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contentsNew Books 1

Selected Backlist 19

Series 30

Digital Editions (E-Books) 30

About the Press 31

Sales Information 31

Order Form 32

Art Credits 32

Contact Information 32

Author Index

Bruggeman, Born in the U.S.A. 6Giménez Smith, Goodbye, Flicker 13Hardack, “Not Altogether Human” 17Helgen, Peril in the Ponds 10Hornick, The Girls and Boys of Belchertown 9Johnson, Burnt Cork 4Knickerbocker, Ecopoetics 16Lang, From Codex to Hypertext 15Leamon, The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist 8Luebke, A Century of Design 18Meringolo, Museums, Monuments, and

National Parks 7Miller, Reading in Time 14Miller, Bounce 5Milward, The Agriculture Hall of Fame 12Mungo, Famous Long Ago 11Peace, A Call to Conscience 3Trent, The Manliest Man 1Van Wagenen, Remembering the Forgotten War 2

Title Index

The Agriculture Hall of Fame, Milward 12Born in the U.S.A., Bruggeman 6Bounce, Miller 5Burnt Cork, Johnson 4A Call to Conscience, Peace 3A Century of Design, Luebke 18Ecopoetics, Knickerbocker 16Famous Long Ago, Mungo 11From Codex to Hypertext, Lang 15The Girls and Boys of Belchertown, Hornick 9Goodbye, Flicker, Giménez Smith 13The Manliest Man, Trent 1Museums, Monuments, and National Parks, Meringolo 7“Not Altogether Human,” Hardack 17Peril in the Ponds, Helgen 10Reading in Time, Miller 14Remembering the Forgotten War, Van Wagenen 2The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist, Leamon 8

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The life of a renowned nineteenth-century American abolitionist, educator, and advocate for the disabled

The Manliest ManSamuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American ReformJames W. Trent

A native of Boston and a physician by training,

Samuel G. Howe (1801–1876) 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 Renaissance’s 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 reformer’s

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 Child’s 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

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How competing memories of a divisive conflict have shaped relations between two neighboring countries

Remembering the Forgotten WarThe Enduring Legacies of the U.S.–mexican warMichael 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 memory—books, popular culture,

historic sites, heritage groups, commemorations,

and museums—have shaped the war’s 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 com-

plex relationship between these former enemies now

turned friends. It thus provides a new lens through

which to view today’s cross-border rivalries, resent-

ments, and diplomatic pitfalls.

“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 author’s mastery of mexican sources, the images, and above all else, the author’s transnational focus, are all highly impressive.”

—Amy S. Greenberg, author of Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire

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 978-1-55849-929-4August 2012

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A definitive history of the grassroots movement to halt American intervention in Nicaragua

A Call to ConscienceThe Anti–Contra war CampaignRoger Peace

Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America,

the Reagan administration’s 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 administration’s 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 anti–Contra 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 anti–Contra

War campaign, and contrasts perceptions of the

campaign in Managua and Washington.

Peace shows how a variety of civic groups and

networks—religious, leftist, peace, veteran, labor,

women’s rights—worked together in a decentralized

campaign that involved extensive transnational

cooperation.

“A ground-breaking book. If a hundred years from now the anti–Contra 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 contempo-rary 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

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Reexamines the history of a contentious and persistent performative tradition

Burnt CorkTraditions and Legacies of Blackface minstrelsyEdited by Stephen Johnson

Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a

century, blackface minstrelsy—stage 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 diminished—and

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.

“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 ‘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 min-strelsy, 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

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The story of a distinctive style of hip-hop that started in one American city and went international

BounceRap music and Local Identity in New orleansMatt 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 city’s 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 city’s rich

musical and cultural traditions.

In this book, the popular music scholar and

filmmaker Matt Miller explores the ways in

which participants in New Orleans’s 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 city’s

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 pay-ing careful attention to the particularities of New orleans’s 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


$80.00 unjacketed cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-935-5may 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 memoryEdited 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 nation’s 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

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Reconstructs the genesis and evolution of the field of public history

Museums, Monuments, and National ParksToward a New Genealogy of Public HistoryDenise 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 nation’s natural and

cultural resources. Scientists conducting research and

gathering specimens became key figures in a broader

effort to protect and interpret the nation’s 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 education-

oriented 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 Super-Scenic 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





A lively biography of a loyalist caught in the upheaval of the American Revolution

The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine LoyalistFor God, King, Country, and for SelfJames 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 Bailey’s unpublished journals and voluminous

correspondence, James S. Leamon traces Bailey’s evolu-

tion from his rustic background through his Harvard

education and subsequent career as a teacher, Congrega-

tional 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 Revolu-

tion as unnatural, immoral, and doomed to fail.

Reverend Bailey’s 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.

Leamon’s study of the Reverend Jacob Bailey depicts

the complex nature and burdens of one person’s

loyalism while revealing much about eighteenth-

century 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 Leamon’s 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

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Traces the history of an institution for the intellectually disabled from its founding to its highly publicized closure

The Girls and Boys of BelchertownA Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-mindedRobert Hornick

During much of the twentieth century, people labeled “fee-

ble-minded,” “mentally deficient,” and “mentally retarded”

were often confined in large, publicly funded, residential

institutions located on the edges of small towns and vil-

lages some distance from major population centers. At the

peak of their development in the late 1960s, these institu-

tions—frequently called “schools” or “homes”—housed

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 scandal-

ous exposé 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 institution’s residents themselves. I was particularly struck by the book’s ending—an 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




An insider’s account of a scientific investi-gation into a disturbing phenomenon

Peril in the PondsDeformed Frogs, Politics, and a Biologist’s Quest

Judy Helgen

Peril in the Ponds tells the story of a government biolo-

gist’s 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 drain-

age to convert them into farmland and urban develop-

ments. 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? Ultravio-

let 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.

“judy Helgen was at ground zero when the epidemic of malformed frogs tipped from a regional environmental issue to an inter-national 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: Florida’s 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 Metro-

politan State University and was lead author of

the Sierra Club report Restoring Water Quality

Certification in Minnesota.

Environmental History / Political Science / memoir

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A new edition of a classic text of 1960s America

Famous Long Agomy Life and Hard Times with Liberation News ServiceRaymond Mungo

With a new introduction by John McMillian and a new afterword by the author

Originally published in 1970, Raymond Mungo’s pica-

resque account of his adventures with Liberation News

Service in the wild years of 1967 and 1968 has been vari-

ously described as youthful, passionate, lyrical, dement-

ed, 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 every-

thing from the draft to abortion laws to the university

itself. Then he connected with Marshall Bloom to co-

found LNS in Washington, D.C., as a news service cater-

ing to the burgeoning underground press. One thing led

to another, until LNS, like so many other radical organi-

zations, eventually disintegrated into violently warring

factions. Mungo’s 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.

“Raymond mungo was the 60s generation’s most compelling chronicler and its most archetypal mascot. He lived it, right on its front lines, and he mytholo-gized it, making himself and his friends its central characters.”

—Eric Utne and jay walljasper, editors of Utne Reader

“This is not a book of programmatic politics. . . . It is one young man’s odyssey through the vietnam war, martin Luther King’s assassina-tion, 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.

memoir / American Studies / journalism and media Studies


April 2012


winner of the juniper Prize for Fiction

The Agriculture Hall of Fame StoriesAndrew 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 experience—where 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 Milward’s

debut collection range across a varied terrain, from

tumbledown rural barns to modern urban hospitals,

revealing the secrets contained therein.

“Andrew milward is an exceptionally gifted and mature storyteller, attentive to the intricacies of character and place. There’s 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 milward’s 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, everybody’s crazy with looking for something.’ wry and sad, this is a fine debut collection.”

—Stuart o’Nan, author of The Odds

“These beautiful stories, ranging the cities and towns of Kansas from Ulysses to El Dorado, are as intimate and compassionate as they are unflinch-ing. 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 evoca-tions of loss—of 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

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winner of the juniper Prize for Poetry

Goodbye, FlickerPoemsCarmen Giménez 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 Giménez Smith’s 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. Cómo se dice is what all poems say. Giménez Smith happens to say so with deliverance and desire that can break into anyone’s heart.”

—Dara wier, author of Selected Poems and Reverse Rapture

CARmEN GIméNEz 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 poetry—Odalisque in

Pieces and The City She Was—and a memoir,

Bring Down the Little Birds.

Poetry

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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 CenturyCristanne Miller

This book provides new information about Emily Dickin-

son 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

Dickinson’s 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 consid-

ered 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 inter-

est 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 single-

authored volumes. Miller presents Dickinson’s writing in

relation to contemporary experiments with the lyric, the

ballad, and free verse, explores her responses to Ameri-

can 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 miller’s research, judg-ments, 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 Poet’s Grammar and The Emily

Dickinson Handbook, which she coedited.

American Literature

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Interdisciplinary essays that reframe how we think about reading, selling, sharing, and publishing books

From Codex to HypertextReading at the Turn of the Twenty-First CenturyEdited 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 vol-

ume includes essays that consider how changes such

as the mounting ubiquity of digital technology and the

globalization of structures of publication and book dis-

tribution are shaping the way readers participate in the

encoding and decoding of textual meaning. Contribu-

tors also examine how and why reading communities

cohere in a range of contexts, including prisons, book

clubs, networks of zinesters, state-funded programs de-

signed to promote active citizenship, and online spaces

devoted to sharing one’s tastes in books.

As concerns circulate in the media about the ways

that reading—for so long anchored in print culture and

the codex—is at risk of being irrevocably altered by tech-

nological 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


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How poets not usually considered nature poets express humanity’s relationship with nature

EcopoeticsThe Language of Nature, the Nature of LanguageScott Knickerbocker

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 poets—in 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 artifice—not 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.

“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

SCoTT KNICKERBoCKER is assistant professor

of English and environmental studies at The

College of Idaho.

American Literature

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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 RenaissanceRichard 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 nineteenth-

century 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. Hardack’s 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 country’s history.

“Hardack’s 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 Melville’s 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


university of massachusetts press . spring/summer 2012 . www.umass.edu/umpress

A richly illustrated volume documenting a century of efforts to beautify the nation’s capital

A Century of DesignA History of the U.S. Commission of Fine ArtsEdited by Thomas Luebke

From a hodgepodge provincial city of brick build-

ings 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 trans-

formation and has continued to advise on the capital

city’s 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 capi-

tal—and the nation—proposing 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 city’s

memorials and commemorative sites that represent

the nation. It examines the social and political con-

texts that fostered the commission’s 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 prin-

ciples 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 978-0-16-089702-3july 2012

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BACKLISTSelected

Listed below are recent and notable titles, organized by subject matter for your convenience. Additional informa-tion on more than 900 publications from the UMass Press is available at our website: www.umass.edu/umpress.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE A Kind of ArcheologyCollecting American Folk Art, 1876–1976Elizabeth Stillinger“American folk art has been studied exhaustively from the standpoint of the objects themselves, but Elizabeth Stillinger’s long-awaited book is the first to take a comprehensive look at the material’s 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

Meetinghouses of Early New EnglandPeter Benes“The product of four decades of thorough and meticulous research, this clearly writ-ten 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 978-1-55849-910-2512 pp., 120 illus., 7" x 10" format, March 2012

Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy WarholAllen GuttmannForeword 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 date—a masterful synthesis by an erudite scholar who has managed to bridge the gap between two tremendously important cultural insti-tutions 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

Frederic CrowninshieldA Renaissance Man in the Gilded AgeGertrude de G. Wilmers and Julie L. Sloan“This beautifully produced biography of the late-19th-century and early-20th-century American artist, author, and arts adminis-trator Frederic Crowninshield was meticu-lously researched and written. . . . [It] offers an extensive description and analysis of Crowninshield’s stained glass windows, murals, and paintings and places them in social, artistic, and historical context.” —Choice$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-864-8352 pp., 76 color & 27 black-and-white illus., 2010

Harriet HosmerA Cultural BiographyKate 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 women’s history.”—Publishers Weekly$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-839-6256 pp., 30 illus., 2010

Through an Uncommon LensThe Life and Photography of F. Holland DayPatricia J. FanningHonor Title, Massachusetts Book Award

“Carefully researched and skillfully written.” —Royal Photographic Society Journal$40.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-668-2304 pp., 76 black-and-white illus., 31 duotone plates, 2008

The American College TownBlake GumprechtWinner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American GeographersA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Lavishly illustrated, meticulously researched, and enlivened by a former journalist’s eye for detail, this will be a classic.”—Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-813-6468 pp., 82 illus., 12 maps, 2009

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A Genius for PlaceAmerican Landscapes of the Country Place EraRobin KarsonWinner of the J. B. Jackson Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

“The most important book on American gardens for a decade at least.” —London Telegraph$39.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-636-1424 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2007

Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

Mission 66Modernism and the National Park DilemmaEthan CarrWinner of the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award of the Society of Architectural HistoriansA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“This volume should be part of every library supporting planning, recreation, land economics, and geography.”—Choice$39.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-587-6424 pp., 200 illus., 2007


Graceland CemeteryA Design HistoryChristopher 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


Design in the Little GardenFletcher SteeleIntroduction by Robin KarsonA new edition of a classic work in the field of garden and landscape design.$20.00t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-907-2152 pp., 8 color and 8 black-and-white illus., 2011

Distributed for Library of American Landscape History

The Craftsman and the CriticDefining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts–Era BostonBeverly K. Brandt “This outstanding analysis and under-standable presentation provides a sophis-ticated appreciation of the Arts and Crafts movement.”—Style 1900 Magazine$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-677-4444 pp., 19 color and 240 black-and-white illus., 2009

AMERICAN HISTORYNew Israel / New EnglandJews and Puritans in Early AmericaMichael Hoberman“An extremely important book for early American and Jewish studies, based on extensive scholarship, clearly and interest-ingly written, and suitable for general readers as well as scholars.” —William Pencak$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-920-1 296 pp., 13 illus., 2011

The Needle’s EyeWomen and Work in the Age of RevolutionMarla R. MillerWinner of the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America

“A meticulous, nuanced account of the many varities of needlework that engaged the energies of women in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century rural New England.”—Journal of Social History$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-545-6328 pp., 31 illus., 8 color plates, 2006

Out of the AtticInventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England Briann G. Greenfield“Her book is rich in anecdote. . . . There is fun and insight on almost every page.” —Art & Antiques$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-710-8256 pp., 31 illus., 2009

Public History in Historical Perspective

Domestic BroilsShakers, Antebellum Marriage, and the Narratives of Mary and Joseph DyerEdited 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$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-808-2128 pp., 4 illus., 2010

Sisters in the FaithShaker Women and Equality of the SexesGlendyne R. Wergland“A superb addition to religious history and women’s studies shelves, highly recom-mended.”—Midwest Book Review $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-863-1248 pp., 18 illus., 2011

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Missionaries in Hawai‘iThe Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797–1883Clifford Putney“Will be most appreciated by the general public and scholars of missionary history in Hawai‘i.”—Hawaiian Journal of History$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-735-1272 pp., 25 illus., 2010

Everybody’s HistoryIndiana’s Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a President’s PastKeith A. EreksonHow a group of nonprofessional historians forced a reassessment of Abraham Lincoln’s life story. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-915-7256 pp., 12 illus., January 2012

Public History in Historical Perspective

From Liberation to ConquestThe Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898Bonnie M. Miller“An important book that will further our understanding of this complicated moment in American history.”—David Brody$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-924-9344 pp., 88 illus., 2011

Uneasy AlliesWorking for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century BostonDavid 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 978-1-55849-866-2336 pp., 2011

What Adolescents Ought to KnowSexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century AmericaJennifer Burek PierceTraces the emergence and marketing of sex education texts.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-892-1 232 pp., 8 illus., 2011

Cornelia James Cannon and the Future American RaceMaria I. DiedrichA probing analysis of the role of eugenics in the thinking of progressive reformers in the 1920s and 1930s.$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-841-9288 pp., 13 illus., 2011

When Roosevelt Planned to Govern FranceCharles L. RobertsonAn 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 978-1-55849-881-5240 pp., 2011

Measuring AmericaHow Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth CenturyAndrew 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 978-1-55849-835-8272 pp., 2010

Perfectly AverageThe Pursuit of Normality in Postwar AmericaAnna G. Creadick“A compelling, fascinating study of the cen-trality of the value of normality as defining so many aspects of post–WWII US culture. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-806-8240 pp., 35 illus., 2010

Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Not Yet a Placeless LandTracking an Evolving American GeographyWilbur Zelinsky“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$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-871-6376 pp., 1 illus., 2011

Barney FrankThe Story of America’s 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 978-1-55849-721-4544 pp., 22 illus., 2009


The Dance of the Comedians The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America Peter M. Robinson “In this highly entertaining yet politically valuable book, historian Peter M. Robinson traces the evolution of presidential lam-poons from Mark Twain to Will Rogers, from Mort Sahl to Jon Stewart.” —Steve Goddard’s History Wire$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-785-6288 pp., 2011

The Dragon’s TailAmericans Face the Atomic AgeRobert A. Jacobs“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 978-1-55849-727-6176 pp., 20 illus., 2010


The FBI and the Catholic Church, 1935–1962Steve Rosswurm“In a series of mini-biographical sketches, Rosswurm focuses on the interconnected-ness 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 978-1-55849-729-0352 pp., 2010

Framing the SixtiesThe Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. BushBernard von Bothmer“A smart, important and impressively researched account of the decade that far too often is reduced to clichés by the left and the right.”—Tom Brokaw $28.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-732-0320 pp., 2010

Secular Missionaries Americans and African Development in the 1960sLarry Grubbs“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 978-1-55849-734-4256 pp., 2010


Pressing the FightPrint, Propaganda, and the Cold WarEdited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner“Perhaps the most important work per-formed by this collection of first-rate essays is to demonstrate compellingly, across a wide range of cultural and academic con-texts, how central printed words and images were to ‘fighting’ the Cold War.”—Choice$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-736-8312 pp., 16 illus., 2010

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Upstaging the Cold WarAmerican Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940–1960Andrew J. FalkHonorable Mention, Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for the History of American Foreign Relations

“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 978-1-55849-903-4280 pp., 2011

The Battle for the MindWar and Peace in the Era of Mass CommunicationGary Messinger“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 978-1-55849-853-2320 pp., 2011

Hanoi JaneWar, Sex, and Fantasies of BetrayalJerry Lembcke“In this provocative study, Lembcke probes the way in which political dissent combined with American anxieties about class, gen-der, and celebrity to vilify a woman who followed her political conscience.” —Women’s Review of Books$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-815-0224 pp., 2010


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The Myth of the Addicted ArmyVietnam and the Modern War on DrugsJeremy Kuzmarov“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 Vietnam War in American MemoryVeterans, Memorials, and the Politics of HealingPatrick HagopianA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Sophisticated and ambitious. . . . As Hagopian so brilliantly shows in this wide-ranging and strikingly original book, healing and reconciliation came at a steep cost.” —Diplomatic History$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-902-7 576 pp., 100 illus., 2011


President of the Other AmericaRobert Kennedy and the Politics of PovertyEdward R. Schmitt“A superb study of a key aspect of Robert F. Kennedy’s public life: his commitment to alleviating the suffering of the nation’s most poverty-stricken people.” —Journal of American History$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-904-1 344 pp., 15 illus., 2011

Liberty and Justice for All?Rethinking Politics in Cold War AmericaEdited by Kathleen Donohue“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 978-1-55849-913-3400 pp., February 2012


James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of CounterintelligenceMichael Holzman“Holzman’s book is a major history of chilling impact, and a long, rewarding odyssey through the labyrinth of counter-intelligence. . . . His cast is huge and his explorations far reaching.”—ForeWord$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-650-7416 pp., 2008

Beyond VietnamThe Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974–1990 Robert Surbrug Jr. “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 978-1-55849-712-2320 pp., 2009


Vietnam’s Southern RevolutionFrom Peasant Insurrection to Total WarDavid Hunt“David Hunt has written a superb book . . . the best book on Vietnam’s Southern Revolution.”—Journal of Contemporary Asia$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-692-7 288 pp., 2 maps, 2009


Performances of ViolenceEdited by Austin Sarat, Carleen R. Basler, and Thomas L. DummAn interdisciplinary analysis of the cultural meanings of violence.$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-857-0184 pp., 2011

Who Deserves to Die?Constructing the Executable SubjectEdited by Austin Sarat and Karl Shoemaker“A wonderful, timely, and overdue addition to the debate over capital punishment.” —Beau Breslin$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-883-9320 pp., 2011

The Solemn Sentence of DeathCapital Punishment in Connecticut Lawrence B. Goodheart “A sweeping, highly readable, organized analysis of al the state’s 158 executions from 1639 to 2005. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-847-1336 pp., 2011


Derelict ParadiseHomelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, OhioDaniel Kerr“Covers 130 years and astutely places homelessness in the context of urban development, labor and housing markets, and the criminal justice system.”—Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-849-5288 pp., 24 illus., 2011

There You Have ItThe Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard CosellJohn Bloom“Cosell—a lawyer by training—was as im-probable a sports figure as can be imagined. . . . Many of the contradictions of his charac-ter and the finer intricacies of his legacy are teased out in this carefully observed portrait.”—Publishers Weekly$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-837-2224 pp., 5 illus., 2010

Knocking on Heaven’s DoorSix Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball DreamMarty Dobrow“A beautifully written, meticulously orches-trated 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.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-843-3368 pp., 49 illus., 2010

What We Have DoneAn Oral History of the Disability Rights MovementFred Pelka“Makes a unique and important contribu-tion to the field of disability movement his-tory, 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

Covering AmericaA Narrative History of a Nation’s JournalismChristopher B. Daly“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 develop-ments.”—Bruce Schulman$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9 576 pp., 73 illus., March 2012

BLACK STUDIESRalph Ellison and the Genius of AmericaTimothy 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

Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and FreedomEdited by James Brewer Stewart“A fascinating multi-disciplinary approach toward unlocking the details of the life of Venture Smith.”—Reference and Research Book News$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-740-5256 pp., 8 illus., 2010

Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th MassachusettsEdited by Richard M. Reid“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 978-1-55849-739-9288 pp., 12 illus., 2010

Hope & GloryEssays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts RegimentEdited by Martin H. Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, and Donald YacovoneForeword by Colin L. Powell“An essential book, helping us to under-stand how history, memory, monuments, and myth intertwine to keep the present comforted and discomforted by the past.” —Journal of American History$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-722-1 368 pp., 38 illus., 2009

Boycotts, Buses, and PassesBlack Women’s Resistance in the U.S. South and South AfricaPamela E. Brooks“Brooks carves out for these women their rightful place in the history of the black freedom movement.”—Ms.$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-678-1336 pp., 20 illus., 4 maps, 2008

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Exhibiting BlacknessAfrican Americans and the American Art MuseumBridget 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 rela-tionship between African Americans and American art museums.”—Alan Wallach$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-875-4240 pp., 26 color & 34 black-and-white illus., 2011

Images of Black ModernismVerbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem RenaissanceMiriam Thaggert“An exceptional contribution to the discus-sion of both modernism and the period of intense African American artistic produc-tion known as the Harlem Renaissance. . . . a well-written and meticulously researched study.”—New Book Network$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-831-0256 pp., 19 illus., 2010

Near BlackWhite-to-Black Passing in American CultureBaz Dreisinger“How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest Near Black by Baz Dreisinger.” —New York Times Book Review$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-675-0192 pp., 2008

Jump for JoyJazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s AmericaGena 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 move-ment.”—Journal of American History$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-663-7304 pp., 24 illus., 2008

The Colored CartoonBlack Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954Christopher P. LehmanA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Lehman’s fascinating study is comprehen-sive, meticulous and well-written.”—Choice$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-779-5152 pp., 2009

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIESMaking War and Minting ChristiansMasculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New EnglandR. 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$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-888-4296 pp., 11 illus., 2011

Native Americans of the Northeast

The People of the Standing StoneThe Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal Karim M. Tiro“An excellent case study in the experience of northeastern Indians from the era of the American Revolution to Indian Removal.” —Timothy J. Shannon$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-890-7256 pp., 15 illus., 2011


Early Native Literacies in New EnglandA Documentary and Critical AnthologyEdited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss“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$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-648-4288 pp., 7 illus., 2008


Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs Aesthetics and Survival Ann Morrison Spinney A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“As comprehensive an account of the musical culture—both the present and its history—of Native American nation as one can imagine. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice$60.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-718-4272 pp., 10 illus., 2010



FICTION AND POETRYGirls in TroubleStoriesDouglas LightWinner 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 selfhood.”—Foreword$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-923-2144 pp., 2011

Published in cooperation with the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)

The Law of MiraclesGregory Blake SmithWinner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction

“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 978-1-55849-900-3160 pp., 2011

Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made CryStoriesChristine SneedWinner 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 978-1-55849-858-7168 pp., 2010

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The Many Woods of GriefPoemsLucas FarrellWinner 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 child’s vision and the ancient’s: leaping, witnessing, scoffing, adoring and unsettling.”—Joanna Klink$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-899-080 pp., 2011

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIESAmerican OrientImagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth CenturyDavid Weir“The book seems to me a monumental achievement. It is timely, wise, idiosyn-cratic in only good ways, lively, well in-formed, fun to read.”—Christopher Benfey$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-879-2 304 pp., 2011

TransbuddhismTransmission, Translation, and TransformationEdited by Nalini Bhushan, Jay Garfield, and Abraham Zablocki“This carefully edited volume of 12 essays is a fascinating, thought-provoking, and eclectic treatment of Buddhism’s transmis-sion, translation, and transformation in the West.”—Choice$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-708-5272 pp., 2009

Published in association with the Kahn Institute, Smith College

Literary Journalism across the GlobeJournalistic Traditions and Transnational InfluencesEdited 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 978-1-55849-877-8320 pp., 3 illus., May 2011

Cesare Pavese and AmericaLife, Love, and LiteratureLawrence G. SmithA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWinner of the Premio Pavese Award

“Smith starts his book with a fluent and well-researched short biography, pulling together the complicated story of Pavese’s 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$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-925-6352 pp., 47 illus., 2011

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Mashed UpMusic, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable CultureAram Sinnreich“A deeply engaging text. . . . It asks excellent questions about the role of art and music in society and then follows that up with fascinat-ing ethnogrpahic interviews with musicians.” —American Studies$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-829-7240 pp., 2010

Science/Technology/Culture

Nine ChoicesJohnny Cash and American CultureJonathan Silverman“Endlessly fascinating and thoroughly engag-ing. . . . likely the closest we’ll get to truly understanding Cash’s life via this examina-tion of the critical, life-defining choices he made.”—San Antonio Express-News$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-827-3288 pp., 24 illus., 2010

Forever Doo-WopRace, Nostalgia, and Vocal HarmonyJohn Michael Runowicz“A concise history of doo-wop as it emerged from gospel quartet singing to the commer-cial heights of the rock ’n’ roll era.” —Downbeat (Editors’ Picks)$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-824-2224 pp., 8 illus., 2010

American Popular Music

A World among These IslandsEssays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean AmericaRoberto Márquez“This engaging study provides readers with a fresh look at Caribbean literary history. Rejecting fragmentary views of the Caribbean, Márquez proposes recognition of the region’s shared historic and literary traditions.” —Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-851-8280 pp., 2010

Translation, Resistance, ActivismEdited 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 recom-mended.”—Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-833-4304 pp., 2010

Right Here I See My Own BooksThe Woman’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian ExpositionSarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand“A compelling case study of how women’s literature and culture were defined and institutionalized in the progressive era.” —Susan Belasco$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-928-7288 pp., 2 illus., January 2012


Expanding the American MindBooks and the Popularization of KnowledgeBeth Luey“A fine and fascinating study of populariza-tion. . . . Luey is a formidably knowledgeable scholar and, one sees also in these pages, a wise one.”—Publishing Research Quarterly$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-817-4224 pp., 2010

Reading PlacesLiteracy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War AmericaChristine Pawley“Provides a model for future scholars and policy makers to determine why localities put differing value on literacy, which can grealy affect any region’s economic and social development.”—Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-822-8272 pp., 2010


“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Reading RevolutionRace, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911Barbara Hochman“For anyone who loves literature, Hochman’s book illuminates the fluidity of attitudes toward a seminal fictional work, literacy and the very act of reading fiction itself.” —Portland Press Herald$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-894-5352 pp., 31 illus., 2011

Companionship in GriefLove and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin TrillinJeffrey Berman“In this unique, carefully researched vol-ume, 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 978-1-55849-804-4288 pp., 2010


Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers Janet Badia“Badia’s focus on how anxieties about femi-nism have shaped views of the Plath reader and the Plath reception more generally is sorely needed.”—Susan Rosenbaum$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-896-9216 pp., 5 illus., 2011

Reading Emily Dickinson’s LettersCritical EssaysEdited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie“All the essays are illuminating, and most are beautifully written and meticulously researched. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-901-0304 pp., 3 illus., 2010

The Man Who Is and Is Not ThereThe Poetry and Prose of Robert FrancisAndrew Stambuk“A careful and discerning interpretation of this highly original, formally inventive poet.”—Robert B. Shaw$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-898-3184 pp., 2011

Public Poet, Private ManHenry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200Christopher Irmscher“This lively, provocative study encourages new Americanist reconfigurations of American literary studies to include global considerations. . . . Essential.”—Choice$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-584-5236 pp., 67 illus., 2009

Published in cooperation with Houghton Library, Harvard University

Historical MiltonPrint, Manuscript, and Political Culture in Revolutionary EnglandThomas Fulton“Will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to historians of print and those interested in early-modern culture and politics.”—Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-845-7272 pp., 7 illus., 2010

Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture; Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

NEW ENGLANDNorthern HospitalityCooking by the Book in New EnglandKeith 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 England’s food heritage. . . . Well done and highly recommended for foodies and historians.”—Library Journal$29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-861-7416 pp., 22 illus., 2011

Town MeetingThe Practice of Democracy in a New England TownDonald Robinson“An 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 978-1-55849-855-6344 pp., 24 illus., 2011

BostonVoices and VisionsEdited by Shaun O’ConnellA rich selection of writings by notable preachers, politicians, poets, novelists, essayists, and diarists. “It will be the very rare reader who won’t find [at least one selec-tion] strikingly unfamiliar.”—Boston Globe$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4384 pp., 2010

Culture ClubThe Curious History of the Boston AthenaeumKatherine Wolff “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$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-714-6256 pp., 28 illus., 2009

Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, MaineCommerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern FrontierKevin D. Murphy“Murphy’s 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 978-1-55849-743-6336 pp., 71 black-and-white illus., 12 color plates, 2010

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Gateway to VacationlandThe Making of Portland, MaineJohn F. Bauman”An extremely well researched overview of Portland’s history. The author does a particu-larly good job connecting that history to the larger national narrative” —Michael J. Rawson$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-909-6256 pp., 28 illus., February 2012

At the Altar of the Bottom LineThe Degradation of Work in the 21st CenturyTom Juravich“A beautifully written, compelling portrait of four groups of Massachusetts workers.” —Ruth Milkman$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-725-2260 pp., 14 illus., CD of songs and interviews, 2009

Shadows in the ValleyA Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840–1916Alan C. Swedlund“Combines anthropological and historical approaches to describe medical practices, mourning rituals, and the emotions and meanings attached to the experience of ill-ness and death . . . in a small New England town from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-720-7272 pp., 50 illus., 2010

Influenza and InequalityOne Town’s Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918Patricia J. Fanning“In a brilliant combination of scholarship and compassion, Fanning brings to life the American experience of the devastating 1918 flu epidemic.”—Jeanne Guillemin$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-812-9192 pp., 27 illus., 2010

A Matter of Life and DeathHunting in Contemporary VermontMarc Boglioli“Boglioli engages the tensions and contradic-tions 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 978-1-55849-716-0208 pp., 2009

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESGlobal Warming and Political IntimidationHow Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated UpRaymond 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$19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-869-3168 pp., 6 illus., 2011

This Ecstatic NationThe American Landscape and the Aesthetics of PatriotismTerre Ryan“Very persuasive in using personal exper-ience 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$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-873-0176 pp., 6 illus., 2011

Binocular VisionThe Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field GuidesSpencer Schaffner“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$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-886-0224 pp., 23 illus., 2011

The Native Landscape ReaderEdited by Robert E. Grese“The relevance of these writings to the current issues of biodiversity, native plants, and sustainability cannot be overempha-sized. . . . 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


CatastropheLaw, Politics, and Humanitarian ImpulseEdited by Austin Sarat and Javier Lezaun“One of the strongest edited collections I have read for some time.”—Jonathan Simon$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-738-2240 pp., 5 illus., 2009


American Park, edited by Ethan Carr (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design, edited by Daniel Nadenicek (University of Georgia).

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NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE NORTHEAST: Books in this series examine the diverse cultures and histories of the Indian peoples of New England, the Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the Great Lakes region. Series editors are Colin Calloway (Dartmouth College), Jean M. O’Brien-Kehoe (University of Minnesota), and Barry O’Connell (Amherst College).

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STUDIES IN PRINT CULTURE AND THE HISTORy OF THE BOOK: A substantial list of books on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and publishing. The series editorial board includes Robert A. Gross (University of Connecticut), Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester), and Michael Winship (University of Texas, Austin).

AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: Edited by Jeffrey Melnick and Rachel Rubin (University of Massachusetts Boston), this series seeks brief, well-written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to general readers.

CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE COLD WAR: Edited by Christian G. Appy (University of Massachu-setts Amherst), this highly regarded series has produced a wide range of books that reexamine the Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing on the relationship between culture and politics.

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