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Author Index Bruggeman, Born in the U.S.A. Gimnez Smith, Goodbye, Flicker Hardack, Not Altogether Human Helgen, Peril in the Ponds Hornick, The Girls and Boys of Belchertown Johnson, Burnt Cork Knickerbocker, Ecopoetics Lang, From Codex to Hypertext Leamon, The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist Luebke, A Century of Design Meringolo, Museums, Monuments, and National Parks Miller, Reading in Time Miller, Bounce Milward, The Agriculture Hall of Fame Mungo, Famous Long Ago Peace, A Call to Conscience Trent, The Manliest Man Van Wagenen, Remembering the Forgotten War 6 13 17 10 9 4 16 15 8 18 7 14 5 12 11 3 1 2
Title Index The Agriculture Hall of Fame, Milward Born in the U.S.A., Bruggeman Bounce, Miller Burnt Cork, Johnson A Call to Conscience, Peace A Century of Design, Luebke Ecopoetics, Knickerbocker Famous Long Ago, Mungo From Codex to Hypertext, Lang The Girls and Boys of Belchertown, Hornick Goodbye, Flicker, Gimnez Smith The Manliest Man, Trent Museums, Monuments, and National Parks, Meringolo Not Altogether Human, Hardack Peril in the Ponds, Helgen Reading in Time, Miller Remembering the Forgotten War, Van Wagenen The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist, Leamon 12 6 5 4 3 18 16 11 15 9 13 1 7 17 10 14 2 8
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The life of a renowned nineteenth-century American abolitionist, educator, and advocate for the disabled
The Manliest Man
Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform James W. Trent
A native of Boston and a physician by training, Samuel G. Howe (18011876) led a remarkable life. He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence, a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the Perkins School for the Blind and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children. Married to Julia Ward Howe, author of Battle Hymn of the Republic, he counted among his friends Senator Charles Sumner, public school advocate Horace Mann, and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Always quick to refer to himself as a liberal, Howe embodied the American Renaissances faith in the perfectibility of human beings, and he spoke out in favor of progressive services for disabled Americans. A Romantic figure even in his own day, he embraced a notion of manliness that included heroism under fire but also compassion for the underdog and the oppressed. Though hardly a man without flaws and failures, he nevertheless represented the optimism that characterized much of antebellum American reform. The first full-length biography of Samuel G. Howe in more than fifty years, The Manliest Man explores his life through private letters and personal and public documents. It offers an original view of the reformers personal life, his association with social causes of his time, and his efforts to shape those causes in ways that allowed for the greater inclusion of devalued people in the mainstream of American life.
This biography made more vivid than almost anything else I have read the sense of a small group of idealistic friends who believed that society was perfectable and who actually managed in their lifetimes to dream up and make happen an extremely diverse range of reforms, truly changing the treatment of many of the most stigmatized segments of society. . . . This is a book that will provide pleasure and interest to general biography lovers, not just academics and historians. Karen Sanchez-Eppler, author of Dependent States: The Childs Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
jAmES w. TRENT is professor of sociology and social work at Gordon College. He is author of Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States and Mental Retardation in America.
Biography / American History / Disability Studies 384 pp., 10 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-959-1 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-958-4 july 2012
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How competing memories of a divisive conflict have shaped relations between two neighboring countries
An important book with implications for both American foreign policy and U.S.Latin America relations today. The long time frame of the project, the authors mastery of mexican sources, the images, and above all else, the authors transnational focus, are all highly impressive. Amy S. Greenberg, author of Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire
The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.mexican war Michael Scott Van Wagenen
On February 2, 1848, representatives of the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ending hostilities between the two countries and ceding over one-half million square miles of land to the northern victors. In Mexico, this defeat has gradually moved from the periphery of dishonor to the forefront of national consciousness. In the United States, the war has taken an opposite trajectory, falling from its once-celebrated prominence into the shadowy margins of forgetfulness and denial. Why is the U.S.Mexican War so clearly etched in the minds of Mexicans and so easily overlooked by Americans? This book investigates that issue through a transnational, comparative analysis of how the tools of collective memorybooks, popular culture, historic sites, heritage groups, commemorations, and museumshave shaped the wars multifaceted meaning in the 160 years since it ended. Michael Van Wagenen explores how regional, ethnic, and religious differences influence Americans and Mexicans in their choices of what to remember and what to forget. He further documents what happens when competing memories clash in a quest for dominance and control. In the end, Remembering the Forgotten War addresses the deeper question of how remembrance of the U.S.Mexican War has influenced the complex relationship between these former enemies now turned friends. It thus provides a new lens through which to view todays cross-border rivalries, resentments, and diplomatic pitfalls.
Remembering the Forgotten War
mICHAEL SCoTT vAN wAGENEN is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville and author of The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God.
American History / American Studies / Public History 352 pp., 24 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-930-0 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-929-4 August 2012
A volume in the series Public History in Historical Perspective
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A definitive history of the grassroots movement to halt American intervention in Nicaragua
A Call to Conscience
The AntiContra war Campaign Roger Peace

Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administrations attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as contras. Believing the Contra War to be unnecessary, immoral, and illegal, they challenged the administrations Cold War stereotypes, warned of another Vietnam, and called on the United States to abide by international norms. A Call to Conscience offers the first comprehensive history of the antiContra War campaign and its Nicaragua connections. Roger Peace places this eight-year campaign in the context of previous American interventions in Latin America, the Cold War, and other grassroots oppositional movements. Based on interviews with American and Nicaraguan citizens and leaders, archival records of activist organizations, and official government documents, this book reveals activist motivations, analyzes the organizational dynamics of the antiContra War campaign, and contrasts perceptions of the campaign in Managua and Washington. Peace shows how a variety of civic groups and networksreligious, leftist, peace, veteran, labor, womens rightsworked together in a decentralized campaign that involved extensive transnational cooperation.
A ground-breaking book. If a hundred years from now the antiContra war movement is included on the list of significant American protest movements, there is no question this book will be a major reason why. It clarifies our vision of the 1980s, refutes the dominant Reagan triumphalism, and shows contemporary America to be just as fraught with protest as the 1960s. Andrew E. Hunt, author of The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
RoGER PEACE is adjunct professor of history at Tallahassee Community College.
American History / American Studies 302 pp., 1 map $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-932-4 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-931-7 june 2012
A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
Reexamines the history of a contentious and persistent performative tradition
Traditions and Legacies of Blackface minstrelsy Edited by Stephen Johnson

Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsystage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americans remained arguably the most popular entertainment in North America. A renewed scholarly interest in this contentious form of entertainment has produced studies treating a range of issues: its contradictory depictions of class, race, and gender; its role in the development of racial stereotyping; and its legacy in humor, dance, and music, and in live performance, film, and television. The style and substance of minstrelsy persist in popular music, tap and hip-hop dance, the language of the standup comic, and everyday rituals of contemporary culture. The blackface makeup all but disappeared for a time, though its influence never diminishedand recently, even the makeup has been making a comeback. This collection of original essays brings together a group of prominent scholars of blackface performance to reflect on this complex and troublesome tradition. Essays consider the early relationship of the blackface performer with American politics and the antislavery movement; the relationship of minstrels to the commonplace compromises of the touring show business and to the mechanization of the industrial revolution; the exploration and exploitation of blackface in the mass media, by D. W. Griffith and Spike Lee, in early sound animation, and in reality television; and the recent reappropriation of the form at home and abroad. In addition to the editor, contributors include Dale Cockrell, Catherine Cole, Louis Chude-Sokei, W. T. Lhamon, Alice Maurice, Nicholas Sammond, and Linda Williams.
Burnt Cork
I think this volume delivers more than most readers will expect. Despite my familiarity with almost all the contributors previous work, I was constantly finding myself learning new things. I would love to think we lived in a postracial culture, but as these essays remind us, we have a long way to go to get there and in the meantime, the more we know about minstrelsy, the more we know about ourselves. Stephen Railton, author of Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance
STEPHEN joHNSoN is director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto and author of The Roof Gardens of Broadway Theatre.
African American Studies / American Studies / Theater and Performing Arts 304 pp., 90 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-934-8 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-933-1 july 2012
The story of a distinctive style of hip-hop that started in one American city and went international
Bounce
Rap music and Local Identity in New orleans Matt Miller

Over the course of the twentieth century, African Americans in New Orleans helped define the genres of jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk. In recent decades, younger generations of New Orleanians have created a rich and dynamic local rap scene, which has revolved around a dance-oriented style called bounce. Hip-hop has been the latest conduit for a New Orleans sound that lies at the heart of many of the citys best-known contributions to earlier popular music genres. Bounce, while globally connected and constantly evolving, reflects an enduring cultural continuity that reaches back and builds on the citys rich musical and cultural traditions. In this book, the popular music scholar and filmmaker Matt Miller explores the ways in which participants in New Orleanss hip-hop scene have collectively established, contested, and revised a distinctive style of rap that exists at the intersection of deeply rooted vernacular music traditions and the modern, globalized economy of commercial popular music. Like other forms of grassroots expressive culture in the city, New Orleans rap is a site of intense aesthetic and economic competition that reflects the creativity and resilience of the citys poor and working-class African Americans.
Bounce uses the tools of the historian, the musicologist, and the sociologist as it works to create a portrait of rap music in New orleans that at once places bounce in a legible history of African American cultural life while also paying careful attention to the particularities of New orleanss unique musical cultures. jeffrey melnick, author of 9/11 Culture and coeditor of American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century
Matt Miller completed his PhD at Emory University, where he continues to teach American studies. He was codirector of the documentary film Ya Heard Me (2008), presenting the history of bounce music and bounce artists.
music / Cultural Studies / American Studies 240 pp., 10 illus. $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-936-2 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-935-5 may 2012
A volume in the series American Popular Music
How the commemoration of birthplaces shapes American beliefs about citizenship, the nation, and the past
Born in the U.S.A.
Birth, Commemoration, and American Public memory Edited by Seth C. Bruggeman

Scores of birthplace monuments and historic childhood homes dot the American landscape. These special places, many dating to the early years of the last century, have enshrined nativity alongside patriotism and valor among the key pillars of the nations popular historical imagination. The essays in this volume suggest that the way Americans have celebrated famous births reflects evolving expectations of citizenship as well as a willingness to edit the past when those hopes go unfulfilled. The contributors also demonstrate that the reinvention of origin myths at birthplace monuments still factors in American political culture and the search for meaning in an ever-shifting global order. Beyond asking why it is that Americans care about birthplaces and how they choose which ones to commemorate, Born in the U.S.A. offers insights from historians, curators, interpretive specialists, and others whose experience speaks directly to the challenges of managing historical sites. Each essay points to new ways of telling old stories at these mainstays of American memory. The case of the modern house museum receives special attention in a provocative concluding essay by Patricia West. In addition to West and the editor, contributors include Christine Arato, Dan Currie, Keith A. Erekson, David Glassberg, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Zachary J. Lechner, Paul Lewis, Hilary Iris Lowe, Cynthia Miller, Laura Lawfer Orr, Robert Paynter, Angela Phelps, and Paul Reber.
Born in the U.S.A. will appeal to almost anyone interested in public history. The scholarship is exceptional. The work will be valuable to students in American studies, public history, and museum studies as well as to historic site administrators and their staffs. Kenneth C. Turino, Historic New England
SETH C. BRUGGEmAN is assistant professor of history and American studies and public history coordinator at Temple University. He is author of Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.
American History / American Studies / Public History 288 pp., 12 illus. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-938-6 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-937-9 july 2012
Reconstructs the genesis and evolution of the field of public history
Museums, Monuments, and National Parks

Toward a New Genealogy of Public History Denise D. Meringolo
The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into the work of collecting and preserving the nations natural and cultural resources. Scientists conducting research and gathering specimens became key figures in a broader effort to protect and interpret the nations landscape. Their collaboration with entrepreneurs, academics, curators, and bureaucrats alike helped pave the way for other governmental initiatives, from the Smithsonian Institution to the parks and monuments today managed by the National Park Service. All of these developments included interpretive activities that shaped public understanding of the past. Yet it was not until the emergence of the educationoriented National Park Service history program in the 1920s and 1930s that public history found an institutional home that grounded professional practice simultaneously in the values of the emerging discipline and in government service. Even thereafter, tensions between administrators in Washington and practitioners on the ground at National Parks, monuments, and museums continued to define and redefine the scope and substance of the field. The process of definition persists to this day, according to Meringolo, as public historians establish a growing presence in major universities throughout the United States and abroad.
A valuable contribution to understanding the deeper roots of the field at a crucial time when public history programs are expanding and the field is going through a period of redefinition. Anne mitchell whisnant, author of SuperScenic Highway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History
DENISE D. mERINGoLo is assistant professor of history and director of public history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
American History / Public History 256 pp., 12 illus. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-940-9 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-939-3 june 2012
A lively biography of a loyalist caught in the upheaval of the American Revolution
The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist

For God, King, Country, and for Self James S. Leamon
This book tells the story of the Reverend Jacob Bailey, a missionary preacher for the Church of England in the frontier town of Pownalborough (now Dresden), Maine, who refused to renounce allegiance to King George III during the American War of Independence. Relying largely on Baileys unpublished journals and voluminous correspondence, James S. Leamon traces Baileys evolution from his rustic background through his Harvard education and subsequent career as a teacher, Congregational minister, and missionary preacher for the Church of England. Along the way, Bailey absorbed many of the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment, but also the more traditional conviction that family, society, religion, and politics, like creation itself, should be orderly and hierarchal. Such beliefs led Bailey to oppose the Revolution as unnatural, immoral, and doomed to fail. Reverend Baileys persistence in praying for the king and his refusal to publicize the Declaration of Independence from his Pownalborough pulpit aroused hostilities that drove him and his family to the safety of Nova Scotia. There, in exile, Bailey devoted himself to assisting fellow refugees while defending himself from others. During this time, he wrote almost obsessively: poems, dramas, novels, histories. Though few were ever completed, and even fewer published, in one way or another most of his writings depicted the trauma he underwent as a loyalist. Leamons study of the Reverend Jacob Bailey depicts the complex nature and burdens of one persons loyalism while revealing much about eighteenthcentury American life and culture.
An informative, engaging study of an often courageous and sometimes eccentric Congregational minister who converted to the Church of England and became a stalwart defender of the British cause throughout the Revolutionary era. A worthy successor to Leamons award-winning Revolution Downeast. joseph A. Conforti, author of Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America
jAmES S. LEAmoN is professor of history emeritus at Bates College and author of Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine (University of Massachusetts Press).
American History / Biography / New England History 296 pp., 8 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-942-3 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-941-6 August 2012
Traces the history of an institution for the intellectually disabled from its founding to its highly publicized closure
The Girls and Boys of Belchertown
A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-minded Robert Hornick
During much of the twentieth century, people labeled feeble-minded, mentally deficient, and mentally retarded were often confined in large, publicly funded, residential institutions located on the edges of small towns and villages some distance from major population centers. At the peak of their development in the late 1960s, these institutionsfrequently called schools or homeshoused 190,000 men, women, and children in the United States. The Girls and Boys of Belchertown offers the first detailed history of an American public institution for intellectually disabled persons. Robert Hornick recounts the story of the Belchertown State School in Belchertown, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in the 1920s to its closure in the 1990s following a scandalous expos and unprecedented court case that put the institution under direct supervision of a federal judge. He draws on personal interviews, private letters, and other unpublished sources as well as local newspapers, long out-of-print materials, and government reports to re-create what it was like to live and work at the school. More broadly, he gauges the impact of changing social attitudes toward intellectual disability and examines the relationship that developed over time between the school and the town where it was located. What emerges is a candid and complex portrait of the Belchertown State School that neither vilifies those in charge nor excuses the injustices perpetrated on its residents, but makes clear that despite the court-ordered reforms of its final decades, the institution needed to be closed.
An important addition to scholarly literature, not only because it is an excellent history, but also because Hornick includes the perspectives of parents and relatives, state and institutional officials, direct-care workers, and the citizens of Belchertown, as well as the institutions residents themselves. I was particularly struck by the books endingan ending that gives two former residents of the Belchertown State School the final say. james w. Trent, author of Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States
An independent scholar and international lawyer, RoBERT HoRNICK teaches law at the University of Arizona and is the author of several books on Indonesian law.
Disability Studies / American History / New England History 224 pp., 17 illus. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-944-7 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-943-0 june 2012
An insiders account of a scientific investigation into a disturbing phenomenon
Peril in the Ponds

Deformed Frogs, Politics, and a Biologists Quest Judy Helgen
judy Helgen was at ground zero when the epidemic of malformed frogs tipped from a regional environmental issue to an international phenomenon. Her book takes us through a heady time when industry and governments were scared and emotions ran as hot as they did during the Love Canal debacle or following the publication of Silent Spring. michael Lannoo, author of Malformed Frogs: The Collapse of Aquatic Ecosystems This is a book for anyone who cares about the environment, not just in minnesota but every place where there are frogs and farms. Craig Pittman, author of Paving Paradise: Floridas Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss
jUDy HELGEN spent many years as a state government research scientist in biological monitoring at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, after earning a PhD in zoology from the University of Minnesota. Since retiring from the MPCA, she has taught at Metropolitan State University and was lead author of the Sierra Club report Restoring Water Quality Certification in Minnesota.
Peril in the Ponds tells the story of a government biologists investigation into the mystery of deformed frogs, an epidemic that grew during the 1990s and continues today. It provides an inside view of a highly charged environmental issue that aroused the public and the media and sparked controversies among scientists, politicians, and government agencies. By the 1990s, wetlands across the United States were endangered from pollution and decades of drainage to convert them into farmland and urban developments. But when deformed frogs, many with missing legs or eyes, footless stumps, or misshapen jaws, began to emerge from Minnesota wetlands, alarm bells went off. What caused such deformities? Pollution? Ultraviolet rays? Biological agents? And could the mysterious cause also pose a threat to humans? Judy Helgen writes with passionate concern about vulnerable frogs and wetlands as she navigates through a maze of inquisitive media and a reluctant government agency. She reports on the complexity of a growing catastrophe for frogs and broadens the issue as she researches and meets with scientists from around the world. She affirms the importance of examining aquatic life to understand pollution and the need to rescue our remaining wetlands. She also shares the fears expressed by the teachers, students, and other citizens who found these creatures, sensed a problem, and looked to her for answers. Ultimately, this is a story about the biological beauty of wetlands and our need to pay attention to the environment around us.
Environmental History / Political Science / memoir 272 pp. $24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-946-1 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-945-4 july 2012
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A new edition of a classic text of 1960s America
Famous Long Ago
my Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service Raymond Mungo
With a new introduction by John McMillian and a new afterword by the author
Originally published in 1970, Raymond Mungos picaresque account of his adventures with Liberation News Service in the wild years of 1967 and 1968 has been variously described as youthful, passionate, lyrical, demented, and an iconic symbol of the sixties counterculture. A review in The Nation described it as hip Huck Finn. A college editor at the height of the Vietnam War, Mungo found himself smack in the middle of a mad swirl of activism and dissent, vigorously protesting everything from the draft to abortion laws to the university itself. Then he connected with Marshall Bloom to cofound LNS in Washington, D.C., as a news service catering to the burgeoning underground press. One thing led to another, until LNS, like so many other radical organizations, eventually disintegrated into violently warring factions. Mungos memoir tracks its development and destruction with wicked humor and literary panache. In an introduction to this new edition, John McMillian discusses the enduring appeal of Famous Long Ago and situates it within its broader historical context, while the author provides his own retrospective take in a new afterword.
This is not a book of programmatic politics. . . . It is one young mans odyssey through the vietnam war, martin Luther Kings assassination, the acid-rock counterculture, the bitter splits within the New Left, ending up with him as a post-Beatles Thoreau, digging nature and privacy on a farm in vermont . . . written from the stormy center of the movement. jack Newfield, New York Times Book Review If all revolutionaries were like mungo, the revolution would be lost, but revolutionary theater would be much improved. more wit, gaiety, lyricism.The New Republic Ray mungo is a wild party in the upstairs apartment of America. He is also the free mental clinic on the first floor. Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
RAymoND mUNGo is the author of fifteen books, including Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life; Cosmic Profit: How to Make Money without Doing Time; and Confessions from Left Field. joHN mCmILLIAN is assistant professor of history at Georgia State University and author of Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America.
Raymond mungo was the 60s generations most compelling chronicler and its most archetypal mascot. He lived it, right on its front lines, and he mythologized it, making himself and his friends its central characters. Eric Utne and jay walljasper, editors of Utne Reader
memoir / American Studies / journalism and media Studies 224 pp., 12 illus. $19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-947-8 April 2012
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winner of the juniper Prize for Fiction
The Agriculture Hall of Fame

Stories Andrew Malan Milward
These powerful stories limn the complexities and dilemmas of life in Kansas, a state at the center of the center of America, as a billboard in one story announces. Andrew Malan Milward explores the less visible aspects of the Kansas experiencewhere its agrarian past comes into conflict with the harsh present reality of drugs, fundamentalism, and corporatism, relegating its agrarian identity to museums and amusement parks. Presented in a triptych, the stories in Milwards debut collection range across a varied terrain, from tumbledown rural barns to modern urban hospitals, revealing the secrets contained therein.
These beautiful stories, ranging the cities and towns of Kansas from Ulysses to El Dorado, are as intimate and compassionate as they are unflinching. Andrew milward has made of the Sunflower State a doorway into the American soul. Naeem murr, author of The Perfect Man Andrew malan milward is a subtle writer with an unsparing eye and a heart as vast as a prairie. The ten stories in his first book, The Agriculture Hall of Fame, are graceful evocations of lossof fathers and first loves, of lakes and sisters, of the rusting midwestern heartland one sees from a bus window as it pulls away. An evocative debut from a writer to cheer for. Lauren Groff, author of Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories and Arcadia
A native of Lawrence, Kansas, ANDREw mALAN mILwARD is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. He has served as a McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, a Writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Resident Artist at the Santa Fe Art Institute. He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he is a Visiting Writer at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Fiction 160 pp. $19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-948-5 may 2012
Andrew milward is an exceptionally gifted and mature storyteller, attentive to the intricacies of character and place. Theres no showing off here, no macho posturing, no coy evasion, no attention-demanding voice or ploy. This debut collection is wise, patient, vivid, and deep. one gets the impression that these stories were written slowly and with great care. Further, one gets the refreshing impression that the author sincerely needed to write them. Chris Bachelder, contest judge and author of Abbott Awaits: A Novel The Kansas of The Agriculture Hall of Fame is brokedown, hardluck country. Andrew milwards precarious, paralyzed people are lost in place, and know it, alternately circling and fleeing the center of the center of America. As one says, out here, everybodys crazy with looking for something. wry and sad, this is a fine debut collection. Stuart oNan, author of The Odds
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winner of the juniper Prize for Poetry
Goodbye, Flicker
Poems Carmen Gimnez Smith

This distinctive collection introduces a new type of mythmaking, daring in its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities. Conspiratorial, Goodbye, Flicker describes the interior life of a girl whose prince is a deadbeat dad and whose escape into a fantasy world is also an escape into language, beauty, and the surreal.
The Tales She Wrote
_______ The Fates and Their Doors The Poem of Mirrors The Real Princess Delicate Sense of Feeling Bugs Bunny Kisses the Saint Mary World Three and the Dancing Sisters The Forest of Talking Appliances The Fruit of a Thousand Kisses or The Kiss of a Thousand Fruits Swans in the Swan Orphanage The Hermit, the Infant and the Bobbin What Happened to You Inside of the Basket? What Happened at Midnight in Deutschland? The Flying Backwards Time Other with Other Interior Paint Troll and the Bridge of Unemployment The Dragon: Pregnant with Possibility The Coat and the Taxes The Tale as a Screen into the Kingdom and Nowhere Afraid in the Mirror Said Thrice
Carmen Gimnez Smiths Goodbye, Flicker takes on poetry, family, myth, fairy tale, memory, love, history, and our plain ordinary human stories. magic and invention are taken for granted. Cmo se dice is what all poems say. Gimnez Smith happens to say so with deliverance and desire that can break into anyones heart. Dara wier, author of Selected Poems and Reverse Rapture
CARmEN GImNEz SmITH is the publisher of Noemi Press, the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol, and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at New Mexico State University. She is the author of two previous collections of poetryOdalisque in Pieces and The City She Wasand a memoir, Bring Down the Little Birds.
Poetry 80 pp. $15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-2 April 2012
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A fresh look at a major poet in the context of her time
Reading in Time
Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century Cristanne Miller

This book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne Miller argues both that Dickinsons poetry is formally far closer to the verse of her day than generally imagined and that Dickinson wrote, circulated, and retained poems differently before and after 1865. Many current conceptions of Dickinson are based on her late poetic practice. Such conceptions, Miller contends, are inaccurate for the time when she wrote the great majority of her poems. Before 1865, Dickinson at least ambivalently considered publication, circulated relatively few poems, and saved almost everything she wrote in organized booklets. After this date, she wrote far fewer poems, circulated many poems without retaining them, and took less interest in formally preserving her work. Yet, Miller argues, even when circulating relatively few poems, Dickinson was vitally engaged with the literary and political culture of her day and, in effect, wrote to her contemporaries. Unlike previous accounts placing Dickinson in her era, Reading in Time demonstrates the extent to which formal properties of her poems borrow from the short-lined verse she read in schoolbooks, periodicals, and singleauthored volumes. Miller presents Dickinsons writing in relation to contemporary experiments with the lyric, the ballad, and free verse, explores her responses to American Orientalism, presents the dramatic lyric as one of her preferred modes for responding to the Civil War, and gives us new ways to understand the patterns of her composition and practice of poetry.
An excellent book. . . . Anyone who cares about Dickinson, the lyric, or how one reads will be indebted to millers research, judgments, and clear-eyed sifting of current scholarship. She has done an enormous amount of work and has given us a poet of great subtlety and responsiveness. Thomas Gardner, author of A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson
CRISTANNE mILLER is Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature and chair of the Department of English at the University of Buffalo. Her many books include Emily Dickinson: A Poets Grammar and The Emily Dickinson Handbook, which she coedited.
American Literature 288 pp., 7 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-951-5 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-950-8 may 2012
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Interdisciplinary essays that reframe how we think about reading, selling, sharing, and publishing books
From Codex to Hypertext
Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Edited by Anouk Lang

The start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, access texts, and make sense of what they are reading. At the same time, new technologies have also opened up exciting possibilities for scholars of reading and reception in offering them unprecedented amounts of data on reading practices, book buying patterns, and book collecting habits. In From Codex to Hypertext, scholars from multiple disciplines engage with both of these strands. This volume includes essays that consider how changes such as the mounting ubiquity of digital technology and the globalization of structures of publication and book distribution are shaping the way readers participate in the encoding and decoding of textual meaning. Contributors also examine how and why reading communities cohere in a range of contexts, including prisons, book clubs, networks of zinesters, state-funded programs designed to promote active citizenship, and online spaces devoted to sharing ones tastes in books. As concerns circulate in the media about the ways that readingfor so long anchored in print culture and the codexis at risk of being irrevocably altered by technological shifts, this book insists on the importance of tracing the historical continuities that emerge between these reading practices and those of previous eras. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Daniel Allington, Bethan Benwell, Jin Feng, Ed Finn, Danielle Fuller, David S. Miall, Julian Pinder, Janice Radway, Julie Rak, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Megan Sweeney, Joan Bessman Taylor, Molly Abel Travis, and David Wright.
ANoUK LANG is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde and an honorary research fellow in the School of English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Print Culture Studies / Cultural Studies 288 pp., 18 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-953-9 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-952-2 july 2012
A volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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How poets not usually considered nature poets express humanitys relationship with nature
Ecopoetics
The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language Scott Knickerbocker

Ecopoetics provides inroads for ecocriticism into the study of these significant poets, and will open new possibilities in the critical discourse concerning twentieth-century American poetry in general. Bernard Quetchenbach, author of Back from Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century
Ecocritics and other literary scholars interested in the environment have tended to examine writings that pertain directly to nature and to focus on subject matter more than expression. In this book, Scott Knickerbocker argues that it is time for the next step in ecocriticism: scholars need to explore the figurative and aural capacity of language to evoke the natural world in powerful ways. Ecopoetics probes the complex relationship between artifice and the natural world in the work of modern American poetsin particular Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, and Sylvia Plath. These poets relate to nature as a deep wellspring of meaning, although they all avoid using language the way most nature writers do, merely to reflect or refer directly to the world. Each of these poets, in his or her own distinct way, employs instead what Knickerbocker terms sensuous poesis, the process of rematerializing language through sound effects and other formal devices as a sophisticated response to nonhuman nature. Rather than attempt to erase the artifice of their own poems, to make them seem more natural and thus supposedly closer to nature, the poets in this book unapologetically embrace artificenot for its own sake but in order to perform and enact the natural world. Indeed, for them, artifice is natural. In examining their work, Knickerbocker charts a new direction for ecocriticism.
SCoTT KNICKERBoCKER is assistant professor of English and environmental studies at The College of Idaho.
American Literature 208 pp. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-955-3 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-954-6 August 2012
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How Emerson, melville, and their peers wrestled with the tenets of pantheism in their work
Not Altogether Human

Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance Richard Hardack
Many leading American thinkers in the nineteenth century, who accepted the premises of Emersonian transcendentalism, valued the basic concept of pantheism: that God inheres in nature and in all things, and that a person could achieve a sense of belonging she or he lacked in society by seeking a oneness with all of nature. As Richard Hardack shows, however, writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville conceived of nature as everything Other other than the white male Protestant culture of which they were a part. This conception of nature, then, became racialized, and the divine became associated with African American and Native American identities, as well as with femininity. In Not Altogether Human, Hardack reevaluates transcendentalism in the context of nineteenthcentury concerns about individual and national racial identity. Elucidating the influence of pantheism, Hardack draws on an array of canonical and unfamiliar materials to remap the boundaries of what has long been viewed as white male transcendental discourse. This book significantly revises notions of what transcendentalism and pantheism mean and how they relate to each other. Hardacks close analysis of pantheism and its influence on major works and lesser known writing of the nineteenth century opens up a new perspective on American culture during this key moment in the countrys history.
Hardacks scholarship on Emerson and melville (and to some extent Hawthorne, Poe, and Lawrence) is not only up-to-date but revelatory, as the author reads and re-reads well-known passages in essays, novels, and letters in the light of a philosophy (pantheism) which has not received this kind of attention before. wyn Kelley, author of Melvilles City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York
RICHARD HARDACK completed his PhD in English and a JD at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College.
American Literature / Religion 304 pp. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-957-7 $80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-956-0 june 2012
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A richly illustrated volume documenting a century of efforts to beautify the nations capital
A Century of Design
A History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Edited by Thomas Luebke

From a hodgepodge provincial city of brick buildings into an ordered array of white classical temples, Washington, D.C., was transformed by visionary planning and herculean implementation in response to the political and artistic movements of the early twentieth century. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts was created by Congress in 1910 to guide this transformation and has continued to advise on the capital citys design and other national symbols for a century. The impetus for this seven-member, presidentially appointed commission on design can be traced to the Senate Park Commission of 1901, whose grand plan focused on the Mall as the symbolic core of the capitaland the nationproposing that it be a formal, public space framed by neoclassical architecture to express the ideals of the American democracy. This book explores the role of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in the design and architecture of Washington, as well as the citys memorials and commemorative sites that represent the nation. It examines the social and political contexts that fostered the commissions creation and the subsequent trends that have informed its decisions. As design philosophies and styles changed over the century, the commission also shifted its emphasis from Beaux-Arts architecture and planning principles to the modernist pragmatism of mid-century, the urban redevelopment and historicist trends of the late twentieth century, and the contemporary era characterized by issues of security, sustainability, and information technology.
The important work of the Commission of Fine Arts touches on questions of politics, design, urban planning, environmental planning, architectural history, and cultural history. while its work primarily concerns washington, D.C., the capital often has served as a laboratory for what happens in the rest of the country, and this volume should appeal to both professional and lay readers interested in these varied fields. Susan L. Klaus, author of A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
THomAS LUEBKE, FAIA, has served as secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts since 2005.
Urban History / Architecture / American History 550 pp., 175 color & 325 black-and-white illus. 10" x 12" format $85.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-16-089702-3 july 2012 Distributed for the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
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Listed below are recent and notable titles, organized by subject matter for your convenience. Additional information on more than 900 publications from the UMass Press is available at our website: www.umass.edu/umpress.
BACKLIST
Selected
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
A Kind of Archeology
Elizabeth Stillinger
American folk art has been studied exhaustively from the standpoint of the objects themselves, but Elizabeth Stillingers long-awaited book is the first to take a comprehensive look at the materials earliest collectors and their motivations.Barbara Luck
$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-744-3 464 pp., 223 color & 139 black-and-white illus., 9" x 10" format, 2011
Frederic Crowninshield
Gertrude de G. Wilmers and Julie L. Sloan
A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age
Collecting American Folk Art, 18761976
This beautifully produced biography of the late-19th-century and early-20th-century American artist, author, and arts administrator Frederic Crowninshield was meticulously researched and written. . . . [It] offers an extensive description and analysis of Crowninshields stained glass windows, murals, and paintings and places them in social, artistic, and historical context. Choice
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-864-8 352 pp., 76 color & 27 black-and-white illus., 2010
Meetinghouses of Early New England

Peter Benes
The product of four decades of thorough and meticulous research, this clearly written work is the most important book on early New England architecture since the publication of Abbott Lowell Cummings The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay in 1979.Kevin M. Sweeny
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-910-2 512 pp., 120 illus., 7" x 10" format, March 2012
Harriet Hosmer
A Cultural Biography
Kate Culkin
In this fluid and lucid biography, historian Culkin aims to establish Hosmer as a woman whose biography opens a window into her time. . . . This will be of great interest to art historians of the period and scholars of 19th-century American womens history.Publishers Weekly
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-839-6 256 pp., 30 illus., 2010
Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol

Allen Guttmann
Foreword by Carol Clark
I have been waiting for years for a book like this. While others have written about art and sport, this is the most expansive treatment of the topic to datea masterful synthesis by an erudite scholar who has managed to bridge the gap between two tremendously important cultural institutions and practices.Daniel A. Nathan
$39.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-874-7 336 pp., 51 color & 45 black-and-white illus., 8" x 8 3/4" format, 2011
Through an Uncommon Lens

The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day
Patricia J. Fanning
Honor Title, Massachusetts Book Award
Carefully researched and skillfully written. Royal Photographic Society Journal

$40.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-668-2 304 pp., 76 black-and-white illus., 31 duotone plates, 2008
The American College Town

Blake Gumprecht
Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Lavishly illustrated, meticulously researched, and enlivened by a former journalists eye for detail, this will be a classic.Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-813-6 468 pp., 82 illus., 12 maps, 2009
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A Genius for Place

Robin Karson
American Landscapes of the Country Place Era

Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies
AMERICAN HISTORY
New Israel / New England
Jews and Puritans in Early America
Michael Hoberman
An extremely important book for early American and Jewish studies, based on extensive scholarship, clearly and interestingly written, and suitable for general readers as well as scholars. William Pencak
The most important book on American gardens for a decade at least. London Telegraph
$39.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-636-1 424 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2007 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
Mission 66
Ethan Carr
Modernism and the National Park Dilemma

Winner of the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award of the Society of Architectural Historians A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Needles Eye

Marla R. Miller
Women and Work in the Age of Revolution

Winner of the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America
This volume should be part of every library supporting planning, recreation, land economics, and geography.Choice
$39.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-587-6 424 pp., 200 illus., 2007 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
A meticulous, nuanced account of the many varities of needlework that engaged the energies of women in eighteenthcentury and early nineteenth-century rural New England.Journal of Social History
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-545-6 328 pp., 31 illus., 8 color plates, 2006
Out of the Attic
Graceland Cemetery
A Design History
Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England
Christopher Vernon
Vernon has thoroughly chronicled the complex web of people, places, and events comprising the development of one of the most influential cemeteries in the United States.William Tishler
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-926-3 272 pp., 12 color and 125 black-and-white illus., 7" x 10" format, 2011 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
Briann G. Greenfield
Her book is rich in anecdote. . . . There is fun and insight on almost every page. Art & Antiques
Public History in Historical Perspective
Domestic Broils
Shakers, Antebellum Marriage, and the Narratives of Mary and Joseph Dyer
Design in the Little Garden

Fletcher Steele
Introduction by Robin Karson
A new edition of a classic work in the field of garden and landscape design.
$20.00t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-907-2 152 pp., 8 color and 8 black-and-white illus., 2011 Distributed for Library of American Landscape History
Edited with an introduction by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe

A brilliant anthology and discussion of the bounds of marriage in the 19th century, the nature of Shakerism and the meaning of freedom within that religion. Portland Press Herald
The Craftsman and the Critic

Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and CraftsEra Boston
Sisters in the Faith

Glendyne R. Wergland
Shaker Women and Equality of the Sexes

A superb addition to religious history and womens studies shelves, highly recommended.Midwest Book Review
Beverly K. Brandt
This outstanding analysis and understandable presentation provides a sophisticated appreciation of the Arts and Crafts movement.Style 1900 Magazine
$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-677-4 444 pp., 19 color and 240 black-and-white illus., 2009
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Missionaries in Hawaii
Clifford Putney
The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 17971883

Will be most appreciated by the general public and scholars of missionary history in Hawaii.Hawaiian Journal of History
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-735-1 272 pp., 25 illus., 2010
When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France

Charles L. Robertson
An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club
The personality clashes and complex interplay of diplomatic and military events alone make for fascinating reading. Daily Hampshire Gazette
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-881-5 240 pp., 2011
Everybodys History
Keith A. Erekson
Indianas Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a Presidents Past

How a group of nonprofessional historians forced a reassessment of Abraham Lincolns life story.
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-915-7 256 pp., 12 illus., January 2012
Measuring America
How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century
Andrew L. Yarrow
Examines how Americans values have been shaped by economic statistics and concepts during the last seventy years. . . . a well-researched and insightful book.Bookviews
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-835-8 272 pp., 2010
Public History in Historical Perspective
From Liberation to Conquest

Bonnie M. Miller
The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898

An important book that will further our understanding of this complicated moment in American history.David Brody
Perfectly Average
Anna G. Creadick
The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America

A compelling, fascinating study of the centrality of the value of normality as defining so many aspects of postWWII US culture. . . . Highly recommended.Choice
Uneasy Allies
Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston
David A. Zonderman
This important work not only helps us understand the past but also think about the future of work, reform, and political strategies.Kenneth Fones-Wolf
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-866-2 336 pp., 2011
Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
Not Yet a Placeless Land

Wilbur Zelinsky
Tracking an Evolving American Geography

I do not know any other U.S. geographer who could or would undertake writing about the many topics discussed in this volume. . . . Not Yet a Placeless Land will be cited by scholars in geography, history, sociology, and American studies for many years. Stanley D. Brunn
What Adolescents Ought to Know

Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America
Jennifer Burek Pierce

Traces the emergence and marketing of sex education texts.
Barney Frank
Cornelia James Cannon and the Future American Race

Maria I. Diedrich
A probing analysis of the role of eugenics in the thinking of progressive reformers in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Story of Americas Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman
Stuart E. Weisberg
Weisberg creates a mesmerizing portrait of the legislator known for his wit, speaking skill, intellect, and political savvy, who when he publicly came out in 1987, was the first Congressman to so declare.Booklist
$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-721-4 544 pp., 22 illus., 2009
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The Dance of the Comedians
The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America
Pressing the Fight
Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War
Edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner

Perhaps the most important work performed by this collection of first-rate essays is to demonstrate compellingly, across a wide range of cultural and academic contexts, how central printed words and images were to fighting the Cold War.Choice
Peter M. Robinson
In this highly entertaining yet politically valuable book, historian Peter M. Robinson traces the evolution of presidential lampoons from Mark Twain to Will Rogers, from Mort Sahl to Jon Stewart. Steve Goddards History Wire
$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-785-6 288 pp., 2011
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
The Dragons Tail

Robert A. Jacobs
Americans Face the Atomic Age

Jacobs subjects atomic narratives in postwar US culture to cogent analysis in this succinct, well-researched, readable book. Highly recommended.Choice
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-727-6
176 pp., 20 illus., 2010
Upstaging the Cold War

American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940 1960
Andrew J. Falk
Honorable Mention, Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for the History of American Foreign Relations
The FBI and the Catholic Church, 19351962

Steve Rosswurm
In a series of mini-biographical sketches, Rosswurm focuses on the interconnectedness of men who expressed and exercised shared values of patriarchy and authority, hierarchical discipline, and the recognition of real threats to the respective organic bodies of the FBI and the Catholic Church.Choice
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-729-0 352 pp., 2010
Offers a fascinating new window onto the early Cold War that goes far beyond the relatively familiar old stories of the Hollywood hearings and blacklists. Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize Committee
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-903-4 280 pp., 2011
The Battle for the Mind

Gary Messinger
War and Peace in the Era of Mass Communication

This is an interesting read, well researched and well written. . . . The book is richest in its discussion of WWII and the years through the first war in the Persian Gulf. . . . Highly recommended.Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-853-2 320 pp., 2011
Framing the Sixties

Bernard von Bothmer
The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush
A smart, important and impressively researched account of the decade that far too often is reduced to clichs by the left and the right.Tom Brokaw
$28.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-732-0 320 pp., 2010
Hanoi Jane
Jerry Lembcke
War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal

In this provocative study, Lembcke probes the way in which political dissent combined with American anxieties about class, gender, and celebrity to vilify a woman who followed her political conscience. Womens Review of Books
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-815-0 224 pp., 2010
Secular Missionaries
Larry Grubbs
Americans and African Development in the 1960s

A richly detailed picture of American policies, successes, and failures in Africa. . . . In a concluding chapter, Grubbs notes how little has changed in a half-century. Books & Culture
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-734-4 256 pp., 2010
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The Myth of the Addicted Army

Jeremy Kuzmarov
Beyond Vietnam
Robert Surbrug Jr.
Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs

Kuzmarov raises serious questions about whether measures used to address the so-called addicted army in Vietnam worked then or work now. . . . Highly recommended. Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-705-4 288 pp., 2009
The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 19741990

Focusing on the activists and the political leaders, as well as the issues, Surbrug traces a political continuity from the movement against nuclear energy in the 1970s to the nuclear freeze movement and the Central American solidarity movement of the 1980s.Boston Globe
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-712-2 320 pp., 2009
The Vietnam War in American Memory

Patrick Hagopian
Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Vietnams Southern Revolution

From Peasant Insurrection to Total War
David Hunt
David Hunt has written a superb book . . . the best book on Vietnams Southern Revolution.Journal of Contemporary Asia
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-692-7 288 pp., 2 maps, 2009
Sophisticated and ambitious. . . . As Hagopian so brilliantly shows in this wideranging and strikingly original book, healing and reconciliation came at a steep cost. Diplomatic History
Performances of Violence
Edited by Austin Sarat, Carleen R. Basler, and Thomas L. Dumm
President of the Other America

Edward R. Schmitt
A superb study of a key aspect of Robert F. Kennedys public life: his commitment to alleviating the suffering of the nations most poverty-stricken people. Journal of American History
Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty
An interdisciplinary analysis of the cultural meanings of violence.

$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-857-0 184 pp., 2011
Who Deserves to Die?

Edited by Austin Sarat and Karl Shoemaker
Constructing the Executable Subject
Liberty and Justice for All?

Edited by Kathleen Donohue
Rethinking Politics in Cold War America

An excellent, well-written, and very fresh look at the long 1950s from a variety of different and interesting perspectives. James B. Gilbert
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-913-3 400 pp., February 2012
A wonderful, timely, and overdue addition to the debate over capital punishment. Beau Breslin
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-883-9 320 pp., 2011
The Solemn Sentence of Death

Capital Punishment in Connecticut
Lawrence B. Goodheart
A sweeping, highly readable, organized analysis of al the states 158 executions from 1639 to 2005. . . . Highly recommended. Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-847-1 336 pp., 2011
James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence

Michael Holzman
Holzmans book is a major history of chilling impact, and a long, rewarding odyssey through the labyrinth of counterintelligence. . . . His cast is huge and his explorations far reaching.ForeWord
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-650-7 416 pp., 2008
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Derelict Paradise
Daniel Kerr
Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio

Covers 130 years and astutely places homelessness in the context of urban development, labor and housing markets, and the criminal justice system.Choice
BLACK STUDIES
Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America
Timothy Parrish
Refreshes our view of Ellison, challenging critics who dismiss him as the author of just one big novel.Library Journal
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-922-5 280 pp., January 2011
There You Have It

John Bloom
The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell

Cosella lawyer by trainingwas as improbable a sports figure as can be imagined. . . . Many of the contradictions of his character and the finer intricacies of his legacy are teased out in this carefully observed portrait.Publishers Weekly
$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-837-2 224 pp., 5 illus., 2010
Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom
Edited by James Brewer Stewart

A fascinating multi-disciplinary approach toward unlocking the details of the life of Venture Smith.Reference and Research Book News
Knocking on Heavens Door

Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment

Edited by Richard M. Reid
The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts

Fun and interesting as well as informative, and Richard Reid has done us all a service by making it more widely accessible through this nicely annotated publication. H-Net
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-739-9
Marty Dobrow
A beautifully written, meticulously orchestrated account of the families, common agents, notable triumphs, and devastating failures of half a dozen talented young men who want to play in the Major Leagues. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
288 pp., 12 illus., 2010
Hope & Glory
What We Have Done

Fred Pelka
Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement

Makes a unique and important contribution to the field of disability movement history, featuring the words of both activist foot soldiers and movement leaders. Mary Lou Breslin
$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-919-5 592 pp., 33 illus., February 2012
Edited by Martin H. Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, and Donald Yacovone

Foreword by Colin L. Powell
An essential book, helping us to understand how history, memory, monuments, and myth intertwine to keep the present comforted and discomforted by the past. Journal of American History
Covering America
Christopher B. Daly
A Narrative History of a Nations Journalism

This is grand narrative as it should be deftly balancing nuanced and consequential portraits of individual characters (Mencken, Luce, Hearst, Winchell, Lippmann) with compelling accounts of the big developments.Bruce Schulman
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9 576 pp., 73 illus., March 2012
Boycotts, Buses, and Passes

Pamela E. Brooks
Black Womens Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa

Brooks carves out for these women their rightful place in the history of the black freedom movement.Ms.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-678-1 336 pp., 20 illus., 4 maps, 2008
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Exhibiting Blackness
African Americans and the American Art Museum
Bridget R. Cooks
An important and original contribution to the study of the history of American art museums and American culture. . . . develops a useful perspective for studying the history of the deeply troubled relationship between African Americans and American art museums.Alan Wallach
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-875-4 240 pp., 26 color & 34 black-and-white illus., 2011
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

Making War and Minting Christians
R. Todd Romero
Combines a history of gender, religion and warfare in early colonial America, showing how Native and Anglo ideas of manhood developed in the context of Christian evangelization and colonial expansion. Midwest Book Review
Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England
Images of Black Modernism

Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
Miriam Thaggert
An exceptional contribution to the discussion of both modernism and the period of intense African American artistic production known as the Harlem Renaissance. . . . a well-written and meticulously researched study.New Book Network
Native Americans of the Northeast
The People of the Standing Stone

Karim M. Tiro
The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal
An excellent case study in the experience of northeastern Indians from the era of the American Revolution to Indian Removal. Timothy J. Shannon
Near Black
White-to-Black Passing in American Culture
Baz Dreisinger
How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We cant help asking these awkward questions as we digest Near Black by Baz Dreisinger. New York Times Book Review
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-675-0 192 pp., 2008
Early Native Literacies in New England

Edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss
A Documentary and Critical Anthology
Jump for Joy
Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America
Gena Caponi-Tabery
A remarkable book, an example of cultural studies as well as a history of dominant motifs in African American and U.S. culture before the civil rights movement.Journal of American History
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-663-7
A vivid picture of the complexities, contradictions, and challenges inherent both in early Native literacies and in the scholarly reconstruction of these textual encounters.New England Quarterly
Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs

Aesthetics and Survival
304 pp., 24 illus., 2008
The Colored Cartoon

Christopher P. Lehman
Ann Morrison Spinney

Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 19071954

Lehmans fascinating study is comprehensive, meticulous and well-written.Choice

$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-779-5 152 pp., 2009
As comprehensive an account of the musical cultureboth the present and its historyof Native American nation as one can imagine. . . . Highly recommended. Choice
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FICTION AND POETRY

Girls in Trouble
Stories
LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

American Orient
David Weir
The book seems to me a monumental achievement. It is timely, wise, idiosyncratic in only good ways, lively, well informed, fun to read.Christopher Benfey
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-879-2 304 pp., 2011
Douglas Light
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
In this kaleidoscopic collection of thirteen short stories . . . Light deftly explores the rocky terrain of human emotion. . . . [He] probes beneath complex layers of what it means to be alive, revealing the occasionally magnificent terrain of self hood.Foreword
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-923-2 144 pp., 2011 Published in cooperation with the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century
Transbuddhism
The Law of Miracles

Gregory Blake Smith
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction
Transmission, Translation, and Transformation
Edited by Nalini Bhushan, Jay Garfield, and Abraham Zablocki

This carefully edited volume of 12 essays is a fascinating, thought-provoking, and eclectic treatment of Buddhisms transmission, translation, and transformation in the West.Choice
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-708-5 272 pp., 2009 Published in association with the Kahn Institute, Smith College
As marvelously varied as these stories are in terms of premise, narration, and setting, they all exhibit the same powerful sense of authenticity, creative exuberance, careful observation, and moral engagement. Chris Bachelder
$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-900-3 160 pp., 2011
Portraits of a Few of the People Ive Made Cry

Stories
Literary Journalism across the Globe

Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences
Christine Sneed
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Ten finely delineated tales featuring protagonists entangled in less-than-ideal romantic scenarios. . . . Sneed writes with the care of a fine stylist and the heart of a sympathetic reader.Publishers Weekly (starred review)
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-858-7 168 pp., 2010 Published in cooperation with Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
Edited by John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds

This book makes a major contribution to literary journalism scholarship, with a pathbreakingly broad international focus and commendable attention to developing a conceptual framework.Nancy Roberts
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-877-8 320 pp., 3 illus., May 2011
Cesare Pavese and America

Life, Love, and Literature
The Many Woods of Grief

Poems
Lawrence G. Smith
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Premio Pavese Award
Lucas Farrell
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
Farrell throws a spell over everything his voice touches. Crossing back and forth between zones of innocence and experience, he inhabits the childs vision and the ancients: leaping, witnessing, scoffing, adoring and unsettling.Joanna Klink
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-899-0 80 pp., 2011
Smith starts his book with a fluent and well-researched short biography, pulling together the complicated story of Paveses intellectual and personal formation, and the path to his suicide in 1950, by way of some spectacularly botched love affairs. The story is compelling.Times Literary Supplement
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Mashed Up
Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture
Right Here I See My Own Books

The Womans Building Library at the Worlds Columbian Exposition
Aram Sinnreich
A deeply engaging text. . . . It asks excellent questions about the role of art and music in society and then follows that up with fascinating ethnogrpahic interviews with musicians. American Studies
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-829-7 240 pp., 2010
Sarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand

A compelling case study of how womens literature and culture were defined and institutionalized in the progressive era. Susan Belasco
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-928-7 288 pp., 2 illus., January 2012
Science/Technology/Culture
Nine Choices
Johnny Cash and American Culture
Expanding the American Mind

Beth Luey
Jonathan Silverman
Endlessly fascinating and thoroughly engaging. . . . likely the closest well get to truly understanding Cashs life via this examination of the critical, life-defining choices he made.San Antonio Express-News
Books and the Popularization of Knowledge

A fine and fascinating study of popularization. . . . Luey is a formidably knowledgeable scholar and, one sees also in these pages, a wise one.Publishing Research Quarterly
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-817-4 224 pp., 2010
Forever Doo-Wop
Reading Places
Christine Pawley
Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony
John Michael Runowicz

A concise history of doo-wop as it emerged from gospel quartet singing to the commercial heights of the rock n roll era. Downbeat (Editors Picks)
Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America

Provides a model for future scholars and policy makers to determine why localities put differing value on literacy, which can grealy affect any regions economic and social development.Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-822-8 272 pp., 2010
American Popular Music
A World among These Islands

Roberto Mrquez
Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America

This engaging study provides readers with a fresh look at Caribbean literary history. Rejecting fragmentary views of the Caribbean, Mrquez proposes recognition of the regions shared historic and literary traditions. Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-851-8 280 pp., 2010
Uncle Toms Cabin and the Reading Revolution

Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 18511911
Barbara Hochman
For anyone who loves literature, Hochmans book illuminates the fluidity of attitudes toward a seminal fictional work, literacy and the very act of reading fiction itself. Portland Press Herald
Translation, Resistance, Activism

Edited by Maria Tymoczko
Revealing a fascinating facet of translation, this is an important read for those interested in translation and/or political and social movements, past and present. Highly recommended.Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-833-4 304 pp., 2010
Companionship in Grief
Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
Jeffrey Berman
In this unique, carefully researched volume, Berman examines memoirs written by well-known authors in response to the loss of a spouse who in each case was also a published writer.Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-804-4 288 pp., 2010
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Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers

Janet Badia
Badias focus on how anxieties about feminism have shaped views of the Plath reader and the Plath reception more generally is sorely needed.Susan Rosenbaum
NEW ENGLAND
Northern Hospitality
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald
In this unexpected gem in the ocean of works on food, Stavely and Fitzgerald have crafted a richly contextualized critical anthology of New Englands food heritage. . . . Well done and highly recommended for foodies and historians.Library Journal
Cooking by the Book in New England
Reading Emily Dickinsons Letters

Critical Essays
Edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie

All the essays are illuminating, and most are beautifully written and meticulously researched. . . . Highly recommended. Choice
Town Meeting
Donald Robinson
The Practice of Democracy in a New England Town

An admirable attempt to give insight into a distinctively American form of local governance that remains vibrant in the 21st century.Choice
The Man Who Is and Is Not There

Andrew Stambuk
The Poetry and Prose of Robert Francis

A careful and discerning interpretation of this highly original, formally inventive poet.Robert B. Shaw
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-898-3 184 pp., 2011
Boston
Voices and Visions
Edited by Shaun OConnell

A rich selection of writings by notable preachers, politicians, poets, novelists, essayists, and diarists. It will be the very rare reader who wont find [at least one selection] strikingly unfamiliar.Boston Globe
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4 384 pp., 2010
Public Poet, Private Man

Christopher Irmscher
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200

This lively, provocative study encourages new Americanist reconfigurations of American literary studies to include global considerations. . . . Essential.Choice
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-584-5 236 pp., 67 illus., 2009 Published in cooperation with Houghton Library, Harvard University
Culture Club
Katherine Wolff
The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum

Engagingly written and full of intelligent analysis. . . . It could be an appropriate text for courses in Boston history, post-colonial identity, and various topics in American Studies.Boston Lowbrow
Historical Milton
Thomas Fulton
Print, Manuscript, and Political Culture in Revolutionary England

Will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to historians of print and those interested in early-modern culture and politics.Choice
Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine

Kevin D. Murphy
Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier

Murphys thorough examination gives the reader insight not just into one man but into the settling of the Eastern Frontier. Portland Press Herald
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-743-6 336 pp., 71 black-and-white illus., 12 color plates, 2010
Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture; Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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Gateway to Vacationland
The Making of Portland, Maine
John F. Bauman
An extremely well researched overview of Portlands history. The author does a particularly good job connecting that history to the larger national narrative Michael J. Rawson
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-909-6 256 pp., 28 illus., February 2012
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Global Warming and Political Intimidation
How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up
Raymond S. Bradley
Ray Bradley is one of the scientific heroes of the fight to slow global warming. . . . His story is both fascinating and cautionary about not just our planetary climate, but our political one as well.Bill McKibben
At the Altar of the Bottom Line

The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century
Tom Juravich
A beautifully written, compelling portrait of four groups of Massachusetts workers. Ruth Milkman
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-725-2
This Ecstatic Nation

Terre Ryan
260 pp., 14 illus., CD of songs and interviews, 2009
The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism

Very persuasive in using personal experience and cultural analysis to establish the idea that nineteenth-century ways of seeing the American landscape continue to cloud our national vision.David M. Robinson
Shadows in the Valley

Alan C. Swedlund
A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 18401916

Combines anthropological and historical approaches to describe medical practices, mourning rituals, and the emotions and meanings attached to the experience of illness and death . . . in a small New England town from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. . . . Highly recommended.Choice
Binocular Vision
Spencer Schaffner
The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides

Clearly and engagingly written, this is a work of impressive scope and subtlety that will make an important contribution to the growing field of environmental cultural studies.Daniel J. Philippon
Influenza and Inequality

Patricia J. Fanning
One Towns Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918

In a brilliant combination of scholarship and compassion, Fanning brings to life the American experience of the devastating 1918 flu epidemic.Jeanne Guillemin
The Native Landscape Reader

Edited by Robert E. Grese
The relevance of these writings to the current issues of biodiversity, native plants, and sustainability cannot be overemphasized. . . . This extensive collection is a valuable addition to landscape scholarship and practice.Robert L. Ryan
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-884-6 336 pp., 40 illus., 7" x 10" format, 2011 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
A Matter of Life and Death

Hunting in Contemporary Vermont
Marc Boglioli
Boglioli engages the tensions and contradictions surrounding hunting in the modern age. He does so in well-researched, clear, readable prose that brings to life the Vermont hunters, camps, and forests that are his bailiwick.Human Dimensions of Wildlife
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-716-0 208 pp., 2009
Catastrophe
Law, Politics, and Humanitarian Impulse
Edited by Austin Sarat and Javier Lezaun

One of the strongest edited collections I have read for some time.Jonathan Simon
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