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ON THE COVER Image from Lenny Wells's Pecan: America's Native Nut Tree. Squirrels are one of the primary predators and dispersal agents of the pecan. Photo courtesy of Harry Bowden.
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NATURE / AGRICULTURE / HORTICULTURE
Pecan
America’s Native Nut Tree Lenny Wells
Written in a manner suitable for a popular audience and including color photographs and recipes for some common uses of the nut, Pecan: America’s Native Nut Tree gathers scientific, historical, and anecdotal information to present a comprehensive view of the largely unknown story of the pecan. From the first written record of it made by the Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca in 1528 to its nineteenth-century domestication and its current development into a multimillion dollar crop, the pecan tree has been broadly appreciated for its nutritious nuts and its beautiful wood. In Pecan: America’s Native Nut Tree, Lenny Wells explores the rich and fascinating story of one of North America’s few native crops, long an iconic staple of southern foods and landscapes. Fueled largely by a booming international interest in the pecan, new discoveries about the remarkable health benefits of the nut, and a renewed enthusiasm for the crop in the United States, the pecan is currently experiencing a renaissance with the revitalization of America’s pecan industry. The crop’s transformation into a vital component of the US agricultural economy has taken many surprising and serendipitous twists along the way. Following the ravages of cotton farming, the pecan tree and its orchard ecosystem helped to heal the rural southern landscape. Today, pecan production offers a unique form of agriculture that can enhance biodiversity and protect the soil in a sustainable and productive manner. Among the many colorful anecdotes that make the book fascinating reading are the story of André Pénicaut’s introduction of the pecan to Europe, the development of a Latin name based on historical descriptions of the same plant over time, the use of explosives in planting orchard trees, the accidental discovery of zinc as an important micronutrient, and the birth of “kudzu clubs” in the 1940s promoting the weed as a cover crop in pecan orchards. Lenny Wells is an associate professor in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia. His work with the Cooperative Extension Service is focused primarily on developing sustainable methods of pecan culture. Wells edited the Southeastern Pecan Growers Handbook and has been a regular columnist for Pecan South, The Pecan Grower, the Albany Herald, and Georgia Gardening.
MARCH 7 X 9 / 320 PAGES 35 COLOR FIGURES / 8 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP ISBN: 978-0-8173-1887-1 / $29.95t CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-8896-6 / $29.95 EBOOK “I have known Lenny Wells for quite some time and was well aware of his expertise as a pecan scientist and extension specialist. What I was not aware of was his ability as a storyteller. I was captivated by the story, and riveted by the accounts as he related them. The book is not only a unique history of the pecan, but an interesting account of a significant part of American history.” —William D. Goff, senior editor for Pecan Production in the Southeast “Lenny Wells has done a masterful job weaving together many topics regarding the pecan—tree improvement, propagation, horticulture, and the related topics of environmental science, natural history, and the duality of human planning and human caprice—relating it to the history and culture of North America over the last four hundred years.” —Henry Hughes, director of education at the Birming- ham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama
Published in cooperation with the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ellis Brothers Pecan, Inc., and The Mason Pecans Group
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SOUTHERN CULTURE / ALABAMA / MEMOIR
Earline’s Pink Party
The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman Elizabeth Findley Shores
In Earline’s Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family’s scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother’s life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A compelling, genre-bending page-turner, Earline’s Pink Party: The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman analyzes the life of a small-city matron in the Deep South. A combination of biography, material culture analysis, social history, and memoir, this volume offers a new way of thinking about white racism through Shores’s conclusion that Earline’s earliest childhood experiences determined her worldview. Set against a fully drawn background of geography and culture and studded with detailed investigations of social rituals (such as women’s parties) and objects (such as books, handwritten recipes, and fabric scraps), Earline’s Pink Party tells the story of an ordinary woman, the grandmother Shores never knew. Looking for more than the details and drama of bourgeois Southern life, however, the author digs into generations of family history to understand how Earline viewed the racial terror that surrounded her during the Jim Crow years in this fairly typical southern town. Shores seeks to narrow a gap in the scholarship of the American South, which has tended to marginalize and stereotype well-to-do white women who lived after Emancipation. Exploring her grandmother’s home and its contents within the context of Tuscaloosa society and historical events, Shores evaluates the belief that women like Earline consciously engaged in performative rituals in order to sustain the “fantastical” view of the white nobility and the contented black underclass. With its engaging narrative, illustrations, and structure, this fascinating book should interest scholars of memory, class identity, and regional history, as well as sophisticated lay readers who enjoy Southern history, foodways, genealogy, and material culture. A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Elizabeth Findley Shores is the author of On Harper’s Trail: Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain as well as the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on early childhood education services. She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
APRIL 6 X 9 / 344 PAGES / 22 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP ISBN: 978-0-8173-1934-2 / $29.95t CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9068-6 / $29.95 EBOOK
“Shores’s smooth and at times lyrical prose, use of abundant descriptive details, rich variety of source materials, and well-paced narrative create a coherent and moving exploration of female identity, race, and southern culture in the first half of the twentieth century.” —Jennifer Horne, author of Tell the World You’re a Wildflower and coeditor of All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality “The concept is original, and it fits into a framework of recent scholarly interest in racial formation, whiteness, and the relationship of individual people to material culture and the built environment. Earline’s Pink Party will be of interest to scholars exploring these areas as well as a general audience interested in the local history of the region.” —Marilyn Motz, coeditor of Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne
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US HISTORY / AMERICAN STUDIES
On Strawberry Hill
The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling Paula Ivaska Robbins Foreword by Char Miller
While not a biography of legendary American forester and conservationist Gifford Pinchot, On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling explores a vital and transformative facet of his personal life that, until now, has remained relatively unknown. At its core, Paula Ivaska Robbins’s On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling is a human interest story that cuts a neat slice across nineteenth-century America by bringing into juxtaposition a wide array of topics germane to the period—the national fascination with spiritualism, the death scourge that was tuberculosis, the rise of sanitariums and tourism in the southern highlands, the expansion of railroad travel, the rage for public parklands and playgrounds, and the development of professional forestry and green preservation—all through the very personal love story of two young blue bloods. Born into a wealthy New York family, Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946) served two terms as Pennsylvania’s governor and was the first chief of the US Forest Service, which today manages 192 million acres across the country. Pinchot also created the Society of American Foresters, the organization that oversees his chosen profession, and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the oldest forestry school in America. Ultimately, he and his friend President Theodore Roosevelt made forestry the focus of a national land conservation movement. But before these accomplishments, Gifford Pinchot fell in love with Laura Houghteling, daughter of the head of the Chicago Board of Trade, while she recuperated from “consumption” at Strawberry Hill, the family retreat in Asheville, North Carolina. In his twenties at the time and still a budding forester, Pinchot was working just across the French Broad River at George Vanderbilt’s great undertaking, the Biltmore Estate, when the young couple’s relationship blossomed. Although Laura would eventually succumb to the disease, their brief romance left an indelible mark on Gifford, who recorded his ongoing relationship, and mental conversations, with Laura in his daily diary entries long after her death. He steadfastly remained a bachelor for twenty years while accomplishing the major highlights of his career. This poignant book focuses on that phenomenon of devotion and inspiration, providing a unique window into the private practice of spiritualism in the context of Victorian mores, while offering new perspectives on Pinchot and early American forestry. In addition, preeminent Pinchot biographer Char Miller contributes an excellent foreword.
APRIL 5.5 X 8 / 136 PAGES / 8 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP ISBN: 978-0-8173-5894-5 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9094-5 / $19.95 EBOOK
“The biggest gift On Strawberry Hill has to offer is the behind-the-scenes look at what was happening in the personal life of one of the greatest conservationists in US history.” —Meredith W. Cornett, author of Heart of Palms: My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla “On Strawberry Hill enhances our understanding of Pinchot and his life and times. An engaging read.” —Ellen Griffith Spears, author of Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town “With its focus on spiritualism and Victorian mores, On Strawberry Hill offers a unique perspective on Pinchot and early American forestry. It’s well researched and presented, telling a ‘good’ story of terminal illness, tragic death, and—dare I say—transcendent love.” —L. J. Davenport, author of Nature Journal
Paula Ivaska Robbins is an independent scholar and freelance medical editor whose authored works include The Royal Family of Concord: Samuel, Elizabeth, and Rockwood Hoar and their Friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jane Colden: America’s First Woman Botanist. Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College and the author of Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism and Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot.
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NATURE / ECOLOGY
Ecoviews Too
Ecology for All Seasons Whit Gibbons and Anne R. Gibbons
Ecoviews Too examines various human attitudes toward wildlife and the environment, focusing on seasonal occurrences and natural adaptations, in an engaging and informative manner. Whit Gibbons and Anne R. Gibbons’s Ecoviews Too: Ecology for All Seasons is based on the popular weekly column “Ecoviews,” published by numerous newspapers for more than thirty years. A follow-up to Ecoviews: Snakes, Snails and Environmental Tales, this lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and their habitats, and promotes awareness of pressing environmental issues. Because nature, in all its myriad and amazing manifestations, can be enjoyed all year round, this collection is conveniently divided into four sections paralleling the seasons and tracking the adaptations and responses of wildlife to the relentless changes that occur at any location over time. The ecological vignettes focus on seasonal happenings in the cycle of life. The authors not only draw parallels between the natural world and human activities but also highlight unique behaviors of various plant and animal species. They often use humor to get across their message regarding the need to protect our native species and the habitats they depend on for survival. An intriguing and captivating publication, Ecoviews Too is comprised of fifty informative essays that address ecological topics such as camouflage and mimicry, hibernation and estivation, the human need to encounter scary animals, the mysteries of plant dormancy in winter, the comeback of the wild turkey coinciding with the decline of bobwhites, the chemistry behind the color change in fall leaves, and the top ten environmental problems facing the world today. Educating, entertaining, and delighting a general audience, especially those with an interest in nature, Ecoviews Too provides a useful resource for students and scientists alike.
MARCH 5.125 X 8.5 / 224 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-5875-4 / $24.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-9083-9 / $24.95 EBOOK
“Ecoviews Too is an excellent collection of essays on ecology, natural history, and conservation, but with an abundance of philosophy and humor.” —Robert W. Hastings, author of The Lakes of Pontchartrain: Their History and Environments
Whit Gibbons is a professor emeritus of ecology at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina. He is the author of more than a dozen popular and scientific books on the reptiles and amphibians of the United States, including Their Blood Runs Cold and Poisonous Plants and Venomous Animals of Alabama and Adjoining States. He is the coauthor of Ecoviews: Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales. Anne R. Gibbons was a freelance editor and indexer until her retirement in 2014. She has worked for Columbia University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, the University of New Mexico Press, and the University of Alabama Press, among others. She is the coauthor of Ecoviews: Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales.
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FICTION
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman Stories
Aimee Parkison Foreword by Stephen Graham Jones
Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic story collection of unusual brilliance and rare humor. In Aimee Parkison’s Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, lovers find unexpected romance in cramped spaces, fast food addicts struggle through cheeseburger addiction, and the splendor of nature competes with the violence of television. All the while, a complicated and precarious present dawns onto a new world where wealthy women wear children’s eyes as jewelry and those in need of money hawk their faces only to forever mourn what parts of themselves they have sold to survive. Open the refrigerator door. Inside are antique jars. Open them to hear the music: Beethoven playing piano; slaves singing for freedom in plantation fields; mothers humming lullabies through the night to smallpox babies, knowing this song is the last sound their children will ever hear. As Stephen Graham Jones notes in his foreword to this prize-winning collection, “The best books . . . fold you into a darkness sparkling with life. They lock you in the refrigerator but they also pipe in some music that never repeats, and when the door starts to open, you cling tight to it, so you can have just a few minutes more. This book, it’ll be over far too fast for you, yes. But even were it five times as thick as it is now, it would still be too short. Remember, though, the best books, they’re loops. They never stop. This one still hasn’t, for me.” Aimee Parkison is the author of Woman with the Dark Horses, The Innocent Party, and The Petals of Your Eyes, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. Parkison teaches creative writing at Oklahoma State University. She has also taught as a visiting faculty member at the International Creative Writing Summer School in Athens, Greece, and as a fiction faculty member at Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.
MARCH 5.5 X 8.5 / 96 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-060-0 / $14.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-871-2 / $9.95 EBOOK
“Aimee Parkison is a shrewd, fiery, wildly poetic, politically astute writer of fiction. With Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, Parkison gifts us with deeply imagined, and often fantastic landscapes, straight from the heart of her unique imagination, but these are always, in part, sharp commentaries on the world we have to inhabit in our daily lives. Parkison’s satirical embrace, and always beautiful language, leaves you more awake to the world and unsettled in all the right ways.” —Jane McCafferty, author of One Heart and First You Try Everything “In Aimee Parkison’s ingenious collection, words and images ricochet off the walls of the page, defying logic and gravity to expose reality’s invisible footing. A kind of feminist Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Parkison’s reinvented fables, ghost tales, and murder mysteries demonstrate how absurdist extremes clear a space for the most potent polemic. Only by turning the world on its head can we see it aright: here are recognitions, simultaneously hilarious and grave.” —Mary Cappello, author of Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack
Fiction Collective Two
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FICTION
The Ace of Lightning Stephen-Paul Martin
The Ace of Lightning is a collection of stories based on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which led to World War I. Stephen-Paul Martin’s The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which triggered World War I, and the mysterious circumstances that led Gavrilo Princip to shoot and kill the heir apparent to one of Europe’s most powerful empires. Far from being a conventional work of historical fiction, Martin’s collection asks readers to think about what truly constitutes history. What would the past look like if history was written under the influence of Mad Magazine and The Twilight Zone? What happens when the assassination in Sarajevo becomes “the assassination in Sarajevo,” when Gavrilo Princip becomes “Gavrilo Princip,” when the past and the present shape a textual future that looks suspiciously like a past that never was and a present that never is? Stephen-Paul Martin is the author of many collections of fiction, including Changing the Subject, The Possibility of Music, and Instead of Confusion. Martin’s writings have appeared in more than 200 periodicals over the past 30 years, in several languages. One of his story collections, The Gothic Twilight, was nominated for the National Critics Circle Fiction Award in 1993. He teaches fiction writing in San Diego State University’s MFA program.
MARCH 5.5 X 8.5 / 304 PAGES / 1 B&W FIGURE ISBN: 978-1-57366-058-7 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-869-9 / $9.95 EBOOK
“Stephen-Paul Martin is a longtime, masterful, postmodern storyteller, whose characters’ meditations often blend together with his narrators’ essay-like ruminations in unexpected, comic, recursive, explosive, and subtle ways. Delineating a sinister, deeply absurd world which has both annihilated the capacity for laughter and repeatedly, urgently demands it, The Ace of Lightning takes us inside historical necessity, where time is fluid and Martin’s comic imagination runs wonderfully rampant.” —Mel Freilicher, author of The Encyclopedia of Rebels and The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives “Welcome to the explosion/implosion of your mind. The world addressed in Stephen-Paul Martin’s fiction blandly offers itself as a seemingly reasonable reflection of our consensual social/identity formation: the news media polluted by babbling celebrity, electronic instantaneity, narcissism, stupefying wealth, crass display; late capitalism gone hog-wild scooping up and rendering (as in a slaughterhouse) the last remnants of Enlightenment humanity; maniacal laughter as the car plunges over the cliff; the shredding of history through time warps and aggressive stupidity. No escape. You are IT! Don’t read this book; it will read you!!! Stay in your hole.” —Harry Polkinhorn, author of Raven and Analysis
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FICTION
The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman Stories
Courtney E. Morgan
The nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character, tracing a chicken-scratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old age. In unfamiliar and sometimes bizarre narrative turns, the stories in Courtney E. Morgan’s The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman traverse the gamut of female/human experience, both grounded in reality and in the irreal. Two schoolgirls culminate their sexual exploration in a surreal act of cannibalism. A sister molds her dead brother’s body into a bird. A woman gives birth to balls of twine and fur (among other things). A sex worker engages a version of herself in a brothel of prostituted body parts. Morgan tears apart a host of archetypes and tropes of femininity— dismembering them, skinning them, and then draping them one by one over her characters like fur coats—revealing them as ill-fitting, sometimes comedic, sometimes monstrous, and always insufficient, masks. Along with these skins of the cultural “feminine,” the collection tries on an array of genres—dissecting, mutating, and breeding them together—from fairy tale to horror, surrealism to confessional (non) fiction, and erotica to (un)creation myth. The book weaves around questions of sexuality, identity, and subjectivity. Mutability, instability, and liminality are foregrounded, both in content and form, character and language—blurring the lines between birth and death, death and sex, tugging at the transitional spaces of adolescence and gestation. Even as its treatment is essentialized, gender is muddied and obscured. Morgan shows off her linguistic range in this collection, from sharp-as-nails prose to lyrical moments of poetic reach—probing the extremes of the human condition through both narrative line and language itself. Courtney E. Morgan’s work has appeared in Pleiades, The American Book Review, The Red Anthology, and elsewhere. The founder and editor of The Thought Erotic, an online journal, she received her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and lives in Denver.
MARCH 5.5 X 8.5 / 216 PAGES ISBN: 978-1-57366-059-4 / $17.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-1-57366-870-5 / $9.95 EBOOK
“In The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman, Courtney E. Morgan has designed a map of the female body and a psychosexual journey. Weaving her way through different storytelling modes, including fairy tale and horror, fiction and nonfiction, literal and lyric, these creepy but also vital stories create, decreate, and recreate the skins we live in: language and the body. Breathtakingly.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water: A Memoir “Courtney Morgan’s dark and surprising stories turn sharp corners. You read and discover that the passage between life and death is the threshold you already crossed. Morgan is a writer whose sentences produce what they describe: the disorderly sensation of a threatening desire.” —Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan, Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith, and A Compendium of Domestic Incidents “The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman is disarming and smart and spooky. I’ve never read anything quite like it.” —Noy Holland, author of Bird and Swim for the Little One First
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ALABAMA / US HISTORY / HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION
Getting Out of the Mud
The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928 Martin T. Olliff
Martin T. Olliff recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobilists, and how state and federal highway administrations replaced the Good Roads Movement. Getting Out of the Mud: The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928 explores the history of the Good Roads Movement and investigates the nature of early twentieth-century progressivism in the state. Martin T. Olliff reveals how middle-class reformers secured political, economic, and social power not only by fighting against corporate domination and labor recalcitrance but also by proposing alternative projects like road improvement and identifying the interests of the rising middle class as being the most important to public interest. With the development of national markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans began to regard the nation as a whole, rather than their state or region, as the most important political entity. Many Alabamians wished to travel beyond their local communities in all seasons without getting stuck in the mud of rudimentary rutted dirt roads. The onset of the automobile age bolstered the need for roadmaking, alerting both automobilists and good roads advocates to the possibility of a new transportation infrastructure. The Good Roads Movement began promoting farm-to-market roads, then highways that linked cities, then those that connected states. Federal matching funds for road construction after 1916 led state and federal governments to supplant the Good Roads Movement, building and administering the highway system that emerged by the late 1920s. Olliff’s study of how Alabamians dealt with strained resources and overcame serious political obstacles in order to construct a road system that would accommodate economic growth in the twentieth century may offer clues to the resurrection of a similar strategy in our modern era. Many problems are unchanged over the hundred years between crises: Alabamians demand good roads and a government that has the capacity to build and maintain such an infrastructure while, at the same time, citizens are voting into office men and women who promise lower taxes and smaller government.
JULY 6 X 9 / 232 PAGES / 20 B&W FIGURES / 1 MAP ISBN: 978-0-8173-1955-7 / $49.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9138-6 / $49.95 EBOOK
“Olliff weaves a unique combination of history, sociology, political science, and economics to create a threedimensional fabric.” —David O. Whitten, author of Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South and coauthor of The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860– 1914: Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise “Getting Out of the Mud is an interesting and insightful study of the path Alabamians took to modern highway construction and management.”
—Matthew Downs, author of Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915–1960
Martin T. Olliff is a professor of history and the director of the Wiregrass Archives at Troy University Dothan Campus. He is also the editor of The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama in World War I and an editorial board member of both The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History and Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists.
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US HISTORY / CIVIL WAR / RHETORIC
A War of Words
The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis R. Jarrod Atchison
A War of Words analyzes Jefferson Davis’s public discourse, arguing that throughout his time as president of the Confederacy, Davis settled for short-term rhetorical successes at the expense of creating more substantive and meaningful messages for himself and his constituents. Numerous biographies of Jefferson Davis have been penned; however, until now, there had been no substantive analysis of his public discourse as president of the Confederacy. R. Jarrod Atchison’s A War of Words uses concepts from rhetorical theory and public address to help answer a question that has intrigued scholars from a variety of disciplines since the collapse of the Confederacy: what role, if any, did Davis play in the collapse of Confederate nationalism? Most discussions of Davis and nationalism focus on the military outcomes of his controversial wartime decisions. A War of Words focuses less on military outcomes and argues instead that, in the context of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis’s rhetorical leadership should have been responsible for articulating a vision for the nation—including the core tenets of its identity, the values the nation should hold dear, the principles it should never compromise, and the goals it should set for its future. Undoubtedly, Davis possessed the skills necessary to make a persuasive public argument. It is precisely because Davis’s oratory skills were so powerful that there is room to judge how he used them. In short, being a great orator is not synonymous with successful rhetorical leadership. Atchison posits that Davis’s initial successes constrained his rhetorical options later in the war. A War of Words concludes that, in the end, Davis’s rhetorical leadership was a failure because he was unable to articulate a coherent Confederate identity in light of the sacrifices endured by the populace in order to sustain the war effort. R. Jarrod Atchison is an associate professor of communications at Wake Forest University.
JUNE 6 X 9 / 136 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-1940-3 / $39.95s CLOTH ISBN: 978-0-8173-9116-4 / $39.95 EBOOK
“A War of Words explores an under-studied aspect of Jefferson Davis’s leadership, his ability (or lack thereof) to inspire and mobilize audiences through his crafting of rhetorical appeals. This book should be valuable to students of the history of American public discourse, scholars of the Civil War era, advanced rhetorical critics, and those interested in Southern rhetoric and public address.” —David Zarefsky, author of Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate “Atchison does an excellent job of delving into how and why Davis’s speeches often failed to achieve their goals—and why Davis’s rhetorical aims were often off the mark and unsuccessful. Many of the author’s insights and evaluation of Davis’s rhetoric will help students of the Civil War era understand more about the context and history of the time, and, indeed, more about Davis himself.” —W. Stuart Towns, author of Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause
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RHETORIC / COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES / SOCIAL SCIENCE
What Democracy Looks Like The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Edited by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness
What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies. Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of social change and, especially, to the manner in which words, images, events, and ideas associated with protestors can “move the social.” What Democracy Looks Like is an attempt to foster a more coherent understanding of social change among scholars of rhetoric and communication studies by juxtaposing the ideas of social movements and counterpublics—historically two key factors significant in the study of social change. Foust, Pason, and Zittlow Rogness’s volume compiles the voices of leading and new scholars who are contributing to the history, application, and new directions of these two concepts, all in conversation with a number of acts of resistance or social change. The theories of social movements and counterpublics are related, but distinct. Social movement theories tend to be concerned with enacting policy and legislative changes. Scholars flying this flag have concentrated on the organization and language (for example, rallies and speeches) that are meant to enact social change. Counterpublic theory, on the other hand, focuses less on policy changes and more on the unequal distribution of power and resources among different protest groups, which is sometimes synonymous with subordinated identity groups such as race, gender, sexuality, and class. Nonetheless, contributors argue that in recent years the distinctions between these two methods have become less evident. By putting the literatures of the two theories in conversation with one another, these scholars seek to promote and imagine social change outside the typical binaries. Christina R. Foust is an associate professor and chair of communication studies at the University of Denver and is the author of Transgression as a Mode of Resistance. Amy Pason is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication and ephemera. Kate Zittlow Rogness teaches at Hamline University. Her work has appeared in First Amendment Studies and the Western Journal of Communication.
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CONTRIBUTORS Daniel C. Brouwer / Elizabeth Brunner / Bernadette Marie Calafell / Catherine Chaput / Karma R. Chávez / Kevin Michael DeLuca / Christina R. Foust / Joshua S. Hanan / Kelsey Harr-Lagin / Dawn Marie D. McIntosh / Raymie E. McKerrow / Catherine Helen Palczewski / Amy Pason / Mary-Louise Paulesc / Kate Zittlow Rogness “What Democracy Looks Like enables a kind of time travel by presenting for contemporary scholars a legacy of movement studies that may have been forgotten or ignored. Continuing through the present, the contributors present innovative studies that promise a bright future for scholarship on these topics.” —Robert Asen, author of Democracy, Deliberation, and Education “This collection, featuring prominent authors in the field, usefully puts literatures in the areas of social movement and counterpublic studies (with its unique focus on circulation) in conversation with one another. The volume will stimulate discussion about the direction of social change research. This work is urgently needed as we try to understand not only how movement participants are working but also to articulate new ways of being in the world.” —Dana L. Cloud, author of Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetorics of Therapy
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RHETORIC / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES / MEDIA STUDIES
The Mark of Criminality
Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era Bryan J. McCann
The Mark of Criminality illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop. In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era’s worst racial stereotypes. Rather, he positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable. At the center of this era—when politicians sought to prove their “tough-on-crime” credentials—was the mark of criminality, a set of discourses that labeled members of predominantly poor, urban, and minority communities as threats to the social order. Through their use of the mark of criminality, public figures implemented extremely harsh penal polices that have helped make the United States the world’s leading jailer of its adult population. At the same time when politicians like Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton and television shows such as COPS and America’s Most Wanted perpetuated images of gang and drug-filled ghettos, gangsta rap burst out of the hip-hop nation, emanating mainly from the predominantly black neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. Groups like NWA and solo artists (including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur) became millionaires by marketing the very discourses political and cultural leaders used to justify their war on crime. For these artists, the mark of criminality was a source of power, credibility, and revenue. By understanding gangsta rap as a potent, if deeply imperfect, enactment of the mark of criminality, we can better understand how crime is always a site of struggle over meaning. Furthermore, by underscoring the nimble rhetorical character of criminality, we can learn lessons that may inform efforts to challenge our nation’s failed policies of mass incarceration.
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“The Mark of Criminality offers readers, especially ones not familiar with the conjuncture of gangsta rap and the militarization of policing tactics targeting black and brown bodies, a necessary history and some very intriguing cultural moments related to the era under scrutiny.” —Eric King Watts, author of Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement
Bryan J. McCann is an assistant professor of rhetoric and cultural studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. He has written for Rhetoric Society Quarterly and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. In addition to appearing on local newscasts and the national program Democracy Now!, McCann also presented a TEDxLSU talk in 2014 on race and criminal justice.
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LITERARY CRITICISM
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism Edited by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden
Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities. Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism—the end of the nineteenth century—to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. At first glance, "Naturalist Gothic" seems to be a contradiction in terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of modernism. In recent years, research on the Gothic has flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem from the early American Realist tradition. Haunting Realities is a timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American literary tradition. Monika Elbert is a professor of English at Montclair State University and coeditor of Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts and Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century. Wendy Ryden is an associate professor of English at Long Island University Post and coauthor of Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness.
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CONTRIBUTORS Stephen Arch / Dennis Berthold / Kenneth K. Brandt / Donna M. Campbell / Dara Downey / Monika Elbert / David Greven / Lisa A. Long / Patricia Luedecke / Steve Marsden / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet / Daniel Mrozowski / Charlotte L. Quinney / Alicia Mischa Renfroe / Wendy Ryden / Gary Totten / Christine A. Wooley “Haunting Realities is an interesting and compelling collection that offers a new and fascinating perspective on the influence of the Gothic on Naturalist texts.” —Keith Newlin, author of Hamlin Garland: A Life and editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism “No book before Haunting Realities has explored the relationship between the Gothic and the modes of Realism and Naturalism, which are apparently antithetical to it. Yet, in the central paradox identified by Elbert and Ryden, Gothic tropes are everywhere in the literature of the post–Civil War period, and reveal much about the age’s crisis of faith in progress—and about our own times as well. This is a wide-ranging and thoughtful collection and will be studied by anyone interested in the Gothic and the literature of the United States.” —Charles L. Crow, author of History of the Gothic: Ameri- can Gothic and editor of American Gothic: An Anthology, 1787–1916
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LITERARY CRITICISM
Mark Twain and Money Language, Capital, and Culture
Edited by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe
This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life. Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens’s often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and identity, this collection of essays shows how his fascination with the complexity of nineteenth-century economics informs much of Mark Twain’s writing. While most readers are familiar with Mark Twain the worldly wise writer, fewer are acquainted with Samuel Clemens the avid businessman. Throughout his life, he sought to strike it rich, whether mining for silver in Nevada, founding his own publishing company, or staking out ownership in the Paige typesetting machine. He was ever on the lookout for investment schemes and was intrigued by inventions, his own and those of others, that he imagined would net a windfall. Conventional wisdom has held that Clemens’s obsession with business and material wealth hindered his ability to write more and better books. However, this perspective fails to recognize how his interest in economics served as a rich source of inspiration for his literary creativity and is inseparable from his achievements as a writer. In fact, without this preoccupation with monetary success, Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe argue, Twain’s writing would lack an important connection to a cornerstone of American culture. The contributors to this volume examine a variety of topics, such as a Clemens family myth of vast landholdings, Clemens’s strategies for protecting the Mark Twain brand, his insights into rapidly evolving nineteenth-century financial practices, the persistence of patronage in the literary marketplace, the association of manhood and monetary success, Clemens’s attitude and actions toward poverty, his response to the pains of bankruptcy through writing, and the intersection of racial identity and economics in American culture. These illuminating essays show how pecuniary matters invigorate a wide range of Twain’s writing from The Gilded Age, Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, to later stories like “The £1,000,000 Banknote” and the Autobiography. Henry B. Wonham is a professor of English at the University of Oregon and the author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale, Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism, and Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of Short Fiction. He is also the coeditor of Tales of Henry James, Second Edition. Lawrence Howe is a professor of English and film studies at Roosevelt University. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority and the coeditor of Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon through Critical Lenses.
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CONTRIBUTORS Gregg Camfield / Joseph Csicsila / M. Christine Benner Dixon / Jonathan Hayes / Lawrence Howe / Judith Yaross Lee / Sharon McCoy / Jeffery W. Miller / Ann M. Ryan / Mark Schiebe / Susanne Weil / Henry B. Wonham “Mark Twain and Money is based on sound research and scholarship and offers interesting reassessments of familiar works and valuable new treatments of lesserknown works. This book should be appealing not only to students of Twain but also to Americanists generally and to anyone interested in interdisciplinary studies of American literature and culture.” —Robert Sattelmeyer, coeditor of One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn: The Boy, His Book, and American Culture “Mark Twain and Money is a provocative collection of essays on a subject that is both central to understanding Twain’s life, thought, and writing, and, at the same time, focusing on an under-examined aspect of the man and his writing.” —Tom Quirk, author of Mark Twain and Human Nature and Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction
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RELIGION / US HISTORY
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801 William Harrison Taylor
In this compelling account, William Harrison Taylor examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 to highlight the church’s ambitious agenda of fostering and uniting a host of New World values, among them Christendom, nationalism, and territorial exceptionalism. In Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801, William Harrison Taylor investigates the American Presbyterian Church’s pursuit of Christian unity and demonstrates how, through this effort, the church helped to shape the issues that gripped the American imagination, including evangelism, the conflict with Great Britain, slavery, nationalism, and sectionalism. When the colonial Presbyterian Church reunited in 1758, a nearly twenty-year schism was brought to an end. To aid in reconciling the factions, church leaders called for Presbyterians to work more closely with other Christian denominations. Their ultimate goal was to heal divisions, not just within their own faith but also within colonial North America as a whole. Taylor contends that a self-imposed interdenominational transformation began in the American Presbyterian Church upon its reunion in 1758. However, this process was altered by the church’s experience during the American Revolution, which resulted in goals of Christian unity that had both spiritual and national objectives. Nonetheless, by the end of the century, even as the leaders in the Presbyterian Church strove for unity in Christ and country, fissures began to develop in the church that would one day divide it and further the sectional rift that would lead to the Civil War. Taylor engages a variety of sources, including the published and unpublished works of both the Synods of New York and Philadelphia and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, as well as numerous published and unpublished Presbyterian sermons, lectures, hymnals, poetry, and letters. Scholars of religious history, particularly those interested in the Reformed tradition, and specifically Presbyterianism, should find Unity in Christ and Country useful as a way to consider the importance of the theology’s intellectual and pragmatic implications for members of the faith. William Harrison Taylor is an associate professor of history at Alabama State University and the coeditor of Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora.
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“Unity in Christ and Country presents a persuasive argument about the importance of internal Presbyterian development for broader American history, as well as for the history of this one Christian denomination.” —Mark A. Noll, author of Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction and In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492–1783 and coeditor of Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism “Unity in Christ and Country is an informative narrative that sheds light on the relationship between Presbyterianism and the revolutionary-era of the late eighteenth century.” —John Fea, author of The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society and Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction
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RELIGION / US HISTORY
Richmond’s Priests and Prophets
Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era Douglas E. Thompson
Richmond’s Priests and Prophets examines Richmond, Virginia, during the 1940s and 1950s, exploring the ways in which white Christian leaders navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a segregated society. Douglas E. Thompson’s Richmond’s Priests and Prophets: Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era presents a compelling study of religious leaders’ impact on the political progression of Richmond, Virginia, during the time of desegregation. Scrutinizing this city as an entry point into white Christians’ struggles with segregation during the 1950s, Thompson analyzes the internal tensions between ministers, the members of their churches, and an evolving world. In the mid-twentieth-century American South, white Christians were challenged repeatedly by new ideas and social criteria. Neighborhood demographics were shifting, public schools were beginning to integrate, and ministers’ influence was expanding. Although many pastors supported the transition into desegregated society, the social pressure to keep life divided along racial lines placed Richmond’s ministers on a collision course with forces inside their own congregations. Thompson reveals that, to navigate the ideals of Christianity within a complex historical setting, white religious leaders adopted priestly and prophetic roles. Moreover, the author argues that, until now, the historiography has not viewed white Christian churches with the nuance necessary to understand their diverse reactions to desegregation. His approach reveals the ways in which desegregationists attempted to change their communities’ minds, while also demonstrating why change came so slowly—highlighting the deeply emotional and intellectual dilemma of many southerners whose worldview was fundamentally structured by race and class hierarchies. Douglas E. Thompson is a professor of history and southern studies at Mercer University. He is the editor of the Journal of Southern Religion and the coeditor of Jessie Mercer’s Pulpit: Preaching in a Community of Faith and Learning.
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“Richmond’s Priests and Prophets makes a substantial contribution to scholarship in an empirically grounded and conceptually engaging way.” —Paul Harvey, author of Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity “Thoroughly examining the clergy in one upper-South city, but one that just happened to have been the capital of the Confederacy, Thompson provides a compelling argument that the standard evaluation of the white southern clergy as too invested in advancing up the ministerial ladder ‘ain’t necessarily so’ and raises a cautionary voice against the ‘Silent South’ thesis.” —Andrew Manis, author of A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
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The Story upon a Hill
The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction Christopher Leise
In this provocative and thought-provoking volume, Christopher Leise sheds new light on modern American novelists who question not only the assumption that Puritans founded New England—and, by extension, American identity—but also whether Puritanism ever existed in the United States at all. The Story upon a Hill: The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction analyzes the work of several of the most important contemporary writers in the United States as reinterpreting commonplace narratives of the country’s origins with a keen eye on the effects of inclusion and exclusion that Puritan myths promote. In 1989, Ronald Reagan recalled the words of Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop, who imagined the colony as a “city upon a hill” for future nations to emulate. In Reagan’s speech, Winthrop’s signature rhetoric became an emblem of American idealism, and for many Americans, the Puritans’ New England was the place where the United States forged its original identity. But what if Winthrop never gave that speech? What if he did not even write it? Historians cannot definitively answer these questions. In fact, no group that we refer to as American Puritans thought of themselves as Puritans. Rather, they were a group of dissident Christians often better defined by their disagreements than their shared beliefs. Literary scholars interested in Anglo-American literary production from the seventeenth century through the present, historians, and readers interested in how ideas about Christianity circulate in popular culture will find fascinating the ways in which William Gaddis, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, and Marilynne Robinson repurpose socalled Puritan forms of expression to forge a new narrative of New England’s Congregationalist legacy in American letters. Works by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, and others are also considered. The Story upon a Hill raises a provocative question: if the Puritans never existed as we understand them, what might American history look like in that context? Christopher Leise is an associate professor of English at Whitman College and the coeditor of Pynchon’s “Against the Day”: A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide and William Gaddis, “The Last of Something”: Critical Essays.
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“I know of no other critic who could bring together in this fashion the theologies of early New England and contemporary novels.” —Kathryn Hume, author of Pynchon’s Mythography: An Approach to “Gravity’s Rainbow” and American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 “The Story upon a Hill takes up a satisfyingly broad and representative range of postmodern texts—literary, religious, and political—that echo, reframe, or critique both the American Northeast’s original Eurocentric religiosity and its intermediate literary interpreters from the captivity narratives to Hawthorne and beyond. Christopher Leise pays proper attention to the ways in which this heritage has elbowed aside other regions and other creeds that have figured in the evolution of Americanness. This is an impressive and highly readable piece of scholarship.” —David Cowart, author of Tribe of Pyn: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period and Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History
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ALABAMA / NATURE / LIFE SCIENCES
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 Edited by Ericha Shelton-Nix
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012, when the Third Alabama Nongame Wildlife Conference was convened at Auburn University. Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 offers a comprehensive update and provides a wealth of new information concerning changes and developments relative to the conservation status of wild animal populations of the state that have occurred in the decade since publication of the previous four volumes in 2004. Enhancements include the addition of any new or rediscovered taxon, species priority status changes, and taxonomic changes, plus the addition of the crayfishes, which were left out previously because so little was known about these understudied taxa. A complete taxonomic checklist is included, which lists each imperiled taxon along with its priority designation followed by detailed species accounts. The eighty-four crayfish species accounts are comprised of a physical description (including a photograph, when available), distribution map, habitat summary, key life history, ecological information, basis for its status classification, and specific conservation and management recommendations. This revised expansion of the Alabama Wildlife set will be helpful to those seeking to broaden their knowledge of Alabama’s vast wildlife resources and will greatly influence future studies in the conservation of many of the imperiled species. The University of Alabama Press originally released a set of four volumes titled Alabama Wildlife in 2004. The series consisted of A Checklist of Vertebrates and Selected Invertebrates (Volume 1), Imperiled Aquatic Mollusks and Fishes (Volume 2), Imperiled Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals (Volume 3), and Conservation and Management Recommendations for Imperiled Wildlife (Volume 4). However, Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 offers an all-inclusive and complete update of these four previously published volumes, making it the single resource required for all those working with or interested in Alabama’s wild animals. Ericha Shelton-Nix is a certified biologist with the Alabama Department of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. She has led conservation efforts to reestablish the gopher tortoise to its historic range, has written popular newspaper columns and species accounts for the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources website, and has authored articles for Outdoor Alabama magazine.
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ANTHROPOLOGY / ARCHAEOLOGY / GEOGRAPHY
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas Stephen C. Jett
Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another, evolving independently, each in its own hemisphere. Instead, they constituted a “global ecumene,” involving a complex pattern of intermittent but numerous and profoundly consequential contacts. In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the postPleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development. Stephen C. Jett holds a PhD in geography from Johns Hopkins University and is a professor emeritus of geography and of textiles and clothing at the University of California, Davis. He has authored books on Navajo culture and is the founding editor of Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts.
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“Ancient Ocean Crossings is a stupendous work, one chock full of exciting ideas and fascinating facts about the cultural history of the world. The work gives new meaning to the expression tour de force.” —Daniel W. Gade, author of Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination and Nature and Culture in the Andes “By most accounts, the heyday of scholarly explanations of cultural origins and change involving early transoceanic diffusion has long passed. Stephen Jett’s massive reprise of themes long dormant, along with new evidentiary material, could force major reconsideration of specific cases as well as general propositions. Jett makes the case(s) for early transoceanic diffusion with unprecedented clarity and thoroughness.” —Kent Mathewson, coeditor of Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape: Readings and Commentaries
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ARCHAEOLOGY / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES / RELIGION
Land of Water, City of the Dead
Religion and Cahokia’s Emergence Sarah E. Baires
Land of Water, City of the Dead explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs. Cahokia, the largest city of the Mississippian mound cultures, lies outside present-day East St. Louis. Land of Water, City of the Dead reconceptualizes Cahokia’s emergence and expansion (ca. 1050–1200), focusing on understanding a newly imagined religion and complexity through a non-Western lens. Sarah E. Baires argues that this system of beliefs was a dynamic, lived component, based on a broader ontology, with roots in other mound societies. This religion was realized through novel mortuary practices and burial mounds as well as through the careful planning and development of this early city’s urban landscape. Baires analyzes the organization and alignment of the precinct of downtown Cahokia with a specific focus on the newly discovered and excavated Rattlesnake Causeway and the ridge-top mortuary mounds located along the site axes. Land of Water, City of the Dead also presents new data from the 1954 excavations of the ridge-top mortuary Wilson Mound and a complete analysis of the associated human remains. Through this skeletal analysis, Baires discusses the ways that Cahokians processed and buried their ancestors, identifying unique mortuary practices that include the intentional dismemberment of human bodies and burial with marine shell beads and other materials. Sarah E. Baires is an assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.
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“Baires’s book is a good addition to the available information on Cahokia. She pulls together data from a variety of sources, but most importantly, she provides details on legacy data that are not readily available elsewhere. In addition, Baires develops an argument for looking at Cahokia and religion in a different way, and whether or not you agree with her particular approach, new perspectives always move discussion and knowledge forward.” —Lynne Goldstein, professor of anthropology at Michigan State University “The detailed discussion of Cahokia’s ridge-top mounds, the presentation of largely unpublished descriptions of burial features and cultural materials associated with these mounds, and new observations of skeletal materials from Wilson Mound make this a valuable resource for other researchers.” —Kristin Hedman, coeditor of Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest
Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives Christopher B. Rodning, series editor
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ARCHAEOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY / ETHNOHISTORY
The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast Benjamin A. Steere
Benjamin A. Steere’s compelling study explores the evolution of houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (ca. 200 BC to 1800 AD). The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast contributes enormously to the study of household archaeology and domestic architecture in the region. This significant volume combines both previously published and unpublished data on communities from the Southeast and is the first systematic attempt to understand the development of houses and households as interpreted through a theoretical framework developed from broad-ranging studies in cultural anthropology and archaeology. Steere’s major achievement is the compilation of one of the largest and most detailed architectural datasets for the Southeast, including data for 1,258 domestic and public structures from sixty-five archaeological sites in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the southern parts of Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois. Rare data from hard-to-find cultural resource management reports is also incorporated, creating a broad temporal and geographic scope and serving as one of many remarkable features of the book, which is sure to be of considerable value to archaeologists and anthropologists interested in comparative studies of architecture. Similar to other analyses, Steere’s research uses multiple theoretical angles and lines of evidence to answer archaeological questions about houses and the people who built them. However, unlike other examinations of household archaeology, this project spans multiple time periods (Woodland, Mississippian, and Historic); is focused squarely on the Southeast; features a more unified approach, using data from a single, uniform database; and privileges domestic architecture as a line of evidence for reconstructing daily life at major archaeological sites on a much broader scale than other investigations. Benjamin A. Steere is an assistant professor of anthropology at Western Carolina University.
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“The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast is certain to become an essential reference for anyone doing native archaeology in the Southeast.” —Robin Beck, author of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South and coauthor of Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site “A critically important work that moves beyond mere synthesis and summary, and includes interpretations of southeastern Indian lifeways only possible through an appropriate matching of methodology, scale of analysis, and an incredible amount of data.” —Ramie A. Gougeon, coeditor of Archaeological Perspectives on the Southern Appalachians: A Multiscalar Approach
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Surviving Spanish Conquest
Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Karen F. Anderson-Córdova
Surviving Spanish Conquest reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550. In Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, Karen F. Anderson-Córdova draws on archaeological, historical, and ethnohistorical sources to elucidate the impacts of sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and colonization on indigenous peoples in the Greater Antilles. Moving beyond the conventional narratives of the quick demise of the native populations because of forced labor and the spread of Old World diseases, this book shows the complexity of the initial exchange between the Old and New Worlds and examines the myriad ways the indigenous peoples responded to Spanish colonization. Focusing on Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, the first Caribbean islands to be conquered and colonized by the Spanish, Anderson-Córdova explains Indian sociocultural transformation within the context of two specific processes, out-migration and in-migration, highlighting how population shifts contributed to the diversification of peoples. For example, as the growing presence of “foreign” Indians from other areas of the Caribbean complicated the variety of responses by Indian groups, her investigation reveals that Indians who were subjected to slavery, or the “encomienda system,” accommodated and absorbed many Spanish customs, yet resumed their own rituals when allowed to return to their villages. Other Indians fled in response to the arrival of the Spanish. The culmination of years of research, Surviving Spanish Conquest deftly incorporates archaeological investigations at contact sites copious use of archival materials, and anthropological assessments of the contact period in the Caribbean. Ultimately, understanding the processes of Indian-Spanish interaction in the Caribbean enhances comprehension of colonization in many other parts of the world. Anderson-Córdova concludes with a discussion regarding the resurgence of interest in the Taíno people and their culture, especially of individuals who selfidentify as Taíno. This volume provides a wealth of insight to historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and those interested in early cultures in contact. Karen F. Anderson-Córdova is retired from the historic preservation division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Throughout the course of her career, she served as an instructor of anthropology at Georgia State University, an assistant professor of anthropology and social sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, a Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, and a historian and archaeologist in the State Historic Preservation Office in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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“An original and significant contribution to multiple fields in Caribbean studies. Surviving Spanish Conquest will be used widely by historians, archaeologists, and students of Caribbean society and culture, as well as by scholars of American Indian history.” —Kathleen Deagan, coauthor of Columbus’s Outpost among the Taínos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493–1498 “Surviving Spanish Conquest provides a solid overview of early colonial encounters in sixteenth-century Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from both ethnohistorical and archaeological points of view. It is an excellent book in every sense.” —Gabriel De La Luz-Rodríguez, professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
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LITERARY CRITICISM / POETRY & POETICS
Modernism the Morning After Bob Perelman
In Modernism the Morning After, Bob Perelman scrutinizes a number of long-held modernist dogmas in order to articulate a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future. Modernism the Morning After is a superb, lively, engaging series of essays and talks, dating from 1995 to 2016, by the eminent scholar, critic, and poet Bob Perelman. Throughout his career, Perelman has focused on the persistence of modernist ambition in poetry, with all of its admirable articulations and tragicomic short-circuits. Poetry, it turns out, is not simply “news that stays news,” as Ezra Pound postulated. Instead, as Perelman demonstrates, poetry often gropes toward whatever news can be found in the broader contexts of public speech—the cultural commons, the almost-real or much-too-real language of people and our hyperactive media. Working in a variety of modes from the poetic to the dramatic to the conversational, and ranging across an expansive historical register from Dickinson, Whitman, and Dunbar in the nineteenth century to Kenneth Goldsmith and Stephen Colbert in the twenty-first, Perelman’s readings are unfailingly illuminating and, in many cases, his witty expositions take us strikingly close to the original intent of the text concerned. Perelman also places intermittent, yet artful, pressure on some basic questions about the very nature of poetry. What does the transcription of poems tell us about them? How do hoaxes like the Ern Malley affair compel us to reconsider fundamental assumptions about what constitutes “authentic” poetry? How does the bathetic register relate to tones and idiom in recent poetic production? In Modernism the Morning After, Perelman writes as a poet, teacher, and critic, addressing a broad audience of readers and writers without choosing between them, inviting all to consider along with him modernism’s future through a dynamic consideration of its past. Bob Perelman is professor emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published more than fifteen volumes of poetry, most recently Iflife, The Future of Memory, and Ten to One: Selected Poems; a new book, Jack and Jill, is forthcoming. Among his critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky.
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“Modernism the Morning After is consistently illuminating and, in many cases, Perelman’s witty expositions take us stunningly close to the grain of the text concerned.” —Peter Nicholls, author of George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism and Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics, and Writing—A Study of the Cantos “Perelman’s Modernism the Morning After is a superb, lively, engaging series of essays. His wonderful mixture of unpredictable insights, humor, and superb research make for a great read!” —Hank Lazer, author of The New Spirit, Poems Hidden in Plain View, and Lyric & Spirit (essays) and editor of What Is a Poet?
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Word Toys
Poetry and Technics Brian Kim Stefans Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects. With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving that include multimedia, networked, conceptual, and other as-yet-unnamed genres while traditional genres and media—the lyric, the novel, the book—have been transformed. Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and which views them instead as technical objects. Brian Kim Stefans considers the problems that arise when discussing these progressive texts in relation to more traditional print-based poetic texts. He questions the influence of game theory and digital humanities rhetoric on poetic production, and how non-digital works, such as contemporary works of lyric poetry, are influenced by the recent ubiquity of social media, the power of search engines, and the public perceptions of language in a time of nearly universal surveillance. Word Toys offers new readings of canonical avant-garde writers such as Ezra Pound and Charles Olson, major successors such as Charles Bernstein, Alice Notley, and Wanda Coleman, mixed-genre artists including Caroline Bergvall, Tan Lin, and William Poundstone, and lyric poets such as Harryette Mullen and Ben Lerner. Writers that trouble the poetry/science divide such as Christian Bök, and novelists who have embraced digital technology such as Mark Z. Danielewski and the elusive Toadex Hobogrammathon, anchor reflections on the nature of creativity in a world where authors collaborate, even if unwittingly, with machines and networks. In addition, Stefans names provocative new genres—among them the nearly formless “undigest” and the transpacific “miscegenated script”—arguing by example that interdisciplinary discourse is crucial to the development of scholarship about experimental work.
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“Word Toys is an engaging and delightfully quirky overview of the philosophy and aesthetics of technicity in digital, constraint-based, and speculative poetry and its many cousins, aunts, fellow travelers, and, crucially, outliers.” —Charles Bernstein, author of Recalculating and Pitch of Poetry “Stefans’s work distinguishes itself from any run-of-themill scholarly study in being the product of an expansive, ultra-contemporary, kaleidoscopic intelligence, and a spontaneous, razor-sharp wit.”
—Jennifer Scappettone, author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice
Brian Kim Stefans is the author of several books of poetry, including Viva Miscegenation and What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers, and the creator of digital text works that include “The Dreamlife of Letters” and “Kluge: A Meditation.” He is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Modern and Contemporary Poetics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, series editors
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A Journey in Brazil
Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society Occasional Publication of the Bounds Law Library, Volume 8 David I. Durham and Paul M. Pruitt Jr.
A Journey in Brazil: Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian AntiSlavery Society is an investigative account of the vital career of Henry Washington Hilliard, who had a long and complicated relationship with slavery. A native Southerner, he was a former slave owner and Confederate soldier, but as a member of Congress Hilliard strongly opposed secession. Hilliard supported the constitutional legality of slavery; however, as a moderate he acknowledged the status quo and warned of the dangers of radical positions concerning the issue. Throughout a diverse career that spanned six decades, Hilliard’s personal challenges, moderated by his faith in Divine Providence, eventually allowed him to return to his ideological roots and find a sense of redemption late in life by becoming an unlikely spokesman for the Brazilian emancipation movement through his association with Joaquim Nabuco. In A Journey in Brazil, authors David I. Durham and Paul M. Pruitt Jr. establish context for Hilliard’s beliefs, document his journey in Brazil, and offer a variety of primary documents—selections from newspapers, transcripts of letters, translations of speeches, and other documents that have never before been published. About Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library This collection offers a series of edited documents that contribute to an understanding of the development of legal history, culture, or doctrine. Series editors Paul M. Pruitt Jr. and David I. Durham have selected a variety of materials—a lecture, diaries, letters, speeches, a ledger, commonplace books, a code of ethics, court reports—to illustrate unique examples of legal life and thought. David I. Durham has served as the Curator of Archival Collections at the University of Alabama School of Law’s Bounds Law Library since 2000. His book A Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808–1892, explores the role of a political and social moderate in a polarized society. He is coeditor and contributing author to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, a series devoted to topics in legal history. Durham also teaches courses in Alabama history, early southern history, and the history of Brazil through the University of Alabama’s Department of History.
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“[Durham and Pruitt] have assembled a useful resource by including the published correspondence between Hillard and Nabuco, as well as a transcript of speeches given at an abolitionist dinner thrown in Hillard’s honor. Taken together, the volume tells a surprising story that should contribute to our understanding of Atlantic world abolitionism.” —Journal of Southern History
Paul M. Pruitt Jr. has been on staff at the University of Alabama School of Law’s Bounds Law Library since 1986. He has served as a Special Collections Librarian for almost that long. Pruitt is coeditor and contributor to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library. He is the author of Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804–1929, and the editor of New Field, New Corn: Essays from the Alabama Legal History Seminar. Pruitt also teaches two courses at the University of Alabama’s School of Law, “From Domesday to the Black Death: English Legal History” and the “Alabama Legal History Seminar.”
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Traveling the Beaten Trail
Charles Tait’s Charges to Federal Grand Juries, 1822–1825 Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Volume 6 Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden
In Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait’s Charges to Federal Grand Juries 1822–1825, a concise and essential addition to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, authors Paul M. Pruitt Jr., David I. Durham, and Sally E. Hadden capture the life, achievements, and legacy of federal judge Charles Tait. Throughout his colorful career, Tait left an unmistakable impression on Alabama politics. He had a major influence over the federal bar and its practice, and he also made it his personal responsibility to educate the public. Traveling the Beaten Trail offers a brief biographical account of Charles Tait’s life, highlighting various noteworthy events, such as the array of professions he undertook—from professor, to planter, to lawyer, to senator. The remainder of the text focuses on in-depth analyses of Tait’s grand jury charges for 1822, 1824, and 1825. About Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library This collection offers a series of edited documents that contribute to an understanding of the development of legal history, culture, or doctrine. Series editors Paul M. Pruitt Jr. and David I. Durham have selected a variety of materials—a lecture, diaries, letters, speeches, a ledger, commonplace books, a code of ethics, court reports—to illustrate unique examples of legal life and thought. Paul M. Pruitt Jr. has been on staff at the University of Alabama School of Law’s Bounds Law Library since 1986. He has served as a Special Collections Librarian for almost that long. Pruitt is coeditor and contributor to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library. He is the author of Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804–1929, and the editor of New Field, New Corn: Essays from the Alabama Legal History Seminar. Pruitt also teaches two courses at the University of Alabama’s School of Law, “From Domesday to the Black Death: English Legal History” and the “Alabama Legal History Seminar.” David I. Durham has served as the Curator of Archival Collections at the University of Alabama School of Law’s Bounds Law Library since 2000. His book A Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808–1892, explores the role of a political and social moderate in a polarized society. He is coeditor and contributing author to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, a series devoted to topics in legal history. Durham also teaches courses in Alabama history, early southern history, and the history of Brazil through the University of Alabama’s Department of History.
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“In spite of its brevity, there are layers of interesting questions just below the surface scratched by Pruitt, Duham, and Hadden. In bringing Charles Tait and his grand jury charges to light, the authors illuminate not just the man, but an era in Alabama when federal judges took seriously their responsibilities for adjudication as well as civic education.” —The Alabama Review
Sally E. Hadden received her undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, prior to entering the graduate program in history at Harvard University. She completed her doctorate and law degrees at Harvard, where she began working on her first book, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, which examines the intersection of law and the history of slavery and race before 1865. She is also the coeditor of Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History and A Companion to American Legal History. Hadden also serves on the editorial board of the Law and History Review and on the executive committee of the American Society for Legal History. Her forthcoming book is on legal professionals in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston in the eighteenth century. Occasional Publication of the Bounds Law Library Distributed by The University of Alabama Press
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Alabama Afternoons Profiles and Conversations Roy Hoffman
Alabama Afternoons is a collection of nonfiction stories from awardwinning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman about remarkable folks, widely known or "famous on their block," including artists and authors, civil rights figures and journeyers, a legendary WWII veteran, a Miss America, a former Klansman, and the diverse voices of a Greek émigré, a Poarch Creek Indian, and a town’s last Jewish resident. Originally published in an array of venues—the Mobile Press-Register, New York Times, Preservation, Garden & Gun—these essays and profiles capture the colorful, dramatic, sometimes heartbreaking stories that help define one of our nation’s most distinctive locales, pondering what it means "to have been shaped in some way by being from Alabama," and illuminating "part of what it means to be an American." “A stellar collection, models of the art. Alabama Afternoons is deeply human, engaging, and heartfelt. An altogether wonderful achievement.” —John Sledge, author of Southern Bound “Hoffman’s anecdotal style and eye for interesting and entertaining details and personal histories shines throughout the book.” —Anniston Star
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“[Hoffman’s] profiles preserve the individual stories that make Alabama unique.” —Southern Jewish Life “What a great picnic it would be to take this book and linger beneath an old oak tree and read the virtual cornucopia of delightful literary treats that Hoffman offers his reader. Not only is he a great Alabama talent, he highlights even more talent in the pages of his excellent collection.” —Wayne Greenhaw, author of Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama “Warren Koon, a former editor and colleague in journalism, once said everybody has a story to tell if you will just take time to listen to it. Indeed, it was something I had already learned, and Roy Hoffman drives the point further home in this wonderful collection of Alabamians and their stories.”
Roy Hoffman is the author of the novels Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith Award, and Chicken Dreaming Corn, praised by Harper Lee as “a story of great appeal,” as well as the essay collections Back Home: Journeys through Mobile and Come Landfall: A Novel. Residing in Fairhope, Alabama, Hoffman contributes frequently to the New York Times and was a long-time staff writer for the Mobile Press-Register, receiving the 2008 Clarence Cason Award from the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. A graduate of Tulane University, he teaches in Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program.
—Alabama Writers’ Forum “With its colorful, often troubled history, Alabama has made an impression in the national mind. Hoffman hopes to add to it with nuanced portraits shaped by being from the state or living there at a crucial point in their lives.” —Booklist Online
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Come Landfall A Novel
Roy Hoffman
Set along the Mississippi Gulf coast, the stories of three women and the men they love come together in this contemporary novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal. Nana, reliving the past in her eighties, her granddaughter Angela, working at a Biloxi casino in her twenties, and their teenage friend Cam, the daughter of a Vietnamese shrimper, form a deep connection. As they face heartbreak, their bonds nurture and sustain them. Showing how ordinary people are impacted by the shifts of history, Come Landfall is a southern story with a global sensibility. “A novel of war, women, and weather, Roy Hoffman’s Come Landfall is, above all, a book of passionate and permanent connecting. It will seize your heart and not let go. When the reader counts the cost, this idea is inevitable: aging and accident are adversary enough—surely humans today can find a better solution to differences than killing each other in wars.” —Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife and Four Spirits “Hoffman’s generation-spanning novel of love, war, and hurricanes brings the Mississippi Gulf Coast vividly to life.” —Reader’s Digest
MARCH 6 X 9 / 284 PAGES ISBN: 978-0-8173-5871-6 / $19.95t PAPER ISBN: 978-0-8173-8753-2 / $19.95 EBOOK
“Hoffman demonstrates through three convincing female characters the effect of [three] wars on the women who must cope with varieties of loss.” —Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio “Roy Hoffman uses his rich cast of characters to illustrate the diversity of the modern, multiethnic South.” —Howell Raines, author of Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis and My Soul Is Rested “[In Come Landfall] there are beautiful moments . . . also magic moments.” —Robert A. Parker, Ruminate Magazine “Hoffman gives [the Gulf ] its due as a terrible and fragile beauty, brimming with romance and danger and wildness.”
Roy Hoffman is the author of the novels Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith Award, and Chicken Dreaming Corn, praised by Harper Lee as “a story of great appeal,” as well as the essay collections Back Home: Journeys through Mobile and Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations. Residing in Fairhope, Alabama, Hoffman contributes frequently to the New York Times and was a long-time staff writer for the Mobile Press-Register, receiving the 2008 Clarence Cason Award from the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. A graduate of Tulane University, he teaches in Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program.
—Erin Keane, The Louisville Review
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F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work The Making of The Great Gatsby Horst H. Kruse
The Great Gatsby occupies a preeminent place in American letters. Many scholars have argued that Jay Gatsby is the definitive embodiment of American culture and social aspiration. F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work proves the complex story behind the sources that inspired Fitzgerald, his writing, and the enduring legacy of The Great Gatsby.
“Kruse exerted prodigious effort in producing this exhaustive study of The Great Gatsby. As he writes in his introduction, he tracked down ‘material that Fitzgerald either worked with or worked from.’ One result of Kruse’s efforts is a revealing analysis of Fitzgerald’s fascination with Max von Gerlach, the purported model for Jay Gatsby. Kruse’s discussion of Fitzgerald’s possible incorporation of other historical and philosophical sources into The Great Gatsby also merits praise. Highly recommended.” —CHOICE “The primary strength of F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work is in its presentation of new and illuminating contexts for interpreting The Great Gatsby. [This book] provides a convincing portrait of a man whose tenacious pursuit of the American Dream speaks to the reality of the life that Fitzgerald breathed into his protagonist.”
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Sarah Orne Jewett Reconstructing Gender Margaret Roman
In this study of Sarah Orne Jewett, Margaret Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story and novel by the turn-of-the-century American author: each person, regardless of sex, must break free of the restrictive, polaropposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned to men and women by a patriarchal society. That society, as seen from Jewett’s perspective during the late Victorian era, was one in which a competitive, active man dominates a passive, emotional woman. Frequently referring to Jewett’s own New England upbringing at the hands of an unusually progressive father, Roman demonstrates how the writer, through her personal quest for freedom and through the various characters she created, strove to eliminate the necessity for rigid and narrowly defined male-female roles and relationships. Roman traces a gender-dissolving theme throughout Jewett’s writing which progresses through distinct phases that roughly correspond to Jewett’s psychological development as a writer. Ahead of her time in many ways, Sarah Orne Jewett confronted the Victorian polarized gender system, presaging the modern view that men and women should be encouraged to develop along whatever paths are most comfortable and most natural for them.
“Margaret Roman has composed a compelling account of Jewett’s lifelong (re)visionary project to move beyond gender stereotypes so as to depict ‘people and things . . . just as they are.’”
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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 both 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. The volume 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 Distinguished University Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He previously served as Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Konstanz in Germany and 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, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, among others.
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“An extensive, meticulously detailed analysis of various ways that blues, jazz and ragtime, loosely considered ‘hot music,’ had an impact on a wide range of American authors during the decade of the 1920s—often referred to as ‘The Jazz Age.’ . . . This is a tremendous resource for researchers, not only for Tracy’s insightful analyses, but also for the sheer volume of recordings and texts that he has consulted and referenced in this study.” —Living Blues “Tracy’s book is a highly original study which applies fresh ideas and perspectives to an aspect of modern American literature and culture which has often been discussed but never adequately examined and understood.” —African American Review “Focusing on ‘hot jazz,’ the music that most influenced modern literature, Tracy has written an important book about the influence of blues and jazz on American writers. His treatment is rich, thorough, and unencumbered by academic jargon, and he is joyously passionate in the illustrations he offers for each idea or theme. Highly recommended.” —CHOICE
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Going for Gold The History of the Newmont Mining Corporation Jack H. Morris
Jack H. Morris details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains today the second largest gold miner in the world. He asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven industry. In Going for Gold, readers learn how the company’s founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa’s largest gold company and later owned famous gold mines in California and Colorado. In the 1960s, the company developed the process to capture “invisible gold” from small distributions of the metal in large quantities of rock, thereby opening up the rich gold field at Carlin, Nevada.
“An important work. For those readers prospecting for information on twentieth-century mining history, especially the latter half of the century’s gold boom, this book is well worth the assay.” —Technology and Culture “A most fascinating book I found difficult to put down. . . . extensively based on primary sources, particularly personal interviews with a great many of the people directly involved in, and setting, the history of the company. The book makes a valuable complement, supplementary reading, for mining engineering courses, business and management, etc. It is a superb, informative, instructive, and enjoyable read.”
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The Productive Tension of Hawthorne’s Art Claudia D. Johnson In The Productive Tension of Hawthorne’s Art, Claudia D. Johnson identifies and explores the tension between Nathaniel Hawthorne’s concepts of art and morality by describing its sources, plotting its manifestations, and suggesting how the opposing elements of this tension are finally reconciled. Hawthorne’s major works, including his short fiction, exhibit a profound conflict between eighteenth-century views of an orderly, balanced, and static universe on the one hand and nineteenth-century conceptions of a universe in constant flux on the other. Johnson argues that Hawthorne, though he did not identify with any organized church, found in theology the myths that allowed him to negotiate a bridge between these two opposed views of the world and to forge the social, psychological, and aesthetic values that inform his art.
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Taking Christianity to China Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950 Wayne Flynt and Gerald W. Berkley
The missionary movement in the United States flourished during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. By carefully examining the individual lives of forty-seven missionaries who served in China between 1850 and 1950, Flynt and Berkley find that Alabama missionaries underwent a cultural adaptation and their service in China profoundly altered southern evangelicalism by making it more ecumenical, social service oriented, and inclusive of women. Although previous studies focus on the failure of Christianity to change China, this book emphasizes the degree to which service in China changed Alabama missionaries—and the change was profound.
“In one of the most balanced treatments of missionaries in China ever to appear in print, Wayne Flynt and Gerald Berkley present a scholarly but lively and engaging study of Alabama missionaries to China.” —Baptist History and Heritage “Students of the American South have long been indebted to Wayne Flynt for the masterful way he addresses the negative stereotypes associated with poverty. Now religious historians are also in his debt. In Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950, Flynt and coauthor Gerald W. Berkley offer a fascinating, nuanced look at life on the Chinese mission field.” —Church History
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John Archibald Campbell Southern Moderate, 1811–1889 Robert Saunders Jr.
The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every major development of nineteenth-century American history from the Indian removal process of the 1830s, to sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction and redemption. Although not a defender of slavery, Campbell feared that abrupt abolition would produce severe economic and social dislocation. He urged southerners to reform their labor system and to prepare for the eventual abolition of slavery. In the early 1850s, he proposed a series of reforms to strengthen slave families and to educate slaves to prepare them for assilimation into society as productive citizens. These views distinguished him from many Southerners who steadfastly maintained the sanctitity of slavery. In this first full biography of Campbell, Saunders reveals the prevalence of antisecession views prior to the Civil War and covers both the judicial aspects and political history of this crucial period in Southern history.
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Shot in Alabama A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers Frances Osborn Robb Shot in Alabama is a sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941. It offers a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium, as well as the ways that medium distinctively reflects the story of a culturally rich region.
“Shot in Alabama is an extraordinary, first-rate overview of photography in this state, from the introduction of daguerreotypes in 1839 to the beginning of US involvement in World War II, which Robb explains was itself a watershed in Alabama photography.” —Martin T. Olliff, author of Getting Alabama Out of the Mud and editor of The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I JANUARY 2017
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Genius Belabored Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis Theodore G. Obenchain Genius Belabored is the fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenthcentury obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever, a leading cause of mortality in new mothers.
“Without a doubt and without any exaggeration, this book is the best thing that has been written about Semmelweis. It shows incredibly thorough research, it is balanced, it is clelar, it is totally persuasive, it is even a fantastically good read! . . . Its medical detail is impressive and exceeds that in any other account of the doctor’s life. Obenchain’s argument that Semmelweis suffered from bipolar disorder is original, and no other work has supported the hypothesis of Semmelweis’s mental illness so thoroughly.” —K. Codell Carter, author of Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis and translator of Semmelweis’s The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever SEPTEMBER 2016
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Campesinos Inside the Soul of Cuba Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi Deep inside the soul of Cuba are the campesinos—the men and women who have always worked the countryside across the length and breadth of Cuba, away from cities, towns, and often villages. Resilient, resourceful, and proud, campesinos are the heart and soul of Cuba. The fruit of years of travel among Cuba’s less-known and little-explored rural communities, Campesinos: Inside the Soul of Cuba is a collection of loving and intimate photographs by world-renowned photographers Chip Cooper and Julio Larramendi documenting people and places from every corner of the island nation, many never seen by Cubans themselves let alone visitors from abroad.
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Alabama The Making of an American State Edwin C. Bridges Alabama: The Making of an American State is a thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama, from its geological origins to the early twenty-first century, offering a vital new narrative of its history, culture, and identity.
"This highly readable, smooth, one-volume study should be read by all Alabamians. . . . No discussion of this book should end without the highest praise for the illustrations. Bridges, the archivist, has assembled the best imaginable collection of maps, documents, paintings, photographs—many never published before. Each one, from photos of convict labor camps to the burning bus in Anniston, to a chicken farm in Monroe County, evokes its time and place with great power." —The Tuscaloosa News OCTOBER 2017
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Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century William H. Stewart
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century is an expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state’s distinctive political machinery.
"Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century is interesting and informative, and it brings an important topic up to date. Good examinations of state-level politics need to be done from time to time, and there is no comparable work on contemporary Alabama politics currently available." —Robert P. Steed, coeditor of Writing Southern Politics: Contemporary Interpretations and Future Directions
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Beautiful War Studies in a Dreadful Fascination Philip D. Beidler Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip D. Beidler investigates the unending assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impulses behind the making of art out of war, and the unending and debatably aimless trajectories of war itself.
"Beidler is the preeminent contemporary scholar of war literature. In the present work, his most personal, he examines the cultural products that war engenders. . . . . Summing Up: Essential. All readers." —CHOICE
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Visions of the Black Belt A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama Robin McDonald and Valerie Pope Burnes Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.
Company K William March This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author’s experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K’s war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself.
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Darkroom A Memoir in Black and White Lila Quintero Weaver Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver.
Among the Swamp People Life in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta Watt Key A collection of colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Among the Swamp People chronicles the beauties of the delta’s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters.
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AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX
Ace of Lightning, The. . . . . . . . . . . 6
Going for Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Pruitt, Paul M., Jr. . . . . . . . . 24–25
Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Hadden, Sally E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Alabama Afternoons. . . . . . . . . . 26
Haunting Realities. . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century. . . . . . . . . . 33
Hoffman, Roy. . . . . . . . . . . . 26–27
Richmond’s Priests and Prophets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Robb, Frances Osborn. . . . . . . . 32
Howe, Lawrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rogness, Kate Zittlow . . . . . . . . 10
Jett, Stephen C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Roman, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
John Archibald Campbell. . . . . . 31
Ryden, Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Johnson, Claudia D.. . . . . . . . . . 30
Sarah Orne Jewett. . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Journey in Brazil, A . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Saunders, Robert, Jr. . . . . . . . . . 31
Atchison, R. Jarrod. . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Key, Watt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Baires, Sarah E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Kruse, Horst H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman, The . . . . . . . . . 7
Beautiful War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Land of Water, City of the Dead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 . . . 17 Among the Swamp People. . . . . 34 Ancient Ocean Crossings . . . . . . 18 Anderson-Córdova, Karen F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Beidler, Philip D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Robbins, Paula Ivaska . . . . . . . . . 3
Shelton-Nix, Ericha. . . . . . . . . . . 17 Shores, Elizabeth Findley. . . . . . 2
Larramendi, Julio . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Shot in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Leise, Christopher. . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Steere, Benjamin A. . . . . . . . . . . 20
March, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Stefans, Brian Kim. . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Mark of Criminality, The. . . . . . . 11
Stewart, William H.. . . . . . . . . . . 33
Mark Twain and Money . . . . . . . 13
Story upon a Hill, The . . . . . . . . . 16
Martin, Stephen-Paul. . . . . . . . . . 6
Surviving Spanish Conquest . . . 21
McCann, Bryan J. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Taking Christianity to China . . . 31
McDonald, Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Taylor, William Harrison . . . . . . 14
Davenport, L. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Modernism the Morning After. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Thompson, Douglas E. . . . . . . . 15
Durham, David I.. . . . . . . . . 24–25
Morgan, Courtney E. . . . . . . . . . . 7
Earline’s Pink Party . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Morris, Jack H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Ecoviews Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Obenchain, Theodore G.. . . . . . 32
Elbert, Monika. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Olliff, Martin T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Exploring Wild Alabama. . . . . . . 34
On Strawberry Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work. . . . . 28
Parkison, Aimee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Flynt, Wayne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Pason, Amy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Foust, Christina R.. . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Pecan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Genius Belabored. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Perelman, Bob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Getting Out of the Mud. . . . . . . . . 8
Productive Tension of Hawthorne’s Art, The. . . . . . . . . . 30
Berkley, Gerald W.. . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Bridges, Edwin C. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Burnes, Valerie Pope . . . . . . . . . 34 Campesinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Come Landfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Company K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Cooper, Chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Darkroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Gibbons, Anne R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Tracy, Steven C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Traveling the Beaten Trail. . . . . . 25 Unity in Christ and Country. . . . 14 Visions of the Black Belt . . . . . . . 34 War of Words, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Weaver, Lila Quintero . . . . . . . . 34 Wells, Lenny. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What Democracy Looks Like. . . 10 Wills, Kenneth M. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Wonham, Henry B.. . . . . . . . . . . 13 Word Toys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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