit of serious play.

This is a difficult assignment, and Heffernan performs well. He is like a good basketball guard bringing the ball up court against an equally good press; when he can’t go to his right, he goes to his left; when he’s stopped there, and can’t pass, he dribbles and prays.

To change the figure, he is often like a stand-up comedian who is not about to keep his feelings out of his patter.

‘The Crazyman’s Revival’ and ‘Nine-

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Drawing of a Swan Before Memory

teenth of April’ are good examples of this.”—Gary Gildner 2008 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820332949 • $17.95 your price: $7.18

Poems Laynie Browne

Dark Would (the missing person) Poems Liz Waldner “I can imagine no poetic place more quixotically treacherous than the right brain of a missing person. With nothing to lose and everything to find, Waldner unmuzzles the wild horses and lets them buck. She asks only that her readers hold on for dear life because if they do—and they must!—good lord a flly is boxing with white gloves on the black ground of a photograpsh (sic). Everything requires a sic: The shrimpy girl, the bruised blue of wrong, shifting alphabets, lines linked, language demolished and glued back together before the very eye. Dark Would (the missing person) creates its own keyhole. Dare to peek.”—Maureen Seaton 2002 • 112 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820323916 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Depth Theology

A Difficult Grace On Poets, Poetry, and Writing Michael Ryan “A Difficult Grace presents a challenging, considered definition of the art, discriminates among poems and poets, and indicates poetry’s place in the human spirit and in society. Ryan’s bold, essayistic manner draws on a scholarly knowledge of literary history and of formal matters. . . . The book is well written in a way that expresses conviction as well as knowledge. In its depth and excellence, this crisp, passionate, and learned book is a significant contribution by an important American poet.”—Robert Pinsky 2000 • 200 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 PB • 9780820322315 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Poems

Down and Up

Peter O’Leary

Poems

“While asserting his desire to produce a revelatory poetry, O’Leary moves, with a boldness that lays bare the inconclusive quality of the revealed.

The religious imagination that evolves in these poems is unfettered by dogma and richly colored by erudition while granting—repeatedly, courageously, and even humorously—the limits of human language and experience to invoke the inwardness O’Leary would map.”—Elizabeth Robinson, author of Apprehend 2006 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820328065 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Desire in L.A. Poems Martha Clare Ronk “In Ronk’s work the hunger for the open, for landscape that has not been read over and so is a fit object to the imagination, this hunger meets the imperative of form, and locus of the confrontation is the sentence. . . .

Desire in L.A. is an inventive and disturbing book.”—Black Warrior Review 1990 • 104 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820311760 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Clarence Major “Clarence Major has written a collection of poetry that celebrates being human. Small moments expand into treatises of love and doubt, life and art, and it all seems so natural. Here’s a poet who has mastered a language he owns through personal rhythm, and he knows what it takes to transcend.

Down and Up is shaped under the pressure of living and dreaming with one’s eyes opened.”—Yusef Komunyakaa 2013 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820345949 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans Poems Mary Jo Bang “In The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, the O’s of fruit, time, and heavenly bodies cohere in sight and in light, and the heartbreaking yearning, ‘the impulse to speak,’ is over and over again the Don Quixote of gestures, keeping relationships at once glued and unstuck. The book culminates in a rhapsodic braiding of childhood images of a downscrabble upbringing, and a moving evocation of the ambivalence between the frivolity of speech and its absolute necessity. A deeply resonant book.”—Susan Wheeler 2001 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820322926 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

“Browne’s work places her amongst the loveliest natural historians of perception: Goethe, Bergson, Lucretius.

Like them she knows that ‘description becomes a portrait of not an object but a transference.’ The indetermination and synaesthesia in perceiving here find their register, locating the poem in what remains unbound, to the side of the image. This same oblique site spontaneously invents the ethical, showing that to describe is to honour an unknowable receiver. These poems gently host our plenitude.”—Lisa Robertson, author of The Weather 2005 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820327297 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

A Drowning Man Is Never Tall Enough Poems Patrick Lawler “Brilliance in poetry isn’t always to be coveted; sometimes a poet is so blinded by the gorgeous phrase that meaning seems irrelevant—a feeling the reader rarely shares. In the case of Patrick Lawler, however, verbal brilliance is put in the service of deep philosophic probing. . . . This fine first book should appeal to readers who share Lawler’s concern for the moral and the real.”—Booklist 1990 • 96 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820311586 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Dwelling Song Poems Sally Keith “Full of sharp, tight perceptions and even sharper, tighter sounds, Keith’s second collection manages to embrace both the quotidian and the timeless at once. From their fusion, she fashions a vibrant immanence; this is poetry that takes place on the page right before your eyes. Lyrical yet mathematical, at times unnerving yet always compelling, these poems never stop opening up new territory.”—Cole Swensen, author of Such Rich Hour 2004 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820325996 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

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An Ear to the Ground

Free Union

An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry

Poems

Edited by Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero

“John Casteen is a craftsman in his life and in his poems. Just as any good carpenter understands the wood upon his lathe, down to its xylem and its phloem, its roots, its weathered bark and leaves, Casteen knows language at its most cellular level; and he makes poems that are durable and elegant, solid not just for their construction but for the sense of stewardship that he brings to the task of writing.”

—D. A. Powell, author of Cocktails

In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities—among them Native, Asian, and black Americans; Chicano and Puerto Rican writers; gay and lesbian poets; writers of working-class background; and poets writing from American prisons.

John Casteen

1989 • 376 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820311234 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

2009 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820333281 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Exit, Civilian

From Now On

Poems Idra Novey Selected by Patricia Smith Novey’s work has always had a subversive quality, exploring unsanctioned facets of identity, and her discoveries here are just as fresh as in her first collection, if more openly dangerous and political. . . . Her images and scenes are meticulously constructed, crystalline, inviting us into a parallel world that reflects back the darker parts of our own.”—Denver Quarterly 2012 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820343488 • $17.95 your price: $8.97

Fable in the Blood The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece Edited by Jim Clark Collected here are poems by one of Georgia’s most intriguing and talented poets of the twentieth century. His poetry is resonant and contemplative, and Clark has included works that speak for the true grace of Reece’s talent. In addition, Clark’s attentive introduction should bring increased interest to this notable southern poet.

“Clark has chosen poems that reflect the best of Reece’s considerable talent.

In addition, his excellent introductory remarks do much to place Reece in his rightful place as an admired southern poet.”—Journal of Appalachian Studies 2002 • 160 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 HC • 9780820323473 • $31.95 your price: $15.97

For the Mountain Laurel Poems John Casteen “Much of the pleasure of this collection lies in how it reintroduces the reader to the outside. Casteen unlocks the natural world with perfect, precise phrases.”—Charlottesville News and Arts 2011 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820337999 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

convinced he will say great things in it.”—John Ashbery 1988 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820309897 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Georgia Voices Volume 3: Poetry Edited by Hugh Ruppersburg Offering selections from thirty-nine poets, Georgia Voices Volume 3 presents a variety of literary and cultural traditions. This work is characteristic of the South’s blend of tradition and innovation.

2000 • 288 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820321776 • $28.95 your price: $8.68

New and Selected Poems, 1970–2015 Clarence Major Foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa “Whether it is through the usage of musical rhythm and images, or slang, at all times, Major maintains a sense of constantly shifting expression and attempts to capture the sharp edge of exhilarating, lived experience.”

—Chicago Tribune “[Major] is passionately committed to the aesthetics of language. His poems, viewed as pure form, demonstrate a tireless quest for the right word.”

—African-American Review 2015 • 360 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820347967 • $32.95 your price: $13.18

The Gauguin Answer Sheet Poems Dennis Finnell Finnell’s questions, suggested by those in the title of a Gauguin painting, are concerned with origins, identities, and futures. Through his poetry, time and space, painting and history, and imagination and reality interconnect and offer an unusually imaginative, surprising work of art.

Hammer and Blaze A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets Edited by Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh Editors Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh have brought together the work of sixty poets who have taught at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, one of the most respected and influential writing programs of its kind.

“This collection brings together some of the finest poetry of the last two decades.”—Sue E. Budin “Hammer and Blaze is a fine introduction to one segment of today’s literary community.”—Georgia Review 2002 • 368 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820324166 • $30.95 your price: $12.38

2001 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820322933 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Hardscrabble

The Gaza of Winter

Kevin McFadden

Poems Donald Revell “Revell seems to me a major new voice in American poetry. Again and again I was surprised by the calm ease of his effortlessly propelled lines which always took me to unexpected places even when they sounded most reassuring and familiar. He wears his transparent style modestly, yet it kept making me sit up and take notice. . . . He has found a language of great strength and elasticity and he is using it to say remarkable things. I am

Poems “In its approach to subject matter, the poetry of Kevin McFadden recalls that of those hard-boiled chroniclers of the American scene, writers such as Kenneth Fearing and Karl Shapiro. Yet the swiftness of McFadden’s poems and their supercharged associative thinking make these earlier writers seem like dial-up to McFadden’s DSL. I love the ambition, quirkiness, and technical brio of these poems. Hardscrabble is a singular debut.”—David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 2008 • 120 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820331188 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

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Here Be Monsters

In the World He Created According to His Will

Knot

Poems Colin Cheney Selected by David Wojahn

Poems

Stacy Doris

David Caplan

“Here Be Monsters is a desperate and magical exploration of the world as it is and as it lives in the imagination.

Mythology meets evolution. History mingles, comfortably, with legend. The poems are lyrical and often classical, yet grounded and fresh. . . . Few writers can traverse such extensive territory as beautifully and seamlessly as he does in this debut collection.”—Oxford American

“Caplan manages to turn the form inside out, while still creating a deeply spiritual meditation on nature, human relationships, and God.”—Jewish Daily Forward

2010 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820335766 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Hummingbird Sleep Poems, 2009–2011 Coleman Barks “One of the most moving meditations on aging, living, and dying I’ve ever read. These poems will befriend, comfort, and delight you. Something very magical happens as Coleman Barks overlays dreaming and waking life . . . memory and present . . . you can taste these poems while reading them.”—Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Transfer 2013 • 128 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820345048 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

“David Caplan is one of those poets a culture discards at its peril. . . .In his poems, nothing is quaint, and there are no parables. Reality is hardedged, varied, seriously explored. The complexity of the poet’s Biblically-based worldview may come as a surprise to the literary secularist.”—Jerusalem Report 2010 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820334738 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

John Ashbery and You His Later Books John Emil Vincent “John Ashbery and You makes a significant contribution to modernist studies, literary criticism, and queer theory. Vincent’s scholarship is impressive and on a level with related work by Helen Vendler and Lee Edelman.”—Kevin Kopelson, author of Love’s Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics “Of all [the recent] studies of Ashbery, Vincent’s is the least weighed down by scholarly apparatus; accordingly, one can enjoy reading his close, careful analyses of individual poems.”—Choice 2007 • 208 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820329734 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. Complete Poems Edited by James Robert Payne

Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World From J. G. Heck’s 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science Joshua Poteat “His first collection, Ornithologies, charted a lyric landscape of birth and memory, which is to say, nostalgia. . . .

Illustrating the Machine is a very different journey, into the imagined world of the eponymous text.

What makes it so seductive, and so satisfying, is that Poteat—the lyric intelligence behind these haunting, often spectacularly beautiful poems— never quite leaves that earlier world behind.”—Pleiades 2009 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820334141 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

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“A fascinating treasure of apprentice poems by this young poet who died of tuberculosis in 1919 at the age of twenty-three. Payne provides all of Cotter’s known poems and offers an insightful introduction as well. . . .

Cotter compels our attention. We can be grateful to scholars such as Payne for challenging us to see the clarity and the rightness of Africahn-American poetry at its best.”—American Literature “This is a historical compilation of poems that from opening to closing exemplifies this significant black American poet’s interest in his own early twentieth-century times. Cotter mostly articulated by using a directness of details and unforced rhyme. . . . The reader sees the sensibility of the poet sharpen with each poem. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal 1990 • 200 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820311524 • $71.95 your price: $21.58

Poems “Like music, this Knot. What’s inside it also the outside. Stacy Doris is careful enough to risk it all—and tie it off. Knot, is making as bequeathing, ‘violated, thus wholly inviolate.’ That kind of strength. She states at the entrance to this book: ‘What follows occurs in a moment; a flash.’ This is an articulation of peril which, in order not to perish, performs a momentum entirely original. What stuns is the intensity, how much is captured, how much captures.”—Rod Smith, author of Music or Honesty 2006 • 88 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820328133 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

A Little Salvation Poems Old and New Judson Mitcham “Mitcham can startle you with your own joyful laughter in the middle of a heartbreaking lyric. His poems not only benefit from the sense of timing a good storyteller has to have (and Mitcham is a superb storyteller), but also from the novelist’s ear for authentic speech. I envy this gift, and the way he flirts with form—the villanelle, the sonnet, and the ghazal are here either in the flesh or as ghostly echoes— while keeping his rhythm vernacular and musical.”—Mark Jarman, author of To the Green Man: Poems 2007 • 176 p. • 5.25 x 8 PB • 9780820330389 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

Logorrhea Dementia A Self-Diagnosis Kyle Dargan “Kyle Dargan has not let contemporary poetics fool him, so don’t let Kyle Dargan fool you. He’s a romantic (small r) with an insatiable desire to construct new meaning in order to heal old experiences. In Logorrhea Dementia, Dargan puts his foot not just into his mouth but also into his heart, worrying the reader into reading experiences that are as otherworldy as they are logical. You will either love this poet or be afraid of the way he integrates theory and prosody then pulls them apart again.

Both hip and academic, serious and laid back, he seems never to exist on the page without the strength of both of his eyes doing different things in the name of all of his senses.”—Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of The Maverick Room: Poems 2010 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820336848 • $17.95 your price: $7.18

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Lord Brain

Mastery’s End

Poems

Travel and Postwar American Poetry

Bruce Beasley “If I were President I would legalize all sorts of exciting marriages. Today, chief among them would be the History of Neuroscience wedded to the Spirit of Cutting-Edge Poetry. The best man would be Deep Intellect, the maid of honor would be High Feelings, and the groomsmen and the bridesmaids behind them would jump back and forth, exchanging places like a wild dance of negative and positive particles; like the hemispheres of the brain playing dress-up in one another’s clothes; like fact in ecstasy drag, and ecstasy in the guise of medical journalism. The vows would be conducted, of course, by Bruce Beasley, who has also authored the text for the service. Take a hint from me: hurry up and RSVP.”—Albert Goldbarth 2005 • 112 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820327303 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

A Love Story Beginning in Spanish Poems Judith Ortiz Cofer “Cofer’s poems ‘make language from pure need.’ Here she provides a kind of informal memoir through anecdote, nuanced detail, extended metaphor, and finally meditations on the function of language itself in forming identity. A Love Story Beginning in Spanish is the work of a mature poet, further evidence of her skill as a writer.”—Hilda Raz “Judith Ortiz Cofer is a poet whose music pervades my life long after I’ve finished reading. A Love Story Beginning in Spanish inspires me and heartens me.”—Maxine Hong Kingston 2005 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820327426 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

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The Mansion of Happiness Poems Robin Ekiss “This first book of poetry takes multiple chances. The poems offer clarity and strength in their exposure of the most private emotions. However, it is the poet’s ability to weave vivid, complex images that thrusts them forward, making The Mansion of Happiness a memorable debut that suggests an equally memorable future.”—The Rumpus 2009 • 64 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820334080 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

Jeffrey Gray “The close readings in Mastery’s End are so smart and so generous that one finishes the book hoping that Gray turns next to an even wider-ranging study of contemporary poetry.”

—American Literature “This volume allows the reader to meet these familiar poets on new ground, to hear texts in voices at once familiar and new.”—Choice

The Muse in the Machine

2005 • 298 p. • 6 x 9 HC • 9780820326634 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

T. R. Hummer

Mead An Epithalamion Julie Carr “Mead charts the vicissitudes of a marriage or a mind or the sentence.

Change and flux govern each turn in this collection of domestic moments.

Carr emerges us so completely into the dailiness of this form that even when it is threatened by the fantasy of dissolution we understand fantasy to be just another interruption defining the familial self. The representational language that governs the text becomes the necessary choice to prevent the obliteration of that self.”—Claudia Rankine 2004 • 120 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820326849 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Measured Word On Poetry and Science Edited by Kurt Brown “Kurt Brown may have edited his best anthology to date, not of poems, but of captivating essays about the connection between science and poetry. Meditations on the similarities and differences between the poetic and scientific imaginations highlight essays by Alice Fulton, Forrest Gander, Miroslav Holub, and nine other poets. This is a book for poets, regardless of their writing style, and one for any reader in search of the mysteries behind a poem.”—Bloomsbury Review “In Nabokovian spirit, The Measured Word establishes that while the scientist’s and the poet’s uses of language sometimes work at cross-purposes, their temperaments and creative processes correspond . . . These intelligent essays make for inspiring and enriching reading on either side of the chasm.”—ISLE 2001 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820322872 • $25.95 your price: $10.38

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Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic “A moving and insightful collection of essays on the place of poetry in our Republic. It is a distinctly American book, tonic for our troubled times, a work willing both to celebrate and to excoriate. Surely we need both today more than ever.”—South Atlantic Review What is poetry for? More broadly, what function does art play in our world? These are the questions that animate these essays, which form an extended meditation on the role of art in an advanced civilization. Hummer poses answers that involve not only art but conscience. The essays were written over the last decade and a half and are all presented in an immediate and thoughtful style. . . . At the heart of Hummer’s project lies the injunction to the American superpower of which the author is a part: ‘if language is the flesh of the body politic . . . we all had better watch very carefully indeed what we say, and beware of where it goes.”—Publishers Weekly 2006 • 224 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820327976 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

Of Thee I Sing Poems Timothy Liu “Liu’s pointed imagery is rendered in meticulously metered verse, often in elegantly enjambed couplets or triplets or single end-stopped lines, with frequent references to art, music, and biblical or Greek mythology. His work evokes Rilke’s and Rodin’s contemplations of a fragmented, yet enduringly luminous and transformative sculpture of Apollo.”—Multicultural Review 2004 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820326009 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Patriot Poems Christopher Davis Davis’s poems address destructive forces, including the murder of a younger brother and the impact of AIDS on modern gay culture. These elements blend with the dangers of a world in which love and death are cruelly inseparable, but in which dark

poetry and poetics 89 humor and the beauty of imagery combat despair.

Quiver

The Reservoir

“Davis mixes mythological and religious iconography, bits of archaic diction, an obsessively recurring list of words—red, skll, Christ, death, ghost, skeleton, suicide, kiss, shroud—with unvarnished accounts of highly volatile sexual acts, whose affective import is ambiguous at best. . . . The poems, if not the hero, are fearless.”—American Literary Review

Poems

Poems

Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

Donna Stonecipher

“Anyone fascinated by what comes of the passionate coupling of science and art will devour this collection of poems. Somers-Willett’s poetic imagination plumbs the wonders and mysteries of dark matter, relativity, atomic physics, and natural history with lyricism, reverence, and delight.”—Orion Magazine

“Stonecipher gives her poems both the texture and the structure of a continuous meditation on her own best, strongest, or prettiest memories . . . Stonecipher spent part of her youth in Teheran, and some of her twenties in the Czech Republic. Unsurprisingly, she enjoys writing about place; ultimately, though, all her poems are meditative, inward, remotely Proustian.”—Boston Review

1998 • 112 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820319919 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

2009 • 102 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820333274 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Radical Visions Poetry by Vietnam Veterans Vince Gotera “Radical Visions is a book we have all been waiting for—and by ‘we’ I mean all Vietnam veterans, all people who care about good writing, and anyone who would like to understand what the war in Vietnam was all about.”

—John Clark Pratt, author of The Laotian Fragments

The Poetry of Men’s Lives An International Anthology Edited by Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas “A fascinating anthology. The coeditors have done a commendable job of harvesting work from many different cultures and languages. It is also impressive how many little-known or unknown poets and poems from around the world the authors have managed to root out and include.”

—C. K. Williams, author of The Singing: Poems “This is an ambitious attempt to document the fact of contemporary male poetry in a ranging context of cultures and place. All one can say is, More!”—Robert Creeley, author of If I Were Writing This 2004 • 448 p. • 6.125 x 9.25 PB • 9780820326498 • $32.95 your price: $9.88

A Poetry of Two Minds Sherod Santos “This book is so thoroughly engaging, so consistently insightful, so beautifully written, and covers such a wide range of topics relating to poetry that I read it not only with admiration and pleasure, but with a giddy sense that this was the best and clearest defense of poetry for our time that I knew of.

Everything about it is convincing.

Each observation, each judgment is presented or argued thoughtfully, fairly, generously. A Poetry of Two Minds is an astonishing book.”—Mark Strand 2000 • 208 p. • 5.5 x 8.25 PB • 9780820322049 • $24.95 your price: $7.48

“Because of its ability to locate Vietnam veteran poetry within the stream of American literature, Radical Visions will lead critics to reconsider the place of such poetry in the American literary canon. An important contribution.”—Choice 1994 • 384 p. • 6 x 9.25 HC • 9780820315102 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

Reading Race White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century Aldon Lynn Nielsen “No one who reads this can ever afterwards deny the explicit and implicit racism in American poetry. . . . An impressive, important work—Booklist “Securely grounded in contemporary critical theory, this book is notable for its clarity and scope . . . The only comprehensive treatment of its subject to date.”—Choice 1990 • 192 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820312736 • $23.95 your price: $11.97

The Regatta in the Skies Selected Long Poems Laurence Lieberman “Lieberman is most satisfying as a descriptive poet of the senses, and his discovered measure serves that talent beautifully, winding sinuously down the page. He is wholly, perilously, at the service of the world—and so able to engage everything on a primary, rapt level.”—Parnassus 1999 • 192 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820320359 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

2002 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820324630 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Ringing Ear Black Poets Lean South Edited by Nikky Finney “This poetry anthology is riveting, perfectly imagined for classroom use as well as for readers who want to stay in touch with the work of young writers.

Even better than individual poems— and they are very good indeed—are the ingenious, even brilliant conversations among them that editor Nikky Finney arranges. Everywhere the poems reinforce, argue with, amplify, challenge, and deepen each other. This kind of subtext editing is a gift. We need this book.”—Hilda Raz, Prairie Schooner “There are tons of literary anthologies inspired in one way or another by the Southern states. But to say that an anthology of poems about the South by African American writers is overdue would be an understatement. . . . The Ringing Ear . . . redresses the imbalance, collecting poems by Sonia Sanchez, Cornelius Eady, Nikki Giovanni, Nathaniel Mackey, and more.”—Guardian 2007 • 432 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820329260 • $26.95 your price: $13.47

Salvinia Molesta Poems Victoria Chang “Invasive species: just one of the thousand signs we’ve learned so terribly after the fact to read. Salvinia molesta: one of the worst; it can smother a lake in days. And under its proliferant injunction, Victoria Chang surveys the paths that brought us here. She charts her course through biosphere and boardroom, the intimate spaces of private infidelity, the vast terrains of state-supported slaughter. How is it, in poems so keenly tuned to history and all its harms, that the reader finds elation? Because in art this finely pitched we have the one true antidote.”—Linda Gregerson 2008 • 104 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820331768 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

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Saunter

Stutter

Poems

Poems

Joshua McKinney

William Billiter Selected by Hilda Raz

“Poets will come back to the predicament of the unsayable—call it the ecstatic, or the sublime. They will wander, or saunter, in search of the other side of things and their names, where ‘pillars recede with their ribbons.’ Tightly wound into an elastic precision, Joshua McKinney’s poems are intent on finding the interstices where revelation might subvert observation, observation might lead to revelation. To follow this pursuit is a pleasure: ‘Near an end / the sum shook / free of its figures.”—Ann Lauterbach 2002 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820323312 • $19.95 your price: $9.97

“Because of Billiter’s Stutter we meet Scooter, Blake, Moses, Stutter, Stink, Lloyd, Ersel, Willy, Niebuhr, and Gethsemane, and we have seats reserved for us: Section 3, Row Q, Seats 11 & 12.

Meanwhile we learn that a flinch is a kind of echo and an echo is what one man needs to register depths of knowledge about family, fathers and sons, confessions, and the future. Stutter’s a shapely, resonant, heartbreaking book.”—Dara Wier, author of Reverse Rapture 2011 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820338811 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

They Are Sleeping Poems Joanna Klink

Seriously Funny Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else Edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby “From Frank O’Hara’s ‘Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)’ and John Ashbery’s ‘Daffy Duck in Hollywood’ to a host of younger poets now writing ‘seriously funny’ poems, this anthology argues eloquently that poetry is not just the equivalent of somber personal reflection, that indeed from Chaucer to the present, humor, irony, satire, and play are as integral to poetry as they are to narrative prose.

Turning the pages of this generous anthology, you will smile and chuckle—and also weep!—Marjorie Perloff, author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media “I loved this book. From its mouth-watering table of contents to its last eccentric, splendid poem, Kirby and Hamby have put paid to the notion that serious poetry can’t have a sense of humor. When people ask me to recommend something good to read that’s both thought provoking and irresistibly entertaining, poetry anthologies don’t generally come to mind. This one will.”—Nancy Pearl, author of Book Lust 2010 • 440 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820335698 • $26.95 your price: $10.78

“They Are Sleeping is . . . so rare for a first collection, with a moving and complex tension between its lines and sentences, an engaging kaleidoscopic sense of diction, and a form of sequence to which the reader awakens and re-awakens. . . . Joanna Klink invents a new mythology for those ‘landscapes without particulars’—the unmarked natural spaces and cultural sites gone haywire—that separate what is American from what bears meaning over time.”—Susan Stewart, author of The Forest 2000 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820322759 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

This Is My Century New and Collected Poems Margaret Walker “Always immediate but classic in voice, her poetry has a timeless quality. . . . If younger poets have ranged farther in voice and content, it is because they stand high on the shoulders of giants such as Margaret Walker.”—Booklist “A pivotal figure . . . Hers is, in the final analysis, a grand presence that this collected volume of lifetime works affirms.”—Belles Lettres 2013 • 256 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820345970 • $24.95 your price: $12.47

Toward Robert Frost The Reader and the Poet Judith Oster “This thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of Frost as ‘reader’ of his subject matter—nature, the Eden story, human entanglements—and how readers respond to Frost’s poetry is a significant addition to Frost criticism and a valuable contribution to reader-response theory and to our understanding of the processes

of reading and writing.”—Library Journal 1994 • 360 p. • 5.5 x 9 PB • 9780820316215 • $30.95 your price: $9.28

Vertical Elegies 5 The Section Sonnets by Sam Truitt “Here is word from the other side of the implacable mirror—as if a contemporary Everyman might still be able to speak and ourselves be still able to hear him. This extraordinary sequence of poems is fact not only of a brilliant poet’s arrival but equally of a determined vision of our degraded world, a last warning, so to speak, before there’s nothing left to say.”

—Robert Creeley 2003 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820325040 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

The Violence Within / The Violence Without Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics Jacqueline Vaught Brogan “In writing about Stevens’s revolutionary poetics, Jacqueline Brogan succeeds in creating a work that is itself revolutionary. Her book challenges traditional notions about Stevens the poet and Stevens the man.

This is a provocative and controversial thesis, and it is certain to generate critical debate for years to come.”

—John N. Serio, editor, Wallace Stevens Journal “Brogan’s book proposes nothing less than a total political revision of Wallace Stevens’ commitments. . . .

This indeed has all the rumblings of a revolution.”—Boston Review 2003 • 206 p. • 6 x 9 6 b&w photos HC • 9780820325194 • $46.95 your price: $14.08

We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone Poems Kerri Webster “This collection is so adeptly crafted that it’s difficult to believe it is a first book. Webster’s poems offer language as a ‘stain’ that bears the invisible into the realm of the manifest: she colors the surface, which in turn proves the interior. Depicting a world that is defiantly frail, Webster dares poetry to ‘let fall [its] horrible pleasure.’ This poetry’s richly imagined interior life insists on breaking through, pulled inside out, ‘dipped in marrow.’

Rhapsodic and frightening, and full of wily and delicate power.”—Elizabeth Robinson, author of Apprehend 2005 • 72 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820327730 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

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Weathering Poems and Translations Alastair Reid “Alastair Reid has always been one of my favorite poets. . . . What he writes about are the interstices of life, the odd moments when clarity replaces the usual fuzz, when a mood takes hold and defines life along a fresh axis of understanding. . . . I go back to the poems in Weathering year after year, like memories of first love. This is what poems are for.”—Boston Review 1988 • 144 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820309903 • $19.95 your price: $7.98

What Animal Poems Oni Buchanan Throughout What Animal, the speaker’s compassion for the damaged animalia is remarkably striking. . . .

Buchanan’s creatures are ultimately irreconcilable to one another, and in these lacunae lies her agony: ‘in the gap / that’s where my crying is.’ It is her gift to us that, from her bereavement, from ‘the dirt’ and the gaps, she constructs such a radically intelligent map of grief, both hers and ours.”

—Verse

wilderness sampler that goes down smoothly.”—Eugene Weekly 1998 • 144 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820320113 • $22.95 your price: $11.47

Winners Have Yet to Be Announced A Song for Donny Hathaway Ed Pavlic “This year saw some important new poetry collections by Ruth Stone, Frank Bidart, Mark Doty, and Patricia Smith, but Ed Pavlic’s dizzyingly original collection of prose poems, Winners Have Yet to Be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway, is one of the most brilliantly conceived works I’ve read in years. With his singular phrasings and extraordinary ability to capture the nuances of time and place in an array of voices, Pavlic’s poetry is as close to music as any American writer has ever accomplished.”—Bloomsbury Review 2008 • 208 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820330976 • $24.95 your price: $9.98

What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other Jeffrey Schultz Selected by Kevin Young

2014 • 88 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820347219 • $16.95 your price: $6.78

Wild Song Poems of the Natural World Edited by John Daniel “One of the finest recent collections of poetry of place . . . [Wild Song] should find a lasting place on any poetry lover’s shelf.”—Oregon Life “Daniel . . . has done a terrific job of gathering these poems. Deborah Randolph Wildman’s visually tasty cover art and woodcut illustrations help set the tone for the collection—a

Poems Allen Braden “Braden may flaunt his poetic tricks, yet he is equally comfortable within the narrative moment’s realism.

Reading him is akin to knowing a magician’s method while still being pleasantly surprised by the beauty of his results.”—Prairie Schooner 2010 • 80 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820334745 • $19.95 your price: $5.98

Zero to Three F. Douglas Brown Selected by Tracy K. Smith “From the hectic blur of family dynamics amidst raising young children, F. Douglas Brown’s Zero to Three reminds us there is much to learn about what shapes parents into better people.”—The Rumpus 2014 • 96 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820347271 • $17.95 your price: $8.97

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2003 • 96 p. • 5.5 x 8.5 PB • 9780820325675 • $17.95 your price: $5.38

“These poems contain possibilities and observations, askings and responses. They gesture toward infinite moments of requests and multiplicities of answers. . . . Sometimes the unexpectedly beautiful is sudden and unavoidable. But even then we have to acknowledge that beauty and progressions don’t make up for what has gone wrong in the world. . . . Even among horrors, Schultz seems to be saying with these poems, a soul’s joys are absurd and implacable.”

—Bellingham Review

A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood

Winter Sky New and Selected Poems, 1968–2008 Coleman Barks “Barks is a master of the complicated human poem. Some poets open their poems to what is Significant. Barks sets down the remarks that a waitress said to him one night in a late-night restaurant. There is a great unfolding of the world here.”—Robert Bly “Reading Coleman Barks is the equivalent of a rich transfusion of vitality.

His writings carry a huge generosity of spirit replenishing everything good, funny, brave, brilliant, honest, readers could ever hope for. Nothing rejected or shunned, but life in all its conflicted elegance graciously taken into the circle and tossed up into new light: one of the widest-open, wildest voices we might ever embrace.”—Naomi Shihab Nye 2012 • 336 p. • 6 x 9 PB • 9780820340869 • $26.95 your price: $10.78 HC • 9780820332376 • $28.95 your price: $14.47

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title index Accidental Slaveowner, The, 1 Across the Layers, 83 Advancing Sisterhood?, 58 Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The, 73 Adventures of Roderick Random, The, 73 Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses, The, 73 African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry, 1 Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown, 58 After O’Connor, 75 Agent of Empire, 58 AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta, 30 All Set About with Fever Trees and Other Stories, 76 Allegory of the Supermarket, 83 Alone atop the Hill, 38 Alone in the Dawn, 58 Altamaha, 48 Always the Mountains, 49 America and the Americas, 22 America’s Corporal, 1 America’s Darwin, 59 American Afterlife, 56 American Body Politics, 58 American Childhood, 58 American Literary Environmentalism, 58 American South in the Twentieth Century, The, 1 American Wars, American Peace, 42 Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia, 49 An Ear to the Ground, 86 An Ornament to the City, 32 An Un-American Childhood, 41 Anchored Yesterdays, 17 And Venus Is Blue, 76 Anna, Washing, 84 Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems, The, 73 Appalachian Wildflowers, 49 Approximate Darling, 84 Arab Spring, 22 Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta’s Scholar Architect, The, 30 Architecture of Middle Georgia, 31 Argentina and the United States, 22 Art and Life of Clarence Major, The, 59 Art of Managing Longleaf, The, 49 Assembling the Shepherd, 84 Ate It Anyway, 76 Athens, 1861–1865, 37 Atlantic Loyalties, 1 Augury, 42 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes Completed, 59 Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History, 1 Baby Sweet’s, 76 Battlegrounds of Memory, 43 Becoming Confederates, 14 Been Here and Gone, 33 Before Scopes, 37 Before the New Deal, 1 Berry College, 37 Better Than War, 76 Big Bend, 76 Billy Watson’s Croker Sack, 43 Bioregional Imagination, The, 59 Black Woman Reformer, 2 Bolivia and the United States, 23 Book of Motion, The, 84 Bound for Shady Grove, 33 Bouquet of Hungers, 84 Breeding Bird Atlas of Georgia, The, 49 Bright Shards of Someplace Else, 76 Bright Skin, 76

Brothers in Clay, 32 Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity, The, 2 But Is It Garbage?, 34 Camera Man’s Journey, 35 Campus Sexpot, 43 Can’t I Love What I Criticize?, 59 Captured, 2 Caribbean and Southern, 27 Cartographies, 43 Cause at Heart, 2 CAUTION Men in Trees, 76 Celestial Jukebox, The, 77 Central America and the United States, 23 Century of Early Ecocriticism, A, 59 Challenging Boundaries, 59 Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction, 73 Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race, 60 Charlotte, NC, 2 Chattahoochee River User’s Guide, 49 Chattooga, 43 Chickamauga, 14 Chicken Dreaming Corn, 77 Chile and the United States, 23 Chimpanzee Travels, 49 Cincinnati Arch, The, 50 Circuit Rider’s Wife, A, 77 Civil Rights History from the Ground Up, 2 Civil Rights Reader, The, 2 Civil War in Georgia, The, 15 Civil War Stories, 15 Civil War Time, 15 Civilian Histories, 84 Clashing of the Soul, A, 37 Close-Ups, 77 Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact, 3 Cloud That Contained the Lightning, The, 84 Colombia and the United States, 23 Colors of Africa, 43 Coming into Contact, 60 Common Birds of Coastal Georgia, 50 Common Birds of Greater Atlanta, 50 Common Houses in America’s Small Towns, 31 Common Thread, A, 3 Communities and Capital, 27 Companion to an Untold Story, 43 Confederate Odyssey, 15 Confederate Receipt Book, 32 Confluences, 60 Conserving Words, 60 Consuming Silences, 60 Containing Russia’s Nuclear Firebirds, 23 Contentious Liberties, 26 Converging Stories, 60 Copy Cats, 77 Cornbread Nation 6, 36 Cornbread Nation 7, 36 Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier, The, 15 Courthouses of Georgia, 31 Crackers in the Glade, 32 Craig Claiborne’s Southern Cooking, 36 Crash of Rhinos, A, 84 Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America, 60 Critical Fictions, 61 Critical Memory, 61 Crossing to Sunlight Revisited, 84 Crossing Wildcat Ridge, 44 Crossroads of Conflict, 15

Crucible of Carolina, The, 61 Cruel Country, The, 38 Cry of Angels, A, 77 Cry of Oliver Hardy, The, 84 Cultural Diversity in the U.S. South, 27 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, 28 Culture, Biology, and Sexuality, 28 Curious Mister Catesby, The, 50 Curled in the Bed of Love, 77 D.J.’s Worst Enemy, 77 Damn Good Dogs!, 17 Dance Boots, The, 77 Dark Waves and Light Matter, 44 Dark Would (the missing person), 85 Daughter of My People, 78 Daughter of the Swan, 61 Daughters of the Great Depression, 61 De Renne, 39 Dearest Chums and Partners, 41 Deep Cuba, 50 Deep Enough for Ivorybills, 44 Deep South, 61 Defending Constitutional Rights, 20 Democracy Restored, 31 Depth Theology, 85 Desire in L.A., 85 Development, Security, and Aid, 23 Devotion, 44 Difficult Grace, A, 85 Dinner Party, The, 57 Distant Flame, A, 78 Disturbing Calculations, 61 Divided Planet, 50 Divine Agitators, 3 Do, Die, or Get Along, 28 Doing Recent History, 3 Domesticating Foreign Struggles, 3 Dominican Republic and the United States, The, 24 Dough, 44 Down and Up, 85 Down to the Waterline, 50 Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, The, 85 Drawing of a Swan Before Memory, 85 Drifting into Darien, 44 Drowning Man Is Never Tall Enough, A, 85 DuBose Heyward Reader, A, 61 Dwelling Song, 85 Dylan Thomas, 73 Edge of Marriage, The, 78 Elbert Parr Tuttle, 20 Emblems of Conduct, 39 Emerson Dilemma, The, 62 Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, The, 62 Empires’ Edge, The, 28 Empowering Words, 62 Enduring Territorial Disputes, 24 Enemies of the Country, 16 Enterprising Women, 19 Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry, 3 Environmental Ethics and the Global Marketplace, 4 Environmental Renaissance, 62 Equiano, the African, 19 Essays on Nature and Landscape, 62 Ethics and Environmental Policy, 50 Ethnoecology, 51 Etowah River User’s Guide, 51 Eugene O’Neill’s Last Plays, 62 Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835, 62 Evening Out, 78 Everybody Else, 4 Everybody Was Black Down There, 4 Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean, 26

title index 93 Evolution of Southern Culture, The, 4 Exit, Civilian, 86 Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The, 74 Eyesores, 78 Fable in the Blood, 86 Fables of Subversion, 63 Faith in Bikinis, 4 Faiths of the Postwar Presidents, The, 4 Fallen Forests, 63 Fathers of Conscience, 4 Faulkner and the Great Depression, 63 Faulty Predictions, 78 Favorite Wildflower Walks in Georgia, 51 Fiction’s Inexhaustible Voice, 63 Field Guide for Immersion Writing, A, 44 Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia, 51 Fight against Fear, 5 Fights of Fancy, 63 Finding Purple America, 57 Fire in the Flint, The, 78 Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin, 51 Flannery O’Connor Award, The, 78 Flannery O’Connor, 63 Flannery O’Connor, 63 Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia, 35 Flannery O’Connor’s South, 64 Flatness and Other Landscapes, The, 44 Folk Visions and Voices, 34 Foods of the Gods, 64 For Free Press and Equal Rights, 16 For God and Mammon, 16 For the Mountain Laurel, 86 Forgiving the Boundaries, 64 Foul and Fair Play, 64 Founding Fictions, 74 Fragments of Our Time, 24 Free to Work, 5 Free Union, 86 Freedom Writer, 5 Frogs and Toads of the Southeast, 51 From a Far Country, 19 From Mounds to Megachurches, 5 From Now On, 86 From Superpower to Besieged Global Power, 24 Future of Just War, The, 24 Gateway to Justice, 20 Gauguin Answer Sheet, The, 86 Gaza of Winter, The, 86 Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age, 5 Generations in Black and White, 35 Georgia Odyssey, 5 Georgia Quilts, 32 Georgia Voices, 78 Georgia Voices, 86 Georgia’s Amazing Coast, 51 Girl’s Own, The, 5 Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples, 28 Good Observers of Nature, 64 Good War’s Greatest Hits, The, 57 Gravity’s Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom, 64 Great and Noble Jar, 33 Green Breast of the New World, The, 64 Grounding Knowledge, 52 Guarding Greensboro, 16 Guten Tag, Y’all, 5 Had I the Wings, 52 Hammer and Blaze, 86 Hard-Boiled Virgin, The, 79 Hardscrabble, 86 Hawk and the Sun, The, 79 He Included Me, 39 Hearing History, 19 Heart of a Distant Forest, The, 79

Henry Adams and the Southern Question, 5 Here Be Monsters, 87 Hey, Bug Doctor!, 52 Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire, 6 Historical Fictions, 64 History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, The, 74 Hope and Danger in the New South City, 6 Horrible Gift of Freedom, The, 19 How Far She Went, 79 Hummingbird Sleep, 87 Humor of the Old Southwest, 64 Hunger Overcome?, 65 Hunting from Home, 52 Hush, Child! Can’t You Hear the Music?, 34 Ice Age, 79 Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World, 87 Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men, The, 79 In Black and White, 28 In Search of Brightest Africa, 19 In the World He Created According to His Will, 87 Increase, 45 Inheritance of Horses, 45 Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen, 65 Invasive Pythons in the United States, 52 Invisible Southerners, 16 Invisibles, The, 79 Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, 26 Jack London, Photographer, 36 James Habersham, 6 James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist, 6 Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves, 74 Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves, 74 Jekyll Island’s Early Years, 17 Jesus Sound Explosion, 45 Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs, 65 Jimmy Carter, American Moralist, 21 Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right, 6 John Ashbery and You, 87 John Bachman, 52 John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America, 6 John Oliver Killens, 39 Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr., 87 Journeyman, 39 Knot, 87 Labor in the Modern South, 7 Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton, 74 Lamar Dodd, 31 Large Christmas, 40 Last Day on Earth, 45 Late Encounter with the Civil War, A, 16 Late Thoughts on an Old War, 45 Latino Workers in the Contemporary South, 28 Law of the White Circle, The, 79 Leader and the Crowd, The, 7 Lens of War, 16 Lessons from the Wolverine, 80 Let Them Eat Data, 37 Liberals, Politics, and Power, 27 Liberating Sojourn, 7 Liberty’s Captives, 7 Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary, The, 41 Life on the Brink, 52

Lines in the Sand, 7 Listening to the Land, 65 Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia, A, 39 Literary Percys, The, 65 Little Salvation, A, 87 Little Women Abroad, 65 Little Women, 65 Living to Prowl, 45 Living with Snakes, 80 Lizards and Crocodilians of the Southeast, 53 Logorrhea Dementia, 87 Lonelier than God, 66 Look to the Lady, 74 Lord Brain, 88 Lost in Translation, 46 Love Story Beginning in Spanish, A, 88 Love, in Theory, 80 Lowcountry Hurricanes, 18 Lyddy, 7 Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley, The, 28 Making Catfish Bait out of Government Boys, 8 Making Freedom Pay, 8 Making War, Making Women, 8 Malcolm Lowry’s La Mordida, 80 Mansion of Happiness, The, 88 Marching in Step, 37 Marching through Georgia, 39 Marion Manley, 31 Mark Twain & Company, 66 Marsh Mud and Mummichogs, 53 Mary Telfair to Mary Few, 42 Mastery’s End, 88 McAfee County, 80 Mead, 88 Measured Word, The, 88 Melancholy of Departure, The, 80 Melusine of Lusignan, 75 Melville’s Art of Democracy, 66 Melville’s Later Novels, 66 Memories of a Georgia Teacher, 38 Memory of a Men Working, 80 Millennium Folk, 34 Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South, 8 Mot, 46 Motoring, 29 Mound Sites of the Ancient South, 18 Mountain Blood, 46 Mujer frente al sol, 40 Muse in the Machine, The, 88 My Dear Boy, 66 My Grandfather’s Finger, 46 My Unsentimental Education, 46 Nathalie Dupree’s Southern Memories, 37 Nations Divided, 20 Neat Pieces, 33 Necessary Grace to Fall, The, 80 Negotiating for Georgia, 8 Neo-Segregation Narratives, 66 Nervous Dancer, 80 New Deal and Beyond, The, 8 New Georgia Guide, The, 18 New Orleans after the Promises, 8 No Lie Like Love, 81 Norm Diffusion and HIV/AIDS Governance in Putin’s Russia and Mbeki’s South Africa, 24 Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control, 24 North Carolina’s Amazing Coast, 53 Novel Ideas, 66 Of Thee I Sing, 88 Oglethorpe’s Dream, 36

94 title index Oil Sparks in the Amazon, 25 On Tarzan, 75 On the Outskirts of Normal, 46 One Family, 36 One Name but Several Faces, 9 Origins of the Dred Scott Case, 9 Other Souths, 9 Oyster Question, The, 53 Ozark Wildflowers, 53 Pain, Pride, and Politics, 29 Pale of Settlement, The, 81 Partial Faiths, 66 Passions for Nature, 67 Patriot, The, 88 Patterned Aimlessness, 67 Pauline E. Hopkins, 40 Peachtree Creek, 53 Penn Center, 9 People’s War on Poverty, A, 9 Peru and the United States, 25 Phillis Wheatley, 67 Piano Tuner, The, 81 Pillared City, The, 32 Pirates You Don’t Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life, 46 Plain and Noble Garb of Truth, The, 9 Please Come Back To Me, 81 Poems, Plays, and The Briton, 75 Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination, 75 Poetry of Men’s Lives, The, 89 Poetry of Two Minds, A, 89 Politics in Georgia, 21 Politics of Change in Georgia, The, 40 Politics of the Encounter, The, 29 Politics of Urban Water, The, 29 Politics of Whiteness, The, 10 Pond Lovers, The, 53 Portrait of an Island, 54 Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County, A, 18 Practical Research Methods for Media and Cultural Studies, 29 Prestige of Violence, The, 67 Prisons That Could Not Hold, 22 Problem South, The, 10 Prophet from Plains, 22 Protestant Voice in American Pluralism, The, 10 Public Worship, Private Faith, 34 Purchase of Order, The, 81 Pure Fire, 10 Pussycat of Prizefighting, The, 40 Quarry, The, 81 Quiver, 89 Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895, 10 Radical Visions, 89 Ralph Ellison, 40 Re-Writing America, 68 Reading Essays, 67 Reading for the Body, 67 Reading Race, 89 Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918–1939, 10 Real Punks Don’t Wear Black, 34 Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States, 68 Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel, 68 Recollections of a Southern Daughter, 10 Reconnecting with John Muir, 68 Regatta in the Skies, The, 89 Religion and the American Nation, 10 Religious Diversity and American Religious History, 11 Remaking Wormsloe Plantation, 54 Remembering Heaven’s Face, 40 Remembering James Agee, 68 Remembering Medgar Evers, 11

Renaissance in Charleston, 68 Renewing Birmingham, 11 Renfroe’s Christmas, 81 Reservoir, The, 89 Resonant Gaps, 75 Rethinking Social Realism, 68 Rethinking the South African Crisis, 29 Revolutionizing Expectations, 11 Rich Man’s War, 17 Riding the Demon, 46 Righteous Violence, 69 Ringing Ear, The, 89 Riots, The, 46 Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955–2000, The, 20 Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, 25 River Home, The, 47 Roman Law and Comparative Law, 20 Romancing the Vote, 69 Root of All Evil, The, 11 Roots and Ever Green, 42 Roppongi Crossing, 30 Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy, 54 Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee, 81 Sabbath Creek, 81 Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways, 69 Sacred Flame of Love, The, 11 Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition, 11 Sacrilege of Alan Kent, The, 82 Salamanders of the Southeast, 54 Salvinia Molesta, 89 Sam Richards’s Civil War Diary, 17 Saunter, 90 Saving the Soul of Georgia, 20 Science Fiction and Market Realities, 69 Screening a Lynching, 57 Scriptures for a Generation, 69 Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton, 12 Seasons of Cumberland Island, The, 54 Segregation, 12 Selling Mrs. Consumer, 57 Send-Away Girl, The, 82 Seriously Funny, 90 Serpent’s Tale, The, 33 Servants of the State, 12 Shades of Green, 69 Shakespeare’s Tragic Perspective, 69 Shaping Traditions, 33 Shared Histories, 42 Shatter Me with Dawn, 41 Shout Because You’re Free, 34 Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners, 30 Signposts, 21 Slavery and Freedom in Savannah, 12 Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World, 27 Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788–1838, 27 Slaying the Nuclear Dragon, 25 Sleeping with One Eye Open, 47 Small Heart of Things, The, 47 Solitary Goose, 47 Some Far and Distant Place, 30 Sorry I Worried You, 82 Sources of the Boece, 75 South of Tradition, 70 South to the Future, 70 Southern Histories, 12 Southern Indians and Anthropologists, 18 Southern Literature and Literary Theory, 70 Southern Local Color, 70 Southern Odyssey, 47 Southern Weave of Women,, A 70 Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges, 38 Spirit of International Law, The, 21

Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law, The, 21 Spirits of the Air, 18 Spit Baths, 82 Sprawling Places, 30 State Behavior and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, 25 State Botanical Garden of Georgia, The, 54 State Parties and National Politics, 12 Stories with a Moral, 70 Storyville, USA, 47 Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, 82 Striking Beauties, 12 Stuck, 25 Study in Perfect, 47 Stutter, 90 Styles of Creation, 70 Suicide Club, The, 82 Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and Golden Sharks, 54 Super America, 82 Surrendered Child, 41 Susan Fenimore Cooper, 70 Tales from the Cloud Walking Country, 33 Talking with Robert Penn Warren, 71 Tell Borges If You See Him, 82 Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, The, 55 Testing the Limits, 22 Textual Studies and the Common Reader, 71 Themes for English B, 47 They Are Sleeping, 90 They Saved the Crops, 30 Thieves I’ve Known, 83 Thinking Animals, 55 This Business of Relief, 13 This Is My Century, 90 Thomas Lanier Clingman, 13 Thomas Nast, Political Cartoonist, 22 Thoreauvian Modernities, 71 Through the Arch, 38 Tip of the Iceberg, 48 To Build Our Lives Together, 13 To Find My Own Peace, 42 To Hell and Back, 71 Tokens of Affection, 42 Torches of Light, 38 Toward Robert Frost, 90 Trash Phenomenon, The, 71 Traveling South, 71 Trial of Democracy, The, 21 Trouble in July, 83 True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset, The, 83 Truman Capote, 72 Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745–1756) as Cultural Performance, The, 13 Turtles of the Southeast, 55 Two Cities, 75 Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee, 83 Tyrannicide, 21 Ultra-Talk, 48 Uncle Tom Mania, 58 Unconventions, 48 Unemployed People’s Movement, The, 13 Unequal Hours, The, 48 Up from the Mudsills of Hell, 13 Upheaval in Charleston, 13 Useful Gifts, 83 Vanished Gardens, 48 Vanishing Georgia, 36 Vascular Flora of Georgia, 55 Venezuela and the United States, 26 Vertical Elegies 5, 90 Viewing Room, The, 83

author index 95 Violence Within / The Violence Without, The, 90 Virgin Forest, 55 Visible Man, 72 Vital Past, The, 14 Voice for Earth, A, 55 Voices from Company D, 17 Voices from the Mountains, 35 Voices of Robby Wilde, The, 41 Waist Deep in Black Water, 55 Wake Up Dead Man, 35 Walker Percy’s Search for Community, 72 Walker Percy’s Voices, 72 Walking in the Land of Many Gods, 55 Walking Tour of the University of Georgia, A, 32 Wars of Disruption and Resilience, 26 Ways of Wisdom, 14 We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, 90 Weathering, 91 Web of Words, A, 72 Weeds of the Midwestern United States and Central Canada, 56 Weeds of the South, 56 Weirding the War, 17 What Animal, 91 What Is a Book?, 72 What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other, 91 What They Wished For, 14 What Virtue There Is in Fire, 14 Where We Belong, 56 Wild Song, 91 Wilderness and the Heart, 56 Wilderness into Civilized Shapes, 72 Wildflowers of Georgia, 56 Wildflowers of the Eastern United States, 56 William Bartram, The Search for Nature’s Design, 56 William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape, 73 William Wells Brown, 73 Winners Have Yet to Be Announced, 91 Winter Sky, 91 Wisest Council in the World, The, 22 Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color, 38 Women, Gender, and Terrorism, 26 Women’s Work, Men’s Work, 14 Woods Stretched for Miles, The, 48 Words and Music, 35 Working for Equality, 14 Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood, A, 91 Yesterday in the Hills, 41 Youngblood, 83 Zero to Three, 91

author index Abbott, Richard H., 16 Abernathy, Jeff, 71 Adam, Philip, 36 Adams, Gail Galloway, 81 Addleton, Jonathan S., 30 Agosín, Marjorie, 43 Aguero, Kathleen, 86 Aiken, Charles S., 73 Alcott, Louisa May, 65 Alcott, May, 65 Aldrich, Marcia, 43 Alexander, Doris, 62 Alkalay-Gut, Karen, 58 Allen, Austin, 9 Allen, Ed, 76 Amarasingam, Amarnath, 29 Ambrose, Andy, 1 Anderson, Brett, 36

Anderson, Mark Curtis, 45 Anderson, Robert, 79 Andrews, Raymond, 76, 81 Angione, Kathleen, 53 Armbruster, Karla, 59 Armstrong, Julie Buckner, 2 Athanasiou, Tom, 50 Atkins, Anselm, 50 Atkins, G. Douglas, 67 Atkins, G. Pope, 24 Atkinson, Ted, 63 Atlanta History Center, 33 Auslander, Mark, 1 Bachner, Sally, 67 Bacon, Eugenia Jones, 7 Bailey, Anne J., 16 Baker Jr., Houston A., 61 Baker, Will, 46 Balaban, John, 40 Baldwin, Cinda K., 33 Bang, Mary Jo, 85 Barks, Coleman, 87, 91 Barr, Alan P., 28 Barrow, Elfrida De Renne, 17 Bartley, Numan V., 4 Bastian, Robert W., 31 Bealle, John, 34 Beasley, Bruce, 88 Beaton, Giff, 49 Beaver, Patricia D., 27 Bederman, David J., 21 Beidler, Philip D., 42, 45, 57, 68, 69 Bell, Laura Palmer, 17 Belleville, Bill, 50, 54 Bernstein, Matthew H., 57 Berry, Daina Ramey, 12 Berry, Stephen, 17 Billiter, William, 90 Blair, Melissa Estes, 11 Blanchard, Colleen, 28 Blanck, Emily, 21 Blount, Ben G., 51 Boesky, Amy, 74 Boles, John B., 1 Boney, F. N., 32 Booker, Carol McCabe, 38 Bottoms, David, 36 Bowne, Eric E., 18 Braden, Allen, 91 Brady, Catherine, 77 Bragg, William Harris, 39 Brattain, Michelle, 10 Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught, 90 Brown, Barry L., 15 Brown, F. Douglas, 91 Brown, Kurt, 88 Brown, Stephanie, 83 Browne, Laynie, 85 Bryan, Maria, 42 Bryant, David, 51, 53 Bryson, Charles T., 56 Buchanan, Oni, 91 Buhlmann, Kurt, 55 Burch, Robert, 77, 81, 83 Burrison, John A., 32, 33 Burroughs, Franklin, 43, 47 Burton, Orville Vernon, 9 Byerman, Keith E., 59 Byrd, Rudolph P., 35 Caesar, Terry, 64 Cafaro, Philip, 52 Caldwell, Erskine, 39, 61, 82, 83 Camp, Carlos D., 49 Campbell, Marie, 33 Camuto, Christopher, 52 Candlin, Kit, 19 Caplan, David, 87 Carawan, Candie, 35 Carawan, Guy, 35 Carkeet, David, 43

Carr, Julie, 88 Carretta, Vincent, 19, 41, 67 Cartwright, Keith, 69 Casteen, John, 86 Chafin, Linda G., 51 Chakkalakal, Tess, 65 Champion, Larry S., 69 Chang, Victoria, 89 Cheney, Colin, 87 Cheng, Eileen Ka-May, 9 Chilson, Peter, 46 Chirhart, Ann Short, 38 Clark, Jim, 86 Clayton, Lawrence A., 25 Clinton, Catherine, 15 Cobb, James C., 2, 5 Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 38, 40, 47, 88 Cogan, Frances B., 2 Cohen, Hennig, 64 Coleman, Kenneth, 37 Coles, Robert, 64 Collins, Thomas W., 27 Conser Jr., Walter H., 11 Cook, Joe, 49, 51 Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 62 Corcoran, Peter Blaze, 55 Corkin, Stanley, 68 Coulter, E. Merton, 32 Cox, John D., 71 Craig, Robert M., 30 Craton, Michael, 26 Crawford, Martin, 7, 10 Crimmins, Timothy J., 31 Crispell, Brian Lewis, 22 Crist, Eileen, 52 Crosby, Emilye, 2 Cross, Wilbur, 9 Crouse, David, 77 Crow, Peter, 28 Curley, Daniel, 80 Cybriwsky, Roman Adrian, 30 Dallmeyer, Dorinda G., 4, 48 Daniel, John, 91 Daniels, Maurice C., 20 Dargan, Kyle, 84, 87 Davidson, George, 51, 53 Davies, Máire Messenger, 29 Davis, Christopher, 88 Davis, Leroy, 37 Davis, Sasha, 28 de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel, 74 de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon, François, 73 DeFelice, Michael S., 56 Demchak, Chris C., 26 Deming, Barbara, 22 Dendy, Larry B., 38 Denman, Margaret-Love, 66 DePew, Alfred, 80 Desmond, John F., 72 Deulen, Danielle Cadena, 46 Dickey, Ouida, 37 Dickie, Margaret, 59 Dillingham, William B., 64, 66 Dimock, Julian, 35 Dodd, Lamar, 31 Dorcas, Michael E., 52, 51 Doris, Stacy, 87 Dorsey, Allison, 13 Downs, Greg, 82 Doyle, Don H., 20 Duncan, Marion B., 56 Duncan, Wilbur H., 55, 56 Durban, Pam, 76 East, Charles, 78 Eckerle, Tom, 37 Eckert, Amy E., 24 Edge, John T., 36 Eelman, Bruce W., 3 Einstein, Sarah, 46

96  author index Ekiss, Robin, 88 Elliott, David J., 50 Elliott, Matt J., 49 Ellis, Jerry, 39 Elwell, Gordon R., 15 Emanuel, Anne, 20 English, Beth, 3 Eskew, Glenn T., 7 Essex, Jamey, 23 Ewell, Barbara C., 70 Ewell, Judith, 26 Farrisee, Anne H., 31 Faulkner, John, 80 Feiler, Andrew, 38 FerrĂŠ, Frederick, 50 Fichtelberg, Joseph, 61 Fields, Jeff, 77 Fields, Jeffrey R., 25 Fincke, Gary, 82 Finnell, Dennis, 86 Finney, Nikky, 89 Finseth, Ian Frederick, 69 Fisher, Lydia, 59 Fleischmann, Arnold, 21 Fletcher, Dean E., 51 Flippen, J. Brooks, 6 Folks, Jeffrey J., 68 Fraser Jr., Walter J., 18 Fredricks, Nancy, 66 Frezza, Daria, 7 Friedman, Jean E., 14 Furmansky, Dyana Z., 54 Gaillard, Frye, 22 Gallagher, Gary W., 14, 16 Gallman, J. Matthew, 16 Garrison, Philip, 42 Garvey, T. Gregory, 60, 62 Gemme, Paola, 3 Genoways, Ted, 84 Gentry, Caron E., 24, 26 Georgia Humanities Council, 18 Gerhard, Jane F., 57 Germany, Kent B., 8 Gianquitto, Tina, 59, 64 Gibbons, Whit, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55 Gifford, Terry, 68 Gilyard, Keith, 39 Gleach, Frederic W., 18 Glickfeld, Carole L., 83 Glotfelty, Cheryll, 59 Godden, Richard, 10 Goggin, Jacqueline, 6 Goldbarth, Albert, 44, 83 Goldfield, David, 12 Goodson, Steve, 6 Gordon, Sarah, 39, 63 Gorham, Sarah, 47 Gorman, Jacquelin, 83 Gotera, Vince, 89 Gournay, Isabelle, 30 Gragson, Ted L., 51 Graham, Toni, 82 Granger, Michel, 71 Graves, William, 2 Gray, Jeffrey, 88 Gray, Richard, 72 Green, Elna C., 1, 8, 13 Greene, Harlan, 68 Greene, Judy, 53 Greenspan, Ezra, 73 Griswold, John, 46 Grossinger, Harvey, 81 Grover, Linda LeGarde, 77 Gruesser, John Cullen, 60, 62 Gruning, Thomas R., 34 Gwin, Minrose, 11 Haberland, Michelle, 12 Hadden, Sally E., 21 Hallock, Thomas, 56

Hamby, Barbara, 90 Hamelman, Steven L., 34 Hammond, Lily Hardy, 28 Hanna III, Ralph, 74 Hanna, Ralph, 74 Hannon, Kent, 17 Hapke, Laura, 61 Hardy, Barbara, 73 Harris-Lopez, Trudier, 70 Harris, Corra, 77 Harris, Leslie M., 12 Harris, Marie, 86 Harrison, Brady, 58 Hart, Gillian, 29 Hartel, Peter, 50 Harvey, Paul, 8 Harvey, Steven, 33, 46 Hathaway, Terri Kirby, 53 Heffernan, Michael, 84 Heidari, Melissa Walker, 42 Hemley, Robin, 44 Hemmerly, Thomas E., 49, 53 Henderson, Harold Paulk, 40 Hendricks, Randy, 66 Herman, Luc, 64 Heusel, Barbara Stevens, 67 Hickey, Georgina, 6 Hiers, John T., 71 Hill, Carole E., 27 Hill, Jennifer A., 28 Hill, Samuel S., 9 Hillenbrand, Martin J., 24 Hinnant, Charles H., 73 Hobson, Fred, 70 Hodson, Sara S., 36 Hoffius, Stephen G., 13 Hoffman, Julian, 47 Hoffman, Roy, 77 Hoffmann, Nancy E., 56 Holland, James, 48 Holloway, Pippa, 9 Holmes, David L., 4 Holt, Sharon Ann, 8 Hood, Mary, 76, 79 Horner, Charles, 25 Howell, Jim, 52 Hu, Tung-Hui, 84 Hubbs, G. Ward, 16, 17 Hummer, T. R., 88 Humphries, Jefferson, 70 Hutchisson, James M., 61, 68 Ike, Albert F., 4 Ingram, Annie Merrill, 60 Inscoe, John C., 15, 16 Israel, Charles A., 37 Jackson, Bruce, 35 Jackson, Lawrence, 40 Jacobs, Thornwell, 79 Jakle, John A., 29, 31 Jeffrey, Thomas E., 12, 13 Jensen, John B., 49 Johnson, Frank M., 20 Johnson, Joan Marie, 38 Johnson, Rochelle L., 67, 70 Jones, Bernie D., 4 Jones, Gordon L., 15 Jones, Jeannette Eileen, 19 Justice, George, 31 Kadish, Doris Y., 27 Kallet, Marilyn, 47 Kanet, Roger E., 24 Kaplan, Hester, 78 Kartesz, John T., 55 Kaufman, David R., 53 Kaye, Andrew M., 40 Kealey, Tom, 83 Keber, Martha L., 12 Keenan, Hugh T., 41 Keiner, Christine, 53

Keith, Sally, 85 Kenner, Hugh, 64 Kenny, Gale L., 26 Kenzer, Robert C., 16 Keyes, Timothy S., 49 Keyser, Elizabeth Lennox, 65 Kilcup, Karen L., 63 Kilgo, James, 43, 44, 45, 78 Killens, John Oliver, 83 Kimmage, Ann, 41 Kinder, Kimberley, 29 Kinney, Arthur F., 75 Kirby, David, 48, 72, 90 Kirkland, Diane, 36 Klaus, Nathan A., 49 Klink, Joanna, 90 Kobre, Michael, 72 Kogan, Frank, 34 Kolb, David, 30 Kolodziej, Edward A., 24 Konter, Sherry, 36 Krauth, Leland, 66 Kravtsov, Vlad, 24 Krech III, Shepard, 18 Kreyling, Michael, 16 Kytle, Elizabeth, 41 Lam, Francis, 36 Lambert, Frank, 6 Lane, John, 43, 48, 55 Langley, Lester D., 22 LaSalle, Peter, 82 Lassiter, Luke Eric, 30 Lawler, Patrick, 85 Lawler, Traugott, 74 Leak, Jeffrey B., 72 Leathem, Karen Trahan, 1 Lefler, Lisa J., 18 Lehman, Kenneth D., 23 Leonard, Thomas M., 23 Lester, Connie L., 13 Levy, E. J., 80 Lewis, Clay, 43 Lieberman, Laurence, 89 Lin-Greenberg, Karin, 78 Linley, John, 31 Linton, Roger C., 14 Liu, Timothy, 88 Lockley, Timothy James, 7 Logsdon, Gene, 53 Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 59 Lopez, Barry, 80 Lorence, James J., 13 Lorenzo, Carol Lee, 80 Lowen, Cynthia, 84 Lynch, Tom, 59 Lynn, Catherine, 31 Macaulay, Alexander, 37 MacCormack, Geoffrey, 21 Machan, Tim William, 75 MacKethan, Lucinda H., 10 MacLeod, Anne Scott, 58 Madden, David, 68 Maddox, Donald, 75 Major, Clarence, 85, 86 Marcy Jr., Barton C., 51 Marshall, Ian, 60 Marten, James, 1 Martin, F. Douglas, 51 Martone, Michael, 44, 48 Marty, Martin E., 10 Mathis, Doyle, 37 Maunula, Marko, 5 May, Cedrick, 62 Mayberry, Susan Neal, 59 Mazel, David, 58, 59 McAndrews, Lawrence J., 14 McCarthy, Patrick A., 80 McCash, June Hall, 17 McClure, John A., 66 McDonald, Russ, 74

author index 97 McElmurray, Karen Salyer, 41, 82 McEuen, Melissa A., 8 McFadden, Kevin, 86 McFawn, Monica, 76 McGovern, Barbara, 73 McHugh, Heather, 86 McKenzie, Barbara, 35 McKinney, Joshua, 90 McMichael, Andrew, 1 McMurry, Andrew, 62 McNamee, Gregory, 33 McWilliams, Dean, 60 Meer, Sarah, 58 Meinke, Peter, 81 Menke, Pamela Glenn, 70 Merrifield, Andy, 29 Meyer, Douglas K., 31 Milam, Georgeanna, 36 Mills, Tony, 53 Miner, Margaret, 75 Minter, Patricia Hagler, 21 Miracle, Andrew W., 28 Mitcham, Judson, 81, 87 Mitchell, Don, 30 Mitchell, Joe, 54 Modlin, Charles E., 47 Moe, Karine, 28 Monroe, Debra, 46 Monteith, Sharon, 58 Montgomery, Michael, 61 Mooney, Edward F., 56 Moramarco, Fred, 89 Morgan, Philip, 1 Morgan, Stacy I., 68 Morley, Paul, 35 Morris, Kenneth E., 21 Mortimer, Gail L., 61 Mosdell, Nick, 29 Müller, Harald, 24 Murphy, Arthur D., 28 Myers, Jeffrey, 60 Neel, Leon, 49 Nelson, Claudia, 5 Nelson, E. Charles, 50 Nelson, Randy F., 79 Newington, Greg, 31 Newman, Frances, 79 Newman, Mark, 3 Nickson, Richard, 2 Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, 89 Norman, Brian, 66 Nourse, Carol, 51, 54, 56 Nourse, Hugh, 51, 54, 56 Novey, Idra, 86 O’Brien, Michael, 5 O’Connor, Larry, 48 O’Leary, Peter, 85 Ochsner, Gina, 80 Ogilvie-White, Tanya, 25 Oliver, Julia, 44 Olster, Stacey, 71 Oltman, Adele, 11 Oster, Judith, 90 Owen, Christopher H., 11 Paller, Michael H., 51 Panning, Anne, 82 Pascoe, Craig S., 1 Patterson, Daniel, 70 Patton, Randall L., 14 Pavlic, Ed, 91 Payne, James Robert, 87 Peloso, Vincent, 27 Penabad, Carie, 31 Perdue, Theda, 10 Pereira, Malin, 65 Peterkin, Julia, 76 Peterson, Dale, 47, 49 Pettit, Alexander, 71 Petty, Leslie, 69

Phelps, Wesley G., 9 Philippon, Daniel J., 60 Pickering, Sam, 45 Pierannunzi, Carol, 21 Plum, Sydney Landon, 47 Poteat, Joshua, 87 Potter, Angela, 42 Potter, Claire Bond, 3 Potter, Sarah, 4 Preston, Christopher J., 52 Price, Michael E., 70 Puckett, Martha Mizell, 38 Pugh, Tison, 72 Purpura, Lia, 45 Pybus, Cassandra, 19 Rabkin, Eric S., 63, 64, 69, 70 Ramsey Jr., Frederic, 33 Randall, Catharine, 19 Randall, Stephen J., 23 Rath, Sura P., 63 Rawlins, Paul, 81 Ray, Celeste, 30 Ray, Janisse, 44, 48 Reece, Byron Herbert, 79 Reese, Ty M., 41 Reesman, Jeanne Campbell, 36 Regis, Helen A., 27 Reichert, Marcel J. M., 51 Reid, Alastair, 91 Rekdal, Paisley, 84 Revell, Donald, 86 Reynolds, Larry J., 69 Rice, Alan J., 7 Richards, Samuel Pearce, 17 Ring, Natalie J., 10 Robbins, Karen E., 6 Roberts, Giselle, 15 Romano, Renee C., 3 Ronk, Martha Clare, 85 Roorbach, Bill, 76 Root, Nina J., 35 Rosenbaum, Art, 34 Ross, Stephen M., 63 Roth, Marty, 64 Rothberg, Morey, 6, 7 Rothenberg, David, 49 Rumsey, Tessa, 84 Rung, Margaret C., 12 Ruppersburg, Hugh, 75, 78, 86 Russell, John, 68 Russell, Sally, 41, 42 Rutherford, Janice Williams, 57 Ryan, Michael, 85 Sanders, Mark A., 58 Santoro, David, 25 Santos, Sherod, 89 Sater, William F., 23 Saunders, Gail, 26 Scales, Junius Irving, 2 Schmidt, James D., 5 Schneider, Todd M., 49 Schultz, Jeffrey, 91 Schweitzer, Glenn E., 23 Schweninger, Lee, 65 Scribner, Christopher MacGregor, 11 Scrimgeour, J. D., 47 Sculle, Keith A., 29 Seiler, Sonny, 17 SenGupta, Gunja, 16 Shade, Eric, 78 Shandy, Dianna, 28 Shaw, Jenny, 26 Shaw, Mary Neff, 63 Shearer, Cynthia, 77 Sheehy, Hugh, 79 Sheinin, David M. K., 22 Shepard, Paul, 55, 56 Sherr, Evelyn B., 53 Shoup, Barbara, 66 Shuler, Jay, 52

Silkey, Sarah L., 2 Sills, Vaughn, 36 Singer, Margot, 81 Sjoberg, Laura, 26 Sledge, John S., 32 Slusser, George, 63, 64 , 69, 70 Smith, Felipe, 58 Smith, Heather A., 2 Smith, Jon, 57 Smith, Lillian, 40 Smith, Mark M., 19 Smollett, Tobias, 73, 74, 75 Somers-Willett, Susan B. A., 89 Somerville, Wilson, 13 Sommers, Marc, 25 Specq, François, 71 Spencer, Darrell, 76 Stanonis, Anthony J., 4 Startup, Kenneth Moore, 11 Steadman, Mark, 80 Stonecipher, Donna, 89 Storey, John, 28 Storter, Rob, 32 Strain, Christopher B., 10 Strom, Claire, 8 Sturm-Maddox, Sara, 75 Suggs, David N., 28 Sullivan, Patricia, 5 Sutter, Paul S., 49 Sutton, Barbara, 82 Swanson, Drew A., 54 Sweeney, Kate, 56 Sweet, Julie Anne, 8 Sweeting, Adam W., 60 Swift, Edward, 46 Tallmadge, John, 50 Tate, Linda, 70 Taylor, Melanie Benson, 61 Taylor, Welford Dunaway, 47 Teal, John, 54 Teal, Mildred, 54 Tenenbaum, Barbara A., 27 Thomas, Frances Taliaferro, 18 Thompson, Rose, 34 Thompson, Sandra, 77 Thurmond, Gerald, 48 Tidwell, John Edgar, 66 Treadway, Jessica, 81 Trost, Jennifer, 20 Truitt, Sam, 90 Tuberville, Tracey, 55 Twiss, Sumner B., 11 Underhill, Linda, 48 Upton, Lee, 84 Vallone, Lynne, 5 Vann, David, 45 Vasconcellos, Colleen A., 27 Vásquez, Patricia I., 25 Vaughn, Stephen, 14 Vernon, Alex, 75 Vile, John R., 22 Vincent, John Emil, 87 Vinson, John Chalmers, 22 Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 86 Vossoughi, Siamak, 76 Waddell, Gene, 52 Waldner, Liz, 85 Waldron, Mary, 74 Walker, Margaret, 90 Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 3 Wallinger, Hanna, 40 Walls, Laura Dassow, 71 Walton, David, 78 Wang, Xi, 21 Warner, Sara, 50 Warnes, Andrew, 65 Warren, Joyce W., 59 Warren, Kenneth W., 65

98  author index Warren, Robert Penn, 12 Watkins, Charles Hubert, 41 Watkins, Floyd C., 41, 71 Watson, Alan, 20 Watson, Jay, 67 Way, Albert G., 49 Weaks, Mary Louise, 71 Webb, Clive, 5 Weber, Myles, 60 Webster, Kerri, 90 Weinraub, Anita Zaleski, 32 Weisenburger, Steven, 63, 64 Wells, Cheryl A., 15 Westfahl, Gary, 64, 69 Westling, Louise H., 64 Westling, Louise, 39

Weyler, Karen A., 62 White, Sharon, 48 White, Walter, 78 Whitehead, Fred, 54 Whiteley IV, George S., 36 Wiegand, Krista E., 24 Williams, Carmaletta M., 66 Williams, Daniel E., 7 Williams, David S., 5 Williams, David, 17 Williams, Philip Lee, 44, 78, 79, 83 Williams, Susan Millar, 13 Willson, John D., 52 Wilson, Jim, 50 Wilson, John F., 10 Wilson, Larman C., 24

Windham, Donald, 39 Wingard, John D., 27 Wohlpart, A. James, 55 Wood, Betty, 5, 14, 42 Wood, Marcus, 19 Woodrum, Robert H., 4 Wright, Laura, 72 Wunderlich, Carmen, 24 Zachter, Mort, 44 Zagajewski, Adam, 75 Zartman, I. William, 22 Zencey, Eric, 55 Zimmer, Paul, 84 Zolynas, Al, 89

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