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As the University of Massachusetts marks its 150th anniversary in 2013, we are pleased to be celebrating 50 years of publishing at the University of Massachusetts Press. The technology of book production and distribution continues to evolve at a rapid pace, but our goal remains the sameto produce significant, well written, peer-reviewed books that please the eye and stimulate the mind. We appreciate your interest in our publishing program.
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Author Index
Bracey, Sanchez & Smethurst, S.O.S.Calling All Black People Burns, From Storefront to Monument Chametzky, Out of Brownsville Colligan, A Publishers Paradise Cushing, Arthur A. Shurcliffe Dunne, A Cold War State of Mind Gordon, The Spirit of 1976 Gunn & Harker, 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction Hagopian, American Immunity Karson, A Genius for Place McDonnell et al., Remembering the Revolution Platt, Reclaiming American Cities Sinnreich, The Piracy Crusade Southworth, Everyone Here Has a Gun Stalter-Pace, Underground Movements Wisecup, Medical Encounters Wright, The Cosmopolitan Lyceum Wyatt, When America Turned 1 2 17 15 9 4 11 14 5 18 10 8 6 13 7 12 16 3
Title Index
1960s Gay Pulp Fiction, Gunn & Harker American Immunity, Hagopian Arthur A. Shurcliffe, Cushing A Cold War State of Mind, Dunne The Cosmopolitan Lyceum, Wright Everyone Here Has a Gun, Southworth From Storefront to Monument, Burns A Genius for Place, Karson Medical Encounters, Wisecup Out of Brownsville, Chametzky The Piracy Crusade, Sinnreich A Publishers Paradise, Colligan Reclaiming American Cities, Platt Remembering the Revolution, McDonnell et al. S.O.S.Calling All Black People, Bracey, Sanchez & Smethurst The Spirit of 1976, Gordon Underground Movements, Stalter-Pace When America Turned, Wyatt 14 5 9 4 16 13 2 18 12 17 6 15 8 10 1 11 7 3
Cover art: Jacob Lawrence, Library (1978) 2013 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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A major anthology of readings from the Black Arts Movement
S.O.SCalling All Black People

A Black Arts Movement Reader Edited by John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst
This volume brings together a broad range of key writings 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, bookstores, and cultural centers and had a presence in practically every community and college campus with an appreciable African American population. Black Arts activists extended its reach even further through magazines 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 Amiri Baraka, 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. S.O.SCalling All Black People includes works of fiction, 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 This book has the potential to be an amazing teaching and research tool and should appeal to a wide audience of scholars and academics across a variety of fields from sociology and literary studies, to Africana studies and history. The introduction alone provides an invaluable account of the cultural output, impact, and legacy of the Black Arts Movement for scholars and students. Amy Abugo Ongiri, author of Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic
john h. bracey jr. is professor of AfroAmerican studies at the University of Massachusetts 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 640 pp., 7" x 10 format $34.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-031-3 $95.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-030-6 February 2014 order toll free 1-800-537-5487
An engaging history of the evolution of African American museums in the United States
From Storefront to Monument

Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement Andrea A. Burns
Clearly written and concisely argued, From Storefront to Monument will be of great interest to scholars in the field of museum studies. It also deserves wide readership in the broader field of African American studies, where there has been no comparable work that offers an overarching history of the black museum movement as an important political movement. Renee Romano, coeditor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory
andrea a. burns is assistant professor of history at Appalachian State University.
Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of these institutions trace their roots to the 1960s and 1970s, when the struggle for racial equality inspired a movement within the black community to make the history and culture of African America more public. This book tells the story of four of these groundbreaking museums: the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago (founded in 1961); the International Afro-American Museum in Detroit (1965); the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in Washington, D.C. (1967); and the African American Museum of Philadelphia (1976). Andrea A. Burns shows how the founders of these institutions, many of whom had ties to the Black Power movement, sought to provide African Americans with a meaningful alternative to the misrepresentation or utter neglect of black history found in standard textbooks and most public history sites. Through the recovery and interpretation of artifacts, documents, and stories drawn from African American experience, they encouraged the embrace of a distinctly black identity and promoted new methods of interaction between the museum and the local community. Over time, the black museum movement induced mainstream institutions to integrate African American history and culture into their own exhibits and educational programs. This often controversial process has culminated in the creation of a National Museum of African American History and Culture, now scheduled to open in the nations capital in 2015.
American History / African American Studies / Public History 240 pp., 10 illus. $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-035-1 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-034-4 October 2013
A volume in the series Public History in Historical Perspective
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Explores the tumultuous events of 1968 and their long-term repercussions
When America Turned

Reckoning with 1968 David Wyatt
Much has been written about the seismic shifts in American culture and politics during the 1960s. Yet for all the analysis of that turbulent era, its legacy remains unclear. In this elegantly written book, David Wyatt offers a fresh perspective on the decade by focusing on the pivotal year of 1968. He takes as his point of departure the testimony delivered by returning veteran John Kerry before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1971, as he imagined a time in the future when the word Vietnam would mean the place where America finally turned. But turning from what, to whatand for better or for worse? Wyatt explores these questions as he retraces the decisive moments of 1968the Tet Offensive, the McCarthy campaign, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the student revolt at Columbia, the police riot at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Lyndon Johnsons capitulation, and Richard Nixons ascendency to power. Seeking to recover the emotions surrounding these events as well as analyze their significance, Wyatt draws on the insights of what Michael Herr has called straight and secret histories. The first category consists of work by professional historians, traditional journalists, public figures, and political operatives, while the second includes the writings of novelists, poets, New Journalists, and memoirists. The aim of this parallel approach is to uncover two kinds of truth: a scholarly truth grounded in the documented past and an imaginative truth that occupies the more ambiguous realm of meaning. Only by reckoning with both, Wyatt believes, can Americans come to understand the true legacy of the 1960s.
An insightful and beautifully written effort to address the significance of 1968 as the moment when America turned away from the myth of its own innocence. Wyatt has a solid grasp of some of the most significant memoirs and novels to emerge from the 1960s, and he nicely combines this creative writing with historical scholarship to illuminate the tensions and contradictions of that era as well as the efforts to come to terms with them. Scott Laderman, author of Tours of Vietnam: Wars, Travel Guides, and Memory
david wyatt is professor of English at the University of Maryland. His most recent book is Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature.
American Studies / Vietnam War 336 pp. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-061-0 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-060-3 January 2014 order toll free 1-800-537-5487
An illuminating analysis of the changing political and cultural meaning of a persistent popular myth
A Cold War State of Mind
Brainwashing and Postwar American Society Matthew W. Dunne

First popularized during the 1950s, the concept of brainwashing is often viewed as an example of Cold War paranoia, an amusing relic of a bygone era. Yet as Matthew W. Dunne shows in this wide-ranging study, over time brainwashing came to connote much more than a sinister form of Communist mind control, taking on broader cultural and political meanings. Moving beyond well-known debates over Korean War POWs and iconic cultural texts like The Manchurian Candidate, Dunne explores the impact of the idea of brainwashing on popular concerns about freedom, individualism, loyalty, and trustin authority. By the late 1950s the concept had been appropriated into critiques of various aspects of American life such as an insistence on conformity, the alleged softening of American men, and rampant consumerism fueled by corporate advertising that used hidden or subliminal forms of persuasion. Because of these associations and growing anxieties about the potential misuse of psychology, concerns about brainwashing contributed to a new emphasis on individuality and skepticism toward authority in the 1960s. The notion even played an unusual role in the 1968 presidential race, when Republican frontrunner George Romneys claim that he had been brainwashed about the Vietnam War by the Johnson administration effectively destroyed his campaign. In addition to analyzing the evolving meaning of brainwashing over an extended period of time, A Cold War State of Mind explores the class and gender implications of the idea, such as the assumption that working-class POWs were more susceptible to mind control and that women were more easily taken in by the manipulations of advertisers.
A Cold War State of Mind provides a fascinating framework for understanding both the strength and breakdown of the Cold War consensus in postwar America. Using the trope of brainwashing, it integrates contemporary debates about politics, psychology, and the crisis of masculinity to present an intriguing analysis of anxieties that the suspected communist infiltration of American society could succeed through the infection and contamination of Americans brains. It is a wide ranging, concise, and thoroughly enjoyable book. Robert A. Jacobs, author of The Dragons Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age
matthew w. dunne is adjunct instructor of history at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
American Studies / American History 304 pp., 15 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-041-2 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-040-5 November 2013
A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
Traces the history of the superpower exemption that long shielded American veterans from prosecution for war crimes
American Immunity
War Crimes and the Limits of International Law Patrick Hagopian

In 1955 the Supreme Court ruled that veterans of the U.S. armed forces could not be court-martialed for overseas crimes that were not detected until after they had left military service. Territorial limitations placed such acts beyond the jurisdiction of civilian courts, and there was no other American court in which they could be adjudicated. As a result, a jurisdictional gap emerged that for decades exempted former troops from prosecution for war crimes. This was not merely a theoretical possibility, Patrick Hagopian writes. Over a dozen former soldiers who participated in the My Lai massacre did in fact get away with murder. Further court rulings expanded the gap to cover civilian employees and contractors that accompanied the armed forces. In American Immunity, Hagopian places what he calls the superpower exemption in the context of a long-standing tension between international law and U.S. sovereignty.He shows that despite the U.S. role in promulgating universal standards of international law and forming institutions where those standards can be enforced, the United States has repeatedly refused to submit its own citizens and troops to the jurisdiction of international tribunals and failed to uphold international standards of justice in its own courts. In 2000 Congress attempted to close the jurisdictional gap with passage of the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. The effectiveness of that legislation is still in question, however, since it remains unclear how willing civilian American juries will be to convict veterans for conduct in foreign war zones.
An impressive, wide-ranging, multi-layered work. Patrick Hagopian uses the problem of the jurisdictional gap to open up much larger questionsincluding public attitudes toward military justice and the death of civilians, the hostility toward international law and international legal institutions within sections of U.S. political culture, and the defensive response of political and military hierarchies to any effort to link individual war crimes to the principle of command responsibility. Kendrick Oliver, author of My Lai in American History and Memory
patrick hagopian is senior lecturer in history and American studies at Lancaster University and author of The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).
American History / Military History / Legal Studies 280 pp. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-047-4 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-046-7 January 2014
A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
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A spirited critique of legal efforts to restrict the creative exchange of digital information
The Piracy Crusade
How the Music Industrys War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties Aram Sinnreich
In the decade and a half since Napster first emerged, forever changing the face of digital culture, the claim that internet pirates killed the music industry has become so ubiquitous that it is treated as common knowledge. Piracy is a scourge on legitimate businesses and hard-working artists, we are told, a cybercrime similar to identity fraud or even terrorism. In The Piracy Crusade, Aram Sinnreich critiques the notion of piracy as a myth perpetuated by todays cultural cartelsthe handful of companies that dominate the film, software, and especially music industries. As digital networks have permeated our social environment, they have offered vast numbers of people the opportunity to experiment with innovative cultural and entrepreneurial ideas predicated on the belief that information should be shared widely. This has left the media cartels, whose power has historically resided in their ability to restrict the flow of cultural information, with difficult choices: adapt to this new environment, fight the changes tooth and nail, or accept obsolescence. Their decision to fight has resulted in ever stronger copyright laws and the aggressive pursuit of accused infringers. Yet the most dangerous legacy of this piracy crusade is not the damage inflicted on promising start-ups or on well-intentioned civilians caught in the crosshairs of file-sharing litigation. Far more troubling, Sinnreich argues, are the broader implications of copyright laws and global treaties that sacrifice free speech and privacy in the name of combating the phantom of piracypolicies that threaten to undermine the foundations of democratic society.
This is a book that needed to be written and Sinnreich is the perfect author for it. There are critiques and histories of piracy, and there is at least one state of the music industry book, but this book makes a very different case by critically interrogating the rhetoric and effects of both piracy and anti-piracy efforts. Nancy Baym, author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age Sinnreich provides a sophisticated economic and political analysis of the evolution of the antipiracy agenda, identifies major stakeholders, and does so with brisk and reader-friendly prose. Patricia Aufderheide, coauthor of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright
aram sinnreich is assistant professor of journalism and media studies, Rutgers University, and author of Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010).
American Studies / Cultural Studies / Media Studies 272 pp. $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-052-8 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-051-1 December 2013
A volume in the series Science / Technology / Culture
Explores the cultural significance of a defining technology of the modern New York cityscape
Underground Movements
Modern Culture on the New York City Subway Sunny Stalter-Pace

For more than a century the New York City subway system has been a vital part of the citys identity, even as judgments of its value have varied. It has been celebrated as the technological embodiment of the American melting pot and reviled as a blighted urban netherworld. Underground Movements explores the many meanings of the subway by looking back at the era when it first ascended to cultural prominence, from its opening in 1904 through the mid-1960s. Sunny Stalter-Pace analyzes a broad range of texts written during this periodnews articles, modernist poetry, ethnic plays, migration narratives, as well as canonical works by authors such as Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Ralph Ellisonto illustrate the subways central importance as a site of abstract connection, both between different parts of the city and between city dwellers who ride the train together. Writers and artists took up questions that originated in the sphere of urban planning to explore how underground movement changed the ways people understand the city. Modern poets envisioned the subway as a space of literary innovation; playwrights and fiction writers used it to gauge the consequences of migration and immigration; and essayists found that it underscored the fragile relationship between urban development and memory. Even today, the symbolic associations forged by these early texts continue to influence understanding of the cultural significance of the subway and the city it connects.
A stimulating and impressive book. . . . Its interdisciplinary breadth is admirable and its comprehensive account of New York subway texts provides a model for historically and geographically grounded literary research. Hsuan Hsu, author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteeth-Century American Literature
sunny stalter-pace is associate professor English at Auburn University.
American Studies / Urban History / History of Technology 240 pp., 4 illus. $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-055-9 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-054-2 November 2013
A volume in the series Science / Technology / Culture
How American cities are becoming more pluralistic, green, and humane after a century of top-down urban policies
Reclaiming American Cities
The Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900 Rutherford H. Platt
For most of the past century, urban America was dominated by top-down policies serving the white business and cultural elite, the suburbs, and the automobile. At times these approaches were fiercely challenged by reformers such as Jane Addams and Jane Jacobs. Yet by the 1980s, mainstream policies had resulted in a nation of ravaged central cities, sprawling suburbs, social and economic polarization, and incalculable environmental damage. In the 1990s, this entrenched model finally yielded to change as local citizens, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders, empowered by a spate of new laws and policies, began asserting their own needs and priorities. Though hampered by fiscal crises and internal disagreements, these popular initiatives launched what the author terms a new era of humane urbanism marked by a determination to make cities and suburbs greener, healthier, safer, more equitable, more efficient, and generally more people-friendly. In the process, the mayors, architects, engineers, and bureaucrats who had previously dominated urban policy found themselves relegated to supporting roles. As Rutherford H. Platt points out, humane urbanism can take many forms, from affordable housing and networks of bike paths to refurbished waterfronts and urban farms. Often spontaneous, low-tech, and selfsustaining programs, their shared goal is to connect people to one another and to bring nature back into the city. Reclaiming American Cities examines both sides of this historic transformation: the long struggle against patricians and technocrats of earlier decades and the recent sprouting of grassroots efforts to make metropolitan America more humane and sustainable.
A sophisticated, thorough, and comprehensive history of city planning in the United States over the last 125 years. Alex Marshall, author of How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
rutherford h. platt is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among his publications are The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994) and The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). The fourth edition of his textbook Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy will be released in 2014.
Urban History / Environmental Studies /American History 328 pp., 41 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-050-4 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-049-8 February 2014
The life and work of an early and influential landscape architect
Arthur A. Shurcliff
Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape Elizabeth Hope Cushing
In 1928 the landscape architect Arthur A. Shurcliff (18701957) began what became one of the most important examples of the American Colonial Revival landscapeColonial Williamsburg, a project that stretched into the 1940s and included town and highway planning as well as residential and institutional gardens. Shurcliff graduated from MIT with a degree in engineering in 1894 but was drawn to landscape architecture. Because no formal programs existed at the time, on the advice of Frederick Law Olmsted and with the aid of his mentor, Charles Eliot, he went on to piece together courses at Harvard College, the Lawrence Scientific School, and the Bussey Institute, earning a second B.S. two years later. He then spent eight years working in the Olmsted office, acquiring a broad and sophisticated knowledge of the profession. Opening his own practice in 1904, Shurcliff emphasized his expertise in town planning, through the years preparing plans for towns surrounding Boston and for several industrial communities. He also designed recreational spaces in and around Boston, including significant aspects of the Franklin Park Zoo and the Charles River Esplanade, one of Shurcliffs major projects in the region. In this richly illustrated biography, Elizabeth Hope Cushing shows how Shurcliffs early years in Boston, his training, his early design and planning work, and his experience creating an Arts and Craftsstyle summer compound in Ipswich led to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest commission of his career and his most significant contribution to American landscape architecture.
Arthur Shurcliff was a pivotal figure in both municipal park design and landscape preservation. In Boston he personally shaped the transition of the Olmsted park system to the twentiethcentury public landscape. In historic preservation, he pioneered early landscape preservation efforts, culminating in his remarkable and profoundly influential work in Williamsburg, begun when he was in his sixties. Ethan Carr, author of Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma This is a very good piece of work and it will be a singularly important contribution to the literature concerning what I believe is still our least understood period of urban landscape architecture. Gary R. Hilderbrand, author of Making a Landscape of Continuity: The Practice of Innocenti and Webel
elizabeth hope cushing is the author of numerous cultural landscape history reports and coauthor of Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press / Library of American Landscape History, 2013).
Landscape Architecture / Urban History 416 pp., 200 black-and-white illus., 8.5" x 10" format $39.95 jacketed hardcover, ISBN 978-1-6253-039-9 February 2014
A volume in the series Designing the American Park Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
How conflicting memories of the nations origins shaped the political culture of the early American republic
Remembering the Revolution

Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War Edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
michael a. mcdonnell is associate professor of history at the University of Sydney. clare corbould is Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. frances m. clarke is senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. w. fitzhugh brundage is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Contributors include Peter Bastian, Keith Beutler, Daryl Black, Emily Lewis Butterfield, Seth C. Bruggeman, Eileen Ka-May Cheng, Francis M. Clarke, Clare Corbould, Caroline Cox, Tara Deshpande, Carolyn Eastman, William Hunting Howell, Daniel Mandell, Matthew Mason, Michael A. McDonnell, James Paxton, Sarah J. Purcell, and Evert Jan van Leeuwen.
In todays United States, the legacy of the American Revolution looms large. From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics to school pageants, everybody knows something about the Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted, divisive, and destructive war has calcified into a glorified founding moment of the American nation. Disparate events with equally diverse participants have been reduced to a few key scenes and characters, presided over by well-meaning and wise old men. Recollections of the Revolution did not always take todays form. In this lively collection of essays, historians and literary scholars consider how the first three generations of American citizens interpreted their nations origins. The volume introduces readers to a host of individuals and groups both well known and obscure, from Molly Pitcher and forgotten father John Dickinson to African American Baptists in Georgia and antebellum pacifists. They show how the memory of the Revolution became politicized early in the nations history, as different interests sought to harness its meaning for their own ends. No single faction succeeded, and at the outbreak of the Civil War the American people remained divided over how to remember the Revolution.
American History / Public History 320 pp. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-033-7 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-032-0 September 2013
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Examines the impact of the 1976 bicentennial on the way Americans celebrate the nations past
The Spirit of 1976
Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration Tammy S. Gordon

The most important national commemoration of the twentieth century, the 1976 bicentennial celebration gave rise to a broad-ranging debate over how the American Revolution should be remembered and represented. Federal planners seeking an uncritical glorification of the nations founding came up against an array of constituencies with other interests and objectives. Inspired by the new social history that looked at the past from the bottom up, Americans who had previously been disenfranchised by traditional national narrativesAfrican Americans, women, American Indians, workers, young peopledemanded a voice and representation in the planning. Local communities, similarly suspicious of federal direction, sought control over their own bicentennial events. Corporate representatives promoted an approach that championed the convergence of patriotism and private enterprise, while commercial interests applied the marketing techniques of an expanding consumerism to hawk every imaginable kind of patriotic souvenir to all of these groups. The end result of these competing efforts, Tammy S. Gordon shows, was a national celebration that reflected some common themes, including a mistrust of federal power, an embrace of decentralized authority, and a new cultural emphasis on the importance of the self. The American Revolution Bicentennial can thus be seen as both a product of the social and political changes of the 1960s and a harbinger of things to come. After 1976, the postwar myth of a consensus view of American history came to an end, ensuring that future national commemorations would continue to be contested.
An insightful piece of scholarship that raises important issues regarding the study of public uses of the past. John Bodnar, author of Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century
tammy s. gordon is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life.
American History / Public History / American Studies 184 pp., 8 illus. $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-043-6 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-042-9 December 2013
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How the exchange of medical knowledge shaped colonial literature and cultural identity in early America
Medical Encounters
Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures Kelly Wisecup

The conquest and colonization of the Americas resulted in all kinds of exchanges, including the transmission of diseases and the sharing of medicines to treat them. In this book, Kelly Wisecup examines how European settlers, Native Americans, and New World Africans communicated medical knowledge in early America, and how the colonists represented what they learned in their literatures. Against the prevailing view that colonial texts provide insight only into their writers perspectives, Wisecup demonstrates that Europeans, Natives, and Africans held certain medical ideas in common, including a conception of disease as both a spiritual and a physical entity, and a belief in the power of special rituals or prayers to restore health. As a consequence, medical knowledge and practices operated as a shared form of communication on which everyone drew in order to adapt to a world of devastating new maladies and unfamiliar cures. By signaling ones relation to supernatural forces, to the natural world, and to other people, medicine became an effective means of communicating a variety of messages about power and identity as well as bodies and minds. Native Americans in Virginia and New England, for example, responded to the nearly simultaneous arrival of mysterious epidemics and peoples by incorporating colonists into explanations of disease, while British American colonists emphasized to their audiences back home the value of medical knowledge drawn from cross-cultural encounters in the New World.
An interesting, informative, and important book. Medical Encounters provides a new lens through which we can see moments of cultural encounter as rich with information about Native, African, and European beliefs and experiences. Kristina Bross, author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America
kelly wisecup is assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas.
Early American History / Native American Studies / American Literature 224 pp., 7 illus. $24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-057-3 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-056-6 October 2013
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Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
Everyone Here Has a Gun

Stories Lucas Southworth
In a tightrope act of darkness and humor, fantasy and reality, the twelve stories in this award-winning collection describe characters searching for comfort and stability in a world that is ultimately too vast, violent, and incomprehensible. As they revert to what seems most simple and familiarpublic transportation, television, museums, fairy talesthey discover only murder, displacement, fragmentation, and obsession. In The Running Legs and Other Stories, Mary Beth attempts to recall a traumatic experience from her childhood, filtering it through childrens stories told by her wicked stepmother. In Lincolns Face, A Resurrection, an African American make-up artist struggles with concepts of history as she transforms a former lover into Abraham Lincoln. The young narrator in Under the World grieves for his parents by losing himself in a worldwide subway system. And in the title story, the speaker describes a small room where everyone armed with a single gun waits with dread and anticipation for the inevitable first shot. Anton Chekhov famously noted that if a story introduces a gun in the first act, that gun must go off by the third. Yet while weapons are often present in Southworths stories, they are rarely fired, existing instead as a constant reminder of the power people can have over each other and the violent potential of narrative itself.
Everyone Here Has a Gun took me on a roller coaster ride that Id never been on before. . . . Every piece is strikingly different, 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 memorable reading experience. Dan Chaon, Grace Paley Prize judge and author of Stay Awake and Await Your Reply Lucas Southworth in his deep-dish, deadpan debut collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun, turns us on to a spinning world where something is always off. Oh, it all seems normal enough and quite matter-of-fact at the start. But then the stories turn and turntwisted, worstedthe matter, in fact, gone dark and all anti-. Watch it and watch out! Of course the characters are weaponized along with the shape-charged plotting and the brilliant tracing rounds of language, illuminating the negative capability of suddenly stunning up-armored porcelain prose. Michael Martone, author of Four for a Quarter
lucas southworth received his MFA from the University of Alabama and is an assistant professor in creative writing and screenwriting at Loyola University in Baltimore. He is also a partner of Slash Pine Press, serving as editor and mentor to undergraduate interns.
Fiction 160 pp. $24.95t hardcover, ISBN 978-1-55849-053-5 November 2013
Published in cooperation with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs
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Scholars explore the broad range of gay pulp fiction behind the sensational covers
1960s Gay Pulp Fiction
The Misplaced Heritage Edited by Drewey Wayne Gunn and Jaime Harker
As a result of a series of court cases, by the mid-1960s the U.S. post office could no longer interdict books that contained homosexuality. Gay writers were eager to take advantage of this new freedom, but the only houses poised to capitalize on the outpouring of manuscripts were adult paperback publishers who marketed their products with salacious covers. Gay critics, unlike their lesbian counterparts, have for the most part declined to take these works seriously, even though they cover an enormous range of genres: adventures, blue collar and gray flannel novels, coming-out stories, detective fiction, gothic novels, historical romances, military stories, political novels, prison fiction, romances, satires, sports stories, and spy thrillerswith far more short story collections than is generally realized. Twelve scholars have now banded together to begin a recovery of this largely forgotten explosion of gay writing that occurred in the 1960s. Descriptions of these pulps have often been inadequate and misinforming, the result of misleading covers, unrepresentative sampling of texts, and a political blindness that refuses to grant worth to pre-Stonewall writing. This volume charts the broader implications of this state of affairs before examining some of the more significant pulp writers from the period. It brings together a diverse range of scholars, methodologies, and reading strategies. The evidence that these essays amass clearly demonstrates the significance of gay pulps for gay literary history, queer cultural studies, and book history.
These essays in toto are exciting, informative, comprehensive, and sexy in their thinking, moving beyond standard paratextual analysis of paperback covers and into the nitty-gritty of the pulp texts and the queer worlds that they imagined on the page and off. Scott Herring, author of Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
drewey wayne gunn is professor emeritus of English at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and author of The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film. jaime harker is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America and America the Middlebrow: Womens Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007). In addition to the editors, contributors include Beth M. Bouloukos, Philip Clark, Jeremy Fisher, James J. Gifford, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Randall Ivey, Reed Massengill, Ann Marie Schott, Whitney Strub, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
LGBT Studies / American Studies / Print Culture Studies 304 pp. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-045-0 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-044-3 December 2013
A volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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The story of how Paris came to be a haven for the publication of banned books
A Publishers Paradise
Expatriate Literary Culture in Paris, 18901960 Colette Colligan

From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-Americas most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light. Paris, with its extraordinary liberties of expression, became a special place for interrogating the margins of sexual culture and literary censorship, and a wide variety of English language dirty books circulated through loose expatriate publishing and distribution networks. A Publishers Paradise explores the political and literary dynamics that gave rise to this expatriate cultural flourishing, which included everything from Victorian pornography to the most daring and controversial modernist classics. Colette Colligan tracks the British and French politicians and diplomats who policed Paris editions of banned books and uncovers offshore networks of publishers, booksellers, authors, and readers. She looks closely at the stories the dirty books told about this publishing haven and the smut peddlers and literary giants it brought together in transnational cultural formations. The book profiles an eclectic group of expatriates living and publishing in Paris, from relatively obscure figures such as Charles Carrington, whose list included both The Picture of Dorian Gray and the pornographic novel Randiana, to bookshop owner Sylvia Beach, famous for publishing James Joyces Ulysses in 1922. A Publishers Paradise is a compelling exploration of the little-known history of foreign pornography in Paris and the central role it played in turning the city into a modernist outpost for literary and sexual vanguardism, a reputation that still lingers today in our cultural myths of midnight in Paris.
With creative researching techniques, wit, and skill, Colligan brings to life the little-known, understudied world of booklegging and book laundering, based in the French capital, but central to the development of Anglo-American modernist writing at large. A Publishers Paradise makes a significant scholarly contribution by taking dirty books seriously and showing their significance to larger political and cultural conflicts, and by connecting dots that others have not connected. Brooke Blower, author of Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars
colette colligan is associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University and author of The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in NineteenthCentury Print Culture.
Print Culture Studies / American Literature / British & European Literature 352 pp., 26 illus. $28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-038-2 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-037-5 January 2014
A volume in the series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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Reevaluates the American lyceum movement from a transnational perspective
The Cosmopolitan Lyceum
Lecture Culture and the Globe in NineteenthCentury America Edited by Tom F. Wright
From the 1830s to the 1900s, a circuit of lecture halls known as the lyceum movement flourished across the United States. At its peak, up to a million people a week regularly attended talks in local venues, captivated by the words of visiting orators who spoke on an extensive range of topics. The movement was a major intellectual and cultural force of this nation-building period, forming the creative environment of writers and public figures such as Frederic Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anna Dickinson, and Mark Twain. The phenomenon of the lyceum has commonly been characterized as inward looking and nationalistic. Yet as this collection of essays reveals, nineteenth-century audiences were fascinated by information from around the globe, and lecturers frequently spoke to their fellow Americans of their connection to the world beyond the nation and helped them understand exotic ways of life. Never simple in its engagement with cosmopolitan ideas, the lyceum provided a powerful public encounter with international currents and crosscurrents, foreshadowing the problems and paradoxes that continue to resonate in our globalized world. This book offers a major reassessment of this important cultural phenomenon, bringing together diverse scholars from history, rhetoric, and literary studies. The twelve essays use a range of approaches, cover a wide chronological timespan, and discuss a variety of performers both famous and obscure. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Robert Arbour, Thomas Augst, Susan Branson, Virginia Garnett, Peter Gibian, Sara Lambert, Angela Ray, Evan Roberts, Paul Stob, Mary Zboray, and Ronald Zboray.
An excellent book. Perhaps its greatest strength is that it participates in several current scholarly conversations: not only discussions of the nature of cosmopolitanism and its relationship to nationalism but also exchanges about oratory, audiences, travel writing, transatlantic and transpacific intellectual life, and the relationship between oral and print cultures. Joan Shelley Rubin, author of Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America
tom f.
wright is lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sussex.
American History / American Studies 280 pp., 5 illus. $27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-059-7 $80.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-1-62534-058-0 December 2013
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A cultural memoir by a founding editor of The Massachusetts Review
Out of Brownsville
Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers Jules Chametzky
In this collection of literary portraits, Jules Chametzky shares his recollections of more than forty notable Jewish writers, from Alfred Kazin to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Paley, Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Tillie Olsen, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Brodsky, and Amos Ozto name a few. Also included are cameo appearances by non-Jewish authors, such as James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Jose Yglesias. Not only do these various writers emerge as interesting and often complicated human beings, but Chametzky reveals himself to be a warm and gracious storyteller.
Legendary editor Jules Chametzkys book is autobiography at its cleanest: ones life through the eyes of others. His astute, personable dispatches are a map of Jewish intellectual trends in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Ilan Stavans, author of Return to Centro Historico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots Woven into these lively portraits and reminiscences of others are not only sudden illuminations of the characters portrayed and of the fleeting moments captured here, but also insights into the fragility of life, the power to create, and the strange magic of human encounters that make Jules Chametzkys memoir so touchingly social and pleasurable to read. Werner Sollors, author of Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture
No student of American Jewish writing needs to be reminded that Jules Chametzky is one of its pioneers. . . . He now caps a distinguished career as critic, editor, and teacher with this delightful volume of memoirs. Joseph C. Landis, editor of Yiddish-Modern Jewish Studies A 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, Daily Hampshire Gazette
jules chametzky is professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His books include From the Ghetto: The Fiction of Abraham Cahan and Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers, both published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Memoir / Jewish Studies / American Literature 160 pp. $19.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-036-8 September 2013
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The definitive work on a formative period in American landscape design
A Genius for Place
American Landscapes of the Country Place Era Robin Karson

Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies
In this beautifully illustrated survey, landscape historian Robin Karson traces the development of a distinctly American style of landscape design through an analysis of seven country places created by some of the nations most talented landscape practitioners.
A major contribution to this long-neglected area of scholarship, Robin Karsons new book finally gives this extraordinary creative flowering its due. . . . This thoughtfully illustrated, authoritative text sets a high standard for other works to follow, and opens the door to a rich chapter in the history of American landscape architecture. Mark Alan Hewitt, author of The Architect and the American Country House, 18901940 A miracle of insight. Robert A. M. Stern, author of Houses and Gardens Yet again Robin Karson has hit the ball out of the park. The American Gardener
The most important book on American gardens for at least a decade, this giant tome spans the first 40 years of the 20th century. . . . Superlative black-andwhite photographs by Carol Betsch, taken in the 1990s, already have a classic look about them. London Telegraph Altogether, text, visuals, and format work to produce a significant and beautiful book. . . . Landscape historians will devour whats here; others should find inspiration in planting schemes, design details, scale relationships, and photography. This is a feast to be savored and digested slowly, over time. Landscape Architecture The great American country estates of 19001930 continue to be paragons of the art of garden design. Robin Karsons splendid new book discusses the important landscape architects of this period, and analyzes their important achievements. Witold Rybczynski, author of A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
robin karson is author of Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect and The Muses of Gwinn and coeditor of Pioneers of American Landscape Design. She is the founder and director of the Library of American Landscape History.
Landscape Architecture / American Studies 424 pp., 483 duotone illus. $29.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-048-1 September 2013 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
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ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND Design

A Kind of Archeology
Elizabeth Stillinger
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Listed below are recent titles, organized by subject matter for your convenience. Additional information on more than 1,000 publications from the UMass Press is available at our website: www.umass.edu/umpress.
Community by Design
The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts
Collecting American Folk Art, 18761976

In her always lucid prose, Stillinger identifies the players and their key contributions to the fields evolution. . . . It is hard to conceive of a more thoughtful or thorough guide.Antiques and the Arts Weekly
$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-744-3 464 pp., 223 color & 139 black-and-white illus., 2011
Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. Reed

A beautifully produced volume on Frederick Law Olmsteds firm and the coming of age of suburban development.
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-976-8 384 pp., 130 illus., 2012 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
Creating a World on Paper

Harry Fenns Career in Art
The Best Planned City in the World

Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System
Sue Rainey
The first biography of a widely popular nineteenth-century illustrator. Clearly written and packed with new information. The author has mined a great variety of primary sources to excellent advantage. Katherine Manthorne
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-979-9 516 pp., 43 color and 150 black-and-white illus., 2013
Francis R. Kowsky
The definitive account of the creation and development of the countrys first urban park system. Well organized, very well written. . . . It is an invaluable study. David Schuyler
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1 272 pp., 125 color and 100 black-and-white illus., June 2013 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Frederic Crowninshield
Gertrude de G. Wilmers and Julie L. Sloan
A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age
Graceland Cemetery
A Design History
Christopher Vernon
Thanks to this well-researched and illuminating book, Graceland cemetery comes into view as a masterpiece of American landscape design. Chicago History Museum Blog
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-926-3 272 pp., 12 color and 125 black-and-white illus., 2011 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
This beautifully produced biography of the late-19th-century and early-20th-century American artist, author, and arts administrator Frederic Crowninshield was meticulously researched and written.Choice
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-864-8 352 pp., 76 color & 27 black-and-white illus., 2010
Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol

Allen Guttmann
Foreword by Carol Clark
This book is a treasure. The writing is full of wonderful brush strokes with just enough controversial narrative to generate lively future exchanges in the field of sport history.Journal of Sport History
$39.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-874-7 336 pp., 51 color & 45 black-and-white illus., 2011
The Native Landscape Reader

Edited by Robert E. Grese
The relevance of these writings to the current issues of biodiversity, native plants, and sustainability cannot be overemphasized. Robert L. Ryan
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-884-6 336 pp., 34 illus., 2011 Published in association with Library of American Landscape History
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HISTORY And Politics

Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love
Ronald Story
A fresh look at one of Americas greatest theologians. One of the most elegantly written books on Edwards I have ever encountered.Gerald R. McDermott
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-983-6 184 pp., 2012
The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist

For God, King, Country, and for Self
James S. Leamon
An informative, engaging study. . . . A worthy successor to Leamons awardwinning Revolution Downeast.Joseph A. Conforti
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-942-3 272 pp., 10 illus., 2012
One Colonial Womans World

The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit
Remembering the Forgotten War
The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.Mexican War
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin

Kept for more than 60 years, the diary is a remarkable record of a rich and varied life that included raising children, reading, writing, and maintaining a wide network of family, social, and commercial connections. Coughlin explores the numerous and surprising ways in which Coits personal life was linked to broader social and political developments.Boston Globe
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-967-6 288 pp., 14 Illus., 2012
Michael Scott Van Wagenen

Honorable Mention, National Council on Public History Book Award
An important book with implications for both American foreign policy and U.S.Latin America relations today.Amy S. Greenberg
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-930-0 368 pp., 30 illus., 2012 Public History in Historical Perspective
New Israel / New England

Jews and Puritans in Early America
From Liberation to Conquest

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

The interplay of race, gender, and American foreign policy in 1898 has never been more clearly or persuasively demonstrated than here.Journal of American History
Michael Hoberman
An extremely important book for early American and Jewish studies, based on extensive scholarship, clearly and interestingly written, and suitable for general readers as well as scholars interested in either of those topics.William Pencak
Missionaries in Hawaii
Clifford Putney
Sisters in the Faith

Glendyne R. Wergland
The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 17971883

Will be most appreciated by the general public and scholars of missionary history in Hawaii.Hawaiian Journal of History
Shaker Women and Equality of the Sexes

This work offers a major contribution to Shaker history and to the study of womens struggle for equality. Choice
Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early America

Susan Reynolds Williams
Williams demonstrates that Earle was a pivotal figure in the popularization of the colonial revival and its valuesa fine contribution to the field.Dona Brown
Uneasy Allies
Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston
David A. Zonderman
A remarkably expansive organizational history of the labor reform movement in nineteenth-century Boston. Journal of American History
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-866-2 328 pp., 2011
Public History in Historical Perspective
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The Wages of History

Amy Tyson
Emotional Labor on Public Historys Front Lines

An illuminating look inside the world of living history museum workers. A sophisticated analysis that brings together the politics of gender with the aesthetics of historical performance and the materialist sensibilities of political economy. Cathy Stanton
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-024-5 232 pp., 10 illus., June 2013
Born in the U.S.A.
Birth, Commemoration, and American Public Memory
Edited by Seth C. Bruggeman

Born in the U.S.A. will appeal to almost anyone interested in public history. The scholarship is exceptional. Kenneth C. Turino
Everybodys History
Keith A. Erekson
A Living Exhibition
William S.Walker
Indianas Lincoln Inquiry and the Quest to Reclaim a Presidents Past

Should be required reading for any public history program as it sheds light not only on the evolution of the field but also on the occasional disconnect between public history and academia.Timothy P. Townsend
The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum

How the evolution of the Smithsonian Institution has mirrored broader changes in American culture. Walker provides a new coherence to the institutions history, making sense of its recent decades as a part of a century-long debate over the proper balance of universalism and specificity.Steven Lubar
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-026-9 304 pp., 20 illus., July 2013
Domestic Frontiers
Memories of Buenos Aires

Edited with an introduction by Max Page
Epilogue by Ilan Stavans
Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East
Barbara Reeves-Ellington
A fine-grained analysis of efforts to spread American culture and religion to a region that has been neglected in studies of U.S. empire. . . . An important book.Mary A. Renda
Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina
Originally published in Spanish by the human rights organization Memoria Abierta, this book provides an interpretive guide to sites of terror and the grassroots memorials to victims of Argentinas Dirty War.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-010-8 304 pp., 328 color illus., 62 maps, October 2013
The Battle for the Mind

Gary S. Messinger
War and Peace in the Era of Mass Communication

This is an interesting read, well researched and well written. . . . The book is richest in its discussion of WWII and the years through the first war in the Persian Gulf. . . . Highly recommended. Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-853-2 312 pp., 2011
Museums, Monuments, and National Parks

Denise D. Meringolo
Toward a New Genealogy of Public History

Winner of the National Council on Public History Book Award
Measuring America
A valuable contribution to uncovering the roots of public history in nineteenthcentury science and archaeology and to illuminating the key role of the National Park Service in shaping the field. Anne Mitchell Whisnant
How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century
Andrew L. Yarrow
Other scholars have characterized postwar American culture in similar ways, but none have done so in such a comprehensive and compelling fashion.Journal of American History
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-835-8 256 pp., 2010
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Perfectly Average
Anna G. Creadick
The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America

A compelling, fascinating study of the centrality of the value of normality as defining so many aspects of post-WWII U.S. culture. . . . Highly recommended.Choice
Modernizing Repression
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century

A 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 978-1-55849-917-1 400 pp., 2012 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
Expanding the Strike Zone

Baseball in the Age of Free Agency
The Dragons Tail

Robert A. Jacobs
Americans Face the Atomic Age

Jacobs takes on a topic that has been widely written about and offers a fresh, intelligent, and engaging perspective.Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society
Daniel A. Gilbert
An 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 978-1-55849-997-3 224 pp., 15 illus., August 2013
Not Yet a Placeless Land

Wilbur Zelinsky
Liberty and Justice for All?

Edited by Kathleen Donohue
Tracking an Evolving American Geography

Zelinskys relentless curiosity and love of his country shows through in every page, and anybody interested in its cultural geography would do well to read and take inspiration from it. Journal of Cultural Geography
Rethinking Politics in Cold War America

An excellent, well written, and very fresh look at the long 1950s from a variety of different and interesting perspectives. James B. Gilbert
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-913-3 400 pp., 2012
The Pro-War Movement
Street Fight
The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco
Jason Henderson
Henderson does a first-rate job of situating San Francisco within the larger transportation/mobility politics, both historically and contemporarily. . . . He considers the politics of challenging and replacing automobility in a rigorous and well-informed way.Lisa Benton-Short
Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism
Sandra Scanlon
A definitive history of how the pro-war argument was constructed in America during the Vietnam War, and also how the conservative movement developed a complex and variegated response to the conflict.Gregory L. Schneider
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-018-4 352 pp., August 2013
When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France

Charles L. Robertson
An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club
Upstaging the Cold War

American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 19401960
The personality clashes and complex interplay of diplomatic and military events alone make for fascinating reading. Daily Hampshire Gazette
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-881-5 248 pp., 2011
Andrew J. Falk
Honorable Mention, Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize
Offers a fascinating new window onto the early Cold War that goes far beyond the relatively familiar old stories of the Hollywood hearings and blacklists. Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize Committee
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-903-4 280 pp., 2011
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President of the Other America

Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty
Hanoi Jane
Jerry Lembcke
War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal

In this provocative study, Lembcke probes the way in which political dissent combined with American anxieties about class, gender, and celebrity to vilify a woman who followed her political conscience. Womens Review of Books
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-815-0 224 pp., 12 illus., 2010
Edward R. Schmitt
A superb study of a key aspect of Robert F. Kennedys public life: his commitment to alleviating the suffering of the nations most poverty-stricken people. Journal of American History
Agent Orange
History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
Buying the Farm

Tom Fels
Edwin A. Martini
One of the boldest and most impressive books on the Vietnam War that I have read in the last few years. It is deeply researched, innovative in scope, and fundamentally challenging to many points of conventional wisdom on the conflict.Jeremi Suri
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-975-1 320 pp., 14 illus., 1 map, 2012
Peace and War on a Sixties Commune

The long, winding history of a countercultural commune. Elegantly written. An informative and worthwhile read. Tom Hayden
Famous Long Ago

Raymond Mungo
The Vietnam War in American Memory

Patrick Hagopian
My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News Service

A new edition of a classic text of 1960s America. Ray Mungo isa wild party in the upstairs apartment of America.He is also the free mental clinic on the first floor. Tom Robbins
Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Sophisticated and ambitious. . . . As Hagopian so brilliantly shows in this wideranging and strikingly original book, healing and reconciliation came at a steep cost. Diplomatic History
The Solemn Sentence of Death

Capital Punishment in Connecticut
Lawrence B. Goodheart
Winner of the Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History
The Dance of the Comedians

The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America
A sweeping, highly readable, organized analysis of all the states 158 executions from 1639 to 2005. . . . Highly recommended.Choice
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-847-1 336 pp., 2011
Peter M. Robinson
Robinsons overview of comedic performance at the core of political culture is at once comprehensive, incisive, and vital. American Historical Review
The Second Amendment on Trial

Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller
A Call to Conscience
Roger Peace
The AntiContra War Campaign

An 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 978-1-55849-932-4 328 pp., 1 map, 2012
Edited 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 firearms. . . . The quality of the scholarship is uniformly very high. Lawrence Rosenthal
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What We Have Done

Fred Pelka
An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement

Pelka 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
BLACK STUDIES
The Mistakes of Yesterday, the Hopes of Tomorrow
The Story of the Prisonaires
John Dougan
With sophistication and nuance, Dougan demonstrates that the Prisonaires story is also the story of the American racial obsession, of the judicial system, of the architecture of the prison itself.Rachel Rubin
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-969-0 136 pp., 2012
The Girls and Boys of Belchertown

Robert Hornick
A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded

Hornicks excellent and engaging history provides a welcome context for the widereaching personal and policy impacts of the Belchertown State School. Sharon Flanagan-Hyde
Tragic No More
Mixed-Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity
Caroline A. Streeter
An exciting project, with great potential to impact the fields of mixed race studies, African American studies, gender studies, and popular cultural studies. Heidi Ardizzone
The Manliest Man

James W. Trent Jr.
Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform

This is a book that will provide pleasure and interest to general biography lovers, not just academics and historians. Karen Sanchez-Eppler
Exhibiting Blackness
Bridget R. Cooks
African Americans and the American Art Museum

An important and original contribution to the study of the history of American art museums and American culture. . . . develops a useful perspective for studying the history of the deeply troubled relationship between African Americans and American art museums.Alan Wallach
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-875-4 240 pp., 22 color & 31 black-and-white illus., 2011
What Adolescents Ought to Know

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

Pierce makes a significant contribution to both our understanding of the history of sex education and the history of print culture in the early twentieth century. Studies in American Culture
Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America

Timothy Parrish
Refreshes our view of Ellison, challenging critics who dismiss him as the author of just one big novel.Library Journal
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-922-5 272 pp., 2011
The World of W.E.B. Du Bois

A Quotation Sourcebook
Derelict Paradise
Daniel Kerr
Edited by Meyer Weinberg

with a new introduction by John H. Bracey Jr.
Most valuable to students seeking to sample the wealth of ideas in Du Boiss vast body of writing. Scholars will also benefit by easily locating sources for Du Boiss views on an impressive variety of topics. Journal of American History
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-990-4 296 pp., 2012
Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio

Covers 130 years and astutely places homelessness in the context of urban development, labor and housing markets, and the criminal justice system. Choice
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The Insistent Call

Aric Putnam
Rhetorical Moments in Black Anticolonialism, 19291937

How black Americas relationship with Africa changed at a key point in history. Well grounded in current scholarship. Jacqueline Bacon
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-978-2 168 pp., 2012
Memoir, FICTION, AND POETRY

Lies About My Family
A Memoir
Amy Hoffman
The 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
Burnt Cork
Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy
Edited by Stephen Johnson

I would love to think we lived in a postracial culture, but as these essays remind us, we have a long way to go to get there and in the meantime, the more we know about minstrelsy, the more we know about ourselves.Stephen Railton
Some Kinds of Love

Stories
Steve Yates
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

Making War and Minting Christians
R. Todd Romero
A nuanced and lively rereading of a time period that can often feel well traveled. As Romero convincingly shows, gendered language appeared everywhere, from the opening moments of English colonization of New England through King Philips War and even beyond. Catholic History Review
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 978-1-62534-028-3 272 pp., 2013
Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England
My Escapee
Stories
Corinna Vallianatos
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 particular female lives. The characters are disoriented, vulnerable, at times dependent on others; they are also determined, defiant, passionate.Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-986-7 176 pp., 2012 Published in cooperation with Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Native Americans of the Northeast
The People of the Standing Stone

Karim M. Tiro
The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal
Traces 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
The Agriculture Hall of Fame

Stories
Andrew Malan Milward

Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction Winner of the ForeWord Firsts Award
Native Americans of the Northeast
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 978-1-55849-948-5 160 pp., 2012
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Girls in Trouble
Stories
Douglas Light
Literary Journalism across the Globe
Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences
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 978-1-55849-923-2 144 pp., 2011 Published in cooperation with Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Edited by John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds

This book makes a major contribution to literary journalism scholarship, with a pathbreakingly broad international focus and commendable attention to developing a conceptual framework.Nancy Roberts
Starship Tahiti
Poems
Lessons from Sarajevo

A War Stories Primer
Brandon Dean Lamson

Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
Jim Hicks
I found Hickss book engaging, provocative, well researched, and incredibly useful. His sense of history is both deeply informed and extremely nuanced. . . . This is a book whose claims and arguments deserve attention.Ammiel Alcalay
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-001-6 192 pp., 16 illus., June 2013
To be a teacher in a prison, as Brandon Lamson shows us in these grave and unsettling 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 978-1-62534-009-2 72 pp., 2013
Negotiating Culture
Goodbye, Flicker
Poems
Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property
Carmen Gimnez Smith

Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
Edited by Laetitia La Follette

The essays in this collection take on the subject of ownership and culture in an innovative interdisciplinary context that challenges the reader and forces a reevaluation of thinking about cultural disputes.Patty Gerstenblith
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-008-5 208 pp., July 2013
Less Wonderland than looking glass, a gateway into which our reluctant storyteller must escape but in which, also, we cant help but see ourselves.Booklist
$15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-949-2 80 pp., 2012
LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Covering America
Christopher B. Daly
Winner of the PROSE Book Award for Media and Cultural Studies
Pressing the Fight
Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War
Edited by Gregory Barnhisel and Catherine Turner

An accessible, engaging collection with a commendable geographic, political, and thematic diversity of perspectives. Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-960-7 296 pp. 16 illus., 2012
A Narrative History of a Nations Journalism
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 978-1-55849-911-9 544 pp., 73 illus., 2012
Expanding the American Mind

Beth Luey
Books and the Popularization of Knowledge

A fine and fascinating study of popularization. . . . Luey is a formidably knowledgeable scholar and, one sees also in these pages, a wise one.Publishing Research Quarterly
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-817-4 232 pp., 2010
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Writing the Record

Devon Powers
The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism

This book is sure to create quite a stir, particularly vis--vis its persuasive claims about Robert Christgau and Richard Goldstein as major figures in postwar intellectual history.Jeffrey Melnick
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-012-2 176 pp., 2013
Uncle Toms Cabin and the Reading Revolution

Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 18511911
Barbara Hochman
Winner of the George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize
American Popular Music
Bounce
Hochman provides a thought-provoking, meticulously researched, elegantly written account of the changes in the reception the transformation in the cultural meaningof Uncle Toms Cabin over six decades.Journal of American Studies
Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Matt Miller
Millers research is more than thorough. He convincingly establishes bounce as yet another offshoot of New Orleanss unique musical culture.PopMatters
Right Here I See My Own Books

The Womans Building Library at the Worlds Columbian Exposition
Sarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand

The brief but glorious history of the Womans Building Library is a fascinating story in itself, yet Wadsworth and Wiegand perceive a larger significance within the very pages of the librarys books. American Libraries
American Popular Music
Mashed Up
Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture
Aram Sinnreich
A deeply engaging text. . . . It asks excellent questions about the role of art and music in society and then follows that up with fascinating ethnographic interviews with musicians.American Studies
Reading Places
Christine Pawley
Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America

Winner of the E. Jennifer Monaghan Book Award
Science/Technology/Culture
Cultural Considerations
Joan Shelley Rubin
Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America

A masterful blending of big-picture historical synthesis with vividly rendered debates and episodes related to the higher registers of the culture industry.Thomas Augst
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-014-6 208 pp., July 2013
I would highly recommend this book to librarians and to those interested in public policy and the domestic history of the Cold War. It is a pleasant, digestible, enlightening work.SHARP News
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-822-8 272 pp., 2010
Translation, Resistance, Activism

Edited by Maria Tymoczko
Revealing a fascinating facet of translation, this is an important read for those interested in translation and/or political and social movements, past and present. Highly recommended.Choice
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-833-4 312 pp., 2010
From Codex to Hypertext

Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Anouk Lang

Interdisciplinary essays that reframe how we think about reading, selling, sharing, and publishing books.
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Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird
Reading in Time
Cristanne Miller
Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law
Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century

An excellent book. . . . Anyone who cares about Dickinson, the lyric, or how one reads will be indebted to Millers research, judgments, and clear-eyed sifting of current scholarship.Thomas Gardner
Edited by Austin Sarat and Martha Merrill Umphrey

The contributors to this volume write well clearly, directly, and engaginglyand each chapter stands on its own, which will make the book teachable.Jessica Silbey
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-016-0 208 pp., 9 Illus., June 2013
American Orient
David Weir
Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers

Janet Badia
Badias prose is clear and engaging; her arguement is sophisticated and complex . . . . Highly recommended.Choice
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-896-9 216 pp., 2011
Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century
The book seems to me a monumental achievement. It is timely, wise, idiosyncratic in only good ways, lively, well informed, fun to read.Christopher Benfey
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-879-2 304 pp., 2011
New ENgland
The Wired City
Dan Kennedy
A thoughtful and nuanced book, The Wired City is a standout in chronicling one of the best stories Ive read lately of journalists comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.Callie Crossley, WGBH radio and TV host
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-005-4 192 pp., 2013
The Saloon and the Mission

Eoin F. Cannon
Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American Culture

I know of no other work that offers such a sweeping synthesis of the evolution of the addition recovery narrative and how it emerged from and has evolved within particular historical contexts. This is a very exciting work.William L. White
Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age
A Bold and Hardy Race of Men

Jennifer Schell
Northern Hospitality
Cooking by the Book in New England
The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen

A rich and intriguing book that brings a different perspective to our understanding of American whalemen. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald

In this unexpected gem in the ocean of works on food, Stavely and Fitzgerald have crafted a richly contextualized critical anthology of New Englands food heritage. . . . Well done and highly recommended for foodies and historians.Library Journal
To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave

American Poetry and the Civil War
Meetinghouses of Early New England

Peter Benes
Winner of the Kniffen Award of the Pioneer America Society A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Faith Barrett
Artfully 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
An indispensable guide to the relationship between religion and material culture in early America. Choice
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-910-2 456 pp., 130 illus., 2012
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Town Meeting
Donald Robinson
The Practice of Democracy in a New England Town

An admirable attempt to give insight into a distinctively American form of local governance that remains vibrant in the 21st century. Choice
environmental studies
Tidal Wetlands Primer
Ralph W. Tiner
An authoritative guide to the ecology of tidal wetlands in North America.
$39.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-62534-022-1 560 pp., 166 illus., August 2013
An Introduction to Their Ecology, Natural History, Status, and Conservation
Shadows in the Valley

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

Quite simply a remarkable work. . . . In this meticulously researched, gracefully written, and poignantly illustrated work, Swedlund weaves the strands of life and death in small communities into the larger fabric of cultural and medical history. Historical Journal of Massachusetts
Peril in the Ponds

Judy Helgen
Deformed Frogs, Politics, and a Biologists Quest

Peril in the Ponds begins with frogs and travels the world. Its author is brave, its evidence convincing, its story compelling. . . . Read what she has to say . . . and then do something.Sandra Steingraber
$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-946-1 272 pp., 2012
Boston
Voices and Visions
Edited by Shaun OConnell

A rich selection of writings by notable preachers, politicians, poets, novelists, essayists, and diarists. It will be the very rare reader who wont find [at least one selection] strikingly unfamiliar. Boston Globe
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-820-4 352 pp., 2010
Global Warming and Political Intimidation

Raymond S. Bradley
How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up

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
Gateway to Vacationland
The Making of Portland, Maine
John F. Bauman
An extremely well researched overview of Portlands history. The author does a particularly good job connecting that history to the larger national narrative. Michael J. Rawson
This Ecstatic Nation

Terre Ryan
The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism

An exciting addition to the growing body of environmental literature. . . . An intimate and insightful excursion through Americans landscape idealism. Environmental History
UMass Rising
The University of Massachusetts Amherst at 150
Katharine Greider
A lively, well-illustrated history of the university on its sesquicentennial, charting its growth from a small college to a major university with 1,200 professors and 28,000 students.
$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-989-8 168 pp., 135 color illus., 2013 Distributed for University of Massachusetts Amherst
Binocular Vision
Spencer Schaffner
The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides

This book forced me to take a more critical look at field guides and what their role can and should be. And that made it very much worth reading.The Birders Library
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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 Massachusetts 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. Environmental History of the NorthEast The aim of this new series is to explore, from different critical perspectives, the environmental history of the Northeast, including New England, eastern Canada, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Series editors are Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern University) and Richard W. Judd (University of Maine). Grace Paley Prize Since 1990 the Press has published the annual winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction competition, now called the Grace Paley Prize. The $5,500 award is sponsored by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), an organization that includes over 500 colleges and universities with a strong commitment to teaching creative writing. Juniper Prizes Established in 1975, the Juniper Prize for Poetry is awarded annually and carries a $1,500 prize in addition to publication. The Juniper Prize for Fiction was established in 2004 and also carries a $1,500 prize. Distinguished writers select the winners. Library of American Landscape History The Press publishes a range of titles in association with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprofit organization that develops books and exhibitions about North American landscapes and the people who created them. Two new series have been added to this program: Designing the American Park, edited by Ethan Carr (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design, edited by Daniel J. Nadenicek (University of Georgia). Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture Edited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical and scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England. 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. OBrien (University of Minnesota), and Barry OConnell (Amherst College). Public History in Historical Perspective Edited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this series explores how representations of the past have been mobilized to serve a variety of political, cultural, and social ends. Science/Technology/Culture This interdisciplinary series seeks to publish engaging books that illuminate the role of science and technology in American life and culture. Series editors are Carolyn de la Pea (University of California, Davis) and Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of Virginia). 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 Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University), Robert A. Gross (University of Connecticut), Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester), and Michael Winship (University of Texas at Austin).
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