ALABAMA The University of Alabama Press
Spring 2015
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ON THE COVER Poster with a personification of Pollution, c.1920 (litho), Chekhonin, Sergei Vasil’evich (1878-1936). Private Collection. The Stapleton Collection. (See page 12.)
NATURAL HISTORY / ALABAMA / NATURE
Southern Sanctuary
A Naturalist’s Walk through the Seasons Marian Moore Lewis
A year-long exploration of a wildlife preserve near Huntsville, Alabama, Southern Sanctuary offers a richly illustrated introduction to the beauty and biodiversity of plants and animals in the Southern Appalachians. In Southern Sanctuary, retired NASA research scientist and writer Marian Moore Lewis takes readers on a journey of discovery through the Goldsmith-Schiffman Wildlife Sanctuary, a 400-acre preserve in Madison County, Alabama. Writing in the voice of a knowledgeable friend and with accompanying color photographs, Lewis introduces wildlife that reside in the preserve’s meadows, woods, and waterways—similar to those found throughout the American South. Lewis has organized this beautifully presented volume into twelve monthly chapters. She starts her year in April after the crystalline frosts of winter have thawed. Already a bobcat has stamped a padded paw print in the lush spring muds as crossvine blossoms of magenta and lemon beckon winged pollinators nearby. Walk with her into the months of summer, when trees leaf out into a cathedral of habitats for birds, insects, and small mammals. In language naturalists of any age will enjoy, Lewis explains marvelous compound eyes, called ommatidia, of iridescent dragonflies and the homey carpentry of beavers damming a creek. As colored reflections signal autumn, companionable songbirds migrate south while the last caterpillars of summer roll themselves into a leaf tent, or hibernaculum, to exist in diapause until next spring. In winter, Lewis admires nature at rest and rocks like chert, sought by Native Americans for arrowheads. Chert lies over bedrock of crenellated limestone, remnant of a time when an undersea Alabama reverberated with life preparing to emerge from the sea. Southern Sanctuary provides a rich compendium of useful features. Lewis uses both common and Latin names for plants and animals. Her photos and descriptions make it easy for explorers of Southern Appalachian riparian habitats to use the book to identify species of plants and animals near their own homes. Rounding out this astonishing work are handy guides to additional resources, taxonomy and measurements, rainfall, soil types, and native trees. Of particular value to educators and students, professional and amateur naturalists, hikers, birdwatchers, botanists, and ecologists, Southern Sanctuary infuses a wealth of useful data into an elegant design, thus encouragings an awareness of Alabama’s rich biodiversity. Southern Sanctuary is a new classic in the best tradition of nature writing. Marian Moore Lewis is a photographer, naturalist, and writer. A lifelong nature advocate, she has received awards for fiction, nonfiction, and children’s writing, and published over a hundred research papers in scientific journals. Her photographs have been included in the Sanctuary Artists: The Art of Nature exhibitions in venues throughout north and central Alabama.
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FEBRUARY 7.5 X 8.5 / 296 PAGES / 152 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS / 1 MAP / 4 TABLES ISBN: 978-0-8173-5783-2 / $39.95T CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8773-0 / $39.95T EBOOK
“ On every page of Southern Sanctuary, I felt as if I were walking with the author through the preserve every month of the year, observing the plants and animals during the various seasons. The stories that are revealed throughout the book, the drama of everyday life at the Sanctuary, and the wonderful assemblage of photographs make it a work of lasting value. I would hope that naturalists throughout the country would, likewise, write about adventures in their favorite preserve.” —Robert H. Mohlenbrock, author of Where Have All the Wildflowers Gone? and “This Land” column for Natural History magazine “North Alabama is located at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains, a well-known ‘hot spot’ for biodiversity that dates back to the ice ages, and it is host to a myriad of habitats, including hardwood forests, cedar glades, abundant waterways and wetlands, rich farmlands, mountains, and two-thirds of Alabama’s 4,250 known caves. Marian Lewis’s book on the flora and fauna of GoldsmithSchiffman Preserve not only highlights some of these unique natural features of North Alabama in a factual way, but her outdoor journey through the seasons also encourages children, families, and adults to step outside and take a walk of discovery on their own.” —Hallie Porter, development director, Land Trust of North Alabama
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SOUTHERN CULTURE / FOOD
Collards
Collards
A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table Edward H. Davis and John T. Morgan
A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table
The definitive survey of this iconic southern food, Collards recounts the surprising story of where collards originated, how they arrived in the American South, and how millions who grow and cook collards make them a cornerstone of southern foodways.
EDWARD H. DAVIS & JOHN T. MORGAN
MARCH 7 X 9 / 176 PAGES / 29 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS / 7 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1834-5 / $34.95T CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8765-5 / $34.95 EBOOK “Underrepresented, underappreciated, undervalued, collards have long deserved a focused book. Davis and Morgan serve up a delectable account of collards that stands as the definitive treatise on the topic. Collards is an admirable account of the natural and social history of the plant and its role in southern food culture.” —Steven L. Hopp, coauthor of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life “Historically and culturally, collards matter. As sustenance and sacrament, as meme and totem, this leafy green has long served the American South and its peoples. Rooted in geography, but ranging smartly through complementary fields, Ed Davis and John Morgan deliver a book that quotes a wide range of sources—from novelist Zora Neale Hurston of Florida to seed-saver Charlie Malone of Alabama—while exploring collard origins, adaptations, and diffusions.” —John T. Edge, author of Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover’s Companion to the South, editor of the foodways volume of the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, contributing editor at Garden & Gun, and a columnist for the Oxford American
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Food is essential to southern culture, and collard greens play a central role in the South’s culinary traditions. A feast to the famished, a reward to the strong, and a comfort to the weary, collards have long been held dear in the food-loving southern heart. In Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table, Edward H. Davis and John T. Morgan provide this emblematic and beloved vegetable the full-length survey its fascinating and complex history merits. The book begins with collards’ obscure origins. Like a good detective story, the search for collards’ home country leads the authors both to Europe and West Africa, where they unravel a tale as surprising and complex as that of southern people themselves. Crossing back over the Atlantic, the authors traverse miles of American back roads, from Arkansas to Florida and from Virginia to Louisiana. They vividly recount visits to homes, gardens, grocers, farms, and restaurants where the many varieties of collards are honored, from the familiar green collards to the yellow cabbage collard and rare purple cultivars. In uncovering the secrets of growing collards, the authors locate prize-winning patches of the plant, interview “seed savers,” and provide useful tips for kitchen gardeners. They also describe how collards made the leap from kitchen garden staple to highly valued commercial crop. Collards captures the tastes, smells, and prize-winning recipes from the South’s premier collards festivals. They find collards at the homes of farmers, jazz musicians, governors, and steel workers. Kin to cabbage and broccoli but superior to both in nutritional value, collard greens transcend human divisions of black and white, rich and poor, sophisticated and rustic, and urban and rural. Food trends may come and go, but collards are a tradition that southerners return to again and again. Richly illustrated in color, Collards demonstrates the abiding centrality of this green leafy vegetable to the foodways of the American South. In it, readers will rediscover an old friend. Edward H. Davis is a professor of geography and the chair of the Geography Department at Emory & Henry College and coauthor of The Virginia Creeper Trail Companion: Nature and History along Southwest Virginia’s National Recreation Trail. John T. Morgan is a professor of geography at Emory & Henry College and author of The Log House in East Tennessee.
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FOLKLORE / GEORGIA
13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey Kathryn Tucker Windham
13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s introduction to Georgia’s thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations. Petrifying the peach state, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In 13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduce thirteen of Georgia’s most famous ghost stories. Windham won hearts across the nation in her regular radio broadcasts and many public appearances. The South’s most prolific raconteur of revenants, Windham, giving new meaning to the phrase “ghost-writer,” does more than tell ghost stories—she captures the true spirit of the place. Evoking Georgia’s colonial era, “The Eternal Dinner Party” explains why the sounds of an elegant dinner soirée still waft from the grove of Savannah’s Bonaventure estate. At the onset of the Revolution, the Tattnall family abandoned Bonaventure and slipped away to England. Young Josiah Tattnall, after a spell at school, could not reconcile his patriotic feelings for Georgia and his longing for home. Tattnall returned to fight in the Revolution, restored Bonaventure, and eventually became Georgia’s governor. One holiday eve, when the mansion was bedecked with magnolia and holly and crowded with visitors, a fire too large to control swept through the old house. Tattnall, exhibiting his cool head and impeccable manners, ordered the massive dinner table carried out to the garden where he enjoined his holiday revelers to continue their stately meal. The melancholy strains of Tattnall’s dinner guests still echo through Bonaventure’s ancient oaks on moonlight nights.
APRIL 7 X 10 / 160 PAGES / 39 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1881-9 / 29.95T CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8885-0 / 29.95 EBOOK “In Windham’s tales . . . myth and fact intertwine to present a picture of the South that is as true as any textbook.” —Paris Review
In “The Ghost of Andersonville,” Windham takes visitors near the woebegone Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. A plaque there still recounts the tale of Swiss immigrant and Confederate captain Henry Wirz. Convicted—many thought wrongly—of war crimes, Wirz’s restless ghosts still perambulates the highways of south Georgia. Writing for the Georgia Historical Commission, Miss Bessie Lewis quipped in her preface to this beloved collection, “…who should be better able to tell of happenings long past than the ghosts of those who had a part in them?” A perennial favorite, this commemorative edition restores 13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey to the ghastly grandeur of its original 1973 edition. Kathryn Tucker Windham grew up in Thomasville, Alabama, the youngest child in a large family of storytellers. For many years a Selma resident, Windham was a freelance writer, collected folklore, and photographed the changing scenes of her native South. A nationally recognized storyteller and a regular fixture on Alabama Public Radio, her commentaries were also featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
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FICTION
O’Hearn A Novel
Greg Mulcahy
O’Hearn is the third novel by highly praised writer Greg Mulcahy, author of Out of Work, Constellation, and Carbine. Timely and mordantly sardonic, O’Hearn tells the story of the disintegration of a man’s life refracted through the prism of his office life. Greg Mulcahy’s new novel opens on a man suffering an accident at his workplace. His colleagues there are known, at least initially, only as O’Hearn and Minouche. In the aftermath of the incident, this trinity begins to falls apart. His career falls apart. His life falls apart. O’Hearn is the story of the story the man tells himself in confused chronology as he struggles to make sense of a world and a landscape where things have stopped making sense.
APRIL 5.5 X 8.5 / 144 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-050-1 / 14.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-854-5 / 14.95 EBOOK PRAISE FOR CARBINE: STORIES “Mulcahy mines everyman’s deep sense of failure and spiritualalienation. Mulcahy packs a surprising amount of power into each of these understated and beautifully wrought pieces.” —Publisher’s Weekly
The laws of causation are absent or profoundly obscured in this explanatory narrative, but then so is all individual motivation. Action seems to end only in a world of winners and losers and occurs solely to reinforce that world by further enriching the winners at the, sometimes willful, expense of the losers. O’Hearn is funny, contradictory, satiric, heartbreaking—a work unlike anything in our contemporary literature. Greg Mulcahy is the author of Out of Work, Constellation, and Carbine. He lives in Minnesota.
PRAISE FOR CONSTELLATION “One of the most deliciously strange novels of the year…. A scathing and hallucinatory parody of capitalism (and, obviously, Hamlet) that, of course, ends in senseless, tragic violence. Stylistically taut without being cold, Constellation is a depressing and laugh-out-loud book of the 1990s and a great indictment of our hype-ridden country by one of our most promising young novelists.” —Booklist
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FICTION
Seed
A Novel Stanley Crawford
In an age of contested values, Stanley Crawford’s wry Seed offers a sardonic exploration of the meaning of “values.” Curmudgeon Bill Starr’s end-of-life decisions illuminate the values that rule his life and his heirs’ and well as the material objects he and they perceive as having value. Seed is the story of Bill Starr’s final days. Childless but with a lifetime’s worth of possessions and a nearly infinite web of extended family, Bill endeavors to empty his house completely before he dies by summoning distant relatives to claim their inheritance. Many of his letters go unanswered, but those who do appear show up only to find that their reward is often much less valuable than they might expect. What they get instead are Bill’s memories, made vivid by each item from the past, memories that are more exotic and curious than the lives currently lived by his young relatives. Accompanied by his housekeeper, Ramona, and his handyman, Jonathan, Bill is a somewhat cantankerous, wildly intelligent, and often forgetful man who recalls and speaks to his passed wife, often thinking that she’s not dead. His unwillingness to recognize what has happened to her and to give away his only possession of any value, a 1937 PierceArrow automobile that they bought together, becomes the measure of his grief and of his love in this profoundly funny novel that faces death and love sincerely. Stanley Crawford was born in 1937 and is a graduated of the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne. He is the author of several novels, among them Petroleum Man, Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine, Travel Notes, and Gascoyne, as well as the memoirs A Garlic Testament: Seasons on Small New Mexico Farm and Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. He is coproprietor with his wife, Rose Mary Crawford, of El Bosque Garlic Farm in Dixon, New Mexico.
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APRIL 5.5 X 8.5 / 200 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-183-6 / 14.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-853-8 / 14.95 EBOOK “Seed is an anti-quest narrative: our hero sleeps, aggrieved, in his chair, dreaming of shedding possessions. He is ferocious, uncertain, disheveled, a spirit kindred to Unguentine, a mess, and easy to love. Another brilliant and hilarious novel by a great American writer.” —Noy Holland, author of Swim for the Little One First “Seed is one of the finest novels I have ever read.” —Michael Ventura, author of Night Time Losing Time and The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God “Stanley Crawford has given us this masterwork, a book so funny, so generous, and so perceptive that it feels like an unforgettable evening spent with your family’s weirdest and wisest scion. Seed shows us that the twilight we must face—both individually and as an empire—can be more illuminating than our most verdant noon.” —Ken Baumann, author of Solip and Say, Cut, Map
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FICTION
Hospice Gregory Howard
Hospice is the debut novel of Gregory Howard. In it, he follows Lucy, a young woman whose series of jobs opens windows into the secret lives of others and in so doing brings her back to her own secrets. When Lucy is little something happens to her brother. He disappears for months and when he returns he’s not the same. He’s not her brother. At least this is what Lucy believes. But what actually happened? Comic, melancholy, haunted, and endlessly inventive, Gregory Howard’s debut novel Hospice follows the adult Lucy as she drifts from job to job caring for dogs, children, and older women—all the while trying to escape the questions of her past only to find herself confronting them again and again. In the odd and lovely but also frightening life of Lucy, everyday neighborhoods become wonderlands where ordinary houses reveal strange inmates living together in monastic seclusion, wayward children resort to blackmail to get what they want, and hospitals seem to appear and disappear to avoid being found.
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Replete with the sense that something strange is about to happen at any moment, Hospice blurs the borders between the mundane and miraculous, evoking the intensity of the secret world of childhood and distressing and absurd search for a place to call home.
“...a haunting take on one life on society’s margins.”
Gregory Howard teaches fiction writing, contemporary literature, and film studies at the University of Maine. His work has appeared in Web Conjunctions, Harp & Altar, and Tarpaulin Sky, among other journals. He lives in Bangor, Maine.
—Kirkus Reviews “Howard’s enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant.” —Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution, Vacation, and Minor Robberies “In Gregory Howard’s beautiful, brilliant first novel, stories spill out of other stories to swim, swirl, dance (sometimes giggling, sometimes smiling gravely), and collide. One thinks of the Calvino of Invisible Cities, to be sure, but also of Bruce Chatwin and his In Patagonia, in each of which a highly inventive voyager goes wandering through the world and/or through the world’s endless tales of itself. Still, deeply felt loss is the engine of the ludic impulse in Hospice, and the many games played, rituals enacted and songs sung by its characters evoke, with grace and power, our oldest truths, our most challenging conundrums, and the exhilarating ebb and flow of our sleep-wrapped lives.” —Laird Hunt, author of Kind One and Neverhome
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Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours Luke Goebel
“If Kerouac were writing today, his work might look something like this—and despite the title, many of the stories are indeed ours, as they focus on love and loss, pain and yearning.… This is a fierce, untamed, riotous book—and from the first page you’ll know you’re not reading Jane Austen.” —Kirkus “Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours (Fiction Collective Two) is a thunderous, fantastical debut novel.” —Interview “...[I]t is apparent that Goebel has announced himself as a proud new talent and of stronger voice than most of the writers, bless them, working to further the forms of the novel.” —Southeast Review “...the pleasures of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours come so fast and frequent you’ll even overlook that there are, actually, only thirteen stories in the table of contents.” —Electric Literature “It’s a book I carried around for weeks and whose pages, which I often returned to again and again, are rippled, dog-eared, and covered in ink and underlines.” —The Rumpus
SEPTEMBER 5.5 X 8.5 / 184 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-180-5 / $16.95T PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-847-7 / $16.95 EBOOK
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“Goebel’s tour de force swiftly seduced me, and I set aside my own experience in order to ride his loop out past the farther planets and back to the heart’s interior.” —Brooklyn Rail “Luke Goebel’s award-winning first novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, shakes and rattles and trembles in your hands. From the first lines, the novel throws story at you, and you’d better watch your head. His voice grabs your wrist and promises everything and nothing. Words fly forward and backward—a lone eagle feather, a lost love, the moon, peyote, blanket flowers, myth, dogs, clouds, cigarettes, girls, chores, America—to speak and shout of loss and heartbreak. The ride is rough, but so is grief, and Luke Goebel, man-boy-kid of giant searching heart, knows how to tell this tale.” —Newfound
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POETRY AND POETICS / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey
What I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that allows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.
JUNE 6 X 9 / 328 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-5800-6 / 39.95S PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8800-3 / 39.95 EBOOK “This anthology offers a uniquely valuable range of poems by contemporary writers that is as necessary and expansive as air while as imaginatively fluid as the equally essential property of water. What I Say deserves a prominent place on the shelves of readers, writers, and scholars interested in the literary and aesthetic future of black American poetics. Yet, since it is such a compelling read, it won’t stay on those shelves!” —Meta DuEwa Jones, author of The Muse is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to the Spoken Word “What I Say makes an original and important contribution to the fields of American and African American arts and letters and to the more general field of poetry and poetics.” —Nathaniel Mackey, author of Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing
CONTRIBUTORS William L. Alexander / Ron Allen / T.J. Anderson / Tisa Bryant / Pia Deas / C.S. Giscombe / Renee Gladman / Duriel Harris / Harmony Holiday / Erica Hunt / Kim Hunter / Geoffrey Jacques / Douglas Kearney / John Keene / Nathaniel Mackey / Dawn L. Martin / Mark McMorris / Tracie Morris / Fred Moten / Harryette Mullen / Mendi Lewis Obadike / G.E. Patterson / Julie Patton / Claudia Rankine / Deborah Richards / Evie Shockley / giovanni singleton / Tyrone Williams / Ronaldo V. Wilson
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The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the collection in its black modernist roots. In tracing the fascinating and unexpected paths of experimentation these poets explored, however, Nielsen and Ramey reveal the tight delineations of African American poetry that omitted non-canonical forms. This invigorating panoply of work, when restored, brings into focus the creatively elastic frontiers and multifaceted expressions of contemporary black poetry. Several of the poets discussed in What I Say forged relationships with members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement and participated in the broader community of innovative poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and continues to exert a powerful influence today. Each volume can stand on its own, and reading them in tandem will provide a clear vision of how innovative African American poetries have evolved across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. What I Say is infinitely teachable, compelling, and rewarding. It will appeal to a broad readership of poets, poetics teachers, poetics scholars, students of African American literature in non-narrative forms, Afrofuturism, and what lies between the modern and the contemporary in global and localized writing practices. Aldon Lynn Nielsen is the author of Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism and Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation. Lauri Ramey is the author of Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry and The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975.
Modern and Contemporary Poetics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, series editors
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POETRY AND POETICS
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends
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The Astonishment Tapes
ASTONISHMENT TAPES
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with ROBIN BLASER and Friends
Robin Blaser Edited by Miriam Nichols
The Astonishment Tapes is the edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry. Robin Blaser moved from his native Idaho to attend the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944. While there, he developed as a poet, explored his homosexuality, engaged in a lively arts community, and met fellow travelers and poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer. The three men became the founding members of the Berkeley core of what is now known as the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry. In the company of a small group of friends and writers in 1974, Blaser was asked to narrate his personal story and to comment on the Berkeley poetry scene. In twenty autobiographical audiotapes, Blaser talks about his childhood in Idaho, his time in Berkeley, and his participation in the making of a new kind of poetry. The Astonishment Tapes is the expertly edited transcript of these recordings by Miriam Nichols, Blaser’s editor and biographer. In The Astonishment Tapes Blaser comments extensively on the poetic principles that he, Duncan, and Spicer worked through, as well as the differences and dissonances between the three of them. Nichols has edited the transcripts only minimally, allowing readers to make their own interpretations of Blaser’s intentions. Sometimes gossipy, sometimes profound, Blaser offers his version on the inside story of one of the most significant moments in mid-twentieth century American poetry. The Astonishment Tapes is of considerable value and interest, not only to readers of Blaser, Duncan, and Spicer, but also to scholars of the early postmodern and twentieth-century American poetry. Robin Blaser was a pathbreaking poet and, along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, a founding member of the San Francisco Renaissance in poetry. His work has been recognized with Canada’s most distinguished literary awards—a Griffin Award for lifetime achievement and the Griffin Poetry Prize for his collected poems. He was also made a member of the Order of Canada for his contribution to the arts. Miriam Nichols is the editor of The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser and The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser.
edited by MIRIAM NICHOLS
OCTOBER 6 X 9 / 344 PAGES / 14 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-5809-9 / 49.95S PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8823-2 / 49.95 EBOOK “The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry’s important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.” —Peter Gizzi, editor of The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer “One of the great pleasures of this book is the glimpse it gives of another, more private Blaser than one we encounter in his collected poems and essays.” —Benjamin Friedlander, author of Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism and coeditor of Charles Olson’s Collected Prose
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LITERARY CRITICISM / MUSIC / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature Steven C. Tracy
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music—minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially blues—emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated American music and literature from 1920 to 1929. Exploring the deep and enduring relationship between music and literature, Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature examines the diverse ways in which African American “hot” music influenced American culture—particularly literature—in early twentieth century America. Steven C. Tracy provides a history of the fusion of African and European elements that formed African American “hot” music, and considers how terms like ragtime, jazz, and blues developed their own particular meanings for American music and society. He draws from the fields of literature, literary criticism, cultural anthropology, American studies, and folklore to demonstrate how blues as a musical and poetic form has been a critical influence on American literature.
JUNE 6 X 9 / 576 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1865-9 / 64.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8813-3 / 64.95 EBOOK “Steven Tracy’s magisterial study fills one of the gaping holes in our historic understanding of American expressive culture. As no one else before him has done, Tracy explores in detail the role of the art form known as the blues, which is rooted in the southern black experience, in shaping not simply our national popular music but also our most acclaimed and even revered literature. Tracy brings to this achievement both his unusual gifts as a practicing bluesman and also his finely honed skills as an academic, one able to meet complex challenges in research and interpretation and write about them with clarity and grace. This is an extraordinary, indispensable book from a remarkable American scholar.” —Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph Ellison: A Biography and The Life of Langston Hughes “ Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is a monumental contribution to our understanding of the deep, enduring influence of blues on American literature. Steven Tracy ranges across the fields of literature, literary criticism, cultural anthropology, American studies, and folklore, and he offers the reader a refreshingly broad, interdisciplinary vision of blues and American literature.” — William Ferris, author of The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists and Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
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Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature begins by highlighting instances in which American writers, including Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, and Gertrude Stein, use African American culture and music in their work, and then characterizes the social context of the Jazz Age, discussing how African American music reflected the wild abandon of the time. Tracy focuses on how a variety of schools of early twentieth century writers, from modernists to members of the Harlem Renaissance to dramatists and more, used their connections with “hot” music to give their own work meaning. Tracy’s extensive and detailed understanding of how African American “hot” music operates has produced a fresh and original perspective on its influence on mainstream American literature and culture. An experienced blues musician himself, Tracy draws on his performance background to offer an added dimension to his analysis. Where another blues scholar might only analyze blues language, Tracy shows how the language is actually performed. Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature is the first book to offer such a refreshingly broad interdisciplinary vision of the influence of African American “hot” music on American literature. It is an essential addition to the library of serious scholars of American and African American literature and culture and blues aficionados alike. Steven C. Tracy is a professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He served as Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Konstanz in Germany and also as ChuTian Scholar at Central China Normal University. He has authored, edited, coedited, or introduced nearly thirty books. A singer-harmonica player, he has opened for B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and others.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / AMERICAN LITERATURE / AESTHETICS
Immersive Words
Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893 Michelle Jarenski
Immersive Words
Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America’s evolving national identity. In Immersive Words, Michelle Jarenski demonstrates that the contemporary challenge that visual images and virtual environments in cinema and photography, on the web, and in video games pose to reading and writing are not contemporary developments but equally exercised the imaginations, anxieties, and works of nineteenth-century authors. The middle of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of numerous visual technologies and techniques: the daguerreotype, immersive exhibition spaces such as cycloramas and panoramas, mechanized tourism, and large-scale exhibitions and spectacles such as the World’s Fair. In closely argued chapters devoted to these four visual forms, Jarenski demonstrates that the popularity of these novelties catalyzed a shift by authors of the period beyond narratives that merely described images to ones that invoked aesthetic experiences. She describes how Herman Melville adapts the aesthetic of the daguerreotype through his use of dramatic point-of-view and unexpected shifts that disorient readers. Frederick Douglass is shown to appropriate a panoramic aesthetic that severs spatial and temporal narratives from standard expectations. Immersive Words traces how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun found success as a travel guide to Rome, though intended as a work of serious fiction. Finally, Sarah Orne Jewett simulates the interactivity of the World Columbian Exposition to promote racialized and gendered forms of aesthetic communication. These techniques and strategies drawn from visual forms blur the just-so boundary critics and theorists have traditionally drawn between text and image. In the mid-nineteenth century, the national identity of the United States remained fluid and hinged upon matters of gender, sexuality, and, crucially, race. Authors both reflected that evolving identity and contributed to its ongoing evolution. In demonstrating how the aesthetic and visual technologies of the nineteenth century changed the fundamental aesthetics of American literature, the importance of Immersive Words goes far beyond literary criticism.
Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893
Shelly Jarenski
APRIL 6 X 9 / 224 PAGES / 29 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1867-3 / 54.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8816-4 / 54.95 EBOOK “Immersive Words continues a line of argument about visual culture that has invigorated the study of nineteenth-century American literature, but it also forges new, interdisciplinary relations between literary studies and the burgeoning field of American studies. While its central texts are by nineteenth-century authors such as Melville, Douglass, and Hawthorne, Jarenski enriches her analysis with many other ancillary cultural texts, events, and subgenres that open the book up to other periods and forms of cultural production, ultimately making Immersive Words much more than the sum of its parts.” —Michael A. Chaney, author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative and editor of Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels
Shelly Jarenski is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan in Dearborn. Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, MELUS, and the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / POETICS / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics Joshua Schuster
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American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
Joshua Schuster
OCTOBER 6 X 9 / 272 PAGES / 1 B&W ILLUSTRATION ISBN: 978-0-8173-5829-7 / 39.95S PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8853-9 / 39.95 EBOOK “This is an exhilarating manuscript, bursting at the seams with insights and pregnant formulations. The subject matter may be chastening, but the perspectives applied are consistently stimulating.” —Jed Rasula, author of Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry and This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry “This is a first-rate study that moves boldly between high and low, between poetry and music, and in doing so revitalizes our sense of modernism’s complexity and achievements.” —Brian M. Reed, author of Hart Crane: After His Lights and Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an ecological esthetic. Joshua Schuster explains why American modernism was never green. In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission. In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which echo as a paean to pollution: “Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall!” Schuster labels this theme “regeneration through pollution” and demonstrates how this motif recurs in modernist compositions. This tolerance for, if not actual exultation of, the by-products of industrialization hindered modernist American artists, writers, and musicians from embracing environmentalist agendas. Schuster provides specific case studies about Marianne Moore and her connection of fables with animal rights; Gertrude Stein and concepts of nature in her avant-garde poetics; early blues music and poetry and the issue of how environmental disasters (floods, droughts, pestilence) affected black farmers and artists in the American South; and John Cage, who extends the modernist avant-garde project formally but critiques it at the same time for failing to engage with ecology. A fascinating afterword about the role of oil modernist literary production rounds out this work. Schuster masterfully shines a light on the modernist interval between the writings of bucolic and nature-extolling Romantics and the emergence of a self-conscious green movement in the 1960s. This rewarding work shows that the reticence of modernist poets in the face of resource depletion, pollution, animal rights, and other ecological traumas is highly significant. Joshua Schuster is an assistant professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.
Modern and Contemporary Poetics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, series editors
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LITERARY CRITICISM / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES / RELIGION
Loving God’s Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature Jeffrey Bilbro
LOV I NG GOD’S
Wildness
the CHRISTIAN ROOTS of ECOLOGICAL ETHICS in
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world. When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as “a temple of God” in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The larger prevailing theological view, however, saw this vast continent as “the Devil’s Territories” needing to be conquered and cultivated for God’s Kingdom. These contradictory designations gave rise to an ambivalence regarding the character of this land and humanity’s proper relation to it. Loving God’s Wildness rediscovers the environmental roots of America’s Puritan heritage. In tracing this history, Jeffrey Bilbro demonstrates how the dualistic Christianity that the Puritans brought to America led them to see the land as an empty wilderness that God would turn into a productive source of marketable commodities. Bilbro carefully explores the effect of this dichotomy in the nature writings of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Willa Cather, and Wendell Berry. Thoreau, Muir, Cather, and Berry imaginatively developed the Puritan theological tradition to propose practical, physical means by which humans should live and worship within the natural temple of God’s creation. They reshaped Puritan dualism, each according to the particular needs of his or her own ecological and cultural contexts, into a theology that demands care for the entire created community. While differing in their approaches and respective ecological ethics, the four authors Bilbro examines all share the conviction that God remains active in creation and that humans ought to relinquish their selfish ends to participate in his wild ecology. Loving God’s Wildness fills a critical gap in literary criticism and environmental studies by offering a sustained, detailed argument regarding how Christian theology has had a profound and enduring legacy in shaping the contours of the American ecological imagination. Literary critics, scholars of religion and environmental studies, and thoughtful Christians who are concerned about environmental issues will profit from this engaging new book. Jeffrey Bilbro is an assistant professor of English at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. His articles have been published in Christianity and Literature, Early American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, and the Southern Literary Journal.
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APRIL 6 X 9 / 288 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1857-4 / 54.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8801-0 / 54.95 EBOOK “With its revealing, ably researched focus on the subsurface ‘Christian roots’ of American nature writing, Jeffrey Bilbro’s analysis of four noteworthy writers is a welcome contribution to the growing body of ecocritical literary commentary. Admirers of Wendell Berry will find Bilbro’s account of that author’s ecological vision in later writings, including the novel Jayber Crow, particularly illuminating.” —John Gatta, author of Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present and American Madonna: Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture “In this fresh and invigorating study, Jeffrey Bilbro skillfully weaves his way through four centuries of American history. Loving God’s Wildness takes us on a journey from William Bradford in the seventeenth century to Wendell Berry in the twenty-first as it maps the complex and often vexing interplay between Christianity and the environment in the life and literature of the New World. With impressive clarity and conviction, Bilbro argues that many of America’s greatest writers have turned to Christian theology for the resources they need ‘to practice their love for the wild world.’ This is indeed a book worth reading, an argument worth engaging.” —Roger Lundin, author of From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority and editor of Invisible Conversations: Religion in the Literature of America
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RELIGION
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion Edited by Steven W. Ramey Foreword by Theodore Louis Trost and Steven Leonard Jacobs Afterword by Russell T. McCutcheon
Writing Religion The Case for the C riTiCal sTudy of r eligions
Edited by
STEVEN W. RAMEY
JULY 6 X 9 / 288 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1872-7 / 34.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8838-6 / 34.95 EBOOK “Writing Religion delivers a robust account of the critical, sharp, and innovative leading edge of religious studies. Topically diverse while critically focused, these essays serve as a primer for advanced students wishing to become conversant about the critical study of religion in a range of its contemporary manifestations.” —Greg Johnson, author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition “Engaging, challenging, and thought-provoking, Writing Religion offers unexpectedly diverse points of view united by a critical approach to the study of religion. Ramey’s introduction clearly traces the fault lines that divide different forms of scholarship in the discipline and underscores the strengths of this critical approach.” —Craig Martin, author of Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie and A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion
Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is a collection of outstanding essays on wide-ranging aspects of religious studies by well-known scholars, delivered as part of the University of Alabama’s annual Aronov Lectures. In 2002, the University of Alabama’s Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that highlights critical contributions from the first ten Aronov lecturers. Section one of the volume, “Writing Discourses,” features essays by Jonathan Z. Smith, Bruce Lincoln, and Ann Pellegrini that illustrate how critical study enables the analysis of discourses in society and history. Section two, “Riting Social Formations,” includes pieces by Arjun Appadurai, Judith Plaskow, and Nathan Katz that reference both the power of rites to construct society and the act of riting as a form of disciplining that both prescribes and proscribes. The writings of Tomoko Masuzawa, Amy-Jill Levine, Aaron W. Hughes, and Martin S. Jaffee appear in section three, “Righting the Discipline.” They emphasize the correction of movements within the academic study of religion. Steven W. Ramey frames the collection with a thoughtful introduction that explores the genesis, development, and diversity of critical analysis in the study of religion. An afterword by Russell McCutcheon reflects on the critical study of religion at the University of Alabama and rounds out this superb collection. The mission of the Department of Religious Studies is to “avoid every tendency toward confusing the study of religion with the practice of religion.” Instruction about—rather than in—religion is foundational to the department’s larger goal of producing knowledge of the world and its many practices and systems of beliefs. Infused with this spirit, these fascinating essays, which read like good conversations with learned friends, offer significant examples of each scholar’s work. Writing Religion will be of value to graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and scholars interested in the study of religion from a critical perspective. Steven W. Ramey is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Hindu, Sufi, or Sikh: Contested Practices and Identifications of Sindhi Hindus in India and Beyond.
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JUDAIC STUDIES / HOLOCAUST STUDIES
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania’s Contested Borderlands Paul A. Shapiro The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and commentary about the slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chişinău) under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally. The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 sheds new light on the little-known historical events surrounding the creation, administration, and liquidation of the Kishinev (Chişinău) ghetto during the first months following the Axis attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in late June 1941. Mass killings during the Romanian-German drive toward Kishinev, after a year of Soviet rule in this Romanian border province, were followed by the wild shooting of thousands of Jews on the streets of the city during the first days of reestablished Romanian administration. Survivors were driven into a ghetto, persecuted, and liquidated by year’s end. The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 is the first major study of these events. Often overshadowed by events in Germany and Poland, the history of the Holocaust in Romania, including what took place in Bessarabia (corresponding in large part to the territory of Moldova) was obscured during decades of communist rule, denial, and policies that blocked access to wartime records. This book is the result of lengthy research that began with Paul A. Shapiro’s travels to Romania for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to negotiate access to these documents. The volume includes: • A preface describing the origin of the project in the immediate aftermath of the Ceauşescu regime in Romania. • A 100-page study setting the events of the book within the historical context of Eastern European antisemitism, Romanian-Soviet conflict over control of Bessarabia, and Romania’s alliance with Nazi Germany. • A expertly curated collection of archival documents linked to the study. • A chronology of events prepared by Radu Ioanid, also of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. • Twenty-one black and white photographs and a map of the ghetto. Students and scholars of Holocaust history, Judaic studies, twentiethcentury Eastern European history, Romania, Moldova, and historical Bessarabia will want to own this important, revealing volume.
SEPTEMBER 6 X 9 / 224 PAGES / 22 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1864-2 / 39.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8812-6 / 39.95 EBOOK “This tragic and appalling story emerges well from this volume. It is a most important contribution to a little-known aspect of the genocide of the Jewish people during the Second World War and will become the standard work on the subject, illustrating clearly the whole character of the Romanian genocide.” —Antony Polonsky, author of Politics in Independent Poland and The Little Dictators: A History of Eastern Europe Since 1918 “The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 indeed makes an original and significant contribution to the field of Holocaust literature, and in particular on the Holocaust in Romania and the city of Kishinev. It offers the successful combination of dry official documents with the emotional context and setting. As such, it will be of interest and assistance to a broad audience, both the general public and future researchers in the field.” —Samuel Aroni, author of Memories of the Holocaust: Kishinev (Chişinău) 1941–1944
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Paul A. Shapiro is the director of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of studies of interwar politics and fascism in Romania, was a member of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, and is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Affairs and the former associate editor of Problems of Communism.
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HISTORY / SOUTHERN
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, & Freedman G. Ward Hubbs
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman G. WARD HUBBS
MAY 6 X 9 / 248 PAGES / 25 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1860-4 / 34.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8808-9 / 34.95 EBOOK “In a marvelously original approach for studying Reconstruction, Guy Hubbs takes an iconic political cartoon and uncovers the fascinating story behind it. But more than that, he uses four strikingly different characters to offer a deeply thoughtful meditation on the multiple meanings of freedom during one of the most tortuous and difficult periods of American history. This book dissects the fundamental values of another era, but the beliefs espoused by Arad Lakin, Noah B. Cloud, Ryland Randolph, and Shandy Jones resonate into our own time.” —George C. Rable, author of God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom of four figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon. In Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman, G. Ward Hubbs uses a stark and iconic political cartoon to illuminate post-war conflicts over the meaning of freedom in the American South. The cartoon first appeared in the Tuskaloosa Independent Monitor, helmed by local Ku Klux Klan boss Ryland Randolph, as a swaggering threat aimed at three individuals. Hanged from an oak branch clutching a carpetbag marked “OHIO” is the Reverend Arad S. Lakin, the Northern-born incoming president of the University of Alabama. Swinging from another noose is Dr. Noah B. Cloud—agricultural reformer, superintendent of education, and deemed by Randolph a “scalawag” for joining Alabama’s reformed state government. The accompanying caption, penned in purple prose, similarly threatens Shandy Jones, a politically active local man of color. Using a dynamic and unprecedented approach that interprets the same events through four points of view, Hubbs artfully unpacks numerous layers of meaning behind this brutal two-dimensional image. The four men associated with the cartoon—Randolph, Lakin, Cloud, and Jones—were archetypes of those who were seeking to rebuild a South shattered by war. Hubbs explores these broad archetypes but also delves deeply into the four men’s life stories, writings, speeches, and decisions in order to recreate each one’s complex worldview and quest to live freely. Their lives, but especially their four very different understandings of freedom, help to explain many of the conflicts of the 1860s. The result is an intellectual tour de force.
“Hubbs deftly demonstrates that a crude woodcut image from a nearly forgotten local newspaper can lead us, if we will examine it closely, toward a fuller understanding of individuals, their antecedents, and their interconnected times during this fascinating and pivotal era in American history.”
Scholars of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Southern history will all consider this an important work, and general readers of this highly accessible volume will discover fascinating new insights about life during and after America’s greatest crisis.
—Paul M. Pruitt Jr., author of Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804–1929
G. Ward Hubbs is an associate professor, reference librarian, and archivist with Birmingham-Southern College; the editor of Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr; and the author of Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community.
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HISTORY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES / ALABAMA
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War From Creation to Betrayal Susan M. Abram
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Forging
Cherokee-AmeriCAn AlliAnCe in the
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Winner of the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War explores how the Creek War of 1813–1814 not only affected Creek Indians but also acted as a catalyst for deep cultural and political transformation within the society of the United States’ Cherokee allies. The Creek War of 1813–1814 is studied primarily as an event that impacted its two main antagonists, the defending Creeks in what is now the State of Alabama and the expanding young American republic. Scant attention has been paid to how the United States’ Cherokee allies contributed to the war and how the war transformed their society. In Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War, Susan M. Abram explains in engrossing detail the pivotal changes within Cherokee society triggered by the war that ultimately ended with the Cherokees’ forced removal by the United States in 1838. The Creek War (also known as the Red Stick War) is generally seen as a local manifestation of the global War of 1812 and a bright footnote of military glory in the dazzling rise of Andrew Jackson. Jackson’s victory, which seems destined only in historic hindsight, was greatly aided by Cherokee fighters. Yet history has both marginalized Cherokee contributions to that conflict and overlooked the fascinating ways Cherokee society altered as it strove to accommodate, rationalize, and benefit from an alliance with the expanding American republic. Through the prism of the Creek War and evolving definitions of masculinity and community within the Cherokee community, Abram delineates as has never been done before the critical transitional decades prior to the Trail of Tears. Deeply insightful, Abram illuminates the ad hoc process of cultural, political, and sometimes spiritual change among the Cherokees. Before the onset of hostilities, the Cherokees already faced numerous threats and divisive internal frictions. Abram concisely records the Cherokee strategies for meeting these challenges, describing how, for example, they accepted a centralized National Council and replaced the tradition of conflict-resolution through blood law with a network of “lighthorse regulators.” And while many aspects of masculine war culture remained, it too changed as it was filtered and reinterpreted through contact with the legalistic and structured American military.
From Creation to Betrayal Susan M. Abram
NOVEMBER 6 X 9 / 208 PAGES / 8 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS / 3 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1875-8 / $49.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8851-5 / $49.95 EBOOK
“Abram’s Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War reveals how Cherokee military contributions in the Creek War served as a microcosm of changes in the larger Cherokee society and its leadership. Abram skillfully traces the involvement of the Cherokees in the Creek War, the ways in which their constructions of masculinity were adjusted, and the legacy of the engagement for the structure of tribal leadership. She also poignantly recounts the eventual betrayal of the Cherokees by the American government, especially Andrew Jackson, and their eventual removal from the southeast.” —Carolyn Johnston, author of Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907 and editor of Voices of Cherokee Women
Rigorously documented and persuasively argued, Forging of a CherokeeAmerican Alliance in the Creek War fills a critical gap in the history of the early republic, the War of 1812, the Cherokee people, and the South. Susan M. Abram teaches history at Western Carolina University and Southwestern Community College. Her publications include “Real Men: Masculinity, Spirituality, and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Warfare” in New Men: Manliness in Early America and “Cherokees in the Creek War: A Band of Brothers” in Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812.
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ARCHAEOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Center Places & Cherokee Towns Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture & Landscape in the Southern Appalachians Christopher B. Rodning
Center Places Cherokee Towns
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Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
Ch r i s top he r B . Ro dning
AUGUST 6 X 9 / 272 PAGES / 20 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1841-3 / 59.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8772-3 / 59.95 EBOOK “Center Places and Cherokee Towns is a theoretically informed study that dovetails with popular, contemporary, and archaeological concerns with landscape, social memory, and symbolism. Well written and well cited, it will have broad appeal to archaeologists working throughout the eastern United States and elsewhere in North America.” —Gregory D. Wilson, author of The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville
In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning discusses the ways architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds and embankments, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape of the southern Appalachians from A.D. 1400 through 1700. Archaeology offers a rich framework for understanding a culture before its recorded written history. In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and physical landscapes by built features that acted as “center places.” Rodning investigates the period from the first Spanish contact with sixteenth-century Native American chiefdoms in La Florida through to the development of formal trade relations between other Native American societies and English and French colonial provinces during the late 1600s and 1700s. Rodning focuses particularly on the Coweeta Creek archaeological site in the upper Tennessee Valley in southwestern North Carolina and describes the ways in which elements of the built environment were manifestations of Cherokee people and culture. Drawing on archaeological data, delving into primary sources dating from the 1500s through the 1700s, and considering Cherokee myths and legends remembered and recorded during the nineteenth century, Rodning shows how the arrangement of public structures and household dwellings in a Cherokee community both shaped and were shaped by Cherokee culture. The center places Rodning highlights in this rewarding study serve as points of attachment between Cherokee individuals and their communities as well as between their present and past. Rodning explores the ways in which Cherokee architecture and the built environment were sources of cultural stability in the aftermath of European contact, and how the course of European contact altered the landscape of Cherokee towns in the long run. In this multi-faceted consideration of archaeology, ethnohistory, and recorded oral tradition, Rodning adeptly demonstrates the distinct ways that Cherokee identity was constructed through architecture and other material forms. Center Places and Cherokee Towns will have a broad appeal to students and scholars of southeastern archaeology, anthropology, Native American studies, prehistoric and protohistoric Cherokee culture, landscape archaeology, and ethnohistory. Christopher B. Rodning is an associate professor of anthropology at Tulane University.
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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Transforming the Dead
Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest Edited by Eve A. Hargrave, Shirley J. Schermer, Kristin M. Hedman, and Robin M. Lillie
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death culturally modified bone in the prehistoric midwest
The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals. Transforming the Dead is a collection of essays that examines culturally modified human bones and their roles as “cultural and ritual objects” among prehistoric Eastern Woodland cultures. Previous scholarship has explored the role of human body parts in Native American cultures as trophies of war and revered ancestors. This collection discusses new evidence that human elements were also important components of daily and ritual activities across the Eastern Woodlands. The contributors to this volume discuss each case study within the unique regional and temporal contexts of the material, rather than seeking universal answers to how these objects were used. Most research addressing modified human bone has focused on cut marks and trauma associated with warfare, trophy taking, and burial practices. The editors and contributors of Transforming the Dead document the varied and often overlooked ways that human bone was intentionally modified through drilling, incising, cutting, and polishing for utilitarian, ornamental, spiritual, or ritual use. Examples include bracelets and gorgets to be worn, as well as musical rasps, pipe stems, masks, and protective talismans. The form and function of these objects are not unusual; their construction from the remains of “another” sets them apart. Through a flexible but systematic analysis of the archaeological record, the contributors bring into focus how the careful selection, modification, and retention of particular bones or body parts of an individual after death offer insights into concepts of personhood, the body, life, and death among the prehistoric Native Americans in the Midwest. Eve A. Hargrave is a public engagement coordinator and skeletal biologist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey and coauthor of Recent Investigations into the Late Prehistoric Mortuary Behavior: The Halliday Site. Shirley J. Schermer is a former director of the Burials Program for the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist and author of Discovering Archaeology: An Activity Guide for Educators. Kristin M. Hedman is an associate director of the Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials Program and skeletal biologist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey and coauthor of Hill Prairie Mounds: The Osteology of a Late Middle Mississippian Mortuary Population. Robin M. Lillie is a skeletal biologist for the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist Burials Program and coauthor of Dubuque’s Forgotten Cemetery: Excavating a Nineteenth-century Burial Ground in a Twenty-first-century City.
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Edited by Eve A. Hargrave, Shirley J. Schermer, Kristin M. Hedman, and Robin M. Lillie
MAY 6 X 9 / 392 PAGES / 64 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1861-1 / 69.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8809-6 / 69.95 EBOOK “In the seminal The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians, editors Richard Chacon and David Dye demonstrated that prehistoric and historic Native Americans cut off and displayed human body parts. Transforming the Dead now shows the other side of the coin: that human bone was used in everyday life and special rituals in prehistoric Native American culture. No other book on the market presents what these authors have.” —Keith Jacobi, author of Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery
CONTRIBUTORS Kathleen T. Blue / Christopher Carr / Dawn E. Cobb / Della Collins Cook / Paul D. Emanovsky / Eve A. Hargrave / Kristin M. Hedman / Cheryl A. Johnston / Anne B. Lee / Robin M. Lillie / Cheryl Ann Munson / Stephen P. Nawrocki / Anna Novotny / Mary Lucas Powell / Shirley J. Schermer / Maria Ostendorf Smith / Linea Sundstrom / Katie J. Zejdlik
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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction James B. Stoltman
CERAMIC PETROGRAPHY and
HOPEWELL INTERACTION
James B. Stoltman
APRIL 6 X 9 / 248 PAGES / 37 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1859-8 / 69.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8807-2 / 69.95 EBOOK “Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction is archaeological analysis and interpretation of the highest order. It is a monumental work and cements Stoltman’s reputation as being among the very best in the profession. The book is a ‘must own and read’ volume for prehistoric archaeologists in the eastern United States and beyond.” —Robert C. Mainfort Jr., author of Pinson Mounds: Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth and Sam Dellinger: Raiders of the Lost Arkansas and coeditor of Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective “In beautifully written, concise fashion, Stoltman presents the results of years of comparative research with Hopewell and Hopewell-like pottery from Ohio and from many sites in the greater Southeast. The petrographic methods he has developed offer a logical and elegant technique for objectively classifying ‘local’ ware and for differentiating truly nonlocal wares from idiosyncratic local products. Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction will be of fundamental significance to archaeologists interested in the Woodland period. It also has broad significance to researchers who employ pottery to discern exchange patterns and provenance.” —Ann S. Cordell, author of Continuity and Change in Apalachee Pottery Manufacture: A Technological Comparison of Apalachee-style and Colono Ware Pottery from French Colonial Old Mobile and Mission San Luis de Talimali
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Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction is a highly innovative study in which James B. Stoltman uses petrography to reveal previously undetectable evidence of cultural interaction among Hopewell societies of the Ohio Valley region and the contemporary peoples of the Southeast. Petrography is the minute examination by microscope of rock and mineral samples for the purpose of determining precisely their mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction, by adapting petrography to the study of pottery, Stoltman offers a powerful new set of tools that enable fact-based and rigorous identification of pottery. Stoltman’s subject is the cultural interaction among the “Hopewell interaction sphere,” societies of the Ohio Valley region and contemporary peoples of the Southeast. Inferring social and commercial relationships between disparate communities by determining whether objects found in one settlement originated there or elsewhere is a foundational technique of archaeology. The technique, however, rests on the informed but necessarily imperfect visual inspection of objects by archaeologists. Petrography greatly amplifies archaeologists’ ability to determine objects’ provenance with greater precision and less guesswork. Using petrography to study a vast quantity of pottery samples sourced from Hopewell communities, Stoltman is able for the first time to establish which items are local, which are local but atypical, and which originated elsewhere. Another exciting possibility with petrography is to further determine the home source of objects that came from afar. Thus, combining traditional qualitative techniques with a wealth of new quantitative data, Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction offers a map of social and trade relationships between communities within and beyond the Hopewell interaction sphere with great precision. Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction provides a clear and concise explanation of petrographic methods, Stoltman’s findings about Hopewell and Southeastern ceramics in various sites, and the fascinating discovery that visits to Hopewell centers by Southeastern Native Americans were not only for trade purposes but more for such purposes as pilgrimages, vision- and power-questing, healing, and the acquisition of knowledge. James B. Stoltman is a leading expert on the prehistory of the Midwest. He is the author of Laurel Culture in Minnesota and Groton Plantation: An Archaeological Study of a South Carolina Locality and the editor of New Perspectives on Cahokia: Views from the Periphery. He has also written numerous research articles and reviews and served as president of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society and Wisconsin Archaeological Survey.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Public Administration in the Information Age
Surveillance, Transparency, and
Akhlaque Haque
Democracy p u b l i c a d m i n i s t r at i o n
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Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy investigates public administration’s increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many public administrators and the public to grasp the consequences of their choices. Akhlaque Haque sees the contradiction at the core of a public that seeks services that require a level of data collection that triggers fears of a tyrannical police state. In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. In Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy, Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that this pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology (IT) enables sophisticated and well-intentioned public services that nevertheless risk deforming public policy decision-making. In chapter 1, Haque explains that information has become a vital resource, offering a theoretical framework for its analysis. In chapter 2, he shows that an organization’s information-gathering skill is reflected in its IT sophistication, but warns that successful IT strategies can by stunted by symbolic but shallow gestures such as the appointment of a “Chief Information Officer.” Chapter 3 outlines how the dependence on IT can create a reflex for IT solutions that fail to reflect the values of the citizenry they’re intended to serve. Chapter 4 posits that IT’s potential as a tool for human development depends on how civil servants and citizens actively engage in identifying desired outcomes, map IT solutions to those outcomes, and routinize the applications of those solutions. This leads to his call in chapter 5 for the development of entrepreneurs who generate innovative solutions to critical human needs. In his powerful summary in chapter 6, Haque recaps possible answers to the question: “What is the best way a public institution can apply technology to improving the human condition?” Haque masterfully flexes between crisp logical arguments and a deep empathy for human values. He finds apt metaphors that bring multifaceted scenarios into clear focus for experts and laymen alike. Engrossing, challenging, and important, Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy is essential reading for both policy makers as well as the great majority of readers and citizens engaged in contemporary arguments about the role of government, public health and security, individual privacy, data collection, and surveillance.
Akhlaque Haque AUGUST 6 X 9 / 184 PAGES / 6 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1877-2 / 49.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8876-8 / 49.95 EBOOK “Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy addresses a key question for today’s public administrators. The Janus-faced nature of emerging social media and IT breakthroughs are apparent. On one face, these technologies can both liberate societies and individuals and give citizens a more meaningful voice in public policy-making. On the other, the very same technology can stifle, monitor, and control individuals, agencies, and societies in unprecedented ways. Haque makes a clarion call for scholars and practitioners not only to be alert to the ‘two faces’ of technology but also to take steps to ensure that what de Tocqueville called ‘democratic administration’ triumphs over the field’s dominant focus on bureaucratic administration.” —Robert F. Durant, author of Why Public Service Matters: Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy and editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy
Akhlaque Haque is an associate professor of government at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His scholarship has appeared widely in peer-reviewed journals, among them Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, Social Science Computer Review, Public Administration Quarterly, and the International Journal of Public Administration. Public Administration: Criticism and Creativity Camilla Stivers, series editor
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HISTORY / LATIN AMERICA / MEXICO
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876 Douglas W. Richmond Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of Yucatán’s complex and violent history that expands and revises perceptions of liberal as well as Second Empire politics in Yucatán from 1855 to 1876. The Yucatán peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. From the arrival of European explorers, native Mayan peoples with successful traditions and internecine conflicts grappled with outside forces attempting to graft a new template of life and politics on it by force. Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán provides a rigorously researched study of the vexed and bloody period of 1855 to 1876, during which successive national governments imposed, replaced, and restored liberal policies.
APRIL 6 X 9 / 184 PAGES / 10 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS / 2 MAPS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1870-3 / 49.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8821-8 / 49.95 EBOOK “Richmond provides a detailed reconstruction of gubernatorial politics and their effect on popular mobilization. The material on high political struggles during the Restored Republic is particularly instructive. A book like this, focused more intently on the topic of Yucatecan politics, will be a great benefit to the field.” —Terry Rugeley, author of Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatan, 1800–1880 and editor of Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from NineteenthCentury Yucatan “This book makes an original and significant contribution to the field in that it offers a political and social history of the region that is lacking in English and that covers a time period that has not been treated to this extent before.” —Paul Hart, author of Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840–1910
Synthesizing extensive and heterogeneous sources, Douglas W. Richmond covers three tumultuous political upheavals of this period: first, how Mexico’s fledgling republic attempted to impose a liberal ideology at odds with traditional Mayan culture on Yucatán; then, how the French-backed regime of Emperor Maximilian began to reform Yucatan; and finally how the republican forces of Benito Juárez restored the liberal hegemony. Many issues spurred resistance to the liberal governments. Imposition of free trade policies, the suppression of civil rights, and persecution of the Catholic Church mobilized white opposition to liberal governors. Mayans fought the seizure of their communal lands. A longstanding desire for regional autonomy united virtually all Yucatecans. Richmond analyzes these shifts precisely for scholars while remaining accessible to general readers fascinated by Mexico’s complex history. He advances the thought-provoking argument that Yucatán both fared better under the Maximilian’s Second Empire than under the liberal republic and would have thrived more had the Second Empire not collapsed. The most violent and bloody manifestation of these broad conflicts was the long-running Caste War (Guerra de Castas), the most severe and sustained peasant revolt in Latin American history. Where other scholars have advocated the simplistic position that the war was a Mayan uprising designed to re-establish a mythical past civilization, Richmond’s sophisticated recounting of political developments from 1855 to 1876 restores nuance and complexity to this pivotal time in Yucatecan history. Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán is a welcome addition to scholarship about Yucatán and about state consolidation, empire, and regionalism. Douglas W. Richmond is professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is author of The Mexican Nation: Historical Continuity and Modern Change and the coeditor of The Mexican Revolution: Conflict and Consolidation, 1910–1940 and Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846–1848, among other works.
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CARIBBEAN STUDIES / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Colonizing Paradise
Colonizing Paradise
Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies Jefferson Dillman
Landscape & Empire
in the British West Indies
Colonizing Paradise explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean from the time of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the region through the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Myriad fine degrees of ambivalence separated extreme views of the region as an idyllic archipelago or a nest of Satanic entrapments. Dillman shows the manner in which these authentic or spontaneous depictions of the environment were shaped to form a narrative that undergirded Britain’s economic and political aims in the region. Because British sentiments in the Caribbean located danger and evil not just in indigenous populations but Spanish Catholics as well, Dillman’s work begins with the arrival of Spanish explorers and conquistadors. This book spans the arrival of English ships and continues through the early nineteenth century and the colonial era. Dillman shows how colonial entrepreneurs, travelers, and settlers engaged in a disquieted dialogue with the landscape itself, a dialogue the examination of which sheds fresh light on the culture of the Anglophone colonial Caribbean. Of particular note are the numerous mythical, metaphorical, and Biblical lenses through which Caribbean landscapes were viewed, from early views of the Caribbean landscape as a New World paradise to later depictions of the landscape as a battleground between the forces of Christ and Satan. The ideal of an Edenic landscape persisted, but largely, Dillman argues, as one that needed to be wrested from the forces of darkness, principally through the work of colonization, planting, cataloguing, and a rational ordering of the environment. Ultimately, although planters and their allies continued to promote pastoral and picturesque views of the Caribbean landscape, the goal of such narratives was to rationalize British rule as well as to mask and obscure emerging West Indian problems such as diseases, slavery, and rebellions. Colonizing Paradise offers much to readers interested in Caribbean, British, and colonial history.
JEFFER SON DILLM AN
JUNE 6 X 9 / 256 PAGES / 10 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1858-1 / 54.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8804-1 / 54.95 EBOOK “In this enthralling and ambitious book, Jefferson Dillman traces the continuities in how the Caribbean landscape was represented by Europeans with a particular concentration on the West Indies, with its prosperous plantations and horrific slavery. He also shows, in an astute and convincing analysis, how planters were able to imagine the Caribbean as a picturesque place but failed to convince others that it fitted ideas of the pastoral. A beautifully written, intelligent, and evocative account of an important theme in West Indian history and art history.” —Trevor Burnard, author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 “A critical close reading of evolving images of the wild and cultivated landscapes of the islands, and a revelatory interpretation of how these images constituted a Manichean microcosm that juxtaposed the picturesque and the horrific, heaven and hell.” — B.W. Higman, author of A Concise History of the Caribbean and Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Jefferson Dillman is an assistant professor of history at Temple College in Texas.
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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY / CARIBBEAN STUDIES
Marilyn McKillop Wells
Am o n g th e
Garifuna
Among the Garifuna
Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast Marilyn McKillop Wells
fam i ly tale s an d e th n og r ap h y f ro m th e Car i b b e an Coa st
Among the Garifuna: Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast is an intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twentieth-century Caribbean, offering original insights on daily life, gender, culture, ethnicity, and religion. Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. They are descendants of the “Black Carib,” whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.
AUGUST 6 X 9 / 272 PAGES / 1 B&W ILLUSTRATION ISBN: 978-0-8173-1871-0 / 54.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8824-9 / 54.95 EBOOK “Wells has written the book in a way that will delight the general reader. There’s no beginning or ending, only a now, an ethnographic present, a page of an ongoing life defined by family and friends, shared history, and persistent change.” —Jon L. Gibson, author of Spirit Wind and coeditor of Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn McKillop Wells found herself embarking on an “improbable journey” when she was invited to the area to do fieldwork with the added challenge of revealing the “real” Garifuna. Upon her arrival on the island, Wells is warmly embraced by a local family, the Diegos, and sets to work recording life events and indigenous perspectives on polygyny, Afro-indigenous identity, ancestor-worshiping religion, and more, resulting in a lovingly intimate, earthy, human drama. The family narrative is organized chronologically. Part I, The Old Ways, is comprised of vignettes that introduce the family backstory with dialogue as imagined by Wells based on the family history she was told. We meet the family progenitors, Margaret and Cervantes Diego, during their courtship, experience Margaret’s pain as Cervantes takes a second wife, witness the death of Cervantes and ensuing mourning rituals, follow the return of Margaret and the children to their previous home in British Honduras, and observe the emergence of the children’s personalities. In Part II, Living There, Wells continues the story when she arrives in Belize and meets the Diego children, including the major protagonist, Tas. In Tas’s household she learns about foods and manners and watches family squabbles and reconciliations. In these mini-stories, Wells interweaves cultural information on the Garifuna people with first-person narrative and transcription of their words, assembling these into an enthralling slice of life. Part III, The Ancestor Party, takes the reader through a fascinating postmortem ritual that is enacted to facilitate the journey of the spirits of the honored ancestors to the supreme supernatural. Among the Garifuna contributes to the literary genre known as narrative anthropology, ethnographic fiction, or feminist ethnography, in the tradition of Zora Neal Hurston and other women writing culture in a personal way. Anthropologists, Caribbeanists, Latin Americanists, students, and general readers alike will warm to this family story as an instant classic. Marilyn McKillop Wells is professor emerita of anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University. As a medical anthropologist, she conducted fieldwork in Central America, West Africa, East Africa, and Papua New Guinea.
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RHETORIC / COMMUNICATIONS / PHOTOJOURNALISM
Rhetorical Exposures
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography Christopher Carter
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate the political dimensions of photographs that highlight social injustice. Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs—often now called “imagetexts”—both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film. Carter’s carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis’s heart-rending photos of Manhattan’s poor in late nineteenth-century New York, the iconic images of tenant farmers in west Alabama from James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Ted Streshinsky’s images of 1960s social movements, Camilo José Vergara’s photographic landscapes of urban dereliction in the 1970s, and Chandra McCormick’s portraits of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward scarred by Hurricane Katrina. While not ascribing specifically political or Marxist intentions to the photographers discussed, Carter frames his arguments in a class-based dialectic that addresses material want as an ineluctable result of social inequality. He argues that social documentary photos have the powerful capacity to prompt viewers to confront injustice. Though photography may induce socially disruptive experiences, it remains vulnerable to the same power dynamics it subverts. Therefore, Carter offers a “rhetoric of exposure” that outlines how such social documentary images can be treated as highly tensioned rhetorical objects. His framework enables the analysis of photographs as heterogeneous records of the interaction of social classes and expressions of specific built environments. Rhetorical Exposures also discusses how photographs interact with oral and print media and relate to public memorials, murals, and graphic novels. As the creation and dissemination of new media continues to evolve in an environment of increasing anxiety about growing financial inequality, Rhetorical Exposures offers a very apt and timely discussion of the ways social documentary photography is created, employed, and understood. Christopher Carter is an associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, where he also serves as composition director of the department. He is the author of Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate Academy and a past editor of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. His essays have appeared in College English, JAC, Rhetoric Review, and Works and Days.
CHRISTOPHER CARTER
APRIL 6 X 9 / 216 PAGES / 19 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1862-8 / 44.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8810-2 / 44.95 EBOOK “Rhetorical Exposures is a fascinating and well-argued book. It admirably balances theoretical-conceptual exposition and criticalanalytical prose about visual, material, and verbal discourses. Carter’s commitment to a unabashedly dialectical, class-based reading of social documentary photography is significant. Such an analysis frames the book’s photographers as forceful rhetoricians with political agenda.” —Bruce E. Gronbeck, coauthor of Communication Criticism: Rhetoric, Social Codes, Cultural Studies and Critical Approaches to Television “Carter positions his ‘rhetoric of exposure’ in current critical and theoretical discussions, and yet admirably never loses sight of its grounding in the actual photographs and struggles of the photographers. This convincing and informative work maintains a critical edge without condescending to the photographers as conscientious agents.” —Thomas W. Benson, author of Writing JFK: Presidential Rhetoric and the Press in the Bay of Pigs Crisis and Posters for Peace: Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action and series editor of the University of South Carolina Press’s “Rhetoric and Communication” series
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RHETORIC / URBAN STUDIES / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Suburban Dreams Suburban Dreams imagining and building the good life
Imagining and Building the Good Life Greg Dickinson
Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life explores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the “good life.” Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson’s Suburban Dreams offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the “good life” their residents pursue.
GREG DICKINSON
JUNE 6 X 9 / 288 PAGES / 17 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS ISBN: 978-0-8173-1863-5 / 49.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8811-9 / 49.95 EBOOK “Suburban Dreams represents an original contribution to rhetorical studies. It cements Dickinson’s existing reputation as one of the foremost authorities in rhetorical studies on the rhetoric of space, place, and consumer culture.” —Bradford Vivian, author of Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again and Being Made Strange: Rhetoric Beyond Representation “Greg Dickinson has for some time been on the leading edge of research into the communicative and rhetorical dimensions of space and place. This book extends that important program of research by considering American suburbia, a long-standing target of scorn and dismissal. Dickinson skillfully analyzes how suburbia serves as a locus of desire, motivation, and affiliation by its detractorsHe is able to place the suburb at or near the center of American popular culture, and his work will demand fresh attention to that space/ place. This book will be of interest to scholars in rhetoric, communication studies, geography, American studies, architecture, and farflung students of the city.” —Barry S. Brummett, author of Rhetoric in Popular Culture, Techniques of Close Reading, and Rhetorical Homologies: Form, Culture, Experience
Dickinson’s analysis suggests that the good life is rooted in memory and locality, both of which are foundations for creating a sense of safety central to the success of suburbs. His argument is situated first in a discussion of the intersections among buildings, cities, and the good life and the challenges to these relationships wrought by the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. The argument then turns to rich, fully-embodied analyses of suburban films and a series of archetypal suburban landscapes to explore how memory, locality, and safety interact in constructing the suburban imaginary. Moving from the pastoralism of residential neighborhoods and chain restaurants like Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill, through the megachurch’s veneration of suburban malls to the lifestyle center’s nostalgic invocation of urban downtowns, Dickinson complicates traditional understandings of the ways suburbs situate residents and visitors in time and place. The analysis suggests that the suburban good life is devoted to family. Framed by the discourses of consumer culture, the suburbs often privilege walls and roots to an expansive vision of worldliness. At the same time, developments such as farmers markets suggest a continued striving by suburbanites to form relationships in a richer, more organic fashion. Dickinson’s work eschews casually dismissive attitudes toward the suburbs and the pursuit of the good life. Rather, he succeeds in showing how by identifying the positive rhetorical resources the suburbs supply, it is in fact possible to engage with the suburbs intentionally, thoughtfully, and rigorously. Beyond an analysis of the suburban imaginary, Suburban Dreams demonstrates how a critical engagement with everyday places can enrich daily life. The book provides much of interest to students and scholars of rhetoric, communication studies, public memory, American studies, architecture, and urban planning. Greg Dickinson is a professor of communication studies at Colorado State University and coeditor of Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. In 1995 he received the Gerald R. Miller Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association and in 2012 received the NCA’s Golden Anniversary Monograph Award. Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique John Louis Lucaites, series editor
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RHETORIC / POLITICAL SCIENCE / MILITARY HISTORY
Hunt the Devil
A Demonology of US War Culture Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner
huntthe devil A Demonology of US War Culture
Hunt the Devil explains the origins and processes of the repetitive American reflex to demonize and then wage war against perceived opponents as well as ways to break the cycle. Hunt the Devil is a timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war culture. In it, authors Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner examine the origins of the Devil figure in the national psyche and review numerous examples from US history of the demonization of America’s perceived opponents. Their analysis demonstrates that American military deployments are often part of a cycle of mythical projection wherein the Devil repeatedly appears anew and must be exorcised through redemptive acts of war, even at the cost of curtailing democratic values. Meticulously researched, documented, and argued, Hunt the Devil opens with contemporary images of the US’s global war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. In five chapters devoted to the demonization of evildoers, witches, Indians, dictators, and Reds by American writers, in presidential rhetoric, and in popular culture, Ivie and Giner show how the use of demonization in the war on terror is only the most recent manifestation of a process that has recurred throughout American history. In a sixth chapter, the authors introduce the archetype of the Trickster. Though not opposed to the Devil per se, the Trickster’s democratic impulses have often provided a corrective antidote to the corrosive and distorting effects of demonization. Invoking the framework of Carl Jung’s shadow aspect, Hunt the Devil offers the Trickster as a figure who can break the cycle of demonization and war. The role of the mythic Devil in the American psyche has profound implications, not just for American diplomacy and the use of American arms in the world, but for the possibility of domestic peace within an increasingly diverse society. Hunt the Devil provides much of interest to readers and scholars in the fields of war, rhetorical studies, American Studies, US political culture, Jungian psychology, and mythography. Robert L. Ivie is a professor emeritus of American studies and communication and culture at Indiana University. He is the author of Democracy and America’s War on Terror. Oscar Giner is a professor of theatre and film at Arizona State University. He is at work on a book-length cultural history of the Scarface films and their relations to American identity, gangsterism, and hip-hop culture.
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Robert L. Ivie
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JULY 6 X 9 / 216 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1869-7 / 49.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8819-5 / 49.95 EBOOK “The Devil theme in American political discourse is a hugely important topic. Far too little has been written about it by responsible scholars, so Hunt the Devil is a welcome addition to an all-too-small literature. The book is current and takes full account of the post-9/11 world. It also focuses on the link between internal and external evil, a very important theme in US history that has received far too scant attention. Finally, it enlivens rigorous, well-documented scholarship with politically engaged prose. Most books in this area do one or the other, while Ivie and Giner blend the two with great skill. I know of no other book that does all these things. An impressive achievement.” —Ira Chernus, author of American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea and Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin “Ivie and Giner’s Hunt the Devil provides an excellent and original analysis of the role of demonology in American history and politics, and a comprehensive and well-grounded analysis of specific figures and sites of demonology, encompassing Evildoers, Witches, Indians, Dictators, Reds, and Tricksters, all interpreted as impediments to democracy, which the authors champion.” —Douglas Kellner, author of Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy: Terrorism, War, and Election Battles
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The Great Melding
War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America’s New Conservatism Glenn Feldman The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America’s New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century. Audacious in its scope, subtle in its analysis, and persuasive in its arguments, The Great Melding is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s magisterial recounting of the South’s monumental transformation from a Reconstruction-era citadel of Democratic Party inertia to a cauldron of GOP agitation. In this pioneering study, he shows how the transitional years after World War II, the Dixiecrat episode, and the early 1950s formed a pivotal sequence of events that altered America’s political landscape in profound, fundamental, and unexpected ways.
AUGUST 6 X 9 / 416 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1866-6 / 59.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8814-0 / 59.95 EBOOK “Feldman makes a powerful argument that race—first crudely and then subtly—has been an essential element in the development of southern conservative political developments from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the era of segregation and into the more recent past. Some critics may resist Feldman’s argument that racism has always been interwoven into economic ideas, but they will find it difficult to refute the persuasive evidence he has amassed and marshaled here.” —Dan T. Carter, author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics, and From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994 “Feldman’s work is an impressive dissection of the southern break from the national Democratic Party, superbly delineating in exhaustive detail the origins of the 1948 Dixiecrat Movement as a precursor to the Republican Party’s dominance in the South. He clearly documents the hegemonic role of white supremacy in southern cultural, economic, and political identity and convincingly argues for the inextricable association between racism and economic advantage. The Great Melding makes a valuable contribution to southern political history as well as to the history of party alignment, American politics, and of course the role of race and politics.” —Robert Bruno, author of Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown and Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches
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Feldman’s landmark The Irony of the Solid South dismantled the myth of the New Deal consensus, proving it to be only a fleeting alliance of fissiparous factions; The Great Melding further examines how the South broke away from that consensus. Exploring the role of race and white supremacy, Feldman documents and explains the roles of economics, religion, and emotive appeals to patriotism in southern voting patterns. His probing and original analysis includes a discussion of the limits of southern liberalism and a fresh examination of the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948. Feldman convincingly argues that the Dixiecrats—often dismissed as a transitory footnote in American politics—served as a template for the modern conservative movement. Now a predictably conservative stronghold, Alabama at the time was viewed by national political strategists as a battleground and bellwether. Masterfully synthesizing a vast range of sources, Feldman shows that Alabama, far from being predictable, was one of the few states where voters chose between the competing ideologies of the Democrats, Republicans, and Dixiecrats. Writing in his lively and provocative style, Feldman demonstrates that the events he recounts in Alabama between 1942 and Dwight Eisenhower’s 1952 election encapsulate a rare moment of fluidity in American politics, one in which the New Deal consensus shattered and the Democratic and Republican parties fought off a third-party revolt only to find themselves irrevocably altered by their success. The Great Melding will fascinate historians, political scientists, political strategists, and readers of political non-fiction. Glenn Feldman is a professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the author Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government, The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944, and Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915–1949. The Modern South Glenn Feldman and Kari Frederickson, series editors
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Establishing and Reformulating American LandGrant Universities, 1865–1930 Edited by Alan I Marcus Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists. Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of their existence. In myriad scenes, vignettes, and episodes from the history of land-grant colleges, these essays demonstrate the defining characteristic of these institutions: their willingness to proclaim and pursue science in the service of the publics and students they served. The Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 created a series of institutions—at least one in every state and territory—with now familiar names: Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Arizona, and University of California, to name a few. These schools opened educational opportunities and pathways to a significant fraction of the American public and gave the United States a global edge in science, technical innovation, and agriculture. Science as Service provides an essential body of literature for understanding the transformations of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act in 1862 as well as the considerable impact they had on the history of the United States. Historians of science, technology, and agriculture, along with rural sociologists, public decision and policy makers, educators, and higher education administrators will find this an essential addition to their book collections. Alan I Marcus is the author or coauthor of several publications, including The Future Is Now: Science and Technology Policy in the United States Since 1950, Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam, Cancer from Beef: The DES Controversy, Federal Food Regulation and Consumer Confidence in Modern America, and Technology in America: A Brief History. NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine Alan I Marcus, Mark D. Hersey, and Alexandra E. Hui, series editors
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AUGUST 6 X 9 / 360 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1868-0 / 59.95S CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8818-8 / 59.95 EBOOK “Science as Service is nothing less than a remarkable collection of first-rate articles on topics at once wonderfully diverse and intellectually complementary to one another. Marcus surely deserves enormous credit for transforming so many conference papers into a most readable volume. . . . Individually and collectively, the essays greatly enlarge our knowledge of and appreciation for the impact of land-grant institutions on American society.” —Howard P. Segal, author of Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America and Utopias: A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities “This collection of essays is more than the sum of its parts. . . . It has a thesis that is clearly argued by the contributors. There is no ambivalence in the argument. . . . All of the essays [are] engaging, and . . . scholars from many disciplines will find all or parts of it informative and useful, particularly historians of agriculture, science, technology, and education. . . . Science as Service should have a long shelf life and inform scores of scholars about the nature and development of the land-grant system for decades to come.” —R. Douglas Hurt, author of African American Life in the Rural South, 1900–1950 and The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century CONTRIBUTORS Robert B. Fairbanks / Mark R. Finlay / Roger L. Geiger / Richard F. Hirsh / Alan I Marcus / Sara E. Morris / Paul K. Nienkamp / Debra A. Reid / Micah Rueber / Bruce E. Seely / Nathan M. Sorber
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13 Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey
Gregory Howard
Ramey, Steven W.
Abram, Susan M.
Haque, Akhlaque
Rhetorical Exposures
Among the Garifuna
Hargrave, Eve A.
Richmond, Douglas W.
Astonishment Tapes, The
Hedman, Kristin M.
Rodning, Christopher B.
Bilbro, Jeffrey
Hospice
Schermer, Shirley J.
Blaser, Robin
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the
Schuster, Joshua
Carter, Christopher
Bluing of American Literature
Science as Service
Center Places and Cherokee Towns
Hubbs, G. Ward
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War
Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction
Hunt the Devil
Seed
Immersive Words
Shapiro, Paul A.
Collards
Ivie, Robert L.
Southern Sanctuary
Colonizing Paradise
Jarenski, Michelle
Stoltman, James B.
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942, The
Suburban Dreams
Crawford, Stanley
Lewis, Marian M.
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Davis, Edward H.
Lillie, Robin M.
Tracy, Steven C.
Dickinson, Greg
Loving God’s Wildness
Transforming the Dead
Dillman, Jefferson
Marcus, Alan I
Wells, Marilyn M.
Ecology of Modernism
Morgan, John T.
What I Say
Feldman, Glenn
Mulcahy, Greg
Windham, Kathryn Tucker
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War
Nichols, Miriam
Writing Religion
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