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The University of North Carolina Press Rights Guide London Book Fair April 2014 Victoria Wells • Director of Contracts and Subsidiary Rights vcwells@email.unc.edu • www.uncpress.unc.edu Table of Contents Author Amer Ansell Barney Brownell Clemente Curtis Domber Gates Gleijeses Gutierrez Hanna Horning Houston Jersild Khan Koloski-Ostrow LeoGrande & Kornbluh Mir Orser Peacock Perez Phillips Steen Thorp & Goldstein Tomes Ware Young Title What Is Veiling? Zero Hunger Mapping the Cold War Showbiz Politics Dress Casual The Call of Bilal Empowering Revolution Finding Your Roots Visions of Freedom Latin American Street Food Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 Ireland in the Virginian Sea Inside Roman Libraries The Sino-Soviet Alliance Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy Back Channel to Cuba Muslim American Women on Campus The Lives of Chang and Eng Innocent Weapons The Structure of Cuban History Alcohol The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry Engines of Innovation, 2nd Edition Shopping for Health The Walking Qur’an Alien Nation The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu What Is Veiling? Author: Sahar Amer Publication Date: forthcoming — September 2, 2014 Description: Approximately 312 pages, 24 halftones, notes, bibliography, index • An introduction to one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam • Explains the role of veiling in the religious, cultural, political, and social lives of Muslims, past and present, around the world • Incorporates the personal voices of Muslim women, including the author herself • Written for the general reader including a glossary, illustrations, and recommendations for further reading Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Islamic women around the world. WHAT IS VEILING? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam, incisively highlighting the rich, complex meanings of women's veiling practices today. Sahar Amer’s evenhanded and concise approach is anchored in sharp cultural insight and rich historical context. She incisively addresses the role and significance of veiling in the religious, cultural, political, and social lives of Muslims, past and present. Introducing all the major aspects of veiling--including history, religion, conservative and progressive interpretations, politics and regionality, society and economics, feminism, fashion, and art— WHAT IS VEILING? highlights the true multiplicity of meanings of veiling practices. It decisively shows that the realities of veiling cannot be homogenized or oversimplified and extend well beyond the religious and political accounts that are overwhelmingly proclaimed both inside and outside Muslim-majority societies. Neither defending nor criticizing the practice, WHAT IS VEILING? clarifies and puts into rich context the voices of Muslim women who struggle to be heard and who, veiled or not, demand the right to live spiritual, personal, and public lives in dignity. Audiobook Rights to Audible.com (2014) British Commonwealth, European, and Middle Eastern Rights to Edinburgh University Press (2013) South Asian Rights to DEV Publishers (2013) Arabic Rights (Egypt) to Sutour (2013) Sahar Amer (Ph.D., Yale University, 1994) is professor of Asian studies at the University of North Carolina. She holds adjunct posts in the departments of French and International Studies and is coordinator of the Arabic Language, Literature and Culture Program. Her book, Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures, won the MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in 2009. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Zero Hunger Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil Author: Aaron Ansell Publication Date: forthcoming — May 19, 2014 Description: 256 pages, 6 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index • Detailed ethnography of rural Brazil interwoven with an unorthodox account of the Brazilian state under Workers’ Party rule (2003-2005) • Illuminates Lula’s anti-poverty policies to end hunger • Ethnography of patron-client politics that challenges patronage as class domination, coercion, or exploitation When Inácio “Lula” da Silva’s progressive Workers’ Party helped power Lula to the presidency in 2002, he promised to end hunger in Brazil. Taking an innovative approach to the subject of politics in Brazil, Aaron Ansell’s ethnographic and critical analysis of Lula’s flagship anti-poverty program, Zero Hunger (Fome Zero), focuses on the program’s implementation in Piauí, one of the poorest states in northeastern Brazil. Ansell links the new administration’s fight against poverty to a more subtle effort to change the region’s political culture. Officials attempted to dismantle long-standing, historical relationships of mutual vulnerability that bound poor people to those of the local elite class. While Zero Hunger was successful by many measures, Ansell argues that Zero Hunger’s shortcomings show how policy strategies might better have utilized the potential of intimate hierarchies for purposes of democratization. According to Ansell affective ties and relationships are crucial to understanding patronage networks, and progressive governments, should harness the emotional and political energy that common people invest in their relationships to better facilitate the participation of all citizens in economic and political development. Aaron M. Ansell is visiting assistant professor of religion and culture at Virginia Tech. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Mapping the Cold War Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power Author: Timothy Barney Publication Date: December 8, 2014 Description: Approximately 352 pages, 25 halftones, notes, bibliography, index • Explores cartography’s function as a visual rhetoric that illustrates American identity in unique ways • Demonstrates the role of visual rhetoric in international relations and national identity • Describes the evolution and contestation of maps over the whole Cold War era • Incorporates maps from sources including Time Life, Forbes, and the U.S.Department of Defense In the first substantive history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney argues that maps were central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney describes how the borders, scales, projections, and other details of maps affected the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists understood global conflicts. Barney shows that as the world appeared to shrink on Cold War maps, the ideological distances between East and West and North and South widened. Through the diverse maps of this era, related senses of anxiety and dynamism were fused in institutional and popular culture. Altogether cartography offered a means for making meaning out of the Cold War, giving both policymakers and popular audiences a way to come to terms with their own evolving roles in a fast-changing international landscape. Highlighting the importance of tracing the “spatialization” of politics and values in recent U.S. history, Barney argues that Cold War–era maps themselves had rhetorical functions that began with their production and continued during their circulation within foreign policy circles and popular media. Reflecting on the ramifications of spatial power during the Cold War, MAPPING THE COLD WAR demonstrates that even in the twenty-first century, American visions of the world—and the maps that account for them—are inescapably rooted in the anxieties of that earlier era. Tim Barney (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2011) is an assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies at the University of Richmond. His dissertation won three national awards through the National Communication Association: from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, the Critical/Cultural Studies Division, and the Political Communication Division. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Showbiz Politics Hollywood in American Politics, 1928-1980 Author: Kathryn Cramer Brownell Publication Date: forthcoming — November 24, 2014 Description: Approximately 304 pages, 11 halftones, notes, bibliography, and index • A sweeping study of Hollywood and politics from the 1920s through 1980 that addresses the state of media and politics today • Focuses on the evolving relationship between show business and ambitious politicians seeking the White House • Goes behind the scenes of Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns using new archival materials just released in 2009 Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president. But, as Kathryn Cramer Brownell shows, since the 1920s politicians and celebrities have developed relationships, constructed public and private organizations, and collaborated on policymaking, integrating Hollywood styles, structures, and personalities into the American political process. SHOWBIZ POLITICS explores how the similarities between the operation of a Hollywood studio and a successful electoral campaign developed in the twentieth century. Brownell shows how the business sense and public relations skills of entertainers like Louis B. Mayer, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Jack Warner, Harry Belafonte, Ronald Regan, and members of the Rat Pack, including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., made Hollywood connections an asset in a political world that was being quickly transformed by advancing mass media. SHOWBIZ POLITICS takes readers behind the camera to explore the negotiations, consultations, and relationships that developed between key Hollywood figures and politicans from Dwight D. Eisenhower to JFK to Bill Clinton, analyzing how entertainment replaced party spectacle as a strategy to win votes, raise money, and secure personal, political, and economic success for all people involved. Brownell further demonstrates how Hollywood contributed to the rise of mass media, making twentieth-century politics not just the triumph of the age of the consultant, but rather the age of "showbiz politics." Audiobook rights to Blackstone Audio (2014) Kathryn Cramer Brownell is assistant professor of history at Purdue University. Image created by Wikimedia user Janke, 7 September 2005, and reproduced under the terms of the GNU Free Distribution License. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Dress Casual How College Students Redefined American Style Author: Deirdre Clemente Publication Date: forthcoming — April 15, 2014 Description: 208 pages, 25 halftones, notes, bibliography, index • A lively history of popular fashion trends on college campuses and their influence on American culture • Sheds unique light on dramatic changes in class, gender, and racial identities during the first half of the 20th century • Argues that college fashion influenced how society valued appearance and offered new possibilities for creating one's identity What are you wearing? In DRESS CASUAL, Deirdre Clemente argues that the modern American wardrobe was born in the classrooms, dormitories, fraternities, sororities, and gyms of universities and colleges across the country. During the early 20th century, as young Americans gained increasing social and cultural clout, their tastes in clothing transformed mainstream fashion from collared and corseted to comfortable. In her exploration of American youth fashion ranging from the East to West coasts and from the Ivy League to historically black campuses, Clemente reveals how changing styles reflected new ways of defining personal appearance and identity. Clemente further examines the ways in which race, gender, and class affected the adoption of casual style, including how young women faced consistent backlash from older generations and their male peers. Nevertheless, by fighting against dress codes and stereotypes, both men and women pushed new styles into public and private spaces, from dance halls and theaters to homes and workplaces. Clemente argues that by providing a middle ground for people of all backgrounds, today’s casual style redefines the meaning of appearance in American culture. "A thoroughly researched and often vibrantly written book. ... Clemente offers an original take on the history of clothing and consumerism that both builds upon and challenges existing scholarship." —Lori Rotskoff, co-editor of When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made Deirdre Clemente is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. She was a fashion/costume consultant for Baz Luhrman's film, The Great Gatsby, and has written for many popular publications, including The Atlantic. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu The Call of Bilal Islam in the African Diaspora Author: Edward E. Curtis IV Publication Date: November 3, 2014 Description: Approximately 224 pages, 6 halftones, notes, bibliography, index • Reveals the diversity of everyday practice of Islam from perspective of Africandescended Muslims around the globe • Highlights the importance of racial identity and the realities of racism in the practice of Islam • Focuses on aspects of the diaspora never before covered in one single book, comparing the religious practices of African Muslim people across many contexts • Addresses the sharp growth of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and in its global diaspora, as well as potential for both cooperation and conflict with African Christian-dominant nations How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? While the term “Black Muslim” may conjure images of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali for some, there are millions of Africandescended Muslims around the globe who have nothing to do with the American-based Nation of Islam. THE CALL OF BILAL is a concise, penetrating account of the rich diversity of Islamic religious practice among Muslims worldwide. Taking readers on a journey across North Africa and the Middle East, India and Pakistan, Europe, and the Americas, Edward E. Curtis juxtaposes the many forms of global Islam and reveals a fascinating range of religious activities--from the observance of the five pillars of Islam and the creation of transnational Sufi networks to the veneration of African saints and political struggles for racial justice. Curtis weaves together ethnographies with historical perspectives, incorporating personal stories into each chapter. THE CALL OF BILAL presents illuminating connections and contrasts as Curtis shows how Africana Muslims interpret not only their religious identities but also their attachments to the African diaspora, and how historical experiences, local conditions, and the very experience of diaspora may mediate racial identities and religious practices. For some, the dispersal of African people across time and space has been understood as a mere physical scattering or perhaps an economic opportunity. For others, it has been a metaphysical and spiritual exile of the soul from its sacred land and eternal home. Edward E. Curtis IV is Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies at the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Empowering Revolution America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War Author: Gregory F. Domber Publication Date: October 6, 2014 Description: Approximately 480 pages, 10 halftones, appendix, notes, bibliography, index • First international history of Poland’s conversion from totalitarian state to nascent democracy • First detailed study of U.S.-Polish relations at the end of the Cold War • Emphasizes the empowering affect of U.S. foreign policy on the Polish democratic movement • Includes oral histories as well as archival sources As the most populated country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest communist dissident movement, Poland proved crucial in understanding Eastern Europe’s transition from communism to democracy. While the Cold War waned, both the United States and the Soviet Union watched to see how their competing influences would shape the postcommunist Polish nation. In his groundbreaking history of Poland’s politically tumultuous steps toward democratic government, Gregory F. Domber examines America’s policy toward Poland and its support of the moderate over the radical revolutionaries while also addressing the Soviet and European influences on the Polish revolution. With a cast that includes Reagan, Gorbechev, and Pope John Paul, Domber charts the United States’ influence on anti-communist opposition groups, particularly Solidarity, the underground movement led by future president Lech Wałęsa, using archival research and interviews with Polish and American government officials and opposition leaders. While arguing that Soviet leaders allowed radical, pro-democratic change in Poland through their international policies, Domber also analyzes the global impact on the Polish pro-democracy movement and identifies Poland as a laboratory for the Soviets’ own future political and social reforms. Gregory Domber (Ph.D. George Washington University, 2008) is assistant professor of history at the University of North Florida. In 2009 he received the biennial Betty M. Unterberger Prize for best Ph.D. dissertation at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Finding Your Roots The Official Companion to the PBS Series Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Publication Date: forthcoming — September 15, 2014 Description: Approximately 344 pages, index • Accompanies the popular PBS series "Finding Your Roots," which is hosted by the author • Packed with practical information to help readers trace their own roots by using public records to identify ancestors and private services to trace their own genomic record and peer into the more distant past • Tells the stories of more than twenty well-known politicians, media figures, and celebrities, including Robert Downey, Jr., and Margaret Cho Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of FINDING YOUR ROOTS, the companion book to the PBS documentary series. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before. Gates's investigations take on the personal and genealogical histories of more than twenty luminaries, including United States Congressman John Lewis, actor Robert Downey Jr., CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, former secretary of labor Linda Chavez, and comedian Margaret Cho. Interwoven with their moving stories of immigration, assimilation, strife, and success, Gates provides practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research on their own families’ roots, and he details the advances in genetic research now available to the public. The result is an illuminating exploration of who we are, how we lost track of our roots, and how we can find them again. Audiobook rights to Blackstone Audio (2014) Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Visions of Freedom Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 Author: Piero Gleijeses Publication Date: November 4, 2013 Description: 672 pages, 31 halftones, 9 maps, notes, bibliography, index • Argues that Cuba changed the course of history in southern Africa • Explores the influence of the US, Cuba, and the USSR on Angolan independence • First international history of the conflict in southern Africa based on documents from Cuban, US, and South African archives In the years following 1975, Americans, Cubans, and Soviets fought over the future of Angola and the decolonization of Namibia as they attempted to gain political influence in South Africa. Gleijeses’ key conclusion is that Cuba substantially influenced southern African history despite Washington’s best efforts to stop it. He argues that it was the Cubans who pushed the Soviets to help Angola, and who stood guard in Angola for many long years, thousands of miles from home, to prevent South Africans from overthrowing the Angolan government. In 1988, when Castro approved an attack against Gorbachev’s wishes, the Cubans finally pushed the South African army out of Angola. Ultimately, the Cubans forced Pretoria to abandon its attempt to overthrow the Angolan government, and to hold free elections in Namibia. In Nelson Mandela’s words, the Cuban victory over South Africa in southern Angola “destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor. . .[and] inspired the fighting masses of South Africa.” This was Cuba’s contribution to what Castro calls “the most beautiful cause”—the struggle against racial oppression in southern Africa. Humiliating one superpower and defying the other, Cuba changed the course of history in southern Africa. Gleijeses’ appearance on Democracy Now! (12/11/2013): http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_detailpage&v=jNpXUC391vc#t=10 Gleijeses’ radio interview with Voice of Russia (12/19/2013): http://voiceofrussia. com/us/2013_12_19/Everything-that-Cuba-gave-southern-Africa-9166/ South African rights to Wits University Press (2013) Portuguese rights to Mayamba Editora (2013) Piero Gleijeses is professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976, which won the 2002 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Latin American Street Food The Best Flavors of Markets, Beaches, and Roadside Stands from Mexico to Argentina Author: Sandra A. Gutierrez Publication Date: September 3, 2013 Description: 368 pages, 90 color plates, bibliography, index • The first book to fully explore the broad spectrum of Latin American street foods, including those that have never before been exposed to a wide audience • Contains recipes from 20 countries throughout Latin America, providing a virtual culinary travelogue for readers • 150 festive and delicious recipes that remain true to the culinary traditions of their respective countries • Includes make-ahead ideas, serving suggestions, and gorgeous color photographs Not only is Latin American street food full of vibrant and exciting flavors, but it has been shaping the culinary landscape in both the U.S. and abroad. Beginning with memories of the delicious street foods she ate as a child in Guatemala City, Sandra Gutierrez provides a brief overview of the history and traditions of street food in Latin America. Her recipes cover both classic dishes and noteworthy specialties, such as alfajores (Argentinean dulche de leche sandwiches), picarones (Peruvian pumpkin fritters), and chuchitos (Guatemalan pork tamales). This vast array of recipes introduces the exciting intricacies and variants that exist within the scope of Latin American foods. The recipes are truly those that one would find in the streets of each country. Rather than "cheffy" or "inspired," they remain true to their origins. Sandra Gutierrez not only provides a virtual culinary travelogue for those who have never ventured into Latin America, but also enables even the most seasoned traveler a way to recreate dishes (s)he may have tasted abroad. Additionally, the gastronomy in Latin America as a whole is so eclectic that this book will provide cooks with a window into what the people in neighboring countries eat in the streets. "Contemporary, hip, and full of recipes for less-recognized but deeply loved dishes, Latin American Street Food samples the flavor and range of street foods while guiding readers of varying ages and skill sets." -Norman Van Aken, co-author of My Key West Kitchen: Recipes and Stories Sandra Gutierrez is a food writer, cooking instructor, and recipe developer based in Cary, North Carolina. Features recipes from the following 20 countries: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 Author: Mark G. Hanna Publication Date: forthcoming — Spring 2015 Description: Approximately 448 pages, 8 color plates, 3 maps • The first comprehensive history of piracy in the early modern British Atlantic • Analyzes the developmental role of pirates in local communities on the edges of the British Empire's control • Narrates the transformation of autonomous colonies into a formal British empire under centralized government From the sixteenth century to the 1700s, pirates populated nearly every British port in the Atlantic Ocean. Although royal officials tried their best to prosecute pirates, these raiders often found shelter in ports ranging from Bermuda to Providence to Charleston, since they supplied slaves, specie, and East India merchandise to these communities throughout the 1600s. In this new exploration of piracy, Mark G. Hanna examines the sea marauders, their illicit activities and efforts to evade justice, and the communities that harbored them around the edges of England's burgeoning empire. While narrating the tumultuous transformation of "pirate nests" into pirate-hunting societies, Hanna argues that pirates and the bureaucratic response to their crimes ushered in the gradual and fitful process of addressing the demands of the fledgling colonies, once largely independent of central administrative control, and integrating them into a thriving, coherent empire by the 1730s. Based on attentive and in-depth research, PIRATE NESTS AND THE RISE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1570-1740, recasts piracy studies, shifting away from depredations on the high seas to focus on the economic and political development of emerging infrastructures and of local elites around the British Empire's seashores on the Atlantic Ocean. Mark G. Hanna (Ph.D, Harvard University, 2006) is Assistant Professor of History at University of California, San Diego. Image created by Wikimedia user WarX and used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Ireland in the Virginian Sea Colonialism in the British Atlantic Author: Audrey Horning Publication Date: December 16, 2013 Description: 408 pages, 33 halftones, notes, index • Examines British colonialism in both Ireland and North America, arguing that Ireland was not merely a testing ground for colonialism in North America • A new perspective on British colonialism, the legacy of which is still visible today in Ireland's cultural discourse and landscape • Title is drawn from a 1617 description of Ireland by chronicler Fynes Moryson—a reference to the close association between Ireland and Britain's Atlantic colonies In the late 1500s, the English began expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. IRELAND IN THE VIRGINIAN SEA examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both Ireland and North America, depicting the two locales as fields for colonial experimentation. Focusing on the Ulster Plantation in northern Ireland and the Jamestown settlement in the Chesapeake, Audrey Horning challenges the notion that Ireland merely served as a testing ground for British expansion into North America. Horning analyzes the people, financial networks, and information that circulated through and connected English plantations on either side of the Atlantic. She particularly explores English colonialism from the perspectives of the Gaelic Irish and the Algonquian tribes, tracing the political and cultural impact of contact. Horning’s focus on the material culture of both groups illuminates the complex relationships between natives and newcomers, while exposing the lack of vision or organization in early English colonial projects. "Audrey Horning interweaves the history and archaeology of seventeenth-century Ulster and Virginia to reevaluate the cliché of Ireland as a testing ground for North American colonization. In reconstructing these intersecting historical archaeologies, she provides dense and provocative case studies of Atlantic expansion. A valuable book." -Peter Pope, Memorial University of Newfoundland Audrey Horning is Professor of Archaeology and Director of Research for the Past Cultural Change at Queen's University Belfast. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Inside Roman Libraries Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity Author: George W. Houston Publication Date: forthcoming – November 17, 2014 Description: Approximately 432 pages, 13 halftones, 7 tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index • First book to address the creation, maintenance, and use of libraries in ancient Greece, Italy, and Egypt • Compares the functions of ancient book collections to those of modern libraries • Includes papyrological, literary, archaeological, and epigraphical sources • Of interest to both classical scholars and library historians Libraries of the ancient world have long held a space in the public imagination. The library at Alexandria, even in antiquity, was almost legendary. However, until now relatively little research has focused on what was inside these libraries, who wrote the books, who maintained and protected the holdings, and how ancient collections came to be. INSIDE ROMAN LIBRARIES explores the complex world of ancient libraries from Greece, Italy, and Egypt, spanning four centuries from Cicero to Constantine. Houston’s study begins with the ancient book roll and its characteristics, then considers a number of specific Roman-era book collections, and finally turns to the equipment and personnel needed to tend such collections. By using papyrological, literary, archaeological, and epigraphical sources to study the contents of Roman libraries, Houston traces how individual manuscripts were brought together into collections both small and large. He also studies collections of books as they can be reconstructed from papyri, and considers this information within the context of known library rooms and buildings as well as of the men who owned or were in charge of them. By answering questions about how curators built and maintained their collections of book rolls and how scholars used them, Houston creates connections between the world of antiquity and modern day libraries and their scholarly functions, providing a clearer, more specific, and more detailed picture of ancient book collections and the essence of an ancient Roman library than has previously been known. George W. Houston (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1971) is professor emeritus of classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu The Sino-Soviet Alliance An International History Author: Austin Jersild Publication Date: February 3, 2014 Description: 352 pages, 14 halftones, notes, bibliography, index • Presents the Sino-Soviet alliance in terms of the life experiences of Soviet advisers traveling in China • Looks beyond the political disputes and instead explores Soviet advisers’ civic activities • Explores the world of debate and exchange between China and Central Europe • A multilingual project that draws upon archival materials from Moscow, Prague, Berlin, and Beijing In 1950, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China signed the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance in order to forge cultural and technological cooperation. While this treaty was intended to serve as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues in THE SINO-SOVIETY ALLIANCE that the alliance ultimately failed due to the enduring problem of Russian imperialism. In doing so, Jersild examines the Sino-Soviet relationship through the experiences of Soviet advisers on komandirovka, work-related travel, in China. These Soviet advisers participated in a wide array of activities, from the development of university curricula to giving piano lessons, exploring for oil, and constructing railroads. Their goal was to produce a Chinese administrative elite in their own image which could serve as an ally in the Soviet bloc’s struggle against the United States. Like China, the USSR’s allies in Central Europe were frustrated by the “great power chauvinism” of the Soviet Union. Jersild bases significant portions of his book on direct debate between the Chinese and the Czechoslovaks, East Germans, Hungarians, and Poles about Joseph Stalin, the Secret Speech, the rebellions of 1956, and Soviet leadership. Jersild consequently examines how the socialist bloc exchange explains the Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s and even aids in understanding broader international history. Drawing on material from Moscow, Prague, Berlin, and Beijing, Jersild strongly emphasizes the international character of the Sino-Soviet alliance. Austin Jersild (Ph.D., UC-Davis, 1994) is associate professor of history at Old Dominion University. He spent a summer conducting research in China to round out his study of the Sino-Soviet relationship. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy China's Cold War and the Tibetan Borderlands, 1959-1962 Author: Sulmaan Wasif Khan Publication Date: forthcoming — Spring 2015 Description: 191 manuscript pages • The first book to explore the role of the "fourth world" of non-state actors in the Tibetan borderlands during the Cold War • Describes the impact of events on the Tibetan frontier on modern Chinese imperial structure and foreign policy • Incorporates newly declassified archival materials from China and Taiwan In MUSLIM, TRADER, NOMAD, SPY, Sulmaan Khan draws on newly declassified sources from China and Taiwan to demonstrate how Cold War-era events around the Tibetan frontier played a crucial role in defining the foreign policy and imperial nature of modern China. Khan argues that non-state actors, a hitherto unrecognized group that he describes as “the fourth world," forced China to address the weaknesses of the state by transitioning from a moderately imperial government to a harder, more heavy-handed structure. He demonstrates how the activities of the Tibetan borderlands altered China’s relations with its Himalayan neighbors and thereby opened up new possibilities for China’s foreign policy toward the third-world. By incorporating new archival sources from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Khan presents a fuller, more nuanced picture of life in the Tibetan borderlands during the Cold War than has previously been available. His work on non-state actors of the Tibetan frontier, a subject that has previously remained largely unexplored, demonstrates that the "fourth world" had a decisive impact on the Cold War and on modern Chinese policy. Sulmaan Khan (Ph.D., Yale University, 2012) is assistant professor of Chinese foreign relations at the Fletcher School of Tufts University. Image created by Wikimedia user Ran and used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems Author: Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow Publication Date: forthcoming – Spring 2015 Description: 453 manuscript pages, 102 figures • Explores the relatively unexamined world of bathrooms and sewers as a lens to Roman urban planning and development, sanitation, hygiene, and public health • Probes the divisions between what is “public” and “private” for Romans • Deals with the complexity of sanitary customs from around the world and throughout passing eras As in many other areas, the Romans had developed superior systems for exerting control over and managing their environment. Among these were aqueducts for moving water from one place to another and sewers for moving waste from baths, runoff from streets, and public and private latrines. In THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SANITATION IN ROMAN ITALY, Ann Olga KoloskiOstrow studies the archeology of sanitation in ancient Rome. Koloski-Ostrow looks at graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and the relatively meager literary record, as well as the physical remains of ancient sewer systems in order to understand more about the engineering of Roman sewer networks, Roman beliefs about health, the implications for improved health conditions that various sanitary systems offered, and Roman social customs surrounding public relief stations. The text includes examples from Western and Eastern cultures and from Biblical times to the present day, chronicling the changes our bathroom habits have undertaken. Focusing on the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Rome, and Ostia, Koloski-Ostrow changes our perceptions of the Romans’ tolerance for filth in their cities and their attitudes toward private bathroom practices. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986) is an associate professor of classical studies at Brandeis University. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Back Channel to Cuba The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana Author: William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh Publication Date: October 13, 2014 Description: 592 pages, 23 halftones, notes, bibliography, index • First history of diplomacy between the U.S. and Cuba to chronicle attempts at reconciliation, written by two prominent scholars • Highlights the relevance of studying U.S.-Cuban relations in light of current events and includes ten “diplomatic lessons” for the future • Draws new perspectives from recently declassified documents and interviews with figures including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba—beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo—this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh present a new and increasingly more relevant account. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a "new approach," LeoGrande and Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path toward better relations in the future. LeoGrande and Kornbluh have uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. The authors describe how, despite the political clamor surrounding any hint of better relations with Havana, serious negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. Concluding with ten lessons for U.S. negotiators, the book offers an important perspective on current political debates, at a time when leaders of both nations have publicly declared the urgency of moving beyond the legacy of hostility. William M. LeoGrande, professor of government at American University, is the author of Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992, among other books. Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., is the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, among other books. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Muslim American Women on Campus Undergraduate Social Life and Identity Author: Shabana Mir Publication Date: January 2, 2014 Description: 224 pages, 1 table, appendices, bibliography, index, glossary • Explores the ways in which female Muslim students in the U.S. construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives • Research includes extensive interviews with thirty college women of varying ethnicities and degrees of religious practice • Examines how these students carve out individual spaces within both their Muslim and non-Muslim communities in a post-9/11 world In this ethnographic study of Muslim undergraduate women on U.S. college campuses, Shabana Mir focuses on the relationship between the religious pluralism occurring in higher educational institutions and the processes by which female Muslim students construct their identities. Mir, an anthropologist of education, began her fieldwork in 2002, studying Muslim American women at Georgetown University and George Washington University. Mir draws upon extensive observation, intensive interviews, and written surveys with thirty undergraduate women of varying ethnicities and degrees of religious practice. Chapters in the book focus on familiar hallmarks of American campus culture, including alcohol consumption, clothing, and dating. Highlighting the actual words and experiences of her subjects, Mir contextualizes them in ethnic and religious minority studies generally. Through her research, she finds that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing a type of double scrutiny, from one’s own Muslim community and family and from the dominant non-Muslim community. However, Mir also demonstrates that these students successfully find spaces within both communities to grow and assert themselves as individuals, women, and Americans. Mir concludes that institutions of higher education continue to have much to learn about fostering religious diversity on campus. Audiobook rights to Audible.com (2013) "A delightful and powerful read. ... The diverse perspectives of these women illuminate the many ways in which concepts of agency, modesty, normalcy, and practice are framed in contemporary society." -Sally Campbell Galman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Shabana Mir is Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at Millikin University. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu The Lives of Chang and Eng Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America Author: Joseph Andrew Orser Publication Date: forthcoming — November 3, 2014 Description: Approximately 288 pages, 10 halftones, notes, bibliography, and index • An engaging narrative packed with anecdotes and revelations, drawing connections between antebellum southern society and the Bunkers' personal struggles for acceptance and normality • Peers into the lives of two well-known yet enigmatic 19th-century figures • Relevant to multiple disciplines, including U.S. cultural history, ethnic studies, Asian American history, and disability studies Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, exhibiting their extraordinary bodies as “freaks of nature” and “Oriental curiosities.” More famously known as "Siamese twins,” they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered twenty-one children between them. The brothers constantly professed their normality: they spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet in life and death, Americans saw the brothers as “monstrosities,” an affront they were unable to escape. Joseph Orser chronicles the twins’ history, their sometimes raucous journey through antebellum America, and their domestic lives in North Carolina, showing how their fame revealed the changing racial and cultural landscapes of the United States. The resulting book is more than a biography: it is a study of nineteenth-century American culture and society through the prism of Chang and Eng that reveals how Americans projected onto the twins their own fears and monsters. "With patient research, artful writing, and a sure sense of cultural and historical contexts ... Orser delivers a humane and ultimately moving portrait of the twins and their families. His book gives us a compelling account of the changing racial and cultural landscapes of the United States but reminds us that the twins have yet to finish their cultural work." — Ann Fabian, Rutgers University Joseph Orser teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Innocent Weapons The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War Author: Margaret Peacock Publication Date: forthcoming — August 25, 2014 Description: Approximately 352 pages, 29 halftones, notes, bibliography, index • Examines how Soviet and American politicians, propagandists, and their supporters used images of children for the legitimization of policy and attempted creation of a Cold War consensus at home and abroad • Shows how children were held up as symbols of each state’s successes and and failures • One of only a few books in existence that examines the lived experience of the Cold War for the Soviet populace • Contributes to a growing body of scholarship that views the Cold War as an event that spanned geographic and ideological boundaries, not simply a clash of ideologies In the 1950s and 60s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons. Their smiling faces were used to sell everything, including war. Peacock argues that by reading the story of the Cold War through the lens of the child’s image, we see that Soviet and American leaders and propagandists were engaging in similar visual projects, to similar ends. COLD WAR KIDS focuses on visual and textual images of children that appeared in the propaganda and public rhetoric of the global Cold War from approximately 1945 to 1968. Based on research in sixteen archives, in three countries and four languages, this work pushes historians to rethink the boundaries and divides of the Cold War and to understand the Cold War as, in part, an effort that pitted those who controlled the means of image production in the Soviet Union and the United States against their intended consumers. This book also provides a comparative analysis of how the Soviet and American governments explained the Cold War battle to their populations. Cold War Kids uses the ubiquitous image of the innocent and threatened Cold War child as a touchstone for understanding how consensus for the war was constructed and ultimately how it failed. When one tells the story of the Cold War from the perspective of the image of the child, the previously established divide of East against West is replaced by the recognition that those who owned the means of image production in this war had far more in common with each other than they did with their intended audiences. This book presents a new dialectic for understanding the divides that defined this seminal war. Margaret Peacock (Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin, 2008) is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu The Structure of Cuban History Meanings and Purpose of the Past Author: Louis A. Pérez Jr. Publication Date: September 16, 2013 Description: 352 pages, 20 halftones, notes, index • Demonstrates how Cuba’s historical narratives over the past 150 years influence the country in the modern day • Illuminates how Cuban history shaped the country’s evolution as a revolutionary society • Employs a rich array of historical, historiographical, literary, and visual sources In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past transformed its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. Cuba’s ideal of national sovereignty, anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898, was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. In THE STRUCTURE OF CUBAN HISTORY, Pérez argues that in 1898, the year in which Cuba finally won its independence from Spain, a tumultuous, fresh political culture emerged and Cubans began to develop a new national identity. During the revolution of 1959, revolutionary leaders from José Martí to Fidel Castro envisioned their work as the fulfillment of the promise of freedom. Pérez asserts that this view of history as a promise predetermined the moral and political options of Cubans as they fought for independence, built a republic, and then created a socialist society. Ultimately, Cuban commitment to the myths of the past has taken a heavy toll in the languishing political and economic development. "This book is a masterpiece and deserves to be read, not just by those working in the field of Cuban studies, but more widely, by those working on manifestations of post-colonial nationalism that have emerged anywhere in the world, and also by students of ideology." -Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham Louis A. Pérez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History and director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of Academia de la Historia de Cuba in Havana. Pérez is the author of many books, including The War of 1898 (1998), On Becoming Cuban (1999), Winds of Change (2001), To Die in Cuba (2005), and Cuba in the American Imagination (2008). The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Alcohol A History Author: Rod Phillips Publication Date: October 13, 2014 Description: Approximately 352 pages, notes, bibliography, index • A global survey of alcohol’s history from 7,000 BC to the present • Investigates how societies have consumed, produced, and regulated alcohol • Explores attitudes toward drinking and drunkenness through a range of perspectives including gender, class, religion, and medicine • Considers not only Western Europe and the Americas, but also Russia, Asia, and colonial alcohol policies in Africa Whether as wine, beer, mead, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in human events. In this groundbreaking global history of alcohol, Rod Phillips examines 9,000 years of alcohol consumption throughout the world, as well as the attitudes and approaches that different cultures have historically taken towards alcohol. Highlighting the tension between alcoholic beverages’ status as nutritional and potable dietary staples and as objects of regulation, he argues that although alcohol has been practically valuable throughout its history, it has provoked more governmental and religious scrutiny than any other commodity. Because of its potential as a source of social disruption, societies around the world have created volatile boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable alcohol consumption, breaking through barriers of class, race, and gender. Phillips' readable and engaging history follows the ever-changing cultural meanings of alcoholic beverages. Focusing each chapter on a lively period in alcohol's history, Phillips studies aspects including patterns of consumption, production, trade, regulation, and shifting attitudes toward drinking and drunkenness. As he brings the story up to the modern era, Phillips explores the surprising possibility that fewer people are quaffing alcoholic drinks than ever before. Like few historians before him, he pursues and explains the importance and effects of alcohol worldwide, addressing European and American as well as Asian societies. French rights to Presses de l'Universite Laval (2014) Rod Phillips is a professor of history at Carleton University, Ottawa, and the author of many books on social history and the history of wine. He is also a wine writer, and contributes regularly to the international wine media. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Engines of Innovation The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century Author: Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein Publication Date: August 12, 2013 Description: 200 pages, notes, index • Articulates a firm vision of the critical role of the university in resolving the world's pressing problems and the importance of entrepreneurship in that effort • Draws on examples of best practices and successful projects from the best universities, including recent endeavors in licensing and online education • Provides practical suggestions for creating leadership and institutional structures that foster innovation in the academy In ENGINES OF INNOVATION, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, childhood diseases, and an impending worldwide shortage of clean water. They provide not only an urgent call to action but also a practical guide for our nation's leading institutions to make the most of the opportunities available to be major players in solving the world's biggest problems. According to the authors, entrepreneurship is a way of thinking that demands innovation, contains the ability to respond to opportunities created by rapid change. Through entrepreneurship, which thrives on the curiosity and thirst for learning found in a liberal education, universities more successfully attain their goal of agents of societal change. In this second edition, Thorp and Goldstein update the work by addressing recent developments in education and entrepreneurship at universities, including innovative licensing strategies and developments in online education. They also explore the importance of the Arts and Sciences to the teaching of entrepreneurship and the role of money in University entrepreneurship. Holden Thorp is provost of Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, he served as Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. Thorp gained entrepreneurial experience in developing business ventures from his academic research. Buck Goldstein is University Entrepreneur in Residence and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at UNC. After graduating from UNC Law School, he founded his own media company and later worked in new ventures at Mellon Bank. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Shopping for Health Medicine, Consumer Culture, and the Making of the Modern Patient Author: Nancy Tomes Publication Date: Spring 2015 Description: 644 manuscript pages • Explores the consequences of modern consumerism and modern medicine having come of age at exactly the same time •Tracks the origins of patient empowerment that has become very popular in the U.S. • Brings together recent scholarship on the history of 20th-century consumer culture with the extensive literature on the evolution of 20th-century American medicine How have the dynamics of 20th-century consumer culture—in particular the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations—changed what it means to be a “good” patient? Patient empowerment is the idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to “shop” for it with great care. In SHOPPING FOR HEALTH, “shopping” refers to practices that we now view as essential to taking care of our health: asking questions, keeping abreast of scientific developments, trolling for information, and second guessing accepted scientific wisdom and bureaucratic decision making. While the idea of the “empowered” patient is usually portrayed as a product of the Internet revolution or the 1970s women’s health movement, Tomes locates its rise much earlier, in the half-century before the 1970s. It may come as cold comfort to find out that the problems we face today did not start with the Internet, or that back in the supposed “good old days,” patients and physicians struggled over issues of economic interest and professional trust. But, as she shows, this history of the “co-evolution” of medicine and consumer culture has much to tell us about our current predicaments. According to Tomes, understanding where the shopping model came from, as well as why it was long resisted in medicine, and why it finally “triumphed” in the late 20th century, is crucial in explaining why so many Americans still feel unhappy and confused about their status as patients. Nancy J. Tomes (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1978) is a professor of history at Stony Brook University. Tomes is the author of THE GOSPEL OF GERMS: MEN, WOMEN AND THE MICROBE IN AMERICAN LIFE (Harvard University Press, 1998), which won the 2002 Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Science and the 2001 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize from the History of Science Society. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry War and Politics, 1910-1930 Author: Kathryn Steen Publication Date: forthcoming — August 3, 2014 Description: Approximately 424 pages, 2 drawings, 10 halftones, 20 tables, notes, bibliography, index • First book to explore the history of the American organic synthetic chemicals industry • Contributes to the history of technology, business history, and early 20th century German and American history • A complex narrative involving governments, war, science, and even flame-throwers, that is both accessible and thoroughly researched From the 1870s until World War I, Germany dominated the synthetic dyes and pharmaceuticals industry, supplying 90 percent of the global market. This was the "high tech" industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: German firms like BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst pioneered the development of industrial research labs, bringing science into the corporation and applying it systematically to innovation. Once the war was underway, the U.S. economy was hit by the scarcity of these chemicals and the military by the lack of high explosives, both of which fueled a rising anti-German sentiment throughout the nation. It was in response to Germany’s dominance in chemical manufacturing and their military aggression that the synthetic organic chemical industry in America began to grow. Kathryn Steen argues that the emergence of the American synthetic organic chemicals industry was a concentrated effort of government agencies, universities, and corporations, becoming a patriotic mission to defeat the Germans. Lawmakers also played a crucial role in making way for business by enacting policy measures to aid the industry, ranging from tariffs to confiscation of patents. Although Americans subsequently required a protected market to compete against German dyes, the effort to make "German" chemicals helped Americans build an "American" synthetic organic chemicals industry, one that involved a new set of products in which Germans didn't have a headstart. The new ethylene-based products were more conducive to mass production and mass consumption in the automobile-dominated American market of the 1920s. Chronicling a story of war and intrigue, Steen focuses on the relationship between industry and government, arguing that the rise of the American synthetic organic chemicals industry laid the groundwork for American business as we know it today. Kathryn Steen is associate professor of history at Drexel University. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu The Walking Qur'an Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa Author: Rudolph T. Ware III Publication Date: forthcoming — June 16, 2014 Description: Approximately 360 pages, 12 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibliography, index • Up-to-date and detailed treatment of Qur'an schools • Important contribution to the understudied topic of Islam in Africa • Contributes to the discussion of “daara”, the embodiment of knowledge • Highlights the importance of Qur'an schools in building a postcolonial society THE WALKING QUR’AN combines a history of the West African tradition of Qur’an schools with ethnographic fieldwork, covering parts of present-day Senegal and Gambia. Rudolph Ware recounts the schools’ historical significance for Senegambian communities during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, their role in building Africa’s postcolonial societies, and—in a signal contribution to the understanding of Islam in Africa—how their understanding of knowledge is connected to traditional Islamic paradigms of learning and knowledge. These schools’ methods, which may include corporal punishment and ritual alms-seeking, are frequently puzzling and controversial for many Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Introducing the specific educational style of Qur’an schools from the perspective of the practitioners, Ware explicates teachers’ and students’ fundamental belief, an essential aspect of their faith, in the importance of educating the whole human being as if it were to become a living version of the Qur’an. For these religious practitioners, the transference of knowledge in core texts and rituals is literally embodied in people, enabling them to become vital and present examples of the word of God. "Ware's astute historical analysis ... serves as a lens to rewrite the story of Qur'an schooling and West Africa, offering new and compelling perspectives on the social, political, economic, and religious history of the area. This book will ... have a lasting impact on the field of African history and the study of Islam in Africa." —Ruediger Seesemann, University of Bayreuth Rudolph T. Ware III is assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan. The University of North Carolina Press Contact: Vicky Wells, Subsidiary Rights Phone 919-962-0369 | Fax 919-966-3829 E-mail: vcwells@email.unc.edu Alien Nation Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II Author: Elliott Young Publication Date: November 3, 2014 Description: Approximately 448 pages, 32 halftones, 4 figures, 2 maps, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index • First transnational history of Chinese migration in the Americas • Examines the development of "illegal alien" status as a response to Chinese migration • Focuses on immigrants' creation of alternative Chinese communities within the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Peru • First book about Chinese migration to link the nineteenth century “coolie” era to the later period of modern “free migration” In this groundbreaking work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese immigration to North and South America. The Chinese came as laborers from the mainland, streaming across borders and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing railroads in California to harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Though nations were built in part from their labor, Young argues that they were the first group of immigrants to bear the stigma of being “alien.” Being neither black nor white and existing outside of the nineteenth century Western norms of sexuality and gender, the Chinese were viewed as permanent outsiders, culturally and legally. It was their presence that hastened the creation of immigration bureaucracies charged with capture, imprisonment, and deportation. Elliott Young’s ALIEN NATION is the first multinational history of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s and ending at the outset of World War II. By embracing an international perspective and exposing the clandestine nature of migration during this period, Young argues that Chinese immigration did not occur in a single line from one place to another, but in a multinational web of legal and illegal border crossings. Furthermore, there were strong connections between Chinese across the Americas, and ALIEN NATION shows how Chinese migrants constructed an alternative community through these transnational pathways that permeated the Americas. Elliott Young (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1997) is associate professor of history at Lewis and Clark College. His first book, ̰ CATARINO GARZA’S REVOLUTION ON THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER was published by Duke University Press (2004) and received multiple awards.
