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Goat Castle A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South KAREN L. COX The haunting tale of a Mississippi murder that captivated America In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the “Wild Man” and the “Goat Woman”—enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when it came to light that Dana and Dockery, the alleged murderers, shared their huge, decaying antebellum mansion with their goats and other livestock, which prompted journalists to call the estate “Goat Castle.” Pearls was killed by an Arkansas policeman in an unrelated incident before he could face trial. However, as was all too typical in the Jim Crow South, the white community demanded “justice,” and an innocent black woman named Emily Burns was ultimately sent to prison for the murder of Merrill. Dana and Dockery not only avoided punishment but also lived to profit from the notoriety of the murder. In telling this strange, fascinating story, Karen Cox highlights the larger ideas that made the tale so irresistible to the popular press and provides a unique lens through which to view the transformation of the plantation South into the fallen, gothic South.
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KAREN L. COX is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture.
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“Karen Cox masterfully demonstrates through a close look at the murder of Jennie Merrill how the sentimental rewriting of Civil War–era history did far more than engulf southern white culture in a romantic haze of ancestor worship; it was used as justification for racial segregation, lynching, and a legal system that routinely denied people of color justice under the law. This story will enrage readers while bringing tears to their eyes.”
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AMERICAN HISTORY
Chocolate City A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital CHRIS MYERS ASCH AND GEORGE DEREK MUSGROVE America's first majority-black city from slavery to gentrification Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city’s rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.’s massive transformations—from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation’s first black-majority city, from “Chocolate City” to “Latte City”—Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
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CHRIS MEYERS ASCH is editor of Washington History and teaches history at Colby
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GEORGE DEREK MUSGROVE is associate professor of history at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County.
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“Asch and Musgrove view the history of the District of Columbia from the eighteenth century to the present through the eyes of its African American residents. Each crisply written paragraph bursts with fascinating insights, and each page brings to life the people and social movements that made Washington a proper place to live and not just the seat of government of the United States. With a rare combination of interpretive substance and accessible style, Chocolate City will quickly take its place among the classic studies of the nation's capital.”
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Game of Privilege An African American History of Golf LANE DEMAS African Americans and golf, from caddies to Tiger Woods This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA)—a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975. Lane Demas charts how African Americans nationwide organized social campaigns, filed lawsuits, and went to jail in order to desegregate courses; he also provides little-known, dramatic stories of golfers who boldly confronted wider segregation more broadly in their local communities. As national civil rights organizations debated golf’s symbolism and whether or not to pursue the game’s integration, black players and caddies took matters into their own hands and helped shape its subculture, while UGA participants forged one of the most durable black sporting organizations in American history as they fought to join the white Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA). From George F. Grant’s invention of the golf tee in 1899 to the dominance of superstar Tiger Woods in the 1990s, this accessible and comprehensive work challenges stereotypes and indeed the fundamental story of race and golf in American culture.
September 2017
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LANE DEMAS is associate professor of history at Central Michigan University.
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“Demas takes his readers on a fascinating golf outing, along the way introducing his audience to a wide range of compelling stories that not only describe the history of African American participation in a game that, as his title states, has strong associations with white privilege in American society but also shows how those who fought to integrate golf courses engaged in actions that proved to be important to the civil rights movement.” —John Bloom, author of There You Have It
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Color and Character West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality PAMELA GRUNDY The story of one community's experience with segregation, desegregation, and resegregation At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality. West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations of the growing African American population of Charlotte, North Carolina. In the 1970s, when Charlotte began court-ordered busing, black and white families made West Charlotte the celebrated flagship of the most integrated major school system in the nation. But as the twentieth century neared its close and a new court order eliminated race-based busing, Charlotte schools resegregated along lines of class as well as race. West Charlotte became the city’s poorest, lowest-performing high school—a striking reminder of the people and places that Charlotte’s rapid growth had left behind. While dedicated teachers continue to educate children, the school’s challenges underscore the painful consequences of resegregation. Drawing on nearly two decades of interviews with students, educators, and alumni, Pamela Grundy uses the history of a community’s beloved school to tell a broader American story of education, community, democracy, and race—all while raising questions about present-day strategies for school reform. Historian, author, and activist PAMELA GRUNDY lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she pursues a variety of writing, teaching, and museum projects. Her previous books include the award-winning Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina.
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“In this remarkably moving book, Pamela Grundy uses vivid accounts from West Charlotte High students, teachers, parents, and community members as a sophisticated lens through which to understand major changes in national educational policy over the past fifty years.”
September 2017
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
The Three Graces of Val-Kill Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own EMILY HERRING WILSON The untold story of a pivotal time and place in Eleanor Roosevelt's life, and the friends who helped shape it The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women—the “three graces,” as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them—were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family, and for New York’s progressive women. Examining this network of close female friends gives readers a more comprehensive picture of the Roosevelts and Eleanor's burgeoning independence in the years that marked Franklin's rise to power in politics. Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities of the women's relationship, which blended the political with the personal. Val-Kill was not only home to Eleanor Roosevelt but also a crucial part of how she became one of the most admired American political figures of the twentieth century. In Wilson's telling, she emerges out of the shadows of monumental histories and documentaries as a woman in search of herself. EMILY HERRING WILSON resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is author
of No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence and coauthor of North Carolina Women: Making History.
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September 2017
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Runaway Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness ANTHONY CHANEY An intellectual odyssey from schizophrenia to climate crisis The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawaii studying dolphin intelligence. Bateson’s discipline hopping made established experts wary, but he found an audience open to his ideas in a generation of rebellious youth. To a gathering of counterculturalists and revolutionaries in 1967 London, Bateson was the first to warn of a “greenhouse effect” that could lead to runaway climate change. Blending intellectual biography with an ambitious reappraisal of the 1960s, Anthony Chaney uses Bateson’s life and work to explore the idea that a postmodern ecological consciousness is the true legacy of the decade. Surrounded by voices calling for liberation of all kinds, Bateson spoke of limitation and dependence. But he also offered an affirming new picture of human beings and their place in the world—as ecologies knit together in a fabric of meaning that Bateson said “we might as well call Mind.” ANTHONY CHANEY teaches history and writing at the University of North Texas
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“This is a fascinating and ambitious study dealing with the cultural history of a concept—Gregory Bateson's double bind—as it emerged and wove its way through twentieth-century thought. In the process of narrating this complex intellectual and cultural history, Chaney draws upon not only Bateson's archive but a host of literary and scientific sources, demonstrating the shared influences and overlap between bodies of thought that to my knowledge have never been explored so deeply or with as much skill.”
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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Religious Freedom The Contested History of an American Ideal TISA WENGER How a diverse array of Americans reinvented the freedom of religion Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse—Wenger calls it “religious freedom talk”—that cannot possibly be separated from the evolving politics of race and empire. More often than not, Wenger demonstrates, religious freedom talk worked to privilege the dominant white Christian population. At the same time, a diverse array of minority groups at home and colonized people abroad invoked and reinterpreted this ideal to defend themselves and their ways of life. In so doing they posed sharp challenges to the racial and religious exclusions of American life. People of almost every religious stripe have argued, debated, negotiated, and brought into being an ideal called American religious freedom, subtly transforming their own identities and traditions in the process. In a post-9/11 world, Wenger reflects, public attention to religious freedom and its implications is as consequential as it has ever been.
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TISA WENGER, associate professor of American religious history at Yale University,
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“Theoretically informed, brilliantly argued, clearly organized, carefully evidenced, beautifully written, and wonderfully textured, Religious Freedom is an important book. Exploring the triangulation of religion, race, and empire— and how they are mutually shaped—Tisa Wenger has advanced our understanding of the dilemma of religious freedom.”
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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta EARL J. HESS The definitive tactical history of a key battle in the Atlanta campaign On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman’s Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and elevating John Bell Hood. This decision stunned and demoralized Confederate troops just when Hood was compelled to take the offensive against the approaching Federals. Attacking northward from Atlanta’s defenses, Hood’s men struck George H. Thomas’s Army of the Cumberland just after it crossed Peach Tree Creek on July 20. Initially taken by surprise, the Federals fought back with spirit and nullified all the advantages the Confederates first enjoyed. As a result, the Federals achieved a remarkable defensive victory. Offering new and definitive interpretations of the battle’s place within the Atlanta campaign, Earl J. Hess describes how several Confederate regiments and brigades made a pretense of advancing but then stopped partway to the objective and took cover for the rest of the afternoon on July 20. Hess shows that morale played an unusually important role in determining the outcome at Peach Tree Creek—a soured mood among the Confederates and overwhelming confidence among the Federals spelled disaster for one side and victory for the other. Award-winning historian EARL J. HESS is author of many books on Civil War history, including Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy.
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“Earl Hess is one of our finest Civil War military historians, and he's done another masterful job in The Battle of Peach Tree Creek. Through impeccable scholarship, Hess not only clearly describes the battle's tactical history but also places the fight into the larger context of the Atlanta campaign and the Civil War.”
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
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Lincoln's Autocrat
Jack London
The Life of Edwin Stanton
A Writer's Fight for a Better America
WILLIAM MARVEL
CECELIA TICHI
A Civil War Monitor Best Book of 2015
Jack London as political and social activist
Rethinking Stanton and his place in American history
Jack London (1876–1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political advance of America. In this major reinterpretation of London’s career, Tichi examines how the beloved writer leveraged his written words as a force for the future.
Edwin M. Stanton (1814– 1869), one of the nineteenth century’s most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln’s secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton’s life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a formidable advocate and politician, his character was hardly benign. Climbing from a difficult youth to the pinnacle of power, Stanton used his authority—and the public coffers—to pursue political vendettas, and he exercised sweeping wartime powers with a cavalier disregard for civil liberties..
CECELIA TICHI is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and professor of American studies at Vanderbilt University. She is author of Civic Passions, Exposés and Excess, and Embodiment of a Nation.
“Strongly recommended for London devotees and for anyone with an interest in the evolution of social reforms in America.” —Library Journal
WILLIAM MARVEL's many books include A Place Called Appomattox, Andersonville: The Last Depot, Lincoln's Darkest Year, and Tarnished Victory.
“Tichi's reframing of London offers a significant rethinking of early twentieth-century America.” —American Historical Review
Civil War America
“The tremendous research, clarity, and Marvel's narrative style make [this book] a joy to read. . . . Should enjoy a unique longevity unparalleled by its predecessors.” —The Journal of America's Military Past
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CIVIL WAR / LITERATURE
Ham DAMON LEE FOWLER Pork, salt, and Damon Lee While the hindquarters of swine have been preserved in salt the world over for thousands of years, there are only a few places on earth where ham is as celebrated or integral to the cuisine as it is in the American South. To begin to understand the place that this iconic food holds in the hearts of southerners, Damon Lee Fowler writes, one has only to step into the historic smokehouse of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and take a deep breath. More than a century after the last hams were hung to smoke in that chamber, the aroma of salt, smoke, and air-dried pork still permeates the rough masonry walls and clay floor, filling the air with its earthy perfume. Even after centuries of culinary transformations throughout the South, that fragrance lingers in kitchens throughout the region. Ham’s 55 recipes bring home the love in just about every way—brine- or drycured, smoked or not, boiled, baked, glazed, honey-baked and spiral cut, thin-sliced and piled into biscuits and sandwiches, fried up with eggs, with grits, with redeye gravy, added for savor to soups, casseroles, poultry, seafood, and, yes, the vegetable pot. Fowler also includes recipes inspired by Chinese, French, Italian, and Spanish dishes, and provides a guide to basic terminology and cooking methods. DAMON LEE FOWLER is the author of nine cookbooks, including Essentials of Southern Cooking, Classical Southern Cooking, and Beans, Greens, & Sweet Georgia Peaches. He also is the editor and recipe developer of Dining at Monticello. He resides in Savannah, Georgia. Savor the South Cookbooks
“For the ham-handed beginner and the ham connoisseur alike, Ham finally gives this delicious meat its due. With his peppery style and friendly, knowledgeable tone, Damon Lee Fowler has made a great addition to the Savor the South cookbook collection—it is HIGH TIME for a book dedicated to this adored southern food.” —Martha Foose, author of Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
September 2017
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COOKBOOKS / COOKING / FOODWAYS
The Farmhouse Chef Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm JAMIE DEMENT Food photography by Felicia Perry Trujillo
Cook fresh and flavorful through the North Carolina seasons— wherever you live In this richly illustrated cookbook, Jamie DeMent opens a bright kitchen window onto the newest kind of North Carolina farming life. On fifty-five acres of beautiful Piedmont farmland in Hillsborough, North Carolina, DeMent and her family raise sustainably nurtured and sought-after heirloom varieties of produce and livestock. Every day on Coon Rock Farm, DeMent is in the kitchen serving robust, flavorful, satisfying meals for family, crew, and farm interns—and now you are invited to share the bounty. The Farmhouse Chef offers 150 recipes for every occasion, from down home to downright elegant, inspired by the farm’s yield through the four seasons. From fall’s Sage- and Sausage-Stuffed Acorn Squash to Pear and Bacon Salad, to summer’s Sugarcane Barbecue Chicken and Watermelon Mojitos, DeMent’s cooking style highlights no-nonsense approaches using great ingredients combined with easy preparations for supercharged flavor. Accompanying the recipes are DeMent’s deliciously observant stories that illuminate what life is really like on a working farm. A native North Carolinian who decided to commit her energies to the development of sustainable farming in her state, DeMent will inspire those of us who may not have a lot of time to cook, let alone farm, but who care about seasonal, healthfully grown food. JAMIE DEMENT farms and cooks on Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina. A well-known cooking teacher, she also owns, with her partner, Richard Holcomb, Piedmont Restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, and Bella Bean Organics.
“Jamie has a way of sweeping everyone within earshot into her sunny, spunky approach to life, agriculture, family, and food. The tantalizing array of recipes in The Farmhouse Chef—and the clear, gently encouraging way they are rendered—will attract readers and home cooks into her food world, one that is seasonal, sensual, and damn tasty! Her stories and recipes are so engaging, you won't even realize how much you're learning about southern food traditions along the way. Lookout, Pioneer Woman—the East Coast now has its own rural role model in Jamie DeMent!”
September 2017
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The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 MARTIN BRÜCKNER The creation of American cartographic literacy In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A “cartocoded” America—a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful—had to be created. The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 tracks American cartography’s spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Brückner’s comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how. MARTIN BRÜCKNER is a professor of English at the University of Delaware. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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“Zooming in and out, charting the careers of mapmakers, map users, and maps themselves, The Social Life of Maps in America sketches a stunning bird's-eye view of an important medium as well as an intimate geography of commercial society between the Revolution and the Civil War. In Martin Brückner's skillful hands, ephemeral cultural objects come alive again and help narrate a completely new history of cartography in early America.” —Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
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Children of Uncertain Fortune Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 DANIEL LIVESAY How mixed-race relatives became strangers By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters—the very people who decided Britain’s colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes—rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
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A Different Shade of Justice Asian American Civil Rights in the South STEPHANIE HINNERSHITZ The southern struggle for rights beyond black and white In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. Although they were not black, Asian Americans generally were not considered white and thus were subject to school segregation, antimiscegenation laws, and discriminatory business practices. As Asian Americans attempted to establish themselves in the South, they found that institutionalized racism thwarted their efforts time and again. However, this book tells the story of their resistance and documents how Asian American political actors and civil rights activists challenged existing definitions of rights and justice in the South. From the formation of Chinese and Japanese communities in the early twentieth century through Indian hotel owners’ battles against business discrimination in the 1980s and ’90s, Stephanie Hinnershitz shows how Asian Americans organized carefully constructed legal battles that often traveled to the state and federal supreme courts. Drawing from legislative and legal records as well as oral histories, memoirs, and newspapers, Hinnershitz describes a movement that ran alongside and at times intersected with the African American fight for justice, and she restores Asian Americans to the fraught legacy of civil rights in the South. STEPHANIE HINNERSHITZ is assistant professor of history at Cleveland State
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The Legend of the Black Mecca Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta MAURICE J. HOBSON From Maynard Jackson to Dirty South Hip-Hop For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname “the black Mecca.” Atlanta’s long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between white progressives, business interests, and black Atlantans. But as Maurice J. Hobson demonstrates, Atlanta’s political leadership—from the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first black mayor, through the city’s hosting of the 1996 Olympic Games—has consistently mishandled the black poor. Drawn from vivid primary sources and unnerving oral histories of working-class city-dwellers and hip-hop artists from Atlanta’s underbelly, Hobson argues that Atlanta’s political leadership has governed by bargaining with white business interests to the detriment of ordinary black Atlantans. In telling this history through the prism of the black New South and Atlanta politics, policy, and pop culture, Hobson portrays a striking schism between the black political elite and poor city-dwellers, complicating the long-held view of Atlanta as a mecca for black people. MAURICE J. HOBSON is assistant professor of African American studies and history at Georgia State University.
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The Promise of Patriarchy Women and the Nation of Islam ULA YVETTE TAYLOR Putting women at the center of the Nation of Islam The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women’s experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and selflove in Jim Crow America.
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Religion as Critique Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace IRFAN AHMAD Consequential critical thinking from within religious traditions Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam—indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad contemplates and interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to “others,” including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique. On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women’s equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.
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Knocking on Labor's Door Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide LANE WINDHAM The unfulfilled working-class promise of a pivotal decade The power of unions in workers’ lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s. In recent years, many have argued that the crisis took root when unions stopped reaching out to workers and workers turned away from unions. But here Lane Windham tells a different story. Highlighting the integral, oftenoverlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and southerners, Windham reveals how in the 1970s workers combined old working-class tools—like unions and labor law—with legislative gains from the civil and women’s rights movements to help shore up their prospects. Through close-up studies of workers’ campaigns in shipbuilding, textiles, retail, and service, Windham overturns widely held myths about labor’s decline, showing instead how employers united to manipulate weak labor law and quash a new wave of worker organizing. Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming opposition from bosses and corporations, Knocking on Labor’s Door dramatically refashions the narrative of labor and politics during a crucial decade and remaps the recent history of the American workplace. Windham’s story inspires both hope and indignation, and will become a must-read in labor, civil rights, and women’s history. LANE WINDHAM is a fellow with Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative
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Black Firefighters and the FDNY The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City DAVID GOLDBERG A century of courage under fire For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1914 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism. An important chapter in the histories of both Black social movements and independent workplace organizing, this book demonstrates how Black firefighters in New York helped to create affirmative action from the “bottom up,” while simultaneously revealing how white resistance to these efforts shaped white working-class conservatism and myths of American meritocracy. Full of colorful characters and rousing stories drawn from oral histories, discrimination suits, and the archives of the Vulcan Society (the fraternal society of Black firefighters in New York), this book sheds new light on the impact of Black firefighters in the fight for civil rights.
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Welcome to Fairyland Queer Miami before 1940 JULIO CAPÓ JR. The historical roots of today's queer Miami Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today’s Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capó Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami’s transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding through World War II, Capó shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capó unearths the forgotten history of “fairyland,” a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean—particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti—to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami’s old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capó makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.
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Raising Government Children A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State CATHERINE E. RYMPH The roots of our troubled foster care system In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of “welfare” that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents’ relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today’s child support networks. CATHERINE E. RYMPH is associate professor of history at the University of Missouri and also author of Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right. Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Fund of the University of North Carolina Press
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A Union Indivisible Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South MICHAEL D. ROBINSON A new political history of the secession crisis in the Border South Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region’s deep commitment to slavery, disputed whether or not to leave the Union, and schemed to win enough support to carry the day. Although these border states contained fewer enslaved people than the eleven states that seceded, white border Southerners chose to remain in the Union because they felt the decision best protected their peculiar institution. Robinson reveals anew how the choice for union was fraught with anguish and uncertainty, dividing families and producing years of bitter internecine violence. Letters, diaries, newspapers, and quantitative evidence illuminate how, in the absence of a compromise settlement, proslavery Unionists managed to defeat secession in the Border South.
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The Stormy Present Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865 ADAM I. P. SMITH A new history of conservatism in the Civil War North In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change. ADAM I. P. SMITH is senior lecturer in U.S. history at the University College of
London.
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Funding Feminism Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870–1967 JOAN MARIE JOHNSON Female philanthropists, wealth, power, and elitism in the early American women's movement Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women’s history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst; Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street “Merchant Prince” William Earle Dodge; and Ava Belmont, who married into the Vanderbilt family fortune. Motivated by their own experiences with sexism, and focusing on women’s need for economic independence, these benefactors sought to expand women’s access to higher education, promote suffrage, and champion reproductive rights, as well as to provide assistance to working-class women. In a time when women still wielded limited political power, philanthropy was perhaps the most potent tool they had. But even as these wealthy women exercised considerable influence, their activism had significant limits. As Johnson argues, restrictions tied to their giving engendered resentment and jeopardized efforts to establish coalitions across racial and class lines. As the struggle for full economic and political power and self-determination for women continues today, this history reveals how generous women helped shape the movement. And Johnson shows us that tensions over wealth and power that persist in the modern movement have deep historical roots. JOAN MARIE JOHNSON is a historian and faculty program coordinator for the
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Tales from the Haunted South
Making Freedom The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery
Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
R. J. M. BLACKETT
TIYA MILES
The work of self-emancipation
A new look at how we choose to remember slavery and the Civil War
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences of escaped slaves and those who aided them to explore the inner workings of the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, while shedding light on the political effects of slave escape in southern states, border states, and the North.
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of “ghost tours,” frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.
R. J. M. BLACKETT is Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and author of Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War, among other books. The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
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TIYA MILES is Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan. The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
“Imagery portrayed within each story . . . will keep readers on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the next sentence, waiting to hear how each narrative plays out.” —Choice
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Hard, Hard Religion Interracial Faith in the Poor South JOHN HAYES How faith crossed the color line among the poor In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South’s poor—both white and black—to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented religious forms of the New South, people caught in the region’s poverty crafted a distinct folk Christianity that spoke from the margins of capitalist development, giving voice to modern phenomena like alienation and disenchantment. Through haunting songs of death, mystical tales of conversion, grassroots sacramental displays, and an ethic of neighborliness, impoverished folk Christians looked for the sacred in their midst and affirmed the value of this life in this world. From Tom Watson and W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago to political commentators today, many have ruminated on how, despite material commonalities, the poor of the South have been perennially divided by racism. Through his excavation of a folk Christianity of the poor, which fused strands of African and European tradition into a new synthesis, John Hayes recovers a historically contingent moment of interracial exchange generated in hardship.
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Beyond the Crossroads The Devil and the Blues Tradition ADAM GUSSOW Getting beyond the clichés about Robert Johnson and the devil's music The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He’s not just the music’s namesake (“the devil’s music”), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these clichéd understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil’s presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson’s music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as “the crossroads” in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own. ADAM GUSSOW is associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi and author of Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir.
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“At once affable and frightening, the devil is forever partnered with the blues. Beyond the Crossroads is a beautifully written exploration of what Adam Gussow calls the blues most malleable, dynamic, and important personage. This is a work of exquisite detail.” —William Ferris, author of The South in Color
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The Place of Stone Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past DOUGLAS HUNTER Colonization and the many competing histories of an ancient artifact Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock’s markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The glyphs have been erroneously assigned to an array of non-Indigenous cultures: Norsemen, Egyptians, Lost Tribes of Israel, vanished Portuguese explorers, and even a prince from Atlantis. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal the long, complex history of colonization, American archaeology, and the conceptualization of Indigenous people. Hunter argues that misinterpretations of the rock’s markings share common motivations and have erased Indigenous people not only from their own history but from the landscape. He shows how Dighton Rock for centuries drove ideas about the original peopling of the Americas, including Bering Strait migration scenarios and the identity of the "Mound Builders." He argues the debates over Dighton Rock have served to answer two questions: Who belongs in America, and to whom does America belong? An award-winning journalist and historian, DOUGLAS HUNTER's previous books include Half Moon and God's Mercies. He lives in Port McNicoll, ON, Canada.
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NATIVE AMERICAN / INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation's Founding Documents KEITH RICHOTTE JR. How studying the “founding fathers” of one Indigenous nation explains tribal governance today In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands. Bruce, and the others, had been asked to adopt a tribal constitution, but he was unhappy with the document, as it limited tribal governmental authority. However, white authorities told the tribal nation that the proposed constitution was a necessary step in bringing a lawsuit against the federal government over a long-standing land dispute. Bruce’s choice, and the choice of his fellow citizens, has shaped tribal governance on the reservation ever since that fateful day. In this book, Keith Richotte Jr. offers a critical examination of one tribal nation’s decision to adopt a constitution. By asking why the citizens of Turtle Mountain voted to adopt the document despite perceived flaws, he confronts assumptions about how tribal constitutions came to be, reexamines the status of tribal governments in the present, and offers a fresh set of questions as we look to the future of governance in Native America and beyond.
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Remaking Black Power How Black Women Transformed an Era ASHLEY D. FARMER The intellectuals and activists who revolutionized the movement In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women’s political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that race and gender constraints relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created—the “Militant Black Domestic,” the “Revolutionary Black Woman,” and the “Third World Woman,” for instance—spurred debate among activists over the centrality of gender to Black Power ideologies, ultimately causing many of the era’s organizations and collectives to adopt a more radical critique of patriarchy. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women’s artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life. ASHLEY D. FARMER is assistant professor of history at Boston University. Justice, Power, and Politics Published with the assistance of the Authors Fund of the University of North Carolina Press
“This is one of the most sophisticated, nuanced, and analytically rigorous explorations of Black Power that I have had the pleasure to read. No other study on the subject is this substantively focused and theoretically sharp.” —Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut
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November 2017
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Ambivalent Embrace Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America RACHEL KRANSON Jewish authenticity in the land of plenty This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large numbers of Jews into the American middle class. Kranson reveals that many Jews were deeply concerned that their lives—affected by rapidly changing political pressures, gender roles, and religious practices—were becoming dangerously disconnected from authentic Jewish values. She uncovers how Jewish leaders delivered jeremiads that warned affluent Jews of hypocrisy and associated “good” Jews with poverty, even at times romanticizing life in America’s immigrant slums and Europe’s impoverished shtetls. Jewish leaders, while not trying to hinder economic development, thus cemented an ongoing identification with the Jewish heritage of poverty and marginality as a crucial element in an American Jewish ethos.
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Raza Sí, Migra No Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego JIMMY PATIÑO The making of a movement defying the Border Patrol and deportation As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego’s volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the small-scale print shop owner Herman Baca in the Chicano movement to empower Mexican Americans through Chicano self-determination. The combination of increasing repression and Chicano activism gradually produced a new conception of ethnic and racial community that included both established Mexican Americans and new Mexican immigrants. Here, Jimmy Patiño narrates the rise of this Chicano/Mexicano consciousness and the dawning awareness that Mexican Americans and Mexicans would have to work together to fight border enforcement policies that subjected Latinos of all statuses to legal violence. By placing the Chicano and Latino civil rights struggle on explicitly transnational terrain, Patiño fundamentally reorients the understanding of the Chicano movement. Ultimately, Patiño tells the story of how Chicano/Mexicano politics articulated an “abolitionist” position on immigration—going beyond the agreed upon assumptions shared by liberals and conservatives alike that deportations are inherent to any solutions to the still burgeoning immigration debate. JIMMY PATIÑO is assistant professor of Chicano and Latino studies at the University of Minnesota.
“This fine work of history exemplifies strong archival and oral historical research, clear writing, and sound argumentation about topics of pressing importance. Patiño provides a new foundation for future academic research, and his book will sharpen, frame, and animate conversations about the United States and Mexico in classrooms, living rooms, and think tanks in both countries.”
November 2017
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LATINO STUDIES
Radical Intellect Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s CHRISTOPHER M. TINSON The cutting edge of the African American left The rise of black radicalism in the 1960s was a result of both the successes and the failures of the civil rights movement. The movement’s victories were inspirational, but its failures to bring about structural political and economic change pushed many to look elsewhere for new strategies. During this era of intellectual ferment, the writers, editors, and activists behind the monthly magazine Liberator (1960–71) were essential contributors to the debate. In the first full-length history of the organization that produced the magazine, Christopher M. Tinson locates the Liberator as a touchstone of U.S.-based black radical thought and organizing in the 1960s. Combining radical journalism with on-the-ground activism, the magazine was dedicated to the dissemination of a range of cultural criticism aimed at spurring political activism, and became the publishing home to many notable radical intellectual-activists of the period, such as Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Harold Cruse, and Askia Touré. By mapping the history and intellectual trajectory of the Liberator and its thinkers, Tinson traces black intellectual history beyond black power and black nationalism into an internationalism that would shape radical thought for decades to come.
October 2017
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“An illuminating, nuanced, and beautifully written history that explores community-based print culture as a critical nexus for black radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s. This brilliant book brings into focus a world of political and cultural work that was local and transnational, Pan-African, black nationalist, feminist, and rooted in a tradition of labor radicalism. A core text for those studying histories of freedom struggle.” —Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution
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Cuban Revolution in America Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992 TEISHAN A. LATNER The Revolution on America's doorstep When a popular revolution prevailed on America’s doorstep in 1959, it provoked the wrath of the American political establishment but fueled intense interest within the multiracial American Left. In this groundbreaking book, historian Teishan Latner contends that as Americans studied Cuba’s achievements in universal education, health care, economic redistribution, and racial and gender equality and embraced Cuban revolutionary theory, Havana in turn looked to the U.S. Left as a collaborator in the global battle against inequality and imperialism and an ally in its Cold War struggle with Washington. By supporting black radical organizations such as the Black Panther Party, New Left groups such as the Venceremos Brigade, and the Cuban American students of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, as well as by granting political asylum to activists such as Assata Shakur, Cuba became a durable global influence on U.S. radicalism for the modern era. Drawing from extensive archival and oral history research and declassified FBI and CIA documents, this is the first multidecade examination of the encounter between the American Left and the Cuban revolution. By analyzing Cuba’s social, cultural, and political impact on U.S. radicalism, Latner contributes to a growing body of scholarship that has globalized the study of U.S. social movements and expands our understanding of the transnational history of the U.S. Left. TEISHAN A. LATNER is assistant professor of history at Philadelphia University.
December 2017
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AMERICAN HISTORY
Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil EVE E. BUCKLEY Brazilian scientists and engineers forced to the front lines of social reform Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, recurrent famine, and mass migrations. Buckley reveals how the physicians, engineers, agronomists, and mid-level technocrats working for federal agencies to combat drought were pressured by politicians to seek out a technological magic bullet that would both end poverty and obviate the need for land redistribution to redress long-standing injustices. Scientists planned and oversaw huge projects including dam construction, irrigation for small farmers, and public health initiatives. They were, Buckley shows, sincerely determined to solve the drought crisis and improve the lot of poor people in the sertão. Over time, however, they came to the frustrating realization that, despite technology’s tantalizing promise of an apolitical means to end poverty, political collisions among competing stakeholders were inevitable. Buckley’s revelations about technocratic hubris, the unexpected consequences of environmental engineering, and constraints on scientists as agents of social change resonate with today’s hopes that science and technology can solve society’s most pressing dilemmas, including climate change. EVE E. BUCKLEY is associate professor of history at the University of Delaware.
“Eve Buckley's innovative and eloquent book is a model study of how several generations of Brazilian experts sought, with only limited success, to solve a chronic problem of development. Buckley weaves a nuanced picture of how the problems of development in Brazil's Northeast were understood in different ways by the administrators in Rio de Janeiro, in the provincial capitals in the Northeast, and especially by the experts on the ground. The book also offers a vivid portrait of what ordinary Brazilians made of the development schemes supposedly designed for their benefit.”
September 2017
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Old and Sick in America The Journey through the Health Care System MURIEL R. GILLICK, M.D. Navigating the complexities of elder care in the United States Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience. A scholar who has practiced medicine for over thirty years, Gillick offers readers an informed and straightforward view of health care from the ground up, revealing that many crucial medical decisions are based not on what is best for the patient but rather on outside forces, sometimes to the detriment of patient health and quality of life. Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through accountability, cost-effectiveness, and culture change. MURIEL R. GILLICK, M.D., is a member of the Division of Aging at the Brigham
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The Virtues of Exit On Resistance and Quitting Politics JENNET KIRKPATRICK Putting nonparticipation at the center of political protest Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit—the act of leaving—is often thought of as purely instinctual, a part of the human “fight or flight” response, or, alternatively, motivated by an antiparticipatory, self-centered impulse. However, in this eye-opening book, Jennet Kirkpatrick argues that the concept of exit deserves closer scrutiny. She names and examines several examples of political withdrawal, from Thoreau decamping to Walden to slaves fleeing to the North during the Civil War. In doing so, Kirkpatrick not only explores what happens when people make the decision to remove themselves but also expands our understanding of exit as a political act, illustrating how political systems change in the aftermath of actual or threatened departure. Moreover, she reframes the decision to refuse to play along —whether as a fugitive slave, a dissident who is exiled but whose influence remains, or a government in exile—as one that shapes political discourse, historically and today.
November 2017
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Porous Borders Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands JULIAN LIM A social and legal history of immigration and race along the border With the railroad’s arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands, where diverse peoples crossed multiple boundaries in search of new economic opportunities and social relations. However, as these migrants came together in ways that blurred and confounded elite expectations of racial order, both the United States and Mexico resorted to increasingly exclusionary immigration policies in order to make the multiracial populations of the borderlands less visible within the body politic, and to remove them from the boundaries of national identity altogether. Using a variety of English- and Spanish-language primary sources from both sides of the border, Lim reveals how a borderlands region that has traditionally been defined by Mexican-Anglo relations was in fact shaped by a diverse population that came together dynamically through work and play, in the streets and in homes, through war and marriage, and in the very act of crossing the border.
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AMERICAN HISTORY
They Should Stay There The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression FERNANDO SAÚL ALANÍS ENCISO Translated by Russ Davidson, with a new foreword by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
Migration lessons from the 1930s Here, for the first time in English—and from the Mexican perspective—is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth century’s most massive movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico and the United States was in the twentieth century and continues to be in the twenty-first. When the Great Depression took hold, the United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and forced more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their U.S.-born children, to return to their home country. While the Mexican government was fearful of the resulting economic implications, President Lázaro Cárdenas fostered the repatriation effort for mostly symbolic reasons relating to domestic politics. In clarifying the repatriation episode through the larger history of Mexican domestic and foreign policy, Alanís connects the dots between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless political tumult surrounding today’s borderlands immigration issues. FERNANDO SAÚL ALANÍS ENCISO is professor of history at El Colegio de San Luis in Mexico. Russ Davidson is curator emeritus of Latin American and Iberian Collections and translator of many books. Mark Overmyer-Velázquez is associate professor of history at University of Connecticut. Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
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Race and the Making of the Mormon People MAX PERRY MUELLER Competing Mormon visions of race The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three “original” American races—red, black, and white—for Mormons and others in the early American Republic. Recovering the voices of a handful of black and Native American Mormons who resolutely wrote themselves into the Mormon archive, Mueller threads together historical experience and Mormon scriptural interpretations. He finds that the Book of Mormon is key to understanding how early followers reflected but also departed from antebellum conceptions of race as biblically and biologically predetermined. Mormon theology and policy both challenged and reaffirmed the essentialist nature of the racialized American experience. The Book of Mormon presented its believers with a radical worldview, proclaiming that all schisms within the human family were anathematic to God’s design. That said, church founders were not racial egalitarians. They promoted whiteness as an aspirational racial identity that nonwhites could achieve through conversion to Mormonism. Mueller also shows how, on a broader level, scripture and history may become mutually constituted. For the Mormons, that process shaped a religious movement in perpetual tension between its racialist and universalist impulses during an era before the concept of race was secularized.
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A Communion of Shadows Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America RACHEL MCBRIDE LINDSEY Vernacular photography and lived religion When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day’s parlance, a “mania.” This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical tool, photography captured many of the signal scenes of American life, from the gold rush to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. But photographs did not simply display neutral records of people, places, and things; rather, commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay beyond. Rachel McBride Lindsey demonstrates that what people beheld when they looked at a photograph had as much to do with what lay outside the frame—theological expectations, for example—as with what the camera had recorded. Whether studio portraits tucked into Bibles, postmortem portraits with locks of hair attached, “spirit” photography, stereographs of the Holy Land, or magic lanterns used in biblical instruction, photographs were curated, beheld, displayed, and valued as physical artifacts that functioned both as relics and as icons of religious practice. Lindsey’s interpretation of “vernacular” as an analytic introduces a way to consider anew the cultural, social, and material reach of religion.
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The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico STEPHANIE J. SMITH How politics mattered for artists and how art mattered for the state Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them professed Communists, sought free expression in matters both artistic and political, Smith reveals how they simultaneously learned the fine art of negotiation with the increasingly authoritarian government in order to secure clout and financial patronage. But the government, Smith shows, also had reason to accommodate artists, and a surprising and volatile interdependence grew between the artists and the politicians. Involving well-known artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as some less well known, including Tina Modotti, Leopoldo Méndez, and Aurora Reyes, politicians began to appropriate the artists’ nationalistic visual images as weapons in a national propaganda war. High-stakes negotiating and co-opting took place between the two camps as they sparred over the production of generally accepted notions and representations of the revolution’s legacy—and what it meant to be authentically Mexican.
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Medicalizing Blackness Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780–1840 RANA A. HOGARTH How being black became a medical condition In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, “There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever.” Lining’s comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.
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New Voyages to Carolina Reinterpreting North Carolina History EDITED BY LARRY E. TISE AND JEFFREY J. CROW Charting a new course for North Carolina history New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina’s history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state’s evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state’s past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of “progressive” politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state’s development. CONTRIBUTORS: Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina University Karl E. Campbell, Appalachian State University James C. Cobb, University of Georgia Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen Feeley, McDaniel College Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology Charles F. Irons, Elon University David Moore, Warren Wilson College Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University Richard D. Starnes, Western Carolina University Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University Karin Zipf,East Carolina University
LARRY E. TISE is former director of North Carolina's Division of Archives and History, distinguished history professor at East Carolina University, and private-practice historian. JEFFREY J. CROW is former director of North Carolina's Division of Archives and History and deputy secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
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North Carolina beyond the Connected Age The Tar Heel State in 2050 MICHAEL L. WALDEN Predicting the possibilities and challenges in the Old North State's future For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state’s people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the state more fully to the country and the world. But we are now moving beyond the connected age, argues Michael L. Walden, to a new era of living, production, and work, and North Carolina faces not only unanswered questions about the past but also new challenges and opportunities visible on the horizon. What will these new transformations mean for the state’s people, places, and prosperity? In this book, Walden lays out these looming economic issues and offers predictions of future trends as well as multiple policy options for taxation, infrastructure, and environmental issues. While the future cannot be perfectly predicted, Walden’s expert analysis is mandatory reading for policy makers, business leaders, and everyday people seeking to prepare for upcoming changes in North Carolina’s economy.
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MICHAEL L. WALDEN is the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University.
“Michael L. Walden offers a smart and eminently readable primer to the economic challenges and opportunities North Carolina will face over the next two generations. Replete with fresh ideas and insights, North Carolina beyond the Connected Age will make navigating the state's economic future a little less frightening.” —Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The F Street Mess How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act ALICE ELIZABETH MALAVASIC Senators who live together, conspire together Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery. Malavasic focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the “F Street Mess” for the location of the house they shared. Unlike the earlier and better-known triumvirate of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster, the F Street Mess was a functioning oligarchy within the U.S. Senate whose power was based on shared ideology, institutional seniority, and personal friendship. By centering on their most significant achievement—forcing a rewrite of the Nebraska bill that repealed the restriction against slavery above the 36° 30’ parallel—Malavasic demonstrates how the F Street Mess’s mastery of the legislative process led to one of most destructive pieces of legislation in United States history and helped pave the way to secession.
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This Grand Experiment When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. JESSICA ZIPARO How women asserted themselves as workers in the nation's capital In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain well-paid, intellectually challenging work in a country and time that typically excluded females from such channels of labor. Thousands of female applicants from across the country flooded Washington with applications. Here, Jessica Ziparo traces the struggles and triumphs of early female federal employees, who were caught between traditional, cultural notions of female dependence and an evolving movement of female autonomy in a new economic reality. In doing so, Ziparo demonstrates how these women challenged societal gender norms, carved out a place for independent women in the streets of Washington, and sometimes clashed with the female suffrage movement. Examining the advent of female federal employment, Ziparo finds a lost opportunity for wage equality in the federal government and shows how despite discrimination, prejudice, and harassment, women persisted, succeeding in making their presence in the federal workforce permanent. JESSICA ZIPARO is assistant professor of history at Salem State University. She lives
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“This Grand Experiment offers a fresh look at Civil War Washington by examining the experience of the thousands of women who flocked to federal agencies to help administer the war. Although female federal employees endured salacious rumors and generally were ‘underpaid, underutilized, and underappreciated,’ Jessica Ziparo shows how their struggles both challenged and reinforced contemporary notions of female inferiority. With careful research and thoughtful analysis, Ziparo tells a compelling story of a remarkable group of women who helped America fight the Civil War and rebuild the nation afterward.”
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Winning Our Freedoms Together African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960 NICHOLAS GRANT The intertwined stories of anti-racist activism in South Africa and the United States In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that U.S.-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism. Instead, by tracing the considerable amount of time, money, and effort the state invested into responding to black international criticism, Grant outlines the extent to which the U.S. and South African governments were forced to reshape and occasionally reconsider their racial policies in the Cold War world. This study shows how African Americans and black South Africans navigated transnationally organized state repression in ways that challenged white supremacy on both sides of the Atlantic. The political and cultural ties that they forged during the 1940s and 1950s are testament to the insistence of black activists in both countries that the struggle against apartheid and Jim Crow were intimately interconnected.
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Searching for Subversives The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America MARY ELIZABETH BASILE CHOPAS The first social profile of Italian civilian internees When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions. Several thousand aliens and a few U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings, and hundreds were interned. Shedding new light on an injustice often overshadowed by the mass confinement of Japanese Americans, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas traces how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies affecting Italian residents. Based on new archival research into the alien enemy hearings, this in-depth legal analysis illuminates a process not widely understood. From presumptive guilt in the arrest and internment based on membership in social and political organizations, to hurdles in attaining American citizenship, Chopas uncovers many layers of repression not heretofore revealed in scholarship about the World War II home front. In telling the stories of former internees and persons excluded from military zones as they attempted to resume their lives after the war, Chopas demonstrates the lasting social and cultural effects of government policies on the Italian American community, and addresses the modern problem of identifying threats in a largely loyal and peaceful population.
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Jah Kingdom Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization MONIQUE A. BEDASSE How Rastafarians made the dream of repatriation to Africa a reality From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari’s international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari’s enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism. Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network—including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James—revealing Rastafari’s entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.
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“Monique Bedasse has done an amazing thing: she has taken what is presumed to be primarily a cultural phenomenon and shown its real-world, trans-spatial dimensions. Beautifully and movingly written, this is a refreshingly candid appraisal of the relationship between Jamaica and Tanzania through Rastafarian ideology, and the ways in which diasporic and continental African actors come together in a context of anticolonial struggle.” —Michael A. Gomez, New York University
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Archives of Dispossession Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960 KAREN R. ROYBAL Women's testimonios and the foundation of Chicanx history and literature One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of dispossession on women, arguing that gender, sometimes more than race, dictated legal concepts of property ownership and individual autonomy. Drawing on a diverse source base—legal land records, personal letters, and literature—Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal’s analysis are these women’s testimonios—their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power. Roybal positions these testimonios as an alternate archive that illustrates the myriad ways in which multiple layers of dispossession—and the changes of property ownership in Mexican law—affected the formation of Mexicana identity.
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American Tropics The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science MEGAN RABY How scientists discovered tropical biodiversity Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the SpanishAmerican War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire. MEGAN RABY is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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“The first book to situate the rise of the scientific concept of biodiversity within its larger circum-Caribbean context, American Tropics is a sophisticated and compelling journey through the research practices at field stations outside the U.S. mainland in Cuba, Jamaica, Guyana, and Panama. Using these stations as launching points, Raby skillfully shows the strategic and serendipitous ways these encounters mapped onto political and economic imperial pursuits. Such insights will echo through our understandings of tropical life as a resource for generations to come.” —Emily Wakild, author of Revolutionary Parks
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The Herds Shot Round the World Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900 REBECCA J. H. WOODS How British livestock conquered the world As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock “native,” Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.
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“Combining careful exposition with lively anecdotes, Woods has given us a fascinating and sustained discussion of the ideas surrounding livestock breeding as herds and flocks proliferated around the British Empire and became the base for major settler enterprises. Her approach is instructive for understanding imperial networks and their implications for today's globalized world.” —William Beinart, University of Oxford
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History Comes Alive Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s M. J. RYMSZA-PAWLOWSKA A new feeling for history in the 1970s During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and participated in living history events across the nation. While many of these activities were sparked by the Bicentennial, M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska shows that, in fact, they were symptomatic of a fundamental shift in Americans’ relationship to history during the 1960s and 1970s. For the majority of the twentieth century, Americans thought of the past as foundational to, but separate from, the present, and they learned and thought about history in informational terms. But RymszaPawlowska argues that the popular culture of the 1970s reflected an emerging desire to engage and enact the past on a more emotional level: to consider the feelings and motivations of historic individuals and, most importantly, to use this in reevaluating both the past and the present. This thought-provoking book charts the era’s shifting feeling for history, and explores how it serves as a foundation for the experience and practice of history making today.
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“History Comes Alive is an original and thought-provoking exploration of popular historical consciousness in 1970s America. Through deft readings of TV mini-series, reenactments, museum exhibits, and multimedia installations, Rymsza-Pawlowska shows powerfully how Americans embraced a new relationship with the past.” —Benjamin Filene, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Consuming Japan Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America ANDREW C. MCKEVITT A history of America's fascination with—and fear of—Japanese consumer goods in the 1980s This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan’s remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan’s globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the “yellow peril,” and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.
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Virtus Romana Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians CATALINA BALMACEDA How Roman historians constructed politics and society The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era’s historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of selfdefinition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
November 2017
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CATALINA BALMACEDA is associate professor of ancient history at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
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“Clearly written and effectively presented, Virtus Romana stands out among other studies of virtus. By tracing the concept through the context of historiographical narratives, this book will be useful to scholars in multiple fields.” —Christina Kraus, Yale University
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ANCIENT HISTORY
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The New York Intellectuals
Common Sense and a Little Fire Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900–1965
The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s
ANNELISE ORLECK
ALAN M. WALD
Second Edition
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
With a new preface by the author
With a new preface by the author
The definitive history of women and the early labor movement
The classic literary history is back For a generation, Alan M. Wald’s The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His commanding biographical portraits of rebel outsiders who mostly became insiders retains its resonance today and includes commentary on Max Eastman, Elliot Cohen, Lionel Trilling, Sidney Hook, Tess Slesinger, Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Hannah Arendt, and more. With a new preface by the author that tracks the rebounding influence of these intellectuals in the era of Occupy and Bernie Sanders, this anniversary edition shows that the trajectory and ideological ordeals of the New York intellectual Left still matters today.
Twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck’s Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women’s history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Pauline Newman played important roles in the emergence of organized labor, the New Deal welfare state, adult education, and the modern women’s movement. Featuring a new preface by the author, this new edition reasserts itself as a pivotal text in twentieth-century labor history. ANNELISE ORLECK is professor of history at Dartmouth
ALAN M. WALD is Emeritus H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
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Gender and American Culture
“Wald's grasp of the ideological twists and turns of his protagonists is first-rate. . . . His story has an epic sweep.” —The Village Voice
“A major contribution to twentieth-century labor history. . . . Orleck's book is rich in detail and comprehensive in analysis.” —Reviews in American History
October 2017
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Approx. 416 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 41 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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AMERICAN HISTORY / AMERICAN STUDIES
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Abortion after Roe
Liberated Threads
JOHANNA SCHOEN
Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
The turbulent history of abortion in the past four decades
TANISHA C. FORD 2016 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians
Abortion is—and always has been—an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodies. In the four decades that followed, however, abortion became ever more politicized and stigmatized. Abortion after Roe chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing political environment have meant for abortion providers and their patients.
The everyday act of dressing becomes a political act From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using stiletto heels as weapons to protect against police attacks or incorporating Africanthemed designs into everyday wear, these fashion-forward women celebrated their identities and pushed for equality. In this thought-provoking book, Tanisha C. Ford explores how and why black women in places as far-flung as New York City, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg incorporated style and beauty culture into their activism.
JOHANNA SCHOEN is professor of history at Rutgers University and author of Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. Studies in Social Medicine
“Spells out the necessity and moral good of providing abortion care.” —Ms. Magazine
TANISHA C. FORD is associate professor of Black American studies and history at the University of Delaware.
“A clear-eyed history . . . well written and historically rich: a deeply interesting account of the post-Roe era focused on the lived experience of giving and getting reproductive health services.” —Women's Review of Books
Gender and American Culture
“The moving testimonies Ford presents of the black women who lived through soul style's heyday are proof that activist scholarship motivated by personal experience provides powerful contributions to the field of history.” —Journal of Southern History
August 2017
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352 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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272 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 26 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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AMERICAN HISTORY / AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
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Cattle Colonialism
Native American Whalemen and the World
An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
JOHN RYAN FISCHER
NANCY SHOEMAKER
The origins of the cattle market in the California and Hawai'i colonies
A groundbreaking look at Native American whalemen in New England
Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai′i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the transpacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world’s oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of “Indian” was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.
JOHN RYAN FISCHER is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
NANCY SHOEMAKER is professor of history at the University
of Connecticut.
“Aficionados of western history will be drawn to Fischer's stories of indigenous cowboys as well as his discussion of the hide and tallow trade.” —Western Historical Quarterly
“[An] outstanding and wide-ranging work that should offer a lot to geographers interested in how cultural encounters and the contingencies of race played out in one of the world's first truly globalized and mobile industries.” —Journal of Historical Geography
“Cattle Colonialism will certainly influence the next generation of scholars interested in more carefully delineating the intersection of ecological forces and local human actions, both of which shape our increasingly globalized history. As Fischer argues, it is not an ‘either/or’ narrative. Rather, the best environmental histories are ‘both.’ This is one of them.” —American Historical Review
“Immeasurably improve[s] our knowledge of Native American whalers, their lives, and their work. No doubt [this book] will become [a] historical classic.” —Journal of Pacific History
August 2017
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320 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
280 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 halftones, 1 table, notes, bibl., index
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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
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Hotel Life
Southern Water, Southern Power
The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen
How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
CAROLINE FIELD LEVANDER AND MATTHEW PRATT GUTERL
CHRISTOPHER J. MANGANIELLO Rachel Carson Prize, American Society for Environmental History
Much more than just a place to lay our heads
2015 GHRAC Award for Excellence, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council
What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are. They are, in fact, as centrally important as other powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities. Guiding readers through the story of hotels as places of troublesome possibility, as mazelike physical buildings, as inspirational touchstones for art and literature, and as unsettling, even disturbing, backdrops for the drama of everyday life, Levander and Guterl ensure that we will never think about this seemingly ordinary place in the same way again. CAROLINE FIELD LEVANDER is the Carlson Professor in the Humanities and professor of English at Rice University. MATTHEW PRATT GUTERL is professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University.
“A clever take on hotel life . . . the book presents hotels as powerful social institutions, not unlike universities, hospitals and even prisons, that embrace all walks of life and offer insights into who and what we are.” —Overnight New York
The water wars of the South Why has the American South—a place with abundant rainfall—become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling that has tormented the arid American West? To answer these questions, policy expert and historian Christopher J. Manganiello moves beyond the well-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water. CHRISTOPHER J. MANGANIELLO is an environmental historian and the water policy director at Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.
“A fascinating and well-wrought examination of the relationship between water resources and electricity, drought, state versus private control of water, and even race. . . . Well worth your time.” —AAG Review of Books
August 2017
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August 2017
320 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 5 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index
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224 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 31 halftones, notes, index
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AMERICAN STUDIES / ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
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Selling Empire
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600–1830
MARK G. HANNA
JONATHAN EACOTT
2016 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Consumer goods connected India, Britain, and America
Honorable Mention, 2015 John Lyman Book Award, North American Society for Oceanic History
Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India—as both an idea and a place—to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India’s strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain’s circulation of Indian manufactured goods—from umbrellas to cottons—to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire.
2016 John Ben Snow Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Pirates built the British Empire Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England’s burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns.
JONATHAN EACOTT is associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.
MARK G. HANNA is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Not for sale in South Asia
“Hanna's well-argued and exhaustively researched book will stand as the critical work on early modern British piracy for some time, but it is also essential reading for anyone interested in the development of the empire.” —William and Mary Quarterly
“Selling Empire will come to stand as one of the most articulate arguments about the integrated nature of Britain's global empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” —Tillman Nechtman, Skidmore College
April 2017
April 2017
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464 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 halftones, 6 maps, notes, index
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472 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 25 halftones, 7 figs., notes, index
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Adventurism and Empire
Redemption
The Struggle for Mastery in the LouisianaFlorida Borderlands, 1762–1803
Carolina Basketball's 2017 Journey from Heartbreak to History
DAVID NARRETT
ADAM LUCAS, STEVE KIRSCHNER, AND MATT BOWERS
Roving adventurists help steer the rise of American colonial power
This is the story of a national championship that was a year in the making. Redemption: Carolina Basketball’s Journey from Heartbreak to History is a behind-the-scenes look at the Tar Heels’ ride to the 2017 national title. Featuring some never before published, exclusive photographs that will take readers from the practice court to the team bus to the locker room, this book is the most complete chronicle of a UNC national championship ever made available. In addition to the full-color images, the book also includes interviews with the players and coaches that can only be found here, a foreword from head coach Roy Williams, and all-new stories from Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers, who accompanied the team every step of the way. Much more than a story of Carolina’s 33 victories, Redemption describes the complete journey of one of Carolina’s most unique championships, from heartbreak in Houston to the storybook finish in Phoenix.
Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades—from the close of the Seven Years War through the Louisiana Purchase— Narrett sheds new light on individual colonial adventurers and schemers who shaped history through cross-border trade, settlement projects involving slave and free labor, and military incursions into Spanish and Indian territories. DAVID NARRETT is professor of history at the University of
Texas at Arlington.
Sponsored by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
“Well researched, clearly argued, crisply written, and, in addition, entertaining.” —American Historical Review
ADAM LUCAS is a featured columnist at GoHeels.com, the official website of Carolina Athletics, and the author of Carolina Basketball: A Century of Excellence. STEVE KIRSCHNER is senior associate athletic director for communications at the University of North Carolina. MATT BOWERS is associate director of athletic communications at UNC.
“[A] thoughtful and meticulous book. . . . Required reading for scholars of eighteenth-century North American history.” —Journal of American History
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August 2017
October 2017
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392 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY / NORTH CAROLINA
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Dream of a House
Reynolda
The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price
Her Muses, Her Stories DAVID PARK CURRY AND MARTHA R. SEVERNS
EDITED BY ALEX HARRIS AND MARGARET SARTOR
With a foreword by Allison Perkins
Reynolds Price (1933–2011) was one of America’s most notable writers of the past half-century. Confined to a wheelchair for the last twenty-four years of his life, Price surrounded himself with art and objects that he loved. His eclectic and expansive collection— from the etchings of Picasso to photographs of James Dean, from Greek sculpture to religious icons, from busts of his literary heroes to African masks—created a salon like refuge in which every wall, bookshelf, and piece of furniture signaled some aspect of his essential self. After Price died, Alex Harris was asked by the family and Duke University to document the house before it was sold. In this creative work, carefully selected excerpts are interwoven with exquisite, meticulous photographs. As we turn each page, it is as if Price himself is taking us on a guided tour of his home. This is a remarkable book and a surprising tribute to an uncommonly gifted writer.
Reynolda is your invitation to explore Reynolda House Museum of American Art, North Carolina’s nationally acclaimed art museum showcasing paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts in the restored 1917 home of tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds and his wife, Katharine. Their sixty-four-room bungalow sits at the center of an estate that beckons thousands of visitors each year to its formal gardens, meadows, woodlands, shops, and restaurants. David Park Curry has captured the essence of Reynolda House through a lavishly illustrated essay that blends Reynolda’s fifty years as a beloved family home with her second life as a museum of American art. Using the lenses of time, landscape, home, social context, history, and memory, Curry connects you to the remarkable place called Reynolda. Highlighting the fascinating—and often surprising—stories of the myriad ways signature works of art came into this stellar collection, Martha R. Severns offers insights about the artists, writers, donors, and, most importantly, the museum’s founder, Barbara Babcock Millhouse.
ALEX HARRIS, a photographer and writer, is Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Documentary Studies at Duke University. MARGARET SARTOR is a writer, photographer, and editor who teaches at Duke University.
DAVID PARK CURRY is the former senior curator of Decorative Arts, American Painting & Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art. MARTHA R. SEVERNS has served as curator at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; and the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina.
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“A gorgeous, fascinating, and inspiring look into the life, mind, and heart of beloved writer Reynolds Price.” —Lee Smith
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August 2017
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PHOTOGRAPHY / FINE ARTS
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Twenty-Five Short Plays
We Who Believe in Freedom
Selected Works from the University of North Carolina Long Story Shorts Festival, 2011–2015
The Life and Times of Ella Baker
EDITED BY DANA COEN
The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and high school readers. Ella Baker, who grew up in Littleton, North Carolina, is best remembered for the role she played in facilitating in April 1960 the organizational meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University, her alma mater. With passion and clear understanding, Lea E. Williams outlines the life that brought Baker to this crucial point in U.S. history.
LEA E. WILLIAMS
In the fall of 2011, The Long Story Shorts One Act Festival was launched featuring performances of short plays written by undergraduate students in the Writing for the Screen and Stage minor, an interdisciplinary, dramatic writing program housed in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marking the first five years of the festival, this anthology showcases works written to be performed in ten minutes with a small production budget. The festival gives students a unique opportunity to participate in a collaborative, developmental environment led by experienced faculty and professional actors and directors, and the plays included here rise to the occasion. Whether they are humorous, poignant, surreal, or provocative, they demonstrate why the short play form has become so popular, why this event has become one the highlights of the university’s cultural scene, and why the Writing for the Screen and Stage program has thrived.
LEA E. WILLIAMS is an independent scholar in Greensboro and former administrator at Bennett College and North Carolina A&T State University, teaches English at Guilford Technical Community College. Williams is the author of Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership (1996) in which she profiles eight leaders in the civil rights movement. Distributed for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History
October 2017
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Approx. 114 pp., 5.25 x 8, 15 color plates, 20 halftones, index
DANA COEN is the creator/producer of Long Story Shorts One
Act Festival and the director of the Writing for the Screen and Stage program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing for the Screen and Stage Program
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PERFORMING ARTS / YOUNG ADULT
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A Time to Serve
Grand Illusions
Bertie County during World War I
Painted Interiors and North Carolina Architecture
GERALD W. THOMAS
LAURA A. W. PHILLIPS
In a remarkable feat, Gerald W. Thomas completes his study of Bertie County and the impact upon its people of successive wars with this volume on the northeastern North Carolina county during World War I. Its publication timed to coincide with the war’s centennial, this localized study depicts a mostly rural county confronted with a challenge not of its making but one to which citizens responded with resourcefulness and patriotic fervor.
With Grand Illusions, Laura Phillips brings to readers her findings after decades of study of decorative interior painting. The chief focus is on the walls of North Carolina residences in the nineteenth century with nods to examples in nonresidential and out-of-state structures. Types studied include wood-grained painting; marbled, stone-blocked; and smoked painting; stenciled painting; and trompe-l’oeil and scenic paintings. The volume includes an extended essay on the topic accompanied by a photographic catalog of the properties and examples.
GERALD W. THOMAS, a native of Bertie County, is a former congressional auditor and retired federal executive. He is the author of Divided Allegiances: Bertie County during the Civil War (1996), Destitute Patriots: Bertie County in the War of 1812 (2012), and Rebels and King's Men: Bertie County in the Revolutionary War (2013).
LAURA A. W. PHILLIPS, architectural historian in WinstonSalem, is the author of Legacy of Faith: Rural Methodist Churches in North Carolina (2010), Transylvania: The Architectural History of a Mountain County (1998), and Simple Treasures: The Architectural Legacy of Surry County (1987), as well as local studies of architecture in Hickory, Reidsville, and Cashiers.
Distributed for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History
October 2017
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Approx. 232 pp., 6 x 9, 27 halftones, 10 tables
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November 2017
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NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY / ARCHITECTURE
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This Day in North Carolina History
Civil War Witness
ANSLEY HERRING WEGNER WITH JEFF MILES
MICHAEL T. SOUTHERN
Matching up history with the calendar, Ansley Wegner shares with readers a dayby-day chronicle highlighting topics of importance to North Carolina history, from sensational crimes to top-selling records to homegrown businesses. This keepsake illustrated volume, fun and informative for all ages, had its genesis as a blog, issued daily for four years on the web and on broadcast outlets.
In a creative, placebased approach to telling the story of the Civil War, architectural historian Michael Southern surveys the historic fabric of North Carolina and identifies those extant structures that were in place during the period 1861–1865 whose stories contribute to our understanding of the war. Lavishly illustrated with newly commissioned photographs and historic images, the book is a musthave for students of the war as well as readers with an interest in architectural history.
North Carolina Places Then and Now
ANSLEY HERRING WEGNER, a native of Wilson, has worked in the North Carolina Office of Archives and History since 1994 and has been the administrator of the Highway Historical Marker Program since 2014. She is the author of History for All the People: One Hundred Years of Public History in North Carolina (2003) and Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans (2004).
MICHAEL T. SOUTHERN is senior architectural historian with the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, where he has been employed since 1974. He is the coauthor of the threevolume series A Guide to the Historic Architecture of North Carolina. Distributed for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History
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November 2017
November 2017
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Approx. 200 pp., 12 x 9, index, 375 color and halftones photos
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Mujeres en tránsito
Fashioned Texts and Painted Books
Viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830–1910)
Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry
VANESA MISERES
ERIN E. EDGINGTON
Mujeres en tránsito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803–1844), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1819–1892), Eduarda Mansilla (1838–1892), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852–1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations. Mujeres en tránsito revises the limited consideration that women’s travelogues have received within the Latin American literary tradition. It demonstrates how women’s commentaries on their own and other nations speak to their own engagement in the project of modern citizenship. More importantly, the act of traveling often helps female authors challenge the strictly political, legal, and geographic conceptions of nationhood and national identity articulated in canonical texts.
Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan’s multiple roles in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan’s identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the preservation of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan’s suitability as a substrate for verse, deriving from its myriad associations with coquetry and sex, flight, air, and breath. Close readings of Stéphane Mallarmé’s éventails of the 1880s and 1890s and Paul Claudel’s Cent phrases pour éventails (1927) consider both text and paratext as they underscore the significant visual interest of this poetry. Works in prose and in verse by Octave Uzanne, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, along with fan leaves by Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Paul Gauguin, serve as points of comparison that deepen our understanding of the complex interplay of text and image that characterizes this occasional subgenre.
VANESA MISERES is assistant professor of Latin American lit-
Michigan.
ERIN E. EDGINGTON is lecturer at the University of
erature at the University of Notre Dame.
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
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Abortion after Roe Adventurism and Empire Ahmad, Irfan Alanís Enciso, Fernando Saúl, Russ Davidson, and Mark Overmyer-Velazquez Ambivalent Embrace American Tropics Archives of Dispossession Asch, Chris Myers, and George Derek Musgrove Balmaceda, Catalina Battle of Peach Tree Creek, The Bedasse, Monique A. Beyond the Crossroads Black Firefighters and the FDNY Blackett, R. J. M. Brückner, Martin Buckley, Eve Capó Jr., Julio Cattle Colonialism Chaney, Anthony Children of Uncertain Fortune Chocolate City Chopas, Mary Elizabeth Basile Civil War Witness Claiming Turtle Mountain's Constitution Coen, Dana Color and Character Common Sense and a Little Fire Communion of Shadows, A Consuming Japan Cox, Karen L. Cuban Revolution in America Curry, David Park, Martha R. Severns, and Allison Perkins Demas, Lane DeMent, Jamie Different Shade of Justice, A Dream of a House Eacott, Jonathan Edgington, Erin F Street Mess, The Farmer, Ashley D. Farmhouse Chef, The Fashioned Texts and Painted Books Fischer, John Ryan Ford, Tanisha C. Fowler, Damon Lee Funding Feminism Game of Privilege Gillick M.D., Muriel R. Goat Castle Goldberg, David Grand Illusions Grant, Nicholas Grundy, Pamela Gussow, Adam Ham
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Hanna, Mark G. Hard, Hard Religion Hayes, John Herds Shot Round the World, The Hess, Earl J. Hinnershitz, Stephanie History Comes Alive Hobson, Maurice J. Hogarth, Rana A. Hotel Life Hunter, Douglas Jack London Jah Kingdom Johnson, Joan Marie Kirkpatrick, Jennet Knocking on Labor's Door Kranson, Rachel Latner, Teishan A. Legend of the Black Mecca, The Levander, Caroline Field, and Matthew Pratt Guterl Liberated Threads Lim, Julian Lincoln's Autocrat Lindsey, Rachel McBride Livesay, Daniel Lucas, Adam, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers Making Freedom Malavasic, Alice Elizabeth Manganiello, Christopher J. Marvel, William McKevitt, Andrew C. Medicalizing Blackness Miles, Tiya Miseres, Vanesa Mueller, Max Perry Mujeres en tránsito Narrett, David Native American Whalemen and the World New Voyages to Carolina New York Intellectuals, The North Carolina beyond the Connected Age Old and Sick in America Orleck, Annelise Patiño, Jimmy Phillips, Laura A. W. Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 Place of Stone, The Porous Borders Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico, The Price, Reynolds, Margaret Sartor, and Alex Harris Promise of Patriarchy, The
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Raby, Megan Race and the Making of the Mormon People Radical Intellect Raising Government Children Raza Sí, Migra No Redemption Religion as Critique Religious Freedom Remaking Black Power Reynolda Richotte Jr., Keith Robinson, Michael D. Roybal, Karen R. Runaway Rymph, Catherine E. Rymsza-Pawlowska, M. J. Schoen, Johanna Searching for Subversives Selling Empire Shoemaker, Nancy Smith, Adam I. P. Smith, Stephanie Jo Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860, The Southern Water, Southern Power Southern, Michael T. Stormy Present, The Tales from the Haunted South Taylor, Ula Yvette Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil They Should Stay There This Day in North Carolina History This Grand Experiment Thomas, Gerald W. Three Graces of Val-Kill, The Tichi, Cecelia Time to Serve, A Tinson, Christopher M. Tise, Larry E., and Jeffrey J. Crow Twenty-Five Short Plays Union Indivisible, A Virtues of Exit, The Virtus Romana Wald, Alan M. Walden, Michael L. We Who Believe in Freedom Wegner, Ansley Herring, and Jeff Miles Welcome to Fairyland Wenger, Tisa Williams, Lea E. Wilson, Emily Herring Windham, Anna Lane Winning Our Freedoms Together Woods, Rebecca J. H. Ziparo, Jessica
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