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ContentsNew Books 1

Selected Backlist 20

Series 30

About the Press 31

Contact Information 31

Website and Social Media 31

Digital Editions (E-Books) 31

Ordering Information 32

Sales Information 32

Author IndexAllen, Investment Management in Boston 7

Bracey, Sanchez, and Smethurst, SOSCalling All Black People 4

Brennessel, The Alewives Tale 11

Cray, Lovewells Fight 9

Cumbler, Cape Cod 10

Grace, Kent State 2

Guthrie, A Kiss from Thermopylae 17

Hemingway and Wallach, Transatlantic Romanticism 18

Kersten and Lucander, For Jobs and Freedom 5

Kinney, Renaissance Reflections 19

Laurie, Rebels in Paradise 8

Lennon, Boxcar Politics 13

OGorman, Isaiah Rogers 16

Panciera, Bewildered 12

Pfitzer, History Repeating Itself 15

Rohrbach, Thinking Outside the Book 14

Tucher, Happily Sometimes After 1

Vials, Haunted by Hitler 3

Yarrow, Thrift 6

Title IndexThe Alewives Tale, Brennessel 11

Bewildered, Panciera 12

Boxcar Politics, Lennon 13

Cape Cod, Cumbler 10

For Jobs and Freedom, Kersten and Lucander 5

Happily Sometimes After, Tucher 1

Haunted by Hitler, Vials 3

History Repeating Itself, Pfitzer 15

Investment Management in Boston, Allen 7

Isaiah Rogers, OGorman 16

A Kiss from Thermopylae, Guthrie 17

Kent State, Grace 2

Lovewells Fight, Cray 9

Rebels in Paradise, Laurie 8

Renaissance Reflections, Kinney 19

SOSCalling All Black People, Bracey, Sanchez, and Smethurst 4

Thinking Outside the Book, Rohrbach 14

Thrift, Yarrow 6

Transatlantic Romanticism, Hemingway and Wallach 18

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A gifted writer reconstructs her familys history from Jamestown through the twentieth century

Happily Sometimes AfterDiscovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American FamilyAndie Tucher

For more than four hundred years, members of

the authors family have been telling stories about

their American lives. They have told of impassioned

elopements and heart-breaking kidnaps, of hair-

breadth escapes and shocking murders, of bigamists,

changelings, patriots, Indians, fires, floods, and how

the great-grandmother of Chief Justice John Marshall

married the pirate Blackbeard by mistake.

In this beautifully written work, Andie Tucher

considers family stories as another way to look at

history, neither from the top down nor the bottom

up but from the inside out. She explores not just

what happenedeverywhere from Jamestown to

Boonesborough, from the bloody field at Chickamauga

to the metropolis of the Gilded Agebut also what

the storytellers thought or wished or hoped or feared

happened. She offers insights into what they valued,

what they lost, how they judged their own lives and

found meaning in them. The narrative touches on

sorrow, recompense, love, pain, and the persistent

tension between hope and disappointment in a nation

that by making the pursuit of happiness thinkable also

made unhappiness regrettable.

Based on extensive research in archives, local

history societies, and family-history sources as well as

conversations and correspondence, Happily Sometimes

After offers an intimate and unusual perspective on how

ordinary people used stories to imagine the world they

wished for, and what those stories reveal about their

relationships with the world they actually had.

A highly original and wonderfully written book. Happily Sometimes After tells the fascinating and often gruesome stories of the authors many ancestors, but its larger purpose is to explore the nature and role of stories in knitting families together across decades and centuries.

Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the

First Amendment

andie tucher is associate professor of communications at Columbia Journalism

School. She is author of Froth and Scum: Truth,

Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in Americas

First Mass Medium, winner of the Allan Nevins

Prize of the Society of American Historians.

American History / Literary Journalism

320 pp., 14 illus.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-128-0

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A history of what happened at Kent State and why, written by one who was there

Kent State Death and Dissent in the Long SixtiesThomas M. Grace

On May 4, 1970, National Guard troops opened fire on

unarmed antiwar protesters at Kent State University

in Ohio, killing four students and wounding nine oth-

ers, including the author of this book. The shootings

shocked the American public and triggered a nationwide

wave of campus strikes and protests. To many at the

time, Kent State seemed an unlikely site for the bloodiest

confrontation in a decade of campus unresta sprawl-

ing public university in the American heartland, far from

the coastal epicenters of political and social change.

Yet, as Thomas M. Grace shows, the events of May 4

were not some tragic anomaly but were grounded in

a tradition of student political activism that extended

back to Ohios labor battles of the 1950s. The vast

expansion of the university after World War II brought

in growing numbers of working-class enrollees from

the industrial centers of northeast Ohio, members of

the same demographic cohort that eventually made up

the core of American combat forces in Vietnam. As the

wars rising costs came to be felt acutely in the home

communities of Kents students, tensions mounted

between the growing antiwar movement on campus,

the university administration, and the political conser-

vatives who dominated the surrounding county as well

as the state government.

The deadly shootings at Kent State were thus the cul-

mination of a dialectic of radicalization and repression

that had been building throughout the decade. In the

years that followed, the antiwar movement continued to

strengthen on campus, bolstered by an influx of return-

ing Vietnam veterans. After the war ended, a battle over

the memory and meaning of May 4 ensued. It contin-

ues to the present day.

Tom Grace has written a deep study of one local, very all-American site of radicalization over the longue dure from the early 1950s to the mid- 1970s. There is nothing else like it. Its must reading for anyone concerned with the New Left and postwar political change.

Van Gosse, author of Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History

A work of genuine scholarly importancethe most complete account of the Kent State events to date.

Maurice Isserman, author of If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left

and the Birth of the New Left

thomas m. grace is adjunct professor of history at Erie Community College. A 1972

graduate of Kent State University, he earned a

PhD in history from SUNY Buffalo after many

years as a social worker and union representative.

American History / American Studies

400 pp., 12 illus.$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-111-2$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-110-5

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A wide-ranging examination of how Americans have responded to fears about fascism

Haunted by HitlerLiberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United StatesChristopher Vials

Although fascism is typically associated with Europe,

the threat of fascism in the United States haunted the

imaginations of activists, writers, and artists, spur-

ring them to create a rich, elaborate body of cultural

and political work. Traversing the Popular Front of the

1930s, the struggle against McCarthyism in the 1950s,

the Black Power movement of the 1960s, and the AIDS

activism of the 1980s, Haunted by Hitler highlights the

value of antifascist cultural politics, showing how it

helped to frame the national discourse.

Christopher Vials examines the ways in which

anxieties about fascism in the United States have been

expressed in the public sphere, through American tele-

vision shows, Off-Broadway theater, party news-

papers, bestselling works of history, journalism, popu-

lar sociology, political theory, and other media. He

argues that twentieth-century liberals and leftists were

more deeply unsettled by the problem of fascism than

those at the center or the right and that they tirelessly

and often successfully worked to counter Americas

fascist equivalents.

With insight and grace, Christopher Vials demon-strates compelling new ways of understanding a complicated tradition of the Left and U.S. culture. The steady flow of astute interpretations and commentary adds up to scholarship of enduring importance, a treasure trove for the specialist and general reader alike.

Alan Wald, author of American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

Vialss rehabilitation of the long-standing and abid-ing American antifascist tradition is a game-changer for those interested in the f word (fascism) and for those who want to understand both liberal and left politics in the American Century.

Doug Rossinow, author of Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America

christopher vials is assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut and

author of Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular

Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 19351947.

American Studies / American History


$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-129-7

December 2014


A major anthology of readings from the Black Arts Movement

SOSCalling All Black PeopleA Black Arts Movement ReaderEdited by John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst

This volume brings together a broad range of key writ-

ings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and

1970s, among the most significant cultural movements

in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the

Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in

the form of artists circles, writers workshops, drama

groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, book-

stores, and cultural centers and had a presence in prac-

tically every community and college campus with an

appreciable African American population. Black Arts

activists extended its reach even further through maga-

zines such as Ebony and Jet, on television shows such

as Soul! and Like It Is, and on radio programs.

Many of the movements leading artists, including Ed

Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti,

Sonia Sanchez, Askia Tour, and Val Gray Ward remain

artistically productive today. Its influence can also be

seen in the work of later artists, from the writers Toni

Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, and August Wilson

to actors Avery Brooks, Danny Glover, and Samuel L.

Jackson, to hip hop artists Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and

Chuck D.

SOSCalling All Black People includes works of fic-

tion, poetry, and drama in addition to critical writings

on issues of politics, aesthetics, and gender. It covers

topics ranging from the legacy of Malcolm X and the

impact of John Coltranes jazz to the tenets of the Black

Panther Party and the music of Motown. The editors

have provided a substantial introduction outlining the

nature, history, and legacy of the Black Arts Movement

as well as the principles by which the anthology was

assembled.

This book will add immeasurably to our ability to understand and teach a crucial aspect of modern African American and American literary history. Something crucial involving race and art overtook American culture in the 1960s and 1970s, and the nation would never be the same againa seismic shift that had everything to do with the political, cultural, and aesthetic impact of the confrontational Black Arts and Black Power movements.

Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph Ellison:

A Biography

john h. bracey jr. is professor of Afro- American studies at the University of Massa-

chusetts Amherst. sonia sanchez, poet and playwright, is professor emerita of English

at Temple University. james smethurst is professor of Afro-American studies at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst.

African American Studies / Cultural Studies / American Studies

688 pp., 7" x 10" format$34.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-031-3$95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-030-6

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The essential writings of a highly respected civil rights activist and union leader

For Jobs and FreedomThe Selected Speeches and Writings of A. Philip RandolphEdited by Andrew E. Kersten and David Lucander

As the head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car

Porters and a tireless advocate for civil rights, A. Philip

Randolph (18891979) served as a bridge between

African Americans and the labor movement. During a

public career that spanned more than five decades, he

was a leading voice in the struggle for black freedom

and social justice, and his powerful words inspired

others to join him.

This volume documents Randolphs life and work

through his own writings. The editors have combed

through the files of libraries, manuscript collections,

and newspapers, selecting more than seventy published

and unpublished pieces that shed light on Randolphs

most significant activities. The book is organized the-

matically around his major interestsdismantling

workplace inequality, expanding civil rights, confront-

ing racial segregation, and building international coali-

tions. The editors provide a detailed biographical essay

that helps to situate the speeches and writings collected

in the book. In the absence of an autobiography, this

volume offers the best available presentation of Ran-

dolphs ideas and arguments in his own words.

andrew e. kersten is dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University

of Idaho. david lucander is assistant professor of Pluralism and Diversity at Rockland Community

College.

This book will go a long way in making easily accessible the ideas and writings of the person who sparked both the 1941 and the 1963 Marches on Washington, and who generally was seen as the leading figure among Blacks in the trade union movement from the 1930s until his death. . . . I give it my strongest endorsement.John H. Bracey Jr., coeditor of SOSCalling All

Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader

A. Philip Randolph is as relevant today as ever. A volume of his essential writings could not be more timely. . . . Professors Kersten and Lucander, both recognized Randolph authorities, have assembled this collection with care and skill. All phases of Randolphs remarkable career are covered.

Jerald E. Podair, author of Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer

American History / African American History / Labor History


$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-115-0

January 2015


Traces the role of thrift as a value in American life

ThriftThe History of an American Cultural Movement Andrew L. Yarrow

In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow

tells the story of a national movement that promoted

an amalgam of values and practices ranging from self-

control, money management, and efficiency to con-

servation, generosity, and planning for the futureall

under the rubric of thrift. Emerging in tandem and

in tension with the first flowerings of consumer society,

the thrift movement flourished during the 1910s and

1920s and then lingered on the outskirts of American

culture from the depression to the prosperous mid-

twentieth century.

The movement brought together a diverse array

of social actors with widely divergent agendasthe

YMCA, the Boy and Girl Scouts, temperance crusad-

ers, and others seeking to strengthen the moral fiber

of urban young men and boys in particular, and to

damp down the appeal of radicalism. It also attracted

credit union and other progressive activists wanting

to empower the working class economically, bankers

desiring to broaden their customer base, conservation-

ists and efficiency proponents denouncing waste, and

government leaders, school teachers, and economists

who believed that encouraging saving was in the eco-

nomic interests of both individuals and the nation.

A postWorld War II culture that centered on spend-

ing and pleasure made early-twentieth-century thrift

messages seem outdated. Nonetheless, echoes of thrift

can be found in currently popular ideas of sustainabil-

ity, stewardship, and simplicity and in efforts

to curtail public and private debt.

An important and original book. Yarrow does a terrific job of uncovering a wide range of primary sources and putting them together to tell a compelling story that hasnt been told before.Lawrence B. Glickman, author of Buying Power:

A History of Consumer Activism in America

andrew l. yarrow is senior research adviser for Oxfam America and teaches

twentieth-century U.S. history at American

University. He is a senior fellow at the Institute

for American Values and author of Measuring

America: How Economic Growth Came to Define

American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2010).

American History / American Studies


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The long history of financial management in one of Americas oldest cities

Investment Management in BostonA HistoryDavid Grayson Allen

Presented here for the first time is the history of Bos-

tons evolution as a center of American money manage-

ment from early settlement to the twenty-first century.

Within a few decades after the Revolution, Bostonians

built up an impressive mercantile and industrial econ-

omy, and used wealth accrued from the China trade,

New England mills, and other ventures to establish the

most important stock exchange in America. They also

created the Boston trustee, a unique professional who

managed private fortunes over generations. During the

late nineteenth century, Boston financial institutions

were renowned as bastions of stability and conserva-

tism in an era of recurrent economic panics and fre-

quent failures.

It was not until the twentieth century that Boston

became better known for its role in investment man-

agement. In 1924, local financiers created the first

mutual fund, an innovation almost a century in the

making. After World War II, Boston originated venture

capital with the founding of American Research &

Development. This was soon followed by the develop-

ment of private equity, the growth of the mutual fund

industry, the pension revolution that changed and

strengthened money management, the evolution in

management of institutional endowments, and the rise

of new family offices and hedge funds. The contribu-

tions of fiduciaries and investment managers have

played an important part in the rise of the New Bos-

ton and made the city one of the most vibrant financial

capitals in the world.

Investment Management in Boston is a freshand originaltreatment of the multitude of activities by individuals and business firms in the Boston region over the last century. A highly valuable study.

Edwin Perkins, author of Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors

david grayson allen is a principal of Allen Associates, a historical consulting firm

in Concord, Massachusetts, and the author of

numerous books, including, most recently, The

Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of

Historic Landscape Preservation.

New England History / American History


$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-102-0

January 2015

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An intimate portrait of regional abolitionism in the critical decades before the Civil War

Rebels in ParadiseSketches of Northampton AbolitionistsBruce Laurie

Long ago dubbed the Paradise of America, Northamp-

ton, Massachusetts, is also known as the home of

visionariesfrom the Reverend Jonathan Edwards,

father of the First Great Awakening, to George W. Ben-

son, brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garrison and a

founder of the utopian Northampton Association for

Education and Industry. During the mid-nineteenth

century the town became a center of political abolition-

ism and a hub in the Underground Railroad. In this

book, Bruce Laurie profiles five rebellious figures who

launched Northamptons abolitionist movement

Sylvester Judd Jr., John Payson Williston, David Ruggles,

Henry Sherwood Gere, and Erastus Hopkins. Through

their individual stories he traces the evolution of the

antislavery movement in western Massachusetts and

links it to broader developments in economics, civil life,

and political affairs.

Northamptons abolitionists were a heterodox group,

yet most were intrepid devotees of democracy and racial

equality, idealists who enjoyed genuine friendships

and political alliances with African Americans. Several

even took the bold step of hiring African Americans in

their businesses. They avoided the doctrinal rivalries

that sometimes troubled the antislavery movement

in other places, skillfully steering clear of the xeno-

phobic nativism that infected Massachusetts politics

in the mid1850s and divided the Republican Party at

large. Although a prohibitionist faction disrupted the

Northampton abolitionist movement for a time, the

leaders prevailed on the strength of their personal pres-

tige and political experience, making the seat of Hamp-

shire County what one of them called an abolitionist

stronghold.

A lively, lucid, and eminently readable study. Succinctly but in well-judged detail, Bruce Laurie tells the story of antebellum abolitionism through biographies of some of the movements prominent local figures in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Christopher Clark, author of The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge

of the Northampton Association

bruce laurie is professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts

Amherst and author of Beyond Garrison:

Antislavery and Social Reform.

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How a failed military operation in early America became New Englands Alamo

Lovewells FightWar, Death, and Memory in Borderland New EnglandRobert E. Cray

In May 1725, during a three-year conflict between

English colonists and the Eastern Abenaki Nation, a

thirty-four-man expedition led by Captain John Lovewell

set out to ambush their adversaries, acquire some scalp

bounties, and hasten the end of the war. Instead, the

Abenakis staged a surprise attack of their own at Pig-

wacket, Maine, that left more than a third of the New

Englanders dead or severely wounded. Although

Lovewell himself was slain in the fighting, he emerged a

martyred hero, celebrated in popular memory for stand-

ing his ground against a superior enemy force.

In this book, Robert E. Cray revisits the clash known

as Lovewells Fight and uses it to illuminate the themes

of war, death, and memory in early New England. He

shows how a military operation plagued from the out-

set by poor decision-making, and further marred by

less-than-heroic battlefield behavior, came to be remem-

bered as early Americas version of the Alamo. The gov-

ernment of Massachusetts bestowed payouts, pensions,

and land on survivors and widows of the battle. William

Henry Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry

David Thoreau kept the story alive for later generations.

Although some nineteenth-century New Englanders

disapproved of Lovewells notoriety as a scalp hunter,

it did not prevent the dedication of a monument in his

honor at the Fryeburg, Maine, battlesite in 1904.

Even as the actual story of Lovewells Fight receded

into obscuritya bloody skirmish in a largely forgotten

warit remained part of New England lore, one of those

rare military encounters in which defeat transcends an

opponents victory to assume the mantle of legend.

Cray not only provides a description of the fight itself, but uses it as a springboard to explore how the story of such incidents was transmitted to the population, how New Englanders viewed death and the disposal of bodies, how the government of Massachusetts cared for the wounded and widows, and how subsequent generations interpreted, or chose to forget, this small engagement so long ago.

Steven C. Eames, author of Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New

England Frontier, 16891748

robert e. cray is professor of history at Montclair State University.

Early American History / Native American Studies / New England History

224 pp.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-107-5

$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-106-8

October 2014


The history of a beautiful yet vulnerable New England region

Cape CodAn Environmental History of a Fragile EcosystemJohn T. Cumbler

To many, Cape Cod represents the classic setting for an

American summer vacation. Attracting seasonal tour-

ists with picturesque beaches and abundant seafood,

the Cape has held a place in our national imagination

for almost two hundred years. People have been drawn

to its beauty and resources since Native Americans

wandered up its long sandy peninsula some 12,000

years ago, while writers such as Henry David Thoreau

and Norman Mailer have celebrated its mystery and

allure. But, despite its idealized image, Cape Cod has

a long history of scarcity and an increasingly evident

fragility.

John T. Cumblers book offers an environmental,

social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through

the experiences of residents as well as visitors. He notes

that over the past four hundred years the Cape has

experienced three regimes of resource utilization. The

first regime of Native Americans who lived relatively

lightly on the land was supplanted by European settlers

who focused on production and extraction. This second

regime began in the age of sail but declined through

the age of steam as the soil and seas failed to yield the

resources necessary to sustain continuing growth. Envi-

ronmental and then economic crises during the second

half of the nineteenth century eventually gave way to

the third regime of tourism and recreation. But this

regime has its own environmental costs, as residents

have learned over the last half century.

Although the Cape remains a special place, its his-

tory of resource scarcity and its attempts to deal with

that scarcity offer useful lessons for anyone addressing

similar issues around the globe.

No other history of Cape Cod offers the contex-tually rich interweaving of the regions environ-mental, economic, social, and cultural transfor-mations, as Cumbler is doing here. In addition, Cumbler provides readers with a geological his-tory of the Cape before human habitation. In this regard and in others, the book will be a unique contribution to the discipline of history that tradi-tionally separates human from natural history.

Anthony N. Penna, author of The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History

john t. cumbler is professor of history at the University of Louisville and spends half

of the year in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He

is the author of numerous books, including

From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of

a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century

and Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment,

and the State, New England, 17901930.

Environmental History / New England Natural History


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The struggle to save a dramatically declining species

The Alewives TaleThe Life History and Ecology of River Herring in the Northeast Barbara Brennessel

While on vacation in 1980, biologist Barbara

Brennessel and her family came across an amazing

sight: hundreds of small silver fish migrating from the

Atlantic Ocean, across a channel connecting two ponds

in the town of Wellfleet on Cape Cod. She later learned

that these tiny river herring were important for the

ecology and economy of the region and that volunteers

were counting fewer and fewer fish migrating each

year.

The Alewives Tale describes the plight of alewives

and blueback herring, two fish species that have similar

life histories and are difficult to distinguish by sight.

Collectively referred to as river herring, they have been

economically important since colonial times as food,

fertilizer, and bait. In recent years they have attracted

much attention from environmentalists, especially as

attempts are being made, on and beyond Cape Cod, to

restore the rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, and estuaries

that are crucial for their reproduction and survival.

Brennessel provides an overview of the biology of

the fishfrom fertilized eggs to large schools of adults

that migrate in the Atlantic Oceanwhile describing

the habitats at different stages of their life history.

She explores the causes of the dramatic decline of

river herring since the mid-twentieth century and the

various efforts to restore these iconic fish to the historic

populations that treated many onlookers to spectacular

inland migrations each spring.

Brennessel has put this book together well. The reader will find, in its successive chapters, all the information that is available, neatly packaged, on alewives and herring.

Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia

barbara brennessel is professor emerita of biology at Wheaton College. She is author

of Diamonds in the Marsh: The Natural History

of the Diamondback Terrapin and Good Tidings:

The History and Ecology of Shellfish Farming in

the Northeast.

Environmental Studies / New England Natural History


$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-104-4

September 2014


Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

BewilderedStoriesCarla Panciera

This is a world of secret-sharers, a noisy world full of

unimaginable silence, claims one of the characters

in this compelling debut collection. The ten stories in

Bewildered examine small world disruptionsmistimed

infatuations, devastating diagnoses, the realizations

inherent in loss. Characters look up from what they

assumed were ordinary lives amazed to discover where

they find themselves.

Familiar landscapescity streets, coastal towns

emptied of tourists, suburban neighborhoodsare

backdrops for unfulfilled dreams: the luckiest man

alive arouses the suspicions of those he most wants to

befriend, a grieving lover invites herself into anothers

life, a young girl discovers her tea leaves reveal nothing

as life-altering as those of her friend, the straying hus-

band pays a debt for his and his sons obsessions.

The stories ask: Can you live any way forever? What

links them is what links all of us: the desire to belong,

the need to heal, the fear of what happens next.

carla panciera is the author of two collections of poetry, One of the Cimalores and No Day, No Dusk, No

Love. She has published fiction, memoir, and poetry in

several journals, including the New England Review,

Nimrod, Chattahoochee Review, and Carolina Quarterly.

A high school English teacher, she lives with her hus-

band and three daughters in Rowley, Massachusetts.

Apart from range in Bewildered, the level of excellence lies in the ways in which the author navigates so many different kinds of territoriesfirst person, second person, third person, the canted realities of childhood, the accumulating losses of middle and even old age. The writing is always economical without ever being minimal.

Pam Houston, Grace Paley Prize judge and author of Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel and

Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

Fiction

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How riding the rails became a political act

Boxcar PoliticsThe Hobo in U.S. Culture and Literature, 18691956John Lennon

The hobo is a figure ensconced in the cultural fabric

of the United States. Once categorized as a member of

a homeless army who ought to be jailed or killed, the

hobo has evolved into a safe, grandfatherly exemplar

of Americana. Boxcar Politics reestablishes the hobos

political thorns.

John Lennon maps the rise and demise of the

political hobo from the nineteenth-century introduction

of the transcontinental railroad to the Federal Aid

Highway Act of 1956. Intertwining literary, historical,

and theoretical representations of the hobo, he explores

how riders and writers imagined alternative ways

that working-class people could use mobility to create

powerful dissenting voices outside of fixed hierarchal

political organizations. Placing portrayals of hobos in

the works of Jack London, Jim Tully, John Dos Passos,

and Jack Kerouac alongside the lived reality of people

hopping trains (including hobos of the IWW, the

Scottsboro Boys, and those found in numerous long-

forgotten memoirs), Lennon investigates how these

marginalized individuals exerted collective political

voices through subcultural practices.

john lennon is assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida.

By advancing a more nuanced account of the range of political possibilities on offer in the U.S. hobo subculture, Lennon certainly develops the coordinates for a significant contribution to Americanist literary and cultural studies.

Mark Simpson, author of Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century

America

One shining achievement of this book is the way Lennon expertly weaves the story of Scottsboro into the narrative of hobo history and the history of transience and its representations in Great Depression America. The author treats the central issues of race and gender, as well as class, with great clarity and intelligence. Todd DePastino, author of Citizen Hobo: How a

Century of Homelessness Shaped America

American Studies / American Literature


$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-119-8

September 2014


A searching reconsideration of the terms we use in talking about books

Thinking Outside the BookAugusta Rohrbach

In Thinking Outside the Book, Augusta Rohrbach works

through the increasing convergences between digital

humanities and literary studies to explore the meaning

and primacy of the book as a literary, material, and

cultural artifact. Rohrbach assembles a rather unlikely

cohort of nineteenth-century women writersJane

Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts,

Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnutto consider the

publishing culture of their period from the perspective

of our current digital age, bringing together scholarly

concepts from both print culture and new media studies.

In nineteenth-century America, women from a

variety of racial and class affiliations were bombarding

the print market with their literary productions, taking

advantage of burgeoning rates of literacy and advances

in publishing technology. Their work challenged

prevailing modes of authorship and continues to do

so today. Each chapter of Thinking Outside the Book

positions a focal figure as both paradigmatic and

problematic within the context of key terms that define

the study of the book. In lieu of terms such as literacy,

authorship, publication, edition, and editor, Rohrbach

develops an alternate typology that includes mediation,

memory, history, testimony, and loss. Recognizing that the

field spans radio, cinema, television, and the Internet,

she draws comparisons to the present day, when Web

2.0 allows writers from varying backgrounds and

positions to seek out readers without gatekeepers

limiting their exposure.

More than a literary history, this book takes up theo-

ries of recovery, literacy, authorship, narrative, the book,

and new media in connection with race, gender, class,

and region.

Rohrbachs readings and archival work demon-strate how valuable the decentering of authorship can be for understanding how racialized and marginalized subjects relate to the literary marketplace, to be sure, but also simply for understanding the networked quality of the marketplace itself in the nineteenth century.

Matt Cohen, author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England

augusta rohrbach is associate professor of English at Washington State University. She

is the editor of ESQ: A Journal of the American

Renaissance and author of Truth Stranger than

Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary

Marketplace.

Print Culture Studies / American Literature


October 2014A volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and HIstory of the Book

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How antiquated history books have found a new life among homeschoolers

History Repeating ItselfThe Republication of Childrens Historical Literature and the Christian RightGregory M. Pfitzer

Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been

reprinting nineteenth-century childrens history books

and marketing them to parents as anchor texts for

homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer

asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be

presumed suitable for educating twenty-first-century

children? The answer, he proposes, is that promoters

of these recycled works believe that history as a disci-

pline took a wrong turn in the early twentieth century,

when progressive educators introduced social studies

methodologies into public school history classrooms,

foisting upon unsuspecting and vulnerable children

ideologically distorted history books.

In History Repeating Itself, Pfitzer tests these asser-

tions by scrutinizing and contextualizing the original

nineteenth-century texts on which these republications

are based. He focuses on how the writers borrowed

from one another to produce works that were similar

in many ways yet differed markedly in terms of peda-

gogical strategy and philosophy of history. Pfitzer dem-

onstrates that far from being non-ideological, these

works were rooted in intense contemporary debates

over changing conceptions of childhood.

Pfitzer argues that the repurposing of antiquated

texts reveals a misplaced resistance to the idea of a

contested past. He also raises essential philosophical

questions about how and why curricular decisions are

shaped by the past we choose to remember on behalf

of our children.

This is a magnificent piece of historical research and writing, one that is sure to be well received by scholars and also to appeal strongly to journalists and political commentators.

Leslie Howsam, author of Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain, 18501950

gregory m. pfitzer is professor of American studies at Skidmore College and

author, most recently, of Popular History and the

Literary Marketplace, 18401920 (University of

Massachusetts Press, 2008).

Print Culture Studies / American Studies / Public History


$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-123-5

October 2014A volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and HIstory of the Book


This is a substantial book by a major scholar, and it is original, splendidly written and interpreted, and filled with the kind of rich specific detail that will make it a valuable reference to which historians will turn again and again. It is a significant contribution to the scholarship of American culture.

Michael L. Lewis, author of American Art & Architecture

james f. ogorman is Grace Slack McNeil Professor Emeritus in the Wellesley College

Department of Art and a widely acclaimed

lecturer, historian, and author of numerous

books, including Accomplished in All

Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston,

18181874 (University of Massachusetts Press,

1998).

Architecture / American Studies

336 pp., 86 illus., 7" x 10" format$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-122-8$90.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-121-1

February 2015

The first biography of one of Americas most influential nineteenth-century architects

Isaiah Rogers Architectural Practice in Antebellum America

James F. OGorman

When Isaiah Rogers died in 1869, the Cincinnati Daily

Times noted that in his profession he was, perhaps,

better known than any other person in the country.

Yet until now there has been no study that fully exam-

ines his remarkable, influential, and instructive career.

Based largely on Rogerss own diary, this book tells his

story and adds much to our understanding of architec-

tural practice in the United States before the Civil War.

In 1944 the distinguished historian Talbot Hamlin

wrote of New Yorks Merchant Exchange (183642) that

the building had been so grandly conceived, so simply

and directly planned, and so beautifully detailed . . .

[that] the whole was welded inextricably into one power-

ful organic conception that shows Rogers as a great

architect in the fullest sense of the word. Rogerss

Tremont House in Boston has been called the worlds

first modern hotel; it spawned many progeny, from his

first Astor House in New York to his Burnet House in

Cincinnati and beyond.

Rogers designed buildings from Maine to Georgia

and from Boston to Chicago to New Orleans, super-

vising their construction while traveling widely to

procure materials and workmen for the job. He

finished his career as Architect of the Treasury Depart-

ment during the Civil War. In this richly illustrated

volume, James F. OGorman offers a deft portrait of

an energetic practitioner at a key time in architectural

history, the period before the founding of the American

Institute of Architects in 1857.

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How legal reasoning and language influenced a brilliant poet

A Kiss from ThermopylaeEmily Dickinson and LawJames R. Guthrie

Born into a family of attorneys, Dickinson absorbed law

at home. She employed legal terms and concepts regu-

larly in her writings, and her metaphors grounded in

law derive much of their expressive power from a com-

paratively sophisticated lay knowledge of the various

legal and political issues that were roiling nineteenth-

century America. Dickinson displays interest in such

areas as criminal law, contracts, equity, property, estate

law, and bankruptcy. She also held in high regard the

role of law in resolving disputes and maintaining civic

order. Toward the end of her life, she cited the Spartans

defense at Thermopylae as an object lesson demonstrat-

ing why societies should uphold the rule of law.

Yet Dickinson was also capable of criticizing, even

satirizing, law and lawyers. Her poetic personae inhabit

various legal roles including those of jurymen, judges,

and attorneys, and some poems simulate courtroom

contests pitting the rights of individuals against the

power of the state. She was keenly interested in legal

matters pertaining to women, such as breach of prom-

ise, dower, and trusts. With her tone ranging from sub-

servient to domineering, from reverential to ridiculing,

Dickinsons writings reflect an abiding concern with

philosophic and political principles underpinning the

law, as well as an identification with the plight of indi-

viduals who dared confront authority.

A Kiss from Thermopylae reveals a new dimension of

Dickinsons writing and thinking, one indicating that

she was thoroughly familiar with the legal communitys

idiomatic language, actively engaged with contem-

porary political and ethical questions, and skilled at

deploying a poetic register ranging from high romanti-

cism to low humor.

This book contributes significantly to Emily Dickinson scholarship. There is nothing like it. In addition, Guthrie is superb at explaining accessibly what legal terms mean and what their implications are for everyday aspects of peoples lives.

Cristanne Miller, author of Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century

A Kiss from Thermopylae establishes beyond doubt the importance of legal reasoning to Dickinsons poetry, and it also contributes importantly to the value of the law and literature subdiscipline.Gary Stonum, author of The Dickinson Sublime

james r. guthrie is professor of English at Wright State University. He is author of

Above Time: Emersons and Thoreaus Temporal

Revolutions and Emily Dickinsons Vision: Illness

and Identity in Her Poetry.

American Literature / American Studies


$80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-112-9

January 2015


Explores the role of cultural exchange in the rise of the Romantic movement

Transatlantic RomanticismBritish and American Art and Literature, 17901860 Edited by Andrew Hemingway and Alan Wallach

That the Romantic movement was an international

phenomenon is a commonplace, yet to date, historical

study of the movement has tended to focus primarily

on its national manifestations. This volume offers a

new perspective. In thirteen chapters devoted to artists

and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth

centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the

international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of

Romanticism in England and the United States.

In the books introduction, Andrew Hemingway

building on the theoretical work of Michael Lowy and

Robert Sayreproposes that we need to remobilize the

concept of Weltanschauung, or comprehensive world

view, in order to develop the kind of synthetic history

of arts and ideas the phenomenon of Romanticism

demands. The essays that follow focus on the London

and New York art worlds and such key figures as

Benjamin West, Thomas Bewick, John Vanderlyn,

Washington Allston, John Martin, J. M. W. Turner,

Thomas Cole, James Fenimore Cooper, George Catlin,

Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Herman

Melville. Taken together, these essays plot the rise

of a romantic anti-capitalist Weltanschauung as well

as the dialectic between Romanticisms national and

international manifestations.

In addition to the volume editors, contributors

include Matthew Beaumont, David Bindman, Leo

Costello, Nicholas Grindle, Wayne Franklin, Janet

Koenig, William Pressly, Robert Sayre, William

Truettner, Dell Upton, and William Vaughan.

A cogent and stimulating series of reflections on Anglo-American art and literature associated with the broad cultural category of Romanticism.

Brian Lukacher, author of Joseph Gandy: Architectural Visionary in Georgian England

andrew hemingway is professor emeritus of art history, University College London, and

author of The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist

Painting and Machine Age America.

alan wallach is professor emeritus of art and art history, The College of William and

Mary, and author of Exhibiting Contradiction:

Essays on the Art Museum in the United States

(University of Massachusetts Press, 1998).

Art History / Literary Studies / Atlantic Studies

312 pp., 23 color illus., 57 b&w illus.$29.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-114-3

January 2015

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Writings on English Renaissance literature and culture by a leading scholar

Renaissance ReflectionsSelected Essays, 19762012

Arthur F. Kinney

Arthur Kinney has made so many contributions to

the study of English literature, in so many different

roles, that it can be difficult to reckon with the true

sum of his achievement. . . . His curiosity encom-

passes an entire world and all the things in it, the very

world that English Renaissance thinkers inhabited

and approached with the same comprehensive spirit

of inquiry. . . . Every topic to which he turns in these

pages is pursued with impeccable scholarly rigor. . . .

To pursue new approaches as Kinney has done year

after year and decade after decade requires the nerve

to risk failure, even repeated failure. It demands that

the scholar constantly explore unfamiliar ground

where the feet are still unsure and use analytical tools

before they have grown familiar in the hand. It asks the

thinker to move outside the security of expertise, the

writer to advance arguments that may not succeed.

. . . [Kinney] has provided us a wholly different model of

a distinguished scholarly career, spending decades in

pursuit of intellectual risk and adventure.James J. Marino, author of

Owning William Shakespeare: The Kings Men and Their Intellectual Property

The essays collected here touch on many of the topics that have interested and provoked Arthur Kinney over the course of his fifty-year career. . . . The topical range is remarkable, the erudition on display extensive. These essays represent a mind passionately immersed in the plenitude of Renaissance culture, as well as in the give and take of scholarly dialogue.

Valerie Traub, author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England

arthur f. kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst. He

is the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar

Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award of the

Renaissance Society of America and the Jean

Robertson Lifetime Achievement Award of the

International Sidney Society.

Renaissance Studies / British and European Literature

500 pp., 27 illus.$34.95 jacketed hardbound edition, ISBN 978-1-62534-064-1

September 2014

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ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND DESIGNCivic ArtA Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine ArtsEdited by Thomas E. LuebkeLuebkes book immediately joins the short-list of essential texts about Washington design and architecture.Washington Post$85.00 cloth, ISBN 978-0-16-089702-3636 pp., 424 color & 496 black-and-white illus., 2013Distributed for U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

A Kind of ArcheologyCollecting American Folk Art, 18761976Elizabeth StillingerIt is hard to conceive of a more thoughtful or thorough guide.Antiques and the Arts Weekly$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-744-3464 pp., 223 color & 139 black-and-white illus., 2011

Creating a World on PaperHarry Fenns Career in ArtSue RaineyFenns significance is fully realized in this study.William H. Gerdts$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-979-9

408 pp., 58 color and 150 black-and-white illus., 2013

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A Genius for PlaceAmerican Landscapes of the Country Place EraRobin KarsonWinner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

The most important book on American gardens for at least a decade, this giant tome spans the first 40 years of the 20th century.London Telegraph $29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-048-1 456 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2013

Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

Arthur A. ShurcliffDesign, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg LandscapeElizabeth Hope Cushing[A] singularly important contribution to the literature concerning what I believe is still our least understood period of urban land-scape architecture.Gary R. Hilderbrand $39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-039-9 300 pp., 149 black-and-white illus., August 2014


John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City PlannerR. Bruce StephensonThe long overdue and definitive biography of one of Americas most prominent and influential urbanists.Keith N. Morgan$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-079-5368 pp., 190 illus., November 2014


Community by DesignThe Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, MassachusettsKeith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. ReedWinner of the Ruth Emery Award from the Victorian Society in America

A beautifully produced volume on Frederick Law Olmsteds firm and the coming of age of suburban development. $39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-976-8320 pp., 132 illus., 2013


The Best Planned City in the WorldOlmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park SystemFrancis R. KowskyWinner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

As a physical object, The Best Planned City in the World has a beauty worthy of its subject.Site/Lines $39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1272 pp., 118 color and 110 black-and-white illus., 2013


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AmERICAN STUDIESmedical EncountersKnowledge and Identity in Early American LiteraturesKelly WisecupProvides a new lens through which we can see moments of cultural encounter rich with information.Kristina Bross$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-057-3272 pp., 7 illus., 2013

The Ocean Is a WildernessAtlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 16881856 Guy ChetAn interesting, well written, and well-conceived book.Trevor Burnard$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-085-6176 pp., 2014

Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of LoveRonald StoryStory recognizes that the profundities of Edwardss theology are what make Edwards extraordinary.American Historical Review$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6184 pp., 2012

One Colonial Womans WorldThe Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler CoitMichelle Marchetti Coughlin The thoroughness and the thoughtfulness that she brings to her study are exemplary. New England Quarterly$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-967-6288 pp., 14 Illus., 2012

The Reverend Jacob Bailey, maine LoyalistFor God, King, Country, and for SelfJames S. LeamonAn informative, engaging study. . . . A worthy successor to Leamons award-winning Revolution Downeast.Joseph A. Conforti$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-942-3272 pp., 10 illus., 2012

The manliest manSamuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American ReformJames W. TrentThis is a book that will provide pleasure and interest to general biography lovers, not just academics and historians. Karen Sanchez-Eppler$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-959-1336 pp., 10 illus., 2012

A Cold War State of mindBrainwashing and Postwar AmericanSocietyMatthew W. DunneProvides a fascinating framework for understanding . . . Cold War consensus in postwar America. Robert A. Jacobs $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-041-2304 pp., 15 illus., 2013

Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Citizenship in Cold War AmericaThe National Security State and the Possibilities of DissentAndrea FriedmanA very polished, well-argued book. Laura McEnaney $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-068-9296 pp., 16 illus., August 2014


American ImmunityWar Crimes and the Limits of International LawPatrick HagopianAn impressive, wide-ranging, multi-layered work.Kendrick Oliver $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-047-4256 pp., 2013


Agent OrangeHistory, Science, and the Politics of UncertaintyEdwin A. MartiniAgent Orange is a clear example of history at its best.Journal of American History $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-975-1320 pp., 14 illus., 1 map, 2012


Forever VietnamHow a Divisive War Changed American Public MemoryDavid KieranAdvances a bold and original argument. Patrick Hagopian $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-100-6304 pp., 16 illus., 1 map, July 2014


The Pro-War movementDomestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American ConservatismSandra ScanlonA definitive history of how . . . the conservative movement developed a complex and variegated response to the conflict.Gregory L. Schneider $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-018-4352 pp., 2013



Buying the FarmPeace and War on a Sixties CommuneTom FelsWith Tom Felss new book it can safely be said that Montague Farm has the best published record of any of the communes.The Sixties$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-971-3240 pp., 25 illus., 2012

Famous Long AgoMy Life and Hard Times with Liberation News ServiceRaymond MungoA new edition of a classic text of 1960s America. 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$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-947-8232 pp., 20 illus., 2012

A Call to ConscienceThe AntiContra War CampaignRoger PeaceAn important contribution to recording the true history of the era, unsullied by U.S. government and media lies and disinformation.Alliance for Global Justice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-932-4328 pp., 1 map, 2012


modernizing RepressionPolice Training and Nation-Building in the American CenturyJeremy KuzmarovA splendid contribution to the existing literatures that will be highly valued and much quoted by scholars and practitioners alike.Martha Huggins$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-917-1400 pp., 2012


The Girls and Boys of BelchertownA Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-MindedRobert HornickHornicks excellent and engaging history provides a welcome context for the wide-reaching personal and policy impacts of the Belchertown State School. Sharon Flanagan-Hyde $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-944-7 224 pp., 17 illus., 2012

What We Have DoneAn Oral History of the Disability Rights MovementFred PelkaPelka describes the convergence of social attitudes and legal actions that led to the emergence of the empowerment of people with disabilities. . . . So many need this account that no library or bookseller can afford to be without it.ForeWord$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-919-5 656 pp., 33 illus., 2012

Expanding the Strike ZoneBaseball in the Age of Free AgencyDaniel A. GilbertAn interesting, smart, and informative book. Daniel Gilbert effectively melds a transnational and multicultural approach to understanding broad and important themes in the late twentieth-century baseball world.Daniel A. Nathan $22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-997-3224 pp., 15 illus., 2013

Street FightThe Politics of Mobility in San FranciscoJason HendersonHenderson does a first-rate job of situating San Francisco within the larger transportation/mobility politics, both historically and contemporarily. Lisa Benton-Short $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-999-7256 pp., 5 illus., 2013

The Second Amendment on TrialCritical Essays on District of Columbia v. HellerEdited by Saul Cornell and Nathan Kozuskanich Should appeal not only to legal scholars and law students, but also to historians, political scientists, and sociologists with an interest in the constitutional aspects of fire-arms . . . .Lawrence Rosenthal$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-995-9456 pp., 2013

Reclaiming American CitiesThe Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900Rutherford H. PlattA sophisticated, thorough, and compre-hensive history of city planning in the United States over the last 125 years. Alex Marshall$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-050-4312 pp., 41 illus., 2013

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PUBLIC HISTORyAlice morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early AmericaSusan Reynolds Williams[Williams] shows beautifully that Earle had the power to make change simply through the act of remembering.Journal of American History$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-988-1336 pp., 40 illus., 2013

Public History in Historical Perspective

Remembering the RevolutionMemory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil WarEdited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh BrundageHow conflicting memories of the nations origins shaped the political culture of the early American republic.$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-033-7344 pp., 2013


Remembering the Forgotten WarThe Enduring Legacies of the U.S.Mexican WarMichael Scott Van WagenenHonorable Mention, National Council on Public History Book Award

Van Wagenen reminds readers that the history of remembering is also the history of forgetting.H-Net $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-930-0368 pp., 30 illus., 2012


The Spirit of 1976Commerce, Community, and the Politics of CommemorationTammy S. GordonRaises important issues regarding the study of public uses of the past.John Bodnar$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-043-6192 pp., 8 illus., 2013


The Wages of HistoryEmotional Labor on Public Historys Front LinesAmy M. TysonTyson advances a new perspective to consider when assessing living history interpretation for appropriateness, effectiveness, and viability. . . . Essential.Choice $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-024-5240 pp., 10 illus., 2013


A Living ExhibitionThe Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal MuseumWilliam S. WalkerWalkers exploration of the Smithsonians attempts to balance universality and specific-ity allow for an insightful discussion of the debates engaging museum professionals today. Recommended.Choice$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-026-9304 pp., 20 illus., 2013


museums, monuments, and National ParksToward a New Genealogy of Public HistoryDenise D. MeringoloWinner of the National Council on Public History Book Award

In this richly researched book, Meringolo situates the birth of a new fieldpublic historydecades before the postwar emergence of a recognized subfield. Journal of American History$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-940-9256 pp., 12 illus., 2012


Born in the U.S.A.Birth, Commemoration, and American Public MemoryEdited by Seth C. BruggemanThis enterprising inquiry deserves readers, and not only public historians. Its very engaging.Public Historian$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-938-6296 pp., 12 illus., 2012


Everybodys HistoryIndianas Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a Presidents PastKeith A. EreksonOne wishes for more studies like this one that might link national-level historiography with the popular construction of American history.Indiana Magazine of History $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-915-7272 pp., 10 illus., 2012


History Is BunkAssembling the Past at Henry Fords Greenfield VillageJessie SwiggerWhat makes this book so original is its comprehensive sweep.Howard Segal $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-078-8256 pp., 15 illus., June 2014



From Storefront to MonumentTracing the Public History of the Black Museum MovementAndrea A. BurnsThere has been no comparable work that offers an overarching history of the black museum movement as an important political movement.Renee Romano$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-035-1264 pp., 10 illus., 2013


Memories of Buenos AiresSigns of State Terrorism in ArgentinaMemoria AbiertaEdited with an introduction by Max Page Epilogue by Ilan Stavans Translated by Karen Robert Originally published in Spanish, this book provides an interpretive guide to sites of terror and the grassroots memorials to victims of Argentinas Dirty War.$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-010-8304 pp., 328 color illus., 62 maps, 2013


BLACK STUDIESWe Ask Only for Even-Handed JusticeBlack Voices from Reconstruction, 18651877John David SmithRich in summary insight.Choice $18.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-087-0144 pp., 21 illus., July 2014

Exhibiting BlacknessAfrican Americans and the American Art MuseumBridget R. CooksWinner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History

Develops a useful perspective for studying the history of the deeply troubled relation-ship between African Americans and American art museums.Alan Wallach$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-875-4240 pp., 22 color & 31 black-and-white illus., 2011

Tragic No MoreMixed-Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity Caroline A. StreeterAn exciting project, with great potential to impact the fields of mixed-race studies, African American studies, gender studies, and popular cultural studies.Heidi Ardizzone$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-985-0176 pp., 5 illus., 2012

The World of W.E.B. Du BoisA Quotation SourcebookEdited by Meyer Weinberg with a new introduction by John H. Bracey Jr.Scholars will benefit by easily locating sourc-es for Du Boiss views on an impressive vari-ety of topics.Journal of American History$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-990-4296 pp., 2013

The Insistent CallRhetorical Moments in Black Anticolonialism, 19291937Aric PutnamHow black Americas relationship with Africa changed at a key point in history. Well grounded in current scholarship. Jacqueline Bacon$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-978-2168 pp., 2012

Burnt CorkTraditions and Legacies of Blackface MinstrelsyEdited by Stephen JohnsonI would love to think we lived in a post-racial 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$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-934-8280 pp., 90 illus., 2012

The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of TomorrowThe Story of the PrisonairesJohn DouganNashville Scene Best Music Book of 2013

With sophistication and nuance, Dougan demonstrates that the Prisonaires story is also the story of the American racial obses-sion, of the judicial system, of the architec-ture of the prison itself.Rachel Rubin$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-969-0144 pp., 2012

American Popular Music

BounceRap Music and Local Identity in New OrleansMatt MillerMillers research is more than thorough. He convincingly establishes bounce as yet another offshoot of New Orleanss unique musical culture.PopMatters$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-936-2232 pp., 8 illus., 2012


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NATIVE AmERICAN STUDIESLiving with WhalesDocuments and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History Nancy ShoemakerDemonstrates the importance of whaling, and connections to the sea generally, among New England and Long Island Indians from ancient times up to the present.David J. Silverman$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-081-8232 pp., 23 illus., 2014

Native Americans of the Northeast

Good News from New England by Edward WinslowA Scholarly EditionKelly WisecupA wonderful selection of texts, nicely placed in context by an informative editors introduction.Jenny Pulsipher$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-083-2200 pp., 8 illus., August 2014


making War and minting ChristiansMasculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New EnglandR. Todd RomeroA nuanced and lively rereading of a time period that can often feel well traveled. As Romero convincingly shows, gendered lan-guage appeared everywhere, from the open-ing moments of English colonization of New England through King Philips War and even beyond.Catholic History Review$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-888-4272 pp., 11 illus., 2011


The People of the Standing StoneThe Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal Karim M. TiroTraces the Oneidas struggles with the American Revolution and its aftermath. . . . Tiro sees the Oneidas as important actors in this dark chapter in their history without denying that American colonialism put serious restrictions on their options. Tiro is to be applauded for this balance and nuance.Journal of the Early Republic$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-890-7256 pp., 15 illus., 2011


FICTION AND POETRyThe Theme of Tonights Party Has Been ChangedPoemsDana RoeserWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

A tour de force, a book of startling, almost dizzying, juxtapositions, wide in scope and deep in feeling.Elizabeth Spires$15.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-097-988 pp., 2014

A History of HandsA NovelRod Val MooreWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

This sad, odd, thrilling novel is unlike anything Ive ever read.Noy Holland$19.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-096-2240 pp., 2014

Everyone Here Has a GunStoriesLucas SouthworthWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

Everyone Here Has a Gun took me on a roller coaster ride that Id never been on before. . . . Every piece is strikingly differ-ent, and yet theres also a cohesion to the collection that plunged me deeply into this writers alien yet weirdly familiar world, as if Id been dreaming someone elses dream. There are images and moments in each of these stories that have lodged into my brain like shrapnel. A truly unique and memo-rable reading experience.Dan Chaon$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-053-5176 pp., 2013


Some Kinds of LoveStoriesSteve YatesWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

Some Kinds of Love is nothing short of masterful. You would think this was the work of not one but a dozen writers, so impressive is Yatess range of subject, setting, mood, and effect. . . . He is a brilliant, and brilliantly inventive, writer, and this book is sheer delight from beginning to end.Ben Fountain$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-028-3272 pp., 6 illus., 2013


my EscapeeStoriesCorinna VallianatosWinner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

With the spare, definitive strokes of Matisses late portraits, the stories in My Escapee hew precisely to the truth, while rendering a series of expressive and par-ticular female lives. The characters are disoriented, vulnerable, at times depen-dent on others; they are also determined, defiant, passionate.Jhumpa Lahiri$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-986-7176 pp., 2012


The Agriculture Hall of Fame StoriesAndrew Malan MilwardWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction Winner of the ForeWord Firsts Award

The 10 gorgeous stories . . . offer unique glimpses into Midwestern calamities and the folks who find themselves affected by them. . . . In Milwards world, theres nary a sunny sky in sight . . . but this gloominess is greatly buoyed by the authors poetic prose and a pitch-perfect eye for detail, resulting in one tender, tragic portrait after another. Publishers Weekly (starred review)$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-948-5160 pp., 2012

Starship TahitiPoemsBrandon Dean LamsonWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

To be a teacher in a prison, as Brandon Lamson shows us in these grave and unset-tling poems, is to take on something akin to the role of Virgil in the Divine Comedy. . . . Starship Tahiti is an outstanding debut. David Wojahn$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-009-272 pp., 2013

Goodbye, FlickerPoemsCarmen Gimnez SmithWinner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry

Less Wonderland than looking glass, a gateway into which our reluctant story-teller must escape but in which, also, we cant help but see ourselves.Booklist$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-280 pp., 2012

LITERARy AND CULTURAL STUDIESUncle Toms Cabin and the Reading RevolutionRace, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 18511911Barbara HochmanWinner of the George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize

Hochman provides a thought-provoking, meticulously researched, elegantly written account of the changes in the receptionthe transformation in the cultural mean-ingof Uncle Toms Cabin over six decades.Journal of American Studies $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-894-5400 pp., 40 illus., 2011


The Saloon and the missionAddiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American CultureEoin F. CannonThis is a fresh approach to familiar conceptsevangelical Christianity, alcoholism, individualism, and liberalism. Recommended.Choice $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-993-5328 pp., 8 illus., 2013

A Bold and Hardy Race of menThe Lives and Literature of American WhalemenJennifer SchellA rich and intriguing book that brings a different perspective to our understanding of American whalemen. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-020-7280 pp., 2013

To Fight Aloud Is Very BraveAmerican Poetry and the Civil WarFaith BarrettArtfully and clearly discusses the way poetry allowed individuals to speak to various groups collectivelyfamily, local communities, and broader populations of the two opposing sides of the nation. Highly recommended.Choice$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-963-8328 pp., 10 illus., 2012

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Reading in Time Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth CenturyCristanne Miller Millers study foregrounds both Dickinsons extraordinary gifts and the strength of her con-nections to the nineteenth century.Legacy $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-951-5296 pp., 7 illus., 2012

Suburban PlotsMen at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print CultureMaura DAmoreRefines our critical attitudes toward gendered activities, labor, authorship, and domesticity.Martin Breckner$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-095-5208 pp., 12 illus., June 2014


The Art of PrestigeThe Formative Years at Knopf, 19151929Amy Root ClementsThis is the first book-length scholarly study of Knopf, and it provides an excellent account of [its] early development. Gordon Neavill$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-093-1224 pp., 10 Illus., 2014


A Question of SexFeminism, Rhetoric, and Differences That MatterKristan PoirotIt is alive to contradictions in feminist justice projects and their rhetorics. Lisa Maria Hogeland$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-089-4184 pp., June 2014

Lessons from SarajevoA War Stories PrimerJim HicksI found Hickss book engaging, provocative, well researched, and incredibly useful. His sense of history is both deeply informed and extremely nuanced.Ammiel Alcalay$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-001-6216 pp., 26 illus., 2013

Negotiating CultureHeritage, Ownership, and Intellectual PropertyEdited by Laetitia La FolletteForces a reevaluation of thinking about cultural disputes.Patty Gerstenblith$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-008-5 216 pp., 2013

Cultural ConsiderationsEssays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar AmericaJoan Shelley RubinA masterful blending of big-picture histori-cal synthesis with vividly rendered debates and episodes related to the higher registers of the culture industry.Thomas Augst$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-014-6208 pp., 2013

Underground movementsModern Culture on the New York City SubwaySunny Stalter-PaceA stimulating and impressive book. . . . Its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and its comprehensive account of New York sub-way texts provides a model for historically and geographically grounded literary re-search.Hsuan Hsu$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-055-9240 pp., 4 Illus., 2013

Science/Technology/Culture

From Codex to HypertextReading at the Turn of the Twenty-first CenturyEdited by Anouk LangInterdisciplinary essays that reframe how we think about reading, selling, sharing, and publishing books.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-953-9272 pp., 18 illus., 2012


Lies About my FamilyA MemoirAmy HoffmanThe tales in this book, replete with conflicting versions and impeccable comic timing, have clearly been refined over multiple generations. Hoffman is at her hilarious best.Alison Bechdel$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-003-0168 pp., 10 illus., 2013

Out of BrownsvilleEncounters with Novel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers: A Cultural MemoirJules ChametzkyA raconteurs timing and wit leaven the authors perceptive literary intelligence. This combination is so seductive, the stories so entertaining and engrossing that we only gradually come to recognize how gracefully we have been ushered into serious literary history.Michael Thelwell$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-036-8160 pp., 2013


JOURNALISm AND DIGITAL mEDIACovering AmericaA Narrative History of a Nations JournalismChristopher B. DalyWinner of the PROSE Book Award for Media and Cultural Studies

In this scholarly yet readable volume, Daly presents a surprisingly spirited and detailed account of American journalism and the many ways in which the press has impacted the trajectory of American history, and vice versa.Publishers Weekly $49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9544 pp., 73 illus., 2012

The Wired CityReimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper AgeDan KennedyTranscends the exhausting debate over what journalism startups should look like. It gets at a more fundamental point: that news startups, both for-profit and nonprofit, matter.Columbia Journalism Review$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-005-4192 pp., 2013

Writing the RecordThe Village Voice and the Birth of Rock CriticismDevon PowersA pioneering work.American Prospect$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-012-2176 pp., 2013


The Piracy CrusadeHow the Music Industrys War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil LibertiesAram SinnreichA fascinating takedown of the corporate anti-music-piracy movement, packed with history, interviews and great pop-cultural references. Steve Knopper$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-052-8256 pp., 2013

Science/Technology/Culture

From the Dance Hall to FacebookTeen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 19052010Shayla Thiel-SternIn this thorough, clear, and very well written book, Thiel-Stern makes an absolutely convinc-ing argument that the mainstream news media has a part in creating and perpetuating moral panics about girls.Sarah Banet-Weiser$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-091-7208 pp., 6 Illus., June 2014

NEW ENGLANDSecond NatureAn Environmental History of New EnglandRichard W. JuddBeautifully written . . . both scholarly and accessible.Dona Brown$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-066-5344 pp., 2014

meetinghouses of Early New EnglandPeter BenesWinner of the Cummings Prize of the Vernacular Architecture ForumWinner of the Kniffen Award of the Pioneer America SocietyA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

An indispensable guide to the relationship between religion and material culture in early America.Choice$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-910-2456 pp., 130 illus., 2012

Northern HospitalityCooking by the Book in New EnglandKeith Stavely and Kathleen FitzgeraldIn 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$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-861-7488 pp., 22 illus., 2011

Gateway to VacationlandThe Making of Portland, MaineJohn F. BaumanAn 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 978-1-55849-909-6304 pp., 22 illus., 2012

Town meetingPracticing Democracy in Rural New EnglandDonald L. RobinsonAn admirable attempt to give insight into a distinctively American form of local governance that remains vibrant in the 21st century.Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-855-6288 pp., 24 illus., 2011

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BostonVoices and VisionsEdited by Shaun OConnellIt will be the very rare reader who wont find [at least one selection] strikingly unfamiliar. Boston Globe$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4352 pp., 2010

Bostons Cycling Craze, 18801900A Story of Race, Sport, and SocietyLorenz J. FinisonA compelling morality tale.Thomas Whalen$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-074-0272 pp., 17 illus., June 2014

A Peoples History of the New BostonJim VrabelVrabel tells many stories with economy and skill.Robert Allison$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-076-4288 pp., 17 illus., July 2014

UMass RisingThe University of Massachusetts Amherst at 150Katharine GreiderA lively, well-illustrated history of the university on its sesquicentennial.$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-989-8240 pp., 135 color illus., 9 1/2" x 11 1/4" format, 2013

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eNviRoNMeNtAl stUdiesGrasses of the NortheastA Manual of the Grasses of New England and Adjacent New YorkDennis MageeA definitive guide to the varieties of grasses growing in the Northeast$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-098-6320 pp., 269 illus., June 2014

Flora of the NortheastA Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent New YorkDennis W. Magee and Harry E. AhlesSecond edition with companion CD-ROM

Comprehensive and fascinatingeven for readers far outside this manuals targeting region.American Scientist $95.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-577-71,264 pp., 2,433 range maps, 995 line drawings, CD-ROM, 2007

tidal Wetlands PrimerAn Introduction to Their Ecology, Natural History, Status, and ConservationRalph W. TinerAn authoritative guide to the ecology of tidal wetlands in North America$39.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-022-1536 pp., 166 illus., 2013

Field Guide to tidal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United states and Neighboring CanadaVegetation of Beaches, Tidal Flats, Rocky Shores, Marshes, Swamps, and Coastal PondsRalph W. TinerDrawings by Abigail RorerA delight to read and a pleasure to use. Science Books and Films$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-0-87023-538-2480 pp., 827 black and white illus., 11 maps, 2008

this ecstatic NationThe American Landscape and the Aesthetics of PatriotismTerre RyanAn exciting addition to the growing body of environmental literature. . . . An intimate and insightful excursion through Americans landscape idealism.Environmental History$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-873-01

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